CHARLES AVERY
Theodora with Mr. Impossible 2006, jesmonite, appr. 45 x 40 x 35 cm, installation view at Cubitt, October 2006
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Exhibition: 'The Islanders – An Introduction: Part III’
Exhibition: ‘Maquette of the Eternity Chamber, from the Palace of the Gulls’
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Biography
Born in 1973 in Oban, Scotland (UK) Lives and works in London (UK)
Solo Exhibitions
2021 - GRIMM, New York, NY (US)
2020 - The Taile of the One-Armed Snake, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
2019 - The Gates of Onomatopoeia, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
2018 - Independent Brussels, GRIMM, Brussels (BE)
2018 - Charles Avery: What is it about the red- headed girl with the weak chin? New Portraits of the Onomatopoeians, Studio SALES di Norberto Ruggeri, Rome (IT)
2017 - These Waters, GRIMM, New York, NY (US) Study #15, David Roberts Art Foundation,
London (UK)
2017 - The People and Things of Onomatopoeia: Part 2, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London (UK)
2016 - Charles Avery, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL) Charles Avery, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London
(UK)
2015 - The Improbable City, Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh (UK)
2015 - Charles Avery: The People and Things of Onomatopoeia, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
2015 - What’s the Matter with Idealism?, GEM, Museum for Contemporary Art, The Hague (NL)
2015 - Fig-2 2/50 Charles Avery, ICA Studio, London (UK)
2014 - What’s So Great About Happiness? The People and things from Onomatopoeia – Part 2, Studio SALES di Norberto Ruggeri, Rome (IT)
2014 - What’s so Great about Happiness? The People and things from Onomatopoeia, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
2013 - It Means It Means! curated by Tom Morton, Galerie Perrotin, Paris (FR)
2013 - Vitrines: Charles Avery, L’Antenne, Le Plateau, FRAC, Paris (FR)
2013 - Solo Exhibition, Studio SALES di Norberto, Ruggeri, Rome (IT)
2013 - It Means It Means!, curated by Tom Morton, Pilar Corrias, London (UK)
2012 - New Works from the Islanders Project, (Concerning the Qoro-qoros, the Jadindagadendar and the Eternal dialectic), GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
2011 - New Drawings of Onomatopoeia, Studio SALES di Norberto Ruggeri, Rome (IT)
2011 - A Million Miles from Home, The Folkestone, Triennial, Folkestone (UK)
2011 - Place de la Revolution, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London (UK)
2010 - Le Plateau, Isle-de-France, Paris, FR
2010 - Onomatopoeia, Part I: The Port, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, UK
2009 - Onomatopoeia, Part I: Creeds, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin, Italy
2008 - The Islanders: An Introduction, Parasol Unit, London
Touring to: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam and Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
2007 - The Islanders: an introduction - part III, Gowen Contemporary (formerly Arquebuse), Geneva
2006 - Charles Avery & Keith Wilson, Alexandre Pollazzon, London
2006 - The Plane of the Gods, Cubitt Gallery, London
2006 - The Islanders: An Introduction - part II, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin, Italy
2005 - The Islanders, An Introduction, Doggerfisher, Edinburgh
2005 - Hunting The Noumenon, Galleria Archimede Staffolini, Nicosia, Cyprus
2005 - AVATARS, Galleria S.A.L.E.S, Rome
2004 - The Hunter, Man in the Holocene, London
2004 - It thinks, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin
2003 - The Square Root of 2, Sleeper, Edinburgh
2003 - The Freedom of the Universe, S.A.L.E.S., Rome
2002 - The Truth about the Truth, doggerfisher, Edinburgh
2002 - Triangle Land, Dee Glasoe, New York
2001 - The Palace of the Gulls, Percy Miller Gallery, London
2000 - The Last Yolk, Sonia Rosso Gallery, Pordenone, Italy
2000 - The Riddle of Pooch Avery, Dee Glasoe Gallery, New York
2000 - The Ghost of Scirribin, Nylon Gallery, London
1999 - Charles Avery, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles
1999 - The Life and Times of Nancy Haselswon, Tablet Gallery, London
1998 - The Creation of the Omniverse, Nylon, London
1998 - Portraits of People Who Never Existed, Entwistle Gallery, London
Group Exhibitions
2021 - Escape Line II - Drawings and Sculptures, Gowen Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
2021 - GRIMM, New York, NY (US)
2021 - The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, RU
2020 - The City & The City & The City, curated by Tom Morton, Frestonian Gallery, London (UK)
2020 - Other.Worldly, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden (NL)
2019 - Away in the Hill, GRIMM New York, NY (US)
2019 - Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London (UK)
2019 - NOW: Anya Gallaccio, Charles Avery, Aurélian Froment, Roger Hiorns, Peles, Empire, Zineb Sedira, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK)
2019 - 16th Istanbul Biennale: The Seventh Continent, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Pera Museum, Istanbul (TR)
2018 - Auto fictions – Contemporary drawing Prix de dessin Guerlain, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein (DE)
2018 - TWENTY, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
2018 - Rhapsody in Blue, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (NL)
2018 - Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London (UK)
2018 - Pop-up GRIMM, Brussels (BE)
2018 - On A Pedestal, Castletown House, County Kildare (IE)
2017 - Plurivers, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, La Panacée, Montpellier (FR)
2017 - GLASSTRESS, Palazzo Franchetti, 57th Biennale di Venezia, Venice (IT)
2017 - Arts Night, London (UK)
2017 - Exhibition paintings, Kunst Meran/Merano Arte, Merano (IT)
2017 - Prix de Dessin, Salon du Dessin, Palais Brongniart, Paris (FR)
2016 - The Science of Imaginary Solutions, Breese Little, London (UK)
2016 - Drawing Conclusions, RISD Museum, Providence, RI (US)
2016 - Constructing Nature, Huize Frankendael, Amsterdam (NL)
2016 - Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi Biennale Foundation, Kunnumpuram (IN)
2015 - Animals in art – Collectie De Heus-Zomer, Museum Nairac, Barneveld (NL)
2015 - The Improbable City, Edinburgh Art Festival 2015, Edinburgh (UK)
2015 - Fig-2 (2/50), ICA, Institute for Contemporary Art, London (UK)
2014 - Feels Like Heaven, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (IL)
2014 - The Great Acceleration: Art in the Anthropocene, Taipei Biennial, Taipei (TW)
2014 - Manifest Intention, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, (IT)
2014 - Huidige Zaken, GRIMM, Amsterdam, (NL)
2014 - Generation: 25 years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK)
2014 - Year after Year: Works on Paper From the UBS Art Collection, Galleria D’Arte Moderna di Milano, Milan (IT)
2014 - Potent Wilderness, Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, The Genia Schreiber Art Gallery, Tel Aviv (IL)
2013 - Drawing Rroom, curated by Ami Barak, Carre St Anne, Montpellier (FR)
2013 - Mijn Derde Land, Frankendael Foundation, Amsterdam (NL)
2013 - The World is Almost Six Thousand Years Old, curated by Tom Morton, Collection and Usher Gallery, Lincolnshire (UK)
2013 - Beastly Hall: A Place Where Artists and Creatures Collide, Hall Place, Bexley, OH (US)
2013 - A Parliament of Lines, Pier Arts Centre, Orkney (UK)
2013 - Imagining Islands: Artists and Escape, The Courtauld Gallery, London (UK)
2012 - A parliament of lines, The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney (UK)
2012 - A parliament of lines, The RMIT University Gallery, Melbourne (AU)
2012 - Haunts & follies, Linden Centre for Contemporary arts, St. Kilda (UK)
2012 - Machines for living, Yaffo 23, Jerusalem (IL)
2012 - Hedendaagse surreële tekeningen uit Rotterdam, collectie Boijmans van Beuningen, Institut Neerlandais, Paris (FR)
2012 - The Comic Side of Art, Nest, The Hague (NL) Galicia: Topographies of Myth, SOKOL, Nowy Sacz (PL)
2012 - A Parliament of Lines, ECAC, Scotland (UK)
2012 - Le Miroir et l’encyclopédie, Galerie Michel Journiac, Paris (FR)
2011 - Folkestone Triennial: A Million Miles From Home, Folkestone (UK)
2011 - As the World turns: New Art from London, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney (AU)
2010 - Recent British Sculpture, curated by Tom Morton, GRIMM , Amsterdam (NL)
2010 - British Art Show 7: In the days of the Comet, New Art Exchange, Nottingham Castle Museum, and Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham (UK); Hayward Gallery, London (UK); Centre for Contemporary Art, Gallery of Modern Art, and Tramway, Glasgow (UK); Peninsula Arts, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, The Slaughterhouse, and Royal William Yard, Plymouth (UK)
2010 - Acquisition Presentation Contemporary Drawings, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL)
2010 - Languages and Experimentations, Casa d’Arte Futurista Depero, Trento (IT)
2009 - Life Forms, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
2009 - Walk In Your Mind, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2009 - Altermodern, 4th Tate Triennial, cur. by Nicolas Bourriaud, Tate Britain, London, UK
2009 - A Duck for Mr Darwin, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
2008 - ‘Made Up’, International Festival of Contemporary Art, 5th Liverpol Biennial, Tate Liverpool
2008 - Scotland & Venice 2003, 2005, 2007, Charles Avery, Simon Starling and Cathy Wilkes, The Pier, Orkney, Scotland
2007 - Scotland & Venice, 52nd Venice Biennale
2007 - The Lyon Biennale, France
2007 - The Athens Biennale, Greece
2007 - Timer, Trienniale Bovisa, Milan, Italy
2007 - Every Eye Sees Differently as The Eye, The Drawing Room, London
2007 - Welcome to my World, Alexandre Pollazzon
2005 - Sculpture Garden, Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner, London
2005 - Memphis, Flaca, London
2005 - Theoroma, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Avignon, France.
2004 - Premio del Golfo, La Spezia, Italy
2004 - Jerwood Drawing Prize 2004, London and touring trailer,
2004 - Man in the Holocene, London
2004 - Io Mi Ricordo, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome, Italy
2003 - Il Premio per la Giovanne Arte Italiana, Padiglione di Venezia, 50th Venice Biennale
2003 - Love Over Gold, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
2003 - Necessary Kids, Charles Avery, Piotr Uklanski, Costa Vece, Gallerie Civico d’Arte
2003 - Contemporanea di Siracusa, Sicily
2003 - Dark Shadows, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
2003 - Works on Paper, Archimede Staffolini Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
2003 - Prospects Drawing Prize 2003, London
2002 - Contemporary Art Project, Museum of Modern Art, Seattle
2002 - A measure of distance, Magnani, London
2002 - Jerwood Drawing Prize, Cheltenham and London
2002 - Prospects Drawing Prize, London
2002 - Supersonic and Alien, S.A.L.E.S., Rome, Italy
2002 - Flights of Reality, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh
2002 - Flights of Reality, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (group show with Keith Tyson, Grace Weir, Keith Wilson and Matthew Ritchie)
2001 - Ghosty, Mille Eventi, Milan, Italy
2001 - Works on Paper, S.A.L.E.S., Rome, Italy
2000 - Made Space, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, touring to Changing Room, Stirling
2000 - Drawing, Percy Miller Gallery, London
2000 - Innuendo, Dee/Glasoe Gallery, New York
2000 - Made Space, Pekao Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1999 - Surveying the Landscape, Lombard Freid Gallery, New York
1999 - Selection from the Files, Nylon, London
1999 - The British on Paper, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Pordenone, Italy
1999 - Untitled, Archimede Staffolini Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
1999 - DRAW, Ten in One Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 - Fine Line, Duncan Cargill Gallery, London
Awards
2017 - Shortlisted for the Daniel and Florence Guerlain Contemporary Art Foundation’s Drawing Prize, Les Mesnuls (FR)
2004 - Shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize, London (UK)
2003 - Prospects Drawing Prize, London (UK)
2002 - Shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize, London (UK)
2002 - Shortlisted for the Prospects Drawing Prize, London (UK)
Publications
2003 - The Art Atom, Atopia Projects, Edinburgh and Rhode Island, USA
2003 - Art Works, British and German Contemporary Art 1960-2000, Deutsche Bank, London and Germany
2002 - Flights of Reality, Kettles Yard, Cambridge - Catalogue
1999 - The Life and Lineage of Nancy Haselswon, hardback edition 1000, pp 58, published by Nylon, July 1999, Atopia Journal, Made Space, Issue 0.99.
Selected Collections
AKZO Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL)
Arts Council England Collection, London (UK)
David Roberts Arts Foundation, London (UK)
De Heus-Zomer Collection, Barneveld (NL)
Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt am Main (DE) Edinburgh City Art Centre Collection, Edinburgh (UK) EKARD collection
FRAC Île de France, Paris (FR)
Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL)
Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, Tel Aviv (IL)
Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (FR)
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL) Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (NL)
ProWinko Collection, Amstelveen (NL)
Tate Modern, London (UK)
VandenBroek Foundation, Lisse (NL)
Bibliography
2008 - Pen Magazine, January 2008. No.214
2008 - Avery Charles , 'Manifesto,' Art Review, February 2008
2007 - Morton Tom, 'Cosmology of an Island,' Metropolis M,October/November 2007
2007 - Arena O2 X Awards, Arena October 2007
2007 - Skipwith Selina , ‘Charles Avery’, Scottish Art News, Autumn 2007
2007 - MacMilan Duncan, 'Venice, vidi, vici?...' The Scotsman 08.06.2007
2007 - Beagles John , ‘A Venice Comment’, MAP, Issue 11, Autumn 2007
2007 - Gale Iain, 'Too much of a good thing,' Scotland on Sunday, The Scotsman, 10.06. 2007
2007 - Mansfield Susan , ‘This Man is an Island’, The Scotsman, June 2007
2007 - Sherman Sam, ‘London-Charles Avery/Keith Wilson’, MAP, Issue 9, Spring 2007
2007 - Higgins Charlotte , Arts Correspondence, The Guardian, 02.05.2007
2007 - Williams Gilda , ‘Charles Avery’, Art Forum, February 2007
2007 - Higgie Jennifer , ‘Emerging Artists’, Frieze, January 2007
2007 - Pauling Tim , 'Artist Chosen for Global Exhibition,' The Press and Journal, 17.01.2007
2007 - Cornell Tim , 'Triumph of Youth Over Experience as artrists head for Venice,' The Scotsman 17.01.2007
2006 - Time Out London, November 15-22-2006
2006 - Gambari Olga , 'Charles Avery, Galleria Sonia Rosso,' Flash Art International, October
2005 - Anon, ‘Sketching in Three Dimensions’, The Sunday Herald, 28.11.2005
2005 - Leaver-Yap Isla , Charles Avery-The Islanders’,The List, Scotland, No. 536, November
2005 - MacMillan Duncan , ‘Charles Avery’, The Scotsman, 13.12.2005.
2005 - Lack Jessica , ‘Charles Avery, The Islanders’, i-D Magazine, October 2005
2005 - Morton Tom , ‘Charles Avery’, FROG, October 2005
2005 - Casadio Mariuccia, ‘Charles Avery, The Islanders’, Vogue Italia, September 2005
2004 - Hayward Louise, ‘Charles Avery’, Tank Magazine, Vol.3, Issue 11, 2004
2004 - Kent Sarah , ‘Charles Avery’, Time Out London, November 2004
2004 - Gamberi Olga , ‘Charles Avery Review’, Flash Art, June/July 2004
2004 - Arena, The O2 X Club, February 2004
2003 - Morton Tom , Charles Avery, ‘In the beginning’, Frieze, May 2003
2003 - Pia Simon , 'See Venice and Wendy,' The Scotsman, 02.03.03
2003 - Gale Iain , 'Its Time to go back to the Drawing Board...' Scotland on Sunday, The Scotsman, January 2003
2002 - Monaghan Helen, ‘Charles Avery’, The List , Scotland, December 2002
2002 - Gale Iain, ‘Charles Avery’, Scotsman on Sunday, December 2002
2002 - Tan Eugene , ‘Flights of Reality’, Contemporary, March, 2002
2002 - Lack Jessica ,’ Flights of Reality’, Guardian Guide, January 2002
2002 - Cork Dominic, ‘Flights of Reality’, Independent, January 2002
2001 - Les Journal Des Arts, 23 November – 6.12.2001
2001 - Sumpter Helen, ‘Hot Tickets’, The Evening Standard, 23-29.11.2001
2001 - Wilsher Mark , ‘What's On’, 21.11. 2001
2001 - Sumpter Helen , ‘Hot Tickets,’ The Evening Standard, 30.11 – 06.12.2001
2001 - Mattis Alex , ‘Rising Star’, The Evening Standard, 23-29.11.2001
2001 - Buck Louisa , The Art Newspaper, November, 2001
2001 - Sumpter Helen , Galleries, November, 2001
2001 - Wilsher Mark , ‘What's On’, 21.11. 2001
2001 - Zannier Sabrina , ‘Charles Avery Review’, Flash Art, February 2001
2001 - Cameron Neil, The Scotsman, April 2001
2000 - de Botton Alain , ‘Best of 2000’, Art Forum, December 2000
2000 - Herbert Martin , Time Out, London, 03.05.2000
2000 - Shave Stuart , ‘Master as Work’, i-D Magazine, London, January 2000
2000 - Independent: The Arts Reviews, 14.04.2000
1999 - Bredin Lucinda , Sunday Telegraph, 05.12.1999
1999 - Grant Simon , 'Keeping it in the Family' Guardian Guide, 03.07.1999
1999 - Herbert Martin, 'After Sensation,' Square Meal-The Magazine, Summer Issue, 1999
1998 - Slyce John , 'Ouverture: Charles Avery', Flash Art International, Milan, October, 1998
1998 - The Guardian Guide, 24-30.10.1998
1998 - Tempest Clare , 'Golf Sale', Time Out, London, August, 1998
1998 - Exley Roy, 'Charles Avery,Portraits of People who Never Existed. Contemporary Visual Arts Issue 18, London, Spring, 1998
1998 - Avery Charles , Time Out, 11-18.02.1998
1998 - Hubbard Sue, 'Charles Avery', Time Out, London, August, 1998