The Modern Institute

The Modern Institute

Toby Paterson

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Born 1974, Glasgow; Lives in Glasgow

Forthcoming and Current Exhibitions

2012

'Quotidian Aspect', Le Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire (Solo, 28/01—25/04/2012)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2012

'Quotidian Aspect', Le Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire

2011

'Inchoate Landscapes', Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen

2010

Upstairs at The Modern Institute, Glasgow

'Shifting Landscape', Renfrew Health and Social Work Centre, Renfrew (Public Commission)

'Ever Growing Never Old, Looped', Pavement, Manchester

'New New Festival', Pallant House, Chichester

'Consensus and Collapse', Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

Docklands Light Railway, Stratford International Extension, London (Public Commission)

2009

'Various States', Void, Derry

'Ever Growing Never Old', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow

'Built Colour', Galerie Kentworthy Ball, Lang and Pult, Zurich

'Installation of Powder Blue Orthogonal Pavilion', Warwick University, Warwick

2008

'Powder Blue Orthogonal Pavilion', Potters Fields Park, Southwark, London (as part of Portavilion; public project)

2007

Stour Centre, Ashford Borough Council, Kent (public commission)

'Generosity', Stroom Den Haag, The Hague

'Poised Array', BBC Scotland Headquarters, Glasgow (public commission)

'Vague Space', Sutton Lane, London

2006

'Broken Arabesque', de Vleeshal & de Kabinetten van de Vlesshal, Middelburg

'Dual Image with Red, Brown and Blue', Tramway, Glasgow (permanent installation)

2005

'After the Rain', Curve Gallery, Barbican Centre, London

'Blue/Black Plan In Situ', Galerie Fabienne le Clerc, Paris (edition)

'New Townscape 1 & 2, Home Office', London (permanent works for the new Marsham Street building)

'Potential Forms', Saltire Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University (commission)

'Toby Paterson', Centre d’art Contemporain, La Synagogue de Delme

2004

'An Isometric Plan', Tate St Ives, Cornwall

'Black Elegy', Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (commission)

'Exploded Plan', Sutton Lane, London

'New Festival', Glassbox, Paris

2003

The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow

'Emergency Exit', 88B, London

'Fraser Noble Building', Aberdeen University, Aberdeen (commission)

'Hallfield School Project', Paddington, London (in association with the Serpentine Gallery)

'New Facade', CCA, Glasgow

'New Plan', Glasgow

'Patterns', Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen (in association with Peacock Visual Arts)

2002

'Toby Paterson', Franco Noero, Turin

1999

'Halcyon Approach', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow

Selected Group Exhibitions

2012

Durham Art Gallery, Durham

2011

RSA, Edinburgh (Annual Show)

Stroom Den Haag, The Hague (Public Commission)

2010

'Does City/Münster matter?', AZKM, Münster

'Les Lendemains d’hier', Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal

2009

'Warsaw Under Construction', The Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw

'SUPERNOVA', Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, 
Wales (touring Exhibition)

'Being and Nothingness', Light and Sie, Dallas

'Retromorphosis - Dresden’s New Town', University of Hertfordshire Galleries, Hatfield

2008

'Retromorphosis', Centre for the Urban Built Environment, Manchester

'Poised Array', BBC Scotland Headquarters, Glasgow (public commission; commissioned as lead artist)

SWG3, Glasgow (Glasgow International 2008)

'100 Year, 100 Artists, 100 Works', Platform for Art, London

'How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck if a Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood', Kunstverein Glasgow, Allison Street

'In Pieces, Christopher Landoni', 39 Myddelton Square, London

2007

'Breaking Step', Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade

'Build It and They Will Come', Travelling Gallery, Scotland

'Echo Room – Art from Britain', Alcalá 31, Madrid

'Language of Vision', Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough

'Portavilion', London, June/July (public project)

'Retromorphosis - Dresden’s New Town', Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, The Water Tower

2006

Ocular Lab, Melbourne

'Concrete Thoughts', The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

'How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later', CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, California College of the Arts

'New Editions/Scotland', The Print Center, New York

'Units Moved', The Architecture Foundation, London

2005

'Art Futures', Contemporary Art Society, Bloomberg Space

'Space Invaders', Kunsthalle Basel, Basel

'Supernova', British Council touring show: Krakow, Poland

'Sutton Lane in Paris', Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris

'Toby Paterson & Tobias Putrih', Kunstverein, Graz

2004

'Britannia works', British Council group show at Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre

'Interior View', touring show: De Zonnehof, Amersfoot

2003

'A Surface in Between', Art House, London

'Civilia', Bluecoat Gallery, LIverpool

'Common Place', The Lighthouse, Glasgow

'Contemporary Abstraction', Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow

'Fresh', Edinburgh Printmakers

'Precise Modern Order', Rubicon Gallery, Dublin (group)

'Pretty Little Things', The Ship, London

'The Square Show', Bloomberg Space, London

'There’s no land but the land up (up there is just a sea of possibilities)', Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe

'This Was Tomorrow', The New Art Centre, Salisbury

2002

Roma Roma Roma, Rome

'Baltic Babel', Rooseum, Malmö

'Beck’s Futures 3', ICA, London (touring)

'Beck’s Futures 3', CCA, Vilnius

'Greyscale/CMYK', Tramway, Glasgow

'Half the World Away', Hallwalls CAC, Buffalo

'Happy Outsiders', Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw

'Model Forms', The Sculpture Study Galleries, Leeds City Art Gallery

'Toby Paterson & Martin Boyce', Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw

2001

'Beyond', DCA, Dundee

'Circles °4 One for One', ZKM Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe

'Group Show', Generator, Dundee (curated by Graham Domke)

'Here and Now', Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen

'New Newquayism', Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow (with Alex Pollard)

'NY/G3', Casey Kaplan, New York

'October', St. Vincent Street, Glasgow (Curated by Karla Black and Katie Exley)

2000

RSA, Edinburgh

Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

'Beyond', DCA, Dundee

'Can 303’s Heal?', Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki

'Film Club', Roselea Drive, Glasgow

'Gemini Sculpture Park', Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

'Pavilion', Mark Mueller, Zurich

'Tonight', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow

1998

'Host', Tramway, Glasgow (with Elizabeth Go)

'How to build a universe that doesn’t fall apart 2 days later', Fly, Glasgow

'WallpaperVideo', High Street Project, Christchurch

1997

'European Couples and Others', Transmission, Glasgow

'Supastore', Norwich Gallery, Norwich

'Tutor with an Idea', 3 month Gallery, Liverpool

1996

'Art for People', Transmission, Glasgow

'Independent Studios Exhibitions', 18 King Street, Glasgow

'insanestupidphatfuctpervert', Concrete Skates, Glasgow

'Insanestupidphatfuctpervert', Cubitt, London

'Leave the Capitol', Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh

'Sick Building', Compartments project, Globe

'With Love Filthy Swan', unknown, Transmission

'World of Ponce', Southpark, Glasgow

'Warsaw Under Construction', The Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw