The Modern Institute

The Modern Institute

Jim Lambie

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Born 1964, Glasgow; Lives in Glasgow

Forthcoming and Current Exhibitions

2013

'Out of the House, Cranford Collection', Sala de Arte, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid (Group, 09/02—16/06/2013)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2013

Pearl Lam, Hong Kong

2012

'Shaved Ice', The Modern Institute, Aird's Lane, Glasgow (Open Thursday to Saturday 12 noon - 5pm)

Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin (Gallery Weekend Berlin)

'you drunken me - Jim Lambie in collaboration with Richard Hell', Arch Six, Glasgow

'Everything Louder Than Everything Else', Franco Noero, Turin

2011

'Spiritualized', Anton Kern Gallery, New York

'Beach Boy', Pier Art Centre, Orkney

Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas

2010

'Boyzilian', Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris

Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh

'Metal Urbain', The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, Glasgow

2009

'Atelier Hermes, Seoul', Atelier Hermes, Seoul

'Jim Lambie : Selected Works 1996 - 2006', Charles Riva Collection, Brussels

'Television', Sadie Coles HQ, London

2008

'Unknown Pleasures', Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

'Eight Miles High', ACCA, Melbourne

'Festival Secret Affair', Inverleith House, Edinburgh

'Forever Changes', Glasgow Museum of Modern Art, Glasgow

'Rowche Rumble', c/o - Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin

'RSVP: Jim Lambie', Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2007

'The Prismatics', Anton Kern Gallery, New York

2006

'Byrds', Anton Kern Gallery, New York

'Directions- Jim Lambie', Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC

'P.I.L.', Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo

2005

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

'Concentrations 47: Jim Lambie', Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas

'Shoulder Pad', Sadie Coles HQ, London

2004

'Grand Funk', OPA, Mexico

'Mars Hotel', Franco Noero, Turin

'Mental Oyster', Anton Kern Gallery, New York

'My Boyfriend’s Back', Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf

2003

'Kebabylon', Inverleith House, Edinburgh

'Male Stripper', Museum of Modern Art, Oxford

'Paradise Garage', The Moore building, Miami

2002

The Breeder, Athens

'Acid Trails', Art Basel Miami Beach, The Modern Institute

'Salon Unisex', Sadie Coles HQ, London

2001

'Blank Generation', Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco

'Boy Hairdresser', Anton Kern Gallery, New York

'Jim Lambie', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow

'Jim Lambie', Galleria Franco Noero, Turin

2000

Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf

Sonia Rosso, Pordenone

'Black Gloss', Anton Kern Gallery, New York

'Fictional', Triangle, Paris

1999

'Voidoid', Transmission, Glasgow

'Weird Glow', Sadie Coles HQ, London

'ZOBOP', The Showroom, London

1998

'Ultralow', The Modern Institute video screening Carnival, Soho

Selected Group Exhibitions

2013

'Pull Down The Future', SWG3, Glasgow (A Collaborative Exhibition Lawrence & Jim Lambie)

'Out of the House, Cranford Collection', Sala de Arte, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid

2012

'Lost Line: Contemporary Art from the Collection', LACMA, Los Angeles

'Reliefs, Objects and Sculptures from the Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection', Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany

'AKA PEACE', ICA, London

'Take off your silver spurs and help me pass the time', Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg (Curated by Gerold Miller)

'Look Now: Modern and Contemporary Art from Private Collections', Montclair Art Museum, Montclair

2011

'Home Alone', The Sender Collection, Miami

ArtGig Tokyo, Tokyo

'Industrial Aesthetics: Environmental Influences on Recent Art from Scotland', Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York

'Made in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection', Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

'Dublin Contemporary 2011', St Stephen’s Green House, Dublin

'vanishing points: paint and paintings from the debra and dennis scholl collection', Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach

'Space Oddity', Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca

'Compass', Gropius Bau, Berlin

2010

'Missing Beat', Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv

'Highlights From The Collection', Goss Michael Foundation, Dallas

'Nature', Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin

'Undone: Making and Unmaking in Contemporary Sculpture', Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

'The New Decor', Hayward Gallery, London

ART HK 2012, Hong Kong

'The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place', Zabludowitz Collection

'Altogether Elsewhere', Rodeo, Istanbul

'SHAZAM!', Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin

2009

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

'Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection', MOMA, New York

'Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today', Tate Liverpool, Liverpool

'Le sang d’un poète, Hanger à bananes', ïle de Nantes, Nantes

'Running Time: Artists Films in Scotland 1960 to Now', Dean Gallery, Edinburgh

'The Kaleidoscopic Eye: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection', Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

2008

Jumex Foundation, Mexico

SWG3, Glasgow (Glasgow International 2008)

Towada Art Project, Towada Art Centre

'Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today', MOMA, New York

'FILMS', Sadie Coles HQ, London (screening of Ultralow)

'Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art', Barbican Art Gallery, London

'Musical Paintings', ScheiblerMitte, Berlin (curated by Bernd Wurlitzer)

'Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967', Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (touring to Musée d’art)

'Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection as Aleph', Kunsthaus Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz

2007

'Breaking Step', Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade

'Domestic Irony. A curious glance at private Italian collections', Museion, Bolzano

'Half Square, Half Crazy', Villa Arson, Nice

'Melting Point', Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo

'Off the Wall', Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

'Passion Complex: Selected Works from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery', 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

'Reconstruction 2', Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe

'Substance & Surface', Bortolami Dayan Gallery, New York

'Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967', Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

'Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century', New Museum, New York

'Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century', New Museum, New York

'Wild West', Galerie Gebr Lehmann, Berlin

2006

'absract art now – strictly geometrical?', Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein

'All Hawaii Entrées / Lunar Reggae', Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

'Among The Ash Heaps And Millionaires', Ancient & Modern, London

'Gregor Schneider: Totalschaden/Total Damage', Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn

'How to Improve the World, British Art 1946-2006', Hayward Gallery, London

'If it didn’t exist you’d have to invent it: a partial Showroom history', The Showroom, London

'Implosion', Anton Kern Gallery, New York

'In the darkest hour there may be light', Serpentine Gallery, London

'JaGGy-edge', The Travelling Gallery, touring Scotland

'Life’s a Beach', Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv

'Strange Powers', Creative Time, New York

'This Is Not For You – Sculpture as Tropes of Criticality', Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna

2005

'Experiencing Duration', Lyon Biennale, Lyon

'Extreme Abstraction', Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo

'Minimalism and After IV', DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin

'Omaggio al Quadrato', Franco Noero, Turin

'Prisms & Shadows', Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow (curated by Toby Paterson)

'The Turner Prize', Tate Britain, London (nominee)

2004

Boros Collection, ZKM Karlsruhe

54th Carnegie International - Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg

'Boros Collection', ZKM Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe

'Brand New and Retro', UP Projects, The Empire

'Collage', Bloomberg Space, London

'Four Rooms', CeSAC, Caraglio, Italy

'From Aural Sculpture to Sound by Ink', Galerie Art: Concept, Paris

'Genesis Sculpture', Domaine Pommery, Reims

'Into My World', Recent British Sculpture, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

'Ouroboros', CCA, Glasgow

'Sodium & Asphalt', Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (touring to Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Monterrey, Mexico)

'Stalemate', MCA, Chicago

'Synth', Kunstraum B/2, Leipzig

2003

'Architecture Scmarchitecture', Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

'Bad Behaviour', Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (Arts Council Collection Touring to Aberystwyth Arts Centre; The Metropole Arts Centre; The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery; Newcastle University, Hatton Art Gallery; Millennium Court Arts Centre; Djanogly Art Gallery; Tullie House, Carlisle)

'Basic Instinct: Minimalism Past, Present, and Future', MCA, Chicago

'Cut Out', Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich

'Days Like These - Tate Triennial', Tate Britain, London

'Grayscale/CMYK', Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

'I Got Ants in My Pants', Gallery Side 2, Tokyo

'Il racconto del filo. Cucito e ricamo nell’arte Contemporanea (The tale of the other thread: Sewing and Embroidery in Contempora', MART - Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento

'Individual Systems', Venice Biennale, Venice

'Love Over Gold', Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow

'Objects in mirror are closer than they appear', Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe

'OUTLOOK', International Art Exhibition, Athens

'Painting Not Painting', Tate St Ives, Cornwall

'Painting on Sculpture', Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

'Plunder, Culture as Material', Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee

'Silver convention', Galerie Giti Nourbaksch, Berlin

'The Fourth Sex', Fondazione Pitti Immagine, Florence

'The Moderns', Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli

'The Unhomely', Kettles Yard, Cambridge

'ZENOMAP – New Works from Scotland for the Venice Biennale', 50th Venice Biennale, Venice

2002

'Early One Morning', Whitechapel, London

'Electric Dreams', Barbican Centre, London

'EU2', Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

'Greyscale/CMYK', Tramway, Glasgow

'Hello My Name Is …', Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

'Jim Jonathan Kenny Frances and Sol', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

'Life is Beautiful', Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle

'My Head Is On Fire But My Heart Is Full Of Love', Charlottenborg Museum, Copenhagen

'New', Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

'Painted, Printed & Produced in Great Britain', Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills

'Sudden Glory: Sightgags and Slapsticks in Contemporary Art', Californian College of Arts and Crafts, Los Angeles

'Superlounge', Gale Gates et al, Brooklyn

'Tailsliding', British Council touring show (Centre for Contemporary Art, Vilnius; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tallin; Centro de Arte de Salamanca (CASA), Salamanca; Turku Art Museum, Turku)

'There is a Light That Will Never Go Out', Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin

'VIP', Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal

2001

'Altoids Curiously Strong Collection', The Lab, San Francisco

'Between Object and Arabesque', Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Denmark

'Funktional Fictional', Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany

'G3NY13', Casey Kaplan, New York

'Here and Now: Scottish Art 1990-2001', Dundee Contemporary Arts & Aberdeen Art Gallery, UK

'I Love New York', Anton Kern Gallery, New York (benefit show)

'Painting at the Edge of the World', Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis

'Silhouettes', Lenbbachaus Kunstbau, Munich

'Songs of Love and Hate: Side A', Galerie Weiland, Berlin

'Superimposition', Caren Golden Fine Art, New York

'Tailsliding', British Council touring show

2000

Mark Selwyn, Los Angeles

Hoxton HQ, Sadie Coles

'Dream Machines', Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee

'Electric City', The Lighthouse, Glasgow

'Heart and Soul', Los Angeles

'Herz aus Glas', Parking Meters, Cologne

'Off the Record', Bucknell Art Gallery, Pennsylvania

'Parking Meters', Cologne

'Raumkörper', Basel Kunsthalle, Basel

'The British Art Show 5', Edinburgh, Cardiff

'What If', Moderna Muséet, Stockholm

1999

Matthew Higgs @ Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna

'Creeping Revolution', Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw

'Dots and Loops', MK Expositeruimte, Rotterdam

'Heart and Soul', 60 Long Lane, London

'Papermake', Modern Art, London

'Silk purse', Waygood Gallery, Newcastle

'The Queen is Dead', Stills Gallery, Edinburgh

'To be continued …', Walsall Public Projects, England

1998

The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow

'All or Nothing', La Friche Gallery (Triangle) Marseille, France

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

'Lovecraft', Spacex Gallery, Exeter

'Slant6', Jacob Javits Center, New York

'Two Up', Property Gallery, Glasgow

1997

'European Couples and Others', Transmission, Glasgow

'This is … These are', Norwich Gallery, Norwich

1996

'Art for people', Transmission, Glasgow

'Brain Mail', Broad Studio 17, Cal Arts

'Girls High', Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

'Insanestupidphatfuctpervert', Cubitt, London

'insanestupidphatfuctpervert', Concrete Skates, Glasgow

'Kilt ou Double', La Vigie Gallery, Nîmes

'Sick building', Globe gallery, Copenhagen

'The World of Ponce', Southpark, Glasgow

1995

'In Stereo', Transmission, Glasgow

'Jonnie Wilkes & Jim Lambie', 115 Dalriada, Glasgow

'Sun Hung Low', Assembly Gallery, Glasgow (Mary Redmond & Jim Lambie)