Jim Lambie
Education
| 1994 | BA (Hons) Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art |
Current & Forthcoming
| 2024 | ‘Shine On’, Sadie Coles HQ, London |
| ‘Sight — Sound — Space’, The Church, Long Island | |
| ‘Zobop’, Museum of Art and Photography, Bangalore |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2021 | ‘Buttercup’, The Modern Institute, 3 Aird's Lane, Glasgow |
| 2020 | ‘Year Unknown’, Anton Kern Gallery, New York |
| ‘Northern Soul’, Sadie Coles HQ, London | |
| 2019 | ‘Wild Is The Wind’, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney |
| ‘Zobop (Cerulean) Stairs’, Centraal Museum, Utrecht | |
| ‘Skin Shape’, Anton Kern Gallery, New York | |
| 2018 | ‘Totally Wired’, Franco Noero, Turin |
| ‘Spiral Scratch’, Pacific Place, Admiralty, Hong Kong | |
| ‘Both Ends Burning’, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf | |
| 2017 | ‘Zobop (Viridescent)’, Anton Kern Gallery, New York |
| 2016 | ‘Electrolux’, The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow |
| ‘La Scala’, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin | |
| ‘Derrick Alexis Coard, Glasgow International’, Project Ability gallery, Trongate 103, Glasgow (Installed in collaboration with Jim Lambie) | |
| 2015 | ‘Train in Vein’, Anton Kern Gallery, New York |
| ‘Zero Concerto’, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney | |
| ‘Sun Rise Sun Ra Sun Set’, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo | |
| 2014 | Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (Part of GENERATION 2014) |
| ‘Answer Machine’, Sadie Coles HQ, London | |
| Barrowland Park, Glasgow | |
| 2013 | ‘The Flowers of Romance’, Pearl Lam, Hong Kong |
| 2012 | ‘Shaved Ice’, The Modern Institute, 3 Aird's Lane, Glasgow |
| 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 |
| ‘ZOBOP’, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh | |
| ‘Metal Urbain’, The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow | |
| 2009 | ‘Nervous Track’, 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 | |
| ‘Rowche Rumble’, c/o - Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin | |
| ‘Festival Secret Affair’, Inverleith House, Edinburgh | |
| ‘RSVP: Jim Lambie’, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | |
| ‘Forever Changes’, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow | |
| 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 | ‘Mental Oyster’, Anton Kern Gallery, New York |
| ‘Mars Hotel’, Franco Noero, Turin | |
| ‘My Boyfriend's Back’, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf | |
| ‘Grand Funk’, OPA, Mexico | |
| 2003 | ‘Kebabylon’, Inverleith House, Edinburgh |
| ‘Male Stripper’, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford | |
| ‘Paradise Garage’, The Moore building, Miami | |
| 2002 | ‘Acid Trails’, Art Basel Miami Beach, The Modern Institute |
| ‘Salon Unisex’, Sadie Coles HQ, London | |
| The Breeder, Athens | |
| 2001 | ‘Boy Hairdresser’, Anton Kern Gallery, New York |
| ‘Jim Lambie’, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin | |
| ‘Blank Generation’, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco | |
| ‘Jim Lambie’, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow | |
| 2000 | ‘Black Gloss’, Anton Kern Gallery, New York |
| Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf | |
| Sonia Rosso, Pordenone | |
| ‘Fictional’, Triangle, Paris | |
| 1999 | ‘Weird Glow’, Sadie Coles HQ, London |
| ‘ZOBOP’, The Showroom, London | |
| ‘Voidoid’, Transmission, Glasgow | |
| 1998 | ‘Ultralow’, The Modern Institute video screening Carnival, Soho |
Group Exhibitions
| 2023 | ‘Jing'an International Sculpture Project’, Jing'an Sculpture Park, Shanghai |
| ‘Tondo’, Anton Kern Gallery, New York | |
| ‘The RSA Annual Exhibition’, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh | |
| ‘Beyond the Darkness’, Ala Scaligera at the Rocca di Angera, Varese | |
| 2022 | ‘Kochi Biennale’, Museum of Art & Photography, Dutch Warehouse, Kochi (Collateral Art Projects) |
| ‘The Mirror of Production’, Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo | |
| ‘Glasgow Print Studios 50th Anniversary’, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow | |
| ‘Off the Beaten Track’, Baton Gallery, Seoul | |
| ‘STATUS need a world interlude’, The Modern Institute, 3 Aird's Lane, Glasgow | |
| ‘Mythical Political’, Fire Station Creative, Dunfermline | |
| ‘Rhythm Repeater’, Sadie Coles HQ, London | |
| 2021 | ‘The Christmas Show’, RSA, Edinburgh |
| ‘PIN Benefit Auction’, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich | |
| ‘Big Medicine’, GIANT, Bournemouth | |
| ‘Galerie House of Art and Design’, Galerie House of Art and Design, Sag Harbor | |
| ‘Casa Balla: From home to the universe and back’, Fondazione MAXXI, Rome (curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, Domitilla Dardi) | |
| ‘Colourspace’, Galleria Mucciaccia, Rome | |
| 2020 | ‘Reduct: Abstraction and Geometry in Scottish Art’, RSA, Edinburgh |
| ‘My Mapping’, Fundación van Gogh Museum, Arles | |
| ‘Remix 2020’, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen | |
| ‘MY C ART OGRAPHY. The Erling Kagge Collection’, Santander Art Gallery, Madrid | |
| 2019 | ‘Artworks from the Videoinsight® Collection’, Videoinsight® Foundation, Turin |
| ‘The TURNER’, The Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, Glasgow | |
| ‘Chairs Beyond Right and Wrong’, R & Company , New York | |
| ‘Alan Kane’s 4 Bed Detached Home of Metal’, The New Art Gallery Walsall | |
| ‘Surface Tension’, Carolina Nitsch, New York | |
| 2018 | ‘Eurovisions: Contemporary art from the Goldberg collection’, Canberra Museum and Gallery , Canberra |
| ‘Innovative Printmaking’, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow | |
| ‘If I go there, I won’t stay there’, Ltd Los Angeles, Los Angeles | |
| ‘Op Art in Focus’, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool | |
| ‘The Anthropologist in me’, Fórum Braga, Portugal | |
| ‘Five plus Five: Sculptures of China and Great Britain’, Haikou Hainan Airlines Sun & Moon Plaza, Hainan, China | |
| ‘Open House’, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco | |
| 2017 | ‘ISelf Collection’, Whitechapel, London |
| ‘An Eyeful of Wry’, Brynmor Jones Library gallery, University of Hull (Government Art Collection) | |
| ‘ISelf Collection’, Whitechapel, London | |
| ‘EUROVISIONS: Contemporary art from the Goldberg Collection’, National Art School, Sydney, Touring to Heidie Museum, Melbourne and Canberra Regional Museum, 2018 | |
| ‘COLORI: L’emozione dei COLORI nell’arte’, GAM – Galleria Civica D'Arte Moderna E Contemporanea, Turin | |
| 2016 | ‘The Revolutionary Suicide Mechanised Regiment Band’, Rob Tufnell, Cologne |
| ‘I still believe in miracles’, Inverleith House, Edinburgh | |
| ‘Jennifer Herrema & Jim Lambie’, VoidoidARCHIVE, Glasgow | |
| ‘Generosity. The Art of Giving’, National Gallery of Prague, Prague | |
| ‘Artificial Realities’, East Wing Biennial, The Courtauld Gallery | |
| 2015 | ‘Below Another Sky’, British Council, London, British Council touring exhibition. Touring to Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen; Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow |
| ‘Devils in the Making’, GOMA, Glasgow | |
| ‘Platform’, Holden Gallery, Manchester | |
| ‘Summer Exhibition 2015’, Royal Academy of Arts, London | |
| ‘A Secret Affair: Selections from the Fuhrman Family Collection’, FLAG Art Foundation, New York | |
| ‘Zabludowicz Collection: 20 Years’, Zabludowicz Collection, London | |
| ‘The Curves of the Needle’, BALTIC 39, Newcastle upon Tyne | |
| ‘Andy Warhol in the closet’, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genova | |
| ‘Misappropriations: New Acquisitions’, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport | |
| ‘The Triumph of Love: Beth Rudin DeWoody Collects’, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida | |
| ‘Schlaflos — Das Bett in Geschichte und Gegenwartskunst’, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, 21er Haus, Vienna | |
| ‘Color Fields’, Bakalar & Paine Galleries, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston | |
| 2014 | ‘Project Ability Christmas Auction’, Project Ability gallery, Trongate 103, Glasgow |
| ‘What is contemporary in contemporay art?’, Mário Sequeira Gallery, Braga | |
| ‘Spaced Out: Migration to the Interior’, 220 West 18th Street, New York (curated by Phong Bui) | |
| ‘On the Devolution of Culture’, 83 Page Street, London | |
| ‘Archive Fever!’, The Clay and Glass Gallery, Ontario | |
| ‘Discordia’, Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow (Part of GENERATION 2014) | |
| ‘You Imagine What You Desire’, Sydney Biennale, Sydney | |
| ‘That Petrol Emotion’, Metropolitan Art Society, Beirut | |
| ‘Private Utopia: Contemporary Works from the British Council Collection’, British Council touring show, British Council touring exhibition. Touring to Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo (2014); Itami City Museum Of Art, Itami (2014); The Museum Of Art, Kochi (2014); Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama (2015) | |
| 2013 | ‘You Are Here’, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester |
| ‘Fading Nights’, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin | |
| ‘My Crippled Friend’, Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus | |
| ‘40/40’, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow | |
| ‘A Conspiracy of Detail’, Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art | |
| ‘The Humors’, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| ‘Something About a Tree’, FLAG Art Foundation, New York (Curated by Linda Yablonsky) | |
| ‘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 | |
| ‘Decade: Contemporary Collecting 2002 - 2012’, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo | |
| ‘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 | ‘The Sculpture Show’, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
| ‘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’, Zabludowicz Collection, London | |
| ‘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 | |
| ‘Running Time: Artists Films in Scotland 1960 to Now’, Dean Gallery, Edinburgh | |
| ‘The Kaleidoscopic Eye: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection’, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo | |
| ‘Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today’, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool | |
| ‘Le sang d'un poéte’, île de Nantes, Nantes | |
| 2008 | ‘Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection as Aleph’, Kunsthaus Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz |
| ‘Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today’, MOMA, New York | |
| ‘FILMS’, Sadie Coles HQ, London (screening of Ultralow) | |
| ‘Musical Paintings’, ScheiblerMitte, Berlin (curated by Bernd Wurlitzer) | |
| SWG3, Glasgow (Glasgow International 2008) | |
| Towada Art Project, Towada Art Centre | |
| ‘La invención de lo cotidiano’, Colección Jumex-Museo Nacional de Arte | |
| 2007 | ‘Passion Complex: Selected Works from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa |
| ‘Substance & Surface’, Bortolami Dayan Gallery, New York | |
| ‘Wild West’, Galerie Gebr Lehmann, Berlin | |
| ‘Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967’, MCA, Chicago, Touring to Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami and Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal | |
| ‘Off the Wall’, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh | |
| ‘Reconstruction 2’, Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe | |
| ‘Melting Point’, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo | |
| ‘Domestic Irony. A curious glance at private Italian collections’, Museion, Bolzano | |
| ‘Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century’, New Museum, New York | |
| ‘Half Square, Half Crazy’, Villa Arson, Nice | |
| ‘Breaking Step’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade | |
| 2006 | ‘Life's a Beach’, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv |
| ‘Gregor Schneider: Totalschaden/Total Damage’, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn | |
| ‘In the darkest hour there may be light’, Serpentine Gallery, London | |
| ‘This Is Not For You - Sculpture as Tropes of Criticality’, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna | |
| ‘Absract Art Now: strictly geometrical?’, Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein | |
| ‘Among the Ash Heaps and Millionaires’, Ancient & Modern, London | |
| ‘Implosion’, Anton Kern Gallery, New York | |
| ‘Strange Powers’, Creative Time, New York | |
| ‘How to Improve the World, British Art 1946-2006’, Hayward Gallery, London | |
| ‘All Hawaii Entrées / Lunar Reggae’, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin | |
| ‘Life's a Beach’, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv | |
| ‘If it didn’t exist you’d have to invent it: a partial Showroom history’, The Showroom, London | |
| ‘JaGGy-edge’, The Travelling Gallery, touring Scotland | |
| 2005 | ‘The Turner Prize’, Tate Britain, London (nominee) |
| ‘Extreme Abstraction’, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo | |
| ‘Omaggio al Quadrato’, Franco Noero, Turin | |
| ‘Prisms & Shadows’, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow (curated by Toby Paterson) | |
| ‘Experiencing Duration’, Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon | |
| ‘Minimalism and After IV’, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin | |
| 2004 | 54th Carnegie International - Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg |
| ‘Collage’, Bloomberg Space, London | |
| ‘Ouroboros’, CCA, Glasgow | |
| ‘Four Rooms’, CeSAC, Caraglio, Italy | |
| ‘Genesis Sculpture’, Domaine Pommery, Reims | |
| ‘From Aural Sculpture to Sound by Ink’, Galerie Art: Concept, Paris | |
| ‘Synth’, Kunstraum B/2, Leipzig | |
| ‘Stalemate’, MCA, Chicago | |
| ‘Into My World’, Recent British Sculpture, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum | |
| ‘Brand New and Retro’, UP Projects, The Empire | |
| ‘Boros Collection’, ZKM Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe | |
| ‘Sodium & Asphalt’, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (British Council exhibition. Touring to Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Monterrey, Mexico) | |
| 2003 | ‘Objects in mirror are closer than they appear’, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe |
| ‘Cut Out’, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich | |
| ‘The Moderns’, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli | |
| ‘The Fourth Sex’, Fondazione Pitti Immagine, Florence | |
| ‘Silver convention’, Galerie Giti Nourbaksch, Berlin | |
| ‘Love Over Gold’, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow | |
| ‘I Got Ants in My Pants’, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo | |
| ‘OUTLOOK’, International Art Exhibition, Athens | |
| ‘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) | |
| ‘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 | |
| ‘Basic Instinct: Minimalism Past, Present, and Future’, MCA, Chicago | |
| ‘Grayscale/CMYK’, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin | |
| ‘Painting on Sculpture’, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York | |
| ‘Days Like These - Tate Triennial’, Tate Britain, London | |
| ‘Individual Systems’, Venice Biennale, Venice | |
| ‘ZENOMAP - New Works from Scotland for the Venice Biennale’, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice | |
| ‘Plunder: Culture as Material’, DCA, Dundee | |
| ‘The Unhomely’, Kettles Yard, Cambridge | |
| ‘Painting Not Painting’, Tate St Ives, Cornwall | |
| 2002 | ‘Electric Dreams’, Barbican Centre, London |
| ‘Sudden Glory: Sightgags and Slapsticks in Contemporary Art’, Californian College of Arts and Crafts, Los Angeles | |
| ‘Hello My Name Is ...’, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh | |
| ‘Superlounge’, Gale Gates et al, Brooklyn | |
| ‘There is a light that never goes out’, Galerie Sonia Rosso, Pordenone | |
| ‘VIP’, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal | |
| ‘Life is Beautiful’, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle | |
| ‘New’, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh | |
| ‘Jim Jonathan Kenny Frances and Sol’, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam | |
| ‘EU2’, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London | |
| ‘Greyscale/CMYK’, Tramway, Glasgow | |
| ‘My Head is on Fire but my Heart is Full of Love’, Charlottenborg Museum, Copenhagen | |
| ‘Painted, Printed & Produced in Great Britain’, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills | |
| ‘Early One Morning’, Whitechapel, London | |
| 2001 | ‘Tailsliding’, Kunsthall, Bergen (British Council touring exhibition. Touring to Kunsthall, Bergen; Centre of Contemporary Art, Vilnius; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tallinn; House of Artists, Brno; Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade; Turku Art Museum, Turku) |
| ‘Superimposition’, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York | |
| ‘G3NY13’, Casey Kaplan, New York | |
| ‘Funktional Fictional’, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany | |
| ‘Between Object and Arabesque’, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Denmark | |
| ‘Altoids Curiously Strong Collection’, The Lab, San Francisco | |
| ‘Tailsliding’, British Council touring show | |
| ‘I Love New York’, Anton Kern Gallery, New York (benefit show) | |
| ‘Songs of Love and Hate: Side A’, Galerie Weiland, Berlin | |
| ‘Silhouettes’, Lenbbachaus Kunstbau, Munich | |
| ‘Painting at the Edge of the World’, Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis | |
| ‘Here and Now: Scottish Art 1990-2001’, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee; Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen | |
| 2000 | ‘Dream Machines’, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee (Hayward touring exhibition. Touring to Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Camden Arts Centre, London) |
| ‘Raumkörper’, Basel Kunsthalle, Basel | |
| ‘Off the Record’, Bucknell Art Gallery, Pennsylvania | |
| Hoxton HQ, Sadie Coles | |
| Mark Selwyn, Los Angeles | |
| ‘Herz aus Glas’, Parking Meters, Cologne | |
| ‘Electric City’, The Lighthouse, Glasgow | |
| ‘Heart and Soul’, Los Angeles | |
| ‘Parking Meters’, Cologne | |
| ‘The British Art Show 5’, Edinburgh; Cardiff | |
| ‘What If’, Moderna Museet, Stockholm | |
| 1999 | ‘Heart and Soul’, 60 Long Lane, London |
| ‘Creeping Revolution’, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw | |
| Matthew Higgs @ Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna | |
| ‘Dots and Loops’, MK Expositeruimte, Rotterdam | |
| ‘The Queen is Dead’, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh | |
| ‘To be continued ...’, Walsall Public Projects, England | |
| ‘Silk purse’, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle | |
| ‘Papermake’, Modern Art, London | |
| 1998 | ‘All or Nothing’, La Friche Gallery (Triangle) Marseille, France |
| ‘Two Up’, Property Gallery, Glasgow | |
| ‘Lovecraft’, Spacex Gallery, Exeter | |
| The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow | |
| ‘Host’, Tramway, Glasgow (with Elizabeth Go) | |
| ‘Slant 6’, Jacob Javits Center, New York | |
| 1997 | ‘This is ... These are’, Norwich Gallery, Norwich |
| ‘European Couples and Others’, Transmission, Glasgow | |
| 1996 | ‘insanestupidphatfuctpervert’, Concrete Skates, Glasgow (Touring exhibition. Touring to Cubitt, London) |
| ‘Kilt ou Double’, La Vigie Gallery, Nómes | |
| ‘World of Ponce’, Southpark, Glasgow (Curated by Toby Webster) | |
| ‘Art for People’, Transmission, Glasgow | |
| ‘Sick Building’, Transmission Gallery at Globe Space, Copenhagen | |
| ‘Brain Mail’, Broad Studio 17, CalArts, California | |
| ‘Girls High’, The Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow | |
| 1995 | ‘Jonnie Wilkes & Jim Lambie’, 115 Dalriada, Glasgow |
| ‘Sun Hung Low’, Assembly Gallery, Glasgow (Mary Redmond & Jim Lambie) | |
| ‘In Stereo’, Transmission, Glasgow |
Projects
| 2023 | The Peninsula, New York |
Bibliography
Press
| 2023 | Li Qian: ‘Sculpture fest brings art closer to people’, Shine, 26/09/2023 |
| Ke Jiayun: International sculpture exhibition opens in Jing‘an park, Shine, 22/09/2023 | |
| 2019 | Fateman, Johanna: ‘Jim Lambie’, The New Yorker, 20/04/2019 |
| 2018 | ‘The LISTE Interviews: Toby Webster’, Art Review, 06/2018 |
| 2014 | Sinclair, Mark: ‘The making of the Barrowland Park album pathway’, Creative Review Blog, 30/07/2014 |
| Album Pathway intended as a homage to city‘s Barrowland, The Herald, 23/06/2014 | |
| 2013 | Fox, Dan: ‘Then & Now’, Frieze, No. 159 11/2013 |
| Russeth, Andrew: ‘Jim Lambie Talks Music, DJing and His Glasgow Club’, Gallerist, 08/05/2013 | |
| 2011 | Kyung-yun, Ho: ‘Visual DJ: Jim Lambie’, Asiana, 06/2011 |
| Lowndes, Sarah: ‘Slow Dazzle’, Spike Art Quarterly, 02/2011 | |
| 2010 | ‘Interview’, Frieze, 10/2010 |
| Lauren Dyer Amazeen: ‘Jim Lambie’, Artforum, 09/2010 | |
| Coles Alex: ‘The New Dècor’, Art Monthly, Issue 339 09/2010 | |
| Kotzè, Talitha: ‘Jim Lambie: Metal Urbain’, The List, Issue 657 18/05/2010 | |
| ‘Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art: various venus Glasgow’, Art Review, Issue 42 05/2010 | |
| Bain, Alice, Cooper, Neil, Leaver-Yap, Isla, Quinn, John: ‘Review: Glasgow International Festival’, Map, Issue 22 05/2010 | |
| 2009 | ‘Here Comes the Sun’, Art of England, 07/2009 |
| Philippa Lewis: ‘Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today’, Studio-International.co.uk, 23/06/2009 | |
| Laura Cumming: ‘Custard yellow, sky blue, pea green...,’, The Observer, 14/06/2009 | |
| Tom Lubbock: ‘Powerful Pigments’, The Independent, 08/06/2009 | |
| Laura McLean-Ferris: ‘Exhibitionist: The best art shows to see this week’, Guardian.co.uk, 05/06/2009 | |
| Park, Min-young: ‘Optical Illusions at Atelier Hermes’, Korea Herald, 05/06/2009 | |
| Musgrove, Jennie: ‘A Splash of Colour’, Concept for Living, Issue 127 06/2009 | |
| ‘Colour Chart’, New Statesman, 06/2009 | |
| Catherine Jones: ‘Colour Chart (Review)’, Liverpool Echo, 06/2009 | |
| Phillips, Sam: ‘Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour,1950 to Today’, World of Interiors, 06/2009 | |
| Coomer, Martin: ‘Jim Lambie’, Art World, 06/2009 | |
| Barachon, Charles: ‘Jim Lambie Passe En 33 Tours’, Technikart, 06/2009 | |
| Maerkle, Andrew: ‘Jim Lambie: Unknown Pleasures’, Art World, Issue 11 06/2009 | |
| ‘Talking Points’, Harper's Bazaar, 06/2009 | |
| Charles Darwent: ‘Slap on the Dulux and let there be light’, The Independent, 31/05/2009 | |
| Jackie Wullschlager: ‘Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today’, Financial Times, 30/05/2009 | |
| Searle, Adrian: ‘Pump up the Volume’, The Guardian, 28/05/2009 | |
| Davis, Laura: ‘Tate is awash with colour’, The Daily Post, 28/05/2009 | |
| Jones, Catherine: ‘Tate of the Art’, Liverpool Echo, 28/05/2009 | |
| Brown, Christopher: ‘Art Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today’, Metro, 26/05/2009 | |
| ‘Going out: Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today’, The Independent, 23/05/2009 | |
| Davis, Laura: We Won‘t Colour Your Response, Daily Post, 22/05/2009 | |
| Anna Richardson: ‘Wild hues’, Design Week, 21/05/2009 | |
| Campbell-Johnston, Rachel: ‘Breaking the Colour Code’, Times, 19/05/2009 | |
| Campbell-Johnston, Rachel: ‘Does Colour have and meaning in art?’, Times, 19/05/2009 | |
| Miller, Phil: Artist‘s pile of second hand seats bought for £117,000, The Herald, 14/05/2009 | |
| Kremier, Julian: ‘Learning Through Colour’, Art in America, 05/2009 | |
| ‘What to See this Spring’, The Guardian, 23/03/2009 | |
| Schafer, Owen: ‘Jim Lambie Makes Himself at Home’, Weekender, Vol. 40, No. 2 23/01/2009 | |
| Ukawa, Naohiro: ‘Jim Lambie: Unknown Pleasures’, ART iT, No.22 17/01/2009 | |
| Gombrich, Marius: ‘In the space’, The Japan Times, 09/01/2009 | |
| Falconer, Morgan: ‘Ellswoth kelly Feature’, Art World, 2009 | |
| Francis, Peter: ‘Seeing in Colour’, RA, 2009 | |
| Christoph Grunenberg & Ellsworth Kelly: ‘Sixty Years at Full Intensity’, Tate etc., Issue 16 2009 | |
| Madeleine Wilson: ‘Top of the Colour Charts’, V&A Magazine, 2009 | |
| 2008 | Searle, Adrian: ‘What not to miss in 2009’, The Guardian, 30/12/2008 |
| Higgs, Matthew: ‘Jim Lambie, Forever Changes’, Artforum, Issue XLVII 30/11/2008 | |
| Völzke, Daniel: ‘Der Scotte Jim Lambie setzt sich in Glasgow gegen die Konsumwelt durch’, Monopol, 06/2008 | |
| McLean-Ferris, Laura: ‘Glasgow International Festival’, Art Review, Issue 23 06/2008 | |
| Lesso, Rose: ‘Jim Lambie: Forever Changes’, The List, Issue 601 24/04/2008 | |
| Burton, Johanna: ‘Primary Sources’, Artforum, 04/2008 | |
| Chie, Sumiyoshi: ‘Jim Lambie The homemade magician’, ART iT, Issue 20 2008 | |
| 2007 | Armetta, Amoreen: ‘Jim Lambie’, Time Out NY, 17/05/2007 |
| ‘RSVP: Jim Lambie’, Map, Issue 12 2007 | |
| 2006 | Gayer, John: ‘Jim Lambie’, Art Papers, 09/2006 |
| Velasco, David: Critic‘s Picks, Artforum, 31/08/2006 | |
| Pham Do, Katherine: ‘Jim Lambie - P.I.L.’, The Japan Times, 04/05/2006 | |
| Calcutt, John: ‘Jim Lambie’, The Guardian, 05/02/2006 | |
| 2005 | Williams, Eliza: ‘Headline Headline Headline...’, Creative Review, 30/11/2005 |
| Macmillan, Duncan: ‘Confronting an art scene...’, The Scotsman, 25/10/2005 | |
| Kennedy, Alexander: ‘Caught on Tape’, The List, 06/10/2005 | |
| MacMillan, Ian: ‘Awop Bopa Loobop Zobop Bam Boom’, Modern Painters, 05/2005 | |
| Sholis, Brian: ‘Jim Lambie’, Artforum, 05/2005 | |
| Grosenick, Uta: ‘Art Now 2’, Taschen, 2005 | |
| Bracewell, Michael, Luisa Buck: ‘Turner Prize 2005: Jim Lambie, audio transcripts’, |
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| Mulholland, Neil: ‘Use Your Illusions’, Tate etc., Issue 4 2005 | |
| 2004 | Smith, Roberta: ‘Jim Lambie’, The New York Times, 30/04/2004 |
| Schambelan, Elizabeth: ‘Jim Lambie’, Artforum, 2004 | |
| 2003 | Mottram, Jack: ‘The Hot 100: 97 Jim Lambie’, The List, Issue 484 11/12/2003 |
| Wilsher, Mark: ‘Wittgenstein: Family Likenesses/ The Unhomely’, Art Monthly, Number 272 12/2003 | |
| Smith, Sarah: Jim Lambie: L‘art de l‘objet déplacé, O2, Number 31 30/11/2003 | |
| Tufnell, Rob: ‘Jim Lambie. Unplugged’, Art in Progress, Number 7 10/2003 | |
| Fenner, Felicity: ‘Young at heart’, Mouvement, Number 57 10/2003 | |
| Ratnam, Niru: Jim Lambie: the art world‘s very own psychedlic DJ, i-D, 30/09/2003 | |
| Searle, Adrian: ‘Stripe tease’, The Guardian, 23/09/2003 | |
| Fox, Dan: ‘50th Venice Bienniale’, Frieze, Issue 57 09/2003 | |
| Haines, Bruce: ‘Jim Lambie: Male Stripper’, Contemporary, Issue 55 09/2003 | |
| Monaghan, Helen: ‘Zenomap’, The List, 03/07/2003 | |
| Richardson, Craig: ‘Zenomap’, Contemporary, Issue 51 06/2003 | |
| Gleeson, David: ‘Days like these, Tate Triennial’, Flash Art, 05/2003 | |
| Triming, Lee: ‘Jim Lambie: Low Kick and Hard Bop, (interview)’, Flash Art, 05/2003 | |
| Falconer, Morgan: ‘Days like these’, Art Review, 04/2003 | |
| Thatcher, Jennifer: ‘Jim Lambie: Kebabylon’, Contemporary, Issue 50 04/2003 | |
| Troncy, Eric: ‘Décryptage’, Numero, Number 41 28/02/2003 | |
| Gale, Iain: ‘Taking space to a new dimension’, Scotland on Sunday, 19/01/2003 | |
| Eaton, Andrew: ‘Alien Concept’, The Scotsman, 14/01/2003 | |
| Nesbitt, Rebecca Gordon: ‘Jim Lambie, (interview)’, Matters magazine, Number 17 2003 | |
| Bracewell, Michael: ‘Scotland Rocks’, Tate Magazine, 2003 | |
| 2002 | Grant, Catherine: ‘Early One Morningflash’, Flash Art, Number 226 10/2002 |
| Charlesworth, JJ: ‘Not neo but new’, Art Monthly, Number 259 10/2002 | |
| Searle, Adrian: ‘Early One Morning’, The Guardian, 24/07/2002 | |
| Hackworth, Nick: ‘Future Forms’, Evening Standard, 09/07/2002 | |
| Farquharson, Alex: ‘Drastic plastic’, Frieze, Issue 68 06/2002 | |
| Tarsia, Andrea: This is now‘..., Art Review, 06/2002 | |
| Coomer, Martin: ‘Jim Lambie’, Time Out London, 15/05/2002 | |
| Morton, Tom: ‘Early One Morning’, Frieze, Issue 71 02/2002 | |
| Mulholland, Neil: ‘Here + Now: Scottish Art 1990 - 2001’, Frieze, Issue 64 31/01/2002 | |
| Glossop, Claire: ‘Reconsidering New Generation’, Sculpture Journal, Volume VII 2002 | |
| Hunt, David: ‘Unlofty Means’, artext, 2002 | |
| 2001 | Gioni, Massimiliano: ‘New York Cut Up’, Flash Art, 12/2001 |
| Daily, Megan: ‘The Boy Hairdresser’, Artforum, 12/2001 | |
| Burton, Johanna: ‘Boy Hairdresser’, Time Out NY, 27/09/2001 | |
| Smith, Roberta: ‘Boy Hairdresser’, The New York Times, 14/09/2001 | |
| Chivaratanond, Sylvia: ‘Jim Lambie’, Flash Art, 05/2001 | |
| Mahoney, Robert: ‘G3NY13’, Time Out NY, Issue 290 12/04/2001 | |
| Kroner, Magdalena: ‘Jim Lambie’, Flash Art, 03/2001 | |
| Krajewski, Michael: ‘Jim Lambie’, Kunstbulletin, 01/2001 | |
| Cox, Christoph: ‘Abstract concrete: Francisco Lopez and the ontology of sound, Cabinet’, Untitled, Issue 2 2001 | |
| Lowndes, Sarah: ‘Jim Lambie’, The List, 2001 | |
| Wilson, Michael: ‘Jim Lambie’, Untitled, Number 26 2001 | |
| Ackermann, Marion: ‘Schattenrisse’, Lenbachhaus, 2001 | |
| 2000 | Jones, Jonathan: ‘Five-Card Trickbie’, The Guardian, 30/09/2000 |
| Arning, Bill: ‘Jim Lambie’, Art in America, 09/2000 | |
| Lunenfeld, Peter: ‘Untitled’, artext, Number 70 08/2000 | |
| Clifford, Katie: ‘Jim Lambie’, New Art Examiner, 05/2000 | |
| Mahoney, Elisabeth: ‘Dream Machines’, Art Monthly, Number 235 04/2000 | |
| McLaren, Duncan: ‘Dream machines’, The Independent on Sunday, 05/03/2000 | |
| Cotter, Holland: ‘Jim Lambie’, New York Times, 18/02/2000 | |
| Levin, Kim: ‘Jim Lambie’, The Village Voice, 02/2000 | |
| Brown, Neal: ‘Papermake’, Frieze, Issue 50 01/2000 | |
| Lack, Jessica: ‘Dream on’, Tate etc., 2000 | |
| 1999 | Saltz, Jerry: ‘Hungry Hearts’, The Village Voice, 14/09/1999 |
| Musgrove, Dave: ‘Multiples’, Art Monthly, Number 228 07/1999 | |
| Herbert, Martin: ‘Jim Lambie’, Time Out London, 23/06/1999 | |
| Mahoney, Elisabeth: ‘Jim Lambie’, Art/Text, Issue 87 05/1999 | |
| Sinclair, Ross: ‘Jim Lambie’, Frieze, Issue 46 04/1999 | |
| Bird, Nicky: ‘The Queen Is Dead’, Art Monthly, Number 226 04/1999 | |
| Dawes, Mark: ‘Glasgow’, Circa, Issue 87 1999 | |
| McLaren, Duncan: ‘Jim Lambie: Zobop’, Zing Magazine, Number 11 1999 | |
| Shave, Stuart: ‘North Face’, i-D, Issue 187 1999 | |
| 1998 | Nesbitt, Rebecca Gordon: ‘Urban Myths’, Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 17 1998 |
| 1997 | Plagens, Peter: ‘Glasgow Gets Conceptual’, Newsweek, Volume CXXX, Number 16 1997 |
| 1995 | Wright, Richard: ‘Jonnie Wilkes and Jim Lambie’, Circa, Issue 75 03/1995 |
Exhibition Reviews
| 2021 | Mansfield, Susan: ‘Art Reviews: Nicky Bird | Iman Tajik | Ambi | Jim Lambie’, The Scotsman, 28/05/2021 |
| 2016 | ‘Perceptions of Domesticity’, Aesthetica, 28/11/2016 |
| 2015 | Steadman, Ryan: ‘An Artist Who Makes Art Like a Rock Star’, New York Observer, 14/11/2015 |
| ‘A Conversation with Jim Lambie‘, Ocula, 24/08/2015 | |
| 2013 | Sherwin, Skye and Clark, Robert: ‘Clare Woods, Laura Knight, Sarah Morris: the week‘s art shows in pictures’, Guardian.co.uk, 12/07/2013 |
| ‘Jim Lambie at The Modern Institute’, Contemporary Art Daily, 05/03/2013 | |
| ‘Blurring the Senses’, Aesthetica, 02/2013 | |
| 2012 | Clark, Robert: ‘Jim Lambie: Shaved Ice’, The Guardian Guide, 14/12/2012 |
| Patience, Jan: ‘Gallery round-up’, The Herald, 12/2012 | |
| Dyer Amazeen, Lauren: ‘Review’, Artforum Online, 12/2012 | |
| ‘You Drunken Me‘, www.richardhell.com, 04/2012 | |
| Decter, Joshua: ‘Review’, Artforum, 02/2012 | |
| 2011 | Herbert, Martin: ‘Now See This‘, Art Review, Issue 52 09/2011 |
| 2005 | Jeffery, Moira: ‘Mexican Lights’, Map, Issue 1 01/2005 |
| 1999 | Mahoney, Elisabeth: ‘The Queen is Dead’, Untitled, 1999 |
| Bird, Nicky: ‘The Queen is Dead’, Art Monthly, 1999 |
Publications
| 2017 | 65 Chapters for Knowing about Scotland, Mizuma Art Gallery |
| Creating Ourselves: The Self in Art, Whitechapel Gallery, London | |
| Jim Lambie, Skira Rizzoli, New York | |
| 2014 | ‘Not Just For Me: A Sample of The Poetry Club’, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh |
| 2004 | Voidoid, The Modern Institute, Glasgow; Sadie Coles HQ, London; Anton Kern Gallery, New York in collaboration with Koenig Books, London |
| 2002 | VITAMIN P, Phaidon Press, London/ New York |
| 1999 | Seven Wonders of the World, Book Works, London |
Exhibition Publications
| 2011 | Made in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence (Exhibition catalogue) |
| 2010 | Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form Balance Joy, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago |
| The Library of Babel - In and Out of Place, Zabudowicz Collection, London | |
| The New Decor, Hayward Publishing, London | |
| 2009 | Unknown Pleasures, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo and DaimlerChrysler Foundation, Tokyo |
| 2008 | Eight Miles High, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Southbank |
| Scotland & Venice 2003 2005 2007, Scottish Arts Council/ British Council/ National Galleries of Scotland/ The Scottish Government, Edinburgh | |
| 2007 | Breaking step, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade |
| Domestic Irony: A Curious Glance on Italian Private Collections, MUSEION, Bolzano | |
| Passion Complex: Selected Works from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa | |
| Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago | |
| 2006 | All Hawaii Entrées/ Lunar Reggae, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin |
| Jim Lambie, abstract art now - strictly geometrical?, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein | |
| 2005 | Concentrations 47: Jim Lambie, Thirteenth Floor Elevator, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas |
| Expérience de la durée, Biennale de Lyon, Lyon | |
| Sodium & Asphalt, Museo de arte Contempoánea de Monterrey, Mexico | |
| Turner Prize 2005, Tate Publishing, London | |
| 2004 | Four Rooms, CeSAC, Caraglio |
| Geneis Sculpture, Experience Pommery #1, Beaux Arts SAS, Paris (special issue published on the occasion of the exhibition Geneis Sculpture, Domaine Pommery, Reims) | |
| Into My World: Recent British Sculpture, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut | |
| Jim Lambie: 54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh | |
| SYNTH: 10 Artists from Glasgow, Kunstraum B/2, Leipzig | |
| 2003 | Bad Behaviour, Hayward Publishing, London |
| Days Like These, Tate Publishing, London | |
| Il racconto de filo, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Roverto, Trento/ Roverto | |
| Male Stripper, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford (Reflections on the art of Jim Lambie) | |
| Martin Boyce, This Place is Dreaming, (monograph), Contemporary Art Gallery and Tramway, Vancouver and Glasgow | |
| OUTLOOK, Cultural Olympiad, Athens | |
| Painting Not Painting, Tate St.Ives, St. Ives | |
| Undead Dreams (monograph), RomaRomaRoma, Rome | |
| 2002 | Early One Morning, Whitechapel Gallery, London |
| Greyscale/CMYK, Tramway, Glasgow | |
| My Head is on Fire but my Heart is Full of Love, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen | |
| Sudden Glory: Sight Gags and Slapstick in Contemporary Art, CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco | |
| Very Important Pictures, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal (Bleached Highlights) | |
| 2001 | Funktional Fictional, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel |
| Here and Now: Scottish Art 1990-2000, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee | |
| Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis | |
| Patterns: Between Object and Arabesque, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense | |
| Tailsliding, British Council, London | |
| 2000 | Martin Boyce: When Now Is Night, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh |
| Raumkörper. Netze und andere Gebilde, Kunsthalle Basel/ Schwabe Verlag, Basel | |
| 1999 | ZOBOP, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow |
| 1998 | Lovecraft, Spacex Gallery, Exeter |