Hayley Tompkins
Born 1971, Leighton Buzzard; Lives in Glasgow.
Education
| 1998 | MFA, Glasgow School of Art |
| 1994 | BA (Hons) Painting, Glasgow School of Art |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2023 | ‘Life Like Looking’, Efremidis, Seoul (with Arthur Laidlaw) |
| ‘Tell Gonzo How’, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles | |
| 2022 | ‘Far’, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh |
| ‘Features’, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York | |
| 2020 | ‘After a Long Sleep, It Woke Up’, The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow |
| ‘Bag of rainbow’, Recent Activity, Birmingham | |
| 2019 | ‘LB.’, Drawing Room, Hamburg |
| 2018 | ‘Think I wanna drive your Benz (I don't)’, The Modern Institute, 3 Aird's Lane, Glasgow |
| ‘Stick crystals to paintings’, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn | |
| 2016 | Lulu, Mexico City |
| ‘Myth Cart’, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh | |
| 2015 | ‘Electric Magnetic Installation’, The Modern Institute, 3 Aird's Lane, Glasgow |
| ‘Technicolor Hamburger’, Drawing Room, Hamburg | |
| 2014 | ‘Scotland + Venice 2013’, Common Guild, Glasgow (Part of GENERATION 2014) |
| ‘Space Kitchen’, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York | |
| 2013 | Aspen Art Museum, Aspen |
| 2012 | ‘House of Life’, Cairn, Pittenweem |
| 2011 | ‘Currents’, Studio Voltaire, London |
| ‘A Piece Of Eight’, The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow | |
| 2009 | ‘Autobuilding’, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh |
| ‘Optical Research’, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York | |
| 2008 | ‘Re’, The Drawing Room / Tannery Arts, London |
| 2007 | ‘Lent Moving Pictures’, Galerie Giti Nourbaksch, Berlin |
| ‘Transfer’, Spike Island, Bristol | |
| 2006 | ‘Hayley Tompkins and Sue Tompkins’, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York |
| 2005 | ‘Them and Ten Thousand Cups’, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
| ‘When I broke the room’, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco | |
| 2003 | Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York |
| ‘Oh! Replica’, Els Hanappe Underground, Athens | |
| 2002 | Giti Nourbaksch, Berlin |
| 2001 | ‘Glassy’, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York |
| Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco | |
| 2000 | The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
Group Exhibitions
| 2023 | ‘Papertrail’, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles |
| 2022 | ‘Sabrina’, Sim Smith, London |
| Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| ‘Our interesting life’, Efremidis, Berlin | |
| 2021 | Hollybush Gardens, London |
| ‘A Small Thing Edgily’, June, Berlin | |
| ‘Particularities’, X Museum, Beijing | |
| ‘Termite Tapeworm Fungus Moss’, Intermedia Gallery, CCA, Glasgow (Part of Glasgow International 2021) | |
| ‘Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945’, Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition , Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (î‘‘î‘î‘‘î‘), Djanogly Gallery, University of Nottingham (î‘‘î‘î‘‘î‘), The Levinsky Gallery, University of Plymouth (î‘‘î‘î‘‘î‘‘), Ferens Art Gallery, Hull (î‘‘î‘î‘‘î‘‘), The New Art Gallery Walsall (î‘‘î‘î‘‘3) | |
| ‘I Know Where I'm Going - Who Can I Be Now’, The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow | |
| 2019 | ‘Chips and Egg’, The Sunday Painter, London |
| ‘Marcelle Alix ouverte’, Marcelle Alix, Paris | |
| ‘Alan Kane’s 4 Bed Detached Home of Metal’, The New Art Gallery Walsall | |
| ‘Object & Thing’, 99 Scott, Brooklyn | |
| ‘Katinka Bock, Esther Kläs, Helen Mirra, Hayley Tompkins’, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London | |
| ‘Drawing Biennial 2019’, Drawing Room, London | |
| 2018 | ‘Jahresgaben 2018’, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn |
| ‘Fillette’, Francesca Pia, Zurich | |
| 2017 | ‘Jason Kraus & Hayley Tompkins’, The Modern Institute, Aird's Lane Bricks Space |
| ‘Portrait (for a Screenplay) of Beth Harmon’, Tenderpixel, London | |
| 2016 | ‘New Past: Contemporary Art from Britain’, Art Gallery of Uzbekistan, Tashkent |
| ‘I still believe in miracles’, Inverleith House, Edinburgh | |
| ‘Reconstructive Memory’, Galerie Valentin, Paris (Curated by It's Our Playground) | |
| ‘good things come...’, Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth | |
| ‘Is This Living’, The Approach, London | |
| 2015 | ‘Drawn by its own memory’, Laura Barlett Gallery, London |
| ‘Walks and Displacements’, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York | |
| ‘British Art Show 8’, Touring exhibition, Leeds Art Gallery (2015 - 2016), Edinburgh (2016), Norwich (2016), Southampton (2016 - 2017) | |
| ‘The Persistence of Objects’, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore (curated by The Common Guild) | |
| ‘Eat Abstractedly’, Mary Mary, Glasgow | |
| ‘The Grass is Singing’, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo | |
| ‘Painting in Time’, The Tetley, Leeds (co-curated by Sarah Kate Wilson) | |
| ‘Small Sculpture’, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago | |
| ‘Deep Screen’, Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux (curated by It’s Our Playground) | |
| 2014 | ‘@ the shrink’, Shanaynay, Paris |
| ‘On the Devolution of Culture’, 83 Page Street, London | |
| ‘GENERATION Moving Image Programme’, Tramway, Glasgow | |
| ‘Laura Aldrige, Laurie Clark, Melanie Counsell, Hayley Tompkins, David Williams’, Cairn, Pittenweem | |
| ‘I Cheer a Dead Man's Sweetheart’, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill | |
| 2013 | ‘Out Of Doors’, Supplement Gallery, London |
| ‘Valise’, BQ and Pavillon der Volksbühne, Berlin (The Glasgow Weekend) | |
| ‘Scotland + Venice 2013: Sworn / Campbell / Tompkins’, Collateral Event of the 55th International Art Exhibition – Venice Biennale, Palazzo Pisani, Venice | |
| ‘Every Day’, GOMA, Glasgow | |
| 2012 | ‘Last Chance’, SWG3, Glasgow |
| ‘The Imminence of Poetics’, Sao Paolo Biennale, Sao Paolo | |
| ‘Studio 58: Women Artists in Glasgow Since WWII’, Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow | |
| 2011 | ‘Painting Show’, Eastside Projects, Birmingham (Curated by Sophie von Hellerman & Gavin Wade) |
| ‘Painting Expanded’, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York | |
| ‘Watercolour’, Tate Britain, London | |
| ‘Vegetable Loves’, Polarcap, West Barnes Studios, Dunbar | |
| 2010 | ‘In Memory of Painting 8’, Layr Wuestenhagen Contemporary, Vienna |
| ‘Every Night I go to Sleep’, Modern Art, London | |
| ‘At Home/Not At Home (From the collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg)’, Hessel Museum, Bard College, New York (Curated by Mathew Higgs) | |
| ‘Ashes to Ashes’, AMP, Athens (Curated by Christopher Garrett) | |
| ‘Group Show’, Autocenter, Berlin | |
| ‘Fragments of Machines’, IMO, Copenhagen (Curated by Will Bradley) | |
| 2009 | Inverleith House, Edinburgh |
| ‘modern modern’, Chelsea Art Museum, New York | |
| ‘Zero Budget Biennale’, Galerie Carlos Cardenas, Paris (Curated by Joanna Fiduccia and Chris Sharpe) | |
| ‘Salute to the Dataday’, The Front Room, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (with Sue Tompkins) | |
| ‘Frequency: Mark Garry, Padraig Timoney, Hayley Tompkins’, The Hugh Lane Museum, Dublin | |
| 2008 | ‘Open Field’, CCA, Glasgow |
| 2007 | ‘Wollust - The Presence of Absence’, Columbus Art Foundation, Leipzig |
| ‘Old Space New Space’, Gagosian, New York | |
| ‘Open End’, John Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles | |
| 2006 | ‘Life's a Beach’, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv |
| ‘You always say no to Ibitha’, Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd, London | |
| ‘it is, 'what is it?'’, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York | |
| ‘If it didn’t exist you’d have to invent it: a partial Showroom history’, The Showroom, London | |
| 2005 | ‘Solo Show Solo Soul’, Baronian Francey, Brussels (project by Chris Johanson) |
| Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| ‘We Disagree’, Andrew Kreps and Wrong Gallery, New York | |
| ‘When it broke’, ArtForum Berlin, Giti Nourbaksch Gallery (Two person show) | |
| ‘Minimalism and After IV’, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin | |
| ‘In the zone of your eyes’, West London projects, London (two person show and live performance) | |
| 2004 | ‘Minimalism and After III’, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin |
| ‘Invisible Beauty’, Galerie Giti Nourbaksch, Berlin | |
| ‘Pre-Theatre’, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow | |
| ‘Souvenir’, Hotel, London | |
| ‘Becks Futures 2004’, ICA, London (Nominee) | |
| ‘Program III’, Rolf-Ricke, Cologne | |
| ‘Works on paper’, Sprüth-Magers Projekte, Munich | |
| ‘Country Grammar’, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow | |
| Kerlin Gallery, Dublin | |
| 2003 | ‘Paper Projects’, Kate Macgarry, London |
| ‘The Fragile Underground’, Bart Wells Institute, London | |
| Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna | |
| Giti Nourbaksch, Berlin | |
| 2002 | ‘On Paper 1’, Galerie Friedrich, Basel |
| ‘Half the World Away’, Hallwalls CAC, Buffalo | |
| ‘Works from the Gaby and Wilhelm Schurmann Collection’, K21, Dusseldorf | |
| 2001 | ‘Brown Field’, Market Gallery, Glasgow (Curated by Rob Tufnell) |
| ‘October, St Vincent Street, Glasgow, Curated by Karla Black & Katie Exley’, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow (Curated by Karla Black and Katie Exley) | |
| ‘Circles 4 One Fo(u)r One’, ZKM Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe (with Elizabeth Go) | |
| ‘Here and Now: Scottish Art 1990-2001’, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee; Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen | |
| 2000 | ‘Film Club’ (with Elizabeth Go; curated by Scott Myles) |
| ‘Avalon’, The Changing Room, Stirling | |
| ‘Film Club 2’, Vilma Gold, London (with Elizabeth Go; curated by David Thorpe) | |
| ‘Evil Eye’, Glasgow Independent Studios | |
| 1999 | ‘White Bear zz’, 78 Roslea Drive, Glasgow |
| ‘Sounds of Grass’, Transmission, Glasgow | |
| ‘Where the Wild Roses Grow, Anti War - You Take it From my Heart’, Transmission, Glasgow (with Elizabeth Go) | |
| 1998 | ‘Add Night To Night’, The Showroom, London (Curated by Sarah Tripp) |
| ‘I Love This Life’, Transmission, Glasgow | |
| 1997 | ‘Slight’, Norwich Gallery, Norwich |
| ‘JoyJoy’, Transmission, Glasgow | |
| 1996 | ‘Wallpaper’, CCA, Glasgow |
| ‘World of Ponce’, Southpark, Glasgow (Curated by Toby Webster) | |
| 1995 | ‘The Persistence of Painting’, CCA, Glasgow |
| ‘Studio 58: Women Artists in Glasgow Since WWII’, Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art | |
| ‘Look! Nuovo Miti’, Wilkes, Glasgow |
Commissions
| 2006 | ‘Spike Island’, Bristol (cafè design with Hayley Tompkins, in collaboration with Caruso St John Architects) |
Performances
| 2007 | ‘Grease: Transfer’, Spike Island, Bristol |
| 1999 | ‘Faces and Names’, The Corinthian, Glasgow (Performance as part of 'Education in Reverse') |
Bibliography
Press
| 2022 | Rachel Ashenden: ‘Hayley Tompkins: Far’, The List, 30/10/2022 |
| 2011 | ‘Arts Visual’, The Guardian G2, 15/02/2011 |
| 2009 | Fiduccia, Joanna: ‘Hypothetically Seeing’, Map, Issue 17 2009 |
| 1998 | O'Sullivan, Tom: ‘untitled’, Circa, Issue 89 30/11/1998 |
| 1997 | Rothschild, Eva: ‘I am you as you are me as he is she as we are all together’, Make, Issue 80 30/11/1997 |
Exhibition Reviews
| 2020 | Susan Mansfield: ‘Art reviews: We Are Here, Botanics, Edinburgh | Walter Price & Hayley Tompkins, Modern Institute, Glasgow’, Scotsman, 30/11/2020 |
| 2014 | Lowndes, Sarah: ‘Hayley Tompkins, Digital Light Pools’, Art Review, 10/2014 |
| Cooper, Neil: ‘Hayley Tompkins’, The List, 726 10/07/2014 | |
| King, Sarah S.: ‘Hayley Tompkins’, Art in America, 09/05/2014 | |
| Smith, Roberta: ‘Hayley Tompkins ‘Space Kitchen’, The New York Times, 06/02/2014 | |
| 2013 | Miller, Phil: ‘Scotland makes strong showing within the international art party of the Venice Biennale’, The Herald, 02/06/2013 |
| Cezar, Aaron: ‘Scotland Shines in Venice’, The Art Newspaper, 06/2013 | |
| Miller, Phil: ‘Glasgow artists showcase Scotland in Venice’, The Herald, 28/05/2013 | |
| Mansfield, Susan: ‘Glasgow School of Art takes plunge in Venice’, Scotsman, 28/05/2013 | |
| ‘News’, Metro, 28/05/2013 | |
| Mantle, Jac: ‘Scotland in Venice: Duncan Campbell, Corin Sworn & ‘Hayley Tompkins’, The Skinny, 27/05/2013 | |
| Miller, Phil: ‘State of the Arts: Scotland on show at the Venice Biennale‘, The Herald, 27/05/2013 | |
| Wilson, Fiona: ‘What the Brits are bringing to the Venice Biennale‘, The Times, 25/05/2013 | |
| Miller, Phil: ‘A global stage for Scottish artworks’, The Herald, 24/05/2013 | |
| Jeffrey, Moira: ‘Art review: Scotland + Venice 2013, Venice‘, Scotland on Sunday, 19/05/2013 | |
| Harris, Gareth: ‘Beyond the British Pavilion‘, The Art Newspaper, 03/05/2013 | |
| ‘Scotland + Venice 2013‘, Aesthetica Magazine Blog, 05/2013 | |
| ‘The Venice Questionnaire #9: ‘Hayley Tompkins‘, Art Review Online, 05/2013 | |
| Jeffrey, Moira: ‘Art: Laura Aldridge| Mick Peter| Niall McDonald’, Scotland on Sunday, 14/04/2013 | |
| 2012 | Basciano, Olivier & McLean-Ferris, Laura: ‘Glasgow - Beyond the miracle’, Art Review, Issue 58 04/2012 |
| ‘Exhibitions‘, Contemporary Art Daily, 02/02/2012 | |
| Morgan, Elinor: ‘Painting Show‘, this is tomorrow, 19/01/2012 | |
| 2011 | Herbert, Martin: ‘Hayley Tompkins‘, Time Out London, 08/07/2011 |
| Reid, Ash: ‘Exhibitions: ‘Hayley Tompkins‘, Map, Issue 25 06/2011 | |
| Urwin Jones, Susan: ‘The Brink on an eye‘, The Herald, 02/04/2011 | |
| 2009 | Pottinger, Rebecca: ‘Hayley Tompkins: AutoBuilding‘, The Skinny, Issue 43 04/2009 |
| Dale, Paul: ‘Hayley Tompkins: Autobuilding‘, The List, Issue 626 04/2009 | |
| Mansfield, Susan: ‘Hayley Tompkins/Mary MacIver‘, The Scotsman, 25/03/2009 | |
| Jeffery, Moira: ‘Art Review - ‘Hayley Tompkins: Autobuilding‘, Scotland on Sunday, 03/2009 | |
| 2008 | Lack, Jessica: ‘Hayley Tompkins‘, The Guardian Guide, 19/04/2008 |
| 2007 | Trigg, David: ‘Hayley Tompkins Sue Tompkins‘, Map, 2007 |
| 2006 | Nesbett, Peter (ed.): ‘Hayley Tompkins‘, Art on Paper, 2006 |
| 2005 | Jeffery, Moira: ‘Celebrating the Fall and the Rise‘‘, The Herald, 21/10/2005 |
| Mottram, Jack: ‘Barbara Kruger and ‘Hayley Tompkins‘, The Scotsman, 26/08/2005 | |
| McDermott, Leon: ‘Hayley Tompkins‘, Metro, 26/08/2005 | |
| Mottram, Jack: ‘Hayley Tompkins‘, The List, 08/2005 | |
| 2004 | Gale, Iain: ‘Revolution in their heads‘, Scotland on Sunday, 26/09/2004 |
| 2003 | Jeffery, Moira: ‘Hayley’s small visions‘, The Herald, 20/12/2003 |
| 2000 | Crowe, Jenny: ‘Avalon’, an, 03/2000 |
| Tufnell, Rob: ‘Avalon’, Make, Issue 88 03/2000 | |
| Johnston, Robert: ‘Hayley Tompkins‘, Untitled, 2000 | |
| 1999 | Lowndes, Sarah: ‘Sounds of Grass’, The List, 05/1999 |
Publications
| 2018 | Stick crystals to paintings, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd; Bonner Kunstverein |
| 2016 | Life·like, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
| 2014 | Hayley Tompkins, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen |
| 2013 | Hayley and Sue Tompkins: through and through, LemonMelon |
| 2012 | Hayley Tompkins, Sue Tompkins: AZ, LemonMelon |
| 2011 | Daniel Baumann, Karla Black, Pati Hertling: HAYLEY TOMPKINS, Inverleith House, Edinburgh (Monograph. Available through The Modern Institute) |
| 2009 | Diaries of a Young Artist, Distributed art Publishers, New York |
| 2008 | Michael Archer: Re Hayley Tompkins, The Drawing Room, London (Monograph. Available through The Modern Institute) |
| 2005 | VITAMIN D, Phaidon Press, London/New York |
| 2003 | Hayley Tompkins, Sue Tompkins: HAYLEY TOMPKINS, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow (Monograph. Available through The Modern Institute) |
Exhibition Publications
| 2011 | Watercolour, Tate Publishing, London |
| 2010 | At Home/not at Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Bard College Publications, Annandale-on-Hudson |
| 2005 | DaimlerChrysler Collection: Minimalism and After IV, DaimlerChrysler AG, Berlin |
| 2001 | Circles – Individuelle Sozialisation und Netzwerkarbeit in der zeitenossischen Kunst, ZKM, Karlsruhe |
| Here and Now: Scottish Art 1990-2000, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee | |
| October, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow | |
| 2000 | Avalon, The Changing Room, Stirling |
| 1998 | Add Night to Night, The Showroom, London |