Sue Tompkins
Print-friendly versionBorn 1971, Leighton Buzzard; Lives in Glasgow
Forthcoming and Current Exhibitions
| 2013 |
The Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles (Group, 29/09/2013—05/01/2014) '40/40', Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow (Group, 24/08—13/10/2013) Poor Farm, Manawa (Group, 02/08/2013—07/2014) 'Laura Aldridge, Sara Barker, Sue Tompkins', Shane Campbell Gallery, Lincoln Park, Chicago (Group, 31/05—31/07/2013) 'Skype Wont Do', Diana Stigter, Amsterdam (Solo, 18/05—22/06/2013) 'six memos for the next…', Magazin4, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz (Group, 22/03—06/10/2013) |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2013 |
'Skype Wont Do', Diana Stigter, Amsterdam |
| 2012 |
'Its chiming in Normaltown', Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (Live Performance “LL Bedrock”) 'Country Grammar', 22:37, Bungenäs, Gotland (www.canellwatkins.org/2237.html) |
| 2011 |
'My Kind Book', Dia Art Foundation, New York (Web based project: online book http://65.181.178.190/tompkins/book/mykindbook.html) The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, Glasgow Inverleith House, Edinburgh (with Claude Cahun) 'Hallo Welcome to Keith Street', Inverleith House, Edinburgh (Performance) |
| 2010 |
'Hallo Welcome to Keith Street', Ocean Front at Collins Park between 21st and 22nd Streets, Miami Beach (Performance Presented by Art Basel Miami Beach and Creative Time In Partnership with Tramway) mima Soundspace, Middlesbrough |
| 2009 |
'Salute to the Dataday', Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis |
| 2007 |
'Apple', The Showroom, London (Performance Country Grammar, available to view at <http://showstudio.com/projects/transmissions/>) 'Grease: Transfer', Spike Island, Bristol (live performance; with Hayley Tompkins) |
| 2006 |
The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow 'Hayley Tompkins and Sue Tompkins', Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York 'Spike Island', Bristol (café design commission with Hayley Tompkins, in collaboration with Caruso St John Architects) |
| 2005 |
'Elephants Galore', opening, Scottish Pavillion (live performance; Selective Memory) 'On Stage', Galerie Giti Nourbaksch, Berlin (live performance with Jamie Isenstein, Sean Landers, Charlemagne Palestine) 'When it broke', ArtForum Berlin, Giti Nourbaksch Gallery (two person show with Hayley Tompkins) |
| 2004 |
Kunstrai Art Fair, Diana Stigter Gallery, Amsterdam (Live Performance) Solo presentation and performance, Rheinschau Art Cologne Projects Rheinschau Art Cologne Projects, Cologne (Solo presentation and performance) 'Feast of Silenus', Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh (live performance) 'Live Performance', Museum of Garden History, London (in association with the Sonic Arts Network and Resonance FM) 'Midwest Casinos', Manchester (live performance) 'More Cola Wars', Switchspace, Glasgow (live performance) |
| 2003 |
'Country Grammar', doggerfisher, Edinburgh 'Northern Grammar', Stavanger Kulturhus, Norway |
| 2001 |
'Solo', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
| 2000 |
'Evil Eye', Glasgow Independent Studios (with Hayley Tompkins) |
| 1999 |
'Sounds of Grass', Transmission, Glasgow (with Hayley Tompkins) |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2013 |
'In Praise Of Shadows', Charlton Bond Building, Newcastle (Live performance) 'Grow Fins, Salute the Captain', The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow (Live performance ‘More Windows’) 'six memos for the next…', Magazin4, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz 'Words to be Spoken Aloud', Turner Contemporary, Margate (Festival) Supplement Gallery, London |
| 2012 |
'OO', Misako & Rosen, Tokyo (curated by Rob Halverson / C-o-o-l Art) 'Now Here is also Nowhere', Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle 'The Medium is the Message: Words in printmaking since the 1960s', Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow (curated by Ben Harman) 'Neu!Reekie!', The Scottish Book Trust, Edinburgh (Live perfomance ‘More Windows’) 'SOUNDWORKS', ICA, London 'Film and performance: The Voice Is A Language', Tate Modern, London (Live Performance ‘My Dataday’) 'Patricia Fleming Projects - Everything Flows', Queen’s Park Railway Club, Glasgow (Live Performance ‘More Windows’ 21 April 2012) |
| 2011 |
'MakeUp', A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia 'To Pay Respect to the Generosity of The 3 Minute Punk-Rock Song', Crate Project Space, Margate 'Underwood', Galerie 1900-2000, Paris 'Works on paper and other works', Project Room, Glasgow 'British Art Show 7: In The Days Of The Comet', Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth (Performance) 'The Waste Land', Tranzitdisplay, Prague (includes Performance 11/10/11) 'A Bee crawling around in the flower dome', The Hole, London (Performance: 8.30 - 8.55 pm) 'Flaca/Tom Humphreys', Portikus, Frankfurt 'Dirty Literature', National Portrait Gallery, London (Performance) 'An Exhibition to hear read', David Robert Arts Foundation Fitzrovia, London 'The Queen of Sciences', Dek 22, Rotterdam 'Free Poems', Podium, Oslo 'British Art Show 7: ‘In The Days Of The Comet’', Hayward Gallery, London (Performance: Hallo Welcome to Keith Street) |
| 2010 |
'British Art Show 7: In The Days Of The Comet', Nottingham Castle, Nottingham (Performance) 'Speak and Spell', COCO (Contemporary Concerns), Vienna (Performance) 'Loot! the art swapmeet', High Desert Test Sites HQ, Joshua Tree, California Common Guild, Glasgow (Performance (part of Robert Bary exhibition)) Podium, Oslo 'São Paulo Biennale', Sao Paolo Biennale, Sao Paolo 'Be Glad For The Song Has No End - A Festival of Artists’ Music', Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (Performance) Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes (Performance) Whitechapel, London (Performance) 'On Publications, Portraits, Public Art and Performance', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow 'The Voice is a Language', Tramway, Glasgow 'Fizz Up and Dissolve', The Project Rooms, Glasgow |
| 2009 |
'TONITE', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow 'Blank Tape Spillage Fete 2009', Cecil Sharp House, London 'HEAVEN', Athens Biennale, Athens 'Inverleith House', Edinburgh, Cardiff (with Hayley Tompkins) 'Poor. Old. Tired. Horse.', ICA, London 'Sculpture Show', Eastside Projects, Birmingham 'The First Stop on the Super Highway', Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul, Korea |
| 2008 |
Shane Campbell, Oak Park 'A Time to Play', APT Web Gallery (http://aptglobal.org/) 'Behind', Monitor Gallery, Rome 'Gut of the Quantifier', Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York 'Niemand bedarf der Bedürftigen - No one needs the needy', Sandra Buergel Gallery, Berlin 'r e p ’ e . t ’ t i on', Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow 'TYPED', Sadie Coles HQ, London 'Wollust - The Presence of Absence', Columbus Art Foundation, Leipzig 'Word Event', Kunsthalle Basel, Basel |
| 2007 |
'Bare Words', Lautom Contemporary, Oslo 'Country Grammar', Project Space, Leeds (live performance) 'End of Burning/Brennschluss', Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna 'In the poem about love you don’t write the word love', Overgaden, Copenhagen (live performance) 'In the poem about love you don’t write the word love', Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (live performance) 'Learn to Read', Tate Modern, London 'Re-Mission', Torstrasse 140, Berlin 'Untitled – Works on Paper', Art:Concept, Paris 'Whenever It Starts It Is The Right Time', Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt |
| 2006 |
Beck's Futures, ICA (nominee; CCA offsite, Glasgow; Arnolfini offsite, Bristol) 'Attitude', c/o - Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin 'BMAC', Blackpool (live performance) 'Death And The Compass', FOUR, Dublin 'Flaca Gallery', London (with Karla Black and Sally Osborn) 'Grease', Tate Britain, London (Art Now Live Work: Rory Macbeth, Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan, and Sue Tompkins; <http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/artnow/liveworks/suetompkins/default.shtm>) 'If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution', De Appel, Amsterdam 'In the poem about love you don’t write the word love', Artists Space, New York 'Satellites', Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York 'The Three Cities: Berlin, Milan, London', The Warehouse/ Bethnal Green, London (live performance) 'Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better.', Momentum 2006, 4th Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art 'Writing in Strobe', Dicksmith Gallery, London 'You always say no to Ibitha', Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd, London 'Youth of Today', Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt |
| 2005 |
'Art is where the heart is (part 2)', Kunstenaarsinitiatief Paraplufabriek, Nijmegen 'Dealing kindly with insects in the home', Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco 'Elephants Galore’ (live performance), ‘In the poem about love you don’t write the word love', CCA, Glasgow 'Herald St. and The Modern Institute', Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York 'Radiance', Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow |
| 2004 |
Switchspace, Glasgow Art Fair 'Country Grammar', Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow 'Group show', Rennes, France (with Transmission Gallery) 'Haute Street', Diana Stigter, Amsterdam (with Scott Myles and Alan Michael) |
| 2003 |
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna Transmission stand, Frieze Art Fair 'Be Dear Crazy Loud', Flourish Nights, Glasgow (a performance with Luke Fowler and P6) 'Contemporary Abstraction', Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow |
| 2001 |
'Circles 4 One Fo(u)r One', ZKM Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe (with Elizabeth Go) 'October', St. Vincent Street, Glasgow (Curated by Karla Black and Katie Exley) |
| 2000 |
'Avalon', The Changing Room, Stirling (with Sue Tompkins) 'Film Club', Glasgow (with Elizabeth go; curated by Scott Myles) 'Film Club 2', Vilma Gold, London (with Elizabeth Go; curated by David Thorpe) 'Tonight', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
| 1999 |
'Faces and Names', performance as part of Education in Reverse, The Corinthian (with Hayley Tompkins) 'Fields and Rays and Green Numbers', The Pinapple, Malmö 'Love, Speed, Thrills', Manchester Metropolitan University (with Elizabeth Go) 'Museum-a-go-go', Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow 'Where the Wild Roses Grow, Anti War - You Take it From my Heart', Transmission, Glasgow (with Elizabeth Go) 'White Bear zz', Roslea Drive, Glasgow (With Scott Myles, Alan Micheal and Sue Tompkins) 'You are an Orange Orchid', performance for Radio Tuesday at the B.U.F.F. Club, Glasgow (with Sue Tompkins) |
| 1998 |
'Floatina Happiness', Tramway, Glasgow (with Elizabeth Go; Host) 'Various Artists', East Kilbride Arts Centre, Glasgow |
| 1997 |
'Art ‘97', Transmission Gallery at the Business Design Centre, Islington 'Hit ‘em With This Antoinette', Catalyst Arts, Belfast (Elizabeth Go performance at ‘Satellite City’) 'Wetness into Music', Wilkes, Glasgow 'You Show Me The DF Every Night You Show Me The DF You Show Me', NGCA, Sunderland (Elizabeth Go performance at ‘Connected’) |
| 1996 |
'Art for people', Transmission, Glasgow 'Artists’ Multiples', Collective Gallery, Edinburgh 'Brainmail', Studio 17, CalArts 'Life/Live', ARC Museé d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris 'Transmissions', Gallery Free Parking, Toronto 'World of Ponce', Southpark, Glasgow 'Young Black Italian/Garage in Yellow', Leighton Buzzard |
| 1995 |
'Look! Nuovo Miti', Wilkes, Glasgow (with Hayley Tompkins) |
Awards
| 2011 |
Paul Hamlyn Award |