Michael Wilkinson
Born 1965, Merseyside; Lives in Glasgow.
Education
| BA (Hons) Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art | |
| MFA, Glasgow School of Art |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2018 | ‘Michael Wilkinson’, The Modern Institute, 3 Aird's Lane, Glasgow |
| 2015 | ‘SORRY HAD TO DONE’, The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow |
| 2014 | ‘CITADEL: The fortress commanding a city, which it serves both to protect and to dominate’, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York |
| 2013 | ‘En Attendant’, Pearl Lam, Shanghai |
| 2012 | ‘No History’, Blum and Poe Gallery, Los Angeles |
| ‘Dresden’, The Modern Institute, 3 Aird's Lane, Glasgow | |
| 2011 | ‘Never Works’, Le Temple, Paris |
| 2009 | ‘Lions After Slumber’, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
| 2005 | The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
| Daniel Hug, Los Angeles | |
| 2004 | Sutton Lane, London |
| Wrong Gallery, New York | |
| 2003 | Gallery Yvon Lambert, Paris |
| 2001 | ‘Present Future’, Artissima, Turin |
| ‘v.delay entain’, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh | |
| 2000 | ‘VOGUE’, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
| 1998 | ‘No Frills Public Sculpture’, Kwik Save, The Gorbals |
Group Exhibitions
| 2022 | ‘STATUS need a world interlude’, The Modern Institute, 3 Aird's Lane, Glasgow |
| 2018 | ‘Open House’, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco |
| 2015 | ‘The Curves of the Needle’, BALTIC 39, Newcastle upon Tyne |
| 2014 | ‘That Petrol Emotion’, Metropolitan Art Society, Beirut |
| 2013 | ‘Art under Attack: Histories of British Iconoclasm’, Tate Britain, London |
| ‘I'll be your Mirror’, Herald St, London (Part 1) | |
| ‘Transforming the Known: Works from the Bert Kreuk Collection’, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag | |
| 2012 | ‘Pas Encore’, Galerie Sultana, Paris (Curated by Frédéric Bonnet) |
| ‘BULLETIN BOARDS’, Venus Over Manhattan, New York | |
| 2010 | ‘Rubble Stir’, The Glue Factory, Glasgow |
| ‘Wayfinders’, 135 Castlebank Street, Glasgow | |
| ‘White Columns 2010 Benefit Exhibition & Auction’, White Columns, New York | |
| 2009 | ‘SUNDOWN’, Office Baroque, Antwerp |
| 2007 | ‘The Saw Show’, Finneston Saw Doctors, Glasgow |
| ‘Laying Bricks’, Wallspace Gallery, New York | |
| 2006 | ‘ALL THAT IS SOLID MELTS INTO AIR’, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou |
| 2004 | ‘The Birthday Party’, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh |
| ‘Gertcha!’, flat show, Glasgow | |
| ‘Tonight’, Studio Voltaire, London | |
| Transmission at Kunstverein Graz, Austria | |
| 2003 | ‘Primary Colours’, City Gallery, Leicester |
| ‘Contemporary Abstraction’, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow | |
| Wight Bienalle, UCLA | |
| ‘Plunder: Culture as Material’, DCA, Dundee | |
| 2002 | ‘Half the World Away’, Hallwalls CAC, Buffalo |
| ‘Air Guitar’, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes | |
| Roma Roma Roma, Rome | |
| ‘'Happy Outsiders from London and Scotland’, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw | |
| 2001 | ‘Here and Now’, DCA & Generator Projects, Dundee |
| ‘October, St Vincent Street, Glasgow, Curated by Karla Black & Katie Exley’, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow (Curated by Karla Black and Katie Exley) | |
| ‘Noir’, Transmission, Glasgow | |
| Vilma Gold, London | |
| ‘Songs of Love and Hate: Side A’, Galerie Weiland, Berlin | |
| ‘Circles 4 One Fo(u)r One’, ZKM Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe (with Elizabeth Go) | |
| 2000 | ‘Country Casual’, B16, Birmingham |
| ‘Deep in This Custard’, Changing Room, Stirling | |
| ‘Tonight’, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow | |
| ‘Model Model’, NAK, Aachen | |
| 1999 | ‘Citizen 2000’, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh |
| ‘What it is, what ain't ain't nothing’, Fly, Glasgow | |
| ‘Museum-a-go-go’, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow | |
| ‘BSOH’, The Bond Gallery, Birmingham | |
| Vienna Art Fair with Transmission Gallery, Glasgow | |
| ‘Networking’, P-House, Tokyo | |
| 1998 | ‘The Bible of Networking’, Sali Gia, London |
| ‘Lapland@’, The British Council, Edinburgh | |
| ‘Browsing’, The Changing Room, Stirling | |
| ‘The Janus Programme’, Transmission, Glasgow | |
| ‘Text Aviary’, White Room, Glasgow |
Bibliography
Press
| 2021 | White, David: ‘Michael Wilkinson Goes Virtual with Glasgow’s Modern Institute and Vortic’, Art mag, 05/03/2021 |
| 2016 | Frédéric Bonnet: ‘Some Bodies...’, Nomas, 6 2016 |
| 2014 | Ned Holte, Michael: ‘The Urgency of History Painting’, Rabble, 2014 |
| 2013 | Gaskin, Sam: ‘Michael Wilkinson Reflects on Repression, the Boston Bombings and Pink Floyd in China’, Blouin Artinfo, 28/05/2013 |
| 2010 | Mark Fisher: ‘Militant tendencies feed music’, The New Statesman, 29/03/2010 |
| 2005 | Reynaud Dewar, Lili: ‘SO WHAT’, O2, Number 33 2005 |
| 2002 | Reynaud Dewar, Lili: ‘The Modern Institute: Quand La Logique est Bonne’, O2, Number 22 2002 |
Exhibition Reviews
| 2013 | Gaskin, Sam: ‘Michael Wilkinson Reflects on Repression, the Boston Bombings and Pink Floyd in China’, Blouin Artinfo, 19/04/2013 |
| Wheeler, Tara: ‘Exhibition in Shanghai‘, Glass, 10/04/2013 | |
| 2007 | Smith, Roberta: ‘In These Shows, the Material is the Message‘, New York Times, 10/08/2007 |
| Coburn, Tyler: ‘Build It High: Laying Bricks‘, Art Review, 07/2007 | |
| 2006 | Holte, Michael Ned: ‘Micheal Wilkinson’, Artforum, 01/2006 |
| 2005 | Jeffery, Moira: ‘It‘s truly an education’, The Herald, 07/01/2005 |
| 2004 | Bagner, Alex: ‘A Chimp off the Old Block‘, Wallpaper, 05/2004 |
| 2003 | Dallas, Sorcha: ‘Contemporary Abstraction‘, The List, 31/07/2003 |
| 2001 | Harald, Fricke: ‘Songs of Love and Hate‘, Artforum, 10/2001 |
| Tufnell, Rob: ‘Michael Wilkinson‘, Frieze, Issue 58 04/2001 | |
| Monhagen, Helen: ‘Peter McGoldrick, Michael Wilkinson and Janice McNab‘, The List, 02/2001 | |
| Calcutt, John: ‘Michael Wilkinson, Janice McNab, Peter McGoldrick’, Scotland on Sunday, 28/01/2001 | |
| 2000 | Jeffery, Moira: ‘Deep in this Custard’, The List, 03/2000 |
| Kane, Chris: ‘How I took on the art bullies’, Stirling Observer, 23/02/2000 |
Publications
| 2017 | In Reverse, Mousse Publishing, Milan |
| 2011 | 1979 -, Black Dog Publishing, London |
| 2009 | Lions After Slumber, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
Exhibition Publications
| 2009 | Lions After Slumber, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
| 2003 | The 2003 Wight Biennail Catalogue, University of California, California |
| 2002 | Air Guitar: Reconsidering Rock Music, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes |
| Happy Outsiders from London and Scotland, Zachęta Państowowa Galeria Sztuki, Warzsawa | |
| 2001 | Here and now: Scottish Art 1990 - 2001, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee |
| October, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow | |
| PRESENT FUTure ARTissima, Internazionale d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin |