Luke Fowler
Print-friendly versionBorn 1978, Glasgow; Lives in Glasgow
Forthcoming and Current Exhibitions
| 2012 |
'Luke Fowler', The Hepworth, Wakefield (Solo, 05/2012) Independent, New York (Solo, 08/03—11/03/2012) 'All Divided Selves', GFT, Glasgow (Group, 23/02/2012. Glasgow Film Festival screening) Arsenal 1, Berlin (Solo, 17/02/2012. Cinema screening - Part of the Berlin Film Festival) Delphi, Berlin (Solo, 15/02/2012. Cinema screening - Part of the Berlin Film Festival) Inverleith House, Edinburgh (Solo, 11/02—06/05/2012) |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2011 |
'Luke Fowler & Toshiya Tsunoda, Imprint/Fied/Surface', Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld 'Luke Fowler', CCS Bard Galleries, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Anthology, New York (Screening) Film Studies Center, University of Chicago, Chicago (Screening) 'Conversations at the Edge: Luke Fowler', The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (Screening) 'Self with Other', Upstairs at The Modern Institute, Glasgow 'Pilgrimage from Scattered Points', Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin 'Luke Fowler and Toshiya Tsunoda: Ridges on The Horizontal Plane', Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne |
| 2010 | |
| 2009 |
'Warriors Four Films by Luke Fowler', X Initiative, New York |
| 2008 | |
| 2007 | |
| 2006 |
'Pilgrimage From Scattered Points', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow 'Pilgrimage From Scattered Points', White Columns, New York 'The Nine Monads Of David Bell', Villa Concordia, Bamberg |
| 2004 |
'Fowler/Koper', Supportico Lopez, Naples 'Video and Sound Works', TART, San Francisco |
| 2003 |
'The Way Out', Cubitt, London (with Kosten Koper and Jacob Kolding) 'What You See Is Where You’re At', Spacex Gallery, Exeter |
| 2001 |
'UTO: The Technology of Tears', Casco Projects, Utrecht |
| 2000 |
'How Did You Get This Number?', Generator, Dundee 'The Social Engineer', Transmission, Glasgow |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2011 |
Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse (Musée les Jacobins, Curated by Anne Pontégnie) 'British Art Show 7: In The Days Of The Comet', Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth (Performance) 'BLOCKBUSTER', Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey 'British Art Show 7: In The Days Of The Comet', Tramway, Glasgow 'British Art Show 7: In The Days Of The Comet', Hayward Gallery, London Centre of Contemporary Art ‘Znaki Czasu’, Torun (Screening) 'BLOCKBUSTER', University Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City |
| 2010 |
'British Art Show 7: In The Days Of The Comet', Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham 'Gallery of Modern Art at 50', Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 'Les Rencontres d’Arles', Hotel du Cloitre, Arles 'Les Lendemains d’hier/Yesterday’s Tomorrow', Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal (Screening) 'For the Birds', Smart Project Space, Amsterdam 'ACT VI: Remember Humanity', Witte de With, Rotterdam 'A Grammar for Listening, Parts 1 – 3', Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam The Power Plant, Toronto |
| 2009 |
Free Resonace Festival, Trondheim, Norway 'Cornelius Cardew and the Freedom of Listening', CAC Bretigny, France 'Every Sound You Can Imagine', New Langton Arts, San Francisco 'ourtv', Lothringer13, Städtische Kunsthalle München, München 'Radical Nature', Barbican Art Gallery, London 'Running Time: Artists Films in Scotland 1960 to Now', Dean Gallery, Edinburgh 'The Associates', DCA, Dundee 'What you see is where you’re at', Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 'Younger than Jesus', New Museum, New York |
| 2008 |
Charles H Scott Gallery, Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver Yokohama Triennale 2008, Japan (with Tsunoda Toshiya) Sonar2008, Barcelona 'Bogman Palmjaguar', Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam 'Bogman Palmjaguar', Transmission, Glasgow 'Courtisane Festival', Arts Centre Vooruit & Sphinx Cinema, Ghent 'Expanded Cinema for Rothko, The Room', Tate Modern, London (Luke Fowler, Keith Rowe, Peter Todd) 'KVIFF', Prague International Film Festival, Prague 'KYTN', DCA, Dundee 'Now Showing, New Film and Video from The Arts Council Collection', Hove Museum and Art Gallery, Hove 'Open Field', CCA, Glasgow 'Permanent vs Temporary', Abbeyview Community Centre, Dunfermline 'Pilgrimage from Scattered Points', Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes 'Pop! goes the weasel', Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe 'Present', H.P. Garcia Gallery, New York 'Scottish Shorts Showcase', Edinburgh Film Festival, Edinburgh 'The Harbour Doubts', Bad Bad Boys Club, Dundee 'The Long Weekend', Tate Modern, London |
| 2007 |
Prague Biennale 3, Prague EASTinternational 2007, Norwich Gallery 'a passable door for a movable passer', 52 Buccleuch Street, Glasgow (with Charlie Hammond) 'Fantastic Politics: Art in Time of Political Crisis', Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo 'Harry Smith Anthology Remixed', Alt. Gallery, Newcastle 'Lost & Found', Shedhalle, Zurich 'Never Still: Map Magazine presents new artists’ film', CCA, Glasgow (Screening) 'Organizing Chaos', PS 1 Contemporary Arts Center, New York 'REC.OLLECTION', Esther Schipper, Berlin 'Saturn Falling', Corridor Gallery, Reykavik 'Twilight Adventures in Music', Whitechapel, London (Screening) 'Videomedeja 2007', Museum of Voivodina, Novi Sad 'Whenever It Starts It Is The Right Time', Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt 'Widening Horizon', Pleasure Dome, Toronto (Screening) 'You Have Not Been Honest', Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples (British Council touring exhibition) |
| 2006 |
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield Avanto Festival, Muu Galleria 'Adventures in Modern Music', The Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago (Screening) 'Normalization', Rooseum Centre for Contemporary Art, Malmö 'State of Innocence', International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam (Screening) |
| 2005 |
'Anti-Literature', Barcelona 'Becks Futures', ICA, London (Nominee) 'Re-Escape', Hamburg, Germany 'Remixed Water', Lawrence Weiner Bookworks project (with Daniel Padden, CD) |
| 2004 |
'Anti-Psychiatry Film Festival', Nova Cinema, Brussels (Screening) 'Moderna by Night', Moderna Muséet, Stockholm 'Past Imperfect', Casco Projects, Utrecht 'The Way Out', EU Tour (www.inati2004.org/wayout.htm) 'Vis-onic', Belfast |
| 2003 |
Art Basel, Basel (Screening) 'Art Remixing Culture', Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Zealand 'Attachments', Bootlab, Berlin 'Be Dear Crazy Loud', Flourish Nights, Glasgow (Performance by Fowler, P6, Sue Tompkins) 'Electric Earth', Saint Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (British Council) 'Hard To Touch The Real', Kunstverein Munchen, Germany 'It doesn’t matter what you know because this is real life', Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York 'The Moment of Fiction', Cooper Gallery, Dundee 'ZENOMAP', Venice Biennale, Venice (New Works from Scotland for the Venice Biennale) |
| 2002 |
Manifesta 4, Frankfurt 'Art is like Rock’n’Roll', Kent Institute of Art & Design, Rochester 'FAIR', Royal College of Art, London 'Fluxus und die Folgen', Internationales Netzwerk, Wiesbaden 'Gemeinschaften', Newsletter for Contemporary Cultural Phenomena (with Finger) |
| 2000 |
'Beyond', DCA, Dundee 'Cinelingus', Catalyst Arts, Belfast (Documentary Film Festival) 'Me We', Project Space, Athens 'Recontres Video', Annecy, France (Video Art/Film Festival) |
Awards/Residencies/Commissions
| 2010 |
Contemporary Art Society Annual Award Scottish Visual Arts Residency, Cove Park |
| 2008 |
Derek Jarman Award Grierson Archive, Stirling (Residency) |
| 2006 |
Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia, Bamberg, Germany, (residency) |
| 2005 |
Kenchington/ Gilbert Scott, Balfron, Scotland, (Residency) |
| 2004 |
Donald Dewar Prize |
| 2002 |
NIFCA, Helsinki, (Residency) |
| 1999 |
Hogschule fur de Kunst, Utrecht, The Netherlands, (Residency) |
Curated Projects
| 2007 |
I Seek You, S1 Artspace, Sheffield |
| 2005 |
L’ombre Hyperbole, (film by Lucile Desamory, soundtrack by Rude Pravo), Project Room, Glasgow Le Weekend Festival, (with Rude Pravo), Stirling, Scotland |
| 2003 |
Outsider Documentary, (curated with D. Campbell), Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt |
| 2002 |
METALLIC KO, NIFCA, Helsinki |
| 2001 |
Electric City, The Lighthouse, Glasgow, Scotland |
| 2000 |
Lecture and performance by Scanner, Transmission, 13th Note Club, Glasgow |
| 1999 |
Accelerated Learning, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee |
Publications/Editions/Recordings
| 2005 |
Remixed Water, (with Daniel Padden, CD), Lawrence Weiner Bookworks project SHADAZZ 05, Rude Pravo, the dust is flying, (7” vinyl) SHADAZZ 06, Danny Saunders, Gold, (7” vinyl) |
| 2004 |
Shorn off his nipples he dances like a King, (CDR with Ergo Phizmiz; Alex Neilson) |
| 2002 |
Gemeinschaften, Newsletter for Contemporary Cultural Phenomena (with Finger) SHADAZZ 04, Evil Eye Is Source, VHS compilation, (artists/bands) |
| 2001 |
SHADAZZ 02, The Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds, (CD release) SHADAZZ 03, Insert for Casco Issues, Holland, (artists’ project + CD release) |
| 2000 |
SHADAZZ 01, The Scottish Demo Collective, (fanzine + CD release) |
