The Modern Institute

The Modern Institute

Luke Fowler

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Born 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

'Ways of Hearing', IMO, Copenhagen

'No 5', Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen

2009

'A Grammar for Listening', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow (In collaboration with Eric La Casa, Lee Patterson and Toshiya Tsunoda)

Serpentine Gallery, London

'Warriors Four Films by Luke Fowler', X Initiative, New York

2008

Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich

2007

'The Nine Monads of David Bell', Extra City, Antwerp

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)

'Tate Triennial: New British Art', Tate Britain, London

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)