BIO / BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sue Tompkins

BORN1971
Lives and works in Glasgow

Forthcoming/Current Exhibitions

2009 Inverleith House (with Hayley Tompkins), Edinburgh
2008 'TYPED', Sadie Coles HQ, London 04/03/08 - 05/04/08 (group)

Selected Solo Exhibitions/Performances

2007 'Apple', The Showroom, London (SueÕs performance Country Grammar, performed for this show, is available to view at http://showstudio.com/projects/transmissions)
Diana Stigter Gallery, Amsterdam
'Grease' (live performance), in 'Transfer' (with Hayley Tompkins), Spike Island, Bristol
2006 'Grease' (live performance), 'Art Now Live Work: Rory Macbeth, Joanne Tatham and Tom OÕSullivan, and Sue Tompkins', Tate Britain, London
Spike Island (cafˇ design commission with Hayley Tompkins, in collaboration with Caruso St John Architects), Bristol
The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd (with a live performance with Alan Michael), Glasgow
'Hayley Tompkins and Sue Tompkins', Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
2005 'In the zone of your eyes' (two person show/live performance with Hayley Tompkins), West London Projects
'When it broke' (two person show with Hayley Tompkins), ArtForum Berlin, Giti Nourbaksch Gallery, Berlin
'On Stage' (live performance with Jamie Isenstein, Sean Landers, Charlemagne Palestine), Galerie Giti Nourbaksch, Berlin
'Elephants Galore' (live performance), 'Selective Memory' opening, Scottish Pavillion, Venice Biennale, Venice
2004 'Midwest Casinos' (live performance), Manchester
'More Cola Wars' (live performance), Switchspace, Glasgow
'Feast of Silenus' (live performance), Edinburgh College of Art
Live Performance, Kunstrai Art Fair, Diana Stigter Gallery, Amsterdam
Live Performance (in association with the Sonic Arts Network and Resonance FM), Museum of Garden History, London
Solo presentation and performance, Rheinschau Art Cologne Projects, Cologne
2003 'Country Grammar', Doggerfisher, Edinburgh
'Northern Grammar', Stavanger Kulturhus, Norway
2001 The Modern Institute, Glasgow
2000 'Evil Eye' (with Hayley Tompkins), Glasgow Independent Studios
1999 'Sounds of Grass' (with Hayley Tompkins), Transmission Gallery, Glasgow

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007 'In the poem about love you donÕt write the word love' (live performance), Overgaden, Copenhagen
'Re-Mission', Torstrasse 140, Berlin
'Country Grammar' (live performance), Project Space, Leeds
'Bare Words', Lautom Contemporary, Oslo
'Learn to Read', Tate Modern, London
'In the poem about love you don’t write the word love' (live performance), Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
'End of Burning/Brennschluss', Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna
'Whenever It Starts It Is The Right Time', Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
'Untitled – Works on Paper', Art: Concept, Paris
2006 'In the poem about love you don’t write the word love', Artist’s Space, New York
'If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution', De Appel, Amsterdam and Artists Space, New York
'Attitude', c/o - Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin
'The Three Cities: Berlin, Milan, London' (live performance), The Warehouse/ Bethnal Green, London
'Satellites', Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
'Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better.', Momentum 2006, 4th Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway
'BMAC' (live performance), Blackpool
'You always say no to Ibitha', Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd, London
Flaca Gallery (with Karla Black and Sally Osborn), London
'Youth of Today', Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
'Writing in Strobe', Dicksmith Gallery, London
Beck’s Futures (nominee), ICA, London; CCA offsite, Glasgow; Arnolfini offsite, Bristol
'Death and the Compass', Four, Dublin
2005 'Elephants Galore' (live performance), 'In the poem about love you don’t write the word love', CCA, Glasgow
'Radiance', Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
Frieze Art Fair, London
'Art is where the heart is (part 2)', Kunstenaarsinitiatief Paraplufabriek, Nijmegen, Netherlands (group)
'Dealing kindly with insects in the home', Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
'Herald St. and The Modern Institute', Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York
2004 'Country Grammar' (live performance), Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
Switchspace, Glasgow Art Fair
'Haute Street' (with Scott Myles and Alan Michael), Diana Stigter, Amsterdam
Group show (with Transmission Gallery), Rennes, France
2003 'Contemporary Abstraction', Glasgow Print Studio
Group show, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Transmission stand, Frieze Art Fair, London
'Be Dear Crazy Loud' (a performance with Luke Fowler and P6), Flourish Nights, Glasgow
2001 'October', St. Vincent Street, Glasgow
'One for One' (with Elizabeth Go), 'Circles 4', ZKM, Karlsruhe
2000 'Film Club' (with Elizabeth Go; curated by Scott Myles)
'Film Club 2' (with Elizabeth go), Vilma Gold, London (curated by David Thorpe)
'Tonight', The Modern Institute, Glasgow
'Avalon' (with Hayley Tompkins), The Changing Room, Stirling
1999 'Museum Magogo', Glasgow Project Space
'White Bear zz', Roslea Drive, Glasgow
'Fields and Rays and Green Numbers', The Pineapple, Malmö, Sweden
'Love, Speed, Thrills' (with Elizabeth Go), Manchester Metropolitan University
'Where the Wild Roses Grow, Anti War - You Take it From my Heart' (with Elizabeth Go), Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
'Faces and Names' (with Hayley Tompkins), performance as part of Education in Reverse, The Corinthian, Glasgow
'You are an Orange Orchid' (with Hayley Tompkins), performance for Radio Tuesday at the B.U.F.F. Club, Glasgow
1998 'Various Artists', East Kilbride Arts Centre
'Floatina Happiness' (with Elizabeth Go), 'Host', Tramway, Glasgow
1997 'Art '97', Transmission Gallery at the Business Design Centre, Islington
'You Show Me The DF Every Night You Show Me The DF You Show Me', (Elizabeth Go performance at 'Connected'), NGCA, Sunderland
'Hit ‘em With This Antoinette' (Elizabeth Go performance at 'Satellite City'), Catalyst Arts, Belfast
'Wetness into Music', Wilkes, Glasgow
1996 'Life/Live', ARC, Musee d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
'Transmissions', Gallery Free Parking, Toronto, Canada
'Artists' Multiples', Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
'Young Black Italian/Garage in Yellow', Leighton Buzzard
'World of Ponce', Southpark, Glasgow
'Brainmail', Studio 17, CalArts, Los Angeles
'Art for People', Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
1995 'Look! Nuovo Miti' (with Hayley Tompkins), Wilkes, Glasgow