Alex Dordoy
Born 1985, Newcastle; Lives in London.
Education
| 2011 | MFA/Residency, De Ateliers |
| 2007 | BA(Hons) Painting/Printmaking, Glasgow School of Art |
| 2005 | Undergraduate Exchange, California Institute of the Arts |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2024 | ‘Prepositions’, The Modern Institute, 3 Aird's Lane, Glasgow |
| 2022 | ‘Answering Machine’, GRIMM, London |
| ‘Monster’, GRIMM, Amsterdam | |
| 2021 | ‘The Weather Channel’, The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow |
| 2020 | ‘Ruin is Rune’, GRIMM, New York |
| 2018 | ‘Summer’s Ego’, GRIMM, Amsterdam |
| 2017 | ‘The Moss is Dreaming (Curated by Tom Morton)’, BlainSouthern, London |
| ‘From Svalbard Soil’, The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow | |
| 2015 | ‘Model T’, The Modern Institute, 3 Aird's Lane, Glasgow |
| 2014 | ‘Sleepwalker’, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag |
| ‘persistencebeatsresistance’, Inverleith House, Edinburgh | |
| 2013 | ‘I'd planned a cloud but it took me by surprise’, ReMap4, Athens |
| ‘Caster and Krast Crack Autumn’, GRIMM, Amsterdam | |
| 2012 | Christian Andersen, Copenhagen |
| The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow | |
| 2011 | ‘Demoscene’, Hochstrasse 45, Berlin (With Neil Clements) |
| ‘Psychopomp Counsel’, De Ateliers, Amsterdam | |
| Upstairs at The Modern Institute Osborne Street, Glasgow | |
| 2010 | ‘Pirates’, GRIMM, Amsterdam |
| ‘Young Scottish Painters’, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh | |
| 2009 | ‘Winner’, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
| 2008 | ‘New Work Scotland’, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh |
| ‘Black Aspirin’, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow (with Neil Clements) | |
| 2007 | ‘When We Say Dive, We Mean Straight Down’, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow |
| 2006 | ‘No Mans Land’, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow |
| 2005 | ‘Reasons to Worry’, CalArts, Los Angeles (A405 gallery) |
Group Exhibitions
| 2022 | ‘High Voltage 3’, Nassima Landau, Tel Aviv |
| ‘Off the Beaten Track’, Baton Gallery, Seoul | |
| 2021 | ‘All Eyes | We are the collection’, Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam |
| ‘Inaugural exhibition’, GRIMM, New York | |
| 2020 | ‘Im Frage’, Museum Valkhof, Nijmegen |
| 2019 | ‘Away in the Hill’, GRIMM, New York |
| 2018 | ‘Doodle & Disegno’, BlainSouthern, Berlin |
| 2017 | ‘Future Eaters’, Monash University Museum of Art , Caulfield East |
| 2016 | ‘I still believe in miracles’, Inverleith House, Edinburgh |
| ‘What's Up’, Soho Revue and Union Club, London | |
| ‘Use/User/Used’, Zabludowicz Collection, London | |
| 2015 | ‘Office Space’, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco |
| ‘Crab Walk’, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland | |
| ‘WINTERMUTE’, GRIMM, Amsterdam | |
| ‘Against Automatism’, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco | |
| ‘Breakin’ Up Is Hard to Do’, KARST, Plymouth | |
| ‘THE NOING UV IT’, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen | |
| 2014 | ‘A Merman Should I Turn to Be’, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London |
| ‘GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland’, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh | |
| 2013 | ‘DOES THE IT FIT’, Stephenson Works, Sussex Street, Newcastle (Milk and Silk, part of DOES THE IT FIT, curated by Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan) |
| ‘Batman-Elektronik’, Mikael Andresen, Berlin (curated by Fritz Bornstück & Ernst Markus Stein) | |
| ‘Traces of Life’, Wentrup, Berlin (curated by Ariel-Roger Paris) | |
| ReMap4, Athens | |
| 2012 | ‘A House Leaves: Second Movement’, David Roberts Art Foundation, London |
| ‘Recent British painting’, GRIMM, Amsterdam (Curated by Tom Morton) | |
| Art Brussels, Brussels | |
| ‘Into the Surface’, Brand New Gallery, Milan | |
| 2011 | ‘Look With All Your Eyes, Look’, Frith Street Gallery, London |
| ‘Picasso in Paris, 1900-1907’, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Touring to Museu Picasso, Barcelona) | |
| ‘Psychopomp Counsel, Offspring’, De Ateliers, Amsterdam | |
| 2010 | ‘What You See is Where You’re at’, Modern One, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
| 2009 | Generator Projects, Dundee |
| 2008 | ‘Neil Clements - Alex Dordoy - Morag Keil’, GRIMM, Amsterdam |
| ‘Hell-o from Hell-a’, Norma Desmond Productions, Los Angeles | |
| ‘Autarchy’, SWG3, Glasgow | |
| ‘Art LA’, Los Angeles (with The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd., Glasgow) | |
| 2007 | Degree Show, Glasgow School of Art |
| ‘Natural Geographic’, Los Angeles (Norma Desmond Productions) | |
| 2006 | ‘Panoptican Event’, The Panoptican, Glasgow |
Bibliography
Press
| 2018 | Bogojev, Sasha : ‘Alex Dordoy Re-contextualizing the Mechanisms of Visual Attraction’, Juxtapoz, 14/11/2018 |
| Alex Dordoy‘s ‘Summer‘s Ego’ at GRIMM, Amsterdam, Blouin Artinfo, 13/11/2018 | |
| 2014 | ‘Alex Dordoy: persistencebeatsresistance, Inverleith Gallery, Edinburgh’, The Herald, 18/01/2014 |
| 2013 | Taylor, Rhona: ‘Interview: artist Alex Dordoy on new show persistencebeatsresistance’, The List, 18/12/2013 |
| Kollak, Ginny: ‘Independent’, Art Agenda, 03/2013 | |
| 2012 | Huang, Yaji: ‘Portfolio’, ARTCO magazine, Issue 243 12/2012 |
| 2009 | Kotze, Talitha: ‘Alex Dordoy: Winner’, The List, Issue 641 08/10/2009 |
| 2008 | Mansfield, Susan: ‘The year in visual art: young artists’, The Scotsman, 26/12/2008 |
Exhibition Reviews
| 2015 | Gerrity, Jeanne: ‘Against Automatism’, Artforum, 09/07/2015 |
| Jeffrey, Moira: ‘Art Reviews: Alex Dordoy’, Scotsman, 31/01/2015 | |
| 2014 | Clark, Robert: ‘Alex Dordoy: Edinburgh’, Guardian Guide, 02/2014 |
| Jeffrey, Moira: ‘Finding an Edge’, The Scotsman, 02/2014 | |
| 2013 | Keijer, Koes: Digitale foto‘s in vaste vorm, AD zaterdag, 2013 |
| 2012 | Haye van der Werf, Huib: Critic‘s Pick, Artforum, 11/2012 |
| Sharratt, Chris: ‘Reviews’, Frieze, 05/2012 | |
| Davis, Michael: ‘Reviews’, The List, 02/02/2012 | |
| Cattanach, Andrew: ‘Preview’, The Skinny, 05/01/2012 | |
| 2009 | Cattanach, Andrew: ‘Winner Takes It All’, The Skinny, 30/09/2009 |
| Mansfield, Susan: ‘Art Reviews: Cerith Wyn Evans and Throbbing Gristle | Lili Reynaud-Dewar | Alex Dordoy’, The Scotsman, 22/09/2009 | |
| 2008 | Mansfield, Susan: ‘Mick Peter | Alex Dordoy’, The Scotsman, 14/11/2008 |
Publications
| 2021 | WE ARE THE COLLECTION, Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam |
| 2020 | Im Frage, Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen |
| 2019 | BUCOLIC STOP, School Gallery, Folkestone |
| 2017 | Future Eaters, Monash University Museum of Art, Australia |
| I aint the noing uv it im jus onle the showing uv it, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen | |
| 2012 | Alex Dordoy, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
Exhibition Publications
| 2008 | Neil Clements – Alex Dordoy – Morag Keil, Grimm Fine Art, Amsterdam |