Cathy Wilkes
Born 1966, Dundonald, Belfast; Lives in Glasgow.
Education
| 1992 | MFA, University of Ulster |
| 1988 | BA (Hons) Fine Art 1st Class, Glasgow School of Art |
Current & Forthcoming
| 2023 | ‘The Way We Are’, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2023 | The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow |
| 2022 | Ortuzar Projects, New York, New York |
| 2021 | The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow |
| Xavier Hufkens, Brussels | |
| BQ, Berlin | |
| 2019 | ‘Cathy Wilkes’, 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, British Pavilion, Venice |
| 2018 | ‘Cathy Wilkes’, Yale Union, Portland |
| 2017 | MoMA PS1, New York |
| Xavier Hufkens, Brussels | |
| 2016 | The Modern Institute, 3 Aird's Lane, Glasgow |
| 2015 | ‘Cathy Wilkes’, Touring exhibition, Tate Liverpool (2015); LENTOS Kunstmuseum, Linz (2015); Museum Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach (2015 - 2016) |
| 2014 | Tramway, Glasgow (Part of GENERATION 2014) |
| ‘Art Unlimited’, Art|45|Basel, Basel | |
| 2013 | Xavier Hufkens, Brussels |
| 2012 | The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow |
| ‘I Give You All My Money’, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago | |
| 2011 | Gesellschaft Fur Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen |
| Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh | |
| ‘Art Unlimited’, Art|42|Basel, Basel | |
| Aspen Art Museum, Aspen | |
| Kunstverein, Munich | |
| 2010 | Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples |
| 2009 | Galerie Giti Nourbaksch, Berlin |
| ‘Mummy's Here’, Studio Voltaire, London | |
| 2008 | The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
| Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes | |
| 2007 | ‘Non Verbal (version)’, Gallery Weekend Berlin, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch |
| Void, Derry | |
| 2005 | ‘Most Women Never Experience’, Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples |
| 2004 | ‘Daily Schedule’, SMAK, Ghent |
| ‘Moons’, Switchspace, Glasgow | |
| ‘1/4 Moon’, Gallerie Giti Nourbaksch, Berlin | |
| 2003 | Kabinett fur Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven |
| 2002 | Inverleith House, Edinburgh |
| Migros Museum, Zurich | |
| 2001 | ‘So and So, Cathy Wilkes’, Galerie Giti Nourbaksch, Berlin |
| ‘Our Misfortune’, Transmission, Glasgow (Touring exhibition. Touring to Cubitt, London) | |
| 1999 | ‘Cathy Wilkes/Martin Creed’, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
| 1996 | Art Connexion, Lille |
| 1994 | Galerie CAOC, Berlin |
| 1991 | Transmission, Glasgow |
Group Exhibitions
| 2024 | ‘Planet Venus in Full Daylight’, BQ, Berlin |
| 2023 | ‘A show for Kafka Anniversary 2024’, Villa Stuck, Munich |
| ‘ECHO. Wrapped in Memory’, MoMu - Fashion Museum Antwerp, Antwerp | |
| ‘Real Families: Stories of Change’, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge | |
| 2022 | ‘Keep On Movin’’, Fondazione Morra Greco, Napoli |
| 2021 | ‘Yael Davids: One Is Always a Plural’, Migros Museum, Zurich |
| 2020 | ‘Rohstoff Pouquoi’, BQ, Berlin |
| ‘Psychic Wounds: On Art and Trauma’, The Warehouse, Dallas | |
| ‘Winterreise (Winter Journey)’, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels | |
| 2019 | ‘WOULD RATHER POST THIS VIDEO THAN NO VIDEO’, SELECT, Berlin |
| ‘138th Annual Exhibition’, Ulster Museum, Belfast | |
| ‘Cutting the Stone’, Miguela Breu Gallery, New York | |
| ‘The Aerodrome — An exhibition dedicated to the memory of Michael Stanley’, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham | |
| 2018 | ‘COULD BE (AN ARROW): A READING OF LA COLECCIÓN JUMEX’, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, |
| ‘The State We Are In. Collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw’, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin | |
| ‘Walk Through British Art: Sixty years’, Tate Britain, London | |
| ‘A Slight Ache’, Chapter, Cardiff | |
| ‘ISelf Collection’, Whitechapel, London | |
| ‘Why are my friends such finks’, BQ, Berlin | |
| ‘Open House’, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco | |
| 2017 | ‘How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken’, S.M.A.K., Ghent |
| 2016 | ‘I still believe in miracles’, Inverleith House, Edinburgh |
| ‘FOOD - Ecologies of the Everyday, 13th Fellbach Triennial of Small-Scale Sculpture’, Fellbach, Germany | |
| 2015 | ‘Mommy’, Yale Union, Portland |
| ‘Collection on Display: «Experimental Arrangements»’, Migros Museum, Zurich | |
| ‘The Great Mother’, Palazzo Reale, Milan (curated by Massimiliano Gioni) | |
| 2014 | ‘The Human Factor’, The Hayward Gallery, London |
| ‘Somewhat Abstract; Selection from the Arts Council Collection’, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham | |
| ‘A Speculum That Shines’, Rowing Projects, London | |
| ‘MORNING AND EVENING ASYLUM’, Tanya Leighton, Berlin | |
| 2013 | ‘Everything becomes mysterious’, Christine Koenig Galerie, Vienna (curated by Sophie O'Brien) |
| ‘Collection on Display: Monica Bonvicini, Heidi Bucher, Tom Burr, Urs Fischer, Pamela Rosenkranz, Markus Schinwald, Cathy Wilkes’, Migros Museum, Zurich | |
| ‘The Encyclopedic Palace’, Venice Biennale, Venice (55th International Art Exhibition) | |
| ‘Shortcuts and Digressions’, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich (Curated by the artist Brian Griffiths) | |
| ‘From where I come”¦maybe”¦I don’t know’, Raucci/Santamaria, Naples | |
| ‘Love is Colder than Capital An Exhibition about the value of feelings’, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz | |
| ‘The Assistants’, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| ‘Henry Taylor, Pawel Althamer, and Cathy Wilkes Walk into a Bar...’, MOMA, New York (Gallery 11, permanent collection) | |
| 2012 | ‘Studio 58: Women Artists in Glasgow Since WWII’, Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow |
| ‘We Love You’, Limoncello, London | |
| ‘Glueballs and Winos’, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow | |
| 2011 | ‘The Cockeyed Turkey and a Paper Pudding’, The Lighthouse, Glasgow |
| 2010 | ‘Abstract Resistance’, Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis |
| 2009 | ‘Running Time: Artists Films in Scotland 1960 to Now’, Dean Gallery, Edinburgh |
| ‘Head-Wig (Portrait of an exhibition)’, Camden Arts Centre, London (Selected by Paulina Olowska) | |
| ‘TONITE’, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow | |
| 2008 | ‘Turner Prize 2008’, Tate Britain, London (nominee) |
| ‘Contemporary Scottish Art: New Acquistitions & Loans’, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh | |
| ‘A show of many parts, each part more spectacular and elaborate than the last’ | |
| 2007 | ‘a point in space is a place for an argument’, David Zwirner, New York |
| ‘EARTH?’, Galerie Giti Nourbaksch, Berlin | |
| Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan | |
| ‘Quality as Quantity’, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna | |
| ‘If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Edition II: Feminist Legacies And Potentials In Contemporary Art P’, MuHKA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp | |
| ‘New Work UK: You and Me’, Whitechapel, London (screening of I will miss you, I will pour essential oil on your body) | |
| ‘You Have Not Been Honest’, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples | |
| ‘Breaking Step’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade | |
| 2006 | ‘Splash’, 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin (installation at Of Mice and Men) |
| ‘Non Verbal (version)’, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse | |
| ‘The Secret Theory of Drawing: Dislocation & Indirection in Contemporary Drawing’, The Drawing Room / Tannery Arts, London | |
| ‘How to Improve the World, British Art 1946-2006’, Hayward Gallery, London | |
| ‘If it didn’t exist you’d have to invent it: a partial Showroom history’, The Showroom, London | |
| 2005 | Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair |
| ‘Selective Memory: Scotland & Venice Biennale’, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh | |
| ‘Body: New Art from the UK’, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada (British Council touring exhibition. Touring to The Ottawa Art Gallery, Canada; Oakville Galleries, Canada; Edmonton Art Gallery, Canada; Art Gallery Nova Scotia, Canada) | |
| ‘'Selective Memory'’, Scotland + Venice, 51st Venice Biennale, Venice (installation at 'Scotland & Venice: Selective Memory') | |
| 2004 | ‘Formalismus, Moderne Kunst, Heute’, Hamburg Kunstverein, Hamburg |
| ‘L'Air du Temps - Collection Printemps/Été 2004’, Migros Museum, Zurich | |
| ‘Cara Studies Votes for Women’, Manifesta 5, San Sebastian; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin | |
| 2003 | ‘Independence’, South London Gallery, London |
| ‘Plunder: Culture as Material’, DCA, Dundee | |
| 2002 | P_A_U_S_E, Gwanju Biennial, South Korea |
| ‘'Happy Outsiders from London and Scotland’, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw | |
| 2001 | ‘Psycho-Bobble’, Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples |
| ‘Circles 4 One Fo(u)r One’, ZKM Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe (with Elizabeth Go) | |
| ‘Here and Now: Scottish Art 1990-2001’, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee; Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen | |
| 2000 | ‘Seven Scottish Artists’, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills |
| ‘Die gefahr im Jazz’, Berlin | |
| ‘Film Club’ (with Elizabeth Go; curated by Scott Myles) | |
| ‘Pavilion’, Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich | |
| ‘Film Club 2’, Vilma Gold, London (with Elizabeth Go; curated by David Thorpe) | |
| ‘Beck's Futures’, ICA, London (nominee) | |
| 1999 | ‘A Still Volcano Life’, South Gallery, Melbourne |
| ‘The Queen is Dead’, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh | |
| ‘Where the Wild Roses Grow, Anti War - You Take it From my Heart’, Transmission, Glasgow (with Elizabeth Go) | |
| ‘Love, Speed, Thrills’, Manchester Metropolitan University (with Elizabeth Go) | |
| ‘Trace’, Liverpool Biennal, Liverpool | |
| 1998 | The Modern Institute, Glasgow at Sadie Coles HQ |
| ‘Add Night To Night’, The Showroom, London (Curated by Sarah Tripp) | |
| ‘Slant 6’, Jacob Javits Center, New York | |
| ‘Floatina Happiness’, Tramway, Glasgow (Host; with Elizabeth Go) | |
| ‘From Here at High Street Projects’, Christchurch | |
| 1997 | ‘The Art Exchange Show’, Broad Street, New York |
| ‘Hit 'em With This Antoinette’, Catalyst Arts, Belfast (Elizabeth Go performance at 'Satellite City') | |
| Fly, Glasgow | |
| ‘Connected’, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland (Elizabeth Go) | |
| ‘The Truly Supa Superstore’, Norwich Gallery, Norwich | |
| ‘Lovecraft’, CCA, Glasgow (The South London Gallery, London) | |
| ‘You Show Me The DF Every Night You Show Me The DF You Show Me’, NGCA, Sunderland (Elizabeth go performance at Connected) | |
| 1996 | ‘Insanestupidphatfuctpervert’, Cubitt, London |
| ‘Loaded: A Contemporary View of British Painting’, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham | |
| ‘The Mostyn Open’, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno | |
| ‘insanestupidphatfuctpervert’, Concrete Skates, Glasgow (Touring exhibition. Touring to Cubitt, London) | |
| ‘World of Ponce’, Southpark, Glasgow (Curated by Toby Webster) | |
| ‘Art for People’, Transmission, Glasgow | |
| 1995 | ‘Barrage’, Catalyst Arts, Belfast (with Jonnie Wilkes) |
| ‘Onziemes Ateliers du FRAC’, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Nantes | |
| ‘The Living Landscape’, West Cork Arts Centre, Ireland | |
| ‘The Belmont Hotel Installation Project’ | |
| 1994 | ‘Small World Small Works’, Galerie CAOC, Berlin |
| ‘Beyond the Pale’, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin | |
| 1993 | ‘Interview 2’, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow |
Bibliography
Press
| 2023 | Katy Hessel: ‘In this never ending news cycle of violence, art speaks to our shared humanity’, The Guardian, 23/10/2023 |
| 2022 | Nick Sharratt: ‘Cathy Wilkes, The Modern Institute’, Sculpture, 04/05/2022 |
| 2020 | Long, Declan: ‘Dusk in Venice: Cathy Wilkes and Anna Burns cast a Belfast shadow over British Pavilion’, Irish Times, 10/02/2020 |
| 2019 | Judah, Hettie: ‘Meet the women taking centre stage at the Venice Biennale in 2019’, Vogue, 15/05/2019 |
| Amy, Michael: ‘Cathy Wilkes: Ugly Archetypes’, Sculpture, 08/02/2019 | |
| Bradley, Fiona: ‘Cathy Wilkes‘, Scottish Art News, Summer 2019 | |
| 2018 | ‘VizArts Monthly: Big news in various forms’, Oregon Artswatch, 01/08/2018 |
| Brown, Mark: ‘Cathy Wilkes to represent Britain at 58th Venice Biennale’, The Guardian, 09/04/2018 | |
| ‘Cathy Wilkes to Represent the UK at Fifty-eigth Venice Biennale’, Artforum Online, 09/04/2018 | |
| ‘Cathy Wilkes – Creator of Intimate, Sculptural Tableaux – To Represent UK at 58th Venice Biennale’, frieze online, 09/04/2018 | |
| 2017 | ‘Cathy Wilkes’, L'Officiel Art, 10/2017 |
| 2016 | ‘portfolio Cathy Wilkes’, Les Inrockuptibles, 02/11/2016 |
| Frédéric Bonnet: ‘Some Bodies...’, Nomas, 6 2016 | |
| 2015 | Storr, Anne: ‘Inner Worlds and Outer Realities‘, Tate etc., 07/01/2015 |
| 2013 | ‘Cathy Wilkes - Untitled, 2012 (detail)’, Petunia, Issue 5 05/2013 |
| 2012 | ‘Mono - Cathy Wilkes’, Kaleidoscope, Issue 14 03/2012 |
| 2011 | Marcus, Daniel: ‘Eyes in the Heat’, Artforum, Summer 2011 06/2011 |
| Burton, Johanna: ‘Previews: Cathy Wilkes’, Artforum, 05/2011 | |
| Lowndes, Sarah: ‘Slow Dazzle’, Spike Art Quarterly, 02/02/2011 | |
| 2010 | Collins, Matthew: ‘Zombie Frieze’, Modern Painters, 12/2010 |
| Linda Yablonsky: ‘Artifacts | The Frieze Art Fair: Salvage Instinct’, New York Time blogs, 15/10/2010 | |
| Bell, Kirsty: ‘The Vantage Point of Being Alive’, Mousse, Summer Issue 201 2010 | |
| 2009 | Staple, Polly: ‘Head Wig’, Art Review, Issue 36 11/2009 |
| Stewart, Chistabel: ‘A View Story’, Tank, 10/2009 | |
| Sherwin, Skye: ‘Exhibitionist: The Best Art Show to see this week’, The Guardian Website, 25/09/2009 | |
| ‘New Group Exhibition Curated by Paulina Olowska to be Presented at Camden Arts Center’, Artdaily.org, 21/09/2009 | |
| Lack, Jessica: ‘Exhibitions’, The Guardian Guide, 19/09/2009 | |
| Garner, James: ‘Art Review Tonite’, Metro, 08/2009 | |
| Casadio, Mariuccia: ‘3D Futurity’, Vogue Italia, 01/2009 | |
| Whitman-Salkin, Leah: ‘Navigating the Maze’, Kaleidoscope, 2009 | |
| 2008 | Mottram, Jack: ‘In love with a checkout girl’, The Herald, 18/07/2008 |
| Mansefield, Susan: ‘Finding Lost Female Souls’, The Scotsman, 04/07/2008 | |
| McDermott, Leon: ‘Spoon-Fed Ideology’, Metro, 04/07/2008 | |
| Lesso, Rose: ‘Cathy Wilkes: Prices’, The List, Issue 607 07/2008 | |
| ‘Turner Prize: Ist Cathy Wilkes die neue Tomma Abts?’, Monopol, 06/06/2008 | |
| Smyth, Cherry: ‘Cathy Wilkes’, Art Monthly, 06/2008 | |
| Staple, Polly: ‘extract from Switzerland’, Frieze, Issue 116 2008 | |
| Trigg, David: ‘Milton Keynes: Cathy Wilkes’, Map, Issue 144 2008 | |
| Cathy Wilkes: ‘Untitled’, Mister Motley, Issue 22 2008 | |
| 2007 | Smith, Roberta: ‘‘A Point In Space Is A Place For An Argument’’, The New York Times, 20/07/2007 |
| Baker, RC: ‘‘A Point In Space Is A Place For An Argument’’, Village Voice, 30/06/2007 | |
| Schiavi, Isabelle: ‘Cathy Wilkes: Outside The Body Politic’, Next Level, 2007 | |
| 2006 | Mottram, Jack: ‘Cathy Wilkes’, Map, Issue 5 2006 |
| Kennedy, Alexander: ‘Selective Memory: Scotland and Venice’, Map, Issue 5 2006 | |
| 2005 | Staple, Polly: ‘Today’, Afterall, Issue 12 10/2005 |
| Diederichsen, Diedrich: ‘FORMALISMUS’, Artforum, 03/2005 | |
| O'Sullivan, Simon: Ten Concepts Following Cathy Wilke‘s Practice, Afterall, Issue 12 2005 | |
| 2004 | Jeffrey, Moira: ‘Soaking up the atmosphere of the moons’, The Herald, 13/12/2004 |
| Jeffrey, Moira: ‘Cathy Wilkes’, The Herald, 02/03/2004 | |
| Wulffen, Thomas: ‘Manifesta 5’, Kunstforum International, 2004 | |
| Verwoert, Jan: ‘Vele Modernismen: Florian Pumhösl en Cathy Wilkes’, Metropolis M, 2004 | |
| 2002 | Jeffrey, Moira: ‘Three cheers and a whisper’, The Herald, 20/05/2002 |
| Sutherland, Giles: ‘Parallel Deceptions’, Sunday Herald, 19/05/2002 | |
| 2001 | Eichler, Dominic: ‘Cathy Wilkes’, Frieze, Issue 59 05/2001 |
| Rosenberg, Angela: ‘Cathy Wilkes’, Flash Art, 2001 | |
| Bradley, Will: ‘Quiet Radical’, Untitled, 2001 | |
| 2000 | Smyth, Cherry: ‘Beck’s Futures’, Art Monthly, 30/04/2000 |
| 1999 | Sheehan, Declan: ‘untitled’, Circa, 1999 |
| 1998 | O’Sullivan, Tom, Joanne Tatham: ‘untitled’, Circa, Issue 89 30/11/1998 |
| 1997 | Rothschild, Eva: ‘‘I am you as you are me as he is she as we are all together’’, Make, Issue 80 30/11/1997 |
| Wilkes, Cathy: ‘The Lion For Real’, Stopstop 1, 1997 |
Exhibition Reviews
| 2023 | Francesca Peacock: ‘Real Families: this show sidelines art for the message’, Telegraph, 04/10/2023 |
| 2019 | Waters, Katherine: ‘Cathy Wilkes, British Pavilion, Venice Biennale review - poetic and personal’, The Art Desk, 14/05/2019 |
| Higgins, Charlotte: ‘Mournful and melancholy: Britain at the Venice Biennale’, The Guardian, 07/05/2019 | |
| 2018 | Smith, Suzette: ‘The Silent, Shuttered Works of Cathy Wilkes’, Portland Mercury, 25/07/2018 |
| 2017 | Greenberger, Alex: ‘Cathy Wilkes wins inaugural Maria Lassnig Prize’, ArtNews, 01/12/2017 |
| Farago, Jason: ‘From Forgotten Discards, a Wealth of Memories’, The New York Times, 08/11/2017 | |
| ‘Glittering Prizes’, The Art Newspaper, 01/02/2017 | |
| ‘Cathy Wilkes Awarded Inaugural Maria Lassnig Prize’, Artforum Online, 13/01/2017 | |
| ‘Cathy Wilkes erhält den ersten Mara Lassning Preis’, artmagazine, 12/01/2017 | |
| Westall, Mark: ‘Maria Lassnig Foundation awards its inaugural art prize to Cathy Wilkes’, FAD, 12/01/2017 | |
| 2015 | Jeffrey, Moira: ‘Arts Review: Cathy Wilkes’, The Scotsman, 13/04/2015 |
| Herbert, Martin: ‘Martin Herbert picks ten April 2015 shows you don’t want to miss’, Art Review, 04/2015 | |
| Dyer Amazeen, Lauren: ‘Cathy Wilkes’, Artforum, 01/2015 | |
| 2014 | ‘Cathy Wilkes at Tramway’, Contemporary Art Daily, 10/09/2014 |
| 2013 | Bell, Kirsty: ‘Il Palazzo Enciclopedico: 55. Biennale di Venezia‘, Frieze d/e, 10/2013 |
| Sooke, Alastair: ‘Venice Biennale 2013: The Encyclopedic Palace, Central Pavilion and Arsenale, review’, The Telegraph, 30/05/2013 | |
| Miller, Phil: ‘State of the Arts: Scotland on show at the Venice Biennale’, The Herald, 27/05/2013 | |
| Higgins, Charlotte: ‘Venice Biennale to showcase new generation of young British artists‘, The Guardian, 18/03/2013 | |
| 2012 | Clark, Robert: ‘Cathy Wilkes’, The Guardian Guide, 11/2012 |
| Davis, Michael: ‘Cathy Wilkes‘, The List, 11/2012 | |
| ‘Diary‘, Mousse Magazine, 11/2012 | |
| ‘Cathy Wilkes‘, Mousse Magazine, 35 10/2012 | |
| Davis, Michael: ‘Studio 58’, The List, 02/08/2012 | |
| Lowndes, Sarah: ‘Art Beat’, The List, 21/06/2012 | |
| Hill, Wes: ‘Gesellschaft Fur Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen’, Frieze, 145 03/2012 | |
| Silverman, Julia: ‘Do Not Touch: Cathy Wilkes probes the boundary between stuff and sculpture at the Ren‘, Chicago Weekly, 02/02/2012 | |
| Lori Waxman: ‘Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Cathy Wilkes draw on strikingly similar themes in separate exhibitions‘, Chicago Tribune, 02/2012 | |
| K. Rich, Sarah: ‘Review’, Artforum, 02/2012 | |
| Bucknell, Alice: ‘Motley crew of objects can an exhibit make’, The Chicago Maroon, 24/01/2012 | |
| Stange, Raimar: ‘Berlin’, Art Review, 01/2012 | |
| Ruiz, Steve: ‘I Give You All‘, ArtSlant, 01/2012 | |
| 2011 | Burton, Johanna: ‘Previews’, Artforum, 05/2011 |
| 2008 | Bidisha: ‘Why a woman should have won the 2008 Turner prize’, The Guardian, 03/12/2008 |
| MacMillan, Duncan: ‘Visual Art Reviews: Turner for the worse’, The Scotsman, 28/11/2008 | |
| Sumpter, Helen: ‘Turner Prize 2008’, Time Out, 09/10/2008 | |
| Lewis, Ben: ‘Race for the Prize‘, Evening Standard, 08/10/2008 | |
| Cumming, Laura: ‘Sshh... it‘s the Turner Prize’, The Observer, 05/10/2008 | |
| Searle, Adrian: ‘The Turner prize’, The Guardian, 04/10/2008 | |
| Campbell-Johnston, Rachel: ‘But is it art?’, The Times, 10/2008 | |
| Searle, Adrian: ‘Nurses and curses’, The Guardian, 30/09/2008 | |
| Akbar, Arifa: ‘A mannequin on a toilet and dry porridge – it‘s the Turner Prize‘, The Independent Online, 28/09/2008 | |
| Januszczak, Waldemar: ‘Turning Point’, NewStatesman, 22/05/2008 | |
| Cornwell, Tim: ‘Dummies, loos, The Simpsons - it‘s Turner Prize time again’, The Scotsman, 14/05/2008 | |
| Miller, Phil: ‘Everyday items bring Turner Prize nomination for Glasgow artist’, The Herald, 14/05/2008 | |
| Brown, Mark: ‘Modern-day dandy (and his associate Felix the Cat) is Turner prize favourite’, The Guardian, 14/05/2008 | |
| Akbar, Arifa: ‘Shortlist for Turner Prize promises end to male domination’, The Independent, 14/05/2008 | |
| Alberge, Dayla: ‘Tate courts controversy with Turner Prize shortlist’, Times Online, 14/05/2008 | |
| Dickson, Andrew: ‘Female artists dominate Turner shortlist‘, The Guardian, 13/05/2008 | |
| Noah, Sherna: ‘Mannequin on toilet bids for Turner prize‘, The Independent, 13/05/2008 | |
| Baracaia, Alexa: ‘Turner shortlist is a female affair’, The London Paper, 13/05/2008 | |
| McClurg-Welland, Ian: ‘Turner 08 The Gender Agenda?‘, Art of England, 05/2008 | |
| Aspden, Peter: ‘Women dominate Turner shortlist‘, Financial Times, 14/04/2008 | |
| 1999 | Bird, Nicky: ‘The Queen is Dead’, Art Monthly, 1999 |
| Mahoney, Elisabeth: ‘The Queen is Dead’, Untitled, 1999 |
Publications
| 2019 | Cathy Wilkes, HENI Publishing, London |
| 2017 | Creating Ourselves: The Self in Art, Whitechapel Gallery, London |
| 2015 | Cathy Wilkes, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool |
| 2011 | Cathy Wilkes, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
| n. paradoxa - international feminist art journal: Women's Work, volume 27, KT press, London (Reinterpreting the Mannequin: Allen Jones, Cathy Wilkes and Morag Keil) | |
| 2008 | Cathy Wilkes Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes |
| 2006 | Frieze Projects: Artists Commisions and Talks (2003-2005), frieze, London |
| 2004 | On My Sim You 1/4 Moon, in Formalismus, Moderne Kunst, Heute, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg |
| 2003 | Victorine as an EspadaI, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh |
| 2001 | Cathy Wilkes, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
| 2000 | Puppe, in Avalon, The Changing Room, Stirling |
| 1998 | Wilkes Gallery Projects, 1994-1997, Self-published, Glasgow |
Exhibition Publications
| 2011 | Cathy Wilkes, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen |
| Cathy Wilkes, Kunstverein, Munich (Exhibition guide, features Cathy Wilkes in conversation with Bart Van Der Heide) | |
| 2008 | Scotland & Venice 2003 2005 2007, Scottish Arts Council/ British Council/ National Galleries of Scotland/ The Scottish Government, Edinburgh |
| 2007 | Breaking Step, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade |
| You Have Not Been Honest, British Council, London | |
| 2006 | Of Mice and Men, 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin |
| 2005 | Body: New Art from the UK, Vancover Art Gallery and The British Council, Vancover, London |
| Selective Memory, Scottish Arts Council, British Council, National Galleries of Scotland, Scotland | |
| 2004 | Cathy Wilkes, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin |
| Formalismus. Modern Kunst, heute (Formalism. Modern Art, today), Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit | |
| With All Due Intent, Manifesta 5, Donostia–San Sebastián | |
| 2002 | Happy Outsiders from London and Scotland, Zachęta Państowowa Galeria Sztuki, Warzsawa |
| 2001 | Circles – Individuelle Sozialisation und Netzwerkarbeit in der zeitenossischen Kunst, (exhibition catalogue), ZKM, Karlsruhe |
| Here and Now: Scottish Art 1990-2000, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee | |
| 2000 | Beck's Futures, ICA, London |
| 1998 | Add Night to Night, The Showroom, London |