Toby Paterson
Born 1974, Glasgow; Lives in Glasgow.
Education
2011 | Honorary Doctor of Letters, Glasgow Caledonian University |
1995 | BA (Hons), Glasgow School of Art |
1993 | School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
Solo Exhibitions
2020 | ‘Atlantic’, The Modern Institute, 3 Aird's Lane, Glasgow |
2019 | ‘New Aluminium Works’, Stallan-Brand, Glasgow |
2018 | ‘Two Arrays’, Cairn Gallery, Fife |
‘Penumbralism’, Civic House, Glasgow (As part of Glasgow International 2018) | |
2017 | ‘The Pinwheel’, Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland Arts, Weisdale Mill, Shetland |
2015 | ‘Thresholds’, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh (curated by Judith Winter, part of Edinburgh Art Festival) |
2014 | ‘Ludic Motif’, Trongate, Glasgow |
Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries (Part of GENERATION 2014) | |
‘20th Century Perspectives: City Spaces & Strings’, Anderston Centre, Glasgow | |
Tweedale Museum and Gallery, Peebles (Part of GENERATION 2014) | |
Inverness Museum & Art Gallery, Inverness (Part of GENERATION 2014) | |
Kirkcaldy Galleries, Kirkcaldy (Part of GENERATION 2014) | |
‘Soft Boundary’, The Modern Institute, 14—20 Osborne Street, Glasgow | |
2013 | ‘Our Shadow Codex: Rhona Warwick & Toby Paterson’, Lanchester Gallery Projects, Coventry |
‘Toby Paterson – Clusters’, Galerie Lange + Pult | |
‘Reconstructions’, Mário Sequeira Gallery, Braga | |
Public project in conjunction with Le Grand Cafè, Saint Nazaire (Completion 2013) | |
2012 | ‘An Experiment for Total Environment’, Durham Art Gallery, Durham (with works by Victor Pasmore) |
‘Remnant’, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow | |
‘Toby Paterson: paintings, prints and reliefs’, SMART gallery, Aberdeen | |
‘Quotidian Aspect’, Le Grand Cafè, Saint-Nazaire | |
2011 | ‘Inchoate Landscapes’, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen |
2010 | Upstairs at The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
‘Ever Growing Never Old, Looped’, Pavement, Manchester | |
‘New New Festival’, Pallant House, Chichester | |
‘Consensus and Collapse’, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh | |
2009 | ‘Various States’, Void, Derry |
‘Ever Growing Never Old’, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow | |
‘Built Colour’, Galerie Kentworthy Ball, Lang and Pult, Zurich | |
‘Installation of Powder Blue Orthogonal Pavilion’, Warwick University, Warwick | |
2007 | ‘Poised Array’, BBC Scotland Headquarters, Glasgow (public commission) |
‘Generosity’, Stroom Den Haag, The Hague | |
‘Vague Space’, Sutton Lane, London | |
2006 | ‘Broken Arabesque’, de Vleeshal & de Kabinetten van de Vlesshal, Middelburg |
‘Dual Image with Red, Brown and Blue’, Tramway, Glasgow | |
2005 | ‘After the Rain’, Curve Gallery, Barbican Centre, London |
‘Blue/Black Plan In Situ’, Galerie Fabienne le Clerc, Paris (edition) | |
‘New Townscape 1 & 2’, Home Office, Marsham Street, London | |
‘Toby Paterson’, Synagogue Delme Espace Art Contemporain, Delme | |
2004 | ‘New Festival’, Glassbox, Paris |
‘Exploded Plan’, Sutton Lane, London | |
‘An Isometric Plan’, Tate St Ives, Cornwall | |
2003 | ‘Emergency Exit’, 88B, London |
‘Patterns’, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen (in association with Peacock Visual Arts) | |
‘New Facade’, CCA, Glasgow | |
‘Hallfield School Project’, Paddington, London (in association with the Serpentine Gallery) | |
The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow | |
‘New Plan’, Glasgow | |
2002 | ‘Toby Paterson’, Franco Noero, Turin |
1999 | ‘Halcyon Approach’, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
Group Exhibitions
2022 | ‘The Love of Print’, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow |
‘Workshop’, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh | |
‘The Ignorant Art School’, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle | |
‘Assembled’, RSA, Edinburgh | |
‘You Are Here 2022’, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh | |
‘The World We Live In’, Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, Touring to Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery (21 May - 4 September 2022); Glynn Vivian, Swansea (18 September 2022 - 01 January 2023); Levinsky Gallery, Plymouth (2023) | |
2021 | ‘The Christmas Show’, RSA, Edinburgh |
‘I Know Where I'm Going • Who Can I Be Now’, The Modern Institute, 14—20 Osborne Street, Glasgow | |
2020 | ‘Reduct: Abstraction and Geometry in Scottish Art’, RSA, Edinburgh |
‘The 194th RSA Annual Exhibition’, RSA, Edinburgh | |
2019 | ‘Another Country - Contemporary Artists on Immigration’, Inverness Museum & Art Gallery, Inverness |
‘Another Country - Contemporary Artists on Immigration’, Thurso Gallery, Thurso | |
‘Next Top Model’, Govan Project Space, Glasgow | |
2018 | ‘Another Country - Contemporary Artists on Immigration’, City Art Centre, Edinburgh (Tours to Inverness Art Gallery & Museum and Thurso Art Gallery throughout 2019) |
‘Innovative Printmaking’, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow | |
‘Against Time’, Civic Room, Glasgow (As part of Glasgow International 2018) | |
‘Early Learning’, Scotland Street School Museum, Glasgow (As part of Glasgow International 2018) | |
2015 | ‘Model Behaviour’, Holden Gallery, Manchester |
‘Devils in the Making’, GOMA, Glasgow | |
2014 | ‘Urban/Suburban’, City Art Centre, Edinburgh (Part of GENERATION 2014) |
‘GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland’, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh | |
‘Sculptural Forms: A Century of Experiment’, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester | |
2013 | ‘40/40’, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow |
2012 | ‘Tomorrow Was Already Here’, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City |
2011 | ‘The Sculpture Show’, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
‘Tales of the City: Art Fund International and the GoMA Collection’, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow | |
RSA, Edinburgh (Annual Show) | |
2010 | ‘Does City/Münster matter?’, AZKM, Münster |
‘Les Lendemains d'Hier’ | |
2009 | ‘Warsaw Under Construction’, The Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw |
‘SUPERNOVA’, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea (British Council touring exhibition. Touring to Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Krakow; Kunstihoone, Tallinn; Centre of Contemporary Art, Vilnius; Prague City ARt Gallery, Prague; Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava; Gliptoteka, Zagreb; Multimedia Center, Split; Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Nicosia) | |
‘Being and Nothingness’, Light and Sie, Dallas | |
‘Warsaw Under Construction’, The Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw | |
‘Retromorphosis - Dresden’s New Town’, University of Hertfordshire Galleries, Hatfield | |
2008 | ‘Retromorphosis’, Centre for the Urban Built Environment, Manchester |
‘How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck if a Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood’, Kunstverein Glasgow, Allison Street | |
‘100 Year, 100 Artists, 100 Works’, Platform for Art, London | |
SWG3, Glasgow (Glasgow International 2008) | |
‘In Pieces’, Myddleton Square, London | |
2007 | ‘Language of Vision’, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough |
‘Build It and They Will Come’, Travelling Gallery, Scotland | |
‘Echo Room: Art from Britain’, Alcalá 31, Madrid | |
‘Portavilion’ | |
‘Retromorphosis - Dresden’s New Town’, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, The Water Tower, Thrapston | |
‘Breaking Step’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade | |
2006 | Ocular Lab, Melbourne |
‘Units Moved’, The Architecture Foundation, London | |
‘New Editions/Scotland’, The Print Center, New York | |
‘Concrete Thoughts’, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester | |
‘How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later’, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco | |
2005 | ‘Artists explore the language of Architecture’, Fri-Art, Centre d’art contemporain de Fribourg, Fribourg |
‘Art Futures’, Contemporary Art Society, Bloomberg Space | |
‘Space Invaders’, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel | |
‘Toby Paterson & Tobias Putrih’, Kunstverein, Graz | |
‘Sutton Lane in Paris’, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris | |
2004 | ‘Britannia works’, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, Athens |
‘Interior View’, Fri-Art, Centre d'Art Contemporain de Fribourg, Fribourg (Touring exhibition. Touring to First Site Colchester, Colchester; Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt; De Zonnehof, Amersfoort) | |
2003 | ‘A Surface in Between’, Art House, London |
‘Contemporary Abstraction’, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow | |
‘There's no land but the land up (up there is just a sea of possibilities)’, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe | |
‘Common Place’, The Lighthouse, Glasgow | |
‘Pretty Little Things’, The Ship, London | |
‘The Square Show’, Bloomberg Space, London | |
‘Precise Modern Order’, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin | |
‘This Was Tomorrow’, The New Art Centre, Salisbury | |
‘Civilia’, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool | |
‘Fresh’, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh | |
2002 | ‘Toby Paterson & Martin Boyce’, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw |
‘Half the World Away’, Hallwalls CAC, Buffalo | |
‘Greyscale/CMYK’, Tramway, Glasgow | |
‘Baltic Babel’, Rooseum, Malmö | |
Roma Roma Roma, Rome | |
‘'Happy Outsiders from London and Scotland’, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw | |
‘Beck's Futures 3’, ICA, London (Touring exhibition. Touring to CCA, Glasgow) | |
‘Model Forms’, The Sculpture Study Galleries, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds | |
2001 | ‘NY/G3’, Casey Kaplan, New York |
‘Beyond’, DCA, Dundee | |
‘Group Show’, Generator, Dundee (curated by Graham Domke) | |
‘New Newquayism’, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow (with Alex Pollard) | |
‘Here and Now’, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen | |
‘October, St Vincent Street, Glasgow, Curated by Karla Black & Katie Exley’, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow (Curated by Karla Black and Katie Exley) | |
‘Circles 4 One Fo(u)r One’, ZKM Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe (with Elizabeth Go) | |
2000 | ‘Beyond’, DCA, Dundee |
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds | |
‘Gemini Sculpture Park’, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds | |
RSA, Edinburgh | |
‘Tonight’, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow | |
‘Film Club’ (with Elizabeth Go; curated by Scott Myles) | |
‘Pavilion’, Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich | |
‘Can 303's Heal?’, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki | |
1998 | ‘Host’, Tramway, Glasgow (with Elizabeth Go) |
‘How to build a universe that doesn't fall apart 2 days later’, Fly, Glasgow | |
‘WallpaperVideo’, High Street Project, Christchurch | |
1997 | ‘Tutor with an Idea’, 3 month Gallery, Liverpool |
‘Superstore’ | |
‘European Couples and Others’, Transmission, Glasgow | |
1996 | ‘Independent Studios Exhibitions’, 18 King Street, Glasgow |
‘Leave the Capitol’, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh | |
‘insanestupidphatfuctpervert’, Concrete Skates, Glasgow (Touring exhibition. Touring to Cubitt, London) | |
‘World of Ponce’, Southpark, Glasgow (Curated by Toby Webster) | |
‘Art for People’, Transmission, Glasgow | |
‘Sick Building’, Transmission Gallery at Globe Space, Copenhagen | |
‘With Love Filthy Swan’, Transmission, Glasgow |
Commissions
2022 | ‘The Sociology of Autumn’, Chessels Court, Canongate, Edinburgh (Permanent installation in association with Edinburgh Art Festival) |
2019 | ‘Bunhill 2’, City Road, London (Public commission for Islington Council) |
2018 | ‘A Shift in Perspective’, Minerva Primary Academy, Hillfields, Bristol (Commissioned by PONY) |
2017 | ‘The Sociology of Autumn’, Edinburgh Art Festival, Chessels Court, Edinburgh |
Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries, Dunfermline | |
‘Hatton Pavilion’, Various locations, Newcastle & Gateshead | |
2016 | Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow (Commmission for George Moore Building) |
2011 | Stroom Den Haag, The Hague |
2010 | ‘Shifting Landscape’, Renfrew Health and Social Work Centre, Renfrew |
Docklands Light Railway, Stratford International Extension, London | |
2008 | ‘Poised Array’, BBC Scotland Headquarters, Glasgow (Commissioned as lead artist) |
‘Powder Blue Orthogonal Pavilion’, Potters Fields Park, Southwark, London (as part of Portavilion) | |
2007 | Stour Centre, Ashford Borough Council, Kent |
2005 | ‘Potential Forms’, Saltire Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow |
2004 | ‘Black Elegy’, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow |
2003 | ‘Fraser Noble Building’, Aberdeen University, Aberdeen |
Bibliography
Press
2020 | Marani, Matthew: ‘Cullinan Studio and Toby Paterson shroud the Bunhill 2 Energy Centre with historically inspired perforated aluminum panels’, The Architect's Newspaper, 07/04/2020 |
Crook, Lizzie: Waste heat from London Underground begins warming capital‘s homWaste heat from London Underground begins warming capital‘s homeses, Dezeen, 11/03/2020 | |
2018 | Mansfield, Susan: ‘Art interview: Toby Paterson on his show for Glasgow International’, The Scotsman, 18/04/2018 |
2016 | Sharratt, Chris: ‘Art Brut’, Frieze, 06/04/2016 |
2015 | Harris, Gareth: ‘Maggie’s Centres: a sanctuary from sickness‘, Financial Times, 08/09/2015 |
2014 | Patience, Jan: ‘My Generation’, Home and Interiors Scotland, 01/2014 |
2013 | ‘ArtMen in Glasgow’, ArtMen (Dutch television), 09/2013 |
2011 | Thompson, Henrietta: ‘Toby Paterson: Inchoate Landscapes show, Scotland’, Wallpaper, 15/09/2011 |
2010 | Byng, Malaika: ‘Toby Paterson: Consensus and Collapse, Edinburgh’, Wallpaper, 21/04/2010 |
Cousins, Mark: ‘Toby Paterson exhibition: Consensus and Collapse’, Building Design magazine website, 12/03/2010 | |
Flochkart, Gary: ‘Brush with the old and the new’, The Pulse Magazine, 03/2010 | |
Gilbert, Rebecca: ‘Toby Paterson @ Fruitmarket Gallery’, The Skinny, 26/02/2010 | |
Sutherland, Giles: ‘Brutalist legacy lifted by rare dose of compassion’, The Times, 23/02/2010 | |
‘The Best Exhibitions, HitList’, The List, 21/02/2010 | |
Cloughton, Rachael: ‘Toby Paterson: Consensus and Collapse’, The Journal, Issue 31 17/02/2010 | |
Black, Catriona: ‘Solo show searches out the heroic angle’, Sunday Herald, 07/02/2010 | |
‘Exhibitions’, The Guardian Guide, 06/02/2010 | |
Doubal, Rosalie: ‘Painting & Installation’, The List, 04/02/2010 | |
Macmillan, Duncan: ‘Far from Ideal’, The Scotsman, 02/02/2010 | |
‘On The Cover’, a-n Magazine, 02/2010 | |
‘The Best Exhibitions’, The List, 02/2010 | |
‘Toby Paterson, Black Axonometric 1’, a-n Magazine, 02/2010 | |
Doubal, Rosalie: ‘Toby Paterson: Consensus and Collapse’, The List, 02/2010 | |
‘Toby Paterson Edinburgh’, The Guardian, 30/01/2010 | |
‘Built Up’, The Big Pick, 25/01/2010 | |
Jamieson, Teddy: ‘Art of architecture’, The Herald, 22/01/2010 | |
Cooper, Neil: ‘Back to the future’, The List, 07/01/2010 | |
Macmillan, Duncan: ‘Art of the matter’, The Scotsman, 05/01/2010 | |
Jeffrey, Moira: ‘Paint on the tracks’, Scotland on Sunday, 03/01/2010 | |
‘Toby Paterson Exhibition’, www.edinburgharchitecture.co.uk, 01/2010 | |
2009 | Shannon, Liz, Toby Paterson: ‘Ever Growing Never Old’, The List, 19/03/2009 |
Garner, James: ‘Ever Growing Never Old’, Metro, 04/03/2009 | |
Paterson, Toby: ‘Ever Growing Never Old’, Artist Book, 2009 | |
2008 | Winter, Judith, Harrington & Keiko Koshihara: ‘Toby Paterson’, Language of Vision, 23/11/2008 |
2006 | Ball, Dave: ‘Toby Paterson’, DogmaNet.org, Issue 20 04/2006 |
Watson, Luke: ‘Balance of Space’, Map, Issue 6 2006 | |
2005 | Hackworth, Nick: ‘Elegant vision of the urban’, Evening Standard, 15/02/2005 |
2004 | Price, Matt: ‘Toby Paterson, in Mixed Paint - A survey of contemporary painters’, Flash Art, Volume 37, Number 239 11/2004 |
Gale, Iain: ‘Darkness in the City of Light’, The Scotsman, 31/10/2004 | |
Jeffrey, Moira: ‘Striking a true Paris match’, The Herald, 22/10/2004 | |
Lowndes, Sarah: ‘Toby Paterson’, Frieze, Issue 85 09/2004 | |
Verwoert, Jan: ‘WORLD IN MOTION’, Frieze, Issue 84 06/2004 | |
2003 | Mottram, Jack: ‘The Hot 100: 9 Toby Paterson’, The List, Issue 484 11/12/2003 |
Gale, Iain: ‘Toby Paterson’, The Scotsman, 16/11/2003 | |
Gale, Iain: ‘Toby Paterson’, Scotland on Sunday, 09/11/2003 | |
Jeffrey, Moira: ‘The art that’s a real steal’, The Herald, 07/11/2003 | |
Tripp, Sarah: ‘Toby Paterson’, Art Monthly, Number 267 06/2003 | |
McKeown, Henry: ‘Wake-up call’, The Architects' Journal, 22/05/2003 | |
Nesbitt, Rebecca Gordon: ‘Toby Paterson’, Matters magazine, Issue 17 2003 | |
2002 | Lowndes, Sarah: ‘The history man’, The List, 08/2002 |
Devine, Rachel: ‘If you go down to the park today…’, The Sunday Times, 23/06/2002 | |
Abrahams, Tim: ‘BOARDED UP’, The Sunday Herald, 05/05/2002 | |
Jeffrey, Moira: ‘A high roller who’s streets ahead’, The Herald, 08/03/2002 | |
2001 | Mansfield, Susan: ‘Brush with a skateboarder’, The Scotsman, 18/12/2001 |
‘This Is Your Life’, Scotland on Sunday, 16/09/2001 | |
Calcutt, John: ‘Beyond the future of art’, Scotland on Sunday, 04/03/2001 | |
Beagles, John: ‘Beyond’, The List, 03/2001 | |
Sutherland, Giles: ‘Dundee’, The Times, 21/02/2001 | |
Drummond, Blaise: ‘Architecture into paint, (interview)’, Circa, Issue 97 2001 | |
2000 | Lowndes, Sarah: ‘members’ show’, Metro, 30/10/2000 |
Exhibition Reviews
2018 | Mansfield, Susan: ‘Another Country at City Art Centre’, The List, 19/12/2018 |
Preece, John: ‘Another Country – Contemporary Artists on Immigration’, The Edinburgh Reporter, 30/11/2018 | |
2014 | Jeffrey, Moira: ‘Finding an Edge’, The Scotsman, 02/2014 |
2012 | Clark, Robert: ‘Exhibitions‘, The Guardian, 12/2012 |
2011 | Miller, Phil: ‘Hoeny, I shrunk the art‘, The Herald, 07/10/2011 |
Mansfield, Susan: ‘Arts’, The Scotsman, 27/09/2011 | |
Thompson, Henrietta: ‘Toby Paterson: Inchoate Landscapes show, Scotland‘, Wallpaper, 15/09/2011 | |
Wade, Mike: ‘News‘, The Times, 10/09/2011 | |
2003 | Dallas, Sorcha: ‘Contemporary Abstraction‘, The List, 31/07/2003 |
Publications
2015 | Thresholds, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and Aye-Aye books, Edinburgh and Glasgow |
2001 | Lowndes, Sarah: Toby Paterson, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
Exhibition Publications
2010 | Consensus and Collapse, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh |
Les Lendemains d'Hier, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Montreal | |
2009 | Being and Nothingness, Light&Sie, Dallas |
Ever Growing Never Old, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow | |
2008 | Portavilion: Public Art for London's Parks, UpProjects, London |
2007 | Breaking Step, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade |
Echo Room - Art from Great Britain, The British Council, London | |
2006 | Concrete Thoughts, The Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester (Reality and representation: backwards and forwards from the work of Toby Paterson) |
2005 | An Isometric Plan, Tate St.Ives, St. Ives |
Space Invaders, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (Toby Paterson interviewed by Sabine Schaschi-Cooper and Eva Scharrer) | |
Supernova, British Council, London | |
2004 | Britannia Works, British Council, London |
Interior View, De Zonnehof in Amersfoort, The Netherlands (Shaping the Imagination) | |
2003 | Patterns, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen |
Toby Paterson: New Facade, CCA, Glasgow | |
2002 | Becks Futures 2002, ICA, London (Will Bradley on Toby Paterson) |
Greyscale/CMYK, Tramway, Glasgow | |
Happy Outsiders from London and Scotland, Zachęta Państowowa Galeria Sztuki, Warzsawa | |
2001 | Here and Now: Scottish art 1990 - 2001, DCA, Dundee |
October, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow |