Alan Michael
Alan Michael
born 1967, Glasgow, Scotland
lives and works in Glasgow
EDUCATION
1992 - 1996
BA Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee
1996 - 1998
Masters of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
1997
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
2005
Jaybird, Galleria Zero, Milan, Italy
2004
The Fee of Angels, Man in the Holocene, London, England
BIBLIOGRAPHY
(* indicates non-periodical book, catalog, or other publication)
2005
born 1967, Glasgow, Scotland
lives and works in Glasgow
EDUCATION
1992 - 1996
BA Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee
1996 - 1998
Masters of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
1997
Study Exchange with Hunter College MFA Programme, NYC
1998
Artist Residency at Asterides - Systeme Friche, Marseilles, France
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
Mood:Casual, Art Now, Tate Britain, London, England
Mood:Casual, Art Now, Tate Britain, London, England
Touch Void, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2007
Decamp, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Space to Squabble, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin, Germany
2005
Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London, England
The Invention of Birth Control, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, Scotland
2003
Burlesque Schematic, Hotel, London
2002
Entwistle, London, England
Damage (with works by William Copley), Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
1999
Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow, Scotland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
"To bring forth and give" Sorcha Dallas Artist's Print Project, Glasgow Print Studio Glasgow, Scotland
It's a British Sound, Schurmann Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Legend, Domain de Chamarande, Paris, France
Ritual in the Dark, Hotel, London, England
2007
It's a British Sound, Schurmann Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Legend, Domain de Chamarande, Paris, France
Ritual in the Dark, Hotel, London, England
2007
Triumph of Painting, Saatchi Gallery, London, England
Stuff: International Contemporary Art from the Collection of Burt Aaron, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI.
Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, Germany
2006
Faces, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneve, Switzerland
The Tate Triennial 2006, New British Art, Tate Britain, London, England
Faces, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneve, Switzerland
The Tate Triennial 2006, New British Art, Tate Britain, London, England
The Figs Play Fox Dead, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
If it didn't Exist you'd Have to Invent it: a Partial Showroom History, The Showroom, London
2005
Jaybird, Galleria Zero, Milan, Italy
2004
The Fee of Angels, Man in the Holocene, London, England
Eye of The Needle, Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Year Zero, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK
Trailer, Man in the Holocene, London, England
Souvenir, HOTEL, London, England
Gertcha, Michael Wilkinson’s, Glasgow, Scotland
Synth, Kunstraum b/2, Leipzig, Germany
Haute Street, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2003
The Moment of Fictio’, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, UK
2003
The Moment of Fictio’, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, UK
Put out more Flags (curated by Christabel Stewart), Sutton Lane, London, England
This has reached the limit conditions of its own rhetoric’ with Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
Minerals In The Water, Dirk Bell, Kate Davis and Alan Michael, The Changing Room, Stirling
2002
Hero, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow, Scotland
2002
Hero, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow, Scotland
Alan Michael, Vangelis Vlahos, Els Hanappe Underground, Athens, Greece Jean-Luc Blanc, Alan Michael, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin Gwang Ju Biennial with Transmission Gallery, Gwang Ju, South Korea
Half the World Away, Halls Walls CCA, Buffalo, NY
2001
Stray Show, Seventhreesplit, Chicago, IL
2001
Stray Show, Seventhreesplit, Chicago, IL
Here And Now: Scottish Art 1990-2001, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK
Antarctica, Entwistle, London, England
Angel Dust, Intermedia, Glasgow Record Collection, VTO Gallery, London and Forde Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Glasgow Art Fair 2001 with Charisma/-DBF and Transmission Gallery
Brown Field, curated by Rob Tufnell, Market, Glasgow
British Mythic, cover artwork for contemporary culture publication
2000
Panache, Keith Farquhar, Lucy McKenzie and Alan Michael, Els Hanappe Underground, Athens, Greece
Panache, Keith Farquhar, Lucy McKenzie and Alan Michael, Els Hanappe Underground, Athens, Greece
Red Marauder, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
John I’m Only Dancing, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Die Gefahr Im Jazz, Deutsch Britische Freundschaft, Berlin, Germany
Focus on the Fear, On Destruction, Power, Death, Venetia Kapernekas Fine Art Inc., New York, NY
Sweet Dreams, Exedra, Hilversum, Netherlands
1999
Misty In Roots, curated by Alex Frost and Alan Michael, including Duncan Campbell, Lorin Davies, Howard Fried, Ewan Imrie, Lucy McKenzie, Fly Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Museum Magogo, Glasgow Project Room and PB Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Accelerated Learning, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, UK
The Black Diamond no.1, Artist’s pages published during the Liverpool Biennial White Bear ZZ’ with Scott Myles, Hayley Tompkins, Sue Tompkins, 78 Roslea Drive, Glasgow, Scotland
You Are Very Important, with Alex Frost, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
Shake The Disease, curated by Lucy McKenzie, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, UK
Horseriding, Painting and Lovemaking, Deutsch Britische Freundschaft, London, England
1998
Mountain Madness, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow, Scotland
Slipstream, curated by Francis McKee and Toby Webster, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland
Fan of Exaggeration, La Cie La Compagnie, Marseilles, France
Family Credit, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Add Night to Night, The Showroom, London, England
Crystal State part of ‘Artranspennine 98, Three Month Gallery, Liverpool and Longsight, Benefit Office, Manchester, UK
Toga, Assembly Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
1997
Olympic Village, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Tutor With An Idea, Three Month Gallery, Liverpool, England
Suburban Affair, Newport-on-Tay, Fife, UK
BIBLIOGRAPHY
(* indicates non-periodical book, catalog, or other publication)
2005
Lewisohn, Ceder, 'Alan Michael', Map, issue 4, Winter issue, p64
Herbert, Martin, 'The Fee of Angels', Time Out London, January 12-19, p58
2004
Morton, Tom. ‘Alan Michael’, Frieze, issue 84, June/July/August 2004, p. 96-99, cover
2003
Pethick, Emily. ‘Put Out More Flags’, Artforum.com, ‘Critics Picks’, July 2003
Honigman, Ana Finel. ‘Alan Michael’, Time Out London, May 28 - June 4 2003, p. 54
Lowndes, Sarah. ‘Dirk Bell, Kate Davis and Alan Michael’, Frieze issue 74, April 2003, p. 112
Tufnell, Rob. ‘Made In Scotland’, Tema Celeste, January/February 2003, pp. 51 - 53
2001
Lowndes, Sarah. ‘Brownfield’, Untitled, Summer 2001, p. 32
Falconer, Morgan. ‘Antarctica’, What’s On London, July 18-25 2001, p. 24
Gazzola, Alex. ‘Antarctica at Entwistle’, Lam Magazine, July 9 2001, p. 28
Ratnam, Niru. ‘If You’re Feeling Sinister’, The Face, July 2001, p. 153
2000
Mahoney, Elisabeth. ‘Red Maraude’r, The Guardian, October 9 2000, p. 21
1999
Herbert, Martin. ‘Horseriding, Painting and Lovemaking’, Time Out London, February 10-17 1999, p. 50
1998
Caussat, Pascale. ‘Divers Lieux: Automme-hive’, Artpress, March 1998, p. 78
Burrows, David. ‘Olympic Village’, Art Monthly, February 1998, p. 33
Findlay, Judith. ‘Suburban Affair’, Flash Art, January - February 1998, p. 66