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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
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
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
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
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 
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
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 
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 
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