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Steven Claydon

STEVEN CLAYDON 

born 1969, London, England
lives and works in London, England


EDUCATION 

1997 

MA, Central Saint Martins School of Art & Design, London, England 

1991
BA, Chelsea School of Art & Design, London, England 


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2008
Osram and Omar, HOTEL, London, England
The Ancient Set, International Project Space, Bourneville, Birmingham, UK
a & not a, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf, Germany

2007
New Valkonia, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. 

2006
Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Dusseldorf, Germany 
White Columns, New York, NY. 

2005
All Across the Thready Eye, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf, Germany 
Fear of a planet, Hotel, London, England 

2004
The third of the third, Hoxton Distillery, London, England 


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 
(* indicates a publication)

2008
Busan Biennial, Busan, Korea
In Geneva No One Can Hear You Scream, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland

2007/2008
Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring, curated by Steven Claydon, Camden Arts Centre, London

2007
Nueva Dimension, Hats Plus, London, organised by Dick Evans
Effigies, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, England
Old School, Hauser & Wirth, London, England and Zwirner and Wirth, New York, NY.
*Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, curated by Dominic Molon, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.
Galerie Rüdiger Shcöttle, Munich, Germany 
Come into the Open, Projekt 0047, Oslo, Norway
Pale Carnage, Arnolfini, Bristol, England; Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, England
Hotel Gallery London, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, Germany 
The Metal Bridge, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, Scotland

2006 

The Metal Bridge, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
Deep Into That Darkness Peering, Galerie Kamm, Berlin
Rings of Saturn, Tate Modern, London , England 

Keep passing the open windows or Happiness, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany 
Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany 
*Dereconstruction, curated by Matthew Higgs, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY. 

Writing the Strobe, Curated by Andrew Hunt, Dicksmith Gallery, London, England 

2005 

Le Voyage Interieur, curated by Alexis Vaillant and Alex Farquharson, Espace EDF Electra, Paris, France
Time Lines, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westphalen, Düsseldorf, Germany 

Flies Around the Fury Flotsam, Curators Space, London, England 
Odiseado Tra Tempo, curated by Charlotte Mailler, Peter Kilchmann Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
*Paris – Londres: Le Voyage Interieur, curated by Alex Farquharson, Espace Electra, Paris, France 

*Even a Stopped Clock Tells the Right Time Twice a Day, ICA, London, England 

Post no Bills, White Columns, New York, NY. 
 
Clouds of Witness, Islington Town Hall, London, England 
 
 

2004 

Live web-cast of sculpture at Show studio 
 
The Last Supper, Hoxton Distillery, London, England 


2003 

Nibs, curated by Steven Claydon, Hoxton Distillery, London, England 
 
In The Gathering Darkness, contribution with Neil Chapman for ‘The Poster The Show 1,2,3...’, Hoxton Distillery, London, England
R.I.P. photographic contribution with Neil Chapman for the Box of the Uncanny, a multiple produced by Christine Walter, Munich, Germany 
Strange Greeny from The Sum of the Earth, collaboration with Neil Chapman, Hoxton Distillery, London, England 

2002 

Grey Field Bulge/Tin Foil Blanket, contribution with Neil Chapman for The Poster The Show +1, group exhibition Hoxton Distillery, London, England 

2001
Stepped Series In Response To A Nothing, contribution with Neil Chapman, group exhibition, The 
Poster, The Show, The Hoxton Distiller, London, England 
 
It Grows Away, collaboration with Neil Chapman, The Hoxton Distillery London, England
Loud Like Nature, ADD N TO (X), installation and video, La Box, Borges, France 

2000
Five works in lieu of a particle accelerator, installation with Neil Chapman, Greengrassi, London, England 

1999 

ADDING N TO (X), installation and performance, Villa Noailles, Hyeres, France 
 

1998 

Its A Curse Its A Burden, curated by Glenn Brown, Approach Gallery, London, England 
Shrimp-Ice Briefing, Live Arts Event, collaboration with Neil Chapman, ICA, London, England


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, FILM AND VIDEO 
 
2008
The Ancient Set, Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London, England
 
2005
From Earth, Light Box, Tate Britain, London, England 

2003
Strange Greeny from The Sum of the Earth, video screening at Kunstwerk, Berlin, Germany 
 

2000 
One Geocrab, film screening as part of Night Stop Cinema, The Week of Small Miracles, London, England


PERFORMANCES 

2008
The Fictional Pixel, Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London, England

2007
Jack too Jack, Arnolfini, Bristol, England

2005
Jack too Jack, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany 
Jack too Jack, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland 
 
Jack too Jack, Rio Cinema, London, England Remixed Water, Manchester, England 

2004
Shades of Destructors, Prince Charles Theatre, London, England 

Shades of Destructors, Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York, England
Shades of Destructors, Humanist society, London, England 

1999
The Opposite of a Good Idea, live performance with Neil Chapman, Inventory, Volume 3, issue 2, launch, Guy’s Hospital, London, England 

1998
ADD N TO (X) Dinner Music for Electronic Quartet, in collaboration with Barry Adamson, Nick Cave and Pansonic, Royal Festival Hall, London, England 


DISCOGRAPHY 

2004
Remixed Water, collaboration with Lawrence Wiener and Ned Sublet 



RESIDENCIES 

2007
Me.di.um, St. Barthelemy, French West Indies 


BIBLIOGRAPHY 
(* indicates non-periodical book, catalog, or other publication) 
 
2008
Morton, Tom, “ Strange Events…” Frieze, Issue 113, March 2008.
Withers, Rachel, “Strange Things Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring,” Artforum, March 2008, pp. 371 – 372.
Ascari, Alessio, “Interview,” Mousse, Issue 12, January 2008 pp. 6 – 9
Ward, Ossian, "Gothic Art Revival," Time Out London, January 2, 2008
 
2007
*"Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL., 2007
Day, Charlotte, “Rings of Saturn Tate Modern,” Art & Australia, Vol. 44, No. 3, Autumn 2007, p. 448

2006 

Coomer, Martin, “ Introducing: Steven Claydon,” Modern Painters, December 2006 – January 2007, pp. 92 – 94
*Higgs, Matthew. Dereconstruction. New York: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, 2006 
Jian-Xing Too, “Le Voyage Intérieur,” ArtReview, February 2006, p.109
Morton, Tom, “Looking Back: Emerging Artists,” Frieze, January – February 2006, p.122 
Fox, Dan and Simon Reynolds, “Music 2005,” Frieze, January 2006

2005

Morton, Tom, “Selection of 2005,” Frieze, December 2005
*
Morton, Tom. Even a Stopped Clock Tells the Right Time Twice a Day. London: ICA
*Farquharson, Alex. Paris – Londres: Le Voyage Interieur. Paris: Espace Electra
Wood, Catherine, “Fear of a Planet at Hotel,” Frieze, September 2005, pp. 147 - 148 
Lack, 
Jessica, “Fear of a Planet at Hotel,” Guardian Guide, March 19 – 25, 2005 

2001 

“Twinterview, Interview with Paul Claydon,” Untitled, No. 25, Summer, 2001


ARTIST WRITINGS 

2004/5 

“Re-routing, remixed water,” introductory text, Bookworks 

2003 
“Total All Out Water,” edition, box set, SHOWstudio 

2002 

“Architecture in Architecture,” Sleazenation 
“Sometimes Leather,” Underwood Audio 2 

2001 

“Autointerview,” with Neil Chapman 

1999 

“The Approach,” with Neil Chapman, Inventory, Vol. 3 Issue 3 

“The Opposite of a Good Idea,” Inventory Vol.3 Issue 2 

1998 

“The Fullness that Fills up the Pulse of Durations: The Ambassadors,” collaboration with Chris Ofili, CD Box Set 

1997 
“Carousel,” with Neal Chapman, pamphlet