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Alan Michael

Born in Glasgow 1967
Lives and works in Glasgow

Education

  • 1998 Artist Residency at Asterides – Systeme Friche, Marseilles, France
  • 1997 Study exchange with Hunter College MFA Programme, New York
  • 1996 -1998 MA Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art
  • 1992 -1996 BA Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2009
  • In a Rotterdam Cell, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin
2008
  • Mood: Casual, Art Now, Tate Britain, London
  • Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
2007
  • Decamp, David Kordansky Gallery, LA
  • Space To Squabble, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin
2005
  • Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
  • The Invention of Birth Control, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
2003
  • Burlesque Schematic, HOTEL, London
2002
  • Entwistle, London
  • Damage (with works by William Copley), Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
1999
  • Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow

Group Exhibitions

2009
  • The Associates, DCA, Dundee
2008
  • Sphinxx, Curated by Alexis Vaillant, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
  • Legende, Domain of Chamarande, Chamarande, France
  • Ritual in the Dark, Collaboration with Stephen Sutcliffe, Hotel Gallery, London
2006
  • The Tate Triennial 2006, New British Art, Tate Britain, London
  • The Figs Play Fox Dead, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
  • If it didn’t exist you’d have to invent it: a partial Showroom history, The Showroom, London
2005
  • Jaybird, Galleria Zero, Milan
2004
  • The Fee of Angels, Man in the Holocene, London
  • Eye of The Needle, Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles
  • Year Zero, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland
  • Trailer, Man in the Holocene, London
  • Souvenir, HOTEL, London
  • Gertcha, Michael Wilkinson’s, Glasgow
  • Synth, Kunstraum b/2, Leipzig, Germany
  • Haute Street, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2003
  • The Moment of Fiction, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee
  • Put out more Flags (curated by Christabel Stewart), Sutton Lane, London
  • This has reached the limit conditions of its own rhetoric, with Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan, The Modern Institute, Glasgow
  • Minerals In The Water, Dirk Bell, Kate Davis and Alan Michael, The Changing Room, Stirling
2002
  • Hero, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow
  • 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), USA
2001
  • Stray Show, Seventhreesplit, Chicago, USA
  • Here And Now: Scottish Art 1990-2001, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
  • Antarctica, Entwistle, London
  • 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
  • John I’m Only Dancing, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
  • Die Gefahr Im Jazz, Deutsch Britische Freundschaft, Berlin
  • Focus on the Fear, On Destruction, Power, Death, Venetia Kapernekas Fine Art Inc., New York
  • 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
  • Museum Magogo, Glasgow Project Room and PB Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
  • Accelerated Learning, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee
  • 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
  • You Are Very Important, with Alex Frost, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
  • Shake The Disease, curated by Lucy McKenzie, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee
  • Horseriding, Painting and Lovemaking, Deutsch Britische Freundschaft, London
1998
  • Mountain Madness, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow
  • Slipstream, curated by Francis McKee and Toby Webster, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
  • Fan of Exaggeration, La Cie La Compagnie, Marseilles, France
  • Family Credit, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
  • Add Night to Night, The Showroom, London
  • Crystal State part of ‘Artranspennine 98, Three Month Gallery, Liverpool and Longsight, Benefit Office, Manchester
  • Toga, Assembly Gallery, Glasgow School of Art
1997
  • Olympic Village, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
  • Tutor With An Idea, Three Month Gallery, Liverpool
  • Suburban Affair, Newport-on-Tay, Fife

Bibliography

2005
  • Lewisohn, Cedar, Alan Michael, in Map issue 4, Winter issue, p. 64
  • Herbert, Martin, The Fee of Angels, in Time Out London, January 12-19, p. 58
2004
  • Morton, Tom. Alan Michael, frieze, issue 84, June/July/August, p. 96-99, cover
2003
  • Pethick, Emily. Put Out More Flags, Artforum.com, ‘Critics Picks’, July
  • Honigman, Ana Finel. Alan Michael, Time Out London, May 28 – June 4, p. 54
  • Lowndes, Sarah. Dirk Bell, Kate Davis and Alan Michael, frieze issue 74, April, p. 112
  • Tufnell, Rob. Made In Scotland, Tema Celeste, January/February, p. 45
2001
  • Lowndes, Sarah. Brownfield, Untitled, Summer, p. 32
  • Falconer, Morgan. Antarctica, What’s On London, July 18-25, p. 24
  • Gazzola, Alex. Antarctica at Entwistle, Lam Magazine, July 9, p. 28
  • Ratnam, Niru. If You’re Feeling Sinister, The Face, July, p. 153
2000
  • Mahoney, Elisabeth. Red Marauder, The Guardian, October 9, p. 21
1999
  • Herbert, Martin. Horseriding, Painting and Lovemaking, Time Out London, February 10-17, p. 50
1998
  • Caussat, Pascale. Divers Lieux: Automme-hive, Artpress, March, p. 78
  • Burrows, David. Olympic Village, Art Monthly, February, p. 33
  • Findlay, Judith. Suburban Affair, Flash Art, January – February, p. 66