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Phillip Lai

Born in Kuala Lumpur 1969
Lives and works in London

Education

  • 1993 – 1994 MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design
  • 1990 – 1993 BA Fine Art (sculpture), Chelsea College of Art & Design
  • 1988 – 1989 Foundation Course, Middlesex Polytechnic

Solo Exhibitions

2008
  • Open Container, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
2007
  • Galerie Franco Noero, Turin
  • Free To Meet For Coffee Sometime Soon, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
2000
  • His Divine Grace, Modern Art, London
1997
  • Phillip Lai, The Showroom, London commissioned by The Showroom in collaboration with inIVA

Group exhibitions

2008
  • Seven Times Two or Three, Cubitt, London
2007
  • Republic, L’est, London
2006
  • In The Poem About Love You Don’t Write The Word Love, Artists Space, New York
  • John Frumism, Phillip Lai, Paul Thek, Mike Nelson, Hotel, London
  • If It Didn’t Exist You’d Have To Invent It: a partial Showroom history, The Showroom, London
2005
  • In The Poem About Love You Don’t Write The Word Love, CCA, Glasgow
  • Drawing Two Hundred, The Drawing Room, London Tannery Arts Exhibition, part of Artists Studios Open Weekend, Tannery Arts, London
2004
  • Uscita Pistoia, SpazioA, Pistoia
  • Strange Weather, Modern Art, London
  • Tag Team Experiment, two-person relay exhibition, alternative project space, Edinburgh
2003
  • Drawing One Hundred, The Drawing Room, London
2002
  • We Want Out, CityLights Project, Melbourne
2000
  • Senselessness-lessness, Tramway, Glasgow
  • Death Race 2000, Threadwaxing Space, New York *
  • Drawing Exhibition, Herefordshire College of Art & Design
1999
  • Cities on the Move, Hayward Gallery, London (included as part of Nasubi Gallery project)*
  • Black Box, (continued screenings) venues inc: Angel Row, Nottingham, Artezium/Luton
  • New Video from Great Britain, (British Council tour to South America) venues inc: Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Museo Carillo Gil, Mexico City
1998
  • Black Box, (commissioned by Film & Video Umbrella) venues: Open Eye, Liverpool (ISEA), Lift (Pandæmonium festival), London, Aspex, Portsmouth, ARC, Stockton-on-Tees *
  • New Video from Great Britain, MOMA, New York
  • Bed and Workshop, alternative space, Rennes
  • Grey Area, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham
1996
  • Deep Signal, Gasworks, London
  • Deep Signal, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
  • Off Camp/On Base (Pimple Life), Tokyo Big Sight Exhibition Centre, Japan
  • I beg to differ, Milch, London
  • Update 96, The Old Turbine Hall, Copenhagen
1995
  • Institute of Cultural Anxiety, ICA, London *
  • Fresh, (continued screenings) venues inc: Video Positive 95, Liverpool, Tate, London
1994
  • Weirdos, SAGA Basement, Copenhagen
  • Fresh, (Film & Video Umbrella touring programme) venues inc: ICA, London, CCA, Glasgow, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham *
  • Miniatures, The Agency, London
  • No Vacancies, alternative venue, Frankfurt
 
  • *denotes exhibition publication (pamphlet, catalogue or video-catalogue)

Publications & other activities

2008
  • Lecturer in Fine Art, Goldsmiths College University of London, since 2006
  • Associate Lecturer in MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, since 2002
2006
  • Research and Development visit to Armenia (supported by British Council)
  • Artists Lecture Series, Arnolfini Bristol (organised by UWE)
2001
  • Invited Speaker at ‘Li Yuan Chia’ exhibition talk, Camden Arts Centre, London
  • Visiting Tutor in Fine Art, Goldsmiths College University of London (to 2005)
1999
  • Contribution to Bent Aura (STOPSTOP Vol.2) (ISBN 1-902052-01-3)
1998
  • Advisor to London Arts (formerly London Arts Board)
    London Exhibitions and Events Fund – Medium and Small scale Projects & Research and Development
1997
  • Phillip Lai, The Showroom – exhibition catalogue (ISBN 1-899846-12-3) essay by Francis McKee, interview by Karina Daskalov

Selected Bibliography

2009
  • Del Vecchio, Gigiotto. Aseptic Cosmic Spaces, Mousse Magazine, February/March issue, p.34-36
  • Cairns, Steven. The Function of Objects, MAP Magazine, Spring, p.52-55
2008
  • Cairns, Steven. Turin: Phillip Lai, MAP Magazine, Spring, p. 44
2007
  • Griffin, Jonathan. Phillip Lai, Frieze, April, p. 167
  • ART: Phillip Lai, Kultureflash, January 31
2000
  • Currah, Mark. Phillip Lai, Time Out London, April 19-26, p.54
1998
  • Grey Area, Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 17, p.89
1997
  • Hubbard, Sue. Phillip Lai, Time Out London, March 19-26