Alan Michael: CV

Born: 1967, Glasgow

Based: Glasgow

Represented by: David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles; Hotel, London; Modern Art, London; Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow

Education
1996–1998
Masters of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art
1992–1996
BA (hons) Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee
Current & Forthcoming Exhibitions
2008
Mood:Casual, Tate Britain, London (at Art Now) 2nd May–20th Jun
Alan Michael / Steve Sutcliffe, Hotel, London 22nd May–20th Jun
Legend, Domain de Chamarande, nr Paris 25th May–28th Sep
Solo Exhibitions
2008
Mood:Casual, Tate Britain, London (at Art Now)
Touch Void, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
2007
Decamp, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Space to Squabble, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin
2005
Solo, Modern Art, London
The Invention of Birth Control, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
2003
Burlesque Schematic, Hotel, London
2002
Solo, Entwhistle, London
Damage, Transmission, Glasgow (with William Copley)
1999
Solo, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow
Group Exhibitions
2007
Hotel at Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
2006
NADA Art Fair, Ice Palace Studios, Miami
Frieze Art Fair, London
Liste, Basel
Faces, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneve, Switzerland (With Adel Abdessemed, Francis Bacon, John Baldessari, Martin Bigum, Benjamin Cottam, Giorgio De Chirico, Jean Dubuffet, Lucian Freud, Douglas Gordon, General Idea, Suzanne Lafont, Kiki Lamers, Loiuse Lawler, Sarah Lucas, Man Ray, Dan McCarthy, Mrzyk & )
First Call, Art Brussels, Brussels
If it didn’t exist you’d have to invent it, The Showroom, London
The Figs Play Fox Dead, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London
2005
The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) Art Fair, Miami
Group Exhibition, Art Basel, Basel (with Modern Art)
Group Exhibition, The Armory Show, New York (with Modern Art)
MiArt, Milan
2004
Group Exhibition, Temporary Office Space, Glasgow
Year Zero, Sunderland Contemporary Art Gallery, Sunderland
Souvenir, Hotel, London
The Rheinschau, Art Cologne, Cologne
Group Exhibition, The Rheinschau, Art Cologne, Cologne (with Transmission)
Gertcha, 252 Alexandra Parade, Glasgow
Haute Street, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam
See Through Mask, Temporary Art Space, Glasgow
Synth, B2 Kunstlerhaus, Leipzig
Trailer, Man in the Holocene Project, London
2003
Minerals in the Water, The Changing Room, Stirling (Alan Michael, Kate Davis and Dirk Bell)
Put out more flags, Sutton Lane, London
The Moment of Fiction, Cooper Gallery, Dundee
This has reached the limit conditions of its own rhetoric, The Modern Institute, Glasgow
2002
Group Exhibition, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (with Transmission)
Alan Michael, Vangelis Vlahos, Els Hanappe Underground, Athens
Half the World Away, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Centre, Buffalo
Hero, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow
Jean-Luc Blanc, Alan Michael, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
2001
Group Exhibition, Glasgow Art Fair, Glasgow (with Charisma-DBF and Transmission)
Angel Dust, Intermedia, Glasgow
Antarctica, Entwhistle, London
Brown Field, Market, Glasgow
Here and Now - Scottish Art 1990-2001, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
Record Collection, VTO Gallery, Geneva
Stray Show, Seventhreesplit, Chicago
2000
Fear of Jazz, Deutsche Britishe Freundschaft, Berlin
Focus on the Fear, On Destruction, Power, Death, Venetia Kapernekas Fine Art Inc., New York
John I’m Only Dancing, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
Panache, Els Hanappe Underground, Athens
Sweet Dreams, Exedra, Hilversum
1999
Accelerated Learning, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee
Horseriding, Painting and Lovemaking, Deutsche Britische Freundschaft, London
Misty in Roots, Fly, Glasgow (curated by Alex Frost and Alan Michael)
Museum Magogo, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow
Shake the Disease, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee
You Are Very Important, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
1998
Add Night to Night, The Showroom, London
Crystal State, Three Month Gallery, Liverpool (part of Arttranspennine98)
Family Credit, The Showroom, London
Fan of Exaggeration, La Cie La Compagnie, Marseille
MFA Exhibition, Tramway, Glasgow
Mountain Madness, The Independent Art Space, Glasgow
Slipstream, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow
Toga, The Assembly Gallery, Glasgow
1997
Olympic Village, Transmission, Glasgow
Suburban Affair, 27 Cupar Road, Newport-on-Tay
Tutor with an Idea, Three Month Gallery, Liverpool
Publications
2004
Synth (Kunstraum B/2, Germany)
2002
Hero (Unknown)
(Hallwalls contemporary Arts Center)
Press
2008
Mick Peter, ‘Review’, frieze, May 2008
Rosie Lesso, ‘Split Personality’, The List, 31st January 2008
Susan Mansfield, ‘Brushes with Reality’, The Scotsman, 26th January 2008
Leon McDermott, ‘Review’, The Metro, January 2008
2007
‘On The Map’, The Map 8, March 2007
2005
Jack Mottram, The List, 20th October 2005
‘Day 9 Alan Michael’, The List, 20th October 2005
Cedar Lewisohn, ‘The Glasgow based artist goes on the record’, The Map 4, October 2005
‘News Rest of Uk’, Flash Art 244, October 2005
2004
Rob Tufnell, ‘Made in Scotland’, Tema Celeste 95, September 2004
Tom Morton, ‘Private Eye: Tom Morton on Alan Michael’, frieze 84, June 2004
2003
Ana Finel Honigman, Time Out London, 28th May 2003
Sarah Lowndes, frieze 74, April 2003
In Depth Art News, 25th January 2003
2001
Niru Ratnam, ‘If you’re feeling sinister’, The Face, July 2001
1999
Martin Herbert, Time Out London, 10th February 1999