Henry Coombes: CV

• Info
• Exhibitions
• Works
• CV
• Press

Born: 1977, London

Based: Glasgow

Represented by: Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow

Education

1999–2002	BA(hons) Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art
1996–1997	Foundation Course, Central St. Martin’s College of Art

Current & Forthcoming Exhibitions

2008	Solo, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (commission) Jun–Sep
	Cabinet of Curiosities, Museo Civico di Rovereto, Trentino (Curated by Marta Casati with Lorenza Boisi, Henry Coombes, Andrea Dojmi, Peter Donaldson, Davide Rivalta and Christian Schwarznald.) 11th Jul–29th Sep
	27th Amiens International Film Festival, MCA, Amiens 9th Nov–18th Nov

Solo Exhibitions

2008	Solo Show, Susie Q Project Space, Zurich
2007	Solo, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach (Solo Position)
	Black Button, Cooper Gallery, Dundee
2006	Solo Show, Anna Helwing, Los Angeles
	Laddy and the Lady, Tramway, Glasgow (screening of newly commissioned film)
2004	Solo, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
	Solo, Transmission, Glasgow
2003	Elsewhere, Switchspace, Glasgow

Group Exhibitions

2008	‘Laddy and the Lady’ screening, Cinema de Balie, Amsterdam (first screening in The Netherlans of Henry Coombes’s 2005 film ‘Laddy and the Lady’)
2007	Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow (‘Laddy and the Lady’ screened alongside Matthew Barney’s ‘Drawing Restraint 9’)
	Scotland at Venice, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen
	Filmform Videoprogram, Cinemateque, Stockholm (Selected International film program curated by Filmform)
	An Archaeology, Zabludowicz Collection: Project Space 176, London
	27th Atlantic Film Festival, Atlantic Film Festival, Halifax, Nova Scotia
	Subzone 2, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt Am Main
	Kortfilm Festival, Kulturhus, Grimstad, Norway
	The 52nd Venice Biennale, Palazzo Zenobio, Venice (one of six selected artists to represent Scotland)
	The 53rd International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
2006	NADA Art Fair, Ice Palace Studios, Miami
	Laddy and the Lady, Filmhouse, Edinburgh (screening as part of the Edinburgh International Film Festival)
	If Not Now, Broadway 1602, New York (Curated by Sorcha Dallas. Supported by the British Council.)
	Liste, Basel
2005	The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) Art Fair, Miami
	Group Exhibition, The Jail, Glasgow
2004	Group Exhibition, Temporary Office Space, Glasgow
	Group Exhibition, Centre de Creation, Bazouges la Perouse
2003	Group Exhibition, Mackintosh Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (with Switchspace)
2002	Nova Terra, Mackintosh Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow

Awards/Grants/Residencies

2007	Creative Scotland Award
2005	Scottish Arts Council/Scottish Screen Award for Film
2000	Residency, Art Institute of Chicago

Press

2007	‘Graduates win Creative Scotland Awards’, Flow 10, 1st August 2007
	‘Venice Biennale’, Flow 10, August 2007
	Phil Miller, ‘Scots go for the gold in Venice’, The Herald, 11th June 2007
	Duncan Macmillan, ‘Venice, Vidi, Vici? Not Quite’, The Scotsman, 8th June 2007
	Phil Miller, ‘Modern Artists Canvassing Support’, The Herald, 8th June 2007
	‘100 Years at the Venice Biennale’, Scottish Art News 8, June 2007
	‘Scotland Sails Into Venice’, Guardian Unlimited, 29th May 2007
	Charlotte Higgins, ‘British artists get set for Venice Biennale’, The Guardian, 1st May 2007
	Tim Cornwell, ‘Triumph of Youth Over Experience as Artists Head For Venice’, The Scotsman, 17th January 2007
	Phil Miller, ‘Artists Unveiled to Represent Scotland at Venice Biennale’, The Herald, 17th January 2007
2006	Amra Brooks, ‘Must See Art - “Hanging on By Your Eyelids”’, LA Weekly, 11th October 2006
	Ken Neil, ‘Review: Henry Coombes, Laddy and the Lady’, The Map Issue 7, 1st August 2006
	Alexander Kennedy, ‘Visual Art: Henry Coombes’, The List, 20th July 2006
	Andrew Eaton, ‘Meet the artist who dressed a man as a dog, then shot him’, The Scotsman, 11th July 2006
	Leon McDermott, ‘Henry Coombes: Laddy and the Lady’, The Metro, 11th July 2006
	Jack Mottram, ‘It’s a dogs life, but not as you know it’, The Herald, 10th July 2006
	‘Henry Coombes: Laddy and the Lady’, The Herald, 6th July 2006
	‘7 Things You Have To Do This Week’, Sunday Herald, 2nd July 2006
	Roger Cox, ‘Laddy and the Lady’, The Scotsman, 1st July 2006
	Vicky Allan, ‘Stars in their Eyes’, Sunday Herald, 8th January 2006
	Victoria Miguel, ‘If Not Now’, The Map 7, 2006
2005	Alexander Kennedy, ‘Visual Art - Henry Coombes’, The List, 4th August 2005
2004	Moira Jeffrey, ‘Showing a Vital Spark’, The Herald, 10th September 2004
	Jack Mottram, ‘Visual Art: Henry Coombes’, The List, 9th September 2004
	Alexander Kennedy, ‘An Umbilical Cord of Gold’, The List, August 2004
2002	Claire Prentice, ‘Best in Show’, Business AM, 16th July 2002
	Julia Hunt, ‘Dead Ringers’, The Glaswegian, June 2002