Alex Pollard: CV

• Info
• Exhibitions
• Works
• CV
• Press
• Publications

Born: 1977, Brighton

Based: Glasgow

Represented by: Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow

Education

1998–1999	School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1997–1998	Exchange, Goldsmiths College London
1996–1999	BA(hons) First Class, Glasgow School of Art
1995	Brighton College of Technology

Current & Forthcoming Exhibitions

2008	XS: Recent Small Scale Painting, The Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville 28th Mar–24th Aug
	New Scots, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (curated by Sandy Moffat) 1st May–1st Jul

Solo Exhibitions

2007	Black Marks, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
2006	Torch Sculptures, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
	Disintegrating Hand and Other Works, The Reliance, London
2004	Statement, Art Basel, Basel
	See-Through Mask, Art Basel, Basel (off-site project)
2002	Solo, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (part of GSA residency programme)

Group Exhibitions

2008	New Scots, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (curated by Sandy Moffat)
	XS: Recent Small Scale Painting, The Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville
	Passed as Present, York Art Gallery, York
2007	Frieze Art Fair, London
	Art Forum, Berlin
	Tender Scene, The Changing Room, Stirling (with Gregor Wright)
	Size Matters, HUDSON VALLEY CENTER for CONTEMPORARY ART, Peekskill (A two-part exhibition investigating scale in contemporary painting)
	L’homme nu (Volume 2/3: Visited landscapes, Centre d’art Mira Phalaina/Maison Poulaire, Montreuil (Curated by Aurélie Voltz. With Alexandra Bircken, Dani Jakob, Pierre Malphettes)
	Echo Room: Contemporary British Art, Sala de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid (with the British Council)
	The Armory Show, New York
	Counterfacture, Luhring Augustine, New York (Curated by Mark Foxx, with David Musgrave, Rupert Norfolk and Will Daniels)
2006	Frieze Art Fair, London
	Krakt Aktars, Goddard de Fides, Perth (two person show)
	First Call, Art Brussels, Brussels
2005	echo echo, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
	Selective Memory, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
	Artissima, Turin
	Frieze Art Fair, London
	Selective Memory, Venice Biennale, Venice
	Campbell’s Soup, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
	Group Exhibition, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
	Mourning, Sies & Hoke Gallery, Dusseldorf
2004	Group Exhibition, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
	Fire and Brimstone, The Embassy, Edinburgh
	Granite, Whitechapel Project Space, London
	Not in New York, Stux Gallery, New York
	JP Munro, Alex Pollard, Tony Swain, Transmission, Glasgow
	Group Exhibition, Offsite Project, Glasgow (with Clare Stephenson and Craig Mulholland)
	Circuses and Bread, K Jacksons, Edinburgh
	Glasgow in Valligia, Museo Corta Alta, Fossombrone
	John Moores Painting Prize 2004, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (prizewinner)
	Principle of Hope, Three Colts Gallery, London
	Publish and be Damned, Cubitt Gallery, London
2003	Aperto Scotland, Czech National Gallery of Art, Prague (as part of the Prague Biennale)
	EAST International, Norwich Gallery, Norwich (curated by Toby Webster and Eva Rothschild)
	The Haunted Swing, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
	The Haunted Swing (Live), Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh
	We Make Our Own, Tablet Gallery, London
2002	Michael Fullerton, Alex Pollard, Merlin James, Felix Leiter Raum, Berlin
	Forts for a New Year, Bognor Regis Pier, Bognor Regis
	Half the World Away, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Centre, Buffalo
	Hampstead Achieved, Temporary Space, Chicago
	Presence, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
	Tableware, The Lighthouse, Glasgow (with Lapland)
2001	Menschenraum, Mulackstrasse 8, Berlin
	Mouth Wash featuring Nico, Flourish Studios, Glasgow
	New-Newquayism, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow (with Toby Paterson)
	Young Young Dragons, Proto-Academy, Edinburgh
	Republic of Leather (People’s), Generator, Dundee
2000	Louder than Love, De Zeup Cultural Institute, Brussels
	Medium-Sized Objects, One in the Other, London
	Intermedia, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork
	Koipoo, The Nunnery Gallery, London
1999	Absolut Open, Inverleith House, Edinburgh
	Hiatus, Free Gallery, Glasgow
1998	Specular Rebound, The Assembly Gallery, Glasgow
	True Value, Temporary Space, Chicago
	Work, The Assembly Gallery, Glasgow

Awards/Grants/Residencies

2001	Artist in Residence, Glasgow School of Art
2000	Committee Member, Transmission

Publications

2007	Alex Pollard (Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow)
2003	Norwich Gallery East (Norwich Gallery, Norwich)
2002	Presence (The Fruitmarket gallery, Edinburgh)
	(Hallwalls contemporary Arts Center)

Press

2007	Melissa Gronlund, ‘Charlie Hammond’, Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2007 - 08, October 2007
	Amanda Coulson, ‘Michael Stumpf’, Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2007 - 08, October 2007
	John Millar, ‘Tender Scene’, The Map 11, 1st August 2007
	Susan Mansfield, ‘Hanging Together Yet Miles Apart’, The Scotsman, 27th July 2007
	Jack Mottram, ‘Works that fizz with unexpected connections’, The Herald, 27th July 2007
	Claire Mitchell, ‘Tender Scene - Group Show’, The List, 19th July 2007
	‘Tender Scene’, The Herald, 7th July 2007
	Alexander Kennedy, ‘Tender Scene: Group Show’, The List 579, 5th July 2007
	Susannah Thompson, ‘Alex Pollard: Black Marks’, Art Review 13, 1st July 2007
	Jack Mottram, ‘Old tricks masked in poses of the New Romantics’, The Herald, 11th May 2007
	Claire Mitchell, ‘Alex Pollard: Black Marks’, The List, 10th May 2007
	Iain Gale, ‘Apocalypstik now for clown prince’, Scotland on Sunday, 29th April 2007
	Mark Fisher, ‘Method in his madness’, The Sunday Times, 29th April 2007
	Alexander Kennedy, ‘White lines, black marks’, The List, 26th April 2007
	Susan Mansfield, ‘Mask of Pierrot’, The Scotsman, 21st April 2007
	Melissa Gronlund, ‘Twenty-five artists to look out for in 2007’, Art Review 9, March 2007
	Roberta Smithh, ‘Art in Review’, New York Times, 9th February 2007
	Cecilia Alemani, ‘Critics Picks’, Artforum Online, January 2007
2006	Giles Sutherland, ‘Visual Art’, The List 558, 7th September 2006
	Jasper Hamill, ‘Alex Pollard - Torch Sculptures’, The Skinny 12, September 2006
	Jasper Hamill, ‘Alex Pollard - Torch Sculptures’, The Skinny 12, September 2006
	‘Visual Art’, The List 554, 3rd August 2006
	‘Visual Art’, The List 555, August 2006
	Grainne Rice, ‘From Studio to Pavilion’, Scottish Art News 6, June 2006
	Tim Abrahams, ‘Head to head with the national collectors of art’, The Map, May 2006
	Alexander Kennedy, ‘Selective Memory Scotland and Venice’, The Map 5, May 2006
	Rosamund West, ‘Selective Memory Scotland and the Venice Biennale’, The Skinny 4, January 2006
2005	David Pollock, ‘Echo Echo’, The Metro, 20th December 2005
	Jack Mottram, ‘Visual Art Ventian Minds’, The List, 15th December 2005
	Isla Leaver-Yap, ‘Sculpture, installation and drawing’, The List, 1st December 2005
	Alice Bain, ‘Venice Biennale’, The Map 3, September 2005
	Claire Hay, ‘First Impressions’, Scotland on Sunday, 12th July 2005
	Neil Mulholland, ‘Venice the grande tour’, The Map 2, July 2005
	Iain Gale, ‘Art of walking on water’, Scotland on Sunday, 12th June 2005
	Alan Jones, ‘Scottish art in select company’, Sunday Herald, 12th June 2005
	Moria Jeffrey, ‘Now for the Italian Job’, The Herald, 10th June 2005
	Moria Jeffrey, ‘Walk in the park proves that Scottish art is alive in venice’, The Herald, June 2005
	Susan Mansfield, ‘Bright young things spread the message’, The Scotsman, 31st May 2005
	vicky Allan, ‘vision on’, Sunday Herald, 17th April 2005
	Tim Abrahams, ‘The profile’, The List, 3rd March 2005
	Phil Miller, ‘Four artists to star at Venice Biennale’, The Herald, 18th February 2005
2004	Matt Price, ‘Mixed Paint A survey of contemporary painters’, Flash Art 239, November 2004
	Laurence Figgis, ‘JP Munro, Alex Pollard, Tony Swain’, Untitled, October 2004
	Tim Stott, ‘Group show’, Circa On-line magazine, October 2004
	Susannah Thompson, ‘Craig Mulholland at Sorcha Dallas’, Flash Art, July 2004
	Jack Mottram, ‘Plastic Casino’, The List, 24th June 2004
	Jack Mottram, ‘Plastic Casino’, The List, 27th May 2004
2003	Michael Bracewell, ‘Scotland Rocks’, Tate Magazine 6, 2003
2002	Neil Cameron, ‘Wise Heads on Young Shoulders’, The Scotsman, May 2002
	Neil Mulholland, ‘Aperto Scotland’, Flash Art, January 2002
	Alex Pollard and Neil Mulholland, ‘Hampstead Achieved’, Untitled, 2002
	Neil Mulholland, ‘Leaving Glasvegas’, Matters magazine 17