Lucy Gunning

Born in 1964 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
Lives and works in London, England.


Education

1994 M.F.A. Goldsmiths College
1987 B.F.A. Falmouth School of Art, Cornwall
1984 Diploma in Foundation Studies, West Surrey College of Art and Design


Awards

2000 L.A.B. Visual Arts Fund: Artist
1996 L.A.B. Individual Artists Award
1994 BT New Contemporaries Award
1987 Granada Foundation Prize, Whitworth Young Contemporaries
Falmouth School of Art Sculpture Award


Solo Exhibitions

2004 Quarry, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Esc, Matt’s Gallery, London

2003 Quarry, Spike Island, Bristol

2002 The Centre for Drawing, Wimbeldon School of Art, London
Passing/Performance, Matt’s Gallery & GLOSS, Vauxhall, London

2001 Stage I (Show the Way Mischief), Westfalischer Kunstverein, Munster
Intermediate II, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Intermediate II, Art Now, Tate Britain, London

2000 Galeria Presenca, Porto, Portugal

1999 Kunstlerwerkstatt, Munich, with Juan Cruz, curated by Susanne
Gaensheimer
(BACKSPACE), Matt’s Gallery, London

1998 Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Chapters Arts Centre, Cardiff
Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver

1997 Malcolm, Lloyd, Angela, Norman,Jane, Matt’s Gallery, London
University at Buffalo Art Gallery, New York

1996 Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Lancashire
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
City Racing, London
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

1995 Adam Gallery, London


Group Exhibitions

2004 With Hidden Noise, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

2003 Ormeau Baths, Belfast
Lucy Gunning & Clara Ursitti, SV. Stepono Street 9, Vilnius, Lithuania

2002 Extreme Existence, Pratt Institute, New York
Sunday Afternoon, 303 Gallery, New York

2001 Believe, Westfaelischer Kunstverein, Munster
Liquor, Trafo-House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest, curated by Katalin Timar & Heather Galbraith
City Racing – A partial History, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, curated by Matthew Higgs

2000-1 British Art Show 5, National Touring Exhibitions, Sited at multiple venues in
Edinburgh, Southampton, Cardiff, Birmingham
Making Time (Considering time as a material in contemporary film &
video), Palm Beach Institute for Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, Florida;
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

2000 Belvedere, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England
Everyone his own football, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands
Found Wanting, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Trailer, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York

1999 W13999, W139, Amsterdam
Thinking Aloud, curated by Richard Wrentworth, National Touring
Exhibitions, Kettles Yard Cambridge; Camden Arts Centre, London
Images: Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto
HORSEplay, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Threshold, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI;
Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Va Beach
GIRLSCHOOL, Brenau University Galleries, Gainesville, Georgia
The Viewing Room, H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute,
Kansas City, MO
Emboitages, Galerie Art & Essai, University of Rennes, curated by Ramon Tio Bellido
Getting the Corners, Or Gallery, Vancouver, curated by Matthew Higgs
Lucy Gunning and Juan Cruz, Kunstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstrasse, Munich, curated by Susanne Gaensheimer

1998 Select, Film & Video Umbrella exhibition touring to Arnolfini, Bristol,
Camden Arts Centre, London, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham and
Turnpike Gallery, Leigh
Voiceover, National Touring Exhibitions. Arnolfini, Bristol; Hatton Gallery,
Newcastle; Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery
C’est La Vie, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bruxelles; Centro de Fotografia
de la Univeridad de Salamanca; Centre International d’Art
Contemporain de Montreal
Don’t Kiss Me: Disruptions of the Self in the Work of Claude Cahun and Lucy Gunning, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Do All Oceans have Walls?, venues throughout Bremen
Camaflague 2000, Gallerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
Wrapped, Vestsjaellands Kunstmuseum, Soro

1997 Dissolving the Walls: Fuzzy Logic, video screening, Art in General, New
York
Killing Time, White Columns, New York
False Impressions, British School at Rome, Rome
Treasure Island, Centre De Arte Moderna Jose Azeredo Perdigao,
Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
Ground Control, Beaconsfield, London & Jutempus, Vilinius
Wait & See(what’s for dinner?), Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Offside, firstsite, Colchester
Perish, Duende, Rotterdam

1996 Ceremonial, curated by Barry Schwabsky, Apex Art C.P., New York
Video Faz, curated by Ruben Gallo and Terence Gower, Art & Idea,
Mexico City, Museo Regional, Guadalajara
Behind Closed Doors: Video in Interior Spaces, The Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago
Video from the Centre Georges Pompidou, Artists Space, New York
Stockholm Smart Show, Sweden
Toyama Now ‘96: The Sixth Annual International Contemporary Art
Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Offside, Manchester City Art Galleries

1995 Video Positive, Liverpool
KINE[Kunst] ‘95, Belgium
Tell Everyone, Greene Naftali, New York
Speaking of Sofas, Video screening, London
Ideal Standard Summertime, Lisson Gallery, London
Whistling Women, Royal Festival Hall, London
X/Y, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

1994 The Curator’s Egg, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Out of the Nineties, Mall Galleries, London
Wish You Were Here, London/Newcastle
Ecstasy of Limits, Gallery 400, Chicago
Group Show, Nikolai Wallner Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
BT New Contemporaries, Touring Exhibition, London, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, Bradford, Aberystwyth

1993 Super 8 Moments, London Film Makers Co-op, London

1991 Collaborative Installation, Open Space Gallery, Reading

1989 Sight Specific Sculpture, Berllanderi Sculpture Workshop, Gwent, Wales

1988 Group Installation, Green Rooms, Manchester

1987 Whitworth Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester


Bibliography

2004 Zamet, Kate, “Lucy Gunning: Matt’s Gallery,” Flash Art, July-September 2004
“Lucy Gunning,” The New Yorker, August 2, 2004, p. 13
Johnson, Ken, “Lucy Gunning ‘Quarry’”, The New York Times, July 9, 2004
Levin, “Lucy Gunning” The Village Voice, July 7-13, 2004
Kent, Sarah, “Lucy Gunning: Matt’s Gallery, East End”, Time Out London, May 19-26, 2004
“New Work by Lucy Gunning furthers her interest in multiple perspectives”, ArtReview, April 2004
Lack, Jessica, “Lucy Gunning, London,” The Guide: The Guardian, April 17-April 23, 2004
Falconer, Morgan, “Rising above it all,” Art edited by Fisun Guner, June 2004
Schwabsky, Barry, “Lucy Gunning: Matt’s Gallery,” Artforum, Summer 2004, p. 264
Withers, Rachel, “Critics’ Picks: Lucy Gunning”, artforum.com, April 2004

2003 Clarke, Roger, “West of England”, Contemporary, Issue 55, 2003, p. 44 - 45

2002 Jones, Jonathan, “Lucy Gunning, Tate Britain”, Guardian, 7 January
Currah, Mark, “Lucy Gunning, Tate Britain”, Time Out, 2-9 January
Kimmelman, Michael, “Sunday Afternoon: 303 Gallery”, The New York Times, June 14, 2002, p. E38
Burton, Johanna, “Sunday Afternoon,” Time Out New York, June 27 – July 4, 2002

2001 “Lucy Gunning,” Galleries, Recommended, The Village Voice, March 20, 2001

2000 Lubbock, Tom, “A jolly good show all around”, The Independent, 11 April
Kennedy, Gideon C., “Filling Want”, Atlanta Press, March 24-30
Rau, David D.J., “horsePLAY”, New Art Examiner, February, p. 58
Hackman, Kate, “Videos Provoke, Redefining Local Contemporary Art, Review,
January, p. 20-21
Scultz, Deborah “Belvedere”, Art Monthly, April 2000

1999 Rabinowitz, Cay Sophie, “Malcolm, Lloyd Angela, Norman, Jane”, Sculpture,
May, p. 74-75
Turner, Grady T., Review “Lucy Gunning, Greene Naftali”, Flash Art,
April-May, p.112-113
Richard, Frances Review “Lucy Gunning, Greene Naftali”, Artforum,
February, p. 100
“Lucy Gunning – Juan Cruz”, Kunst, Munchner, August, 1999
Stone, Rob, “Snakes and latitude”, Tate Magazine, Summer 1999
“Thinking Aloud”, space, April 9, 1999

1998 Milroy, Susan Review “A performance artist ahead of her time”, The Globe and
Mail, November 21, 1998
Doran, Anne Review TimeOut, New York, November 12-19, p. 81
Levin, Kim Review The Village Voice, November 3
Smith, Roberta “Art of the Moment, Here to Stay”, The New York Times,
February 15, Sec. 2, p. 1, 37

1997 Cotter, Holland Review “Killing Time”, The New York Times, September 12
Rush, Michael Review “Killing Time”, Review, September 15
Wallace, Marina “False Impressions”, Art Monthly, no. 205, April
Judd, Ben “Lucy Gunning, Matt’s Gallery”, Untitled, no.13, Spring
Kyriacou, Sotris Cover illustration, “The Rise and Rise of British Video”,
Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 14, p. 44 - 49
Higgie, Jennifer Review, Frieze, Issue 34,May, p.71
Beech, David Review, Art Monthly, Issue 205, April
Kent, Sarah Preview, Time Out, London, March 5-12
Jackson, Cheryl “Lucy Gunning”, Art Voice, Buffalo, February 26-March 4, p.17

1996 Rubinstein, Raphael, “Lucy Gunning at Greene Naftali”, Art in America, November, p.110
Wildman, David. “The Video Visions of Lucy Gunning”, Boston Sunday Globe,
November 3
Williams, Gilda “The Animal Bride”, Art Monthly, October, p.48-49
Garnett, Robert, “A Frame of Two Halves”, Tate Magazine, Summer 1996
Scanlan, Joe “Let’s Play Prisoners”, Frieze, Issue 30, September/October
Schwabsky, Barry Review, “Lucy Gunning”, Volume 1, Number 3, June 6
Servetar, Stuart New York Press, Vol. 9, No.21, May 22-28
Smith, Roberta The New York Times, Review, Friday, May 17, p.C4
Yusidman, Yishai “Video Faz”, Poliester, Mexico City, Fall
Currah, Mark “Lucy Gunning, City Racing”, Timeout, London, May 1-8

1995 Newman, Michael “Beyond the Lost Object: from Sculpture to Film and Video”,
Art Press, Issue 202, May, p.45-50
Maloney, Martin, “Lucy Gunning, Adam Gallery,” Flash Art, Issue 181, March/April, p.107
Bush, Kate “Animal Instinct: Kate Bush on Lucy Gunning”, Frieze, Issue 21
March/April, p.42-43

1994 “New Art” BBC Broadcast, The Late Show, December 10
Gillick, Liam, “Wish You Were Here, Burbage House, London,” Art Monthly, Issue 180, October, p. 39.
Elwes, Catherine, “BT New Contemporaries, Camden Art Centre,” Art Monthly, Issue 177, June, p. 36


Publications

2002

Lucy Gunning, Art Now, Tate Britain

2001

Fine Arts 2000-2001, British School at Rome

2000
British Art Show 5, National Touring Exhibitions, Hayward Gallery, London
Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Video & Film, essays by Peter Wollen, Amy Cappellazzo and Adriano Pedrosa, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Florida
Everyone his own football, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands

1999

Lucy Gunning/Juan Cruz, edited by Susanne Gaensheimer, essay by Andrew Cross, Kunstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstrasse Munich
Thinking Aloud, National Touring Exhibitions, Hayward Gallery, London

1998

Lucy Gunning Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
Select, Film & Video Umbrella
Voiceover, National Touring Exhibitions
C’est La Vie, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bruxelles; Centro de Fotografia de la Univeridad de Salamanca; Centre International d’Art Contemporain de Montreal

1997

Ground Control, Black Dog Press, London
False Impressions, British School at Rome, Rome
New Art, Harry Abrams Inc., New York
Treasure Island, Centro De Arte Moderna Jose Azeredo Perdigao, Fundacao Calouste
Gulbenkian, Lisbon
Lucy Gunning, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Research Center in Art + Culture (brochure with essay)

1996

Toyama Now ’96: The Sixth Annual International Contemporary Art Exhibition,
The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Offside: Contemporary Artists & Football, Manchester City Art Galleries
Lucy Gunning: Persistence of Vision, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (brochure with essay)

1995

Artists Page, General Release, Young British Artists at Scuola di San Pasquale, Venice Biennale and The British Council, 1995, p. 66-67

1994

BT New Contemporaries Catalogue


Collections

Arts Council of England, London
Tate Gallery, London
Hayward Gallery, London
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
Centre George Pompidou, Paris
Contemporary Art Society, London