One Person Exhibitions
2024
Colour is Everywhere
LF Markey for London Design Festival
14 – 22 September
New Skin for the Old Ceremony
Cecilia Brunson Projects, London
11 April – 10 May
Transparent Things
Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo
5 April – 11 May
2023
I-Cons and Ex-Cons
Kestle Barton, Cornwall
25 March – 11 June
2022
Disco Mecanique
Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury
21 November – 15 February
Colour Is
Compton Verney, Warwickshire
25 June – 2 October
David Batchelor and Alfredo Volpi
Cecilia Brunson Projects, London
11 May – 11 June
Colour Is
HOP Projects CT20, Folkestone
25 March – 15 April
2021
Found Monochromes
HOP Projects, Folkestone
22 October – 11 November
2019
My Own Private Bauhaus
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
24 July – 28 September
David Batchelor and Alfredo Volpi
Casa Leme, Sao Paulo
4 April – 5 May
2018
Psychogeometry 2
Curated by David Thomas
Site Eight, RMIT, Melbourne
9–24 May
Colour Is
Margaret Lawrence Gallery, University of Melbourne
4 May – 2 June
Sixty Minute Spectrum
Hayward Gallery, London
22 November 2017 – 25 March 2018
2017
Psychogeometry
Matt’s Gallery, London
26 April – 11 June
Chromatology
Ab-Anbar Gallery, Tehran
3 February – 3 March
2016
Reef
Handel Street Projects, London
17 September – 12 November
Glowsticks
Galeria Leme, São Paulo
15 March – 23 April
2015
Flatlands Remix
Virginia Commonwealth University, Doha
25 March – 21 April
2014
Monochrome Archive 1997–2015
Whitechapel Gallery, London
22 December – 3 May
Chromolocomotion
St Pancras International, London
8 April – 10 October
Concretos
New Art Centre, Salisbury
8 February – 16 March
2013
Wall to Wall
Centro Universitario Maria Antonia, São Paulo
15 August – 10 October
Flatlands
Spike Island, Bristol
22 November – 19 January
Flatlands
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
3 May – 2 August
2012
Magic Hour
Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag
19 May – 9 September
Brighton-Palermo ReMix
Brighton Festival
5 May – 27 May
Slugfest
Galeria Leme, São Paulo
29 February – 31 March
Magic Pavement
Pavement Gallery, Manchester
16 February – 11 April
2011
2D3D
Karsten Schubert, London
8 August – 30 September
2010
Big Rock Candy Fountain
Archway tube station, London
1 November – 27 March
Chromophilia
Paco Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
9 September – 30 November
2008
Backlights
Galeria Leme, São Paulo
8 October – 30 November
2007
Unplugged (Remix)
Wilkinson Gallery, London
11 October – 20 November
Unplugged
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
27 July – 29 September
[cat.]
2006
South Bank Spectrum
South Bank Centre
Christmas Lights Commission
1 December – 6 January
[reinstalled annually until 2015]
2005
Ten Silhouettes
Gloucester Road Underground Station, London
27 June – 24 October
2004
Shiny Dirty
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
4 February – 28 March
[cat.]
2003
The Spectrum of Hackney Road
Wilkinson Gallery, London
12 September – 12 October
2002
Barrier
38 Langham Street, London
15 March – 28 April
2001
ShinyDirty
Habitat, London
21 March – 24 June
2000
Electric Colour Tower
Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London
6 September – 28 January
Apocalypstick
Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London
30 March – 1 May
1998
Monochromobiles
The Economist Plaza, London
15 January – 3 March
1997
Shelf-Like, Frame-Like, Note-Like
Byam Shaw School of Art, London
4 – 21 May
Polymonochromes
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
17 January – 6 April
1996
Polymonochrome Drawings
Soho House, London
23 January – 2 March
1995
Serial Colour
Curtain Road Arts, London
22 September – 18 October
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
STILL DANCING
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
9 November – 20 December
Positions, part three
Curated by John Slyce
Alma Pearl, London
11 July – 10 August
Summer Exhibition
Curated by Cornelia Parker
Royal Academy, London
18 June – 18 August
2023
Light: Works from the Tate Collection
Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka
26 October – 14 January
Perpetual Arrival
Platform A Gallery, Middlesbrough
28 September – 9 November
Light: Works from the Tate Collection
The National Art Centre, Tokyo
12 July – 2 October
DIE WAT SPAART, DIE WAT HEEFT
Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover
22 April – 3 June
Colours in the Air (with Richard Deacon)
Handel Street Projects, London
24 February – 24 March
Modern and Contemporary
Waddington Custot, London
3 Feb - 15 April
2022
Light: Works from Tate's Collection
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
16 June – 13 November
Hello MONO-HA!
White Conduit Projects, London
15 June - 17 July
Chromophilia
Hauser and Wirth, Zurich
20 January – 9 March
Art is the Antidote
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar
26 January – 11 December
2021
Light: Works from Tate's Collection
Musuem of Art Pudong, Shanghai
8 July – 14 November
House Share
Firstsite, Colchester
26 June – 5 September
Colour Space
Galleria Mucciaccia, Rome
20 May – 31 July
2020
Reduct: Abstraction and Geometry in Contemporary Scottish Art
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
25 October – 22 November
Shadows and Light
Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton
24 October – 23 January 2021
Summer Exhibition
Curated by Jane and Louise Wilson
Royal Academy, London
6 October – 3 January 2021
Ideas Travel Faster than Light
Mecklenburgh Square Garden, London
26 – 29 September
New Work
Waddington Custot, London
29 June – 14 August
2019
Habitat: Artists Making Furniture Or Things That Might Be Confused As Furniture
JGM Gallery, London
6 November – 7 December
Summer Exhibition
Curated by Jane and Louise Wilson
Royal Academy, London
7 June – 17 August
Colour is a Verb
Curated by David Sequeira
Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
30 May – 16 June
Objects of Wonder: British Sculptures from 1950s - present
Palais Populaire, Berlin
1 February – 27 May
Criminal Ornamentation
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
19 January - 17 March
2018
PRISM: The Art and Science of Light
The Glucksman, Cork
1 December – 10 March 2019
The Monochrome: New Beginnings
JPNF Museum, Dubai
23 October – 28 February 2019
The Everyday and the Extraordinary
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
29 September – 6 January 2019
Criminal Ornamentation
Curated by Yinka Shonibare
Attenborough Arts Centre, University of Leicester
21 September – 16 December
Great Artists / Great Teachers
The Levinsky Gallery, University of Plymouth
17 September – 17 November
A Certain Darkness
CaixaForum, Barcelona
19 June – 5 January 2019
Summer Exhibition
Curated by Grayson Perry
Royal Academy, London
12 June – 19 August
The Everyday and Extraordinary
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
9 June – 9 September
Monochrome: Empty and Full
Margaret Lawrence Gallery, University of Melbourne
4 May – 2 June
Sette Opere per la Misericordia
Chiesa del Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples
21 April – 30 June
2017
Ingleby Gallery Presents
Fitzrovia Chapel, London
2 October – 5 October
Totem: Spirit Beings & Sacred Objects
Saatchi Gallery, London
13 September – 17 September
Art of the Postcard
Handel Street Projects, London
2 September – 8 October
Purity is a Myth
Curated by Michael Asbury
Roesler Hotel, Sao Paolo
10 June – 29 July
Colour Is
Waddington Custot, London
1 March – 22 April
Between Poles and Tides
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
11 February – 6 May
A Certain Kind of Light
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
21 January – 7 May
2016
Night in the Museum
The Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
26 November – 12 February 2017
Five Years
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
25 November – 04 February 2017
Three Triptychs
Intra Gallery, Naples, Italy
29 September – 12 November
Neon: The Charged Line
Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool
1 September – 7 January 2017
Night in the Museum
Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
16 July – 16 October
Seeing Round Corners
Turner Contemporary, Margate
21 May – 25 September
Light Show
CorpArtes, Santiago
17 May – 11 September
FOUND
The Foundling Museum, London
9 May – 4 September
2015
Light Show
Sharjah Art Foundation
19 September – 12 December
Sprayed
Gagosian Gallery, London
11 June – 28 August
Light Show
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
16 April – 5 July
Trial/Error/Art
Holden Gallery, University of Manchester
16 March – 8 May
In Light of the Monochrome
Dye House Gallery, Bradford
6 March – 25 March
Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915–2015
Whitechapel Gallery, London
15 January – 20 April
2014
Light Show
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
11 October – 8 February 2015
The Social Bases of Abstract Art
Uptown Gallery, Ramsgate
4 October – 15 November
Colour on Paper
Galeria Leme,Sao Paulo
26 June – 17 August
Leaping the Fence
Hestercombe House, Taunton
24 May – 14 September
Black and White
Royal Academy summer Exhibition, London
7 June – 17 August
50 Years On: The Centre of contemporary Cultural Studies
MAC Birmingham
10 May – 12 June
Somewhat Abstract
Nottingham Contemporary
11 April – 29 June
Uniquo
Galeria Carbono, Sao Paulo
22 March - 10 May
Shelf Show
Galerie Tom Christofferson, Copenhagen
7 March – 29 March
Abstract Drawing
The Drawing Room, London
20 February – 19 April
2013
Why Painting Now?
Galeria Senn, Vienna
11 October – 14 November
White
Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
14 September – 5 January 2014
Touching Colour
Hatton Gallery, Newcastle
27 June – 17 August
Tell Me Whom You Haunt: Marcel Duchamp and the Contemporary Readymade
Blain Southern, London
11 April – 18 May
Fragile
Isola di San Maggiore, Venice
8 April – 28 July
Light Show
Hayward Gallery, London
30 January – 28 April
2012
Illuminated
Quad, Derby
27 October – 3 February 2013
With An Apple I will Astonish
Large Glass, London
4 October – 12 January 2013
Luz na Cidade
various venues, Rio de Janeiro
18 – 29 June
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Royal Academy, London
4 June – August
The Curator's Egg Altera Pars
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
2 February – 3 March
2011
Lumiere
various venues, Durham
17 – 20 November
Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain
Whitechapel Gallery, London
16 September – 4 December
The Shape of Things to Come
Saatchi Gallery, London
27 May – 16 October
Gravity's Rainbow
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
21 May – 30 July
A Painting Show
Autocenter, Berlin
15 – 30 April
2010
Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action
White Cube, London
8 July – 28 August
Open Light in Private Spaces: Biennale fur Internationale Lichtkunst
multiple venues, Unna, Germany
28 March – 27 May
The Gathering
Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
5 March – 18 April
Party
New Art Gallery, Walsall
11 February – 10 April
2009
Presque Rein III
Laure Genillard Gallery, London
17 October – 9 January 2010
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today
Tate Liverpool
28 May – 13 September
Kaleidoscopic Revolver
Hanjiyun Contemporary Space, Beijing
23 March – 27 April
Total Museum, Seoul
3 May – 21 June
Better than Grey
Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery
21 January – 7 March
A Twilight Art
Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York
17 January – 28 February
2008
Sculpture from the Scrapyard
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
3 September – 28 November
Conversations
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
27 September – 16 November
Irony & Gesture
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
18 July – 14 August
[cat.]
Folkestone Triennial
various venues, Folkestone
14 June – 14 September
[cat.]
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today
Museum of Modern Art, New York
2 March – 12 May
[cat.]
2007
David Batchelor & Nikolai Suetin
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
11 – 23 August
Shifting Ground
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
28 July – 22 September
Echo Room
Alaca 31, Madrid
27 March – 6 May
[cat.]
Abstraction: Extracting From the World
Millenium Galleries, Sheffiled
8 February – 13 May
[cat.]
2006
A noir, E blanche, I rouge, U vert, O blue: Farben
Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Germany
9 December – 11 March
Edinburgh Art Festival
off-site projects at the Palm House, Botanic Gardens and Old School, Edinburgh
27 July – 10 December
Thread
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
28 July – 9 September
Backdrop
Bloomberg Space, London
18 January – 12 March
2005
Radiance
Off-site projects in the Merchants’ Quarter, Glasgow
25 – 27 November
Double Meaning
Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil
25 November – 21 December
Extreme Abstraction
Albright Knox Art Gallery
Buffalo, New York
16 July – 20 October
[cat.]
Contrabandistas de Imágenes
Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
31 March – 5 June
[cat.]
Untitled
Marc Selwyn Gallery, Los Angeles
8 January – 10 February
2004
26th Bienal de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
25 September – 19 December
[cat.]
Sodium and Asphalt
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
8 July – 3 October
Chromosexuals
Galleri Bouhlou, Bergen, Norway
14 February – 21 March
2003
In Good Form: Recent Sculpture from the Arts Council Collection
Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
27 June – 19 October
Primary Colours
City Gallery, Leicester
28 June – 23 August
Days Like These: Tate Triennial of Contemporary Art
Tate Britain, London
27 February – 26 May
[cat.]
2002
Furori Uso
Ferrotel, Pescara, Italy
23 November – 20 January
ColorLove
Johnson County Community College, Kansas City
September – November
[cat.]
New Religious Art
Liverpool Biennial
July – September
Henry Peacock Gallery, London
29 March – 24 April
2001
Ruby
PEARL, London
9 November – 16 December
The Magic Hour: Art and Las Vegas
Neue Galerie, Graz
22 September – 4 November
[cat.]
Amidst Concrete, Clay and General Decay
Konstfack Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
12 – 23 September
Another Britannia
Tecla Sala, Barcelona
19 April – 4 July
Fundacion Marcelino Botin, Santander
29 July – 1 September
Museo de la Pasion, Valladolid
6 September – 7 October
[cat.]
2000
British Art Show 5
SNGMA, Edinburgh
7 April – 4 June
City Art Gallery, Southampton
23 June – 20 August
CVA, Cardiff
8 September – 5 November
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
24 November – 28 January
[cat.]
Fact and Value
Charlottenberg Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark
23 June – 20 August
[cat.]
Perfidy
Monastery of La Tourette, Eveux, France
9 September – 10 October
Kettles Yard, Cambridge
11 November – 7 January
[cat.]
1999
Limit Less
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
19 October – 27 November
POSTMARK: An Abstract Effect
SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico
27 March – 13 June
[cat.]
1998
Then and Now
Lisson Gallery, London
18 July – 12 September
1997
East International
The Sainsbury Centre/Norwich School of Art, Norwich
12 July – 30 August
1996
Station Transformation
Central Bus Station, Tel Aviv
21 November – 7 January
1993
July
Victoria Miro Gallery, London
18 July – 22 August
1991
Approaches to Realism
Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
11 March – 13 April
Goldsmiths Gallery, London
17 May – 15 June
1990
Rotation
Esther Schipper Gallery, Cologne
11 September – 14 October
Commissions
2023
Cloisterama
Site specific sculpture
Mijnkathedraal, Beringen, Belgium
2020
Psychogeometry 3
Temporary site specific installation
Mecklenburgh Square Garden, London
2019
King's Xmas
Temporary site specific installation
Granary Square, London
2018
Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain
Site specific sculpture
Eddington, Cambridge
Homage to Doctor Mirabilis
Site specific sculpture
Westgate Centre, Oxford
2016
Dublin Glowstick
Site specific sculpture
Fidelity offices, Dublin
2015
Chromocochere
Temporary site specific sculpture
MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
Chromorama
Site specific sculpture
5 Broadgate, London
19-20-21
Site specific installation
Lyric Theatre, London
Plato’s Disco
Site specific sculpture
Whitworth Art Galleries, Manchester
2010
Spectrum on the Hill
site specific installation
Haman the Hill, Seoul, South Korea
2009
Walldella, Dundee
site specific installation
McManus Galleries, Dundee
Spectrum of 1st Street
site specific installation
1100 1st Street, Washington D.C.
2008
Hong Kong Fesdella
site specific installation
The British Council, Hong Kong
2005
Against Nature
site specific installation
University of Warwick, Coventry
2004
Treasury Magic Hour
site specific installation
The Treasury, London
West Wing Spectrum
site specific installation
St Bart’s Hospital, London
2003
Evergreen
site specific outdoor work
More London, Tower Bridge
2001
Electric Colour Picture
edition of 75 three-dimensional works
The Multiple Store, London
1999
Chromodesks
site specific installation
Pier Trust, London
Quick Change Room
site specific installation
Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London
Collaborations
2005
Oh, Merce C!
Set for Merce Cunningham Dance Company Barbican
Theatre, London 16 June
2004
Found Monochromes of London
Slide projection to accompany performance of Morton Feldman’s ‘Piece for Bass and Clarinet’ Almedia Opera season
1-2 July
Contact
CONTACT
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Biography
BIOGRAPHY
1955, 17 July
Born – Dundee, Scotland
1973–75
Foundation Course
Watford College of Art
1975–78
BA (Hons) Fine Art
Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham
1978–80
MA Cultural Studies
Centre of Contemporary Cultural Studies University of Birmingham
One Person Exhibitions
2024
Colour is Everywhere
LF Markey for London Design Festival
14 – 22 September
New Skin for the Old Ceremony
Cecilia Brunson Projects, London
11 April – 10 May
Transparent Things
Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo
5 April – 11 May
2023
I-Cons and Ex-Cons
Kestle Barton, Cornwall
25 March – 11 June
2022
Disco Mecanique
Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury
21 November – 15 February
Colour Is
Compton Verney, Warwickshire
25 June – 2 October
David Batchelor and Alfredo Volpi
Cecilia Brunson Projects, London
11 May – 11 June
Colour Is
HOP Projects CT20, Folkestone
25 March – 15 April
2021
Found Monochromes
HOP Projects, Folkestone
22 October – 11 November
2019
My Own Private Bauhaus
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
24 July – 28 September
David Batchelor and Alfredo Volpi
Casa Leme, Sao Paulo
4 April – 5 May
2018
Psychogeometry 2
Curated by David Thomas
Site Eight, RMIT, Melbourne
9–24 May
Colour Is
Margaret Lawrence Gallery, University of Melbourne
4 May – 2 June
Sixty Minute Spectrum
Hayward Gallery, London
22 November 2017 – 25 March 2018
2017
Psychogeometry
Matt’s Gallery, London
26 April – 11 June
Chromatology
Ab-Anbar Gallery, Tehran
3 February – 3 March
2016
Reef
Handel Street Projects, London
17 September – 12 November
Glowsticks
Galeria Leme, São Paulo
15 March – 23 April
2015
Flatlands Remix
Virginia Commonwealth University, Doha
25 March – 21 April
2014
Monochrome Archive 1997–2015
Whitechapel Gallery, London
22 December – 3 May
Chromolocomotion
St Pancras International, London
8 April – 10 October
Concretos
New Art Centre, Salisbury
8 February – 16 March
2013
Wall to Wall
Centro Universitario Maria Antonia, São Paulo
15 August – 10 October
Flatlands
Spike Island, Bristol
22 November – 19 January
Flatlands
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
3 May – 2 August
2012
Magic Hour
Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag
19 May – 9 September
Brighton-Palermo ReMix
Brighton Festival
5 May – 27 May
Slugfest
Galeria Leme, São Paulo
29 February – 31 March
Magic Pavement
Pavement Gallery, Manchester
16 February – 11 April
2011
2D3D
Karsten Schubert, London
8 August – 30 September
2010
Big Rock Candy Fountain
Archway tube station, London
1 November – 27 March
Chromophilia
Paco Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
9 September – 30 November
2008
Backlights
Galeria Leme, São Paulo
8 October – 30 November
2007
Unplugged (Remix)
Wilkinson Gallery, London
11 October – 20 November
Unplugged
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
27 July – 29 September
[cat.]
2006
South Bank Spectrum
South Bank Centre
Christmas Lights Commission
1 December – 6 January
[reinstalled annually until 2015]
2005
Ten Silhouettes
Gloucester Road Underground Station, London
27 June – 24 October
2004
Shiny Dirty
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
4 February – 28 March
[cat.]
2003
The Spectrum of Hackney Road
Wilkinson Gallery, London
12 September – 12 October
2002
Barrier
38 Langham Street, London
15 March – 28 April
2001
ShinyDirty
Habitat, London
21 March – 24 June
2000
Electric Colour Tower
Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London
6 September – 28 January
Apocalypstick
Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London
30 March – 1 May
1998
Monochromobiles
The Economist Plaza, London
15 January – 3 March
1997
Shelf-Like, Frame-Like, Note-Like
Byam Shaw School of Art, London
4 – 21 May
Polymonochromes
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
17 January – 6 April
1996
Polymonochrome Drawings
Soho House, London
23 January – 2 March
1995
Serial Colour
Curtain Road Arts, London
22 September – 18 October
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
STILL DANCING
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
9 November – 20 December
Positions, part three
Curated by John Slyce
Alma Pearl, London
11 July – 10 August
Summer Exhibition
Curated by Cornelia Parker
Royal Academy, London
18 June – 18 August
2023
Light: Works from the Tate Collection
Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka
26 October – 14 January
Perpetual Arrival
Platform A Gallery, Middlesbrough
28 September – 9 November
Light: Works from the Tate Collection
The National Art Centre, Tokyo
12 July – 2 October
DIE WAT SPAART, DIE WAT HEEFT
Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover
22 April – 3 June
Colours in the Air (with Richard Deacon)
Handel Street Projects, London
24 February – 24 March
Modern and Contemporary
Waddington Custot, London
3 Feb - 15 April
2022
Light: Works from Tate's Collection
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
16 June – 13 November
Hello MONO-HA!
White Conduit Projects, London
15 June - 17 July
Chromophilia
Hauser and Wirth, Zurich
20 January – 9 March
Art is the Antidote
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar
26 January – 11 December
2021
Light: Works from Tate's Collection
Musuem of Art Pudong, Shanghai
8 July – 14 November
House Share
Firstsite, Colchester
26 June – 5 September
Colour Space
Galleria Mucciaccia, Rome
20 May – 31 July
2020
Reduct: Abstraction and Geometry in Contemporary Scottish Art
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
25 October – 22 November
Shadows and Light
Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton
24 October – 23 January 2021
Summer Exhibition
Curated by Jane and Louise Wilson
Royal Academy, London
6 October – 3 January 2021
Ideas Travel Faster than Light
Mecklenburgh Square Garden, London
26 – 29 September
New Work
Waddington Custot, London
29 June – 14 August
2019
Habitat: Artists Making Furniture Or Things That Might Be Confused As Furniture
JGM Gallery, London
6 November – 7 December
Summer Exhibition
Curated by Jane and Louise Wilson
Royal Academy, London
7 June – 17 August
Colour is a Verb
Curated by David Sequeira
Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
30 May – 16 June
Objects of Wonder: British Sculptures from 1950s - present
Palais Populaire, Berlin
1 February – 27 May
Criminal Ornamentation
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
19 January - 17 March
2018
PRISM: The Art and Science of Light
The Glucksman, Cork
1 December – 10 March 2019
The Monochrome: New Beginnings
JPNF Museum, Dubai
23 October – 28 February 2019
The Everyday and the Extraordinary
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
29 September – 6 January 2019
Criminal Ornamentation
Curated by Yinka Shonibare
Attenborough Arts Centre, University of Leicester
21 September – 16 December
Great Artists / Great Teachers
The Levinsky Gallery, University of Plymouth
17 September – 17 November
A Certain Darkness
CaixaForum, Barcelona
19 June – 5 January 2019
Summer Exhibition
Curated by Grayson Perry
Royal Academy, London
12 June – 19 August
The Everyday and Extraordinary
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
9 June – 9 September
Monochrome: Empty and Full
Margaret Lawrence Gallery, University of Melbourne
4 May – 2 June
Sette Opere per la Misericordia
Chiesa del Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples
21 April – 30 June
2017
Ingleby Gallery Presents
Fitzrovia Chapel, London
2 October – 5 October
Totem: Spirit Beings & Sacred Objects
Saatchi Gallery, London
13 September – 17 September
Art of the Postcard
Handel Street Projects, London
2 September – 8 October
Purity is a Myth
Curated by Michael Asbury
Roesler Hotel, Sao Paolo
10 June – 29 July
Colour Is
Waddington Custot, London
1 March – 22 April
Between Poles and Tides
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
11 February – 6 May
A Certain Kind of Light
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
21 January – 7 May
2016
Night in the Museum
The Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
26 November – 12 February 2017
Five Years
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
25 November – 04 February 2017
Three Triptychs
Intra Gallery, Naples, Italy
29 September – 12 November
Neon: The Charged Line
Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool
1 September – 7 January 2017
Night in the Museum
Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
16 July – 16 October
Seeing Round Corners
Turner Contemporary, Margate
21 May – 25 September
Light Show
CorpArtes, Santiago
17 May – 11 September
FOUND
The Foundling Museum, London
9 May – 4 September
2015
Light Show
Sharjah Art Foundation
19 September – 12 December
Sprayed
Gagosian Gallery, London
11 June – 28 August
Light Show
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
16 April – 5 July
Trial/Error/Art
Holden Gallery, University of Manchester
16 March – 8 May
In Light of the Monochrome
Dye House Gallery, Bradford
6 March – 25 March
Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915–2015
Whitechapel Gallery, London
15 January – 20 April
2014
Light Show
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
11 October – 8 February 2015
The Social Bases of Abstract Art
Uptown Gallery, Ramsgate
4 October – 15 November
Colour on Paper
Galeria Leme,Sao Paulo
26 June – 17 August
Leaping the Fence
Hestercombe House, Taunton
24 May – 14 September
Black and White
Royal Academy summer Exhibition, London
7 June – 17 August
50 Years On: The Centre of contemporary Cultural Studies
MAC Birmingham
10 May – 12 June
Somewhat Abstract
Nottingham Contemporary
11 April – 29 June
Uniquo
Galeria Carbono, Sao Paulo
22 March - 10 May
Shelf Show
Galerie Tom Christofferson, Copenhagen
7 March – 29 March
Abstract Drawing
The Drawing Room, London
20 February – 19 April
2013
Why Painting Now?
Galeria Senn, Vienna
11 October – 14 November
White
Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
14 September – 5 January 2014
Touching Colour
Hatton Gallery, Newcastle
27 June – 17 August
Tell Me Whom You Haunt: Marcel Duchamp and the Contemporary Readymade
Blain Southern, London
11 April – 18 May
Fragile
Isola di San Maggiore, Venice
8 April – 28 July
Light Show
Hayward Gallery, London
30 January – 28 April
2012
Illuminated
Quad, Derby
27 October – 3 February 2013
With An Apple I will Astonish
Large Glass, London
4 October – 12 January 2013
Luz na Cidade
various venues, Rio de Janeiro
18 – 29 June
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Royal Academy, London
4 June – August
The Curator's Egg Altera Pars
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
2 February – 3 March
2011
Lumiere
various venues, Durham
17 – 20 November
Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain
Whitechapel Gallery, London
16 September – 4 December
The Shape of Things to Come
Saatchi Gallery, London
27 May – 16 October
Gravity's Rainbow
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
21 May – 30 July
A Painting Show
Autocenter, Berlin
15 – 30 April
2010
Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action
White Cube, London
8 July – 28 August
Open Light in Private Spaces: Biennale fur Internationale Lichtkunst
multiple venues, Unna, Germany
28 March – 27 May
The Gathering
Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
5 March – 18 April
Party
New Art Gallery, Walsall
11 February – 10 April
2009
Presque Rein III
Laure Genillard Gallery, London
17 October – 9 January 2010
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today
Tate Liverpool
28 May – 13 September
Kaleidoscopic Revolver
Hanjiyun Contemporary Space, Beijing
23 March – 27 April
Total Museum, Seoul
3 May – 21 June
Better than Grey
Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery
21 January – 7 March
A Twilight Art
Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York
17 January – 28 February
2008
Sculpture from the Scrapyard
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
3 September – 28 November
Conversations
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
27 September – 16 November
Irony & Gesture
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
18 July – 14 August
[cat.]
Folkestone Triennial
various venues, Folkestone
14 June – 14 September
[cat.]
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today
Museum of Modern Art, New York
2 March – 12 May
[cat.]
2007
David Batchelor & Nikolai Suetin
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
11 – 23 August
Shifting Ground
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
28 July – 22 September
Echo Room
Alaca 31, Madrid
27 March – 6 May
[cat.]
Abstraction: Extracting From the World
Millenium Galleries, Sheffiled
8 February – 13 May
[cat.]
2006
A noir, E blanche, I rouge, U vert, O blue: Farben
Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Germany
9 December – 11 March
Edinburgh Art Festival
off-site projects at the Palm House, Botanic Gardens and Old School, Edinburgh
27 July – 10 December
Thread
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
28 July – 9 September
Backdrop
Bloomberg Space, London
18 January – 12 March
2005
Radiance
Off-site projects in the Merchants’ Quarter, Glasgow
25 – 27 November
Double Meaning
Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil
25 November – 21 December
Extreme Abstraction
Albright Knox Art Gallery
Buffalo, New York
16 July – 20 October
[cat.]
Contrabandistas de Imágenes
Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
31 March – 5 June
[cat.]
Untitled
Marc Selwyn Gallery, Los Angeles
8 January – 10 February
2004
26th Bienal de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
25 September – 19 December
[cat.]
Sodium and Asphalt
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
8 July – 3 October
Chromosexuals
Galleri Bouhlou, Bergen, Norway
14 February – 21 March
2003
In Good Form: Recent Sculpture from the Arts Council Collection
Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
27 June – 19 October
Primary Colours
City Gallery, Leicester
28 June – 23 August
Days Like These: Tate Triennial of Contemporary Art
Tate Britain, London
27 February – 26 May
[cat.]
2002
Furori Uso
Ferrotel, Pescara, Italy
23 November – 20 January
ColorLove
Johnson County Community College, Kansas City
September – November
[cat.]
New Religious Art
Liverpool Biennial
July – September
Henry Peacock Gallery, London
29 March – 24 April
2001
Ruby
PEARL, London
9 November – 16 December
The Magic Hour: Art and Las Vegas
Neue Galerie, Graz
22 September – 4 November
[cat.]
Amidst Concrete, Clay and General Decay
Konstfack Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
12 – 23 September
Another Britannia
Tecla Sala, Barcelona
19 April – 4 July
Fundacion Marcelino Botin, Santander
29 July – 1 September
Museo de la Pasion, Valladolid
6 September – 7 October
[cat.]
2000
British Art Show 5
SNGMA, Edinburgh
7 April – 4 June
City Art Gallery, Southampton
23 June – 20 August
CVA, Cardiff
8 September – 5 November
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
24 November – 28 January
[cat.]
Fact and Value
Charlottenberg Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark
23 June – 20 August
[cat.]
Perfidy
Monastery of La Tourette, Eveux, France
9 September – 10 October
Kettles Yard, Cambridge
11 November – 7 January
[cat.]
1999
Limit Less
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
19 October – 27 November
POSTMARK: An Abstract Effect
SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico
27 March – 13 June
[cat.]
1998
Then and Now
Lisson Gallery, London
18 July – 12 September
1997
East International
The Sainsbury Centre/Norwich School of Art, Norwich
12 July – 30 August
1996
Station Transformation
Central Bus Station, Tel Aviv
21 November – 7 January
1993
July
Victoria Miro Gallery, London
18 July – 22 August
1991
Approaches to Realism
Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
11 March – 13 April
Goldsmiths Gallery, London
17 May – 15 June
1990
Rotation
Esther Schipper Gallery, Cologne
11 September – 14 October
Commissions
2023
Cloisterama
Site specific sculpture
Mijnkathedraal, Beringen, Belgium
2020
Psychogeometry 3
Temporary site specific installation
Mecklenburgh Square Garden, London
2019
King's Xmas
Temporary site specific installation
Granary Square, London
2018
Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain
Site specific sculpture
Eddington, Cambridge
Homage to Doctor Mirabilis
Site specific sculpture
Westgate Centre, Oxford
2016
Dublin Glowstick
Site specific sculpture
Fidelity offices, Dublin
2015
Chromocochere
Temporary site specific sculpture
MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
Chromorama
Site specific sculpture
5 Broadgate, London
19-20-21
Site specific installation
Lyric Theatre, London
Plato’s Disco
Site specific sculpture
Whitworth Art Galleries, Manchester
2010
Spectrum on the Hill
site specific installation
Haman the Hill, Seoul, South Korea
2009
Walldella, Dundee
site specific installation
McManus Galleries, Dundee
Spectrum of 1st Street
site specific installation
1100 1st Street, Washington D.C.
2008
Hong Kong Fesdella
site specific installation
The British Council, Hong Kong
2005
Against Nature
site specific installation
University of Warwick, Coventry
2004
Treasury Magic Hour
site specific installation
The Treasury, London
West Wing Spectrum
site specific installation
St Bart’s Hospital, London
2003
Evergreen
site specific outdoor work
More London, Tower Bridge
2001
Electric Colour Picture
edition of 75 three-dimensional works
The Multiple Store, London
1999
Chromodesks
site specific installation
Pier Trust, London
Quick Change Room
site specific installation
Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London
Collaborations
2005
Oh, Merce C!
Set for Merce Cunningham Dance Company Barbican
Theatre, London 16 June
2004
Found Monochromes of London
Slide projection to accompany performance of Morton Feldman’s ‘Piece for Bass and Clarinet’ Almedia Opera season
1-2 July