ALAN MICHAEL
Born 1967 in Glasgow, Scotland
Lives and works in Glasgow
EDUCATION
1992-1996 Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee
1996-1998 Glasgow School of Art
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
Back to the Docks, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York
2011
Golden Turtle, Siakos Hanappe, Athens
Res Gestae, Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
2010
Silhouette Formulas, HOTEL, London
2009
In a Rotterdam Cell, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin
2008
It’s A British Sound, Schürmann Berlin
Ritual In The Dark (with Stephen Sutcliffe), HOTEL, London
Mood: Casual, Art Now: Tate Britain, London
Touch Void, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
2007
Decamp, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Space to Squabble, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin
2005
Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London
The Invention of Birth Control, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
2003
Burlesque Schematic, HOTEL, London
2002
Entwistle, London
Damage (with works by William Copley), Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
1999
Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow
You Are Very Important (with Alex Frost) Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
Space Oddity, CCA Andratx, Mallorca
2010
BigMinis: Fetishes of Crisis, CAPC, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeau
House of Voltaire, Studio Voltaire at Rupert Sanderson, London
Real Estate, Galleria Zero, Milan
2009
Depression, Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht
Why Painting Now?, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva
The Associates, Dundee Contemporary Arts
White Wallet, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris
2008
Sphinxx, Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London
Studio Voltaire Portfolio 2008, Studio Voltaire, London
Legend, Domain Chamarande, Paris
2007
Gallery Swap: HOTEL at Guido W. Baudach, Guido W. Baudach Galerie, Berlin
2006
Faces, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva
The Figs Play Fox Dead, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Tate Triennial 2006: New British Art, Tate Britain, London
2005
Jaybird, Galleria Zero, Milan
2004
Rheinschau Art Projects, RheinForum, Cologne
Eye of The Needle, Roberts &Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles
Sovenir, HOTEL, London
Haute Street, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam
2003
Put Out More Flags, Sutton Lane, London
This has reached the limit conditions of its own rhetoric, The Modern Institute, Glasgow
Dirk Bell, Kate Davis, Alan Michael, The Changing Room, Stirling
2002
Jean-Luc Blanc, Alan Michael, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
2001
Here And Now: Scottish Art 1990-2001, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
Antarctica, Entwistle, London
2000
Panache, Els Hanappe Underground, Athens
Die Gefahr Im Jazz, Deutsch Britische Freundschaft, Berlin
Sweet Dreams, Exedra, Hilversum, Netherlands
1999
Shake The Disease, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee
Horseriding, Painting and Lovemaking, Deutsch Britische Freundschaft, London
1998
Slipstream, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
Add Night to Night, Showroom, London
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010
Vaillant, Alexis (ed), ‘BigMinis: Fetishes of Crisis’, CAPC Bordeaux, November (cat).
Phillips, Brad, ‘Interview with Alan Michael’, Hunter And Cook, Toronto, issue 7, Fall, p 2-7
Roelstraete, Dieter, ‘Modernism, Postmodernism and Gleam: On the Photorealist Work Ethic’, Afterall, London, issue 24, Summer, p5.
The Mother And The Whore’, Foxtrot Echo Lima Tango, London, June, p 22.
Ellis, Patricia (ed), ‘Newspeak: British Art Now’, London, April (cat.), p 193-194
Vishmidt, Marina, ‘I’m Too Sad To Sell You: On “Depression” at Marres Centre, Maastricht’,
2009
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Haun, Anne, ‘Malerischer Rechenschieber: Alan Michael Bei Galerie Micky Schubert’, artnet.de, May
‘The Associates’, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee (cat.)
2008
Lavrador, Judicael (ed), ‘Qu’est-ce Que la Peinture Aujourd’hui?’, Beaux Arts Editions, Paris
Vaillant, Alexis (ed), ‘Legend’, Domain Chamarande, France (cat.)
Cowcher, Kate, ‘Alan Michael: Mood: Casual’, Map, Dundee, issue 15, Autumn, p 72
Peter, Mick, ‘Alan Michael’, Frieze, London, issue 115, May, p 176
2006
Dorment, Richard, ‘Tate Triennial 2006’, The Daily Telegraph, London, 7th March
Stout, Katharine, ‘Tate Triennial 2006: New British Art’, (exhibition catalogue), Tate Publishing, London
2005
Lewisohn, Ceder, ‘Alan Michael’, Map, Dundee, issue 4, Winter, p 64
Herbert, Martin, ‘The Fee of Angels’, Time Out London, January 12-19, p 58
2004
Morton, Tom, ‘Private Eye’, Frieze, London, issue 84, June/July/August, p 1, 96-99
2003
Honigman, Ana Finel, ‘Alan Michael’, Time Out London, May 28 - June 4, p 54
‘Transmission 1983 - 2003’, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, (cat.)
Lowndes, Sarah, ‘Dirk Bell, Kate Davis and Alan Michael’, in Frieze, London, issue 74, April, p 112
Tufnell, Rob, ‘Made In Scotland’, in Tema Celeste, Milan, January / February, p 45
2001
‘Here And Now: Scottish Art 1990-2001’, DCA Dundee (cat.)
‘Brownfield’, Market, Glasgow
Ratnam, Niru, ‘If You’re Feeling Sinister’, in The Face, London, July, p 153
1999
‘Add Night To Night’, The Showroom, London (cat.)
Herbert, Martin, ‘Horseriding, Painting and Lovemaking’, Time Out London, February 10-17, p 50
1998
Burrows, David, ‘Olympic Village’, in Art Monthly, London, February, p 33