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Gavin Turk

(British, born 1967)

Gavin Turk

Heads!, 2002

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Gavin Turk

Ash, 2008

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Gavin Turk

Prone, 2003

54,450 GBP

Gavin Turk

Pete, 2015

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Gavin Turk

Balancing blue biscuit after Man Ray, 2018

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Gavin Turk

Mould camouflage bread, 2003

18,150 GBP

Gavin Turk

Small Nail, 2011

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Gavin Turk

Elvis Union Red on Pink, 2008

1,800 GBP

Gavin Turk

Star, 2013

30,000 GBP

Gavin Turk

Our ideas have got drunk and dropped their H s, 2009

2,000 GBP

Gavin Turk

Diamond Transit Disaster Red, 2011

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Gavin Turk

Missile, 2010

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Biography

Timeline

1967: Born in Guildford, Scotland, UK
1991: Graduated, Royal College of Art
: Lives and works in London
: Awards
: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Jack Goldhill Sculpture Prize

Exhibitions

2018: Gavin Turk Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Gavin Turk Works, Maruani Mercier & Hadida, Paris, France (solo exhibition)
God is Gone, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria (solo exhibition)
Dialogues With A Collection, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, England
PLAY KORTRIJKi, Play, Kortrijk, Belgium
Il terzo giorno, Palazzo del Governatore, Parma, Italy
In My Shoes: Art and the Self Since the 1990s, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Arts Council Collection touring exhibition, Wakefield, United Kingdom
2017: Gavin Turk Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
History of Art, Mimmo Scognamiglio artecontemporanea, Milan, Italy (solo exhibition)
Cracks in Reality, Marta Herford GmbH, Herford, Germany (solo exhibition)
Give In, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London (solo exhibition)
Poor Art | Arte Povera: Italian Influences, British Responses, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London
In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy, De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill-on-Sea, England
2016: Gavin Turk Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Who What When Where How and Why, Newport Street Gallery, London (solo exhibition)
GT, Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery, Knokke, Belgium (solo exhibition)
Petroleum, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO (solo exhibition)
Water Biscuit, The Box, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (solo exhibition)
Surrealism and Beyond, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Die Kerze, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
Daydreaming with….Stanley Kubrick, Somerset House, London
Found, The Foundling Museum, London
Sculpture in the City, City of London
In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester
Punk: Its Traces in Contemporary Art, MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
The Legacy of Andy Warhol, Artipelag, Sweden
Bread and Roses, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland
2015: Gavin Turk Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Gavin Turk: Wittgenstein’s Dream, Freud Museum, London (solo exhibition)
A Vision, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria (solo exhibition)
Yard, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain (solo exhibition)
The Mechanical Turk, Metropole Hotel, Venice, Italy (solo exhibition)
Gav, Bruchium – Al Forno: Historical Bakery, Venice, Italy (solo exhibition)
Golden Delicious, Louisa Guinness Gallery, London (solo exhibition)
Wintertime, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin, Germany
Dark Ages, Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgium
Punk: Its Traces in Contemporary Art, Artium, Araba, Spain
Black Paintings, Charlie Smith London
2050: A Brief history of the Future, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Facing History: Contemporary Portraiture, V&A, UK
Extraordinary: Objects & Actions in Contemporary Art, The Lowry UK
Photography Now: An International Survey, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London
Punk: Its Traces in Contemporary Art, CA2M, Madrid, Spain
Chercher Le Garçon, MAC VALMusee d’Art Contemporain Val-de-Marne, France
Embracing Modernism: Ten Years of Drawings Acquisitions, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York Ciy, USA
Self: Image and Identity: Self-Portraiture from Van Dyck to Louise Bourgeois, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
2010: Pop Life, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
: Banners of Persuasion Demons, Yarns & Tales, James Cohan Gallery, New York
2009: The Mirror Stage, Goodman Gallery, South Africa (solo)
: Galleri Veggerby, Copenhagen (solo)
: Turkey Foil, ScheiblerMitte, Berlin (solo)
: Gavin Turk Ltd., Paul Stolper Gallery, London (solo)
: Jazzz, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York (solo)
: Pop Life, Tate Modern, London
: 53. Venice Biennale, Italy
: Burnt Out, Kunsthaus Baselland, Switzerland (solo)
: Piss Off, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (solo)
2008: You Know I Know He Knows We Know, Aeroplastics, Brussels (solo)
2007: Citadel 1. Front room/Killing room, David Risley Gallery, London
: The Freak Show, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon
: Galerie Trafó, Budapest
: Timer.01: Intimacy, Triennale Bovisa, Milan
: Pure, Sean Kelly, New York
: Draw, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough
: GAVIN TURK: ‘Me as Him’, Riflemaker, London (solo)
: The Negotiation of Purpose, GEM Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague; MAGASIN Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble (solo)
: In Between, Galeria Presenca, Porto
: Culture Bound, The Courtauld Institute, London
: William Ling Fine Art, 18 Fremont Street, London
: Youth of Today, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
: Stage of Life – Rhetorics of Emotion, Lenbachhaus, Munich
: Space Cavern Expérience Pommery 3, Cave pommery, Reims
: World Cup, 39, London
: Summer Exhibition 2006, Royal Academy, London
: Six Feet Under: Autopsy of Our Relation to the Dead, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
: In the darkest hour there may be light: Works from Damien Hirst’s murderme collection, Serpentine Gallery, London
: Last Year in Eggenberg (The Paradise Show), Schloss Eggenberg, Graz (solo)
: The Font Project, Fine Art Society, London (solo)
2006: Waste not, Want not, Galleri Veggerby, Copenhagen (solo)
: Darkness Visible, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
: The Stuff of Life, Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol / Laing Gallery, Newcastle / National Gallery, London
: 25th Annual Series of the ICI New York Studio Events, New York
: White Elephant, Sean Kelly, New York (solo)
: Melange, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (solo)
: Ha ha ha!, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris (solo)
: London Calling. Y[oung] B[ritish] A[rtists] Criss-Crossed, Galleri Kaare Berntsen, Oslo
: Summer Exhibition 2005, Royal Academy, London
: Art Out of Place, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich
: M-City, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
: My Beauty Picture Show, 21 Tudor Grove E9, London
: Superstars! The Celebrity Factor. From Warhol to Madonna, Kunsthalle wien, Vienna
: The Drawing Show, Shangri-La tattoo Parlour, London
2005: Et Maintenant - What Now, Crac Alsace, Altkirch
: Appearance, Whitehall Waterfront, Leeds
: Gavin Turk: Faces, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh (solo)
: Mike Kelley: The Uncanny, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
: Domestic (f)utility, New Art Centre Sculpture Park and Gallery, Salisbury
: The Golden Thread, White Cube, London; Sculpture at Goodwood (solo)
: Faces: A Print Portfolio by Gavin Turk, Paul Stolper, London (solo)
: Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
: Printers Inc.: Recent British Prints, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester / Brewhouse Theatre and Arts Centre, Taunton / Park Gallery, Falkirk
: Paper Democracy. Contemporary Art in Editions on Paper, Edifício Cultura Inglesa, São Paulo
: The (de) Construction of Living, Odapark Foundation, The Netherlands
: Art 4 All, Tea Building, London
: The Christmas Exhibition 2004, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
2004: Chaim Soutine, Happy Sailor, London
: Emotion Eins, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal / Kunstverein Frankfurt, Frankfurt
: The Square Show, Bloomberg Space, London
: Independence, South London Gallery, London
: Spare Change, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin (solo)
: Gavin Turk In The House, Sherborne House, Dorset (solo)
: Gavin Turk: et in arcadia eggo, New Art Centre Sculpture Park & Gallery, Salisbury (solo)
: Gavin Turk, Oki-ni, Savile Row, London (solo)
: Gavin Turk, Galleri Veggerby, Copenhagen (solo)
: Group Show, Mobile Home, London
: FRESH: Contemporary British Artists in Print, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
: Coollustre, Collection Lambert en Avignon
: Artlab Especial, Mobile Home, London
: Sculpture, London Institute Gallery, London
: The Art of Reinvention, Hotbath Gallery, Bath
2003: Bag Lady, Cell Project Space, London
: Identity, Ecology Pavilion, Mile End Park, London
: Let’s See the Nature in You, Pepperton Gallery, London
: Hommage an Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Galerie Krinzinger, Wien
: Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop. Tate Liverpool
: Second Skin. Historical Life Casting and Contemporary Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
: It’s Unfair, Museum de Pavilijeons, Netherlands
: Copper Jubilee, The New Art Gallery, Walsall (solo)
2002: Gavin Turk: Oeuvre, Tate Britain Sculpture Court Display, London (solo)
: Face Off, Kettles Yard, Cambridge
: Tattoo Show, Modern Art, London
: Century City, Tate Modern, London
: Dead, The Roundhouse, London
: Please Disturb Me, Great Eastern Hotel, London
: The Saatchi Gallery eyestorm Collection, The Saatchi Gallery, London
: Mind the Gap, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm
: Summer Exhibition 2001, Royal Academy of Arts, London
: Abbild. Recent Portraiture and depiction, Steirisc[:her:]bst, Landesmuseum, Graz
: Insider Trading: profit without honour, Mandeville Hotel, London
: The Che Gavara Story, Residence in the East End of London (solo)
: The Colony Room Club 2001. A Space Oddity, A22 Projects, London
: Printers inc., The Gallery, Stratford- upon-Avon, England
: East Wing Collection, No. 5. Courtauld Institute of Art, London
: Art-Tube 01, Café De Paris, London
2001: Heart of Glass, Mirror, London
: Teeth and Trousers, Ideal House, London
: Ant Noises, Saatchi Gallery, London
: Out There, White Cube², Hoxton Square, London
: White Ass European Cowboys, Rob Malasch / Galerie Serieuze Zaken, Amsterdam
: Warning shots. Contemporary art exploring themes of conflict and violence, Royal Armories Museum, Leeds
: Art at the Dome, Greenwich, London
: Conversation, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes
: In Memoriam, The New Art Gallery, Walsall
: Gavin Turk, fig-1, London (solo)
2000: More Stuff, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (solo)
: Ever get the feeling you’ve been…, A22 Projects, London
: Psycho, Anne Faggionato, London

Public Collections

: Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum Collection, Scotland
: Tate, London, United Kingdom
: South London Gallery, London, United Kingdom
: Sammlung Reinking, Hamburg, Germany
: Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
: Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
: REINKINGPROJEKTE Hamburg, Germany
: Refco Group, Chicago, Illinois
: New Art Gallery Walsaw Collection, United Kingdom
: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (MUMOK), Vienna, Austria
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
: Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main, Germany
: Murderme Collection, London, United Kingdom
: Morgan Library and Museum, New York, New York
: MoMA Collection, New York, New York
: Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), United Kingdom
: Government Art Collection, London, United Kingdom
: Hiscox Art Projects, London, United Kingdom
: Frac Nord - Pas de Calais, Dunkirk, France
: Fondation Francès, Senlis, France
: Deutsche Bank, London, United Kingdom
: Contemporary Arts Society, London, United Kingdom
: Cass Sculpture Foundation, Chichester, United Kingdom
: Caldic Collection, Rotterdam, Netherlands
: British Council, London, United Kingdom
: American Federation of the Arts, New York, New York
: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
: Zabludowicz Collection London, London, United Kingdom

Gavin Turk

(British, born 1967)

Gavin Turk

Gavin Turk

Gavin Turk

Gavin Turk

Gavin Turk

Gavin Turk

Gavin Turk

Gavin Turk

Gavin Turk

Gavin Turk

Gavin Turk

Gavin Turk

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

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