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Merlin Carpenter
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British
, born 1967)
Merlin Carpenter
Download 15,
2021
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Merlin Carpenter
Download 13,
2023
2,900 EUR
Biography
Timeline
Exhibitions
Literature
Timeline
1967
Born in Pembury, Kent, Great Britain
1986 - 1989
Central Saint Martin’s School of Art, London
Lives in London and Berlin
Exhibitions
2011
TATE CAFÉ, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK (solo)
The Institute of Mental Health is Burning, Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Newport, UK
Rituals of the Art World, Ludlow 38, New York, US
Rebus, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
Heroes, MD 72, Berlin, Germany
Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles, CA, USA (solo)
2010
Ballad in Narnia, The Interzone, London (with Richard Perry) (solo)
Merlin Carpenter - Solo Show, Formalist Sidewalk Poetry Club, Miami, FL, USA (solo)
Novel, Dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Barbaric Freedom, Simon Lee Gallery, London
The Opening, Dependances, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
The Opening, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Untitled (History Painting), University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, USA
RN IHRE ARBEIT, Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin (show by Instituto Diverciado)
Simon Lee Gallery, London
Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany
2009
Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
DO WHAT THEY WILLT, Nang Gallery, London
Zodiac 3000, International Project Space, Birmingham, UK
How Can You Represent When You Can't Pay The Rent, The New Dome, Cable St. Studios, London
Painting: Now and Forever, Part II, Greene Naftali Gallery/Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
The Coma Lounge Edinburgh, The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
The Opening, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles, CA, USA (solo)
The Opening, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin (at Mercedes-Welt am Salzufer & The Corner Berlin) (solo)
2008
The Opening, Galerie Mitterrand + Sanz, Zürich (solo)
Congratulations You Are Represented by Nang Gallery, Nang Gallery, London
Relax It's Only a Bad Cosima von Bonin Show, Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2007
Élégance, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
Genesis I'm Sorry, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York (in collaboration with Melanie Gilligan)
The Opening, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, NY, USA (solo)
slow burn (curated by Jonah Freeman), Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Geneva
Make Your Own Life, Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania, Philidelphia, PA, USA
LIVE HUMANS, The George Tavern, London
2006
Sounds of War, Galere Edward Mitterrand, Geneva (solo)
Islands of Glory in Streets Caked with the Fæces of Decadence, Nang Gallery, London
TOTAL ASBO, Pogo Cafe, London
The Top Room: A Retrospective, Chelsea Space, London
Miradas y conceptos en la colección Helga de Alvear, MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain
Look What You Made Me Do, Nergen Kunsthall, Norway (solo)
Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne (solo)
2005
A Roaring RAMPAGE of Revenge, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, NY, USA (solo)
Orchard, New York, NY, USA
2004
Werkleitz Biennale, Halle, Germany
Edge of the Real, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Nueva Generación, Distrito 4, Madrid, Spain (solo)
Take It Easy Default, M-Project, Paris, France (solo)
2003
Children of the Projects, American Fine Arts, Co., New York, NY, USA (solo)
Wild Nights: Remembering Colin de Land, CB's 313 Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Messe in der Galerie, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne
Militant
Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany
2002
The Making of !945, 1997
(screening)
The McAllister Institute, New York, USA
2001
My Father, the Castaway
White Cube, Kunstakademi Bergen, Norway
2000
When You Drain the Pool, You Don't Consult the Frogs First
Magnani, London, England
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
As a Painter I Call Myself the Estate of
Secession, Vienna, Austria (catalogue)
VOLVO
Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Graz, Austria
1999
Survivors
Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany
1998
Doppelganger
The Top Room, London, England
Chant No 1
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
1996
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
1995
Voluntary Effort
Tom Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles, USA (catalogue)
1994
Friedrich Petzel/Nina Borgmann, New York, USA
1993
Les Jeunes
Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Meet You by the Strange Twisted Old Oak Tree on the Secluded Knoll at Dawn in Your Swimming Trunks and I'll Tell You Something Secret.(Don't Be Late).,
With Nils Norman, Galerie Z, Göttingen, Germany (catalogue)
1992
Meadow/Wiese
Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne, Germany
To the extreme
Fettstrasse 7A (Birgit Küng), Zürich, Switzerland
1991
Pavillon Ryszard Varisella, organised by Galerie Grässlin-Ehrhardt, Frankfurt, Germany
1990
Crusade
Münzstrasse 10, Hamburg, Germany
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Literature
2010
Merlin Carpenter - Social Aesthetics, The Institute of Social Hypocrisy #3
2001
Jewels-in-Art
(with Jeremy Glogan, Jospehine Pryde and Sarah Staton), Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Graz
2000
As a Painter I Call Myself the Estate of
Secession, Vienna
1995
Voluntary Effort
For exhibition at Tom Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles
1993
Meet You by the Strange Twisted Old Oak Tree on the Secluded Knoll at Dawn in Your Swimming Trunks and I'll Tell You Something Secret
Published by MC and Nils Norman for fictional exhibition at Galerie Z, Göttingen