Gavin Turk

(British, born 1967)

desert island scenario by gavin turk

Gavin Turk

Desert Island Scenario, 2003

35,000 GBP

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)

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