Lives and Works in London

Ian Dawson

Born 1969, Darlington, Co Durham, U.K.

Lives and works in London

Education

1991-93 / Royal College of Art, MA
1988-91 / WinchesterSchool of Art, BA(Hons.)

Solo Exhibitions

2005 / NapoleonGardens, HollandPark, London
2004 / Gallerie Xippas, Paris
2003 / Archimede Staffolini Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
James Cohan Gallery, New York
Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO. Incl. catalogue
2002 / Modern Art, London
Galerie Griedervonputtkamer, Berlin
2000 / Art+Public, Geneva
James Cohan Gallery, New York
Habitat, Kings road, London
1999 / Modern Art, London
1998 / Hales Gallery, London
1995 / London Artforms, London

Selected Group Exhibitions

2005 / ‘Do Not Ask Me Who I Am’, St.PaulsGallery, London
‘Pulp Fantasy’, 20-21 Gallery, Scunthorpe, UK
2004 / ‘Material Faith’, Kontainer, Los Angeles
‘Shapeshifters’, Galerie M-Project, Paris
‘Plastic Fantastic’ 20-21 Gallery, Scunthorpe, UK
‘Summertime in the City’, Archimede Staffolini Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
‘Mesmer’, Temporarycontemporary,Seager Distillery, London
2003 / ‘On’, Galerie Xippas, Athens, Greece
‘Urban Baroque’, Plane-Space, New York
‘One word-Plastic’, Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, USA, incl. catalogue
‘The Physical World’, APT Gallery, London
‘POP thru Out’, Arario Gallery, Cheonan, S. Korea, incl. catalogue
‘Rendered’, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York
‘IMProVision’, Urban Culture Projects, Kansas City, MO.
2002 / ‘The Nature of the Beast’, Caren Golden Fine Arts, New York
‘Sense and form, the beauty of the practical the practicality of the beautiful’, Consument ART, Messertum, Nurnberg, incl. catalogue
‘Per Saldo’, HetNoordbrabantsMuseum,s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.
Sculpture By The Sea, Invited Artist, British Council Showcase, Sydney, Australia, incl. catalogue
‘Craft’, Cell Project Space, London
Prospects Drawing Prize, Essor Gallery, London
4th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, S. Korea
‘Love’, 14 Wharf Road, London
‘Giardino’, Galleria del Arte Contemporanea, Bergamo, ‘Giardino’, Studio D’Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy, incl. catalogue
2001 / ‘Giardino’, Centro Culturale di Sassuolo, Modena, Italy
‘Lets Get To Work’, SusquehanaArt Museum, Harrisburg, Penn.USA.
‘Lets Get To Work’, RosenwaldWolfGallery & Basekamp, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, USA
‘ParadiseValley’, Loughborough University Gallery, UK
2000 / ‘Full Serve’, 547 W27th St. New York
‘De Museum Nacht’, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam
‘Beautiful’, OxoTower, London
‘Lets Get To Work’ Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Fransisco
‘Absract Art’, Delfina Gallery, London
1999 / ‘Y2K’, Archimede Staffolini Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
‘6min3sec’, ABF Kontskola, Umea, Sweden
‘Drawings’, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York
‘Millenium’, Tate, New York
‘Holding Court’, Entwisle, London
1998 / ‘London Now’, Saks, Fifth Avenue, New York, incl. catalogue
‘Paradigms of Oneirology’, One in the Other, London
‘The Status of the Object’, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
1997 / ‘Multislot’, Notcut House, London
‘Low Maintenance, High Precision’, Hales Gallery, London
‘Victoria’, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London
1996 / ‘British Friends’, Galerie M, Stockholm, Sweden
‘The Death of the Death of ‘, curated by Kenny Schachter, 480 Broome St., New York
‘The Boy Santa Forgot’, Galerie M, Stockholm, Sweden
1994 / ‘Turning Up’, The View, Liverpool
‘Bantam Open’, Bantam, Connecticut, USA
1992 / ‘Rundgang’, HDK, Berlin

Awards and Exchanges

1994-96 / Susan Kasen Summer Scholarship
1993 / Sir James Knott Scholarship
1992 / ERASMUS Exchange , HDK, Berlin
1991 / Atlantida travel award, Madrid

Publications

2004 / ‘Contemporary British Sculpture’ Guy Portelli, Schiffer Publishing, ISBN: 0764321110
2001 / ‘New Labour’, The Saatchi Collection
The TI Group Art Collection
1999 / ‘Young British Art: The Saatchi Decade’, Booth-Clibborn
1998 / ‘New Neurotic Realism’, The Saatchi Gallery
1994 / ‘An American Passion’, GlasgowMuseum Press

Bibliography

2004 / Elle March 22, 2004, pg 154
2003 / David Cohen, Urban Baroque, Artcritical .Com
Panagiotou, M., “Art Agenda”, Syntheseis, November
Parpa, E., “Art Matters”, Cosmopolitan, November, p 28
Tsiamanta, X., “Ydor”, Time Out Cyprus, no. 22, November, p113
“Ydor”, Alithia, November 6
“Destructive Creation”, Selides magazine, November 9, p24
Charalambidou, I., “Ydor”, Politis, November 10, p45
Hughes, G., “The lightness of being”,Cyprus Weekly (Lifestyle Supplement), Nov. 14-20, p2-3
Hughes, G., “Art, Recycling and Design”, Cyprus Weekly (Lifestyle Supplement), Nov. 28 – Dec.4, p3
Parpa, E., “Plastic Stories”, Phileleftheros (Culture Supplement), November 9, p2
Kounios, A., “What is it all about”, Alithia, November 10, p12
‘Wonderland’, Ian Dawson, a-n Magazine, October 2003
‘Ian Dawson’,Ken Johnson, New York Times, Friday July 18th
‘Ian Dawson’, Jane Harris, Time Out New York, Issue No. 407
‘Ian Dawson’, Edith Newhall, New York Magazine, July 28th
‘Plastic Fantastic’, John Reed, ArtNet, July
‘Britain’s Ian Dawson distorts normalcy with a well-placed blowtorch’, Alice Thorson, Kansas City Star, 9/5/03
2002 / ‘Ian Dawson’, Louisa Buck, The Art Newspaper, Nov
‘Ian Dawson’, Rebbecca Geldard, Time Out, 13/11/02
Exhibitions, Jessica Lack, Guardian Guide, 12/10/02
‘Barbecueing Barbie’, Martin Herbert, Art Review, Oct
‘Love’, Martin Herbert, Modern Painters, Vol 15 No. 2
‘Zarter Schmeltz’, Ticket, Der Tagesspiegel, 28 March
‘Das muss man Sehen’, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 13 April, Nr.86
‘Rechnerkunst, unplugged’, Ulrich Clewing, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 19 April, Nr.9
Views on London, Giorgia Lucchi, Juliet Art Magazine, n.106, Feb-Mar
2001 / ‘Celebrating Art’, Joe Elias, Carlisle Patriot Sunday, 16Sept
‘Grab bag of ideas...’, E.J. Sozanski, The Philadelphia Enquirer, Dec 2
‘Ian Dawson’, James Hyde, Art in America, March 2001
‘The Mad Muse of Warterloo’, Larissa MacFarquhar, New Yorker, March 19th
2000 / Galleries, New Yorker, 2nd October
‘Ubiquity made Visable’, Jeff Crane, Art Net, September
‘Abstract Art’, Martin Herbert, Flash Art, May/June
‘Abstract Art’, Martin Herbert, Time Out, Feb 9
‘Abstract Art’, S Hubbard, Independent on Sunday, Jan 30
‘Abstract Art’, Helen Sumpter, Evening Standard, Jan 21
1999 / ‘Art in Review’, Ken Johnson, New York Times, August
‘Look out Damien’, Louisa Buck, E.S. Magazine, June
Lowis Morgan Griffiths, Independent Magazine, June
‘Tea for Two’, Lucy Richardson, Numero Magazine, May
‘Alltered Images’, Louisa Buck, Esquire, May
‘Plastic Fantastic’, Ella Weimer, i-D, April
‘Choice’, Helen Sumpter, Evening Standard, Nov 3
1998 / ‘Ian Dawson’, Gavin Wade, Zing Magazine, Winter
‘Ian Dawson’, Gavin Wade, Untitled, No16
‘Britsh Art...’, Roger Tredre, The Observer, April12
Louisa Buck, The Art Newspaper, No 79
1997 / ‘Low Maintenance’, David Burrows, Art Monthly, Sept
‘Low Maintenance’, Martin Herbert, Time Out, No1408
‘Low Maintenance’, Artist Newsletter, Oct
‘Victoria’, Volume 1, Issue 2
1995 / ‘Clot’, Judith Mottram, Womans Art Magazine, June
1994 / ‘The British Invasion’, Litchfield CountyTimes, April 22
‘Turning Up’, Heidi Reitmaier, Art Monthly, Nov

Collections

Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina

Arario Gallery/ Mr Kim

Mickey and Janice Cartin Collection

The Saatchi Collection, London

ABN Amro Collection, Amsterdam

SEI Collection, USAUK

TI Group, London

Skadden, Arps, Meager & Flom, New York

West Collection

Private Collections Worldwide