Ross Sinclair C.V. 2011
Born - 12/4/66 Glasgow, Scotland., UK + 44 (0)7909992344
www.rosssinclair.co.uk
1990 - 1992 - MFA Glasgow School of Art,
1992 - California Institute of the Arts(Cal - Arts)
1984-1990 - BA Hons. Glasgow School of Art (Environmental Art Dept)
Career (since 1995) Lecturer(p/t), Glasgow School of Art
Since 2000 - Research Fellow/Academic Researcher, Glasgow School of Art
2009 - External Examiner, Nottingham Trent University, (Emergency)
PHD examining/supervision
2012 - Internal examiner Rory Harron – title
2006 SEDA - Supervising Postgraduate Research Award
One Person Exhibitions
2011 The Real Life Gordons of Huntly, Deveron Arts, Scotland, Residency
2010 - Angelika Knapper, Gallery Stockholm, Sweden
2007 - Sinclair vs. Landseer, Aberdeen City Art Gallery, Scotland
2007 Among the Living Commission, Real Life and How to Live it in Pangea/Guitar Version, Chapter, Cardiff
2006 - Real Life Painting Show, CCA, Glasgow
2006 - Galerie KnapperBaumgarten, Stockholm, Sweden
2004 - Art Metropole, Toronto
2004 - The Agency, London
2004 - Gallery Van Ram, Ghent, Belgium
2004 - The Real Life Rock Opera Vol. 1, Travelling Gallery, touring, Scotland
2002 - Wewerke Pavillion, Munster
2002 - Gallery Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
2002 - The Agency, London
2002 - Gallery Raffaella Cortese, Milano, Italy
2001/2 - Selected Real Life, Badischer Kunstverein, Karsruhe, Germany
2001 - Fortress Real Life,South London Gallery, London, England
2001 - The Agency, London
2000 - Galerie Knoll, Wien, Austria
2000 - Journey to the Edge of the World, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, England
1999 - Journey to the Edge of the World, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
1999 - Hamnavoe Free State(London Office)The Agency, London
1998 - A Dream of the Hamnavoe Free State, Pier Arts Centre, Orkney, Scotland
- Black Switzerland vs The World, Galerie Walchaturm, Zurich, Switzerland
Group Exhibitions
2011 Nothing in the World But Youth, Turner Contemporary, Margate
2011 - Birmingham Contemporary Art Forum, Slice:The Event, B42
2011 Reflecting Glenfiddich, Fleming Collection, London
2010 - Artist Film & Video at BBC Scotland, BBC Scotland
2009/10 More Than A T-Shirt, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Germany
2009/10 - 20 Reasons We Still need Superman, Rogue Art, KualaLumpur, Vitamin, Guangzhou, China, HongKong Arts Centre, UCCA Beijing, Mumbai, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietman,G.C. Yard, Lhasa, Tibet, Space A, Ulaan
2009/10 I-Lands, Brandts Kunsthallen, Odense, Fuglsang Kunstmuseum, Lolland,
Denmark
2008 No Leftovers, Kunsthalle Bern
2008 - Freedom Centre, Hales Gallery London
2007 - Cut ‘n’ Paste, Peleton Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2007 - Among the Living, Skateboard Project ICA, London, Mima, Middlesburgh, Milton Keynes,
2006 - Show me the way to the Public Sphere, Sculpture project Wiesbaden, Germany
2005 - I Love Real Life Scotland, Radiance Light festival, Rear of City Chambers, Glasgow
2005 - Critical Societies - Badischer Kunstverein, Karsruhe, Germany
2005 - God is Bored With Us, Fast Moving Consumer Goods, London
2005 - Commission for Aichi World Expo, British Pavillion, Nagoya, Japan
2004/5 - Grate Britain, Cell Projects, London
2004 - Glenfiddich Residency, Dufftown, Scotland
Solo Publications
2012 – (upcoming) We Love Real Life Scotland ; Real Life Artist in Residence, Deveron Arts, Huntly.
2004 - If North Was South and East was West, Badischer Kunstverein, 200pp
ISBN, 3-89309-106-8
2000 - Real Life and How to Live It -Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, 96pp colour ISBN 0-947912-67-3
1997 - Ross Sinclair - Real Life, CCA , Tramway, Pier Arts Centre 96 pp col,b/w ISBN 1 873331134
Recent Conference presentations
2011 - AinsleyHardingMoffat, DundeeContemporaryArts, Scotland
2011 – Pecha Kucha, Current Affairs, Tramway, Glasgow, curated Katy West
2009 - AN idea of North, Northumbria University
Current Panels - Artistic advisor to Cove Park, Argyll
Recent Panel Membership
Selection Advisor to Durham Cathedral Resisency
Glasgow Visual Arts Committee Awards panel
Collections
The Scottish Arts Council, The British Council, Arts Council of England, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, England, Stirling District Council, Sammlung Hauser & Wirth, St Gallen, Hamburg Kunsthalle
Collection Lambert, Avignon, France, Private Collections, Switzerland, Germany, UK, France, USA, Hong Kong,
Awards
2011 - RSA RESIDENCIES FOR SCOTLAND 2011 AWARDS
2007 - Creative Scotland Award
2004 - SAC Creative Development Award
2001 - Art Statements, Basel Art Fair, Baloise Prize
2000 - Scottish Arts Council, Artist Award
1999 - Arendt Oetker Atelier Stipendium, Gelerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst,
Leipzig
1998-2000 - Paul Hamlyn Award
1997 - Scottish Arts Council, Artist Award
1994 - Scottish Arts Council. Amsterdam Residency '94 - '95
Essays Published
Commissioned to make covers for “The Drouth” Magazine(Autumn 2010) and Visual Cultue in Britain (Routledge)
2011 How to Secede as an Artist, for ‘Wave Cut Platform’, 83 Hill St. Glasgow
2011 When did it stop being a matter of life and death? for ‘Algebra’, Tramway journal, http://tramwayalgebra.com/issue1.html
2009 S. Mark Gubb, Interview Book by Ceri Hand Gallery, (ISBN: 0956130003
2004 Art School is Dead/Long Live Art School, A Curriculum for Artists, Ruskin, Oxford University
2003 A long journey towards this exact moment ; The Mirrored Catalogue D’oiseaux, by Dave Allen, Boileau & Narcejac 7” single, sleeve notes
2002 From Gnomic to Quixotic in 5000 years, History, Geography and Henry Viii’s Wives, Tramway, Glasgow
2002 - What’s in a Decade?, Circles, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Ed, Christoph Keller 2000 Politics, Loyalty and the Class of ‘84, Roddy Buchanan, DCA, Scotland
2000 - Deja-Vu, Douglas Gordon, Musee d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Museum Keys - interview,
2000 - Music can Save your Life : Art can Save your Life
Make it Funky, Strategies between Pop and Avant-Garde in Music and Visual Arts in 20th Century Ed. Markus Muller/Ulrike Groos, Oktagon, Cologne –
Selected Bibliography
Map Magazine No 6 Summer 2006 cover feature Ross Sinclair:Real Life Scenario http://mapmagazine.co.uk/map-6/feature/ross-sinclair-real-life-scena/
Frieze, (UK) issue 62, October 2001, p 93, Dan Fox, Fortress Real Life, South London Gallery
Terria Coleste(Italy) 8/2001 p89 Jennifer Coates, Fortress Real Life, South London Gallery
Esquire(UK) July 2001, pp44/45, Louisa Buck, “Lifes what you make it”
Frieze, Issue 54 sept/Oct 2000, If I ruled The world, Neil Mullholland
Kunst Bulletin(SWZ) No.10 October 1999, Feature Raimai Stange pp12-17
Art Monthly(UK) 237 June 2000, Journey to the Edge of the World,John Molyneux, p 32
Art Monthly 235 April 2000, The Blue Chamber,Laura Moffat p 39
Flash Art Hamnavoe Free State(London Office), Robert Montgomery, 12/99
Artforum(USA) Hamnavoe Free State(London Office) Michael Archer, Sept 99
Untitled Magazine Interview with Nancy Hines, Nov 99 pp26/27
The Guardian- Journey to the Edge of the World, preview, Jonathan Jones, 23/9/99
Contemporary Visual Arts - Word Enough, Review - Sept 99
I-D Magazine- Aug 99 issue 189, p68
The Guardian- I Love Real Life/Hamnavoe Free State, Adrian Searle, 31/6/99
Kunstforum (D) No.143 Jan/Feb99 lebenkunst als Real Life - Insert feature
World Art - issue 19, Dec 98 3-chord Art Richard Holt pp42-45
Neue Bildene Kunst 5.98 Die Mauer Muss Wieder her pp23-29 Martin Pesch
Art Monthly - This Island Earth, Mike Ellis, Sept, '98
Frieze Magazine - Real Life Rocky Mountain, CCA Glasgow, Francis McKee July/Aug 96
Frieze Magazine - Institute of Cultural Anxiety, I.C.A. London, S. Morgan March/Ap 95
Art Monthly - Real Life Rocky Mountain, CCA Glasgow, Melissa Feldman June 96
Art Monthly - Shift, De Appel, Michael Gibbs, June 1995
Flash Art - Cityscape Glasgow, Interview, Judith Findlay May/June 1996
Flash Art - Museum of Despair, News, November/December1994
Group Publications
2011 Nothing in the World But Youth, Turner Contemporary, Margate
2010 More Than A T-Shirt, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Germany ?
2010 20 Reasons We Still need Superman, Rogue Art, KualaLumpur, Vitamin, Guangzhou, China, HongKong Arts Centre, UCCA Beijing, Mumbai, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietman,G.C. Yard, Lhasa, Tibet, Space A, Ulaan ?
2009/10I-LandsBrandts Kunsthallen, Odense, Fuglsang Kunstmuseum,
2008 No Leftovers, Kunsthalle Bern
2006 Sculpture project Wiesbaden, Germany
2005 Commission for Aichi World Expo, British Pavillion, Nagoya, Japan
2005 Critical Societies - Badischer Kunstverein, Karsruhe, Germany
2004 ‘Shake’ Villa Arson, Nice
2004 Glenfiddich Residency, Dufftown, Scotland
2003 Northern Grammar, Solvberget Stavanger Kulturhaus, Norway
2003 Bad Behaviour, Arts Council Collection, touring
2003 Skin Deep,Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, di trento e
2002 Greyscale/CMYK, Tramway, Glasgow
2002 Happy Outsiders, Galeria Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland
2002- For Those About to Rock, Milton Keynes Gallery
2002 - Words – Arts Council of England
2001 Art and Artifact, The Museum as Medium, James Putnam, Thames and Hudson
2001- Zero Gravity, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Palazzo Delle Esposizioni, Roma
2001- Here and Now – Scottish Art 1990–2001, Dundee Contemporary Arts,Scotland
2001* Circles, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
2000/1 - Black Box Recorder, British Council, Touring, Europe
2000* PICAF 2000, Pusan Art Festival, Pusan, Korea
2000- If I Ruled The World, CCA Glasgow
2000- LKW, Kunsthaus, Bregenz, Austria
2000- Neues Leben, Expo, Leipzig
2000 - Living in the Real World, Museum Dhont Dhanens,Ghent, Belgium
2000 - Landscape, British Council, touring
2000 - The Blue Chamber, Duff House, Banff, Scotland
Contributer to Magazines ;
Art Monthly (London)
Frieze Magazine (London)
Real Life Magazine (L.A.)
Creative Camera (London)
Flash Art (Italy),
B.E. Magazine (Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin)
Art Press (Paris)
Casco(Netherlands)
Kunstforum(Berlin)
Visiting Artist, Oslo Art Academy, 1998, - Visiting Artist, Grays School of Art, Aberdeen,'96/ - 2007,Visiting Artist,Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent '96 - Visiting Artist MFA Glasgow School of Art - Visiting Artist,MFA Edinburgh School of Art '95 - '96 - Visiting Artist, Duncan of Jordanstoun School of Art, Dundee '94 - '95
Visiting Artist Malmo Art Academy, Sweden '95-'96 - Artist in Residence, Glasgow School of Art 1994(affiliated to Painting Departiment) - Visiting Artist MFA University of Ulster at Belfast '93-94'