Matthew Darbyshire

 

 

Born 1977, Cambridge, UK

Lives and works in London, UK

 

 

Education

 

2005                Post-Graduate Diploma, Royal Academy Schools, London, UK

2000                BA (hons) Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK

1996                Foundation Course, Ipswich Art School, UK, UK

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2013                Taro Nasu at G-Tokyo Art Fair, Tokyo, JP

                        Bloomberg Space, London, UK

                        Sculpture commission, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK

                        Sculpture commission, Frac Nord pas de Calais, Dunkerque, FR

                        Big Shed, Iken, UK

                        Call of the Mall, sculpture commission, Hoog Catharijne, Utrecht

                        Sculpture commission, Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK

 

2012                T Rooms Pt II, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK (cat)

                        T Rooms, Tramway, Glasgow, UK

Jousse Enterprise, Paris, FR

                        Stanley Picker Fellowship in Fine Art, The Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston

University, London, UK

 

2011                Taro Nasu, Tokyo, JP

                        Leeds Met Gallery and Studio, Leeds, UK

                        Herald St (with Scott King), London, UK

           

2010                ELIS, Herald St, London, UK

                        Frieze Foundation commission, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK

 

2009                Funhouse, curated by Tom Morton, Hayward Project Space, London, UK

                        Furniture Islands, Outpost, Norwich, UK

 

2008                Nought to Sixty, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK

                        Blades House, Gasworks, London, UK

 

2007                Recreate (with Richard Wilson), Pumphouse Gallery, London, UK

 

2004                Urban Pastoral, Relais De La Baie, FR

 

 

Group Exhibitions

 

2013                The World Is Almost Six Thousand Years Old, The Collection, Lincolnshire, UK

                        Air de Pied-à-terre, Curated by Lisa Cooley & Alan Reid, Lisa Cooley, New York,

US

                        Jousse Entreprise, Paris, FR

                        Limbo, Margate, UK

                        James Fuentes, New York, US

                        Illums Bolighus, Copenhagen, DK

                        Parade Garage at Eighty One Curtain Road, London

 

2012                Summer Exhibition 2012, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK

                        No More Icons, Blackfriars, London, UK

                        SNAP! Aldeburgh Festival, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, UK

                        6 Chairs, Art House Foundation, London, UK

                        You Are Not Alone, curated by Hilde Teerlinck, Bangkok Art and Cultural

Centre, TH

                        Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK

 

 

2011                Nothing in the World but Youth, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK

                        You Are Not Alone, curated by Hilde Teerlinck, Miro Foundation, Barcelona, ESP

                        You Are Not Alone, curated by Hilde Teerlinck, MARCO, Museum of Contemporary

Art, Vigo, ESP

 

                        The Shape We’re In, Zabludowicz Collection, London, New York

                        The British Art Show, curated by Tom Morton and Lisa Le Feuvre,

                        The Hayward gallery, London; Glasgow; Plymouth, UK touring (cat)

 

2010                Recent British Sculpture, Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, NL

                        The Camo Show, Cardi Black Box, Milan, IT

                        The British Art Show, curated by Tom Morton and Lisa Le Feuvre,

                        Nottingham Contemporary, UK touring (cat)

                        Newspeak, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (cat)

                        Herald St, Taro Nasu, Tokyo, JP

                        Paul McCarthy’s Cap, Peles Empire, London, UK

 

2009                Altermodern Tate Triennial 2009, Curated by Nicholas Bourriaud, Tate Britain,

London, UK (cat)

                        OTHER WORLDS: THE HAYWARD GALLERY PROJECT SPACE IN SOUTH KOREA,

Curated by Tom Morton, Platform 2009, Seoul, KR

                        Eat Me – Drink Me, The Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, TX

 

 

2008                White Columns, (screening), New York, NY

                        Le Chant du Rossignol, Matthew Darbyshire and Sam Gunn, (screening), Herald

St, London, UK

                        Matthew Darbyshire, Jess Flood–Paddock, William Hunt, curated by Sasha

Cradock, Sadlers Wells, London, UK

 

2007                Deutsche Bank Pyramid, National Theatre, London; Deutsche Bank, London

                        Supernova, Art Basel, Miami, FL

                        ReMap[KM], IBID PROJECTS, Athens, Greece, GR

                        Matthew Darbyshire, Djordje Ozbolt and Alexander Tucker, Parade Gallery,

London, UK

                        Itchy Park, Limehouse Studio, London, UK

 

2006                Minotaur Blood, Fortescue Avenue, London, UK

                        Internet Café (commission), Publish and be Damned, London, UK

                        Sixteen Golf Course Makers, (commission) Zoo Art Fair, London, UK

 

2005                Launderette, Ipswich Town Council Artists Gallery, Ipswich, UK

                        Open Garden, Fortescue Avenue, London, UK

                        Public Meeting To Address The Phenomenon Of Materialization, with Olivia

Plender, Man in the Holocene, London, UK

           

2004                Curb Your Enthusiasm, Millers Terrace, London, UK

                        Art School, Bloomberg Space, London, UK

 

2001                Atelier Something, Springfield Studios, London, UK

 

 

Public Collections

 

Arts Council Collection, UK

Government Art Collection, UK