Tony Swain

 

 

Born 1967, Lisburn, IE

Lives and works in Glasgow, UK

 

 

Education

 

1986                Liverpool School of Art, UK

1990                BA (Hons) Glasgow School of Art, UK

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2012                Drowned Dust, Sudden Word, Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, UK (cat)

                        Aerated Bread Company, The Duchy Gallery, Glasgow, UK

 

2011                Afterwards in Pictures, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK

 

2010                Recollection has not been mentioned, Herald St, London, UK

 

2009                Temperature is here too, Art Now, Tate Britain, London, UK

 

2008                Impure Passports, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, UK

 

2007                Soon Divided And So On, Herald St, London, UK

                        To Get Her, Marianne Boesky, Project Space, New York, NY

 

2006                The Flashes That Came to Stand For Us, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK

                        Not New Went On, Millais Gallery, Southampton, UK

 

2005                Never Even, Herald St, London, UK

                        You Have Decorated Me The Wrong Colour, Kerlin Gallery, Belfast, IRL

 

2004                Water Through Window, Husband, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK

 

 

Group Exhibitions

 

2012                Ever Since I Put Your Picture In A Frame, Glasgow International Festival of

Contemporary Art, 42 Carlton Place, Glasgow, UK

                        La Cinquieme Saison, Mediatheque Espace Culturel, Saint Jean de Monts,

 

2011                Creating the New Century, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH

                        Transmitter / Receiver: The Persistence of Collage, Arts Council Collection,

Hayward Touring, UK

 

2010                Restore Us and Regain, Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art, UK

                        Glasgow International, Le drapeau noir, Glasgow, UK

 

2009                Primitif Complique, Galerie les filles du clavaire, Brussels, BE      

 

2007                52nd Venice Biennale, Scottish Pavilion, ITA

                        Like Leaves, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY

                        Scotland and Venice 2007, Aberdeen Art Gallery, UK

 

2006                Down With You, Bankley Studios & Gallery, Manchester, UK

                        JaGGy-edge, The Travelling Gallery, touring Scotland, UK

                        Falansterio, Supportico Lopez, Naples, ITA

                        Life’s A Beach, Sommer Gallery, Tel Aviv, ISR

                        The Three Cities: Berlin, Milan, London, Anna-Catherina Gebbers, Berlin, DE

           

2005                Herald St and The Modern Institute present, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise,

                        New York, NY

                        Supernova, British Council group touring show: City Gallery, Prague, Tallinn,

Kunstihoone, EST, CCA Kiev, ESPOO, FIN

                        Prisms & Shadows, (curated by Toby Paterson) Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, UK

 

2004                JP Munro, Alex Pollard, Tony Swain, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK

                        Mark Garry, Tony Swain, Andrew Vickery, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, IRE

                        Glasgow Art Fair, Switchspace, UK

                        Curb Your Enthusiasm, Millers Terrace, London, UK

 

 

Public Collections

 

Tate Collection, London UK