Martin Boyce

(Scottish, born 1967)

we climb inside and everything else disappears by martin boyce

Martin Boyce

We climb inside and everything else disappears, 2004

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we are resistant. we dry out in the sun (large blue poolside bin) by martin boyce

Martin Boyce

We are Resistant. We Dry Out in the Sun (Large blue poolside bin), 2004

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we are sun-kissed and snow-blind by martin boyce

Martin Boyce

We Are Sun-kissed and Snow-blind, 2005

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our love is like the flowers, the rain, the seas and the hours (red bench) by martin boyce

Martin Boyce

Our Love is Like the Flowers, the Rain, the Seas and the Hours (Red Bench), 2003

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while on the roof (3) by martin boyce

Martin Boyce

While on the Roof (3), 2015

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while on the roof (2) by martin boyce

Martin Boyce

While on the Roof (2), 2015

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Martin Boyce

Same Day, 2015

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chair (noir) by martin boyce

Martin Boyce

Chair (Noir), 1999

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phantom mask by martin boyce

Martin Boyce

Phantom Mask, 2003

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Martin Boyce

Concrete Autumn (Phantom Tree), 2005

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Martin Boyce

Fathomless Seas, 2020

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here come the waves by martin boyce

Martin Boyce

Here Come the Waves, 2020

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Biography

Timeline

1967
Born in Glasgow, UK
1986 - 1990
Received BA Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
1995 - 1997
Received MFA, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
1996
Studied at California Institute for the Arts, Valencia/CA, USA
2004
Received Hamlyn Foundation Award
Awarded Adolf Luther Stingfeld, Krefeld, Germany
2005
Awarded Universitat Der Kunste Fellowship, Berlin, Germany
2009
Received Commission for Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
2011
Won Turner Prize
Lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland

Exhibitions

2018
Martin Boyce Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester University, Whitworth, WA(solo exhibition)
2017
Martin Boyce Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
EUROVISIONS: Contemporary art from the Goldberg Collection, National Art School, Sydney, Australia (touring to Heidie Museum, Melbourne and Canberra Regional Museum in 2018).(solo exhibition)
Spotlight: Do Words Have Voices,2011, Tate Britain, London, England(solo exhibition)
I am not my target audience, Kunsthaus Dresden - Städtische Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Dresden, Germany
True Faith, curated by Matthew Higgs, Manchester, International Festival, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England
CONDO, The Modern Institute at Herald St, London, England
EUROVISIONS: Contemporary art from the Goldberg Collection, National Art School, Sydney, Australia
2016
Martin Boyce Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Spook School, CAPRI, Düsseldorf, Germany(solo exhibition)
Gasträume 2016, Zurich, Switzerland(solo exhibition)
L’Esprit Du Bauhaus, L’Objet en Question, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, France
My love is like a red red rose, Musée du château des ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard, France
The Body Extended: Sculpture and Prosthetics, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England
New Past: Contemporary Art from Britain, Gallery of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Comic Invention, Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Grey Gardens, DCA, Dundee, Scotland
How to live? Visions of the future yesterday and today, Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
Devil’s in the Making: Glasgow School of Art and The Collection, GOMA, Glasgow, Scotland
2015
Martin Boyce Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Martin Boyce, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel, Switzerland(solo exhibition)
Martin Boyce: When Now is Night, RISD Museum, Providence, RI(solo exhibition)
Inside rooms drift in and out of sleep / While on the roof / An alphabet of aerials / Search for a language, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Germany(solo exhibition)
Stellar Remnants, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany(solo exhibition)
How to live? Visions of the future yesterday and today, Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
Devil’s in the Making: Glasgow School of Art and The Collection, GOMA, Glasgow, Scotland
NOTES ON SCULPTURE A plea for deceleration, curated by Friederike Nymphius on the occasion of 'curated by Vienna 2015', Galerie Krobath, Vienna, Austria
Collection: Thoughts That Breathe, Fondation Hippocrène, Paris, France
Private Utopia: Contemporary Works from the British Council Collection, The Museum Of Art, Kochi, India; travelling to Itami City Museum Of Art, Itami, Japan; Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan; traveling to Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
Archive Fever!, The Clay and Glass Gallery, Ontario, Canada
The Tears of Things, Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
Unfinished…Works from the Courtauld Gallery, The Courtauld Gallery, London, England
Works on Paper, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
2014
Martin Boyce Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Stellar Remnants, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany(solo exhibition)
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Germany(solo exhibition)
Billboard for Edinburgh: Martin Boyce, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland(solo exhibition)
What is contemporary in contemporary art?, Mário Sequeira Gallery, Braga, Portugal
Archive Fever!, The Clay and Glass Gallery, Ontario, Canada
Groupshow, Flex, Berlin
Urban/Suburban, City Art Centre in conjunction with GENERATION 2014, Edinburgh, England
GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Discordia, Patricia Fleming Projects in conjunction with GENERATION 2014, Glasgow, Scotland
The Bigger Picture: Work from the 1990s, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
The Tears of Things, Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
No Such Thing As History, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Munich, Germany
Infinite City, Zabludowicz Collection, London, England
That Petrol Emotion, Metropolitan Art Society, Beirut, Lebanon
Private Utopia: Contemporary Works from the British Council Collection, British Council touring exhibition; moved to Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo; Itami City Museum of Art, Itamy; The Museum of Art, Kochi; Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, three-part exhibition at Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland, and Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
between the lines, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
You Imagine What You Desire, 19th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2013
Martin Boyce Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Martin Boyce: It’s Over and Over, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
All Over / Again / and Again, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland(solo exhibition)
Solo presentation at the ADAA Art Show, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery booth, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Study: Eyes, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, England(solo exhibition)
The Modern Institute, Aird's Lane, Glasgow, Scotland(solo exhibition)
Flaques D’Ombre et Feuilles de Lumiere (Shadow Pools and Leaves of Light), Lyon, France(solo exhibition)
When Now is Minimal. The Unknown Side of the Goetz Collection, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Show and Tell: Calder Jewelry and Mobiles, Salon 94, New York, NY
/prospekt/ Funktion / Disfunktion – Kunstzentrum Glasgow, Neues Museum, Nürnberg, Germany
Out of the House, Cranford Collection, Sala de Arte, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain
The World is Almost Six Thousand Years Old: Contemporary Art and Archaeology from the Stone Age to the Present, The Collection Lincoln and Usher Gallery, Lincoln, England
39greatjones, Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Flaques D’Ombre et Feuilles De Lumiere (Shadow Pools And Leaves Of Light), Public Art Project, Lyon, France
City of Disappearances, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
40/40, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, Scotland
When Now is Minimal. The Unknown Side of the Goetz Collection, Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany
A Puppet, a Pauper, a Pirate, a Poet, a Pawn and a King, From the Naomi Milgrom Art Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Sunt lacrimae rerum, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte, Torino, Italy
Novecento mai visto (The 20th century as never seen before), Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia, Italy
The Art Show, organized by the Art Dealers Association of America, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
Kabinettstücke / Cabinet Pieces, Museumsfreunde Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
2012
Martin Boyce Selected Exhibitions in 2012:
In Praise of Shadows, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany(solo exhibition)
Scarecrows & Lighthouses, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland(solo exhibition)
Kabinettstücke / Cabinet Pieces, Museumsfreunde Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
the spirit level, curated by Ugo Rondinone, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Scarecrows & Lighthouses: a collaboration between Martin Boyce, Raymond Macdonald and David Mackenzie, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
The Sculpture Show, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, England
KölnSkulptur 6, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany
New Sculpture, Zaçheta Narodowa, Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw, Poland
Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form Balance Joy. Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Durham, NC
Tales of the City: Art Fund International and the GoMA Collection, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Perspectives on 8th Art, Tony Garnier Urban Museum, Lyon, France
The same thing, but different – on the impossibility of repetition, curated by Christian Ganzenberg, Andrae Kaufmann, Berlin, Germany
Bitume Et Astres Dansent. Parfois, Dans Le Pure Peur, Eva Presenhuber, Paris, France
Common Ground, curated by Thomas Demand, 13th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Painting Now, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Kabinettstücke | Cabinet Pieces, Museumsfreunde Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
British Modern Remade: An Arts Council Collection Exhibition, Ground Floor and Apartments 32 and 33, Sheffield, England
méandres, Cultural Centre Pierre Tassin, Givet, France
Positions of Conceptual Art, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
Conceptual Tendencies: 1960s to Today, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Baltic Presents Turner Prize 2011, Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
Made in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2011
Martin Boyce Selected Exhibitions in 2011:
night terrace – lantern chains – forgotten seas – sky, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland(solo exhibition)
Through Layers and Leaves (Closer and Closer), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA(solo exhibition)
Conceptual Tendencies: 1960s to Today, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Baltic Presents Turner Prize 2011, Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
Made in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
La Carte d’après Nature, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco; Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
Tales of the City: Art Fund International And the GoMA Collection, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
The Sculpture Show, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Breitseite – In focus: space, Galerien der Stadt, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany
Shapes, Sammlung Haubrok, Berlin, Germany
Modern British Sculpture, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
The Shape We’re In, The New Grafton Gallery, London, England
Art & Stars & Cars: The Daimler Art Collection at the Mercedez-Benz Museum Stuttgart, Mercedez-Benz Museum, Stuttgart, Germany
KölnSkulptur 6, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany
Distant Star, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Sculpture Now, Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Emblem of My Work, Shandy Hall Gallery, Coxwold, England
Nothing in the World but Youth, Turner Contemporary, Margate, England
KölnSkulptur 6, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany
SHAPES, Sammlung Haubrok, Berlin, Germany
2010
Martin Boyce Selected Exhibitions in 2010:
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France (3 person show with Victoria Morton and Eva Rothschild)(solo exhibition)
A Library of Leaves, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland(solo exhibition)
No Reflections, Scottish Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; traveling to DCA, Dundee, Scotland(solo exhibition)
Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form Balance Joy. Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Durham, NC
The New Décor, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, England; traveling to the Garage Centre, Moscow, Russia
Ordinary Madness, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
The 4th Auckland Triennial: Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon, Auckland, New Zealand
Last Ride in a Hot Air Ballon, 4th Auckland Triennial, Auckland, New Zealand
The Library of Babel / In and of Place, Zabludowicz Collection, London, England
Living Rooms/Pieces a Vivre, Centre d’art contemporain de Brétigny- Chamarande, Chamarande, France
HIGH IDEALS & CRAZY DREAMS, Vera Munro Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Multiple Pleasure: Functional Objects in Contemporary Art, curated by Nathalie Karg/Cumulus Studios, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
Parkliv, Marabouparken, Stockholm, Sweden
La Carte d’aprés Nature, curated by Thomas Demand, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco
Memories of the Future, curated by Laurent Grasso, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
Missing Beat, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
High Ideals & Crazy Dreams, Vera Munro Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Silent Revolution, K21, Dusseldorf, Germany
Permanent trouble kunst aus de Sammlung kopp München, Kunstforum
Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, Germany
Dans la Forêt, Frac-Collection Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France
What you see is where you’re at, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, England
2009
Martin Boyce Selected Exhibitions in 2009:
No Reflections, Scottish Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; traveling to DCA, Dundee, Scotland(solo exhibition)
What you see is where you’re at, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, England
Being and Nothingness, Light & Sie Gallery, Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, TX
The Eternal Nework, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, France
Concrete Island (room 30), Tate Britain, London, England
Material Intelligence, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge; traveling to Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield, England
TONITE, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland
Summer Show, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
Running Time: Artists Films in Scotland 1960 to Now, Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, England
Geoplay (Part II), Pilar Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain
We Are Sun-kissed and Snow-blind, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France

Public Collections

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
SNGMA, Edinburgh, England
Space for Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
TATE, London, England
Zabludowicz Collection, London, England
British Council, London, England
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
European Patent Office, Zurich, Switzerland
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
FRAC, Bourgogne, France

Literature

2006
Royal College of Art, Again for Tomorrow, Royal College of Art, London, 2006
2005
Lunn, Felicity, Martin Boyce: Reviews - Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, in: Artforum International Magazine, XLIII, No. 5, January, 2005, p. 192
2004
Derieux, Florence, Martin Boyce, géomètre, in: Art Press, September 2004
Mansfield, Susan, Martin Boyce, in: The Scotsman, 22 May 2004
Iain Gale, in: The Scotsman, 14 May 2004
Mottram, in: The List, 29 April – 13 May 2004
2003
Larsen, Lars Bang, Martin Boyce. Tramway, in: Artforum International, summer 2003, No.10, p.202
Fabricius, Jacob, in: Flash Art, May / June 200
2002
Dorment, Richard, in: The Daily Telegraph, 15th January 2002
Garavelli, Dani, in: Scotland on Sunday, 17th November 2002