Lucy Skaer

Born:
1975
Residence:
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Nationality:
British
Trust:
APT London
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  • We select the shows the art world will be watching this week, including a hotly-anticipated Basquiat solo in London and a focus on refugees in Amsterdam

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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • The New York gallery firmament continues to fracture with an announcement by Murray Guy today that it will close after 18 years in business.

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  • Two solo exhibitions showcasing outstanding works of renowned artist Lucy Skaer will be on view at both the gallery spaces of Grimm Gallery in Amsterdam, from January 12, through February 25, 2017.

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  • At the invitation of François Piron, curator of this 5th Ateliers de Rennes Biennale, the works of 29 international artists, some recognized, others emerging, from different generations are being brought together in a dozen solo and group shows in Rennes and in Brittany.

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  • The Paul Hamlyn Foundation has announced the eight recipients of the twenty-second edition of its Awards for Artists, which was established to support visual artists and composers based in the UK.

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  • Paul Hamlyn Foundation (PHF) is proud to announce the recipients of Awards for Artists 2016 following a reception hosted at our offices in London on 10 November 2016.

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  • In the Belly of the Whale September 9–December 31, 2016 Drawing from the biblical story of “Jonah and the Whale”—in which the prophet’s resolve an

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  • Once a year, the Fonds Canson pour l’Art et le Papier gives its Prix Canson to one artist in honor of his or her work on paper.

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  • Britain’s Tate has revealed highlights of its 2016 exhibition program, announcing major exhibitions devoted to some of the most important artists of the 20th century including Francis Bacon, Georgia O’Keefe, Robert Rauschenberg, and Paul Nash.

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  • A heap of dust made from the remains of an atomised passenger jet engine and a sperm whale skull are among the works by artists nominated for a top British prize on show at an exhibition from Monday.

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  • Exhibition: Turner Prize 2009 Exhibition, Tate Britain, until January 3 2010 Turner Prize art rarely speaks for itself. A deformed lump of

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  • Seattle Art Museum has done a striking thing. It has removed all works by modern male artists from its galleries and filled them with works by 20th-

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  • Seattle Art Museum has done a striking thing. It has removed all works by modern male artists from its galleries and filled them with works by 20th-

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  • Since the 1980s, a number of contemporary artists working in photography, film, and video have taken as their subject the art museum and how we view

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  • “A proposal for Mount Stuart” is Lucy Skaer’s first solo project in Scotland since her Turner Prize nomination and exhibition at Tate Britain in 2009.

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  • Facing out from the entrance of The Space Between, (the title given to the recent rehang of the Tate’s contemporary collection) kneels a disfigured

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  • As a new exhibition tracing 500 years of physical attacks on British art opens at the Tate, artists including Douglas Gordon, Michael Landy, Jake and Dinos Chapman and Mark Wallinger

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  • A sculptor who turned a derelict flat in south London into a cave of blue crystals was among four artists nominated Tuesday for the Turner Prize, contemporary art's most prestigious award.

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  • Paradoxically, exhibiting artists that rage against the institution within the institution is both non-ironic and particularly vogue.

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BIOGRAPHY

Born in Cambridge in 1975, Lucy Skaer lives and works in Glasgow and London. Skaer uses a range of media, including drawing, sculpture and video. Her multi-layered pieces oscillate between the symbolic and the documentary, weaving together images drawn from the media, pictorial motifs, diagrams, heraldic elements, etc. into complex works that require attentive reading. Aside from developing her own practice, Skaer has collaborated with Rosalind Nashashibi on projects including “Flash at the Metropolitan,” exhibited as part of the 3rd Biennial for Video Art, Mechelen, Belgium (2007), and is also a founding member of the artist group 'Henry VIII’s Wives'.

Lucy Skaer has recently presented solo exhibitions at Harlequin Is As Harlequin Does, Murray Guy, New York and Scene, Hold, Ballast: David Maljkovic and Lucy Skaer, Sculpture Center, New York (2012), Rachel, Peter, Caitlin, John, Art Unlimited, Art | 42 | Basel Galerie Nelson Freeman, Paris (2011), Rachel, Peter, Caitlin, John, Location One, New York (2010), Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2009), Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2008), The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2008) and “The Siege at Chisenhale Gallery, London (2008). She was one of the artists representing Scotland as part of “Zenomap” at the 50th Venice Biennale (2003) as well as in the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007). Her work has also been shown as part of “For the Blind Man in the Dark Room Looking for the Black Cat That Isn’t There” at ICA – Institute of Contemporary Art, London and Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St Louis (2009-10), “Heaven”, the 2nd Athens Biennial, Athens (2009), “New Work UK: You and Me” at Whitechapel Gallery, London (2007) and “If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution” at De Appel, Amsterdam (2006). She has been short-listed for the 2003 Beck’s Futures Prize at ICA, London and CCA, Glasgow, as well as for the 2009 edition of the Turner Prize at Tate Britain, London.

Lucy Skaer is represented by Murray Guy, New York and Nelson-Freeman, Paris.


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