David Shrigley

Born:
1964
Residence:
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Nationality:
British
Trust:
APT London
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  • Three generations of artists converge within the frame of Jonathan Monk’s studio, with an exhibition aptly titled "Perfectly Concocted Context" at Che

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  • Jason Logan’s Toronto Ink Company isn’t an art project, he says, but it tells the story of its city in a vivid, ever-expanding palette.

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  • The Artist Pension Trust, a mutual assurance fund that provides long-term financial security for artists, withdrew eighteen lots from an upcoming auction at Sotheby’s London after several artists decided that the sale “was not in their best interests,” Colin Gleadell of The Telegraph reports.

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  • When Columbia Records introduced the first LPs in 1948, they didn't just change how we listen to music. They also changed how we see it by popularizing illustrated album covers. (Before WWII, most records typically came in generic sleeves.)

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  • Last week, 18 lots estimated to sell for as much as £200,000 were withdrawn from a contemporary art sale in London.

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  • The Big Issue yesterday unveiled the April 3 edition which is an art special, spearheaded by guest editor/artist Charming Baker, one of Britain’s most celebrated contemporary artists.

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  • Artworks by Heather Phillipson and Michael Rakowitz have been commissioned for Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth in London, writes The Telegraph’s Anita Singh.

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  • Wildly popular British artist David Shrigley will present the first large-scale show of his work in New Zealand, when the exhibition David Shrigley: Lose Your Mind comes to CoCA.

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  • The selection of Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) as the Manifesta 12 team for urban studies in Palermo, Sicily, has been followed up by the appointment of an international, interdisciplinary team of four creative mediators.

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  • Bob and Roberta Smith commission among 20 announced for UK event.

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  • During the first weekend of March, Independent returns to New York City for its eighth consecutive year. The fair has become known in both its New Yor

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  • In his latest show at the Museum of Human Achievement (MoHA) in East Austin, Kevin McNamee-Tweed shows 369 monoprints inspired by his travels.

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  • Forthcoming auction designed to paint a happier retirement for modern artists

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  • On 13th December, Sotheby’s London will offer for sale over 40 original illustrations by leading artists, designers, and musicians to benefit House of Illustration.

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  • The writer Eileen Myles on Twitter: “We begin to think about what resistance means.”

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  • New York is home to some of the best institutions, museums, and galleries in the world.

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  • Limited edition posters from artists including Jeremy Deller and David Shrigley, will be given away at London Tube stations next week.

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  • If you’re the sort of person that thinks money alone makes the art-world go around then leave this page immediately.

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  • Ellen Forney's first Stranger cover was also her first big break. It was 1993.

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  • A pink neon sign saying "EXIBITION" greets visitors to the "David Shrigley: Lose Your Mind" exhibit held at the Storage, matching the Storage's own pink neon sign.

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  • The 11th Fourth Plinth artwork has been unveiled in London’s Trafalgar Square by mayor Sadiq Khan.

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  • Commemorating eleven consecutive years of collaboration, the Aspen Art Museum (AAM) and Aspen Skiing Company (ASC) announce an edition of eleven images by Los Angeles–based contemporary artist Laura Owens to appear on the 2016–17 ski season lift tickets.

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  • David Shrigley’s Really Good towers over the north-west corner of Trafalgar Square, an 18-foot-high bronze hand clenched in the thumb’s-up sign, its preposterously distended thumb projecting suggestively skywards.

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  • David Shrigley the Turner Prize nominated artist unveiled his new commission for the Fourth Plinth titled, 'Really Good’, this morning in a rainy Trafalgar Square.

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  • Last week, Central Park received a new piece of statuary courtesy of the Public Art Fund and delightfully droll British artist David Shrigley.

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  • David Shrigley tells Marcus Field why his new sculpture can mean whatever you want it to mean – but it doesn't mean that.

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  • The British artist's new Manhattan public artwork pairs a permanent medium with a throwaway message.

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  • Ron Arad's Curtain Call returns to the Roundhouse and will play host to a series of concerts.

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  • Eight major artists have created official limited edition prints for Team GB at the Rio 2016 Olympics, and The Independent has secured five of each print at a special price.

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  • Ten artists have been chosen to display artworks on sites across the London Tube network, as part of Art on the Underground’s latest campaign stating London is united and open to the world following the EU referendum.

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BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1968 in Macclesfield, United Kingdom, David Shrigley lives and works in Glasgow. His drawings, books, photos, animations and sculptures mix the mundane with the absurd. Shrigley draws a universe infused with black humor and satire. With a fierce line, he depicts human doubts and uncertainties, animating the twisted scenarios of our insecurities and obsessions.

David Shrigley has recently presented solo exhibition Drawings and Paintings, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (2016), Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA (2016), David Shrigley, Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland Arts Festival, Auckland, New Zealand (2015),  Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA (2015)  Museum M, Leuven, Belgium (2010), Anton Kern Gallery, New York (2010), Kelvingrove, Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow International, Glasgow (2010), Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen (2009), Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz (2009), Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (2009), Fumetto, Kunstmuseum, Luzern (2009) and Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich (2009). His work has been shown in numerous museums and international exhibitions including “Life on Mars”, the 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (2008), “Laughing in a Foreign Language” at Hayward Gallery, London (2008), “Learn to Read” at Level 2 Gallery, Tate Modern, London (2007), “The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now” at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2006), and “State of Play,” at the Serpentine Gallery, London (2004).

Shrigley, has been shortlisted to win the 2013 Turner Prize.

David Shrigley is represented by Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern, Stephen Friedman, London and Anton Kern Gallery, New York.


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