Dates:
born   1976
Biography: biography as of 2004 for New
Contemporaries


b. 1976 London

2001-2003 MA Fine Art Media, Slade
School of Fine Art, University
College London

1995-1998 BA (hons) Sculpture, Chelsea
College of Art, London


Recent Exhibitions


2004

Romantic Detachment, Grizedale
Arts and The Henry Moore Foundation,
PS1 Gallery, New York

2004

Ethnic Marketing, Centre d'Art
Contemporain, Geneva

I Almost Feel Like Doing it
Again
, curated by Barnaby Drabble,
K3 Project Space, Zurich

Margate Rocks, The 4th Thanet
Contemporary Arts Festival

Agora, Transition Gallery, London

Body-Con: Conscious Bodies,
touring Japan

Tempered Ground, Museum of
Garden History, London

Itchy Park, Limehouse Town Hall,
London

It is Hard to Touch the Real,
video art festival, Kunstverein Munich

Mostyn Open, prize-winner, Oriel
Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno

Artists' Films on Music Culture,
National Film Theatre in collaboration
with Hayward Gallery

Emergency, Aspex Gallery,
Portsmouth


2003

Nothing Special, curated by
Claire Doherty, FACT, Liverpool

Cambridge Film Festival,
shortlisted for the People's Prize

Beck's Futures, Beck's Student
Prize for Film and Video, ICA
London and CCA Glasgow


2002

Beck's Futures, Beck's Student
Prize for Film and Video, Prize Winner,
ICA London


1999

New Contemporaries 1999,
Liverpool Biennial and touring


Recent Commissions and Residencies


2004-2005

Radio Nights, Artangel
Interaction commission

Alien, commission for Ip-art 04
Festival, University of East Anglia and
Artsroute
Artist's residency, Grizedale Arts

2003

Ya Get Me, film made in
collaboration with Avenues Youth Club
North London, Artangel Interaction
commission

What Makes Me Me?
commissioned by Danielle Arnaud
Gallery and Lambeth Council for the
Vauxhall Festival
Source:Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2004, exhibition catalogue
Date of source:2004

Biography: biography as of 2008 for Liverpool
Biennial


David Blandy
Born 1976, London
Lives and works in London


Selected Solo Exhibitions


2008

Artprojx Do jo, Artprojx Space, London


2007

Fortress of Solitude, Jerwood Platform
for Artists, Cell Project Space, London

The Way of the Barefoot Lone Pilgrim,
Platform China, Project Space, Beijing


Selected Group Exhibitions and
Screenings



2008

Tatton Park Biennial, Cheshire Far
West, Arnolfini, Bristol

Phenomena, Pori
Art Museum, Finland

Artprojx Hi Fi, Anthology Film Archives,
The Armory Show, New York


2007

Artprojx Hi Fi presents, Art in Marrakech,
Theatre Royal de Marrakech, Marrakech

À la Chinoise, Microwave International
New Media Arts Festival, Hong Kong

The Great Escape - New Art from
London
, White Flag Projects, St Louis

Konst på Bio, Biografen Sture,
Stockholm

A Second Life, Stadtgalerie, Bern

Big Family Business, IMC Buildings,
Istanbul

Artradio, Cornerhouse, Manchester

About Turn, Kunstverein Braunschweig

The Communism of Form: Sound +
Image + Time
, Galeria Vermelho, São
Paulo

Role Model, The John Institute, Zurich


2006

Street: behind the cliché, Witte de With,
Rotterdam

Because the Night, Artangel interaction,
Bethnal Green Town Hall, London

100 Tage=100 Videos, Kunstverein
Heidelberg

[Incorporaciones+Polesello] Recientes,
Macro-Museo de arte contemporáneo de
Rosario, Rosario

The Mothership Collective, South
London Gallery, London

FILMPERFORMANCE, Modern Art
Oxford, Oxford

Kill your Timid Notion, Dundee
Contemporary Arts, Dundee


2005

About Time, Nordjyllands
Kunstmuseum, Denmark

Projekt Migration, Kölnischer
Kunstverein, Cologne

Faltering Flame: Aspects of the Human
Condition in Contemporary Art
, Graves
Art Gallery, Sheffield

Romantic Detachment, PS1 Gallery,
New York

New Contemporaries, Liverpool Biennial
and Barbican, London


2004

Ethnic Marketing, Centre d'art
Contemporain, Geneva

Body-Con: conscious bodies, touring
exhibition, AIT, Tokyo

Artist's Films on Music Culture, National
Film Theatre in collaboration with the
Hayward Gallery, London


2003/4

Domestico 03, Central Gallery, Madrid

Nothing Special, FACT, Liverpool


2003

Family Business, Pittshanger, Manor
Gallery, London

New Video, Galleria Morcilla, Barcelona


2002

Someone must have been telling lies,
Forde Espace, Geneva


Further Reading


Haines, Bruce, 'The Barefoot Lone
Pilgrim', Untitled magazine, 2004

Morton, Tom, Jerwood Artist Platform,
2008

Coxhead, Gabriel, 'What is Soul', for
Phenomena, Pori Art Museum, Finland,
2008




Source:International 08 Made Up, Liverpool Biennial Catalogue
Date of source:2008

Web Page: www.davidblandy.co.uk
Gender: Male
Type: person
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