Ross Sinclair
Born
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C.V. 2011
12/4/66 Glasgow, Scotland., UK + 44 (0)7909992344
REALIFERS@aol.com www.rosssinclair.co.uk
1990 - 1992
1992
1984-1990
MFA Glasgow School of Art,
California Institute of the Arts(Cal - Arts)
BA Hons. Glasgow School of Art (Environmental Art Dept)
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Career (since 1995) Lecturer(p/t), Glasgow School of Art
Since 2000
Research Fellow/Academic Researcher, Glasgow School of Art
2009
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External Examiner, Nottingham Trent University, (Emergency)
PHD examining/supervision
2012
Internal examiner Rory Harron – title
2006 SEDA
Supervising Postgraduate Research Award
One Person Exhibitions
2011
The Real Life Gordons of Huntly, Deveron Arts, Scotland, Residency
2010
Angelika Knapper, Gallery Stockholm, Sweden
2007
Sinclair vs. Landseer, Aberdeen City Art Gallery, Scotland
2007
Among the Living Commission, Real Life and How to Live it in Pangea/Guitar
Version, Chapter, Cardiff
2006
Real Life Painting Show, CCA, Glasgow
2006
Galerie KnapperBaumgarten, Stockholm, Sweden
2004
Art Metropole, Toronto
2004
The Agency, London
2004
Gallery Van Ram, Ghent, Belgium
2004
The Real Life Rock Opera Vol. 1, Travelling Gallery, touring, Scotland
2002
Wewerke Pavillion, Munster
2002
Gallery Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
2002
The Agency, London
2002
Gallery Raffaella Cortese, Milano, Italy
2001/2
Selected Real Life, Badischer Kunstverein, Karsruhe, Germany
2001
Fortress Real Life,South London Gallery, London, England
2001
The Agency, London
2000
Galerie Knoll, Wien, Austria
2000
Journey to the Edge of the World, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, England
1999
Journey to the Edge of the World, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
1999
Hamnavoe Free State(London Office)The Agency, London
1998
A Dream of the Hamnavoe Free State, Pier Arts Centre, Orkney, Scotland
Black Switzerland vs The World, Galerie Walchaturm, Zurich, Switzerland
Group Exhibitions
2011
Nothing in the World But Youth, Turner Contemporary, Margate
2011
Birmingham Contemporary Art Forum, Slice:The Event, B42
2011
Reflecting Glenfiddich, Fleming Collection, London
2010
Artist Film & Video at BBC Scotland, BBC Scotland
2009/10
More Than A T-Shirt, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Germany
2009/10
20 Reasons We Still need Superman, Rogue Art, KualaLumpur, Vitamin,
Guangzhou, China, HongKong Arts Centre, UCCA Beijing, Mumbai,
Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietman,G.C. Yard, Lhasa, Tibet,
Space A, Ulaan
2009/10
2008
2008
2007
2007
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2006
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2005
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2005
2005
2005
2004/5
2004
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I-Lands, Brandts Kunsthallen, Odense, Fuglsang Kunstmuseum,
Lolland,
Denmark
No Leftovers, Kunsthalle Bern
Freedom Centre, Hales Gallery London
Cut ‘n’ Paste, Peleton Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Among the Living, Skateboard Project ICA, London, Mima, Middlesburgh,
Milton Keynes,
Show me the way to the Public Sphere, Sculpture project Wiesbaden,
Germany
I Love Real Life Scotland, Radiance Light festival, Rear of City Chambers,
Glasgow
Critical Societies - Badischer Kunstverein, Karsruhe, Germany
God is Bored With Us, Fast Moving Consumer Goods, London
Commission for Aichi World Expo, British Pavillion, Nagoya, Japan
Grate Britain, Cell Projects, London
Glenfiddich Residency, Dufftown, Scotland
Solo Publications
2012 – (upcoming) We Love Real Life Scotland ; Real Life Artist in Residence, Deveron Arts,
Huntly.
2004 - If North Was South and East was West, Badischer Kunstverein, 200pp
ISBN, 3-89309-106-8
2000 - Real Life and How to Live It -Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, 96pp colour ISBN 0-947912-67-3
1997 - Ross Sinclair - Real Life, CCA , Tramway, Pier Arts Centre 96 pp col,b/w ISBN 1
873331134
Recent Conference presentations
2011 - AinsleyHardingMoffat, DundeeContemporaryArts, Scotland
2011 – Pecha Kucha, Current Affairs, Tramway, Glasgow, curated Katy West
2009 - AN idea of North, Northumbria University
Current Panels - Artistic advisor to Cove Park, Argyll
Recent Panel Membership
Selection Advisor to Durham Cathedral Resisency
Glasgow Visual Arts Committee Awards panel
Collections
The Scottish Arts Council, The British Council, Arts Council of England, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull,
England, Stirling District Council, Sammlung Hauser & Wirth, St Gallen, Hamburg Kunsthalle
Collection Lambert, Avignon, France, Private Collections, Switzerland, Germany, UK, France, USA,
Hong Kong,
Awards
2011
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RSA RESIDENCIES FOR SCOTLAND 2011 AWARDS
2007
2004
2001
2000
1999
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Creative Scotland Award
SAC Creative Development Award
Art Statements, Basel Art Fair, Baloise Prize
Scottish Arts Council, Artist Award
Arendt Oetker Atelier Stipendium, Gelerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst,
Leipzig
Paul Hamlyn Award
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1998-2000
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1997
1994
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Scottish Arts Council, Artist Award
Scottish Arts Council. Amsterdam Residency '94 - '95
Essays Published
Commissioned to make covers for “The Drouth” Magazine(Autumn 2010) and Visual
Cultue in Britain (Routledge)
2011
How to Secede as an Artist, for ‘Wave Cut Platform’, 83 Hill St. Glasgow
2011
When did it stop being a matter of life and death? for
‘Algebra’,
Tramway journal,
http://tramwayalgebra.com/issue1.html
2009
2004
2003
2002
2002
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2000
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2000
S. Mark Gubb, Interview Book by Ceri Hand Gallery, (ISBN: 0956130003
Art School is Dead/Long Live Art School, A Curriculum for Artists, Ruskin,
Oxford University
A long journey towards this exact moment ; The Mirrored Catalogue
D’oiseaux, by Dave Allen, Boileau & Narcejac 7” single, sleeve notes
From Gnomic to Quixotic in 5000 years, History, Geography and Henry Viii’s
Wives, Tramway, Glasgow
What’s in a Decade?, Circles, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Ed, Christoph Keller 2000
Politics, Loyalty and the Class of ‘84, Roddy Buchanan, DCA, Scotland
Deja-Vu, Douglas Gordon, Musee d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris,
Museum Keys - interview,
- Music can Save your Life : Art can Save your Life
Make it Funky, Strategies between Pop and Avant-Garde in Music
and Visual Arts in 20th Century Ed. Markus Muller/Ulrike Groos,
Oktagon, Cologne –
Selected Bibliography
Map Magazine No 6 Summer 2006 cover feature Ross Sinclair:Real Life Scenario
http://mapmagazine.co.uk/map-6/feature/ross-sinclair-real-life-scena/
Frieze, (UK)
issue 62, October 2001, p 93, Dan Fox, Fortress Real Life, South London Gallery
Terria Coleste(Italy)
8/2001 p89 Jennifer Coates, Fortress Real Life, South London Gallery
Esquire(UK)
July 2001, pp44/45, Louisa Buck, “Lifes what you make it”
Frieze,
Issue 54 sept/Oct 2000, If I ruled The world, Neil Mullholland
Kunst Bulletin(SWZ)
No.10 October 1999, Feature Raimai Stange pp12-17
Art Monthly(UK)
237 June 2000, Journey to the Edge of the World,John Molyneux, p 32
Art Monthly
235 April 2000, The Blue Chamber,Laura Moffat p 39
Flash Art
Hamnavoe Free State(London Office), Robert Montgomery, 12/99
Artforum(USA)
Hamnavoe Free State(London Office) Michael Archer, Sept 99
Untitled Magazine
Interview with Nancy Hines, Nov 99 pp26/27
The GuardianJourney to the Edge of the World, preview, Jonathan Jones, 23/9/99
Contemporary Visual Arts - Word Enough, Review - Sept 99
I-D MagazineAug 99 issue 189, p68
The GuardianI Love Real Life/Hamnavoe Free State, Adrian Searle, 31/6/99
Kunstforum (D)
No.143 Jan/Feb99 lebenkunst als Real Life - Insert feature
World Art issue 19, Dec 98 3-chord Art Richard Holt pp42-45
Neue Bildene Kunst
5.98 Die Mauer Muss Wieder her pp23-29 Martin Pesch
Art Monthly
This Island Earth, Mike Ellis, Sept, '98
Frieze Magazine Real Life Rocky Mountain, CCA Glasgow, Francis McKee July/Aug 96
Frieze Magazine Institute of Cultural Anxiety, I.C.A. London, S. Morgan March/Ap 95
Art Monthly
Real Life Rocky Mountain, CCA Glasgow, Melissa Feldman June 96
Art Monthly Shift, De Appel, Michael Gibbs, June 1995
Flash Art Cityscape Glasgow, Interview, Judith Findlay May/June 1996
Flash Art -
Museum of Despair, News, November/December1994
Group Publications
2011
Nothing in the World But Youth, Turner Contemporary, Margate
2010
2010
More Than A T-Shirt, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Germany ?
20 Reasons We Still need Superman, Rogue Art, KualaLumpur, Vitamin,
Guangzhou, China, HongKong Arts Centre, UCCA Beijing, Mumbai,
Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietman,G.C. Yard, Lhasa, Tibet,
Space A, Ulaan
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2009/10I-LandsBrandts Kunsthallen, Odense, Fuglsang Kunstmuseum,
2008 No Leftovers, Kunsthalle Bern
2006 Sculpture project Wiesbaden, Germany
2005 Commission for Aichi World Expo, British Pavillion, Nagoya, Japan
2005 Critical Societies - Badischer Kunstverein, Karsruhe, Germany
2004 ‘Shake’ Villa Arson, Nice
2004 Glenfiddich Residency, Dufftown, Scotland
2003 Northern Grammar, Solvberget Stavanger Kulturhaus, Norway
2003 Bad Behaviour, Arts Council Collection, touring
2003 Skin Deep,Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, di trento e
2002 Greyscale/CMYK, Tramway, Glasgow
2002 Happy Outsiders, Galeria Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland
2002- For Those About to Rock, Milton Keynes Gallery
2002 - Words – Arts Council of England
2001 Art and Artifact, The Museum as Medium, James Putnam, Thames and Hudson
2001- Zero Gravity, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Palazzo Delle Esposizioni, Roma
2001- Here and Now – Scottish Art 1990–2001, Dundee Contemporary Arts,Scotland
2001* Circles, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
2000/1 - Black Box Recorder, British Council, Touring, Europe
2000* PICAF 2000, Pusan Art Festival, Pusan, Korea
2000- If I Ruled The World, CCA Glasgow
2000- LKW, Kunsthaus, Bregenz, Austria
2000- Neues Leben, Expo, Leipzig
2000 - Living in the Real World, Museum Dhont Dhanens,Ghent, Belgium
2000 - Landscape, British Council, touring
2000 - The Blue Chamber, Duff House, Banff, Scotland
Contributer to Magazines ;
Art Monthly (London)
Frieze Magazine (London)
Real Life Magazine (L.A.)
Creative Camera (London)
Flash Art (Italy),
B.E. Magazine (Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin)
Art Press (Paris)
Casco(Netherlands)
Kunstforum(Berlin)
Visiting Artist, Oslo Art Academy, 1998, - Visiting Artist, Grays School of Art, Aberdeen,'96/ - 2007,Visiting
Artist,Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent '96 - Visiting Artist MFA Glasgow School of Art - Visiting Artist,MFA
Edinburgh School of Art '95 - '96 - Visiting Artist, Duncan of Jordanstoun School of Art, Dundee '94 - '95
Visiting Artist Malmo Art Academy, Sweden '95-'96 - Artist in Residence, Glasgow School of Art 1994(affiliated to
Painting Departiment) - Visiting Artist MFA University of Ulster at Belfast '93-94'