KARLA BLACK

1972 born in Alexandria, Scotland
  lives and works in Glasgow

 

Solo Exhibitions

2011 Karla Black. Scotland and Venice, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice
2010 Capitain Petzel, Berlin
  Wittmann Collection, Ingolstadt
  Ten Sculptures, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg
2009 Karla Black: Sculptures with paintings by Bet Low (1924-2007), Inverleith House, Edinburgh
  Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
  Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg
  Migros Museum, Zürich
  Mary Mary, Glasgow
2008 Champagne Perrier-Jouët Prize (Winner 2007), Zoo Art Fair, London
  Catch This: New Works from the Arts Council Collection, Longside
  Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
  West London Projects, London
  Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
2007 IBID Projects, London
2006 Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin
  Mary Mary, Glasgow
  Outpost, Norwich
  Have Him Be Her, Broadway 1602, New York
2004 Mary Mary, Glasgow
2002 Robert, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow

Group Exhibitions

2011 Turner Prize 2011, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
  D’Un Autre Monde, Le Printemps de Septembre. Festival de creation contemporaine, Toulouse
  Pour un art pauvre (inventaire du monde et de l’atelier), Carré d'Art - Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes
  Frauenzimmer, Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen
  Flaca (curated by Tom Humphreys), Portikus, Frankfurt
  Tableaux. Principe d’incertitude, Magasin - Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble
  Watercolour, Tate Britain, London
  Essential Art, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
  Radical Autonomy, Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium
  Structure and Material, Longside Gallery, West Yorkshire; The New Art Gallery, Walsall, Walsall
  British Art Show 7, Hayward gallery, London; Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Peninsula Art Gallery, Plymouth
  All of this and nothing, 6th Hammer Invitational (curated by Douglas Fogle and Anne Ellegood), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
  Nouvelles Collections IV, CentrePasquArt Kunsthaus Centre d’art Seevorstadt, Biel/Bienne
2010 Neue Alchemie. Kunst der Gegenwart nach Beuys, Landesmuseum Muenster, Muenster
  British Art Show 7, Nottingham
  Neugierig?, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
  Group show, Andrea Rosen, New York
  Profusion, Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
2009 Material Intelligence, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (touring to Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield
  Reduction & Suspense, Magazin 4, Bregenz
  Black Hole (curated by Dr. Friederike Nymphius), CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
  Nothing to say and I am saying it, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg
  Don’t Expect Anythng, Galleria Francesca Minini, Mailand
  Contemporary Scottish Art: New Acquistitions & Loans, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
2008 Brussels Biennal for contemporary art, Brussels
  Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (curated by Heike Munder), Salzburg
  Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
  Wollust, Columbus Art Foundation in Halle 14, Leipzig
  Strange Solution, Art Now, Tate Britain, London
2007 Ultramoderne, Hall Paul Wurth, Luxembourg; La Passerelle, Brest
  What remains. Quello che resta, Lambretto Art Project, Milan
  Poor Thing, Kunsthalle Basel (curated by Simone Neuenschwander)
  Special Presentation, Broadway 1602, New York
  Untitled - Works on Paper, Art:Concept, Paris
  Planting the tele, Mary Mary, Glasgow (curated by Hayley Tompkins)
2006 Karla Black / Sally Osborn / Sue Tompkins, Flaca, London
  Karla Black / Dean Hughes / Duncan Marquiss /Jonathan Owen / Hanneline Visnes, Doggerfisher, Edinburgh
2005 Pilot 2, London
  Like It Matters, CCA, Glasgow
  Exile, New York is a Good Hotel, Broadway 1602, New York
  Not Yet Night, Studio Voltaire, London
  Karla Black / Babak Ghazi, S1 Artspace, Sheffield
2004 Spacemakers, Lothringer Dreizehn, Munich
  MFA Degree show, Tramway, Glasgow
  Rheinschau Art Projects, Cologne (with Transmission)
  Synth, Kunstraum B/2, Leipzig
  Cheyney Thompson / Karla Black, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
2003 Pallas, The Changing Room Gallery, Stirling
  East International, Norwich Gallery, Norwich School of Art & Design (curated by Toby Webster & Eva Rothschild)
  An American Conversation (with Alex Frost), Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee
2002 The Châteaux, Switchspace, Glasgow
  Half the World Away, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York
2001 Man Dancing, Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow
  October: Contemporary Art in St. Vincent Street, Glasgow (curated by Karla Black & Katie Exley)
  Hi-Civics, Market Gallery, Glasgow
2000 Louder than Love, De Zeyp, Brussels
  Someone, Somewhere, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow

 

 top