BIOGRAPHY
1975 Born in Cambridge, UK.
1997 B.F.A., Honors, Environmental Art Department, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland.
Lives and works between Glasgow and the Isle of Lewis, Scotland.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 GRIMM, Amsterdam. Ingots and Adaptations
(25 July – 7 September)
2022 Park Avenue Armory, New York. ADAA: The Art Show
(3–6 November)
GRIMM, London. Day Division
(14 September – 29 October)
2021 GRIMM, Amsterdam. Rural Works
(21 May – 20 June)
2020 Bloomberg SPACE, London. Lucy Skaer: Forest on Fire
(22 October 2020 – 15 May 2021)
2019 Meessen De Clercq, Brussels. Day Divider
(25 October – 30 November)
2018 Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. Lucy Skaer: Sentiment
(19 April – 2 June)
Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria. Lucy Skaer: La Chasse
(17 February – 1 April)
2017 KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Lucy Skaer: Available Fonts
(13 October 2017 – 7 January 2018)
Museo Tamayo, Mexico City. Una Casa Más Pequeña
(1 July – 17 September)
MRAC Serignan, France. Lucy Skaer: La Chasse
(25 March – 4 June)
GRIMM, Amsterdam. Past Shows
(12 January – 25 February)
2016 Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury, UK. Lucy Skaer: Leonora
(10 October – 17 December)
Witte de With Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. One Remove
(15 July – 2 October)
2015 La Salle de bains hors les murs, Musée gallo-romain de Lyon Fourvière, France.
Lucy Skaer, Sticks and Stones (9 April 2015 – 3 January 2016)
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland. Lucy Skaer: New Editions
(26 January – 29 March)
Murray Guy, New York. Sticks & Stones
(10 January – 21 February)
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. Lucy Skaer: Random House
(8 January – 21 February)
2014 Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland. Lucy Skaer
(6 June 2014 – 1 March 2015)
2013 Tramway, Glasglow. Exit, Voice and Loyalty
(25 October – 15 December)
Yale Union, Portland, Oregon. Lucy Skaer, curated by Hope Svenson
(19 July – 12 September)
Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, Scotland. Lucy Skaer: A proposal for Mount Stuart 2013
(23 June – 31 October)
Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Spain. Lucy Skaer: Force Justify
(23 May – 15 September)
2012 Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria. Lucy Skaer: Force Justify (Part 3)
(5 July – 26 August)
Tulips & Roses, Brussels. Lucy Skaer: Force Justify (Part 2)
(24 May – 16 June)
Tulips & Roses, Brussels. Lucy Skaer. Force Justify (Part 1)
(20 April – 19 May)
Murray Guy, New York. Lucy Skaer: Harlequin Is As Harlequin Does
(18 February – 24 March)
2011 Pavilion, Leeds, UK. Film For an Abandoned Projector
(23 November)
Galerie Nelson Freeman, Paris. Lucy Skaer: Blanks and Ballast
(16 April – 28 May)
2010 Location One, New York. Rachel, Peter, Caitlin, John
(16 September – 16 October)
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. Lucy Skaer
(8 May – 12 September)
2009 Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland. A Boat Used as a Vessel
(5 April – 14 June). Catalogue.
2008 Longside Gallery, Yorkshire, UK. Catch This: Lucy Skaer
(16 August – 21 September)
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh. Lucy Skaer
(17 May – 9 July). Catalogue.
Chisenhale Gallery, London. The Siege
(26 March – 4 May)
2004 Schnit Ausstellungsraum, Cologne. Lucy Skaer: The Sound and the Screen
(9–16 October)
doggerfisher Gallery, Glasgow. The Opaque
(7 August – 25 September)
Carl Freedman Gallery, London. The Problem in Seven Parts
(18 March – 24 April)
2001 Transmission Gallery, Glasgow. Like a Circle in a Spiral
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. En travaux
(15–26 October)
La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, France, in collaboration with FRAC Île-de-France, Paris.
La Chambre A Echos (17 March – 28 July)
Galerie Michel Rein, Paris. Alter Ego
(27 January – 16 March)
2023 FRAC Île-de-France, Les Réserves, Romainville, France.
Rang d’oignons. Sors de ta réserve #5 (16 April – 16 July)
2022 FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France. Trilogie de cendres (v.3):
"Il n'y a que la Mémoire qui Hurle" (17 September – 30 December)
FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France. Trilogie de Cendres (v.2):
"La Prochaine Fois, le Feu" (29 May – 17 July)
FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France. Trilogie de Cendres #1:
"Ta Langue une Allumette qui Craque" (20 April – 22 May)
2021 FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France. Ces dernières années
(8 October 2021 – 2 January 2022)
Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland.
Groups and Spots: Contemporary Art at Baloise (20 March – 29 August)
2020 Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. In Situ: a changing installation
(15 September – 19 December)
MRAC Occitanie, Serignan, France. La vie Dans L’espace, Accrochage des Collections
(12 September 2020 – 2 January 2022)
2019 Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent. Future Sun
(30 November 2019 – 16 February 2020)
The Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter, UK. Sea Garden
(16 November 2019 – 26 January 2020)
St. Andrews Museum, Fife, Scotland. Lines from Scotland
(9 November 2019 – 22 February 2020). Exhibition travelled:
Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries, Scotland (7 March – 10 May 2020);
Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries, Scotland (16 May – 25 July 2020)
Marcelle Alix, Paris. Marcelle Alix Ouverte
(30 October – 30 November)
Mossman, Wellington, New Zealand. Paramoudra
(4 October – 9 November)
Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius, Lithuania. Who’s Werner?
(6 September – 3 November)
GRIMM, New York. Away in the Hill
(27 June – 2 August)
GRIMM, Amsterdam. Heavy Weather, organized by Lucy Skaer
(18 May – 13 July)
2018 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Carnegie International, 57th Edition,
curated by Ingrid Schaffner (13 October 2018 – 25 March 2019). Catalogue.
Glasgow Print Studio, Scotland. Innovative Printmaking
(5 October – 18 November)
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh. The Green Man
(26 July – 6 October). Catalogue.
MRAC Occitanie, Sérignan, France. Bandes à part
(23 June 2018 – 19 May 2019)
Drawing Room, London. A Slice through the World: Contemporary Artists’ Drawings
(13 June – 5 August). In collaboration with Modern Art Oxford, UK (16 June – 9 September)
GRIMM, Brussels. Pop-up GRIMM Brussels
(18 April – 5 May)
La Hab Galerie, Nantes, France. Organized by the FRAC des Pays de la Loire Avant-poste.
(17 February – 6 May)
2017 GRIMM, Amsterdam. Community Board
(24 November 2017 – 20 January 2018)
Estorick Collection of Modern Art, London.
Poor Art | Arte Povera: Italian Influences, British Responses (20 September – 17 December)
Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland.
Now Wakes the Sea: Contemporary art and the ocean (4 August – 5 November)
CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France.
4,543 Milliards. La Question de la matière (29 June 2017 – 7 January 2018)
Union Pacific, London. A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats
(27 April – 20 May)
Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The Nude and The Sap
(14 April – 9 July)
Parisian Laundry, Montreal. Atmospheres of Form
(5 April – 6 May)
Murray Guy, New York. Final Exhibition
(10 January – 4 February)
2016 Murray Guy, New York. Whatever moves between us also moves the world in general
(3 November – 17 December)
La Criée Centre d'Art Contemporain, Rennes, France. Incorporated!,
curated by François Piron (1 October – 11 December)
Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, Scotland. That Which Remains
(13 August – 30 October)
Leeds College of Art, UK. Leonora Carrington / Lucy Skaer
(15 July – 2 September)
The Drawing Center, New York. Prix Canson 2016
(22 June – 1 July)
P!, New York. for Every Purpose
(12 May – 26 June)
Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp. Riddle of the Burial Grounds
(26 March – 17 July)
Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany. The Secret Life of Images
(19 March – 1 May)
Kunsthal Antwerpen, Belgium. Riddle of the Burial Grounds
(28 January – 15 August)
2015 Meessen De Clercq, Brussels. A.N.T.H.R.O.P.O.C.E.N.E.
(12 December 2015 – 6 February 2016)
GRIMM, Amsterdam. WINTERMUTE
(10 October – 14 November)
Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK. Periodic Tales: The Art of the Elements
(3 October – 13 December)
Jesus College, Cambridge, UK. Sculpture in the Close
(22 June – 27 September)
First Site, Colchester, UK. The Parliament of Things
(14 March – 31 May)
De Kabinetten van de Vleeshal, Middelburg, the Netherlands. The Registry of Promise:
The Promise of Literature, Soothsaying and Speaking in Tongues (25 January – 29 March)
2014 Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York. Sequence 5
(2 July – 16 August)
Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow. Generation: 25 years Contemporary Art in Scotland
(6 June 2014 – 25 January 2015)
Cortesi Contemporary, Lugano, Switzerland. Lucy Skaer – Paolo Scheggi
(3 April – 15 May)
Murray Guy, New York. Someone Like Me
(16 January – 22 February)
2013 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK. The Narrators: Works from the Arts Council Collection
(11 October 2013 – 16 March 2014)
Tate Britain, London. Art Under Attack: Histories of British Iconoclasm
(2 October 2013 – 5 January 2014). Catalogue.
The Renaissance Society, Chicago. Suicide Narcissus
(15 September – 15 December)
FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France. Archeologia
(14 September – 24 November)
Porto Alegre, Brazil. 9th Bienal do Mercosul
(13 September – 10 November)
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. 21 Revolutions
(20 July – 8 September)
Marres, Center for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, the Netherlands. Tradition
(16 March – 19 May)
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia. Catch as Catch Can
(13 February – 30 March)
2012 Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France. La Vie des Formes
(29 June – 2 September)
Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid. Telling everything, not knowing how,
curated by Martí Manen (13 June – 11 November)
gb agency, Paris. A Common Feeling
(21 April – 26 May)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film and Video (7 February – 26 August)
Arthena Foundation - KAI 10, Düsseldorf. Reflexion und Einfühlung
(21 January – 31 March)
SculptureCenter, New York. Scene, Hold, Ballast
(15 January – 26 March)
2011 Artplay, Moscow. Rewriting Worlds: Dada Moscow
(13 September – 2 October)
Art Basel, Switzerland. Art Unlimited
(15–19 June)
FRAC à Carquefou, France. Fragmentations
(18 February – 24 April)
Tate Britain, London. Watercolor
(16 February – 21 August)
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York. dwelling
(3 February – 2 April)
Contemporary Art Society, Nottingham, UK. Three Stones in the City of Ladies,
curated by Elisa Kay (22 January – 27 March)
Milliken Gallery, Stockholm. Color Pattern Yellow Danger
(21 January – 26 February)
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland. Young Art from the Collection
2010 Marcelle Alix Projects, Paris. Moon Star Love
(14 November 2010 – 23 January 2011)
FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille, France. Prendre la porte et faire le mur
(11 September – 11 December)
K21, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf. Intensif-Station
(10 July – 4 September)
Hatton Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.
Another Face: Works from the Arts Council Collection (8 May – 12 September)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit. For the blind man in the dark room
looking for the black cat that isn’t there (5 February – 4 April)
SculptureCenter, New York. Leopards in the Temple
(10 January – 30 March)
2009 Tate Britain, London. Turner Prize 2009
(6 October 2009 – 3 January 2010). Catalogue.
Centre Pompidou, Paris. Elles@centrepompidou: women artists
in the collections of the national art museum (27 May 2009 – 11 February 2011)
2008 Maisterravalbuena, Madrid. Lucy Skaer & Gabriel Vormstein
(20 November 2008 – 17 January 2009)
The Changing Room, Stirling, Scotland. Concrete Shadows
(15 November – 17 December)
2007 Whitechapel Gallery, London. New Work UK: You and Me,
curated by Polly Staple (19 June – 7 July)
52nd Biennale di Venezia, Scottish Pavilion, Italy. Scotland + Venice,
curated by Philip Long (10 June – 2 November)
Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Ireland. Es (the Above I)
(5–31 May)
doggerfisher, Edinburgh. La femme de nulle part,
curated by Lucy Skaer (23 February – 27 April)
An Tuireann Arts Center - JICBP Cube Gallery, Island of Skye, Scotland.
The Siege, in oak and pearl. Exhibition travelled: Jarnac, France; Ichinomiya, Japan;
Cairo, Egypt; Bøvlingbjerg, Denmark (July)
2006 de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam.
If I can’t Dance I Don’t Want to be Part of Your Revolution, Edition II:
Feminist Legacies and Potentials in Contemporary Practice (16 November – 14 January)
Elisabeth Kauffman, Zürich. Minor Characters
(21 October – 16 December)
Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway. Momentum
2005 GasWorks, London. the music of the future
(8 December 2005 – 16 January 2006)
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany. Great Value (II)
(11 October – 5 November)
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK. British Art Show 6
(24 September 2005 – 8 January 2006)
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK. the world, abridged
(5 March – 1 May)
2004 Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Edge of the Real: a painting show
(20 March – 23 May)
2003 50th Biennale di Venezia, Scottish Pavilion, Italy. Zenomap
(13 June – 2 November)
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Beck’s Futures
(18 March – 15 May). Exhibition travelled: Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow
(28 May – 10 July)
doggerfisher, Edinburgh. Soft Sun Down
(14 February – 29 March)
Gagosian, London. Zenomap
Isabella Brancolini Arte Contemporanea, Florence. Lucy Skaer with Hanneline Visnes
2002 Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany. The Best Book About Pessimism I Ever Read
(22 June – 25 August)
Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow. A Hundred Flowers, A Hundred Birds,
A Hundred Children in Late Spring and Early Summer
1999 The Procurator’s Library, Glasgow. Swift: Three Artists in the City: Visual Arts Projects –
Year of Architecture and Design (September – October). Catalogue.
NASHASHIBI / SKAER COLLABORATIONS
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 Cooper Gallery, Dundee, Scotland. Chimera
(30 September – 10 December)
2021 Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada. Farness, The More Near
(25 September – 14 November)
OCAT, Shenzhen, China. Nashashibi/Skaer: Chimera
(May – August)
2019 Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent. Future Sun
(30 November 2019 – 16 February 2020)
2018 Tate St. Ives, UK. Nashashibi/Skaer: Thinking through other artists
(29 September 2018 – 13 January 2019)
2017 KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Why Are You Angry?
(13 October)
Tate Modern, London. Why Are You Angry?
(20 September)
2016 Tate St. Ives, UK.
(October)
2013 Musée Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France. Nashashibi/Skaer
(3 March – 9 June)
2012 Musée de Château des ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard, France.
Contemporary Archeologies
Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid. Telling everything, not knowing how
2010 doggerfisher, Edinburgh. Nashashibi/Skaer: Prendre la Port et Faire le Mur
(11 September – 11 December)
Murray Guy, New York. Nashashibi/Skaer
(25 June – 6 August)
2009 doggerfisher, Edinburgh. Our Magnolia
(1 August – 25 September)
2008 Tate Britain, London. Art Now: Nashashibi/Skaer
(8 November 2008 – 4 January 2009)
CAC Brétigny, France. Pygmalion Workshop
(21 September – 13 December)
2007 Spike Island, Bristol, UK. Flash in the Metropolitan
(14 July – 16 September)
RESIDENCIES
2023 The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas.
2016 Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
2015 Emily Carr, Vancouver.
2013 Atelier Calder, Saché, France.
2010 Location One International Fellowship, New York.
2007–2008 Laurenz House Foundation Residency, Basel.
2005–2006 Scottish Arts Council Studio Residency, New York.
2002 NIFCA Network North Residency, Faroe Islands, Denmark.
Wellcome Trust Sci-Art Grant, London.
2000–2001 Scottish Arts Council Amsterdam Studio Residency, the Netherlands.
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2024 Thames Tideway Sculpture Park, London.
1999 Visual Arts Projects, Glasgow. Swift, temporary public artwork.
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
2016 Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award, London. (Visual Art Recipient)
Prix Canson Award, Paris. (Finalist)
2009 Turner Prize, London. (Finalist)
2002 Beck’s Futures, London. (Finalist)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2018 Dickie, Imogen. Fixing Reference (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).
Giblin, Tessa. The Green Man (Edinburgh: The University of Edinburgh, 2018).
Exhibition catalogue.
2014 Patrick, Adele, Fiona Bradley, and Lesley McDowell. 21 Revolutions
(Glasgow: Glasgow Women’s Library / Freight Books, 2014).
2009 Szymczyk, Adam, and Joanna Fiduccia. Lucy Skaer: A Boat Used as a Vessel
(Basel: Schwabe AG, 2009). Exhibition catalogue.
2008 Bradley, Fiona, et al. Lucy Skaer (Edinburgh: The Fruitmarket Gallery, 2008).
Exhibition catalogue.
1999 Byatt, Lucy, Joanne Sharp, and Jeremy Millar. Swift: Three artists’ projects in the city
(Glasgow: Visual Arts Projects, 1999). Exhibition catalogue.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Aberdeen Art Museum, Scotland
Arts Council Collection, London
Caja de Burgos, Spain
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris
Contemporary Art Society, London
Emily Carr, Vancouver, Canada
FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France
FRAC des Pays de La Loire, Carquefou, France
FRAC Île-de-France, Paris
FRAC Midi-Pyrénées, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
Glasgow Museum of Modern Art, Scotland
Government Art Collection, London
The Hunterian, Glasgow, Scotland
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
LUX Collection, London
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Nashashibi/Skaer)
Musée régional d’art contemporain Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée, Sérignan, France
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh (Nashashibi/Skaer)
Tate Britain, London