Alan Currall Born: Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire. England, 1964. Lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. 1995 M.F.A. Glasgow School of Art. 1992 B.A. (Hons.) Fine Art, Staffordshire University. 1982 Foundation Art and Design, Newcastle-Under-Lyme School of Art Solo Exhibitions (* signifies accompanying publication) 2004 Alan Currall*, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow 2003 Encyclopædia*, Millais Gallery, Southampton, England 2002 Alan Currall*, The Jerwood Gallery, London 2001 Encyclopædia* Image Gallery, Bedford, England Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, England Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia Encyclopædia and Other Works*. Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia. Alan Currall, Signal Gallery, Malmo, Sweden 2000 Encyclopædia* Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, England Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, England Encyclopædia and Other Works* Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, England. 1999 Self Defence/First Aid. All Horizons Club 1998 Alan Currall. Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York, USA. 1996 Now That I Am In Heaven... Fringe Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland. 1995 Soup/Spoon. Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, Berlin, Germany. Group Exhibitions 2005 Critics’ Choice F.A.C.T. Liverpool, England. 2004 Electrohype 2004* Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden. Touring to Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg, Sweden. Database Imaginary* Walter Philips Gallery, Banff, Canada Birthday Party Collective Gallery, Edinburgh. TGOZ* The Travelling Gallery, Touring Scotland. Stranger than Fiction* City Art Gallery, Leeds; Tullie House Art Gallery and Museum, Carlisle; Aberystwyth Arts Centre; Usher Gallery, Lincoln; Nottingham Castle; Brighton Museum and Art Gallery. Thinking Things Otherwise: The Personal Reconsidered Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto. 2003 Artist Videos from the Arts Council Collection Hayward Gallery, London. 25hrs.* International Video Art Show, Barcelona. Becks Futures 2003* Institute of Contemporary Art, London Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow Southampton City Art Gallery. Near Life Experience, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London Reality Check; Recent Developments in British Photography and Video*, Poland Bunkier Gallery, Cracow, Poland Gallery Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic House of Artists, Zagreb, Croatia 2002 Reality Check; Recent Developments in British Photography and Video*, 14 Wharf Road, London Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia Somewhere: Places of refuge in art and life* Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, England The GAP Show*, Museum Am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany Words from the Arts Council Collection* City Museum & Art Gallery, Plymouth, England. Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales. City Art Gallery, York, England. Gallery Oldham, England. The City Gallery, Leicester. England. Tell Me*, M&M Gallery, Bornem, Belgium Sonderprogram Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen*, Oberhausen, Germany 2001 Unter Freunden, Galerie Michael Zink, Munich, Germany Impakt Festival*1, 2, 3 Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Here & Now: Scottish Art 1990-2001*, Dundee Contemporary Art and Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland. Click* Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, Australia Mildura Arts Centre Gallery, Victoria, Australia Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia Open Country. Contemporary Scottish Artists*, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Swizerland 2000 First There Is A Mountain... Generator, Dundee, Scotland. Cool Green. Museum Of Contemporary Art, Washington D.C., USA. DNET*. Lux Gallery, London, England. NOW Festival. Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, England. Another Place. Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland. 45ème Salon de Montrouge. Montrouge, Paris, France A Day Like Any Other*. Stavanger Kulturhus, Stavanger, Norway. 1999 Museum Magogo. Independant Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland New Video From Great Britain* Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, Colombia Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, Hawaaii Paco das Artes, Sao Paolo, Brazil Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela 1998 Forth Wall*. Royal National Theatre, London, England. Videor. Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland. Habitat*. Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia. The Pedestrian*. The Changing Room, Stirling, Scotland. Singlescreen, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, England. Host. Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland. Video Soup. Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland. Basic Instruction. Art Projects Europe/Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 1997 New Video From Great Britain*. Museum Of Modern Art, New York, USA. Nerve, Glasgow Projects.* ArtSpace, Sydney, Australia. 60,70,80:90. Showroom, London, England. Soup/Spoon. Cream at Nation, Liverpool, England. Glasgow: Real Life. Cornerhouse, Manchester, England. Speel. artis, S - Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. International Film Festival Rotterdam. Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Hong Kong Island. Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland. 1996 Never a Dumb Moment*, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, England National Review of Live Art. The Arches, Glasgow, Scotland. Be er Monsta Duke-of-York, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Smallest Gallery, London, England. Big Jack's Baggot Inn, Dublin, Ireland. Video Screening Room. Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork. Ireland. Amanda Bindley, Alan Currall. Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, Berlin, Germany. Current. The Pearce Institute, Glasgow, Scotland. Ripe. Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool England. Be er Monsta. Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland. New Contemporaries*. Camden Arts Centre, London England. Chicken Farm. Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland. Videos aus Glasgow. Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany. Be er Monsta. The Griffin Bar, Glasgow, Scotland. Dimensions;-Five Artists From Great Britain*. Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany. New Contemporaries*. Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England. Transmissions*. Free Parking, Toronto, Canada. Chicken Farm, A Lick and A Promise* and Best of the Fest*. Fringe Film and Video Festival. Film House and Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland. Never-A-Dumb-Moment*. Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland. Phenomenal. Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland. Pandaemonium*. Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, and touring the U.K. 1995 trans.form.identity. Kulturministeriets Udstillingshus for Nutidig Kunst, Overgaden, Copenhagen. Videos aus Glasgow. Un-Fair, Cologne, Germany. Art Lotto. Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland. Videos aus Glasgow. Kunstlerhaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. Club Berlin. Venice Biennale. Venice, Italy. Bedrock (a night of conventional technologies). All Girls Gallery, Berlin. Germany. 1994 Card Trick. Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland. New Art in Scotland.* Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland. Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland. New Scottish Video. Museum of Installation, London, England. Couch Potatoes. Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland. Media Biennale, Leipzig, Germany. Videobar. Mainz, Germany. 1993 4. Well Street Gallery, Leek, England. 1992 Unframed. Well St. Gallery, Leek, England. 1991 Broad Horizons. City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, England. 1990 Making Faces. City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, England. Residencies and Fellowships 1995 Artist-in-Residence, Fringe Gallery, Glasgow. 1991 Artist-in-Residence, City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent. 1998 Residency, ArtSpace, Sydney. 1997-98 Research Fellow, School of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art. 2001 Scottish Arts Council Australian Residency, Canberra School of Art. Awards 1998 The Richard Hough Bursary 1998 Small Assistance Grant, Scottish Arts Council. 1995 The Richard Ellis Prize, Glasgow School of Art. 1994 The John and Mabel Craig Bequest, Glasgow School of Art. 1992 The Benjamin Boothroyd Prize, Staffordshire University. Publications Beck’s Futures 2003. Texts by J.G.Ballard, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Michael Archer. Published by ICA, 2003. Somewhere: Places of Refuge in Art and Life. Edited by Angela Kingston. Published by Angel Row Gallery, 2002 Reality Check. Edited by Frédérique Dolivet. Published by the British Council, 2002 The GAP Show. Edited by Rosemarie Pahlke. Published by Museum Am Ostwall Dortmund, 2002 Words from the Arts Council Collection. Essay by Fiona Bradley. Published by Hayward Gallery, 2002 Tell Me… focuses on the use of language, text and narration in recent international video-art. Edited by Katrien De Meurechy. Published by CC Ter Dilft and M&M Gallery, 2002 Here & Now: Scottish Art 1990 – 2001, Essays by John Calcutt, Maria Lind, Katrina M. Brown and Rob Tufnell. Published by Dundee Contemporary Arts, 2001 Open Country. Contemporary Scottish Artists. Essays by Caroline Nicod, Rob Tufnell and Francis McKee. Published by Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, 2001 Encyclopædia and Other Works. CD-ROM and book. Essays by Claire Doherty and Sean Cubitt. Published by Film and Video Umbrella, London. 2000 Passeportout number 15, Nu. Editor Peter Brix Søndergaard. Published by Institut for Kunsthistorie, Aarhus Universitet, 2000 A Day Like Any Other, Francis Mckee. Published by Solvbarget Stavanger Kulturhus. 2000 The Richard Hough Bursary 1998. Gilda Williams. Published by Stills Gallery, Edinburgh. 1998 Morning Star Evening Star. Editors Charlotte Day, Max Delaney, Stuart Koop and Clare Williamson. Published by Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Centre for Contemporary Photography, 200 Gertrude Street and the Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne. 1998. Nerve Glasgow Projects. Editors Blair French, Anne Ooms and Nicholas Tsoutas. Published by ArtSpace, Australian Centre for Photography and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. 1998 Transmissions / Forget Brown Spot Save the World. Will Bradley, Richard Wright. Published by Transmission Gallery, Glasgow and Free Parking, Toronto. 1996 Dimensions. Editors, Hans-Jürgen Buderer, Thomas Köllhofer & Sandra Wagner. Published by Kunsthalle Mannheim, 1996. New Contemporaries 96. Editors David Crow & Wendy Pennington. Published by New Contemporaries (1988) Ltd., 1996 '95 mfa Glasgow. Editor, Pavel Büchler. Published by Glasgow School of Art, 1995 Grey Suit; Video for Art & Literature, issue 10, Summer 1995. Editor Anthony Howell. Published by Grey Suit New Art in Scotland, Editor, Nicola White. Published by CCA, 1994 Reviews and Articles Alan Currall. Art Monthly, October 2002, No. 260. pp. 30-31. Benn Judd Unspeakable Facts. Time Out, 4-11 September 2002. pp.54, 56. Sarah Kent. An enlightening irreverence for abstract reference. The Sunday Age, 20 May 2001. p.12. Robert Nelson. Then there is no mountain then there is. The List, 5-18 Jan 2001. p. 77. John Beagles. Then there is no mountain then there is. The Guardian, 15 Jan 2001. p.16. Elisabeth Mahoney. Alan Currall. Metro, 20 Sept 2000. p.18. Sarah Lowndes. New Video from Great Britain. Time Out New York, Jan 29-Feb 5 1998. Carol Kino. Alan Currall. Time Out New York, Issue 155, Sept. 10-17 1998. Sarah Schmerier Hong Kong Island. Frieze, Issue 34, May 1997, p. 86. Padraig Timoney Stereoanlagen zu Töpferscheiben. dee Tageszeitung, 19 September 1996. Harald Fricke. Ghosts of Celluloid. Flash Art, Vol. XXIX no. 190, October 1996. pp. 96-97. Martin Maloney. Having a laugh at the New Contemporaries. Make, August-September 1996. p. 71. Nicky Coutts. Pop Goes The Easel. Times Magazine, 30 March 1996. Richard Cork. No More Heroes? Time Out, 24-31 July 1996. p. 46. Sarah Kent. Work in Collections Private Collection, London. Arts Council of England Collection Private Collection, New York. Teaching and Research 1995 - 2002: P/T Academic Research and Environmental Art Lecturer, Glasgow School of Art 2002 - present: P/T Environmental Art Lecturer, Glasgow School of Art 1998 - present: Researcher, Glasgow School of Art