Catherine Yass

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Born 1963

Lives and works in London



EDUCATION


1988 – 90 Goldsmiths College, London, MA Fine Art

1986 – 87 Boise travelling scholarship

1984 – 85 Hochschule der Künste, Berlin

1982 – 86 Slade School of Art, BA Fine Art





SOLO EXHIBITIONS



2009

"The China Series," Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands

"Descent," Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

"Afloat," Galeria Estiarte, Madrid, Spain



2008

"High Wire," Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland; Commissioned and produced by Artangel and the Gi Festival. Traveled to The German Gymnasium, London, England

Alison Jacques Gallery, London, England



2006

"Lock," Galerie Lelong, New York, New York

"Wall: Descent: Flight," Khalil Sakakini Centre, Ramallah, Palestine



2005

Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands

Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Herzliya Museum of Modern Art, Herzliya, Israel



2004

Alison Jacques Gallery, London, England



2002

"Descent," aspreyjacques, London, England

"Glass Box Project: Catherine Yass," ARTLAB 16 at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, England



2001

"Double Agent," Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford, England

Jerwood Gallery, London, England

"Star," National Gallery of Modern Art, Jaipur House, New Delhi; Traveled to National Gallery of Modern Art, CJ Hall, Mumbai, India; Birla, Calcutta, India; Lalit Kala, Chennai, India



2000

"Cell," i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland

New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, England

"Synagogue, (Art in Sacred Spaces)," The Congregation of Jacob, London, England



1999

"Baths," The Pool, Central Club Hotel, London, England

British Council Exhibition Space, Prague, Czech Republic

Project Space, Galeri Wang, Oslo, Norway



1998

"Baths," Sabine Schmidt, Cologne, Germany

Galería dels Angels, Barcelona, Spain

"Invisible City," Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan



1997

"Grave," Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

"Stage," Cell Space, Barbican Centre, London, England



1996

"Stall," Laure Genillard, London, England

"Steel," Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales



1995

"Spectators," Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, England



1994

"Chair," Viewpoint Photography Gallery, Salford, England

"Guy’s Cliffe," Herber Percy Gallery, Warwickshire, England



1992

Laure Genillard, London, England



1991

The Tavistock Centre for Psychotherapy, London, England







SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS



2011

“The Aesthetica Short Film Festival,” York, England

“Left Behind: Selected Gifts from the Heather and Tony Podesta Collection,” Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.

“Interventions in the Landscape,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York



2010

"P(art)ners: Gifts from the Heather and Tony Podesta Collection," National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.



2009

"Learning Modern," The School at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

"There Goes the Neighborhood," Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio

"The Photographic Object," The Photographer’s Gallery, London, England



2008

"Eastern Standard: Western Artists in China," Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts



2007

"Bare Life," The Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel

"Weather Report: Climate Change and Visual Arts," Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

"Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art," The Jewish Museum, New York, New York

"Sleeping and Dreaming," Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany; Traveled through 2008 to Wellcome Trust, London, England

"The Summer Exhibition" Royal Academy of Arts, London, England

"Urban Landscapes: Emancipation and Nostalgia," David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

"Video and Photograph from the Western Bridge," Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington



2006

6th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China



2005

7th Graz Biennial on Media and Architecture, Graz, Austria

"Art Futures," Contemporary Art Society, Bloomberg SPACE, London, England

"EXPO 2005 Aichi Japan," British Pavilion, Nagoya Eastern Hills, Japan

"In Progress," Locarno International Film Festival, Locarno, Switzerland

"Les Grande Spectacles," Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

"Switched On," Alan Cristea Gallery, London, England

"Thrust," 26th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia



2004

"Interior View: Artists Explore the Language of Architecture," De Zonnehof, Centrum voor Moderne Kunst, Amersfoort, The Netherlands; Traveled to Firstsite, Colchester, Essex, England; Fri-Art, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Fribourg, Switzerland

"WOW," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington



2003

CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

"Eastwing Collection 06," Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England

"Some Things We Like...," aspreyjacques, London, England

"The City That Never Was. Fantastic architecture in Western art," Traveled to Centro de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Museo De Bellas Artes De Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain

"Up Close and Personal," Nottingham Castle, Drawing With Light International Photography Festival, Nottingham, England

"Wetterling 25-ars jubileum," Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden



2002

"Cinema India: The Art of Bollywood," Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England

"The Ink Jetty," Neon Gallery, London, England

"Tate Modern Collection," Tate Modern, London, England

Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden



2001

10th Indian Triennale, Delhi, India

"Multiplication: Artists’ Multiples, Artists Multiplied," National Museum of Art, Bucharest, Romania; Traveled to Muzeul de Arta, Bra?ov, Romania; Muzeul Brukenthal, Sibu, Romania

"No World Without You. Reflections of Identity in New British Art," Herzliya Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel

"Nothing," Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, England; Traveled to Contemporary Arts Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania; Rooseum Centre for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden

"Read Only Memory," Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre University of Warwick, Coventry, England

"The gallery: UNCOVERED," University of Essex, Essex, England



2000

"Eat, Fuck, Die," Platform, London, Endland

"Explorations of the Environment: Landscape Redefined," Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, Florida

"Light x 8," The Jewish Museum, New York, New York



1999

"Glen Dimplex Artists Award," Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

"Officina Europa," Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy; Traveled to Chiostri di San Domenico, Imola, Italy; Ex Fabbrica Arrigoni, Cesena and Palazzo dell’Arnego, Rimini, Italy

"Prime," Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland

"This Other World of Ours," TV Gallery, Moscow, Russia



1998

"Modern British Art," Tate, Liverpool, England

"New Art From Britain," Kunstraum, Innsbruck, Austria

"Performing Buildings," Tate, Bankside, London, England

"Queen’s Festival," Waterfront Concert Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland

"Screen," Anne Faggionato Gallery, London, England

"Feeringbury V111 – Cultivated," Feeringbury Manor and Firstsite, Colchester, England

"London Screen," Edicions T Gallería d’Art, Barcelona, Spain

"United in Death," Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge, England



1997

"Date with an Artist," Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, England

Denys Lasdun Retrospective, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England

"Dimensions Variable: Works from the British Council Collection," City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland; Traveled through 2000 Royal Academy of Free Arts, Stockholm, Sweden; Soros Foundation, Kiev, Ukraine; Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw Poland; Stadtische Kustsammlungen, Chemintz, Germany; Prague National Gallery of Modern Art, Prague, Czech Republic; Zagreb Union of Croatian Artists, Zagreb, Croatia; Institute Mathidenhohe, Darmstadt, Germany; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnus, Lithuania; Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary; Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia; National Theatre Galleries, Bucharest, Romania

"False Impressions," British School, Rome, Italy

Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

"Light," Richard Salmon, London, England

"Pictura Britannica," Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

"Private Face / Urban Space," The Gasworks, Athens, Greece

"Six Unrelated Projects," The Tannery, London, England

"Surroundings," Museum of Modern Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

"Urban Legends," Kunsthalle Baden–Baden, Baden–Baden, Germany



1996

"ACE Arts Council New Purchases," Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England; Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Lancashire, England; Oldham Gallery, Oldham, England; Hayward Gallery, London, England; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Enlgand; Mappin Art gallery, Sheffield, England; Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, England; Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland

"Elektroniske understromme," Kunst & Video, Statens Museum for Kunst & Filmhuset, Kobenhavn, Denmark

"Inner London," Delfina, London, England

"Inside Bankside," South London Gallery, London, England

"Join the Dots," Galerie 5020, Salzburg, Austria

"Manifesta 1," European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

"Private View," Bowes Museum, Darlington, County Durham, England



1995

152c Brick Lane, London, England

"British Art Show 4," Cornerhouse, Manchester; Traveled through 1996 to Edinburgh, Scotland; Cardiff, Wales

"Care and Control," Hackney Hospital, London, England

"Gang Warfare," Independent Art Space, London, England

"Institute of Cultural Anxiety," ICA, London, England

"Melange d’Aout," Laure Genillard, London, England

"Open House," Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, England

"Whistling Women," Royal Festival Hall, London, England



1994

"Guys Cliff," Heber-Percy Gallery, Warwickshire

Martina Detterer Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany

"Miniatures," The Agency, London, England

"Whitechapel Open," Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England



1993

"Inner Side," Architectural Association, London, England

"Vox Pop," Laure Genillard, London, England



1992

"Brit Art," Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland

"Discretion," Canary Wharf, London, England

"Exhibit A," Serpentine Gallery, London, England



1991

"Brit Art 1," Galeri Senger, Zürich, Switzerland

"Countdown," Chisenhale Gallery, London, England

"Post-Morality," Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge, England

"Sign of the Times," Camerawork, London, England

"Swimming Underwater," Imagination, London, England

"The Clove Building," Butler’s Wharf, London, England



1989

"Suppose It’s True After All?" Crypt Gallery, London, England



1985

Galerie Ackerstrasse, Berlin, Germany



1984

"New Contemporaries," Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England





SPECIAL COMMISSIONS

2009

"Passing Thoughts & Making Plans," group show curated by Catherine Yass, Jerwood Space, London, England

2003

"Merce Cunningham, Split Sides," Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York and touring to Paris and Barbican, London

2000

"Christmas Tree 2000," Tate Britain, London, England





AWARDS

2002-2005

Arts and Humanities Research Board, Central Saint Martin's

College of Art and Design

2002

Wellcome Trust Award, London

Turner Prize Short-List, London

2000

Sci–Art, The Wellcome Trust, London

Year of the Artist Award, The Arts Council of England

1999

Glen Dimplex Award, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin





PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Arts Council of England

Biblioteca Albertina, Leipzig

The British Council Collection, London

Delfina Entrecanales, London

Dundee City Council, Dundee

Government Art Collection, London

Jewish Museum, New York

Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle

Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, Washington

National Museum and Galleries of Wales, Cardiff

New Art Gallery, Wallsall

Public Art Development Trust, London

Royal Pump Rooms, Royal Leamington Spa

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Tate Collection, London