ROSS BIRRELL SUMMARY CV DR ROSS BIRRELL (B

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Ross Birrell - Summary CV

Dr ROSS BIRRELL (b. 1969)

CURRENT POST

0.6 Lecturer, Forum for Critical Inquiry, The Glasgow School of Art

2006-2010

0.4 Research Assistant: School of Fine Art, The Glasgow School of Art

2006 -

Editor of Art & Research: A Journal of Ideas, Contexts and Methods (ISSN 1752 6388)

EDUCATION

2004 PhD Department of Theatre, Film & Television, University of Glasgow

1992 MA (Hons) First Class, English Literature & Language, University of Glasgow

TEACHING/VISITING LECTURES

2006 Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

2005 MFA Context and Media, Valand School of Fine Arts, Gothenburg, Sweden

Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama (RSAMD), Glasgow

2004 Visiting Lecturer, MFA, University College Chichester

Visiting Lecturer Aarhus Art Academy, Denmark

Visiting Lecturer, Dept. Theatre, Film & Television, University of Glasgow

2003 Visiting Lecturer KhiB, Bergen, Norway

2002 Visiting Lecturer MFA, Glasgow School of Art

1998 - Visiting lecturer Dept. Sculpture & Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art

1996 - P-t. Lecturer, Dept. Historical & Critical Studies, Glasgow School of Art

1993-6 P-t Lecturer, Dept. Theatre, Film & Television, University of Glasgow

(Graduate Teaching Scholarship)

External Examiner

2011 Fine Art, University of Cumbria

2006 MFA Context and Media, Valand School of Fine Arts, Gothenburg, Sweden

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 You Like This Garden?, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main

2010 Port Bou, XYZ Outlet #2, (with David Harding), Athens

Guantanamera (with David Harding), Galleri Rotor1, Valand, Gothenburg

Guantanamera (with David Harding), Trades Hall, Glasgow International

2005 Homo Ludens: Works from the Envoy Series, 1998-2005, FriesMuseum, Leeuwarden, NL

2004 Dauer Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville

2003 Büro Frierdich, Berlin

Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam

1998 CCA Gallery 2, Glasgow

1997 Intermedia, Glasgow

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012 Museo Tamayo, Mexico City

Thames Delta, Focal Point Gallery, Essex

2011 Decalcomania, The Exchange, Penzance

All that Fits, QUAD, Derby

For Rent, Americas Society, New York

Book Destruction, Senate House, Birckbeck, University of London

Shelf, online bookshelf project, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle

!Patria o Libertad!, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, NL

Living Today, Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art

2010 Strange Comfort (Afforded by the Profession) Swiss Institute Rome/Kunsthalle Basel

Global Studio, Bluecoat Gallery

2009 Under the Volcano, Bluecoat Gallery

TIMECODE, DCA, Dundee

2008 Das Gelände, Kunsthalle Nürnberg

2007 Romantic Conceptualism, Kunsthalle, Nürnberg/BAWAG Foundation Vienna

2006 QUAUHNAHUAC - Die Gerade ist eine Utopie, Kunsthalle Basel

2005 Adam, Smartspace Projects, Amsterdam

Risk - Creative Action in Political Culture CCA. Glasgow International

2004 Play Stadsgalerij, Heerlen, NL

Documentary Evidence, Chez Valentin, Paris

2003 Utopia Station, Sindelfingen Gallery, Stuttgart (until Jan 04)

Grensgangers, Fries Museum , Leeuwarden, Holland

Between the Lines, Apex Art, New York

Greyscale/CMYK, Royal Hibernian Society, Dublin

2002 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea

RESIDENCIES/AWARDS

2012 Royal Society of Edinburgh, Small Research Grant (£7,500)

2011 Creative Scotland Visual Artist’s Bursary (£10,000)

2009 Lord Provost and International Office (Glasgow City Council) £3,300

2007 SAC & Scottish Screen Artist’s Film & Video Award (£15,000)

2001 NIFCA Network North, Soumenlinna, Helsinki

1996 SAC Artist’s Small Assistance Grant (£1,500)

SELECTED WRITINGS

2011 ‘The Prose of the World’. Text on Robert Barry’s Words and Music, The Common Guild

2010 Glasgow International and Les Ateliers de Rennes - Biennale d’art contemporain, April

2005 ‘Potlatch: Monster Child of the Gift System’, Wayward Economy, Main Trend, Taipei

‘The Gift of Terror: Suicide Bombing as Potlatch’, Graham Coulter-Smith and Maurice Owen (eds), Art in the Age of Terror, University of Southhampton/Paul Holberton Press

2004 ‘Santiago Sierra’ & ‘Labour Exchange: A Dialogue with Santiago Sierra’, in Cross-wired: Communication, Interface, Locality, ed. by Simon Yuill and Kerstin Mey, Manchester, Manchester University Press in association with School of Fine Art, DJCAD

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2012 Forthcoming publication on Ross Birrell/David Harding by Portikus/Kunsthalle Basel

2010 Barbara Casavecchia, ‘Strange Comfort’, Frieze, Issue 133 September

‘Envoy’ Artist pages, Visual Culture in Britain, Vol. 11 No. 3. Nov. 2010

2009 Phillip E. Wegner, Life Between Two Deaths, 1989-2001: U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties, Duke University Press, 2009 (ISBN 978-0-8223-4473-5)

Malcolm Lowry: From the Mersey to the World, edited by Bryan Biggs and Helen Tookey

2008 Romantic Conceptualism, Kunstahalle Nürnberg/BAWAG Foundation Vienna

2006 Rhona Warwick (ed): Arcade: Artists and Place-Making, Black Dog Publishing

Maria Hlavajova/Jill Winder (eds): Concerning War: A Critical Reader, BAK, Utrecht

2005 Coulter-Smith/ Owen (eds); Art in the Age of Terrorism, Paul Holberton Publishing

2004 Sarah Lowndes, Social Sculpture: Art, Performance and Music in Glasgow, StopStop

Dominic Eichler, ‘Ross Birrell’, Frieze no. 78, October

2002 PROJECT , 4 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea

Greyscales/CMYK, NIFCA

COLLECTIONS

Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Holland

GALLERY

Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, www.edbprojects.nl

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