BIOGRAPHY
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| EMILY WARDILL | |
| 1977 | Born in Rugby, UK |
| Lives and works in London, UK | |
| Education | |
| 2000 | BA (hons) Fine Art, Central St Martins School of Art and Design, London, UK |
| 1997 | Foundation studies, Newcastle-under-Lyme College, Staffordshire, UK |
| Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2012 | For They Know Not, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö, S |
| Emily Wardill, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, DK | |
| Emily Wardill, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA | |
| the hands of a clock, even when out of order, must know and let the dumbest little watch know where they stand, otherwise neither is a dial but only a white face with a trick mustache, curated by Florence Derieux, Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, F | |
| Full Firearms, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany | |
| 2011 | White Knight, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK |
| British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet, Hayward Gallery, London, UK | |
| Flotsam and Jetsam, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, D | |
| 2010 | Game Keepers Without Game, STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo, Norway |
| Windows broken, Break, Broke Together, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, USA | |
| Game Keepers Without Game, The Showroom Gallery, London, United Kingdom | |
| Game Keepers Without Game, Spacex Gallery, Essex, United Kingdom | |
| 2008 | NKV Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, D |
| Sick Serena and Dregs and Wreck and Wreck / Secs, STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo, N | |
| 2007 | Sick Serena and Dregs and Wreck and Wreck, ICA, London, UK |
| Sick Serena and Dregs and Wreck and Wreck, Picture This, Bristol, UK | |
| Secs, Fulham Palace, London, UK | |
| Ben, Fortescue Avenue, LISTE, Basel, CH | |
| 2006 | Basking in what feels like "an ocean of grace", I soon realise that I"m not looking at it, but rather that I AM it, recognising myself, Fortescue Avenue, London, United Kingdom |
| 2005 | The Reader's Wife, Fortescue Avenue, London, UK |
| Selected Group Exhibitions | |
| 2013 | Beyond the Object, Brand New Gallery, Milan, I |
| 2012 | Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern, curated by Tom Burr, Bortolami, New York, NY |
| On the Edgware Road, Serpentine Gallery and the Centre for Possible Studies, London, UK | |
| A useful-looking useless object, Sierra Metro, Edinburgh, UK | |
| Full Firearms, commissioned by Serpentine Gallery, UK | |
| 2011 | Full Firearms, commissioned by If I Can’t Dance, Film premiere, Cinema Zuid, Antwerp, B |
| If you shoot a bullet in a vacuum, will it keep travelling forever?, M HKA, Antwerp, B | |
| ILLUMInations (curated by Bice Curiger), 54. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, I | |
| A Different Person, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, D | |
| White Knight, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK | |
| British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet, Hayward Gallery, London, UK | |
| Mirages, Fountains & Dissociative Composition, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, B | |
| 2010 | Murray Guy, New York, NY |
| Art Sheffeld 2010 – Life: A User’s Manual, Sheffeld Institute of Arts Gallery and others, Sheffeld, UK | |
| The British Art Show 2010, Nottingham Contemporary, Hayward Gallery, CCA ,Tramway, UK | |
| Gallery, Plymouth Arts Centre, The Plymouth Museum, Peninsula Arts, UK | |
| Paying a Visit to Mary, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefeld, UK | |
| 2009 | Reach of Realism (curated by Ruba Katrib), Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL |
| 2008 | Noli Me Legere, Michael Lett, Auckland, NZ |
| 2007 | Artprojx, Théâtre Royal de Marrakech, Marrakech, MA |
| Ben, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, AUS | |
| Film as a Critical Practice, OCA, Oslo, N | |
| Ballet Mecanique (curated by Emma Dexter), Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK | |
| London Film Festival (curated by Mark Webber), London, UK | |
| Hi Fi, One night screening, Tate Britain, London, UK | |
| Pastoral (curated by Michelle Cotton), Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK | |
| Kinomuseum (curated by Ian White and Emily Pethick), Oberhausen Short Film Festival, D | |
| Depiction Perversion Repulsion Obsession Subversion, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL | |
| Der Ficker (curated by Franz West), Fortescue Avenue, London, UK | |
| Inky Toy Affnitas, Cerealart, Philadelphia, Berlin, D | |
| Itchy Park IVI, Limehouse Town Hall, London, UK | |
| 2006 | Brown Mountain (curated by Sally O Reilly), London, UK |
| Skirt, Hollybush Gardens, London, UK | |
| Among the Ash Heaps and Millionaires, Ancient & Modern, London, UK | |
| Norberg-Vastmanland-Bergslagen-Sverige-Skandinavian, Norberg, S | |
| Remove Celebrity Centre (curated by Nathaniel Mellors and Dan Fox Lightbox), Tate Britain, London, UK | |
| High Risk Painting, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK | |
| Itchy Park III, Limehouse Town Hall, London, UK | |
| 2005 | Le Voyage Interieur (curated by Alex Farquarson and Alexie Valliant), Espace Electra, Paris, F |
| Slimvolume (curated by Andrew Hunt Silverbridge), Galerie Nomadenoase, London, UK | |
| Itchy Park II, Limehouse Town Hall, London, UK | |
| 2004 | Romantic Detatchment, PS1 New York, NY |
| James Porter with words by Emily Wardill, 1.000,000 MPH Gallery, London, UK | |
| Feast Against Nature, PS1, New York, NY | |
| Itchy Park, Limehouse Town Hall, London, UK | |
| Like Beads on an Abacus Designed to Calculate Infnity (curated by Andrew Hunt), Rockwell Institute, London, UK | |
| 2003 | Corpa Nova, Spitalfelds Square, London, UK |
| Group Shows are a Waste of Time, Hoxton Distillery, London, UK | |
| The Royal Road to the Unconscious, The Freud Museum, London, UK | |
| A short Hello and a Long Goodbye (curated by Klaus Weber), London, UK; Berlin, D; Los Angeles, CA | |
| Bay 67 Installation, Notting Hill, London, UK | |
| Awards | |
| 2011 | Performing and Visual Arts, Philip Leverhulme Prize |
| 2008 | The Wiesbaden Grant: Follow Fluxus – After Fluxus, Wiesbaden, D |
| 2007 | Fulham Palace Comission, London, UK |
| 2005 | Arts Council Grants for the Arts |
| 2000 | ACAVA first Base Award |
| Jarman Award, BBC Channel 4, London, UK | |
| Residencies | |
| 2008 | Botkyrka konsthall. Residency, S |
| 2007 | FLAMIN / Bristol Meantime Residency, Bristol, UK |
| 2006 | Hollybush Gardens Swedish Residence, Norberg, S |
| 2003 | Grizedale Arts Research and Development Residency, Lake District, UK; New York, NY |
| 2001 | Artist in Residence at The National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London, UK |
