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 Abigail Reynolds lives and works in London and St Just, Cornwall

Exhibitions & Projects:

upcoming            Gimpel Fils group show (June), Pay and Display (Sept),
                        Jardin d’acclimation, Villa Arson, Nice (Oct)

2008       Tatton Park Biennial, Parabola (May)
             ArtintheLifeWorld, Breaking Ground, Ballymun, Dublin (Feb)

2007      From a Distance Wallspace New York (curated by Vincent Honore)
            The Islanders Nettie Horn London
            
ShapeShift: landscape in motion Durlston castle, Dorset solo show, July (cat.)
      
      NEVERODDOREVEN Serpentine Gallery March
      
      Behemoth Danielle Arnaud London January

2006      Day to Day Data Danielle Arnaud London March (cat.)
      
      Conversing Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London January
             The Sneeze (*pub Article press)

2005       The Information London Gallery West November
      
      Day to Day Data Angel Row Nottingham, Aspex Portsmouth June-October (cat.)
      
      Offside Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, Dublin, July (cat.)
      
      State of Mind LSE London, May
             After the Fact Tullie House, Carlisle, May (cat.)

             (with Thomas Demand, Matt O’Dell, Emma Kay, Lucy Harrison, and Jamie Shovlin)

             The Dictionary Ranges OED Oxford, solo show, April
             City Breaks Muu Helsinki and Whitechapel Project Space London, January


2004        Mind The Gap La Friche de Bel Mai, Marseilles, France, November (with Bernd Behr,
              Jessica Broas, Matt Franks, Clare Gasson, Alicia Paz, Mark Pearson, Gail Pickering, Lindsay Seers)
             Copy-art.net – web work at the ICA, October
             The Frozen Sea Firstsite at the Minories, Colchester solo show, October
      
      Mount Fear, Mu, Eindhoven, Netherlands, solo show, September
      
      Tempered Ground, Museum of Garden History, London, July-August
(cat.)
             The Oxford Show, Modern Art Oxford, February
             The British Council at the Bologna Art Fair, January
(Paul Winstanley, Gary Stevens,
             Nils Norman, Cornford & Cross, Zineb Sedira, Abigail Reynolds, Ori Gersht, Nathan Coley, Carey Young)
 

2003       New Contemporaries, Manchester and London (cat.)
             Infomatic A-priori, London
             Prospects Drawing Prize Truman Space, London
             The Budget Bureau, K3, Zurich (cat.)
             Geography and the Politics of Mobility Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria

2002       Telling Tales Peri in Turku + MUU in Helsinki, Finland
             Fall Show Mercer Union, Toronto
             Blow up your TV York City Art Gallery
             Goldsmiths MA Show. Goldsmiths College, London (cat.)
             Drive for Show, Putt for Dough Standpoint Gallery, London
             Contemplation Room Overgaden, Danish Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Copenhagen
             Artscatalyst research residency on the Makrolab, Scottish Highlands (cat.)
             PlaySpring Dreamoperator at Public Life, London

2001       Global Economy Centre d'Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie (cat.)
             Incorporate 4 Arts & Business, London
             "...and then we take berlin" City Hall, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada (cat.)
             East of Eden Spacex gallery, Exeter
             In the Event of Emergency Dilston Grove, Southwark Park, London

2000       Night Sites Grizedale Forest, Cumbria
             Braziers International Artists Workshop, Oxfordshire (cat.)

Education:

2000-2002    Goldsmiths College, London MA Fine Art
1997-2000    Chelsea College of Art, London BA Fine Art
1990-1994    St Catherine's College, Oxford University BA Hons. English Literature

Selected Publications:
(*exhibitions with catalogue publication noted above)

Reviews:
Contemporary issue 66 Sept 2004 p62 Review Tempered Ground
Modern Painters Winter 2003 p.120-121 Review New Contemporaries
Metro September 27, 2003 Review New Contemporaries
The Times July 24, 2003 Review New Contemporaries
The Guardian Wednesday July 9, 2003 Review New Contemporaries
South London Press May 9 2003 News: Life Imitates Art
Mix magazine Vol 27 n.o.3 Attention Economies Issue: Review of "...and then we take berlin" Winter 2001
http://www.kopenhagen.dk/artikler/smallspace.htm: Review of Contemplation Room

Talks/Articles/Publications:
Art Monthly, 291 Nov 05, p14 'On Being Naive'
Mapping The Mind; A New Phrenology, lecture with neuroscientist Chris Frith at LSE
ICA Copy-art.net panel discussion Sept 29th 2004
Art Review panel discussion July 2nd 2004
The English Garden Radio 4 programme 3 Friday 18th June 2004 11am
Landscapes of the imagination Art Review June 2004 issue LIV Leslie Forbes pp67-8;
           feature on Tempered Ground
includes Mounument to Darwin’s Garden image
Representation Royal Academy forum; with Zaha Hadid and Sir Roger Penrose March 2004
Warf, VAP 15, Centre d'Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie 2002
You're such a lovely audience article in the Artists Newsletter, September 2001
Serious Play article in the Artists Newsletter, November 2000