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

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

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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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