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GRAYSON PERRY Grayson Perry lives in London and Sussex, UK

Education

BA (Hons), , Polytechnic Art Foundation Course, Braintree College of Further Education

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2009 The Tapestry , , London 2008 My Civilisation , Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg 2008 Unpopular Culture (curated by Grayson Perry), de la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, UK (until 2010, touring exhibition 2007 My Civilisation , 21 st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa 2006 The Charms of Lincolnshire , Victoria Miro Gallery, London 2006 The Charms of Lincolnshire , The Collection, Lincoln 2006 Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh 2005 Galleria II Capricorno, Venice 2005 Victoria Miro Gallery, London 2004 Collection Intervention , St Ives, St Ives 2002 Guerilla Tactics , Barbican Art Gallery, London 2002 Guerilla Tactics , Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 2000 Fig-1, London 2000 Sensation , Laurent Delaye Gallery, London 1996 Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, until 1997 1995 Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London 1994 Clara Scremini Gallery, Paris 1991 David Gill Gallery, London, until 1992 1991 Garth Clark Gallery, New York 1990 Birch & Conran, London 1988 Birch & Conran, London 1987 Birch & Conran, London 1986 The Minories, Colchester, 1985 James Birch Gallery, London 1984 James Birch Gallery, London

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011 The Art of Mapping , TAG Fine Arts, London 2009 British Subjects: Identity and Self-Fashioning 1967 – 2009 , Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York 2009 Fascination with the Foreign: China – Japan – Europe , Hetjens-Museum Landeshaupstadt, Düsseldorf, Germany 2009 Conflicting Tales: Subjectivity (Quadrilogy, Part 1) , The Burger Collection, Berlin 2009 Prints Charming , Liberty, London 2009 Medals of Dishonour , , London 2009 sh[OUT]: Contemporary art and human rights , Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow 2008 Demons, Yarns and Tales , The Dairy, London 2008 Dargerism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger , American Folk Art Museum, New York 2006 Designing Truth , Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum – Zentrum International Skulptur, Duisberg 2006 The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now , Museum of Modern Art, New York 2005 Reveal, Nottingham’s Contemporary Textiles , Nottingham Castle off Maid Marian Way 2005 Fairy Tales Forever , ARoS, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark 2005 Mixed-Up Childhood , Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand 2004 A Secret History of Clay from Gauguin to Gormley , Tate Liverpool 2003 The , Tate Britain, London 2003 For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life , Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 2003 Thatcher , The Blue Gallery, London 2001 The East Wing Collection , Courtauld Institute of Art, London, until 2003 2001 Carts and Rafts , College, London 2001 Sense of Occasion , MAC, Birmingham, until 2002 2001 New Labour , , London 2001 Sense of Occasion , Birmingham and other centres around UK, until 2002 2001 La Altra Brittania Tecla Sala , Barcelona 2001 Self Portraya , group show at Laurent Delaye Gallery, London 2000 Protest and Survive , Whitechapel Gallery, London 2000 British Art Show 5 , curated by the , touring exhibition 1999 Plate Show , Collins Gallery, Glasgow 1999 Contained Narrative , Garth Clark Gallery, New York 1999 Hydra Foundation, Greece 1999 541 Vases, Pots, Sculptures and Services , Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 1999 Decadence , Crafts Council, London 1998 Over the Top , Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, touring show until 1999 1998 Glazed Expressions , Orleans House 1997 Craft , Richard Salmon Gallery, London; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, until 1998 1997 Objects Of Our Time , Crafts Council, London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Belfast, Cardiff; American Crafts Museum, New York, until 1990 1996 Hot Off The Press , Tullie House, Carlisle, Glasgow, Norwich; Croydon Clock Tower; Crafts Council, London, until 1997 1996 Indigo Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida 1996 Whitechapel Open , Whitechapel Gallery, London 1996 Philippe Rizzo Gallery, Paris 1993 The Raw and the Cooked , Barbican Art Gallery, London, touring exhibition until 1995 1992 Fine Cannibals , Oldham Art Gallery, touring exhibition 1991 Essex Ware , , touring exhibition until 1992 1990 Words and Volume , Garth Clark Gallery, New York 1989 Nishi Azabu Wall , Tokyo (commission by Nigel Coates) 1988 Read Stremmel Gallery, San Antonio 1986 Mandelzoon , Rome 1985 Gallozi e La Placa , new York 1985 Essex Artists , Epping Forest Museum and Minories, Colchester, Essex 1983 Ian Birksted Gallery, London 1981 Young Contemporaries , ICA, London, until 1982

Curating

2008 Unpopular Culture , de la Warr Pavilion (then touring) 2006 The Charms of Lincolnshire , The Collection, Lincoln

Awards

2005 Award , Best Network Production Why men wear frocks 2003 Turner Prize

Media and books

2007 Southbank show, ITV 2007 Spare Time 2007 Arts correspondent for 2006 Portrait of the Artist As A Young Girl 2005 Why men wear frocks, documentary

About the Artist

2003 Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry is best known for his subversive ceramics, but his work encompasses a large variety of media. Perry frequently takes up a traditional technique and deliberately disrupts it, questioning our expectations and estimations of the art-form in the process. His maps, at first glance, look like the antique ones that inspired the artist, but on closer inspection they are shown to map Perry’s own self and belief systems: sensory, emotional and imaginary terrain. Perry’s conflation of body and landscape has historical roots (he was directly inspired by antique examples such as the circular Ebstorf Map where Christ’s head and hands encircle the globe) but he takes the (secular) potential of personal cartographies to modern extremes.