Ian Whittlesea (b. 1967) Lives and works in London

SELECTED COLLECTIONS 2009 The Mercus Barn Collection, Mercus-Garrabet, France The Government Art Collection, London The Foundations of Judo, Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam Ian Whittlesea & Sarah Dobai, Roaming ROOM, London Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool Judo Académie de Paris, The Long Weekend, , London New & Recent Acquisitions, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool

The Mercus Barn Collection, Mercus-Garrabet, France ECONOMY, Chelsea Space, , London 2016 Private Collections in London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin, New 2008 Now It is Permitted: 24 Wayside Pulpits, Swedenborg House, London York, Singapore Occasionals, Cremer Street, London T€MPORAR¥ PARADI$€, Rainbow Unicorn, Berlin His books are in the library collections of Tate, London; MoMA, New York; Ocular Lab, Melbourne, Australia Now is forever lasting constant in the mind, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

Stedelijk, Amsterdam and The National Art Library at the V&A, London 2006 Beyond the Frame, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool

Cairn Gallery, Pittenweem, Scotland 2015 SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2005 Exercises in Empathy, Site Gallery, Sheffield 2020 Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall (as part of Transition 6) The Porcupine in the Room, Delfina Foundation, London New Viewings, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin (curated by Andrew 2003 Business as Usual, Pyramid Arts Centre, Warrington Renton) Tower Studio, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Resource, The Bluecoat, Liverpool

2018 CNR Gallery, Melbourne The Infinite Lawn, Tenderpixel, London Some books and light to read them by, PrintRoom, Rotterdam Jerwood Space, London Business as Usual, Turf Projects, Croydon

2017 2001 Urban Tales, The Bank, London (curated by Louise Chignac) Becoming Invisible, Bascule Chamber of Tower Bridge, Art Night, London Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin Business as Usual, Set The Controls For The Heart of The Sun, Leeds

In the beginning..., 1961 Projects, Singapore 2000 Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London

2015 Window 42, London “I never thought I’d see you again” – Painting History, Marlborough After the Light, SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen (curated by Louise Austrian Cultural Institute, London Contemporary, London

Chignac) 2014 Breath is Life, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Everything is About to Happen, Artists Space, New York

2014 2020 INFRA, Westminster Reference Library, London Attaining Cosmic Consciousness, Tenderbooks, London A Double Headed Coin, Project 78, St Leonards-on-Sea Everything is About to Happen, Greengrassi / Corvi-Mora, London A Breathing Bulb, Marlborough Contemporary, London Staycation, Printroom, Rotterdam FOAM, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge

Seven Clouds Forming, Favourbrook, London 2019 FOAM, One Thoresby Street, Nottingham

2013 Bauhaus: Utopia in Crisis, Space, London A Bright & Guilty Place (Part 2), The Hospital Club, London Becoming Invisible, Marlborough Contemporary, London Copie Machine, PrintRoom, Rotterdam 2013 2012 2018 Collective Diary, Space Mass, Hal Project, Seoul The Demonstration of Gentleness, BFI, London. Video commissioned by One Thing Plus Another Thing..., Tlön Projects, The Hague More than I Dare to Think About, Marlborough Contemporary, London the Stanley Picker Gallery (Kingston University) in collaboration w/ Empty your lungs as much as possible and repeat the exercise, Arcade, London There Will Be Words, g|39, Cardiff

Marlborough Contemporary, London Now It is Permitted: 24 Wayside Pulpits, City of Lincoln 2012 Mazdaznan Health & Breath Culture, Barbican Centre, London in Babel Bookspace, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam Forth & Back, Florence Loewy, Paris collaboration w/ Stanley Picker Gallery (Kingston University) 2017 John Moores Painting Prize 2012, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

2011 Performances Yves Klein, BOZAR, Brussels Forth & Back, Limoncello, London Energy is Eternal Delight, PayneShurvell, London Stedelijk Book Club, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Last Day, Cartel, London

2010 Poetry, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne In Conversation, The Government Art Collection, London The Foundations of Judo, The Narrows, Melbourne Endless Book Club, Offprint at Tate Modern, London Ian Whittlesea (b. 1967) Lives and works in London

2011 Far From the Sea, Museum Kurhaus, Kleve SELECTED PUBLICATIONS We are Grammar, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York 50/50, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin Trataka, published by The Everyday Press, London, 2020 WORDS, Living Room Cinema, London Out of Place, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle Imago Mundi, England: Talking of Art, published by FABRICA, 2020 On Colour..., published by The Everyday Press, London, 2019 Alles, was Sie über Chemie wissen müssen, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin 2002 The Egyptian Postures, published by Bauhaus Imaganista, London, 2018 An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, MASS MoCA / Cabinet, New York Bibliomania, Printed Matter, New York Some books and light to read them by, published by PrintRoom, Rotterdam, 2018 Here, There, Elsewhere, London Print Studio Gallery, London 2010 The Egyptian Postures, published by The Everyday Press, London, 2017 Collaborators, ROOM, London Year, Lenbachhaus Museum, Munich (w/ Paul O’Neill) Specialism, published by Open Editions, London, 2016 One Blue Moment, Galerie Schütte, Essen-Kettwig Cluster, Bowes, Dublin (w/ Paul O’Neill) Roven Magazine, published by Les Presses du Réel, Dijon, 2016 Summer Exhibition 2010, , London Fluent, Centenary Gallery, Camberwell College of Arts, London Drawing Biennial Catalogue, published by Drawing Room, London, 2015 A Bright and Guilty Place, PayneShurvell, London Strike, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton INFRA (Playing Cards), produced by Vision Forum, London, 2014 Field Broadcast, Projeckt, Wysing Arts Presents, Cambridge This way, Genneper Parken, Eindhoven Becoming Invisible, published by The Everyday Press, London, 2014 The Art Brussels Colouring Book, commissioned by Art Brussels, Brussels, 2014 2009 Art Extraterritorial, Austrian Cultural Forum, London WORD, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney Calendar, Studio Tommaseo, Trieste Becoming Invisible – Ian Whittlesea, published by Marlborough Contemporary, London, 2013 Fundraiser, The Narrows, Melbourne 2001 Mazdaznan Health & Breath Culture, published by Open Editions & Stanley Rendez-vous in Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou, Burkino Faso A Timely Place, London Print Studio Gallery, London Picker Gallery, London, 2012 2007 The October Foundation, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems Forth & Back, published by Furnished Space & The Everyday Press, London, Irrational Thoughts: In Memory of Sol LeWitt, Cairn Gallery, Pittenweem 2000 2012 2006 297 × 210, Arthouse, Dublin Hostings: Ocular Lab Inc. 2003-2010, published by Surpllus Press, Melbourne, The October Foundation, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven The Wreck of Hope, The Nunnery, London 2012 Feint: Our Day Will Come, Zoo Art Fair, London The October Foundation, Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth In Conversation, published by The Government Art Collection, London, 2012 ECONOMY – Ian Whittlesea, published by Chelsea Space, London, 2009 2005 Snowballing 2, The Institute, Leeds The Foundations of Judo – Yves Klein, translated and typeset for The Everyday Art is a Word, Christie’s, King Street, London 1999 Press, London, 2009 Timeline vol. 2, Bétonsalon, Paris After Jackson Pollock, Sali Gia, London The Contemporary Library, National University Library, Pristina Multiples × 2, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin EDUCATION 2004 A4, The Firestation, Dublin , London (MFA Sculpture), 1990-1992 Tonight, Studio Voltaire, London Dot, Teesdale Yard, London Chelsea College of Art & Design, London (BA Painting), 1987-1990 Art Futures, Contemporary Art Society, London 1998 Saint Martin’s School of Art, London (Foundation), 1986-1987 The Book Show, The Wordsworth Trust, Lake District Niet de Kunstvlaai, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam Joyce in Art, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin Resolute, Platform, London Light Editor’s, Point Ephémère, Paris East 98, Norwich City Art Gallery, Norwich

Timeline, MAC VAL, Paris 1997 2003 Humanism 20/20, Fourth Sculpture Biennale, Ein Hod, Israel Out of Place, Harewood House, Yorkshire Life/Live, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon

Six Conjectural Modules, Tower Studio, University of Melbourne, Melbourne 1996 Necessary Journeys, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin Here and There, Peninsula Gallery, Eindhoven The Book Show, The Nunnery, London Life/Live, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris