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Biography

Born 1967, Hamilton, Scotland
Currently lives and works in Glasgow

Education
1995 - 1997 MFA, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
1996 California Institute for the Arts, Los Angeles
1986 - 1990 BA Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
Current/Forthcoming Exhibitions
2010 Galerie Almine Rech, Paris (3 person show with Victoria Morton and Eva Rothschild)
2009 The Eternal Nework, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, 10/10/08 – 18/01/09 (group)
  Being and Nothingness, Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, 16/04/09 – 23/05/09 (group)
  Material Intelligence, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, May (group)
  Scotland and Venice, Venice Biennale, Venice 07/06/09 - 22/11/09 (group) touring to DCA, Dundee
  Commission for Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 We Are Shipwrecked and Landlocked, RMIT University Alumni Courtyard, Melbourne, with Kaldor Art Projects
  We Burn, We Shiver, SculptureCenter, (two person show with Ugo Rondinone), New York
  Out Of This Sun, Into This Shadow, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
  This Place is Close and Unfolded, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Muenster
2007 Suspended Breath, Atelier Hermes, Seoul
  We Make an Unsubstantial Territory, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
  A Lost Cat and Alleyways. Back Gardens, Pools and Parkways, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva
  That Blows Through Concrete Leaves, The Modern Institute/ Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
2006 We Are the Breeze, Johnen Galerie, Berlin
  Electric Trees and Telephone Booth Conversations, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
  Concrete Autumn (Broken Fall), Art Unlimited, (with The Modern Institute/ Toby Webster Ltd and Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne), Art|37|Basel, Basel
2005 Broken Fall, Kabinett fur aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven Galerie Ruediger-Schottle, Munich
  Concrete Autumn, (project with Peter Heimer and Clemens Tissi), Galerie Jochum and Tissi, Berlin
2004 Brushing Against Strange Weeds, The Modern Institute, Glasgow
  Dark Reflections, Adolf Luther Prize, Krefeld Museum, Krefeld
  We Are Resistant, We Dry Out In The Sun, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
  In Between Breaths and the Sodium Spill, Johnen and Schöttle, Cologne
2003 Art: Concept, Paris
  Undead Dreams, RomaRomaRoma, Rome
  Our Love is Like the Earth, the Sun the Trees and the Birth, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
2002 Our Love is Like the Flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours, Tramway, Glasgow
  For 1959 Capital Avenue, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
  When Now Is Night, (with The Modern Institute), Art Unlimited, Art|33|Basel, Basel
2001 Martin Boyce, Els Hanappe Underground, Athens
2000 Fear View, Johnen and Schöttle, Cologne
  Martin Boyce, Jerwood Gallery, London
1999 Martin Boyce, Recent Works/ Jacob Fabricius, Copenhagen
  When Now Is Night, (part of Visions for the Future), The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
  Martin Boyce, (Round Room), Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
  Martin Boyce, Lotta Hammer, London
1998 Martin Boyce, Habitat, Tottenham Court Road, London
1996 Martin Boyce, Loggia Gallery, Toronto
  You Are Here, Lime Gallery, California Institute for the Arts, Los Angeles
1995 Something’s Got to Give, The Agency, London