Biography - Galerie Francesca Pia

Joanne Tatham	born in 1971 in West Yorkshire, England
2004–04 1993–95 1990–93	PhD, University of Leeds MFA, Glasgow School of Art BA Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee

Tom O’Sullivan	born in 1967 in Norfolk, England
1992–94 1987–91	MFA, Glasgow School of Art BA Fine Art, University of Leeds

They live and work in Glasgow

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2017	Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, A Proposal To Ask Where Does A Threshold Begin & End, Middlesbrough
2016	The Modern Institute, A petition for an enquiry into a condition of anxiety, Galsgow
2014	Museum and Arts Centre, Atlas Arts, Are you LOCATIONALIZED, part of Generation 25 years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Lochmaddy Tramway, Is your tesserae really necessary?, part of Generation 25 years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Glasgow Bloomberg Space, DOES THE IT STICK, London
2013	CIRCA Projects, DOES THE IT FIT, Newcastle
2012	Chapter Gallery, Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan. A Tool for the Making of Signs, Cardiff Studio Voltaire, Is this what brings things in focus?, Performance, London
2010	C.C.A., Direct serious action ist therefore necesssary, Glasgow
2009	Eastside Projects, Does your contemplation of the situation fuck with the flow of circulation, Birmingham La Salle de Bains, You can take it as a thing or you can take it as a thing, Lyon
2008	Galerie Francesca Pia, Are you feeling our meaning?, Zurich Sutton Lane, Time has gone on and thinking has gone on about the thoughts we think we had about things that already happened before, Paris
2007	Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Lead Rhetoric & Other Category Errors, Munich Smart Project Space, The This & The That of a Category Error, Amsterdam The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, A fee to avoid our expenses, Glasgow
2006	Tate Britain, Art Now Life Work: Rory MacBeth, Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan and Sue Tompkins (Live Performance), London Newhailes, Rhetoric Works & Vanity Works & Other Works, Musselburgh Pittenweem Arts Festival, Three Lean meanings, Scotland & Venice touring The watchie, The Pyramid, Catterline, Aberdeenshire
2005	Galerie Francesca Pia, Is this is what brings things into focus?, Bern Studio Voltaire, Oh We Will, We Will, Will We, London
2004	Sutton Lane, That is the way, it is, it is, that is, London
2003	Kunsthaus Glarus, Thing Thingamijig and Other Things, Glarus The Modern Institute, This has reached the limit conditions of its own rhetoric (with Alan Michael), Glasgow
2002	Cubitt Gallery, The Blacks and the Slapstick Mystics with Sticks, London
2001	Tramway, HK, Glasgow [cat.] The Modern Institute at ARCO, The Glamour, Madrid
2000	Transmission Gallery, The Glamour, Glasgow [cat.]
1999	24hrs window, Regardez-vous, Glasgow The Modern Institute, Deadzone, Glasgow
1998	The Collective Gallery, Blow Your Mind, Edinburgh [cat.]
1997	Accident, Magus, London 3 Month Gallery, Futura Skulpta, Liverpool [cat.]

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2016	The Wilson – Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, The Last Word in Art, Cheltenham
2015	Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Localism, Middlesbrough Gallery North, Alternative 23, Newcastle
2014	Cricoteka, Nothing Twice, Krakow  The Briggait, Reclaimed - The Second Life of Sculpture (as part of Glasgow International), Glasgow
2013	Galerie Francesca Pia, X-Mas Show, Zürich The Northern Charter, Corridor Plateau IV, Newcastle Walker Art Gallery, The Narrators, Liverpool Leeds Art Gallery, Northern Art Prize 2013, Leeds
2012	Art Across the City, Event, Swansea
2011	Collective – Fettes College, The Indirect Exchange of Uncertain Value, Edinburgh
2010	Sorcha Dallas, LOVE With: Rita Donagh & Richard Hamilton, Gilbert & George and Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan, Glasgow
2009	Dean Gallery, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Running Time, Edinburgh Artissima, Blinding the Ears,Turin Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture, Depression, Maastricht The Modern Institute, Tonite, Glasgow Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee, Back of the Head: Alternative Approaches to Portraiture, Dundee Musée d'art Contemporain de Lyon, N'importe Quoi, Lyon Sutton Lane, London
2008	Contemporary Art Society at the Bloomberg Space, ART futures, London City Gallery, A show of many parts, each part more elaborate and spectacular than the last, Leicester Frankfurter Kunstverein/ Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, The Great Transformation; Art and Tactical Magic, Frankfurt/ Vigo
2007	Art 38 Basel (performance with The Modern Institute/ Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow), Basel Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Through the Looking Glass, Bordeaux Sutton Lane, Paris, 24 November – 22 December, Paris Villa Arson, HALF SQUARE, HALF CRAZY / A DEMI CARRE, A DEMI FOU, Nice Hunterian Art Gallery, Enlightment, Glasgow
2006	Tate Britain, Art Now Live Work, London FRAC-PACA, I am the Fly, Marseilles Supportico Lopez, Falansterio, Naples Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art, Momentum, Try Again, Fail Again, Fail Better, Moss Pittenweem Arts Festival, Pittenweem, Fife Galleria SALES, A reverie interrupted by the police, Rome The Showroom, If it didn't exist you'd have to invent it... A partial Showroom history, London
2005	Collective Gallery, Echo, echo, Edinburgh Temple Bar Gallery, Art from Glasgow, Dublin Art Sheffield, Spectator T, Sheffield [cat.] Venice Biennale, Scottish Pavillion, Selective Memory, Venice Scottish Pavillion touring to Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Selective Memory, Edinburgh [cat.] Art Basel statement with Sutton Lane MARTA Museum of Art & Design, (My private) Heroes, Herford [cat.] c/o Ghislaine Hussennot, Sutton Lane in Paris, Paris
2004	Cubitt, Publish and be Damned, London Kunsthaus Glarus at LISTE, Basel Platform Garantie (curated by SMART project space, Amsterdam), Hit and Run, Istanbul [cat.] Domain Pommery, Genesis Sculpture, Reims [cat.] Alexandra Parade, Gertcha, Glasgow Temporary sited works, Ain’t no love in the heart of the city, Cardiff [cat.] Three Colts Gallery, The Principle of Hope, London Magnifitat, Brainchild, Edinburgh Collective Gallery, The Birthday Party, Edinburgh Invited project, Frieze Art Fair, The Slapstick Mystics with Sticks, London
2003	Venice Biennale, Zenomap, Venice Prague Biennale, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Gallery, Prague Catterline Art Festival, Aberdeenshire Mini Gallery, Natural Decadence, Stockholm Studio Voltaire, Turpentine, London
2002	Kunsthalle Palazzo, Very Important Picture, Basel [cat.] Laing Art Gallery, All You Need To Know, Newcastle Braunschweig Kunstverein, The Best Book About Pessimism I Ever Read, Braunschweig [cat.] Curated by All Horizons Club, Village Hall Roadshow touring to village halls and the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston Kunstverein Braunschweig, Jahresgaben, Braunschweig Charlottenbourg Museum, My Head is on Fire but My Heart is Full of Love, Copenhagen [cat.]
2001	Edinburgh College of Art, The Nostalgia of Dum, Edinburgh Public arts projects St.Vincent Street, October, Glasgow [cat.] McManus Galleries, Here and Now . Scottish contemporary art 1999–2001, Dundee [cat.] Kunstwerke, Berlin Biennale 2, Berlin [cat.]
2000	The Modern Institute, Tonight, Glasgow Generator, Then There Is No Mountain Then There Is, Dundee PG Gallery, Museum Magogo, Melbourne Glasgow Project Room, The Evil Eye, Glasgow Arthur R Rose/ Henry Moore Institute, Snowballing, London/ Leeds [cat.] The Changing Room, Avalon, Stirling [cat.]
1999	Holden Gallery, Sordide Sentimentale, Manchester Glasgow Project Room, Museum Magogo, Glasgow The Mirror and the Masque at Linlithgow Palace, Education in Reverse, coordinated by Sarah Tripp, West Lothian Radio Tuesday, Glasgow The Fruitmarket Gallery, Evolution isn’t over yet, Edinburgh [cat.] Teesdale Yard, Dot, London
1998	High Street Project, Wallpapervideo, Christchurch [cat.] An Tuireann Art Centre, This Island Earth, Skye Ikon Gallery touring, Unbelievable, Birmingham East Kilbride Arts Centre, Various artists, Glasgow The Showroom, Add Night to Night, London [cat.] Tramway, Host, Glasgow
1997	200 Gertrude Street, Diorama, Melbourne [cat.] Artspace Sydney, Nerve: Glasgow projects, Sydney [cat.] 3 month gallery, Tutor with an idea, Liverpool Transmission gallery, European Couples and Others, Glasgow The Showroom, 60,70,80:90, London de Markten Arts Centre, Made in Glasgow, Brussels [cat.] The Annual Programme, Young parents, Manchester
1996	World of Ponce (cur. by Toby Webster), Glasgow Staffordshire University, City Limits, Stoke-on-Trent Transmission Gallery, Art for People, Glasgow Articule/ Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art/ Hunter College/ CCA/ De Markten Arts Centre/ Leeds University, Chicken Farm, Montreal/ Helsinki/ New York/ Glasgow/ Brussels/ Leeds Be-Er Monsta, touring video programme screened in London, Dublin and Belfast
1995	The Fruitmarket Gallery, Volcano, Edinburgh Transmission Gallery, Making out, Glasgow

Awards and Residencies

2013	Northern Art Prize
2003	Scottish Arts Council Artists Award Scottish Arts Council Professional Development grant
2002	Glasgow City Council Visual Arts award Hope Scott Trust grant Grizedale Research and Development grant and residency
2000	Arts Trust of Scotland grant Stanley Burton Bursary, Leeds University Scottish Arts Council Research and Development grant Glasgow City Council Visual Arts award
1998	Scottish Arts Council Public Art Initiatives award
1997	Residency at Artspace, Sydney, funded by the British Council
1997	Scottish Arts Council Small Assistance grant
1993–95	Paul Hamlyn Foundation bursary