Curriculum Vitae
Anthony Gross (b London 1968).
2001 MA Fine Art Goldsmiths College
Guest student at Karlsruhe Art Academy
BA & Ma Architecture at The Bartlett, London
2011
'Burnt Wood Stories', The Agency Gallery, London July 2011.
2010/11
'Crimes Scenes', Superfront LA, Pacific Design Centre, Los Angeles.
2010
'Testbed 1', Beaconsfield, London. Residency, Film commission and exhibition.
2007
'Retrogeno', ICA commission, ICA Bar, The Mall, London.
2005
'Platform for Art', Piccadilly Circus, London. Commission of 45m digital wall images.
2004
‘Video et Animations’, M-Project, Paris - Installation of 2 video works and 2 animations.
2004
'Object Passing', The Economist Building, London. Commissioned by the Contemporary Arts Society.
Two-person show with Sean Cummins.
2004
‘Production’, The London Print Studio, London.
Symposia
Arnolfini. "Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic", including, Ben Rivers, Cambell X, John Sealy, Artangel, Nov 2011
Yokohama Triennale 2011. "Our Magic Hour", & Tokyo symosium, International Curator Forum (ICF), August 2011
Barbican Art Gallery. "Artists and Sub-Cultures" including Iain Sinclair, Richard Grayson, Celine Condorelli, 12th May 2011
Crate Project Space, Margate. "Exhibition as Medium" including Binna Cho, Valentinas Klimašauskas, Paul O'Neill, 16th April 2011
Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Greenwhich. "Framed Narrative: the Secret Agent and the Apocalyptic Realm" including Daniel Rubinstein, Andy Campbell, Anita Ponton, Professor Johnny Golding, John Timberlake and Joy Sleeman, Kathy Mckean, 8th Jan 2011
Residencies & Awards
TestBed 1. Beaconsfield Gallery 2011
Jerwood Prize (shortlist), 2006
British Council Artist Links Shanghai. 2005
Portobello Film Festival, Best Multimedia Work, 2003
Arte Viva Festival, Senigallia, Italy. First Prize Digital Art + 2 week residency, 2001
Group Exhibitions
2012
'To Pay Respect to the Generosity of the Three-Minute Punk-Rock Song', Crate Project Space, Margate, with Vito Acconci, Black Argos, David Blamey, José Arnaud-Bello, Sovay Berriman, Don Celender, Loz Chalk, Rob Chavasse, Adam Chodzko, Desmond Church (with Egle Kulbokaite and Sabel Gavaldon), Patrick Coyle, Andrew Cross, David Cross, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, S Mark Gubb, David Hall, Rose Kallal, Adam Knight, Frank Koolen, John Latham, Jamie Bracken Lobb, Elizabeth McAlpine, Julie McCalden, Ronan McCrea, Magnets, David Martin, Nelson Melo and Carolina Rito, Suzanne Mooney, Lawrence Norfolk and Neal White, Graham Parker, Kelvin Pawsey, Laurence Payot, Pedro Diniz Reis, Andrea Schlieker, Anthony Shapland, Gregg Stobbs, Barry Sykes, Aron Taylor, Sue Tompkins, Gavin Turk, Mark Aerial Waller, Neal White, Carey Young...
2011
'E/ectric Sheep', Collyer Bristow Gallery, London, curated by Day+Guckman, with Cleo Broda, Adam Dix, Martin Fletcher (Systems House), Stewart Gough, Anthony Gross, Emily Hayes, Catherine Hyland, Julie Myers, Zoe Papadopoulou.
2011
'Art Gwangju 2011', Korea, curated by temporarycontemporary, with Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Spartacus Chetwynd, Plastique Fantastique, Brian Griffiths, Anthony Gross, David Medalla, Bob & Roberta Smith, Jen Wu.
2011
'We Are Grammar', Pratt Manhattan Gallery, curated by Dave Beech and Paul O'Neill. Group show with: Can Altay, Simon Bedwell, David Blamey, Pavel Büchler, The Complaints Choir (Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen), Goran Djordjevic, Ben Fitton, Freee art collective (Dave Beech, Andy Hewitt, and Mel Jordan), Jaime Gili and Luis Romero (Editors), Liam Gillick, Goll & Nielsen, Lucy Gunning, Jeanne van Heeswijk and the Employees of SUS, Matthew Higgs, Karl Holmqvist, Toby Huddlestone, Mark Hutchinson, Matt Keegan, Annette Krauss, Pierre Léguillon, Gareth Long, Nanna Lysholt-Hansen, Ronan McCrea, Jonathan Monk, Simon Morris, Graham Parker, Sarah Pierce, Falke Pisano, Plastique Fantastique (David Burrows and Simon O'Sullivan), Elizabeth Price, Savage, Nick Thurston, Bik Van der Pol, Ian Whittlesea, Mick Wilson, Carey Young.
2010
'Binary Code View', The Agency Gallery, London, with Rafael Rozendaal and Rob Smith
Group show with Michael Curran and Lucy Gunning, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Joseph Walsh, Lilli Hartmann, Dafna Talmor.
'Starmaker', E:vent Gallery, London. Curated by David Burrows and Mark Harris.
'Reliquaries of Empires Dust', Bereznitsky Berlin. Curated by Adam Nankervis.
'Year of the Ox', Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Curated by Jen Wu.
'Coalesce: Happenstance', Smart Project Space, Amsterdam. Curated by Paul O'Neill.
'In Media Res', LUX / Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Curated by Jen Wu.
inc. Francis Lamb, Plastique Fantastique, Lindsay Seers, Tai Shani
'Something about Rooms and Walls', SUPERFRONT, New York. Curated by Mitch McEwen.
inc. Farrah Karapetian, Ariane Lourie, Mitch McEwen, Proxy, Coke Urbano
'Do Something Different', Barbican Centre, London. Curated by Cyril Lepetit.
'Progress Through Typography', web exhibition. Curated by Mark Pearson.
Design of a typeface.
inc. Sam Burford, Cedric Christie, Toby Clarkson, Richard Crow, Adrian Dannatt, Dædalus, Jack Duplock, Deej Fabyc, Laura Oldfield Ford, Cathy Lomax, Mark McGowan, Lee Maelzer, Bob and Roberta Smith, ...
'Art Car Boot Fair', July 8th, Truman Brewery, London. Vauxhall car commission.
'Space Invasion', old law administration building, Vienna. Offsite project organised by Elsy Lahner.
inc. Reza Aramesh, Sarah Baker, Ruth Barabash, Ina Bierstedt, Bettina Carl, Ingo Gerken, Claude Lévêque, Christoph Raitmayr, Wawrziniec Tokarski, Mark Aerial Waller, ...
'1000 Years - Empire (split/loop)', installation view
'We’ve lost the hearts and minds...', E:vent Gallery, London. Curated by Reza Aramesh.
inc. Lewis Amar, Gordon Cheung, Henry Coleman, Dan Griffiths, William Hunt, Steve Klee, George Kontos, Cyril Lepetit, Goshka Macuga, ...
inc. Martine Aballéa, Shezad Dawood, Charlotte Ginsborg, Goshka Macuga, Graeme Miller, ...
'1000 Years - Empire (split/loop)', installation view
'Centrefold Scrapbook 5'. Curated by Reza Aramesh. Collection Tate.
'10th Planet', Tower Bridge Business Complex. Curated by Julian Hughes Watts.
inc. Sam Basu, Gordon Cheung, Geraint Evans, Kounosuke Kawakami, David Kefford, Alex Gene Morrison, ...
Rear screen projection installation of '1000 Years - Empire (split/loop)'
'Metropolis Rise: New Art from London', Shanghai + Beijing. Publication launch ICA, London. (Catalogue). Curated by Anthony Gross and Jen Wu.
'His Life is Full of Miracles.... videotheque', Site Gallery, Sheffield.
'Fiction & Love', MOCA Shanghai & Bund 18 Creative Center, Shanghai, China. Touring to Singapore Art Museum. (Catalogue). Curated by MOCA Shanghai.
inc. Megumi Akiyoshi, Chiho Aoshima, Louise Bourgeois, Cao Fei, Wim Delvoye, Manuela Hartl, Dongi Lee, Claire Lim, Yayoi Kusama, Ki Soo Kwon, Liu Ding, Liu Jianhua, Liu Wei, Lisa Milroy, Julie Nord, Nam June Paik, Pushpamala N. & Clare Arni, David Salle, Wang Gongxin, William Wegman, ...
Single channel installation of 'Animal Kids'
'Object Passing - Kyoto', from diptych. 134 x 174 cm each. Lambda & mirror glass.
The Second Guangzhou Triennial, 'Beyond', collaboration with Weng Fen / Redskyart.
Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hou Hanru and Guo Xiaoyan.
'Video Cocktail', exhibition at The Albany, Regents Park tube, to coincide with Frieze, 21-24 October.
'Loop Barcelona', Espai Ubú, Barcelona. Presented by Cell Project Space.
inc. Simon Faithfull, Daniel Jackson, Susanne Kohler, Oliver Michaels, Monika Oechsler, Dallas Seitz, ...
'Gifts to the city of Sheffield', curated by Mark Pearson as part of 'Art Sheffield 05. Spectator T', Sheffield, UK.
'Infrastructure', Studio Voltaire, London. Curated by Therese Stowell.
'1000 Years (Empire)'. Carved plinth, perspex construction and animation on 7" LCD panel.
'The Future Is Stupid - Songs For A Future Generation', MAMA showroom for media and moving art, Rotterdam. Curated by Boris van Berkum.
'Crowd Roar Ascending', single screen still
'Tonight', Studio Voltaire, London. Curated by Paul O'Neill.
inc. Simon Bedwell, Dave Beech, Kathrin Böhm, Ian Breakwell, Pavel Büchler, Gerard Byrne, Adam Chodzko, Cornford & Cross, Markus Eisenmann, Liam Gillick, Lothar Götz, Andrew Grassie, Brian Griffiths, Matthew Higgs, Gareth Jones, Janice Kerbel, Goshka Macuga, Aleksandra Mir, Jonathan Monk, Hayley Newman, Lindsay Seers, Bob and Roberta Smith, Mungo Thomson, Markus Vater, Lawrence Weiner, Ian Whittlesea, ...
'BLOC', County Hall, London. Presented by Bowieart and County Hall Gallery.
inc. Doug Fishbone, Sigga Bjorg Sigurdardottir, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Neil Zakiewicz, ...
'Crowd Roar Ascending', three-screen animation still. 'Boy 1', 'Boy 2', shown in progress - billboard paintings 350 x 236 cm each
'Biennale! Artist Film & Video', temporarycontemporary, London. Touring China 2005/6: Dashanzi Festival, 798 Space, Beijing. BizArt, Shanghai. Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu. Curated by Anthony Gross with guest selectors.
inc. Gerard Byrne, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Oriana Fox, Jonah Freeman, Lu Chunsheng, Michelle Naismith, Damon Packard, Jimmy Robert, Mark Aerial Waller, Yang Zhenzhong, ...
'Scope', Miami. Curated by Flemming Neilsen.
Monitor presentation of '1000 Years (Poolside)'.
'Kingdom', Marketplace Gallery, Glasgow. Curated by Patricia Ellis.
inc. Guy Bar Amotz, Diann Bauer, Dubossarsky & Vinogradov, Hadassah Emmerich, Steven Gontarski, Klega, Toby Ziegler, ...
'Head Morph', animation still from the 'Culture of One' series
'Negative Plus Negative, Earl Lu Gallery, Lasalle, Singapore. Curated by Jeab Gridthiya / Gridthiya Gaweewong.
inc. Sakarin Krue-on, Jim Prevett & McArthur, Kamol Phaosavasdi, Wit Pimkarnchanapong
'From Here to Eternity II', installation view two channel computer animation
’TAPE291’, 291 Gallery, London (Catalogue). Curated by Seraina Mueller & Deana Wright.
inc. Amanda Beech, Richard Billingham, Runa Islam, Ben Judd, ...
’Mesmer’, temporarycontemporary, London. Curated by Anthony Gross.
inc. Jonathan Allen, Diann Bauer, Ian Dawson, Peter Fillingham, Laurie Hill, Francis Lamb, David Lock, Seb Patane, Giles Round, Lindsay Seers, Mark Titchner, ...
inc. Ash, Oleg Kulik, Julie Nord, Motohiko Odani, Peng Hung-Chih, ...
’Derriere son Double’, Galerie Le Garage, Toulouse.
inc. Jean Pierre Khazem, Frédéric Nakache, ORSERO, Maïa Roger
Left: 'AutoBody LA - All American Liquor'. Lambda on aluminium 100 x 150.
Right: 'AutoBody LA - Home Improvement'. Lambda on aluminium 100 x 150.
’Sharjah International Biennial 6’, Sharjah Art Museum and Expo Centre, United Arab Emirates. (Catalogue)
Installation of ‘From Here to Eternity II’, as part of Cell Project Space.
’An Offer You Can’t Refuse’, The leisure club MOGADISHNI, Copenhagen.
inc. Lise Blomberg Andersen, Peter Geschwind, Vincent Valdez, ...
inc. Sam Basu, Lolly Batty, David Burrows, Matt Franks, ...
’Sound and Vision’, Meltdown Festival, Royal Festival Hall, London. Curated by Bowieart.com.
Installation of ‘Band of One’
‘Private’, Aldgate East Pump House, London. Curated by Swapna Tamhane.
’Club’, Le Grand Confort, Poitiers, France (Catalogue). Curated by Wilken Schaden, Eva Stenram and Simon Wood.
inc. Brian Dawn Chalkey, Kevin Heavey, Wolfgang Tillmanns, ...
’Shine’, Spitz Gallery, London. Curated by Debra Sacco and Julie Reynolds.
’Flesh’, BritArt.com Gallery, London
’Video Babylon’, Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand (Catalogue). Curated by Denise Kum.
’Arte Viva Festival 2001’, Senigallia, Italy (Catalogue)
Residency and exhibition
’Glamourhammer’, Thomas A’Beckett Boxing Gym, London. Curated by David Lock.
'Self Portrait (after Mapplethorpe)'', Inkjet print 180 x 120cm. 'You Have Died', Painted polystyrene, 2m x 1m40 x 40cm
’NonStopOpening’, ZDB Gallery, Lisbon. Curated by Tiago Carneiro da Cunha.
’Summer’, The Sun & Doves Gallery, London.
’Camberwell Arts Week’, ASC Studios, London.
‘Manchurian Candidate’, Paris House, London. Curated by Ciara Ennis and David Goldenberg.
inc. Brian Griffiths, Paul Morrison, ...
‘Homeless’, The Mota Gallery, London. Curated by David Goldenberg.
‘Houseworks’, Underwood Street Gallery, London. Curated by Ciara Ennis.
inc. Peter Fillingham, Matthew Hilton, Peter Lewis, Simon Tyscko, ...
’6 Artworks’, CH N Katz, London. Curated by Suresh Singh.
Cinema screening inc. John Malkovich & Bella Freud, Bikini Girls, Lucy Wallace, ...
’Launch Night’, The Cobden Club, London. Presented by The Portobello Film Festival.
Cinema screening
Cinema screening
'Portobello Film Festival,'Westbourne Studios, London. Curated by Monica Biagoli.
Screening
'Band of One’, Tower Records, Piccadilly, London. Curated by Bowieart.com.
Installation
'London Calling', Aldwych Tube Station, London. Curated by DSO Productions.
’Nite Ryder’, Woody’s Night Club, London. Presented by The Portobello Film Festival.
Cinema screening inc. Dougie Fields, k r buxey, ...
’RCA Secret’, Royal College of Art, London
’The Portobello Film Festival, 2001’, Uncle’s Bar, London
’Cybersex’, ICA, London. Curated by Niki Gomez/Cybersalon.org
inc. Jeff Koons, Chantal Joffe, Paul McDevitt, Chris Cunningham, ...
Specially commissioned credits animation
Radical Philosophy, March issue.
Use of images in article by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe.
'Culture of One' image used in launch edition
2006
2005
2003
2001
Jerwood Prize (shortlist).
Artist Links residency, Shanghai. Supported by Arts Council England, the British Council, and BizArt.
Portobello Film Festival, Best Multimedia Work
Arte Viva Festival, Senigallia, Italy. First Prize Digital Art + 2 week residency.