Chronology

Recent solo exhibitions
“Into the Enchanted Forest”, installation, The Gallery, Throgmorton’s, London, 2005
“Facing Medusa” video screening, Showroom Gallery, London, June 2004
“Things to do in Paradise”, installation, Party Unlimited Gallery, London 2000/1
“Right on for the Darkness”, installation, Market Place Gallery, London 1999

Recent group exhibitions
“Altin Sehir” [Golden City], Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, April-June 2009
First Canakkale Biennial, Troy Festival, Turkey, August 2008
“In Arcadia”, Orleans House, London, July and August 2006
Video screening, “Birth, Life, Death… Whatever,” ie no 1, London, July 2005
Video Game, Art Expo, Bari, Italy, January 2005
London Biennale, The Foundry, London, August 2004
Bankside Browser, Tate Modern, 1999
Group show, Gasworks Gallery, London, 1999

Early practice
Solo exhibitions

“The World in a Grain of Sand,” AFD Cultural Centre, London, 1975
“Sculptural Situations”, Art Meeting Place, London, November 1974
Group exhibitions
Performance Art Week, Serpentine Gallery, (with Limited Dance Co), London 1975
The Video Show, Serpentine Gallery, London, May 1975
Femmes Films, Women’s Film and Video Festival, Paris 1975
Scottish Young Contemporaries, Edinburgh (curator) 1974
Events
Arts Festival for the Chilean Resistance, Royal College of Art, 1974
Participation Art Event, Edinburgh College of Art, 1973
Three Day Event (Art and Society), Edinburgh College of Art, 1973
“Ceremony – The Words in the Trees”, Glasgow and Edinburgh, 1970

Publications
Contemporary art critic, Financial Times, London, 1991- present
London editor, Art in America, 1993- present
Other publications contributed to
The Guardian, the Independent, the Independent on Sunday, Art News, Elle Decor, Performance Research, Performance Magazine, Art Monthly, New Dance and others.

Books
“Bobby Baker: Redeeming Features of Everyday Life”, Barrett/Baker, Routledge, Oxford and New York, 2007 (essay)
“Off Limits: 40 Artangel Projects”, Artangel/Merrell, 2002 (essay)
“A Split Second of Paradise,” Childs & Walwin, Rivers Oram, 1998 (introduction)
“Arabia Deserta” by CM Doughty, Bloomsbury, 1989 (editor)
“Autobiography” by Man Ray, Little, Brown, 1988 (editor)

Art Catalogues
Linda Karshan, IVAM, Valencia, 2002
Bridget Riley Prints, Arts Council, London 2001
Bridget Riley, Waddingtons Gallery, London, 2000
Jerwood Prize, London, 1998
National Westminster Bank Art Prize, London, 1998
Rose Finn-Kelcey, British School at Rome
“Works Perfectly”, Rear Window, London

Academic papers
Rose English, Performance Research journal, 1996
Marina Abramovic, Performance Research journal, 1996

Education
MSc, Bartlett School, University College, London
MA Hons Fine Art, joint degree, Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art

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