MELANIE GILLIGAN
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Artist Bio
Born in Toronto, Canada, 1979.
Solo Exhibitions
2012
Melanie Gilligan - Crisis in the Credit System & Popular Unrest, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
2011
Melanie Gilligan - Popular Unrest, Galleria Franco Soffiantino, Turin, Italy.
2010
Melanie Gilligan - Popular Unrest, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
Melanie Gilligan - Popular Unrest, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta
Melanie Gilligan, Einzelausstellung im Rahmen von Die Letzten ihrer Art, Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
Melanie Gilligan, Chisenhale Gallery, London
2009
Self -Capital, solo exhibition, Franco Soffiantino Gallery.
Crisis in the Credit System, solo exhibition, Nice and Fit, Berlin.
Five Scripts, a book commissioned by Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard University (forthcoming).
2008
Crisis in the Credit System, a four-part drama about the financial crisis released on the internet, commissioned and produced by Artangel. www.crisisinthecreditsystem.org.uk
Prison for Objects, solo exhibition, installation and performance, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow.
Prairial, Year 215, performance presented at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow.
Prairial, Year 215, performance presented at Greene Naftali Gallery, New York.
2007
Prairial, Year 215 as part of the program The Commune, Serpentine Gallery, London.
Group Exhibitions
2010
Popular Unrest, Cold War for Love, Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Films, Bilbao, Spain.
Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain
2009
Depression, Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, Holland.
Talk Show, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
Melanie Gilligan, Michael Stevenson and Emily Wardill, International Project Space, Birmingham.
Climate for Change, FACT, Liverpool.
The Space of the Work and the Place of the Object, Sculpture Center, New York.
Our Economies, Casco, Utrecht.
Late at Tate, Tate Britain, London.
Crisis in the Credit System, screening at Artists Television Access, San Francisco.
2008
TINA, The Drawing Room, London, curated by Olivia Plender.
Section7books, Montehermoso Cultural Center, Vitoria, Spain.
The Emancipated Spectator, artist project in Cross Section, Glasgow International Festival catalogue.
2007
The Sensible Stage, Media Art Bath, Bath, UK.
Image Coming Soon, Orchard Gallery, New York.
Art Now Live, Tate Britain, London.
Imagine Action, Lisson Gallery, London, curated by Emily Pethick.
Genesis I�m Sorry, collaboration with Merlin Carpenter, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York.
La Commune, Serpentine Gallery, London.
Radio Daniele, Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, curated by John Kelsey and Christopher Williams.
2006
The Galleries Show (with Greene Naftali Gallery), Extra City, Antwerp.
Motore Immobile, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York.
New Labour, Columbia University, New York.
2005
Whitney Museum Independent Study Program Studio Exhibition, New York.
2003
Tourettes, curated by Stuart Bailey and Will Holder, Amsterdam.
Tracce di un Seminario, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Via Farini, Milan.
2002
Open Access, curated by Angela Vettese, The Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como.
Education, Residencies and Awards
2010
Illy Present Future Prize, Artissima 17, Winner
2009
Triangle Arts Trust Residency, Capacete, Rio de Janeiro.
2004-�05
Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York.
Van Lier Fellowship, Whitney Independent Study Program, New York.
2002
Fondazione Antonio Ratti Residency, Como.
1999-�02
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London � BA Hons Fine Art.
1998-�99
Foundation Arts Course at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London.