Much of Fiona Banner's work explores the problems and possibilities of written language. Her early work took the form of 'wordscapes' or' still films' - blow-by blow accounts written in her own words of featurefilms, (whose subjects range from war to porn) or sequences of events. These pieces took the form of solid single blocks of text, often the same shape and size as a cinema screen. Banner's work encompasses sculpture, drawing and installation and text is still a the heart of her practice. She recently turned her attention to the idea of the classic, art-historical nude, observing a life model and transcribing the pose and form in a similar vein to her earlier transcription of films. Often using parts of military aircraft as the support for these descriptions, Banner juxtaposes the the brutal and the sensual, performing an almost complete cycle of intimacy and alienation.
Please visit the artist's website on www.fionabanner.com for further information.
Fiona Banner's solo exhibition The Bastard Word was at Toronto's Power Plant 2 March through 29 April 2007.
Banner has participated in numerous exhibitions worldwide including Astersik at the Gesellschaft fuer Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, 1999; Stop at Frith Street Gallery, London,
Rainbow, 24/7 at the Hayward Gallery in 2001 and major exhibitions at Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen and Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee in 2002. Fiona Banner's work
has also been shown in Cinema Cinema, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven in 1999, Total Object, Complete with Missing Parts, Tramway 2, Glasgow, 2001 and Horror, Science Fiction, Porn
at The Art Gallery of York University in 2005. She has made specially commissioned works for HM Treasury and the public plaza surrounding the Mayor of London's Office. Fiona Banner
is represented in various collections in the UK & abroad including: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Philadelphia Museum, USA, The Arts Council of England, Tate Gallery, London
and the Walker Art Gallery, Minneapolis. Banner runs The Vanity Press. She was short-listed for the Turner Prize in 2003.
Please click on the News section of the site to read about forthcoming exhibitions and projects.
BIOGRAPHY
1966
Born Merseyside
1986 - 1989
BA Fine Art, Kingston Polytechnic, London
1991 -
1993
MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 2006
2004 2003
2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1995 1994 GROUP
EXHIBITIONS 2007 2006-07 2006
2005-06
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2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 COMMISSIONS
Full Stop Sculptures at More London, near Tower Bridge COLLECTIONS
Various
collections in the UK & abroad including:
Museum of Modern Art, New York
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2007 Frith Street Gallery
Every Word Unmade, Barbara Thumm Gallery, Berlin
The Bastard Word, Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
1301PE, Los Angeles
Nude, Frith Street Gallery, London press release +
works list
Parade, presented by Tracy Williams Ltd., New York
Nude, Tracy Williams Ltd., New York
Arsenal, Barbara Thumm Gallery, Berlin
Arsewoman in Wonderland, Barbara Thumm Gallery, Berlin
Fiona Banner, 1301PE, Los Angeles
Frith Street Gallery, London
Your Plinth is my Lap,Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
Your Plinth is my Lap, Dundee Contemporary Arts
Murray Guy, New York
FIONA BANNER - ARSEWOMAN, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
Rainbow, 24/7, Hayward Gallery, London
Charles H Scott Gallery, Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver
Murray / Guy, New York
Statements, Basel Art Fair ASTERISK, Gesellschaft fZĀr Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen
Don't Look Back, Brooke Alexander, New York
THE NAM and Related Material, Printed Matter, New York
STOP, Frith Street Gallery, London
Art Now Room, Tate Gallery, London
130 PE, Brian Butler, Los Angeles
LOVE DOUBLE, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
The Nam - 1000 page all text flick book, London
Only the Lonely, Frith Street Gallery, London
Viewing Room, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
Pushing Back The Edge Of The Envelope, City Racing, London
La linea de la mano, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo (MUAC), Mexico City
BodyPoliticX, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum, New York - touring exhibition
Live/Work: Performance into Drawing, MOMA New York
Deep Inspiration, Jerwood Space, London
THIS IS NOT FOR YOU, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Eye on Europe , Museum of Modern Art, New York
Resonance, Frith Street Gallery, London
I walk the lines, Barbara Thumm Gallery, Berlin
Concrete Language, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
Summer Exhibition, Frith Street Gallery, London
Tina B, National Gallery, Prague
Collage Effect, 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA
Speed, Barbara Thumm, Berlin
Body: New Art from the UK, British Council Touring exhibition
Bonds of Love, John Connelly Presents, New York
Horror, Science Fiction, Porn, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada
Critics Choice, FACT, Liverpool
Traces Everywhere, Tracy Williams Ltd., New York
Voor ik vergeet, Museum Jan Cunen, Oss
Entropy: On the Vanishing Work, AR/GE Kunst Galerie Museum, Bozen
Daddy Pop (The Search for Art Parents) , Anne Faggionato, London
The Sky's the Limit, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Berlin
ATTACK-Art and War in Times of Media, Kunstalle Wien, Wien
Mars: Art and War, Johannaeum Graz
Independence, South London Gallery
Off, Murray Guy, New York
The Sky's The Limit, Kunstverein Langenhagen (near Hanover), Germany
The Book Show, The Nunnery, London
Plunder: Culture as Material, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland
Turner Prize exhibtion, Tate Britian, London
The Green Room, Percy Miller Gallery, London
Here, There and Elsewhere; Dialogues on Location and Mobility, London Print Studio Gallery, London
Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop, Tate Liverpool
City Racing, ICA, London
Featherweight, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
Superman in Bed, Contemporary Art and Photography - The Collection Gaby and
Wilhelm Schurmann, Museum am Ostwald, Dortmund
Drawings, Frith Street Gallery, London
Nothing: Exploring Invisibilities, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland
Berlin Biennale, Berlin
A Pause for Breath, (with Tacita Dean, Cornelia Parker, Giuseppe Penone and
Daphne Wright) Frith Street Gallery, London
All You Need is Love, Laznia Center of Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland
Ever get the feeling you've beenS?.. Cheated, A22 Projects, London
Eine Munition unter Anderen, Frankfurter Kunstverein
Customized:Hot Rods, Low Riders and American Car Culture, ICA Boston
Summer Show, Frith Street Gallery, London
The Living End, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, USA
To Infinity and Beyond: Editions for the Year
Brooke Alexander, NY
Cinema Cinema, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven
Afterall launch, Wallace Collection, London
0 TO 60 IN 10 YEARS, Frith Street Gallery, London
From Memory, Platform, London Story, AC Project Room, New York
Babel, Ikon Gallery, Brimingham
True Stories (Fiona Banner, Sophie Calle, Joseph Grigely), Barbara Gross Galerie,
Munich
To Be Continued, The New Art Gallery, Walsall
100 Drawings, PS1 New York
Point Break, Project for Tate Magazine (Commissioned by Tate Gallery, Liverpool)
Super Freaks - Post Pop and the New Generation: Part 1, GreeneNaftali, New
York
Narrative Urge, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Sweden
Disrupting the Scene, Cambridge Dark Room, Cambridge
5th Avenue Project at Saks, New York
In the Beginning, Murray Guy, New York
Wrapped, Vestsj|lands Kunstmuseum, Denmark
Slipstream, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
The Tarantino Syndrome, KZĀnstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Urban Legends - London, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
Blueprint, De Appel, Amsterdam MUUten, Museum of Photography, Helsinki
Whisper & Streak, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
An Exhibition of Art from Britain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Need for Speed, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
20/20 Kingsgate Gallery, London (accompanied by a catalogue)
The Mule National Newspaper published once on 31.10.97 with internet access
UK The Nam - 1000 page all text flick book,
Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin Gasser & Grunert, Cologne LZ?gende, Centre Regional
D'Art Contemporain, S?te
Die Arbeit des Zeichnens Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany
Moby Dick, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
Spellbound: Art and Film, Hayward Gallery, London
into the void, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Mais do que ver, Moagens Harmonia, Festival of Contemporary Art, Oporto, Portugal
Young British Artists, Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Found Footage, Klemems Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Cologne, Germany
Backpacker, The Chiang Mai Social Installation, 4th Festival of Art and Culture,
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Four Projects, Frith Street Gallery, London
SuperStore Boutique, Sarah Staton, San Francisco
General Release: Young British Artists, Scuola di St. Pasquale
Venice Biennale, Venice Moby Dick, Arsenali Medicei, Pisa, Italy
Perfect Speed, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida (curated by Catsou
Roberts)
MacDonald Stewart Art Center, Toronto
New Contemporaries, Camden Arts Centre, UK Tour
The Event, 152c Brick Lane, London
SuperStore Boutique, Sarah Staton, London
Group Show, Laure Genillard Gallery, London
Institute of Cultural Anxiety, ICA, London
Art Unlimited, Arts Council Collection, UK Tour
The Full Stop project images and information
Contemporary Arts Society, London
Financial Service Authority, London
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Neuberger & Berman, New York
Philadelphia Museum, USA
Sammlung Ringier, Zurich
The Arts Council of England
The British Council, London
Tate Gallery, London
Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven
Walker Art Gallery, Minneapolis
Worcester Museum, Mass., USA
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