For some years Cornelia Parker's work has been concerned with formalising things beyond our control. In containing the volatile and making it into something that is quiet and contemplative like the 'eye of the storm'. She is fascinated with processes in the world that mimic cartoon 'deaths' - steamrollering, shooting full of holes, falling from cliffs and explosions. Through a combination of visual and verbal allusions, her work triggers cultural metaphors and personal associations which allow the viewer to witness the transformation of the most ordinary objects into something compelling and extraordinary.
A solo exhibition of Cornelia Parker's work can currently be seen at Birmingham's Ikon Gallery. Her work
was included in the inaugural exhibition of Tokyo's new National Art Centre earlier this year. Parker had a major solo exhibition at The Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, in 2005. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1999. In the
last three years, she has had solo
exhibitions at Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy, ICA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Aspen Museum of Art, Colorado, Chicago Arts Club and the ICA, Boston. Recent group
exhibitions include Days Like These, Tate Britain, The Disembodied Spirit, Bowdoin Museum of Art (touring to other museums in the US). Some of her installations can currently be
viewed at Norwich Castle Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Parker's work is represented in many international collections including The Arts Council of England, Tate Gallery,
London and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Please click on the News section of the site to read about forthcoming exhibitions and projects.
Tate Britian are currently exhibiting Cornelia Parker's installation Thirty Pieces of Silver 1988-89
BIOGRAPHY
1956
Born Cheshire
1974-1975
Gloucestershire College of Art & Design
1975-1978
Wolverhampton Polytechnic - B.A. Hons
1980-1982
Reading University - M.F.A.
Lives and works in London
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 2007 2006 2005 2004-05 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1992 1991 1989 1988 1987 1980 SELECTED
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2008 2007 2006-07 2006 2005-07 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999-2000 1999 1998-99 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994-95 1994 1993-95 1993 1992-93 1992 1991 1990 1987 1986 1983 1980 AWARDS,
COMMISSIONS, PROJECTS & RESIDENCIES 2006 2005 2004 2003 2001 1998-99 1997 1996 1995 1992/5 1992 1991/92 1990 1989 1988 1986 1985 1984 1983 1980 1979/80 COLLECTIONS
Arts Council of Great Britain ©
2007 Frith Street Gallery
Frith Street Galllery, London
IKON, Birmingham
'Brontean Abstracts', Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth, West Yorkshire
'Focus: Cornelia Parker', The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
'New Work by Cornelia Parker', Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California
'Subconscious of a Monument', Royal Institute of British Architects, London
D'Amelio Terras, New York
* Wurttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany
'Cornelia Parker: Installations from the Tate Collection', Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich
* Galeria Carles Tache, Barcelona, Spain
Finesilver Gallery, Project Space, San Antonio, Texas
D'Amelio Terras, New York, May 2003
* Guy Bartschi, Geneva
Cornelia Parker, Frith Street Gallery, London
GAM, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
ICA Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Aspen Museum of Art, Colorado
Chicago Arts Club, Illinois
ICA Boston, Massachusetts
Frith Street Gallery, London
Warburg Institute, London
Residency at The Science Museum, London
Serpentine Gallery, London
Deitch Projects, New York, USA
ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Casa Masaccio, San Guiavani Veldamo, Italy
'Avoided Object', Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
'The Maybe' (Collaboration with Tilda Swinton), Serpentine Gallery London
Gallery 102, Dusseldorf
Eigen & Art Leipzig
Vitrine Hortense Stael, Paris
Chisenhale Gallery, London
Vitrine Hortense Stael, Paris
Spitalfields Heritage Centre, presented by the Whitechapel Gallery, London
Cornerhouse, Manchester
Aspects Gallery, Portsmouth
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Actualities, London
Stoke City Art Gallery & Museum
'Blown Away - The Artful Explosion', Krannert Art Museum, University of
Illinois
'Projektion', Lenos Kunstmuseum, Linz
'Says the junk in the yard', Flowers East, London
8th Sharjah Biennial
'Collective One', Galerie Guy Bartschi
'Living in the Material World', National Art Center Tokyo
'The Shadow' MAN Museo d'Arte Provincia di Nuoro
'The Shadow', Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Sienna
'You'll Never Know', Hayward Gallery National touring exhibition
'Resonance', Firth Street Gallery, London
'Thread', Ingleby Gallery
'Projektion', Museum of Art, Luzern
'Femme d'Europe', Saint Tropez
'Irritation Des Gleischgewichs', Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
'Cornelia Parker & Rob Smith', Royal Academy Schools Gallery, Hornsey
'Body: New Art from the UK', British Council touring exhibition
'Water, Air, Earth, Ice. At the origins of life between Art and Science', Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art, Genova, Italy
'The Real Ideal', Sheffield Galleries, Sheffield
'Presence', Gimpel Fils, London
'Bye-Bye blackboard..from Einstien and others', Museum of History of Science, Oxford
'Think & Wonder, Wonder & Think', Museum of Childhood, London
'In the Neighborhood of Infinity', Sixteen:one Gallery, Santa Monica, California
The West Wing, St. Barts and The London Breast Cancer Centre, London
'Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection', Guggenheim Museum, New York
City Art Gallery, Prague
*'After Life', curated by Simon Morrissey, The Bowes Museum
'The Disembodied Spirit', Contemporary Art in Kansas City
Pearl, London
'Knockabout', Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York
'Dust Memories', Swiss Institute-Contemporary Art
'Days Like These: Tate Triennale', Tate Britian, London
'Stacked', D'Amelio Terras, New York
'Independence', South London Gallery
*'Boublures', Musee Du Quebec
On tour: Contemporary Art in Kansas City and Austin Museum of Art
'The Armory Show', New York
'The Disembodied Spirit', Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine
'From Dusk to Dusk', Copenhagen Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, October
'Between the Ears', Centro de Arte de Salamanca
'Life is Beautiful', Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK
'Pure Containment', Sculptures in the Collection, Arts Council of England, Orleans House Gallery
'2000: the end of century. The seeds of the future', Commune di Milano, Italy
'The Silk Purse Procedure', Arnolfini Gallery and Spike Island, Bristol
'Solid State: Reflections upon the Real', Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
'Paper Assets', British Museum, London
'British Art Part I' Diehl Vorderwuelbecke, Berlin
Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome
'Between Cinema and a Hard Place', Tate Modern, London
'Interventions', Milwaulkee Art Museum, Wisconsin
'Porcupines', 291 Gallery, London
'Drawings', Alexander & Bonin, New York
'Dards D'Art, Mouches, Moustiques...Modernite', Musee Rattu, Arles, France
'0 To 60 In 10 Years', Frith Street Gallery, London
'Disaster', Harris Museum, Preston
Melbourne 1st International Biennial, Australia
'Violent Incident', Tate Gallery Liverpool
'Contemporary British Artists', Denver Art Museum
'Postmark: An Abstract Effect', Site Santa Fe, US
'Documents and Lies', Optica, A Centre for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
'Powder', Aspen Museum of Art, USA
'Appliance of Science', Frith Street Gallery, London
'Avoiding Objects', Apex Art, New York
'Silver and Syrup: Selections from the History of Photography', Canon Photography
Gallery at the V&A, London
'Fun de Siecle: Irony Parody and Humour in Contemporary Art', Walsall City Art
Gallery; Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle, Middlesborough Art Gallery
'Contemporary British Artists', Denver Art Museum, Colorado, US
Site Santa Fe, USA
'Violent Incident', Tate Gallery, Liverpool
'Thinking Aloud', Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cornerhouse, Manchester, Camden
Arts Centre, London
'Yoko Ono's Water piece', Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
'Sarajevo 2000', Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
'New Art from Britain', Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
'Video / Projection / Film', Frith Street Gallery, London
'Destroyer Creator', John Webber Gallery, New York
'Drawing Itself', The London Institute
'Soon', Het Consortium, Amsterdam
'Drawing Show', Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
'The MAG Collection', The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
'Natural Science', Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
The Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London
'Material Culture', Hayward Gallery, London
'Nightshift', Schloss Pluschow, Germany
'Building Site', Architectural Association, London
'Critical Intervention', Jose Loff Gallery, Hartford Art School, USA
'Matter of Facts', Hawerkamp, Munster
'City Space', Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen
'Some Drawings from London', 20 Princelet St, London
'Good News', Galerie 102, Dusseldorf
'Something The Matter': Helen Chadwick, Cathy de Monchaux, Cornelia Parker,
Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes, Rosario, Argentina and travelling to Centro
Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires
Museo National de Bellas Artes, Rio De Janeiro
Galeria Athos Bulcao, Brasilia
'A House in Time', Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Slovenia
'The Edge of Town', Jose Loff Gallery, Connecticut
'Five Artists', Frith Street Gallery, London
'Art Unlimited', South Bank touring exhibition of Multiple Art
XXII Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil
'Recent British Sculpture', Arts Council Touring Exhibition
'Ha-Ha', Killerton Park, Devon
'Topos', Grassimuseum Liepzi
'Sweet Home', Oriel Moystn, Llandudno
South London Art Gallery & touring
Nigel Greenwood, London
Eigen + Art Berlin
Whitechapel Open, London
'Northern Adventures', Camden Arts Centre & St Pancras Station
'Through the Viewfinder', Stitching De Appel, Amsterdam
'Excavating the Present', Kettle's Yard Cambridge
'Tous Azimuts', Vitrine Hortense Stael, Paris
'The British Art Show', Mclellan Galleries, Glasgow; Leeds City Art Gallery; Hayward Gallery, London
'Mostra', British School in Rome
'Rome Scholars 1980-90 ', Royal College of Art, London
'Edge 90', Newcastle, Glasgow
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London
'River', Goldsmiths Gallery, London
'Systems of Support', Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
'Surveying the Scene', South Hill Park, Bracknell; Aspects Gallery, Portsmouth
'National Garden Festival', Stoke-on-Trent
'New British Sculpture', Air Gallery, London
'No Place Like Home', Cornerhouse, Manchester
'Sculpture by Women', Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Ikon Touring Drawing Exhibition
'Midland View', Stoke City Art Gallery & Museum, touring
Public commission for the City of Wuppertal, Regionale 2006, initiated by
Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, coordinated by the Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal
Bronte Parsonage Museum, Yorkshire, during festival Illuminate
For-site Residency, Nevada City, California
Commissioned Sculpture for West Wing, Bart's Hospital, London
BBC Radio 3 Sound Project
Commissioned Sculpture for new British Galleries, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Artist in Residence, Science Museum, London
International Association of Art Critics Prize, 'Best Show by an Emerging Artist',
for 'Mass: Colder Darker Matter' at Deitch Projects, New York.
Nominated for the Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London
International Artist in Residence, ArtPace Foundation for Contemporary Art,
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Koopman Chair, Jose Loff Gallery, Hartford Art School, USA
'Cassette Brushes with fame, seven little frictions', Audio Arts, London
'Avoided Object', 5 Artists' Inserts - NATURE - International weekly Journal
of Science - Vol 389, Issues 6648-6652
'City Space', commission for European City of Culture, Copenhagen
Tate Gallery Christmas Tree, Tate Gallery, London
Senior Fellow in Fine Art, Cardiff Institute
Installation at Union Station, Los Angeles, CA. Organised by Wise/Taylor
'Lost Volume: A Catalogue of Disasters', published by Bookworks Launched with commissionned installation 'Reading Matter' at V&A Museum, London.
Henry Moore Scholarship, Wimbledon School of Art
Edge 90, Commission 'Inhaled Roof', Newcastle
Edge 90, Commission 'Exhaled Schoolhouse', Glasgow
British School at Rome Award
Edge 90, Commission 'Left Luggage', Platform 6 St Pancras St London
Installation for St. Peters Church, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
'The Drop', organised by Dean Clough, Halifax, touring exhibition Sculpture
Residency and Commission, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
National Garden Festival, Stoke; Sculpture Commission
Siteworks Project, Southwark, London
Artist-in-School Project, Rugby, West Midlands
Greater London Arts Award
Artist-in-School Project, Walsall, West Midlands
Southern Arts Award
First Prize 'Midland View', Stoke City Art Gallery touring exhibition
Artist-in-Residence, Crewe & Alsager College, Cheshire
British Council
British Museum
Contemporary Arts Society
Deutsche Bank
Glaxo Wellcome Collection
Government Art Collection
Henry Moore Foundation
ICA Boston
Leicestershire Council
MAG Collection, UK
Milwaukee Arts Museum, Wisconsin
MOMA, New York
Phoenix Art Museum
Tate Gallery
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Yale Center for British Art, USA
Various Private Collections in Europe and the USA
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