Anya Gallaccio
Born in Paisley, Scotland, 1963
Lives and works in San Diego CA and London, England
Education
Goldsmiths College, London, England, 1988
Kingston Polytechnic, London, England, 1985
Professor Emerita
Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego CA
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Anya Gallaccio: Preserve, Turner Contemporary, Margate, England
STROKE, JUPITER + PAISLEY, Paisley, Scotland
2019
Stroke, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles CA
NOW: Anya Gallaccio, National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
2018
All the rest is silence, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, England
Lindisfarne Castle, Berwick-upon-Tweed, England
2017
to see if time was there,The Contemporary Austin, Austin TX
Beautiful Minds, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
2015
Anya Gallaccio, Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton NY
Anya Gallaccio, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego CA
Anya Gallaccio, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York NY
2014
Anya Gallaccio, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles CA
STROKE, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, Scotland
SNAP, Aldeburgh Festival, Snape Malting and Orford Ness, Suffolk, England
2013
This Much is True, Hudson (Show)Room, Artpace, San Antonio TX
2012
The Light Pours Out of Me, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Arthur’s Seat, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2011
Highway, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Where is Where it’s at, Thomas Dane Gallery, London
Surf’s Up, La Jolla, San Diego CA
2010
Unknown, The Eastshire Museums in Scotland, Kilmarnock, Scotland
2009
Four Galleries, Four Exhibitions, One Venue, Anya Gallaccio, 4x4, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, England
2008
Anya Gallaccio: that open space within, Camden Arts Centre, London, England
Anya Gallaccio: Comfort and Conversation, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2007
Three Sheets To The Wind, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
Sybil, Houghton Hall, King’s Lynn, England
2006
Anya Gallaccio, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil
One Art, Sculpture Center, New York
2005
Shadow on the Things You Know,Blum & Poe, Los Angeles CA
Silver Seed, Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, Scotland
After the Gold Rush, collaboration with winemaker Zelma Long, initiated by New Langton Arts, San Francisco CA
The Look of Things, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
2004
Love is only a feeling, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York NY
2003
Turner Prize Exhibition, Tate Britain, London, England
Anya Gallaccio, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England
Cast, limited edition sculpture commissioned by the Multiple Store, London England
Sometimes with one I love, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2002
Beat, Duveen Sculpture Commission, Tate Britain, London, England
2001
blessed, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York NY
Absolut Gallacio, an event for Absolut Vodka, Butler’s Wharf, London, England
2000
now the leaves are falling fast, fig-1, London, England
Falling from grace, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Falling from grace, Projektraum, Kunsthalle Bern, Berne, Switzerland
1999
All the rest is silence, Sadler's Wells, London, England
Glaschu, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
1998
Chasing Rainbows, Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Two Sisters, Minerva Basin, Hull, England
Chasing Rainbows, Delfina, London, England
1997
Anya Gallaccio, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles CA
Keep off the grass, Serpentine Gallery Lawn, London, England
Anya Gallaccio, Artpace, San Antonio TX
1996
A Multiple, Ridinghouse Editions, London, England
Anya Gallaccio, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Harvest of the winter months, Galerie im Künstlerhaus, Bremen, Germany
Anya Gallaccio, Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Intensities and Surfaces, Wapping Pumping Station, London, England; commissioned by Women’s Playhouse Trust
1995
Towards the Rainbow, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, England
Anya Gallaccio, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Anya Gallaccio, Francesca Sorace, Florence, Italy
1994
Anya Gallaccio, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles CA
Anya Gallaccio, Filiale, Basel, Switzerland
Anya Gallaccio, Karsten Schubert, London, England
La Dolce Vita, Stephania Miscetti, Rome, Italy
1993
Anya Gallaccio, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
Anya Gallaccio, Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Anya Gallaccio, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1992
Anya Gallaccio, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
1991
Anya Gallaccio, Karsten Schubert, London, England
Group Exhibitions
2024
Food in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Krakow, Poland
Landscape and Imagination: From Gardens to Land Art, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England
2023
Deep Rooted, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland
Saitama Triennale, Saitama, Japan
2022
Earth: Digging Deep in British Art 1781-2022, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, England
A Matter of Life and Death, Thomas Dane Gallery, Naples, Italy
2021
On Boxing, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles CA
2020
The Enchanted Interior, Guildhall Art Gallery, London, England
Among the Trees, Hayward Gallery, London, England
100 Sculptures, No Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2019
The Aerodrome: An Exhibition Dedicated to the Memory of Michael Stanley, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England
2018
Women’s Work, Morley Gallery, London, England
Actions. The image of the world can be different, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, England
2017
Connected vessels, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Krakow, Poland
Stage of Being, Voorlinden Museum, Wassenaar, Netherlands
Poor Art, Arte Povera: Italian Influences, British Responses, Estorick Collection, London, England
Coming Out: Art and Culture 1967-2017, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England
From Duchamp to Cattelan. Contemporary Art on The Palatine, Roman Forum – Palatine Hill, Rome, Italy
[Re]construct: An Arts Council Collection exhibition, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, England
2016
Plant Culture, Attenborough Art Centre, Leicester, England
That Which Remains, Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, Scotland
Flora, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales
Making & Unmaking: An exhibition curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Art Centre, London England
Terrain: Land Into Art, Hestercombe Gallery, Somerset, England
Nature Morte, Bohuslans Museum, Uddevalla, Sweden
Extensions of Photography, UCSD Visual Arts, San Diego CA
2015
About Trees, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
Beyond Limits. Sotheby’s at Chatsworth: A Selling Exhibition, Chatsworth, Derbyshire, England
Then For Now, Delfina Foundation, London, England
Future Seasons Past, Lehmann Maupin, New York,NY
2014
inSite: Cuatro ensayos de lo público, sobre otro escenario (Four rehearsals on that which is public, on another scenario), Cuernavaca, Mexico
Phantoms in the Dirt, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago IL
2013
Creation / Destruction: Anya Gallaccio, Mark Lewis, Rut Blees Luxenburg, The Holden Gallery, Manchester, England
Tipping Point, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, England
Chasing Rainbows, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The House of the Seven Gables, University Galleries, Illinois State University College of Fine Arts IL
2012
Dissecting Nature, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla CA
Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses and Abandoned Lots, Contemporary Art Center, Richard & Lois Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, Ohio; American University Museum, Washington DC (2013) and Arlington Art Center, Arlington, Virginia (2013)
THIS THIS MONSTER THIS THINGS, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, England
2010
On and On, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Alpha &, On Stellar Rays, New York NY
Enel Contemporanea Award 2010,Macro Museum, Rome, Italy
Eating the Universe: Food in Art, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany and Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
The Drawing Room, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2009
Pot Luck: Food and Art, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
15th Anniversary Inaugural Exhibition, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles CA
Radical Nature, Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet, The Barbican Centre, London, England; Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, Scotland, the Baird Institute, Cumnock, Scotland, and The Doon Valley Museum, Cathcartson, Scotland
Remote Proximity: Nature in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Flower Power,Villa Giulia, Centro Ricerca Arte Attuale, Verbania, Italy
2008
Living Flowers: Ikebana and Contemporary Art, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles CA
Nature Interrupted, Chelsea Art Museum, New York NY
Nina in Position, Artists Space, New York NY
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Centre, London, England
2007
Apres la pluie, Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France
Sparkle then Fade, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington DC
2006
Core, Illuminate Productions, Union Works, London, England
If it didn’t exist you’d have to invent it…a partial Showroom history, The Showroom, London, England
Toutes Compositions Florales, Counter Gallery, London, England
2005
Sad Songs, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois IL
Monuments for the USA, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California and White Columns Gallery, New York NY
2004
Flowers observed, flowers transformed, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania PA
Von Pop bis Heute, Das Grosse Fressen, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Lustwarande 04: Disorientation by Beauty, Tilburg, Netherlands
Rose c'est la vie: On Flowers in Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2003
Micro/Macro: British Art 1996–2002, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
Purloined Nature, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Sakura, Japan
Look & Feel: Art Landscape Nature, De Verbeelding, Zeewolde, Netherlands
2002
Imagine, You Are Standing Here in Front of Me: Caldic Collection, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Blast to Freeze: British Art in the 20th Century, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
2001
EGOFUGAL: Fugue from Ego for the Next Emergence, 7th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Istanbul, Turkey
Pawel Althamer, Anya Gallaccio, Amden, Switzerland
Arte y Naturaleza, Montenmedio Arte Contemporáneo, Cádiz, Spain
Artline 5 (Interaktionen - Natur & Architektur), Borken, Germany
2000
Art in the Park, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England
The Greenhouse Effect, Serpentine Gallery, London, England
The Invisible Touch, The Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
1999
Releasing Senses, Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Viereck und Kosmos: Amdenener Rundang,Amden, Switzerland
Do Paintings Dream of Veronese Green?, Elga Wimmer, New York NY
1998
Organic, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
Thinking Aloud, National Touring Exhibitions, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England; Cornerhouse, Manchester, England and Camden Arts Centre, London, England
Real/Life: New British Art, Tochigi Prefectural Museum, Tochigi, Japan; Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan; Hiroshima City Museum, Hiroshima, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan and Ashiya City Museum, Ashiya, Japan
1997
Der Verlorene Garten, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestral, Switzerland
Material Culture: The Object in British Art of the 1980s and '90s, Hayward Gallery, London, England
Screen: 12 Artists from London, print portfolio published by Paragon Press, London, England
Habitat Print Portfolio Prints, published by Habitat, England
1996
The Pleasure of Aesthetic Life, The Showroom, London, England
From Figure to Object: A Century of Sculptors' Drawings, Frith Street Gallery, London, England, and Karsten Schubert, London, England
Private View: Contemporary British and German Artists, A New Collection for John and Josephine Bowes, The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, England
Time Wise, Swiss Institute, New York NY
Be Me, Giorgio Sadotti at Interim Art, London, England
1995
The British Art Show 4, National Touring Exhibitions, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, England and Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland
Brilliant! New Art from London, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota MN and Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas TX
On Beauty, Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Where you were even now, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Forest Floor, Chiltern Sculpture Trail, Oxford, England
1994
Art Unlimited: Multiples of the 1960s and 1990s, National Touring Exhibitions, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland and Southbank Centre, London, England
Le Shuttle, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Sarah Staton Supastore Boutique, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, England
InSITE 94, Aqua Caliente, Tijuana, Mexico and Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego CA
Domestic Violence, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
Shiny Nylon: Anya Gallacio, Deborah Levy and Kristina Page, King George V Dock, London, England; commissioned by Women’s Playhouse Trust
1993
Sarah Staton Supastore, Poster Studio, London, England
Le Jardin de la Vierge, Musée Instrumental, Brussels, Belgium
Home Alone, Karsten Schubert, London, England
Le Principle de Réalité, Villa Arson, Nice, France
Into the Blue, Bournemouth Festival, Bournemouth, England
A Dance Collaboration with Rosemary Butcher, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland
1992
With Attitude, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
20 Fragile Pieces, Galerie Barbara et Luigi Polla, Geneva, Switzerland
A Group Show, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York and Stein Gladstone Gallery, New York NY
Life Size, small medium large, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
15/1, Malania Basarab Gallery, London, England
1991
Confrontaciones, Palacio de Velázquez, Madrid, Spain
Rachel Evans, Anya Gallaccio, Bridget Smith, The Clove Building, London, England
Broken English, Serpentine Gallery, London, England
Museum of Installation Site Three, Surrey Docks, London, England
The Times: London’s Young Artists, Art ’91, Olympia, London, England
The Archive Project, Centre d’art Contemporain, Nevers, France
1990
Next Phase, Wapping Pumping Station, London, England
East Country Yard Show, Surrey Docks, London, England
1989
The Drum Show, Broadgate Arena, London, England
New Year New Talent, Anderson O'Day, London, England
The Return of Ulysses, floor for the set of English National Opera, Coliseum, London, England
1988
Freeze, Surrey Docks, London, England
Selected Projects and Commissions
2024
an apple a day, Less Court, Kent, England
2018
Chase Farm Hospital, London, England
2017
to see if time was there, Laguna Gloria, The Contemporary Austin, Austin TX
Kasterlinden school, Brussels, Belgium
2016
Whitworth Gallery commission, Manchester, England
DACS Courtyard commission, London, England
2012
Arthur’s Seat, billboard and silkscreen edition, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
The Light Pours Out of Me, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, Scotland
2011
Surf’s Up, billboard commission, La Jolla, San Diego, California CA
2008
Kinsale Arts Festival, Charles Fort, Kinsale, Ireland
2007
Sybil, Houghton Hall, King’s Lynn, England
2005
After the Gold Rush, collaboration with wine-maker Zelma Long, initiated by New Langton Arts, San Francisco CA
2003
Cast, limited edition sculpture commissioned by The Multiple Store, London, England
2001
Absolut Gallaccio, an event for Absolut Vodka, Butlers Wharf, London, England
1997
Screen: 12 artists from London, print portfolio published by Paragon Press, London, England
Habitat Print Portfolio Prints, published by Habitat, England
1996
Be Me, Giorgio Sadotti at Interim Art, London, England
1995
Forest Floor, Chiltern Sculpture Trail, Oxford, England
1994
Shiny Nylon: Anya Gallaccio, Deborah Levy and Kristina Page, King George V Dock, London, England; commissioned by Women’s Playhouse Trust
1993
Into the Blue, Bournemouth Festival, Bournemouth, England
A Dance Collaboration with Rosemary Butcher, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland
1992
Prestige 2, work on paper published by G-W Press, London, England
1991
The Archive Project, Centre d'art Contemporain, Nevers, France
1989
The Return of Ulysses, floor for the set of English National Opera, Coliseum, London, England
Residencies and Awards
2023
San Diego Art Prize, San Diego CA
2017
Artist in Residence, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York NY
2010
Shortlisted Artist, Enel Contemporanea Award, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy
2009
Artist in Residence, Denniston Hill Arts, New York NY
2007
Artist in Residence, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga CA
2004
International Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito CA
2003
Shortlisted Artist, Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London, England
2002
Henry Moore Foundation 1871 Fellowship, Rothemere American Institute, Oxford University, Oxford, England and San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA
Visiting Artist, The Oxbrow School, Napa CA
1999
Artist in Residence, Kanazawa College of Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Artists, Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award, London, England
1998
Sargant Fellowship, The British School, Rome, Italy
1997
International Artist in Residence Programme, Artpace, San Antonio TX
Public collections
Arts Council, London, England
The British Council Collection, London, England
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Government Art Collection, London, England
Julie and Robert Breckman Prints & Drawings Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
Paisley Museum and Art Gallery, Paisley, Scotland
The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, England
South London Gallery, London, England
Tate Britain, London, England
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, England
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle WA
