Graham Parker
I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE , installation view at C.Grimaldis Gallery, 2006
Major work by Graham Parker has been commissioned by the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Compton Verney, Centre for the Understanding of the Built Environment, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Henry Moore Institute and Tate Liverpool amongst others. Graham Parker has also shown throughout the UK, Europe and USA (including solo shows in Baltimore and New York, as well as group shows in Philadelphia, San Francisco, Washington and New York). His work is held in several private collections in Britain, USA, Australia, France and South Africa and also in the British Government Art Collection.
As well as his art work, Graham Parker has curated over 40 shows by other artists – either for the various artist run initiatives he has been involved with, or as Director of galleries at Salford University. He also writes for a number of magazines, including Time Out New York and Art Monthly, and has written catalogue essays for several galleries, including the Tate, for whom he was also joint course leader of the North of England MA network.
Born: Belfast 1970
Education: University of Manchester 1989 - 1992
- BA (hons) First Class
Exhibitions
2008
Skipping the Page Center for Book Arts, New York (curator)
Fair Use (notes from spam), Bookworks, London
2007
Till I die, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York
Imaginary Arsenals, Cuchifritos Gallery, New York
For/Against, floating ip, New York
Chaff - ongoing blog
2006
Actual Size, solo show, C.Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Protections, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
On Redundancy (event Chair), Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
RxArt Coloring Book, Miami Basel, various venues
The Square Root of Drawing, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
WPA/C Auction show, Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC
AIM 26, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
Mind the Gap, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn
CAMEL, LMCC Swingspace, 15 Nassau, New York
2005
Do you like stuff? Swiss Institute, New York
The Manchester Pavilion, Istanbul Biennial
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Workspace Program: 120 Broadway, New York
Whitney Museum ISP show, New York
Rub out the word, DUMBO Arts Center, New York
Sight Unseen - collaboration with Grace Weir (film commissioned via ESF fund), Dublin, Ireland
Post Everything, Rotunda Gallery, New York
Old Habits Die Hard, Art in General, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Red, White, Blue, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York
The RxArt Ball, (curator/participating artist), New York
Parker's International Art Fair, Parker's Box, New York
Image Acts, AI Firefly, New York
Waygood Artfayre, Newcastle, UK
The Shining Sun of Roberta, Particpant Inc. New York
2004
Romantic Detachment,
PS1, New York
We turn
in a circle in the night, Liverpool Biennial
Old Habits Die Hard , Sparwasser HQ, Berlin; Norwich Art
Gallery; Kunstnernes Hu, Oslo; Platform Garanti, Istanbul
Lost in the Telling, Comme Ca, New York
Frozen Tears II, Maccarone Gallery, New York; Jack Hanley,
San Francisco; Cabinet, London; City Lights, Los Angeles
Whitney
Museum ISP show, New York
Do Something floating ip, Manchester
2003
Decomposing Philip
Larkin, Poetry Society, London
Local Heroes (permanent commissioned artwork) Foundation
for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool
Line and Length Compton Verney, UK
We Turn in a circle in the night , Comme Ca, New York
FluxSpace, Artists Page for Flux Magazine
A Manchester Portfolio (co-publisher), London Print Studio,
The Lowry, Salford
Thermo 03, The Lowry, Salford
The Manchester Pavilion, Venice Biennale
2002
Oncethemostdenselypopulatedplaceonearth,
floating ip, Manchester
Selling show, Cornerhouse Manchester
The Charlatans, Commisioned video for Manchester City Art
Gallery
Hotel, Camerawork, San Francisco
The Free Biennial, New York
Free Manifesta, Frankfurt
Iluvmann, Edinburgh
Local Area Network, Superchannel, Liverpool (webcast)
Sensurround, British Council touring publishing project
Taxy, Essor project space, London
2001
Group Show
at Unilever HQ, London
This Time next Year… Sho1, Manchester
Mapping, Julie Courtney projects, Philadelphia
Pete and Repeat were sitting on a wall, d.u.m.b.o Arts Center,
New York
The Manchester Pavilion, project for 49th Venice Biennale
We’re not really here, solo show, Project Arts Centre,
Dublin
End Users, solo show, Centre for the Understanding of the
Built Environment, Manchester
Ich Bin, 2YK Gallery, Berlin
A Matter of, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
Shipwrecked in Seattle, artists page for The Black Diamond
Magazine
Nights In, Gasworks, London
Record Collection, VTO Gallery, London; International 3,
Manchester
Pandaemonium Festival, Lux Centre, London
SQUARE CITY (SPRINT) performance and video work in grid square
84E 97N
Artist in Residence, HAT Superchannel, Foundation for Art
and Creative Technology, Liverpool
ART2001, Business Design Centre, London
2000
Apocalypse Now
and Next Week, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester; Outline Gallery,
Amsterdam
Christmas Show, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
David Mackintosh, Jim Medway, Graham Parker: wearefriendly,
A22 Projects, London
You are Here (curator) Metropolitan Galleries, Manchester
Artfair, Royal College of Art, London
ManMoMa International 3, Manchester
Bicurious?, From Space, Salford
Cab Gallery, London/Manchester
Multiple Show, Paul Stolper A22 Projects, Multiple Store,
London
Box Project, Museum of Installation, London, Turnpike Gallery,
Leigh, Angel Row, Nottingham
SQUARE CITY, Commission from Work & Leisure International,
National Lottery, Arts Council Year of the Artist, multiple sites
Ever Get the Feeling you’ve been cheated?, Paul Stolper
A22 Projects, London
Drawing of Lots, University of Central Lancashire
Bono and Sting Inhabit Lowry’s Living Room, From Space,
Manchester
Autoparts commissioned work for new IDEA building
1999
Year end show,
Albrecht Durer Kunstverein, Nurnburg
Crash!, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Bono and Sting ,Turnpike Gallery, Leigh
Bono and Sting Address issues with clay pigeons, All Horizons
Club, Liverpool, ICA new media website
Banal Ground , Centre Alte Schule, Berlin
Cappucinopolis (1993-1996) The Annual Programme, Manchester
Radio Strangewaves webcast via Convex TV, Vienna
Death of a Footballer text to speech CD multiple
Bono and Sting present Jim Medway’s Four horsemen Fluxspace,
Flux magazine
Bono and Sting’s 24 hour table tennis marathon for Help the
Aged , From Space
1998
Bono and Sting
present Aeroflot (with Micz Flor and Vera Tolman)
Art Transpennine, The Tate Gallery & Henry Moore Sculpture
Trust, Manchester
British Standard, Eastenders, Manchester Albert Square
1997
The Ground Comes
Up To Meet Us, Velvet, Manchester
On the buses Street Level Gallery, Glasgow
Mugger Music, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, multiple
sites, New York..
Urbanites, City Racing, London
Ideas for Sale, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester; Arnofini,
Bristol; Up&Co, New York
1996
BANK TV,
ICA, London; Transmission, Glasgow; Unfair, Berlin; Live/Life, Lisbon.
Mugger Music, Manchester International Arts, multiple sites,
Manchester
Shameful Plug, multiple sites, Manchester
The Ground Which Keeps Our Feet From Getting Wet, Annual
Programme, Manchester
Something the Museum Sent Us, artists page, Versus Contemporary
Art, Issue 5.*
1995
Cornerhouse -
ArtHouse, Hacienda, Manchester. *
Soft Rock, Silesian Museum, Katowice, Poland. *
Ha!, 10a Little Peter Street, Manchester .*
Xmas 1998, Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery.*
1994
Soft Rock,
Institute of Contemporary Art, London.*
Diverse City, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.*
The Alphabet of Dogs, Oliver Machine Works, Manchester.*
Still Rivers, TVOD, Manchester
Train Up a Child in the Way he Should Go, Holden Gallery,
Manchester.*
1993
66 - 99 (with
33 between), performance work commissioned by Prema Time Being Festival
of Live Art,
Simply The Best, Green Room, Manchester
George Best’s Guide to Computer Literacy, TVOD, Manchester
1992
The Secret Installation
of Nicolas Copernicus, Manchester Festival. *
The Secret Diaries of Nicolas Copernicus, performance work,
national tour.*
Most work made from 1992 - 1995 was as a member of the artist’s collective Index and is indicated by an asterisk(*) .
Awards
Commissioned and funded by several bodies including NWAB, ACE, National Lottery,
Henry Moore Institute, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
2006 LMCC Swingspace Artist-in-Residence
2006 Bronx Museum AIM program
2005-2006 Artist in Residence, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2005 Artist in Residence at LMCC Workspace and visiting artist at School of Visual Arts, New York
2003-2005 Whitney Museum of American Art ISP (repeat invitee)
2001 Arts Council selected artist-in-residence - Year of the Artist
Publications
Fair Use
Artist's Monograph, Bookworks, London
Draw me a Castle
Catalogue essay for Pat Flynn, 2007
Mushrooms and Parachutes
Catalogue essay for Cornerhouse anniversary publication, 2006
Sight Unseen
Graham Parker/Grace Weir DVD Catalog, Breaking Ground, 2005
The RxArt Coloring Book
Coloring book project for RxArt, published in association with Donna Karan, 2005
Click here to be removed
Catalogue essay for Leo Fitzmaurice, First Site Gallery, 2005
Waygood Artfayre
Introductory essay for catalogue, 2005
Toby Paterson
Catalogue essay for Tate Gallery, 2005
Frozen
Tears II
Text for book edited by John Russell, 2004
Niamh O'Malley
Catalogue essay for PS1 International Artists in Residence show catalogue, 2004
Michael Marshall
Catalogue Essay for Tate Gallery, 2004
The Man who writes the catalogue essay
Catalogue essay for Paul Rooney, Vardy Gallery, 2003
Commissions
FACT booklet commemorating building launch, 2003
Footnotes
Catalogue essay for Tim Brennan, 2002
Ryan Gander
essay for artists monograph, 2002
Alexia Walther
essay for artists monograph, Galerie Sima, Nurnburg, 2002
Superchannel
catalogue essay for Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT) 2001
VANE
catalogue essay for Visual Arts North East festival – 2001
The Annual Programme
Group catalogue, 2001
Bono and Sting - Graham Parker/David Mackintosh Turnpike Gallery
catalogue ISBN 0 95294702 x, 2000
Leaving Tracks - Artranspennine 98
catalogue ISBN1902854 012, 1998
Selected Press
Time Out New York, 550, Mind the Gap, Smack Mellon, April 13-19 2006
New York Times, AIM Bronx Museum, Ben Genocchio, April 9 2006
The Baltimore Sun, Making art from the con, the scam and the spam, Glenn McNatt, February 12 2006
The Irish Times, Groundwork for a new image, Aidan Dunne, December 8 2005
Art Monthly, Do you like stuff?, Adam Mendelsohn, October 2005
The New Yorker, Do You Like Stuff?, October 24th 2005
New York Times, Do you Like stuff?, Ken Johnson, October 14 2005
Brooklyn Rail, October 2005
Time Out New York, 523, 524 Rotunda Gallery, Post-Everything, October 2005
Aperto Manchester, Flash Art, October 2003
Manchester Portfolio, Guardian review, July 2003
Manchester Pavilion, Financial times June 2003
Manchester Pavilion, Wallpaper Magazine, June 2003
We’re not really Here - Art Monthly review by Martin Vincent, Autumn
2001
Dazed and Confused - Bono and Sting June 2001
Guardian - Manchester Rising January 2001
Art Review - Life is Good in Manchester Cover story December 2000
Guardian – You are Here October 2000
Guardian – Lowry’s Living room May 2000
Guardian - Bono and Sting October 1999
Blueprint Magazine July/August 1998
The Art Newspaper July/August 1998
Wall Street Journal - London July 1998
Mugger Music New York - Sculpture magazine Heidi Reitmaier March 1998
Urban myths: Glasgow and Manchester artists article by Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt
in Contemporary visual arts, issue 17 Spring 1998
On the Buses Photo essay in Artists Newsletter, January 1998
Time Out New York June 1997
Mugger Music article by Ian Rawlinson in InterElia Magazine, Winter 1996
Ha! reviewed by Robert Clark, in Untitled Magazine,
Spring 1996; reviewed by Libby Anson in Contemporary Art Magazine, Spring
1996
Xmas 1998 reviewed by Robert Clark, in The Guardian, June 1995
Train Up a Child in the Way he Should Go & Alphabet of Dogs reviewed by
Tim Etchells in Frieze Magazine, Issue 20, Jan/Feb 1995
Selected
Televison
Video Art – Open University film
Autumn 2003
Rawlinson, Parker, Crowe - Artranspennine, Channel4 film
October 1998
Artclub, CNN
September 1998
Teaching Work
Visiting lecturer at :-
School of Visual Arts, New York; TATE Gallery University MA network (course co-leader 2001-2003); Manchester
Metropolitan University; Salford University; University of Central Lancashire (1999); Manchester Metropolitan University
(1996 to 1999); Lancaster University(1995 - 6); talks and presentations to Tate Gallery, Liverpool; Whitney Museum contemporaries, New York;
Other Activities
Co-Director of Floating IP, Manchester/New York 2002 - present
Member of collaborative group CAMEL, New York 2005 - present
Reviewer for Time Out New York, Art Monthly, CVA, Springerin (Vienna), Live Art Magazine, NTQ 1996
- present
Board Member, Grizedale Arts 2003-2005
Archivist, Acconci Studios, 2003-2004
Visual Arts Officer, University of Salford 2000-2003
Conference programmer International Symposium Electronic Art, Manchester, 1996
- 98
Member of International Programming Committee for 8th International Symposium
on Electronic Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1997
Co-editor of Revolting temporary media lab publication 1998
Live arts Assessor for Arts Council of England 1995 -1997
Member of Index Co-operative, 1992 - 1995
Established The Loading Deck, performance and visual arts workspace, 1993
Selected Links:
floating ip
C.Grimaldis Gallery (see Actual Size, 2006)
LMCC residency (2005)
Swiss Institute show (2005)
Exhibition at CUBE gallery July 2001
Graham Parker on Artnet