NASHASHIBI / SKAER
Rosalind Nashashibi
Born 1973 Croydon, England. Lives and works in London, England.
Lucy Skaer
Born 1975 Cambridge, England. Lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland and London England.
Works
| 2015– | Why are you so angry? – 16 mm film |
| 2009 | Our Magnolia – 16 mm film |
| 2008 | Pygmalion Event – 16 mm film, commissioned by Tate Britain |
| 2008 | Pygmalion Workshop – 16 mm film installation, commissioned by Berlin Biennial |
| 2006 | Flash in the Metropolitan – 16 mm film, commissioned by Spike Island, Bristol |
| 2005 | Ambassador – 2 screen video work, commissioned by Lyon Biennale |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2016 | Tate St Ives, England |
| 2013 | Musée Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France |
| 2010 | Murray Guy, New York |
| 2009 | Doggerfisher, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 2008 | Art Now: Pygmalion Event, Tate Britain, London Pygmalion Workshop, CAC Brétigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge, France |
| 2007 | Flash in the Metropolitan, Spike Island, Bristol, UK |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2015 | WE (NOT I), Screening curated by Melissa Gordon and Marina Vishmedt, South London Gallery The Biography of Things, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Southbank VIC |
| 2013 | The Narrators, The Royal Standard, Liverpool |
| 2012 | Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Reflexion und Einfühlung, KAI 10 | Raum für Kunst, Arthena Foundation, Dusseldorf Contemporary Archaeologies, Musée du château des ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard, France |
| 2010 | Prendre La Porte et Faire le Mur, Frac Provence-Alpes-Cote D’Azur, Marseille Forum 65: Jones, Koester, Nashashibi/Skaer: Reanimation, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
| 2009 | For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isnʼt there, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, touring to Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam; and Culturgest, Lisbon Heaven, 2nd Athens Biennale, Athens Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands The Garden of Forking Paths, MAISTERRAVALBUENA, Madrid SLOW MOVEMENT OR: Half and Whole, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland |
| 2008 | The Greenroom, The Hessel Museum and The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY A life of their Own, Lismore Castle, Lismore, Ireland When Things Cast No Shadow– 5th Berlin Biennial, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin You have not been honest, Museo DʼArte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples Contour, Mechelen, Belgium Der Droste Effekt, Esther Schipper, Berlin About the possibility of a Sculpture, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany Alabama, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium |
| 2006 | If I canʼt Dance, I donʼt want to be part of your revolution, De Appel, Amsterdam |
| 2005 | In Between Times, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland |
Selected Bibliography
| 2015 | Sharp, Chris. “Flash in the Metropolitan (2006).” In The Biography of Things. Southbank: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2015, p. 29 |
| 2012 | Schwendener, Martha. “At the Mausoleum, Art About Art Houses”. The New York Times. 10 February 2012. “Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video”. New Yorker. 12 February 2012 |
| 2010 | Burton, Johanna. “Nashashibi / Skaer”. Artforum. October 2010 Coburn, Tyler. “Nashashibi / Skaer at Murray Guy, New York.” artagenda. August 2010 O’Neill Butler, Lauren. “Nashashibi / Skaer”. Artforum online. 9 July 2010 |
| 2009 | Cairns, Steven. “Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer”. Artforum online. 26 August 2009 McLean-Ferris, Laura. “Nashashibi / Skaer”. Art Review. 10 August 2009 Walker, Lynne. “Our Magnolia, Nashashibi / Skaer”. The Independent. 17 September 2009 |
Public Collections
British Arts Council, UK
Centre Pompidou – Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Tate Britain, London