To use images of Graham Fagen’s artwork please contact Artimage on [email protected] or 020 7790 7550.
Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions
2019 | New Symphony of Time, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 | The End of Art is Peace, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast |
A Portrait of Sir Geoff Palmer, Matt's Gallery, London | |
2023 | A Portrait of Sir Geoff Palmer, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Inverness |
A Portrait of Sir Geoff Palmer, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh | |
2021 | Ping Pong Club, Queens Park Railway Club, Glasgow International, Glasgow |
Lockdown Rainbows and Flags, Matt's Gallery, London | |
2019 | The Slave’s Lament, Holburne Museum, Bath |
From Me To You, Maus Contemporary, Birmingham, Alabama | |
2018 | The Slave’s Lament, National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, Nassau |
2017 | The Slave’s Lament, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
Complainte de l’esclave, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal | |
2016 | Graham Fagen, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Inverness |
The Mighty Scheme, CGP & Dilston Grove with Matt's Gallery, London | |
Scotland + Venice, Hospitalfield, Arbroath | |
2015 | Scotland + Venice, Palazzo Fontana, Venice |
2014 | In Camera, Panorama, La Friche, Marseille |
Cabbages in an Orchard, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow | |
2013 | In Camera, Panorama, La Friche, Marseille |
2012 | The Making of Us, Tramway, Glasgow |
2011 | missing, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
Under Heavy Manners, Artpace, San Antonio | |
Baile an Or, Timespan, Helmsdale | |
2009 | somebodyelse, The Changing Room, Stirling |
2007 | Come into the Garden And forget about the War, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin |
Downpresserer, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow | |
2006 | Closer, Doggerfisher, Edinburgh |
Killing Time, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee | |
2005 | Clean Hands Pure Heart, Tramway, Glasgow |
2003 | Heaven & Hell, CRAC, Alsace |
2002 | Theatre, Chapter, Cardiff |
Love is Lovely, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh | |
la mia casa dov’e?, Italian Cultural Institute, London | |
2000 | Graham Fagen, Valeria Belvedere, Milan |
Theatre, Imperial War Museum, London | |
1999 | Graham Fagen, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield |
1998 | Graham Fagen, Inverleith House, Edinburgh |
Graham Fagen, Murray Guy, New York | |
Graham Fagen, Valeria Belvedere, Milan | |
Peek-A-Jobby, Matt's Gallery, London |
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 | Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition 2024, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh |
2021 | Confluence. Tradition in Contemporary Art, Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Sichuan |
New Arrivals: From Salvador Dalí to Jenny Saville, The National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh | |
2020 | Academicians in Isolation, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh |
2019 | New Symphony of Time, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi |
2018 | We Suffer to Remain, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto |
2017 | We Have Met Before, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston |
Glasstress 2017, Glasstress, Venice | |
2013 | Between the Late and Early, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh |
2010 | Tales of the City, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow |
2009 | Woodman Spare Me That Tree, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin |
2008 | Running Time |
Unsettled Objects, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow | |
What is Life, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh | |
2007 | Supernatural, Centro Cultural Kunsthalle, Andrax |
2006 | Shadows in Paradise, FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkirk |
2004 | Evergreen, Inverleith House, Edinburgh |
Still Life, Art & Industry Biennial, Christchurch, New Zealand | |
Art of the Garden, Tate Britain, London | |
Bloodshed, Victoria & Albert Museum, London | |
2003 | Busan Biennale, Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan |
Life Study (after Giorgione), Biennale, Venice | |
2002 | Mars, Art & War, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum, Graz |
Nursery World, Jennifer Flay, Paris | |
2001 | Reality Check, British Council, touring exhibition |
2000 | Black Box Recorder, British Council, touring exhibition |
Here + Now, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee | |
G13 NY3, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York | |
Definition, Murray Guy, New York | |
British Art Show 5, British Art Show 5, Edinburgh Southampton Cardiff Birmingham | |
1999 | The Golden Age, ICA, London |
1998 | The Sea, The Sea |
A Touch of Evil, Metronom, Barcelona |
Selected Projects
Selected Publications
2024 | Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition 2024 Catalogue (RSA) |
2023 | Cinema Despite. Reviewing artists’ film & video in Scotland (Tramway) |
2021 | The Archive of the Misspelling of Graham Fagen (Matt’s Gallery, London) |
2019 | 14-18 NOW Contemporary arts commissions for the First World War centenary (Profile Editions) |
2018 | Graham Fagen, Complainte de l’esclave The Slave’s Lament (Galerie de I’UQAM) |
We Suffer to Remain (National Art Gallery of the Bahamas) | |
2017 | Graham Fagen, The Slave’s Lament (National Galleries of Scotland) |
2016 | More Lasting Than Bronze (Edinburgh Art Festival) |
Radio Relay (Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast) | |
2015 | Glasstress 2017 (Skira editore, Milan) |
Graham Fagen, Scotland + Venice (Hospitalfield, Arbroath) | |
2014 | GENERATION 25 years of contemporary art in Scotland (National Galleries of Scotland) |
Graham Fagen, Cabbages in an Orchard (Glasgow School of Art) | |
2011 | Baile an Or (Timespan, Helmsdale) |
2010 | For St Agnes (Foreground, Frome) |
Diary of an Egg Collector (Shetland Museum & Archive) | |
2009 | somebodyelse (The Changing Room, Stirling) |
2007 | Scotland & Venice 2003 2005 2007 (National Galleries of Scotland, British Council, Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh) |
2006 | Killing Time (Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee) |
2005 | Une Si Belle Saison (CRAC, Alsace) |
Graham Fagen, Clean Hands Pure Heart (Tramway, Glasgow) | |
2004 | Busan Biennale (Busan Biennale, Busan) |
Art of the Garden (Tate, London) | |
la mia casa dov’e? (Nuovo Icona, Venice) | |
Scape, Art & Industry Biennial 04 (Art & Industry Biennial, Christchurch) | |
2003 | Mars. Kunst und Krieg (Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern – Ruit) |
2002 | TV Swansong (ARTicle Press, Birmingham) |
Love is Lovely (The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh) | |
The Forest & The Forester 9after Maeterlinck) (Grizedale Books, Grizedale Forest) | |
Botanica (Grizedale, Grizedale) | |
Reality Check (The British Council, London) | |
Arts Council Collection Acquisitions 1989-2002 (Hayward Gallery Publishing, London) | |
2001 | Here + Now (Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee) |
Gemini Sculpture Park (The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds) | |
2000 | The British Art Show 5 (Hayward Gallery Publishing, London) |
Black Box Recorder (The British Council, London) | |
1999 | Subversive on the Side of a Lunatic (The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds) |
1998 | Peek-A-Jobby (Matt’s Gallery, London) |
1997 | Art as Reactionary Statement (Care in the Community) (Armpit Press, Glasgow) |