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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

2023 Bombart
Cinema Despite. Reviewing artists’ film & video in Scotland , Tramway, Glasgow
2017 Had We Never, Edinburgh International Festival
2016 A Drama in Time
The Garden
2014 War c/w I Murder Hate
2010 For St Agnes. Commissioned by Foreground for Bristol City Council
2009 I Murder Hate. Commissioned by the Tolbooth and The Changing Room, Stirling
2007 Fir Tree. Commissioned by FRAC Nord pas de Calais for Talbot House Museum, Belgium
True Love. Commissioned by City Projects, London
2002 The Forest & The Forester (after Maeterlinck). Commissioned by Grizedale Arts
Where the Heart Is. Commissioned by the Roston Road Project
Radio Roselle. Commissioned by TV Swansong
1999 Subversive on the Side of a Lunatic. Commissioned by the Henry Moore Institute

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)