Artists

Bob and Roberta Smith
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Born London, 1963
Lives and works London

Education

1991-93
MA Fine Art, Goldsmith's College, London

1981-85        
University of Reading, BA (First Class Hons) Fine Art

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008        
I am a living sign The Bob and Roberta Smith Diaries, Hales Gallery, London, UK

2007        
The Captains Journal of the Voyage of the Human Being, Galerie Kusseneers, Antwerp, Belgium
Shop Local, Peer Gallery, London, UK

2005        
The Beautiful Poetry of Bob and Roberta Smith, Hales Gallery, London, UK
Make Your Own Damn Art, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston, UK

2004        
Art is my Airplane, International 3, Manchester, UK
Help Build The Ruins of Democracy, The Baltic, UK

2003        
The Mobile Reality Creator, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, London

2002        
Its not easy being a famous Artist, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Useless men and Stupid Women, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
Bunch of Cowards, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
The New York Art Amnesty, Pierogi, New York, USA
The Art Amnesty, Deptford X, London, UK

2001        
Make Me a Sandwich, Richard Heller Gallery, L.A.
Suburbs Are the New Center - Create Your Own Reality, Galleria Carbone.to, Torino, Italy
Unfortunate, Bob Smith hosts the search for the worst artwork in Britain, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK

2000        
26 Instructions, Turnaround at the Hayward, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Le Ecole Burrows & Bob Smith, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France (David Burrows & Bob and Roberta Smith Two Person Show)

1999        
Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
Improve the Cat, Galleria Carbone.to, Torino, Italy
Silent Video, Virgin Mega Store, London, UK
1998        
Pierogi 2000, New York, USA

1997        
Don't Hate Sculpt, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK

1997-8        
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK

1996        
Flawed, Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art, London, UK

1994        
Another Disappointment, Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art, London

1989        
The Man Whose Head Expanded, Cooper Union School of Arts & Science, New York

1988        
Damn The Begrudgers, Center 181, London, UK

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008
Fourth Plinth, The National Gallery, London, UK
Paul Thek, ZKM/ Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsrule, Germany

2006
Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde, Tate Liverpool, UK    
Peace Camp, Brick Lane Gallery, London, UK
Hearing Voices, Seeing Things, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

2005         
Brit Povera, Gallery Krinzinger, Austria
Only a minute to live, Temporary Contemporary, curated by Klega, London, UK
Cell Project Space Show, curated by Richard Priestley, London, UK
Comedy, touring around the USA
Recent Developments in Sound Art, Touring
Summer Daze, South London Gallery, London, UK
Chronic Epoch, Beaconsfield, London, UK
To and From, Metropole Gallery, Folkstone, UK

2004        
Plazasuite, Union Gallery, London, UK
Tonight, Studio Voltaire, London, UK
Master Blaster, Ode to Anti Social Aethetics, BARD College, New York
Time on Your Hands, Standpoint Gallery, London, UK
Voodoo Shit, Hales Gallery, London, UK
Plazasuite, Union Gallery, London, UK
Tonight, Studio Voltaire, London, UK
Master Blaster, Ode to Anti Social Aethetics, BARD College, New York
Time On Your Hands, Standpoint Gallery, London, UK

2003        
Chocker Fucking Blocked, Jeffery Charles Gallery, London, UK
Thatcher, Blue Gallery, London, UK
The Bremen Conference, in association with GAK, Bremen, Germany
Independence, South London Gallery, London, UK
Kick it till it hurts, VTO Gallery, Manchester, UK
Bag Lady, Cell Project Space, London, UK
Franz West and Friends, Austrian Cultural Forum, London
The souls of men that God made different, Comme Ca Gallery, Manchester, UK

2002        
Sidewinder, CIMA Gallery, Calcutta, India
Sitting Tenants, Lotta Hammer Gallery, London, UK
Air Guitar, Milton Keynes Gallery of Contemporary Art, London, UK
The Music In Me, GAK, Bremen, Germany
Art after Art, Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany             
Weserburg, Bremen, Germany

2001        
Artists World, CCAC, San Francisco
The Other Britain, Tecla Sala, Hospitalat, Barcelona, Spain
Record Collection, VTO Gallery and International 3, Manchester, UK
12 Internet Projects, commisioned by the BBC, The Lux Center, London, UK
Death, The Round House, Camden, London, UK
Duo's Transmission, Glasgow, UK
Big Blue at Century City, Tate Modern, London, UK
City Racing: A Partial View, London, UK

2000-01        
Landscape, British Council, ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany; Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain

2000        
British Art-Installation, Diehl Vorderwuelbecke Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Waiting, curated by Lotta Hammer, Mjellby Konstgard, Sweden
Intelligence, New British Art 2000, Tate Gallery, Millbank, London, UK
Cheated, A22 Projects, London, UK
Insanity Benefit, Vilma Gold, London, UK        
3 Rooms, Outside Project, Left is the New Right, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK

1999
My Old Man Said Follow the Van, Rosemary Branch, London
East Wing Collection, Courtauld Institute, London, UK
Limitless, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
My Eye Hurts, Thread Waxing Space, New York & Green Room, Manchester, UK
Museum Magogo, Glasgow Project Space, UK
Peace, Migros Museum, Zurich, CH
£4.99 Sculptures, Museum of Installation at Deptford X, Deptford, UK
Stop it write now, Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway

1998        
Beige & Sneakers, Buro Freidrich, Berlin, Germany
Host, Tramway Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Some English Aristocracy, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
W139 Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
A to Z, The Approach, London, UK
Camouflage 2000, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Mise En Scene, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
Do All Oceans Have Walls, Kunstlerhaus, Bremen, Germany


1997        
Bring Your Own Walkman, W139, Amsterdam, Holland
Gym 97, Conductors Hallway, London, UK
Lotta Hammer Gallery, London, UK
Shit Sculptures, Gramercy Art Fair, New York, USA
Urban Legends, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden Baden, Germany
One Night Stands, The Gallery, Norwich School of Art, Norwich, UK

1996        
Experiment GB, Trier & Hannover, Germany
Escape Attempts, Christiania, Copenhagen, Denmark
Electronic Undercurrents - Art & Video in Europe, National
Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Atopic Site, Tokyo Big Site, Tokyo, Japan
Bank TV, Bank, London, UK
Try, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Unpop, Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art, London, UK

1995
Hit & Run, The Ministry of Sound, London, UK
Hard Work, Union Street Gallery, London, UK
Couldn't Get Ahead, Independent Art Space, London, UK
Gang Warfare, Independent Art Space, London, UK
Sarah Staton's Supastore, Middlesborough, UK
Lost Property, W139 Amsterdam, Holland; Great Western Studios, London, UK
Karaoke, South London Art Gallery, London, UK

1994        
Potato, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Wish You Were Here, Burbage House, Curtain Road, London
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
New Contemporaries, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
Candyman II, Tower Bridge Business Complex, London, UK
Somethings Wrong, The Tannery, London, UK

1993        
Imprint, City Racing, London, UK
The Pet Show, Union Street Gallery, London, UK

1992        
BISK, The Jam Factory, Bermondsey, London, UK

1991        
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK

1983        
Young Contemporaries, ICA, London, UK
1982    
Northern Young Contemporaries, London, UK

Selected Projects

2005
Included in the Me Generation, C4 TV programme about portraiture presented by Matthew Collings
Gigs with the Ken Ardley Playboys at BALTIC, the Serpentine and MIMA

2004
Make your own damn art, book published by Black Dog Press
Help Build the Ruins of Democracy DVD produced by the BALTIC

2001        
A is for Book, Book Project published by Imprint Gallery, London, UK
The Ken Ardley Playboys Second Album City of Westminster, released

1996        
The Ken Ardley Playboy's, We've got Ken, CD, Lucky     Garage Record
The Ken Ardley Playboy's, Eni Fing to be Faumus, released

1995        
Zapp Magazine
The Ken Ardley Playboy's single Thats it, released
Curated Unpop, Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art, London, UK

1994        
Featured A Real Work of Art,  Matthew Collings Film The Late Show BBC2
Curated Somethings Wrong, The Tannery, London, UK
Formed Ken Ardley Playboy's with Victor Mount

Awards

1988-90
Harkness Fellowship in conjunction with Cooper Union School of Arts & Sciences, New York

1987-88        
Cardiff Junior Fellowship, Cardiff, UK

1985-87        
Priz de Rome, British Academy, Roma, Italy

Collections

Tate Collection, London, UK
Arts Council Collection, London, UK
British Council Collection, London, UK
Southampton City Museum & Art Gallery, Southampton, UK
Goss Michael Foundation