Biography

2017 The Laughable Enigma of Ordinary Life, Arquipélago Centro de Artes Contemporaneas, Azores, Portugal, as Common Culture

2017 Public View, the Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK, as Common Culture

2016 Common Culture Cabaret, (solo) mac, Birmingham, UK, as Common Culture

2016 Double Act: Art and Comedy, The Bluecoat, Liverpool & The MAC, Belfast, UK, as Common Culture

2016 Nothing Happens Twice: Artists Explore the Absurdity of Life, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, UK

2015 Adventures in Pre-modern Music pt. 22, Strange Cargo, Folkestone, UK

2015 Transit, Various Sites, Glasgow, UK, as Common Culture

2015 Pigdogandmonkeyfestos, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter, UK. Curated by Doyle and Mallinson, as Common Culture

2014 Performing Stories of Alienation and Disaster, National Maritime Museum, London

2014 Pigdogandmonkeyfestos, AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, UK. Curated by Doyle and Mallinson, as Common Culture

2013 Not Necessarily in the Right Order, (solo) New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK, as Common Culture

2013 Techné, Hanmi Gallery, London, UK

2013 The Animal Gaze Returned, SIA Gallery, Sheffield, UK

2013 Witnessing the Wilderness, Wimbledon Space, London, UK

2013 Tips For Artists (solo), Goat Major Projects, Cardiff, UK, as Common Culture.

2012 Now I Gotta Reason, Jerwood Space, London, UK. Curated by Grizedale Arts and Marcus Coates, as Common Culture.

2012 Art:screen, Vetlanda Museum, Vetlanda, Sweden

2012 Needle in a Cloud, Fold Gallery, London. UK

2012 If You Look Like Your Passport Photo You’re Too Ill To Travel, Sheffield Institute of the Arts Gallery, Sheffield, UK, as Common Culture

2012 Lo and Behold: Public Domain, Supermarket 2012, Stockholm, Sweden, as Common Culture

2012 Klang Canteen, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, UK, as Common Culture

2011 The Animal Gaze Returned, London Met University, London, UK

2011 Stories of Alienation and Disaster (solo), Die Raum, Berlin, Germany

2011 Endlos Umstritten, Ewig Schön, D21Kunstraum, Leipzig, Germany, as Common Culture

2011 The FACE: evolution of portrait in photography The State Novosibirsk Historical Museum, Novosibirsk, Russia, as Common Culture

2011 Manifesta 8 Flashback, ACAF, Alexandria. Egypt, as Common Culture

2010 Common Culture at Miami Art Fair, Miami, USA, (solo) curated by Sara Black

2010 In View, Golden Thread, Belfast, UK, as Common Culture

2010 X-ray presents ENDPOINT, The Perseverance, London. UK

2010 Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain, as Common Culture

2010 Örebro International Videoart Festival, Lindesberg, Sweden

2010 LOOP Festival, Barcelona, Spain

2010 Bad Faith (solo), The Golden Thread, Belfast, UK as Common Culture

2009 Trying to Cope with Things that Aren’t Human (Part One), Cell Project Space, Bethnal Green, London. UK

2009 Tales from the Trophy Room, (solo) Solar, Vila do Conde, Portugal, as Common Culture

2009 Ūdensgabali/Waterpieces, International video and contemporary arts festival, Riga, Latvia

2009 XV International Biennial of Cerveira, Portugal, as Common Culture

2009 Covet Plan B, Bristol, UK, as Common Culture

2009 Trying to Cope with Things that Aren’t Human (Part One), AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, UK

2009 Grin & Bear It, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland, as Common Culture

2009 Trying to Cope with Things that Aren’t Human (Part One), David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, USA

2008 Örebro International Videoart Festival, Sweden

2008 The 2nd Novosibirsk International Festival of Contemporary Photography, LeVall gallery, Novosibirsk, Russia, as Common Culture

2008 Variable Capital, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK, as Common Culture

2008 EV+A – Too Early for Vacation curated by Hou Hanru, Limerick, Ireland, as Common Culture

2008 Art Video Screening, Örebro, Sweden

2007 700IS Film and Video selection, ASU, Arizona, USA

2007 Trunk 07 – Nordic Art Video Festival, Östersund, Sweden.

2007 700IS Film and Video selection, MMU, Alsager Arts Centre, UK

2007 Joking Aside, Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery, UK, as Common Culture

2007 Pop Trauma (solo), The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK, as Common Culture.

2007 Indefinable Cities, Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, UK

2007 700IS Film and Video selection, Egilsstadir, Iceland.

2006 Spent, Three Colts Gallery, Bethnal Green London, UK

2006 Pop Trauma (solo), Third Space Gallery, Belfast, UK, as Common Culture

2006 Pop Trauma (solo), Void, Derry, Ireland, as Common Culture

2006 Walk On a Liverpool exhibition for the 6^th Shanghai Biennale, China, as Common Culture

2004 Progress, Spital Square Project Space, London, UK

2013 Witnessing the Wilderness (co-curated with Geraint Evans) Wimbledon Space, London, UK

2011 A Distance Between Two Points: Jo Coupe and Linda Persson, Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, UK

2011 Journeymen: David Blandy and Antti Laitinen, Airspace Gallery Stoke-on-Trent, UK

2010 Conjunction 10: Escape, Stoke-on-Trent, City wide, UK

2010 The Drowning World, Airspace Gallery Stoke-on-Trent, UK

2009 Trying to Cope with Things that Aren’t Human (Part One), Cell Project Space, Bethnal Green, London. UK

2009 Trying to Cope with Things that Aren’t Human (Part One), AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, UK

2009 Trying to Cope with Things that Aren’t Human (Part One) David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, USA

2008 Conjunction 08: Fantastic, Found and Fake Stoke-on-Trent, City wide, UK

2008 Get Me Out Empire Gallery, London, UK

2007 Factory Records Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, UK

2006 Wow and Flutter Empire Gallery, London, UK

2016 Arteles Residency, Hämeenkyrö, Finland.

2012 An Incredible World Of Beauty And Terror HEIF (Higher Education Innovation Fund)

2011 Stories Of Alienation and Disaster Arts Council England Grants for the Arts.

2010 Conjunction 10 Arts Council England Grants for the Arts, group application.

2009 Bad Faith SAFLE commission, as Common Culture

2009 Trying to Cope with Things that Aren’t Human (Part One), Research and Enterprise funding, Staffordshire University

2008 Trying to Cope with Things that Aren’t Human (Part One), Arts Council England Grants for the Arts.

2008 Trying to Cope with Things that Aren’t Human (Part One), British Council Grants To Artists

2008 Conjunction 9 Arts Council England Grants for the Arts, group application.

2016 Q&A with Common Culture, Aesthetica, July, as Common Culture

2015 Modern Cumbrian Jokes, artwork as a publication, commissioned by Florence Arts Centre, Cumbria (ISBN 0956025331), as Common Culture

2013 Not Necessarily in the Right Order, exhibition publication published by New Art Exchange Nottingham (ISBN 0956025331), as Common Culture

2013 Here Now Vs. There Then CCA/For-site Foundation Publication, contributor.

2012 Critical Dictionary, edited by David Evans (Black Dog, ISBN13: 978 1 907317 49 1), as Common Culture.

2011 A Distance Between Two Points: Jo Coupe and Linda Persson Exhibition Catalogue, editor. ISBN-10: 0956145760

2011 Journeymen: David Blandy and Antti Laitinen, Exhibition catalogue, editor. ISBN-10: 0956145752

2010 Common Culture The New El Dorado, artwork for Prefix Photo Magazine (Canada), November, by Scott McLeod.

2010 A Macguffin for Art, Artwork for Manifesta 8: Europe in the 21st Century, as Common Culture. ISBN-10: 8836616976

2010 The Drowning World, Exhibition catalogue, editor. ISBN-10: 0956145736

2009 Trying to Cope with Things that Aren’t Human (Part One), Book. Editor and contributor. ISBN-10: 0956145701

2008 Variable Capital: A conversation with Common Culture. David Evans. Criticaldictionary.com

2008 Variable Capital: A conversation with Common Culture. David Evans. Afterimage: The journal of media arts and cultural criticism, Vol. 36 No. 2

2008 EV+A Exhibition catalogue and DVD, as Common Culture

2006 Common Culture - Pop Trauma, Void, Derry. (Void ISBN-10: 095517631X)

2017 Public View, Art Monthly, April, by Mike Pinnington, as Common Culture

2016 Double Act: Art and Comedy,Art Monthly, May, by Laura Robertson, as Common Culture

2016 Double Act: Art and Comedy, Corridor 8, April, by Georgina Wright, as Common Culture

2016 Nothing Happens, Twice: Artists Explore the Absurdity of Life, Art Monthly, April, by Beth Bramich, as Common Culture

2013 Not Necessarily In The Right Order The Guardian Guide, September 28^th, by Robert Clarke, as Common Culture

2011 In View, exhibition review Aesthetica Issue 39, as Common Culture.

2011 Manifesta 8, Sabeth Buchmann, Artforum. February 2011, as Common Culture

2011 In View preview, The Guardian Guide, January 15^th, by Robert Clarke, as Common Culture

2011 Manifesta 8 review, Art Forum, January 2011, by Sabeth Buchmann as Common Culture.

2011 Manifesta 8 review, CMagazine (Canada), Issue 109, by Mikhel Proulx, as Common Culture.

2010 Experiencia Estetica Y Gestion Del Espectacula, Manifesta 8,El Nuevo El Dorado, Saioa Olmo Alonso, GARA, Mugalari, 30 December 2010.

2010 Manifesta 8, Sarah Lowndes, MAP, Issue 24, Winter 2010.

2010 Manifesta 8 review, Art Monthly, November, by Colin Perry, as Common Culture.

2010 Manifesta 8 review, Art Monthly, November, by Teresa Gleadowe, as Common Culture

2010 Ideological Crossfire – Representation and Performativity at Manifesta 8, Sandor Hornyik. www.exindex.hu/

2010 Common Readings/Bad Faith. Joanne Savage. Visual Arts Review, Culture Northern Ireland. March 2010.

2009 Trying to Cope with Things that Aren’t Human (Part One), review in A-N, June

2009 Trying to Cope with Things that Aren’t Human (Part One), review in Art Monthly, May, by Martin Herbert

2009 *Trying to Cope with Things that Aren’t Human (Part One)**, p*review in The Guardian Guide, March

2009 Trying to Cope with Things that Aren’t Human (Part One), review in Art Forum, February, by Glen Helfand (Critics Choice)

2008 Variable Capital The Guardian Guide, as Common Culture

2008 Variable Capital Exhibition catalogue, as Common Culture

2008 EV+A The Irish Times, Utopia and other lands in Limerick, Wednesday, Aidan Dunne, March 19

2006 Pop Trauma The Visual Artists News Sheet, as Common Culture

2006 Pop Trauma The Guardian, as Common Culture

2017 The Contemporary Machine 2 Chichester University, UK

2017 All for One, Chair of panel discussion, V22 Gallery, London, UK

2017 The Contemporary Machine Staffordshire University, UK

2016 Common Culture Cabaret In conversation, mac, Birmingham, UK, as Common Culture

2015 Artist Talk Picture Berlin, ZK/U Berlin, Germany

2013 Artist Talk Bath Spa University, UK

2013 Salon//Plant to Human, Symposium Keynote Speaker, Salon Satellite, Berlin, Germany

2013 Not Necessarily in the Right Order in conversation, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK, as Common Culture.

2012 Artist Talk Lecture for California College of the Arts/For-Site Foundation, Nevada City, CA. USA.

2012 Art & Music lecture and presentation for California College of the Arts, USA

2011 Trashing Performance symposium (invited presenter and panel member) organised by Performance Matters, Toynbee Theatre, London, UK, as Common Culture

2011 AC / On Collaboration Research Symposium, Invited presenter and screening of Screening of The New El Dorado, Goldsmiths College, London, UK

2011 MA Art Lectures – Summer Series: Common Culture University College Falmouth, UK, as Common Culture

2010 Banff International Curatorial Institute Symposium: Are Curators Unprofessional? Screening of The New El Dorado by Teresa Gleadowe, Banff, Canada.

2010 Conjunction 10: Escape Public Talk, Learning From Glasgow, with Francis McKee, Helen Moore, Chris Biddlecombe and Tom Varley, Organiser. Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, UK.

2009 Trying to Cope with Things that Aren’t Human (Part One), Cell Project Space. Public talk with Lisa Le Feuvre, Marcus Coates and Johanna Hällsten.

2009 Artists & Animals, Jcamd Research Seminar Series,( May-June 2009 along with Bridget Nicholls, Jacob Cartwright, Edwina Ashton and Karen Knorr) Sir John Cass, London Metropolitan University. UK.

2009 Lecture on Trying to Cope with Things that Aren’t Human (Part One), California College of the Arts, San Francisco. USA

2008 Conjunction 08: Fantastic, Found and Fake Public Talk between artists and curators, chair. Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, UK.

2008 Tatton Biennial Symposium, invited panel member, Tatton Park, UK