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BIOGRAPHY
1956 Born in Methil, Fife (Scotland).
1974/79 Duncan of Jordanston College of Art, Dundee (Scotland).
1975 Pat Holmes Memorial Prize.
1976 Duncan of Drumfork Travelling Scholarship
1977 SED minor travelling scholarship
1978 SED major travelling scholarship
1979/82 Royal College of Art (RCA), London.
1982 RCA Drawing Prize
1988 Nominated for the Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London.
1992 Won Lord Provost’s Award, RGI, Glasgow
1998 Elected Member of the Royal Academy of Arts
1999 Visiting Professor, Sculpture Department, Edinburgh College of Art
2000 Appointed Professor of Sculpture, Royal Academy Schools, London
2002 Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Dundee University
2004 Made Honorary Member of the Royal Scottish Academy
First Visiting Professor of Inspiration and Discovery at the University of Dundee (Scotland)
2006 Elected to the board of the National Portrait Gallery

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 David Mach-Precious Light, City Arts Centre, Edinburgh
2010
Oct “Iconography”, Opera Gallery, London
2009 Mach, Opera Gallery, Geneva
2008
July-Aug “Size doesn’t matter”, Art Center de Vishal, Haarlem, Holland
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Oct “Breaking Images”, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
Oct “David Mach”, DUTAC, Dubai
Oct-Nov “Tête à Tête”, Jill George Gallery, London
2007
Feb-April “David Mach-In Seine”, Opera Garnier, Paris
April-May “David Mach”, Forum Gallery, Los Angeles
May-June “Postcard Collages”, Jill George Gallery, London
Sept-Nov “Iconography”, Jérome de Noirmont, Paris
Nov-Jan “David Mach”, Forum Gallery, NY
2006
March “David Mach”, Dundee
Oct-Nov “Visit London”, Touring exhibition, London, Milan, Berlin, Barcelona
Oct-Nov “The State of Heads”, Jill George Gallery, London
Oct-Nov “Fortune”, Mint Club, Hong Kong
2005
March-April “New Collages and Sculpture, Forum Gallery, NY
2004
Oct-Nov “New Collages”, Jill Georges Gallery, London
2003
Sept-Nov “Straight Up”, Galerie Jérome de Noirmont, Paris
2002
Jan Drawings, Marks & Spencer Head Office, London
March-Sept “Hell Bent”, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
Oct “New Collages of London”, Jill Georges Gallery, London
2001
April-Jan Touring exhibition of original artwork of “Portrait of Britain” – 17 different venues
Oct-Nov Galerie IUFM Confluence(s), Lyon
Nov Hugo Boss, Rome
Nov “David Mach”, Galeria Communale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome
2000
June “The Mild Bunch”, APT Gallery, London
Aug “David Mach at the Advance Factory”, Kilkenny
Sept-Oct “Species”, Galerie Jérome de Noirmont, Paris
Sept-Oct “New Drawings”, Jill George Gallery, London
1999
“The National Portrait” commissioned for the Self Portrait Zone, The Dome, Greenwich, London
1998
May-July “Columns”, CRDC, Nantes
May-July “Drawings”, École des Beaux Arts, Nantes, France
June “Train”, Darlington, UK
Sept-Dec “David Mach”, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA
Oct-Dec Touring Exhibition of Drawings, Cyprus
Nov-Jan “The Great Outdoors”, Centre for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati. USA
1997
March “David Mach”, Laurence Graham, London
April-Sept “Heavy Duty”, Hamumche Gallery, Tel-Aviv
June-Sept “The Last Detail”, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris
June-July “New Drawings”, Jill George Gallery, London
Oct “The Revels”, International Arts Festival, Melbourne
1996
June-July “Naked”, Jason & Rhodes Gallery, London
Sept-Dec Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull
1995
March-May “Whirl”, Summerlee Museum, Coatbridge
May-June “David Mach: Sculpture”, Sunderland City Art Gallery
July-Oct Matchheads”, Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
Nov-Dec “Drawings”, Jill George Gallery, London
Nov-Dec “David Mach”, Galerie Andate/Ritorno, Geneva
1994
Jan-April “Fully Furnished”, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
March-June “Freeze”, Musée Leon Dierx, Reunion Island
April-May “Drawings”, CASK, Kitakyushu (Japan)
April-May “Hako”, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
May-June “Likeness Guaranteed”, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
July-Aug “Headcase”, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen
Aug-Sept Sculpture Installation in the Sun Pavilion, Harrogate
Nov-Dec “Temple at Tyre”, Leith Docks, Edinburgh
Dec “David Mach”. Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate
1993
March-May “David Mach: Sculpture”, Ujazdowski Castle, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
April-June “Between the Lines”, Hakone Open-Air Museum (Japan)
May-Sept “David Mach: New Work”, Studio Casoli, Milan
Sept-Oct “Square Town/Town Square”, Seagate Gallery, Dundee
Sept-Oct “Matchheads”, the Gallery, Essex University, Colchester
Dec-Jan “Flayed, Stretched and Tanned”, Walsall Art Gallery, Walsall
1992
Jan-Feb Orpheus Gallery, Belfast
March-April Barbara Toll Fine Art, NY
May-Aug “Welcome to Euromach”, Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt, Paris
1991
April-Aug “David Mach: Sculpture”, Ace Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
May-Aug “David Mach: Sculpture”, Maurice Keitelman Gallery, Brussels
July Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago
Oct-April “It Takes Two”, Euston Square Gardens, London
1990
March-April “Here to stay”, Tramway, Glasgow
May “Chicago Trophies”, Chicago Art Fair, Chicago
June-July “Over to the Right a Bit”, House of Ukrainian Artists, Kiev
Oct-Nov “Creature Comforts”, Pittsburgh Centre for the Arts, Pittsburgh
1989
Jan-Feb “Stream of Consciousness”, Artspace, San Francisco
Jan-March “David Mach”, FGG Gallery, Frankfurt
Feb-April “Tamed, Trained and Framed”, Maurice Keitelman Gallery, Brussels
June-Aug “Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité-A New Utopia”, Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt, Paris
June “Ploughman’s Lunch”, Middleton Hall, Milton Keynes
Aug “Kissin Cousins”, Hamburg Messe, Hamburg
Sept-Oct “Along Classic Lines”, Melbourne Spoleto Festival, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Oct-Nov “Home Cookin”, Galerie 175, Brussels
Oct-Nov “Wet and Dry”, Cultural Centre, Madrid
Dec-Jan “Five easy Pieces”, Barbara Toll Fine Art, NY
Dec-March “A Hair’s Breadth”, Brooklyn Museum, NY
1988
March-June “A Hundred and One Dalmatians”, Tate Gallery, London
April-May Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan (Canada)
May-June “A Million Miles Away”, Barbara Toll Fine Art, NY
May-Nov “Signs of Life”, Provinciaal Museum, Hasselt (Belgium)
May “Multi-Storey Car Park”, BBC Television Centre, London
Aug “A Nice Location”, Kawasaki City Museum, Tokyo
Sept-Jan “The Art that Came Apart”, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal
Oct-Dec “David Mach”, Galerie Ek’Ymose 1, Bordeaux
Nov-Dec “Parvis 2”, Tarbes (France)
Nov-Dec Galerie Antada/Ritorno, Geneva
1987
May Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Centre du Verre, Paris
June-July “Si avui t’endinses en els boscos”, Fundacio Joan Miró, Barcelona
June-Sept “Adding Fuel to the Fire”, Metronom Gallery, Barcelona
Sept-Oct “Natural Causes”, Wiener Secession, Vienna
Oct-Dec One of two British Representatives at the 19th Biennale, Sao Paolo
Dec “Chinese Whispers”, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1986
Jan Cleveland Art Gallery, Middlesbrough
April “David Mach Roadshow”, Barbara Toll Fine Art, NY
April-May Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto
June-Aug Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning (Denmark)
Aug “Fuel for the Fire”, Riverside Studios, London
Aug-Sept Seagate Gallery, Dundee
Sept-Oct “If you go down to the woods”, Corner House, Manchester
Sept-Oct “Chimney Sweep”, Town Hall, Manchester
Nov Sherratt & Hughes Bookshop, Leadenhall market, London
Dec National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford
Dec-Jan Hacienda Club, Manchester
1985
Feb-April “Towards a Landscape”, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
Oct-Nov Galerie Foksal, Warsaw
Dec Stoke City Museum, Stoke-on-Trent
1983
Jan Mock Shop, Kingston Polytechnic, London
Sept-Oct Castaways, Galerie Antada/Ritorno, Geneva
Nov-Dec Ateliers Contemporains d’Arts Plastiques, St Brieuc, France
Nov Polaris, Installation made out of old tyres, outside the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank London.
1982
Aug-Sept Lisson Gallery, London
Nov New 57 Gallery, London
Dec-Jan Galerie t Venster, Rotterdam
1981
March Richard Booth Bookshop, Hay-on Wye (Wales)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
Feb-March “Already Made”, Galerie Jérome de Noirmont, Paris
March “Beast”, Pangolin Gallery, London
2010
Feb-March “Au-delà du réel, Galerie Jérome de Noirmont, Paris
June-Aug Royal Academy Summer Show, RA, London
David Mach makes the headlines with an impressive gorilla made out of coat hangers “Silver Streak” over 9’ tall
Sept-Oct “Crucible” Gloucester Cathedral, Gallery Pangolin, Chalford, Gloucestershire
Nov-Jan 11 “10 Dialogues: Richard Demarco, Scotland and the European Avant-Garde” The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Nov-Jan 11 “Academicians”- Eileen Cooper,David Mach, Neil McPherson, Michael Visocchi, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
Nov “10 Dialogues: Richard Demarco, Scotland and the European Avant-Garde” The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2009
Feb-April “Influence Pop”, Galerie Jérome de Noirmont, Paris
March-April “The Scottish Show”, The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, USA
May-Sept “Inspired”, The Mitchell Library, Glasgow
May-Sept “Vraoum ! Tresors de la bande dessinée et Art contemporain”, La Maison Rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris
June “March & Fieldler”, Opera Gallery, NY
June-Aug Royal Academy Summer Show, RA, London
July-Sept Signal 8: Summer Salon Show”, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
Sept-Oct Edition, Edition, Belfast Print Workshop, Belfast
2008
March Art Moderne, Opera Gallery, Hong Kong
June-Aug Royal Academy Summer Show, RA, London
July “The Opening”, Opera Gallery, Monaco
July-August “New Acquisitions”, Forum Gallery, New York, NY
Sept-Oct “Icons”, 108 Fine Art, Harrogate
Sept-Nov “Traces of Siamese Smile: Art+Faith+Politics+Love” Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
Oct “The Scottish Show”, University of Las Vegas, USA
Nov Opening Emotions, Opera Gallery, Dubai
Nov-Jan Sterling Stuff II, Pangolin, London
2007
Feb-April “David Mach in Seine”, Opera Garnier, Paris
April-May “Rummage”, Winchester Art Gallery, Winchester
April -June “David Mach”, Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
June Aug Royal Academy Summer Show, RA, London
June-August “The Contemporary Landscape Show”, Forum Gallery, New York, NY
June-July “Summer Exhibition, Royal Academicians”, 108 Fine Art, Harrogate
Sept-Nov “Iconography”, Galerie Jérome de Noirmont, Paris
Nov-Jan08 “David Mach”, Forum Gallery, New York, NY
2006
March
June-Aug Royal Academy Summer Show, RA, London
June-Sept “Oink, Moo, Baa: Animals in Art”, Delaware Centre for contemporary Art,
Wilmington, DE
Sept-Jan 07 “Il était une fois Walt Disney-Aux sources de l’Art des Studios Disney”,
Galerie National du Grand Palais
Oct “FIAC 2006-Tuileries”, monumental sculptures, Parc des Tuileries,
Galerie Jérome de Noirmont, Paris
Dec-May 07 “Off the Walls”, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
2005
April-Jan 06 “Royal Academicians in China”, Beijing, April; Shanghai, Sept; Royal Academy London, Dec-Jan 2006
June-Aug Royal Academy Summer Show, RA, London
July-Oct “Soul”, Episcopal Seminar of Bruges, Bruges, Belgium
July-Sept “Effervescence, la sculpture “anglaise” dans les collections publiques françaises de 1969-1989”, Musée des Beaux Arts d’Angers
Sept-Oct “The Reality Show: The Big Picture”, Fergusson Gallery, Peninsula Fine Arts Centre, Newport News, VA
2004
Feb-March “Winter Show”, Galerie Jérome de Noirmont, Paris
Nov-Jan 05 “Happy Birthday”, Galerie Jérome de Noirmont, Paris
2003
Jan-March “So British”, Collection of Institut d’art contemporain de Villerbanne, FRAC Rhônes-Alpes, Galeries Poirel, Nancy
April-Sept “2003 Beaufort”, PMMK, Musée d’art Moderne d’Ostende, Belgium; Bryanston School, Blandford, Dorset
June-Aug Royal Academy Summer Show, RA, London
June-Nov “La Fête”, ,touring exhibition, espace Bellevue, Biarritz, France;
Museo Valenciano de la illustracion y la modernidad, Valencia, Spain
2002
Feb British Society of Graduate Artists and Designers Exhibition,
The Mall Galleries, London
July-Oct “London Underground”, Fine Art Museum, Taipei
2001
Feb-Sept “Between Earth and Heaven”, PMMK, Ostend
May-Aug Royal Academy Summer Show, RA, London
May-02 “One Tree”, travelling exhibition
June-Sept “Carnaval des Animaux”, Den Haag
June-Dec Galerie Het Cleyne Huys, La Haye, Holland
Sept-Nov “London Underground”, Sungkok Museum, Seoul
Oct-Nov “In collaboration with David Mach” AT Kearney Ltd, London
Dec “2001 International Container Arts Festival”, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2000
March-June L’Homme qui marche…”, Jardin du Palais Royal, Paris
June-Sept “People in Motion”, Den Haag
Oct-Nov Eye of the Storm”, Parco la Mandria, Turin
Oct “Artaid 2000, Vinopolis Gallery, London At Home with Art” touring exhibition
started at Tate Britain and then various venues in England
1999
June-Sept “Sculptuur 99, Den Haag
1998
Jan-March “Contemporary Sculpture”, Ace Art Inc., NY
April-May “min or meer”, Amstelven, Tidjelik, Holland
Oct-99 “Transistors”, Hashimoto Museum of Art, Morioka, Japan;
Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
1997
Jan-Oct “A Cloudburst of Material Possessions”, touring exhibition
May-July “David Mach and Zadok Ben-David”, Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv
1996
April-May “Framed”, with Harald Vlugt, Galerie de la Tour, Amsterdam
Sept-Oct “Sculpture in the Close”, Jesus College, Cambridge
Nov-Jan “30 Artistes pour la Liberté”, Elac, Lyon
1995
June “Dialogues de Paix”, Palais des Nations, Geneva
1994
June-Sept “British Sculpture”, Beaux Arts, London
July-Sept “Summer Show”, William Jackson Gallery, London
Oct “A Changing World: Fifty Years of Sculpture from the British Council Collection”,
The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg
Dec Absolut Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
1993
March-April “Vormin Herhaling”, Jansen & Kooy, Amsterdam
May-June “Summer Seen”
Sept-Jan Sculpture Garden, Lewisham Town Centre, London
1992
Jan-Feb “Challenging Perspectives”, Ash Gallery, Edinburgh
June “New Purchases, National Art Collection Fund”, Sothebys, London
June-July Annual Sculpture Exhibition, Millfield School, Somerset
June-Aug “Sculpture Biennal”, Jesus College, Cambridge
Sept “Critics Choice”, Cooling Gallery, London
Nov “Decade Show”, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art,
City Museum and Art Galleries and various sites around Dundee
1992
Dec “The Selected Line”, William Jackson Gallery, London
1991
March-April “Guillaume Bijl, Marcel Duchamp, David Mach, Jurg Moser, Carmen Perrin”, Galerie Moi-Farine, Geneva
May William Jackson Gallery, London
June-Aug “Summer Exhibition”, Royal Academy of Art, London
June-Aug “Kunst Europa”, Karlsruhe (Germany)
June-Aug “Selected Artists”, Galerie Nikki Marquardt, Paris
July-Sept “Virtue and Vision: Sculpture and Scotland 1540-1990”,
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Aug-Sept “Espace”, Sculptors’ Society of Ireland, Dublin
Nov “Sculpture and Sculptors’ Drawings”, William Jackson Gallery, London
1990
Jan-Feb “Guillaume Bijl, David Mach, Carmen Perrin”, Galerie Andata/Ritorno, Geneva
Feb-March “Scottish Art Since 1990”, Scottish Gallery, London
Feb-March “Scottish Art Since 1900”, Barbican, London
May-Sept National Garden Festival, Gateshead
May-Sept “Three Scottish Sculptors”, Biennale, Venice
June-Aug “Die Collectie Alsnoch”, Provinciaal Museum, Hasselt (Belgium)
July-Aug “Sculptors Work on Paper”, Flowers East, London
July-Nov “New Purchases”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp
Aug-June91 “British Art Now: A Subjective View”, touring exhibition in Japan visiting Setagaya Museum, Tokyo; Fukuoka Art Museum; Nagoya City Art Museum; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art; and Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
1989
Feb-March Opening exhibition, Barbizon Gallery, Glasgow
June-Aug “Scottish Art Since 1900”, National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
July “Contemporary British Art, Hammond Gallery, Lancaster, Ohio
Aug-Sept Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London
1988
Feb-March “Off the Beaten Track”, UK/LA Festival, UCLA, Los Angeles
1988
Feb-March “New Directions: New Attitudes in Scottish Art”, touring exhibition in Yugoslavia
May “New British Art”, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
June-July “Wakefield 100”, Wakefield
July Henley Arts Festival, Henley-on-Thames
Sept-Jan British Arts Retrospective, touring exhibition in France
1987
Jan “2D/3D”, The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon Tyne
Jan-Feb Sutton College of Further Education, Sutton, Coldfield
March Idsall School, Shifnal, Shropshire
April-May City Artists Gallery, London
May-June “The British Edge”, ICA, Boston
May-June “Stichting Art Paper 87”, Jan Van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht
July “Zomerfestyn 87”, Amsterdam
Aug-Oct “Century 87”, Amsterdam
Aug “Black and White”, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
Aug-Oct “The Vigorous Imagination”, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Sept-Oct “Metal and Motion”, Brighton
Sept-Oct “The Vessel”, Serpentine Gallery, London
Oct “International Iron Sculpture Symposium”, Kitakyushu (Japan)
1986
April “Cnversions”, Germans van Eck Gallery, NY
May “sculpture in the City”, Bath
May-July “Spring Fling”, Edinburgh
June-Oct International Garden Festival, Stoke-on Trent
July-Aug Batley Art Gallery, Huddersfield
Aug-Sept “Painting and Sculpture Today: 1986”, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Oct “Contrariwise”, Glyn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
1985
Feb-March “Still Life”, Barbara Toll Fine Art, New York
May “Royal Scotsman”, (production and exhibition of work on Royal Scottish Train)
May-Sept “Beelden op de Berg”, Wageningen (The Netherlands)
June “The interim Art Wall, Ceiling Floor Show”, with Artangel Roadshow, London
June-Oct “Automobiennale”, Middlelheim Museum, Antwerp
June-Dec “David Mach, Colin Nicholas”, London Business School, London
Sept Canterbury Fringe Festival
Oct “Impulse”, Galerie Loehrl, Monchengladbach (Germany)
All year Scottish Travelling Drawing Show
All year FRAC de Rhônes-Alpes Touring exhibition in France
1984
Feb “New Directions”, Cleveland Art Gallery, Middlesbrough
March “Plus Value”, Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris
March “Acquisitions”, Fond Régional Art Contemporain de Rhônes-Alpes (France)
May-Oct International Garden Festival, Liverpool
June “Art Within Reach”, Air Gallery, London
July-Sept “Paper Trails”, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
Aug-Sept “Repeats”, Coracle Press, London
Aug “Demarcation”, Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh
1984
Sept “Festival à la Bastion”, Geneva
Sept “Art bon the Map”, Canterbury Fringe Festival, Canterbury
Oct “L’Hotel Revisité” (presented by FondationCharles Jourdan), Avenue de New York, Paris
Nov-Dec “Low-Tech”, Coracle Press at Rees Martin Fine Art Services, London
1983
Jan-March “Truc et Troc, Leçons des choses”, ARC, Paris
April-May “young Blood”, Riverside Studios, London
May-June “Beelden/Sculpture”, Lijnbaancentrum, Rotterdam
May-Sept “Necessités”, Chateau de la Roche Jagu, Brittany
July “Danse à Aix”, Aix en Provence
July-Sept “Diagonale”, Espace Montevideo, Antwerp
Aug-Sept “British Sculpture 83”, Hayward Gallery, London
Aug-Sept “Sculptors’ Drawings”, Air Gallery, London
Oct “Sculpture Symposium”, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Oct-Dec “Arts 83”, Ateneum Museum, Helsinki
Nov “Art Ink 83”, ICA, London
1982
Feb-March Hildebrandtstrasse, Dosseldorf
July-Aug “Sculpture at teh Open Air Theatre”, Regent’s Park, London
Oct-Nov “London/New York”, Lisson Gallery, London