CHRISTOPHER BUCKLOW Artist Bio
Born in Manchester, England 1957
Lives and works in London
S E L E C T E D S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S
2004 I Will Save Your Life, RIFLEMAKER GALLERY, London
"If This Be Not I," The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere
2003 Christopher Bucklow, EDWARD MITTERAND GALERIE, Geneva
2002 Angeli Rrose, WILKINSON GALLERY, London
"Guests & Tetrarchs," ANTHONY WILKINSON GALLERY, London
2001 Christopher Bucklow, THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S GALLERY, London.
2000 VAKNIN SCHWARTZ GALLERY, Atlanta
1999 "The Mancunian Heresy," WILKINSON FINE ART , London, England
Canopic Fusion Reactor, St Ives International, Cornwall
1998 Fju:zan, PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York
Guest, THE MEAD GALLERY, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, England
1997 FAY GOLD GALLERY, Atlanta, GA
1996 PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York
1995 FRAENKEL GALLERY, San Francisco, CA
INDEPENDENT ART SPACE, London
1994 "Guest," HERZLIYA MUSEUM, Israel
1991 "The Earth Is Like The Sun," BANFF CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Alberta, Canada
G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S
2005 "Cross Section," PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York
2004 The Jerwood Drawing Prize, London
"The Disembodied Spirit," KEMPER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, March 5 - May 23,
Kansas City, Missouri
"The Disembodied Sprit," AUSTIN MUSEUM OF ART, September 11 - November 28, Austin, Texas
"Light and Atmosphere," MIAMI ART MUSEUM, April 3 - January 30, 2005, Miami, Florida
2003 "The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2002," Cannon Hill Park Rd, Novemver 23 - January 5th, Birmingham,
England
"The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2002," Glasgow School of Art, January 14 - February 22.Glasgow,
Scotland
"The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2002," EICH Gallery, University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, Hull,
England
"The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2002," The Promenade Gallery, The Lowry, Salfor Quays, April 12 - April
22, Manchester, England
"The Disembodied Spirit," BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART, September 25 - December 7,
Brunswick, Maine
"Recycling Lucifer's Fall," HOULDSWORTH, London
2002 The Jerwood Drawing Prize, London
Metamorphing, THE SCIENCE MUSEUM, London
Artists of Fame and Promise, 14 Wharfe Rd, London
Sacred Century, VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM, London
"Boundless/Silence, States of Infinity," DC MOORE GALLERY, New York
"Fiat Lux, let there be light, " ROBERT KLEIN GALLERY, Boston.
"Christopher Bucklow, Ron Fricke, James Turrell," MUSEE D' ART MODERN, Paris
"Sacred Country," VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM, London
"Out of the Vault," MODERN ART MUSEUM, Honolulu
"The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2002," East Wing Painting Studios, University of Goustershire, Pittville
Campus, September 2-26, England
"The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2002," Jerwood Space, November 10, 2002, London, England
2001 "Summer 2001," PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York
"This is not a Photograph," traveling exhibition through 2002
"Visionaries Exquisite Corpse," SAO PAOLO, Brazil
"Best of Visionaire," FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, New York
2000 "Little Angels," HOULDSWORTH FINE ART, London.
"Susan Derges/Christopher Bucklow Recent Work," VAKNIN SCHWARTZ, Atlanta
"Unique Photographs" PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York
"New British Photography" BERNARD TOALE GALLERY, Boston
1999 LOTTA HAMMER GALLERY, London
"Underexposed," Stockholm
1998 "Through The Lens : Time Space And Matter," RYE ARTS CENTER, New York
"Paraphotography," MAIER MUSEUM OF ART, Virginia
"Head," HOULDSWORTH FINE ART, London.
1997 "Object and Abstraction: Contemporary Photographs," MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York
"Several Exceptionally Good Acquired Pictures XI," FRAENKEL GALLERY, San Francisco, CA
"Picturing and Modernity," SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, San Francisco
"In Visible Light," MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Oxford
1996 "Blind Spot Photography: The First Four Years," PAOLO BALDACCI GALLERY, New York
"Under the Sun: Photographs by Christopher Bucklow, Susan Derges, Garry Fabian Miller & Adam Fuss," FRAENKEL GALLERY, San Francisco, CA
"Fool's Rain," I.C.A. , London.
"The Inner Eye," MANCHESTER CITY ART GALLERY
Department Display, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, New York
"Prospect '96," FRANKFURT KUNSTVEREIN, Germany
1995 "Silhouettes," (with Elliott Puckette & Adam Fuss), PAUL KASMIN GALLERY
New York
"The Abstract Urge," FRIENDS OF PHOTOGRAPHY, San Francisco, CA
"Seeing Things," ANDRE EMMERICH GALLERY, New York
"Blindspot," M.A.C., Dallas, TX
"Recent Acquisitions," MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York
"After Art," FRIENDS OF PHOTOGRAPHY, San Francisco, CA
"Content in Today's Photography," organized by Andy Grundberg. BRUCE MUSEUM,
Greenwich, CT
"Chris Bucklow, Rebecca Scott, Hermoine Wiltshire," GIMPEL FILS, London
Purchasing Show, HOUSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Houston, TX
"Heaven's Embroidered Cloths," NATIONAL MUSEUM OF FILM, PHOTOGRAPHY AND TELEVISION, Bradford, England
"Possibilities of Extension," ASPEX, Portsmouth, England "The Beauty of the World," INDEPENDENT ART SPACE, London.
1994 "Crewdson, Fuss, Sugimoto & Bucklow," JIM SCHMIDT GALLERY, St. Louis, MO
"Without Walls," THE FACE MAGAZINE, May
"After Art," HENRY ART GALLERY, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
The Israel Sculpture Biennale, En Hod, Israel
"Potato," Video Exhibition, INDEPENDENT ART SPACE, London
"Take Five," ANTHONY WILKINSON FINE ART, London
1993 "Wonderful Life," LISSON GALLERY, London
"Bucklow, Rovner, Henle, Barth," WOOSTER GARDENS, New York
1992 "Inside a Microcosm," LAURE GENILLARD GALLERY, London.
S E L E C T E D B I B L I O G R A P H Y
2005 Tromble, Meredith, "Bodies of Light," BREATHE, March / April, 2005
2004 Hackman, Kate, " 'Disembodied Spirit' looks into another dimension," THE KANSAS CITY
STAR, April, 2004
Vassie, Addie, " Christopher Bucklow, Interview by Assie Vassie," NEXT LEVEL, Edition 01,
Vol. 02
Color reproduction, "Private Lives," ELLE DECOR, August-September 2004
2003 Color reproduction, "Flesh and Blood," NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP, June 2003
2002 Buck, Louisa, Review, THE ART NEWSPAPER, March, No. 123
Dykstra, Jean, "Light Moves," PHOTO DISTRICT NEWS, August 2002
Nasatir, Judith, "Second Sight," HOUSE & GARDEN, September 2002
2000 NEW YORK MAGAZINE, August 14
Aletti, Vince, "Unique Photographs," THE VILLAGE VOICE, August 1, 2000, Vol. XLV, No. 30
Valdez, Sarah, "Summer 2000: Unique Photographs," TIME OUT NEW YORK, August 3-10, 2000, Issue No. 254
1999 "In Visible Light: Photography and Classification in Art, Science, and the Everyday," Catalogue: MODERNA MUSSEET, Skeppsholmen.
Eisler, Colin, "Author, Author!," ART ON PAPER, January/February
1998 Ford, Tom, "Light Issue," VISIONAIRE, Spring Issue, 1998
ELLE DECOR, June/ July
Auping, Michael, "A Collection that Reflects the World," MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH CALENDAR, July/August/September 1998
1997 Illustration "A Face in the Crowd," VOGUE, December
Hayt, Elizabeth, "Simple, Austere, An Old Genre is Daringly New," THE NEW YORK TIMES,ART & LEISURE, November 16Crump, James, "Visions the Eye Can't See," ART IN AMERICA, March
Gibson, Eric, review of exhibition, ARTNEWS, January
"Marina Warner Illuminates the Inner Eye," FLASH ART, January/February
1996 Hicks, Robert, "Inspiration from Holes in Leaves," THE VILLAGER, October 9
1995 Hay Halpert, Peter, "What to Buy Now," AMERICAN PHOTO, March/April
Kent, Sarah, "The Beauty of the World at the IAS," TIME OUT, London, July
Cooper, Emmanuel, "Arts News," GAY TIMES, London
Morrissey, Simon, "The Beauty of the World," CREATIVE CAMERA, October/November
1994 Grundberg, Andy, "After Art: Rethinking 150 Years of Photography," Selections
from the Joseph and Elaine Monsen Collection
Hagen, Charles, "Wooster Gardens," THE NEW YORK TIMES, January 28
Eschun, Ekow, "Without Walls," THE FACE, May
Levin, Tami, "Here Comes The Sun," TEL AVIV TIMES, August 19
Kaye, Helen, "Installation," THE JERUSALEM POST, August 28
Levin, Angela, "Underrated Master," THE JERUSALEM POST, September 9
Kedar, Dorit, "Man is God," AI-HAMISHAR, September 29
"Christopher Bucklow," BLINDSPOT, New York, Issue 4, November
Grundberg, Andy, essay in exhibition catalogue, "AFTER ART: Rethinking 150 Years of Photography, Selections from the Joseph and Elaine Monsen Collection," University of Washington Press, edited by Chris Bruce, p14 and cover
1993 Lillington, David, "True Brit, David Lillington on Wonderful Life at Lisson," TIME OUT, London, July 28
McNay, Michael, "Shooting Stars," THE GUARDIAN, London, August 2
Norman, Geraldine, "Creations to Turn the Critics Purple," THE INDEPENDENT, London, August 9
Grant, Simon, "Wonderful Life," WHAT'S ON, London, August 25MacRitchie, Lynn, "Young Pretenders See it Their Way," THE FINANCIAL TIMES, London ,
September 17
Cottingham, Laura, "Wonderful Life, Lisson Gallery," FRIEZE, London, September/October
Odling-Smee, James, "Wonderful Life," ART MONTHLY, London, October, pp 26-27
Wilson, Andrew, "Wonderful Life, Lisson Gallery, London," FORUM INTERNATIONAL, Belgium, October/November
Renton, Andrew, "Wonderful Life, Lisson Gallery, London," FLASH ART, November/December, p78
Mellor, David, "Wonderful Life," UNTITLED MAGAZINE, Winter 1993/94, p8
Ford, Simon, "On the Destruction of the Institution of Avant-Gardeism," VARIANT, Winter/Spring 1994, pp 42-45
1992 Searle, Adrian, "Inside a Microcosm at Laure Genillard," TIME OUT, London, July 20
1991 Brittain, David, CREATIVE CAMERA, London, Summer
P U B L I C C O L L E C T I O N S
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Herzliya Museum, Israel
The British Council, UK
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Akron Art Museum
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Dallas Museum of Art
T E A C H I N G P O S I T I O N S
Royal College of Art, London
Cooper Union, New York
Ruskin Schools, University of Oxford, Oxford
University of the South, Tennessee
St Mary's College, Indiana
De Montfort University, Leicester
Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow