Gordon Dalton

Page 1 | Biography

Born: Middlesbrough
Lives: Cardiff

Education
MA Fine Art, University of Northumbria, Newcastle 97-99
BA(Hons) Fine Art, University of Wales, Cardiff 91-94
ISEP exchange, Kansas State University, Kansas, USA 1993
Foundation, Cleveland College of Art & Design, Middlesbrough 1990


Solo Exhibitions
Gorilla Lipstick, Bank Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
When Life Gives You Lemons, Suplex Those Lemons, Keith Talent, London
Gorilla Lipstick, Marksman Gallery, Reading
Like a God, a good luck charm, or a vice, Bristol Diving School, Bristol
Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere (with Mark Gubb), Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Battle of Forest Hills (with Mark Gubb), Moot Gallery, Nottingham


Group Exhibitions
Panopti(con), Bank Art, Los Angeles, USA
Oh show me your love, Galerie Skuc, Llubjiana, Slovenia
This show is ribbed for your pleasure, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, USA
Flourish, Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
Over & Over, Again & Again, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Sci-Fi, MOT Gallery, London
Among the living, Milton Keynes; ICA, London; MIMA, Middlesbrough; City Gallery, Leics
Master of the Universe, Chapter Gallery, Cardiff
Spectator T, Art Sheffield 05
Things we lost in the fire, City Gallery, Leicester
Black Light, Colony Gallery, Birmingham
The thatness of wild, Bloc Gallery, Sheffield
Star Radio, CBAT / National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Born under a bad sign, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
Gang hut, Spike Island, Bristol
Strange, VANE, Newcastle
5+5, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland (with Tomoko Takahashi)


Grants/Awards
Creative Wales, Arts Council of Wales
Curating Now Bursary, Irish Museum of Modern Art
International Project Research, Wales Arts International
Presenatation & Production, Arts Council of Wales
Exhibitions & Projects Award, Scottish Art Council


Projects
co-director of art agency www.mermaidandmonster.com

curated projects:
Olaf Breuning, St Paul’s Park, Bristol 2009
Rotate, Contemporary Art Society, London 2008
Loners Island, G39, Cardiff 2008
Year 07 Art Fair, London 2007
Another new Babylon, CBAT / Public sites, Cardiff 2006
Things we lost in the fire, Transition Gallery, London 2006
Ain’t no love in the heart of the City, CBAT Gallery / Public sites, Cardiff 2004
Masters of the Universe, Chapter, Cardiff 2003
We interrupt this programme, Changing Room, Stirling; Waygood Gallery, N’cstle 2002
Strange, VANE, Newcastle 1998