Alex Frost
Page 1 | Biography
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Born: London
Lives: Glasgow
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09/1996-07/1998 Masters in Fine Art Glasgow School of Art
09/1993-07/1995 BA (hons) Fine Art Staffordshire University
09/1991-07/1992 Foundation Course Camberwell College of Art
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2010 The Connoisseurs, 2010, Dundee Contemporary Arts, UK 2004 1973 The Changing Room, Stirling (ex. Cat). Alex Frost Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
2002 For Example at Spike Island, Bristol (ex. Cat).
1999 Habitat at the Buchanan Galleries, Glasgow. New Work at Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow.
1998 Theme Show at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow. Drop City at The Assembly Gallery, Glasgow.
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2005 Maverick (Off-site project at Sorcha Dallas), Glasgow International.
2004 Country Grammar, G.O.M.A. Glasgow. The Birthday Party Collective Gallery Edinburgh. Sorcha Dallas at Centre d�Creation, Bazouges la Perouse, France. Synth at B2 Kunstraum, Leipzig, Germany.
2003 Nth at Ols&Co; gallery, London. Corpa Nova at Spital Square at Lamb St, London. Afterlife at VANE, Newcastle and Chapter, Cardiff. EAST International selected by Toby Webster and Eva Rothschild, Norwich (ex. Cat). Switchspace with Sally Osborn, Sword Street, Glasgow. An American Conversation with Karla Black, Cooper Gallery Dundee (ex. Cat).
2002 The Chateau Switchspace Glasgow. Happy Outsiders from London and Scotland Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw & Sztuki Gallery Katowice, Poland (ex. Cat). Gwangju Biennalle with Transmission Gallery, Gwangju Korea (ex. Cat). Presence Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (ex. Cat). Hero St Mary�s Cathedral, Glasgow (ex. Cat). Half the World Away Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, New York (ex. Cat).
2001 Primarily Structural Generator Projects, Dundee.
2000 Good Luck for You Transmission Gallery, Glasgow. Tonight The Modern Institute, Glasgow. Museum Magogo Melborne, Australia. Fear of Jazz Deutsch Britishe Freundschaft, Berlin.
1999 MISTY IN ROOTS curated at Fly Gallery, Glasgow. Austrotel Contemporary Art Fair Vienna. Museum Magogo Glasgow Project Room. You Are Very Important with Alan Michael, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh. Free-Tutorials an All Horizons Club project, throughout the UK.
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Black, Catriona, �Minimalism to the max�, Sunday Herald, 10 October 2004, pp.30. Domke, Graham, �Alex Frost � 1973�, The List, 7 � 21 October 2004, pp.100.
Black, Catriona, �This is the modern world�, Sunday Herald, 3 October 2004, pp.25. Gale, Iain, �Revolution in their heads�, Scotland on Sunday, 26 September 2004, pp.12. Kennedy, Alexander, �Country Grammar�, The List, 7 � 21 October 2004, pp.100 Jeffrey, Moira, �When a picture paints��, The Herald, 17 September 2004, pp.25.
Lowndes, Sarah, �Alex Frost�, Frieze Magazine, #84, (Summer 2004), pp. 142-3
Mulholland, Neil, �Knowing your audience�, The Scotsman � S2, 10 December 2002, pp.13.
Figgis, Laurence, For Example, Untitled Magazine, #28, (Summer 2002), pp.62 .
Cameron, Neil, �Wise heads on young Shoulders�, The Scotsman, 2002
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Exhibition Catalogues
1973, The Changing Room, 2004; text by Karla Black.
Synth, Kunstraum B2, 2004; (group exhibition), texts by Sarah Lowndes & Bettina Reichmuth.
EAST International 2003, Norwich Gallery, 2003; (group exhibition), text by Lynda Morris.
An American Conversation, The Cooper Gallery, 2003; texts by Mark Hamilton and T.Rhonda White.
Happy Outsiders from London and Scotland, Zacheta Galeria, Warsaw, Poland, 2002; (group exhibition), texts by Heather Galbraith, Magda Kardasz, Agnieszka Morawinska, and Rob Tufnell.
Gwangju Biennalle, Korea, 2002; (group exhibition).
For Example, Spike Island, 2002; text by Rob Tufnell.
Hero, St Mary�s Cathedral, 2002; (group exhibition), text by John Calcutt.
Presence, Fruitmarket Gallery, 2002; (group exhibition), text by Caroline Woodley.
Half the World Away, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, 2002; (group exhibition).
Other references - books /artist pages
- Social Sculpture, Sarah Lowndes, published by Stopstop, Glasgow, 2004. - Transmission, published by Black dog press, London, 2002. - British Mythic, issues 1-4, published by British Mythic, Glasgow, 1998-2000. - The Black Diamond, issue 2, published by Black Diamond press, Liverpool, 2000. - Free Tutorials, published by All Horizons Club press, Glasgow/Liverpool, 1999.
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