| 1967 | born in Hamilton, Great Britain | |
| 1986 - 1990 | Glasgow School of Art (Department of Environmental Art) | |
| 1995 - 1997 | California Institute for the Arts | |
| Lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. | ||
Solo Shows
| 2009 | 53. Biennale von Venedig, Schottischer Pavillion |
| 2008 | Out Of This Sun, Into This Shadow, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, GB This Place Is Close and Unfolded, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, D |
| 2007 | We Make An Unsubstantial Territory, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA A Lost Cat and Alleyways, Back Gardens, Pools and Parkways, Centre d’art Contemparain, Geneve That Blows Through Concrete Leaves, Modern Institute, Glasgow, GB |
| 2006 | We Are The Breeze, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, D Electric Trees and Telephone Booth Conversations, FRAC des Pays de Loire, Carquefou, F Art Unlimited, Art Basel, 37, Basel, CH |
| 2005 | Broken Fall, Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, D concrete autumn, Galerie Jochum + Tissi, Berlin, D |
| 2004 | Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, D The Modern Institute, Glasgow, GB Adolf Luther Prize, Krefeld Museum, Krefeld, D Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland, CH |
| 2003 | Art Concept, Paris, F Undead Dreams, Roma Roma Roma, Rom, I Our Love is Like the Earth, the Sun the Trees and the Birth, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, CND |
| 2002 | Our Love is Like the Flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours, Tramway, Glasgow, GB For 1959 Capital Avenue, Museum für moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, D Martin Boyce & Toby Patterson, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, PL |
| 2001 | Martin Boyce, Els Hanappe Undergroound, Athens, GR |
| 2000 | Fear View, Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, GB Jerwood Gallery, London, GB |
| 1999 | Jacob Fabricius/Recent Projects, Copenhagen, DK When Now is Night, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, GB Round Room, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, GB Lotta Hammer, London, GB |
| 1998 | Habitat, Tottenham Court Road, London, GB |
| 1996 | Loggia Gallery, Toronto, CND You Are Here, Lime Gallery, California Institute for the Arts, Los Angeles, USA |
| 1995 | Something’s Got To Give, The Agency, London, GB |
Group Shows
| 2009 | Between the Days of Now and Then Martin Boyce, Fritz Levedag, Linn Lühn, Köln, D Material Intelligence, Kettle´s Yard, Cambridge, GB Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, GB |
| 2008 | We Burn, We Shiver. Martin Boyce and Ugo Rondinone, The Sculpture Center, New York, USA Open Plan Living. ArtTLV, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion & Gan Ya’akov, Tel Aviv, IL ... 5 minutes later, KW Kunst-Werke, Berlin, D Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century, New Museum, New York, USA |
| 2007 | Skulptur Projekte, Münster, D The Third Mind. Carte Blanche to Ugo Rondinone, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, F Jahresgaben 2007, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, D Minimalism and Applied, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, D |
| 2006 | Strange I’ve Seen That Face Before, Abteiberg Museum, Mönchengladbach, D Our Love is Like the Flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours, Installation, Tate Collection, Tate Britain, London, GB Street: behind the cliché, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL floating forms. abstract art now, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, D Life’s a beach, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, IL SeeHistory2006 – Schätze Bilden, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, D FASTER! BIGGER! BETTER! Signetwerke der Sammlungen, ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, D Draft Deceit, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, N |
| 2005 | Die Gute Form, curated by Gerold Miller, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, D Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, D spinnwebzeit – die eBay-Vernetzung, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, D NATURALIA. Collections sans frontières V. Œuvres des collections des FRAC du grand est, Futura, Centrum soucasného umení / Centre d’art contemporain, Prague, CZ B SHARP, Sammlung Haubrok, Berlin, D |
| 2004 | Formalismus, Kunstverein Hamburg, D Zwei oder drei Dinge, die ich von ihr weiß, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, D MOCA Miami, USA Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico (British Council Touring exhibition), MEX 'The Sculptural Sphere', Goetz Collection, Munich, D ‘Die Sammlung Boros’, ZKM Karlsruhe, D |
| 2003 | Lyon Biennale, F Adorno 100, Frankfurter Kunstverein, D Love Over Gold, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, GB Archibald Campbell and Harley Photography Prize, Stills, Edinburgh, GB Contemporary Abstraction, Glasgow Print Studio, GB 3D, Friedrich Petzel, New York, USA Sodium dreams, Bard College, New York, USA Special Dedicace, Rouchechouart Museum, F Mars - Art and War, Neue Gallerie, Graz, A Breathing the Water, Galerie Hauser&Wirth&Presenhuber, CH |
| 2002 | Martin Boyce, Martin Creed, Wilhelm Sasnal, Anri Sala, Johnen+Schöttle, Cologne, D Happy Outsider, zacheta gallery, Warsaw, PL This Building is, Exterior Projection, Hayward Gallery, London, GB Strategies against architectures 2, CAC Vilnius, LT My Head is on Fire but my heart is full of Love, Charlottenburg museum, Copenhagen, DK Non Places, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt & Roma Roma Roma, Rom, I Archibald Campbell and Harley Photography Prize, Stills, Edinburgh, GB Greyscale/CMYK, Tramway, Glasgow, GB When Now Is Night, Art Unlimited, Basel Art Fair, CH There is a Light that Never Goes Out, Galleria Sonia Rosso, I |
| 2001 | Here and Now, Aberdeen City Art Gallery, Aberdeen, GB Trauma, DCA, Dundee, Scotland; MOMA Oxford, GB G3, Casey Caplan, New York, USA Zero Gravity, Kunstverein Dusseldorf, D Open Country, Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, CH Circles, Galerie ZKM, Karlsruhe, D |
| 2000 | Pavillion, Galerie Mark Muller, Zurich, CH Future Perfect, Centre For Visual Arts, Cardif, GB A Shot In The Head, Lisson Gallery, London, GB Waiting, Mjellby Konstgard, Halmstad, S If I Ruled The World, C.C.A, Glasgow, GB What If, Art On The Verge Of Architecture and Design, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, S Can 303’s Heal, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki, FIN Beck’s Futures, ICA London, Corner House, Manchester, C.C.A, Glasgow, GB British Art Show, Touring Exhibition, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Cardif, Southampton, GB |
| 1999 | The Office Of Misplaced Events (Temporary Annexe), Lotta Hammer, London, GB Please Touch, SCP, London, GB Please Touch, The Lighthouse, Glasgow, GB Getting The Corners, Or gallery, Vancouver, CDN Furoshikibility, Fly Gallery, Glasgow, GB Disaster, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, GB Seven Wonders Of The World, publication curated by Matthew Higgs Word Enough to Save A Life Word Enough To Take A Life, London, GB In The Midst Of Things, Bourneville, Birmingham, GB Anarchitecture, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL If I Ruled The World, Living Art Museum, IS The Queen Is Dead, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, GB Slip Of The Mind, Centre Regional D’art Contemporain, Sete, F STOPSTOP (publication) Glasgow, GB |
| 1998 | Strolling, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, A Nettverk Glasgow , Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, N |
| 1997 | Material Culture, Hayward Gallery, London, GB Airport, Photographers Gallery, London, GB Group Exhibition, Lotta Hammer, London, GB Life/Live, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, P Wish You Were Here Too, 83 Hill Street, Glasgow, GB |
| 1996 | Brain Mail, Broad Studio 17, California Institute for the Arts, Los Angeles, USA Life/live, Musee D’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, F City Limits, Staffordshire University, Stoke-On-Trent, GB Wallpaper, CCA, Glasgow, GB No Tell Hotel, Moat House Hotel, Glasgow, GB Girls High, The Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, GB Transmissions, Free Parking, Toronto, CDN Fuse, Mclellen Galleries, Glasgow, GB |
| 1995 | Martin Boyce & David Allen, Mu-Tereem, Budapest, H Fairy Tales In The Supermarket, Scotland Street Museum, Glasgow, GB 30 Seconds + Title, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CDN New Rose Hotel, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, GB Hopeless, CCA, Glasgow, GB |
| 1994 | Institute Of Cultural Anxiety, ICA, London, GB Miniatures, The Agency, London, GB Modern Art, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, GB Wish You Were Here, The Bourse, Leeds, GB Difficult Relationships, 99 Gallery, Glasgow, GB |
| 1993 | Matter And Fact, Collection Gallery, London, GB Left Luggage, Traveling group project, Hanru’s home, Paris, F Home And Away, Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow, GB |
| 1992 | How Noisy Everything Grows, Upper Gulbenkian Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, GB Love At First Sight, The Showroom Gallery, London, GB L’u Di Carte, Cafe Picasso, Rome, I Contact 552 4813, Group show, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, GB |
| 1991 | Windfall, Seamen’s Mission, Glasgow, GB The Living Room, Glasgow, GB Speed, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, GB |
| 1990 | 5 Artists From Glasgow, Exchange between Transmission Gallery and Hordaland Kunstner Sentrum, Bergen, N |
| 1989 | Information, Paisley Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow, GB |