Artist CV

Artist's statement

(b 1972GB. Lives and works in Consett)

Graham Dolphin frequently explores ideas around self-identification and idolism including an ongoing series of pieces inspired by fans memorial messages to dead rock stars and deceased celebrities. The objects and sites chosen for veneration are often arbitrary – a rock near the place Gram Parson's body was burned, the back door to Freddie Mercury's garden flat. These lines of enquiry have led to colourful, scrawled text works that are neither replicas nor facsimiles of original messages but form an ironic, apposite and, at times, fatalistic commentary on modern times in their own right.

Solo exhibitions

2016
Graham Dolphin, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland
2016
161 Feet (Lesser Free Trade Hall 1976), The Gallery Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne
2016
View Source, NGC, Sunderland
2014
Visual Drone (Unresolved), Stockholm Music & Art, Stockholm
2013
Come Together, NGCA, Sunderland
2013
RIP, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
2012
View, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
2012
What Is The Word, SEVENTEEN, London
2011
The Stars Will Remain Here, Regina Gallery, Moscow
2011
Work / Arbete, Växjö Konsthall, Växjö, Sweden
2010
Rock, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
2010
BURN AWAY FADE OUT, SEVENTEEN, London
2008
6 SHEET, SEVENTEEN, London
2007
REPEATER, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
2006
Thirty Three and a Third, Seventeen, London
2005
Everything in Vogue, mima, Middlesbrough

Group exhibitions

            On The Wall, National Portrait Gallery, London, touring to Grand Palais, Paris, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, EMMA Espoo, Finland

2018
Furniture By Artists: Chair, Chair, Chair, Lamp, Tablle, Bed. Sofa, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
 
 
2017
In The Pines - Slight Return, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
2016
On The Immense And The Numberless, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
2015
Absence (Looking for Hammershøi), David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
2014
This Is Our Music | This Is Our Art, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
2014
REVERB!, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, USA
2013
Tip Of The Iceberg, Contemporary Art Society, London
2013
Like Smokes Relates To Fire, SEVENTEEN, London
2013
Are You Alright? New Art From Britain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto
2012
I Wish This Was A Song, Nasjonalmuseet for Art, Architecure and Design, Oslo
Kith
and Kin II, National Glass Centre, Sunderland
2011
Thank You For The Music, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
2011
Nothing In The World But Youth, Turner Contemporary, Margate
Dubl
in Contemporary, Dublin
2010
Spasticus Artisticus, Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool
2010
Read Only Memory, Winkleman Gallery, New York
2010
PARTY!, The New Art Gallery, Walsall
2009
Mark Marking: Dots, Lines and Curves, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin
2009
Pattern Recognition, The City Gallery, Leicester
2009
Timecode, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
2008
Microwave 6, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York
2008
Material Culture: Recently Gifted Works, mima, Middlesbrough
2007
When We Build Let Us Think We Build Forever, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
2007
PLUS, Wiesbaden Musuem, Wiesbaden, Germany
2007
Film On Film, Berwick Upon Tweed Film and Media Arts Festival, Berwick upon Tweed
2007
Becks Fusions, ICA, London,touring to Dublin, Manchester, Glasgow
2007
Play Yourself, Gimpel Fils, London
2007
Harry Smith Anthology Remixed, Alt Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, tours to CCA Glasgow
2007
Citadel 1, DAvid Risley Gallery, London
2007
ULTRASONIC INTERNATIONAL II, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica
 
 
2006
Excess, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
2006
The Opposite of Vertigo , Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland
2006
Until It Makes Sense, Seventeen Gallery, London touring to Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
2006
Loewe, Take Me With You, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, touring to Mori Art Gallery, Tokyo
2006
You Shall Know Our Velocity, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
2005
ArtFutures, Contemporary Art Society, Bloomberg SPACE, London
2005
They call us lonely when we're really just alone, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne
2004
QSL, audio publication and temporary radio show, pub. mima, Middlesbrough
2003
Translator, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne
2002
Rapture: Art's Seduction By Fashion, Barbican Gallery, London (cat. pub. Thames & Hudson)
2002
The Mind Is A Horse, Bloomberg SPACE, London
2000
Felt-tip, Zwemmer Gallery, London
2000
Introduction Service, Zwemmer Gallery, London
1999
Kill Yr Idols, Laure Genillard Gallery, London
1999
Accelerator, Southampton City Art Gallery, touring to Arnolfini,
1999
Bristol, and Oldham Art Gallery (cat. Published by Arts Council)

Press & publications

Michael Jackson A Celebration, National Portrait Gallery, London 

Michael Jackson: On The Wall, catalogue, pub. National Portrait Gallery, London 

I Wish This Was A Song, catalogue, pub. Nasjonalmuseet for Art, Architecure and Design, Oslo 

Thank You For The Music, catalogue, pub. Kiasma, Helsinki 

Nothing In The World But Youth, catalogue, pub. Turner Contemporary 

Excess, catalogue pub Angel Row, Nottingham 

Thirty Three and a Third, catalogue pub. Seventeen Gallery, London 

Until It Makes Sense, catalogue pub Seventeen Gallery, London 

Loewe Take Me With You, catalgue, pub. Loewe, Madrid 

Everything in Vogue - Graham Dolphin, ed. Judith Winter, texts by Chris Townsend, Judith Winter, 

pub. Art Editions North, Sunderland and mima, Middlesbrough 

QSL, catalogue with audio CD, pub. mima, Middlesbrough 

Rapture: Art's Seduction by Fashion Since 1970, Chris Townsend, pub. Thames and Hudson, London 

Accelerator, catalogue, pub. Southampton City Gallery, Arnolfini, Bristol and Oldham Art Gallery 

Collections

Hugo Boss 

mima gallery 

Zabludowicz Art Trust 

Viktor & Rolf 

David Roberts 

Kevin Smith