Bio
Born 1983, Toronto, CA
Lives and works in London, UK
Education
2003-2006
BA in Fine Art, Kingston University, Kingston, UK
2006-2008
MA, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2018
Steve Bishop, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (forthcoming)
2017
Seeing is forgetting what you're looking at or what it's called or something, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, DE
What Would It Be Without You, Talion Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2016
Insulated by the Boundary, And Now, Dallas, TX
You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To, presented by Supportico Lopez at 6817, Los Angeles, US
2015
Deliquescing, with Lock Up International, Big Yellow Self Storage / Hackney Wick, 51.5368147,-0.0257606, London, UK
Noclip, La Salle de Bains, Lyon, FR
Standard Ballad, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
2014
It’s Easier To Love Your Song Than It Is To Love You, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, DE
2013
An Escalator Can Never Break, It Can Only Become Stairs, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
2012
Buildings are Heavy, Supplement, London, UK
On Your Own Again, Artists Unlimited, Bielefeld, DE
2010
Sheer Fatigue, Christopher Crescent, London, UK
2009
Instant Distance / Distant Instance, Outpost, Norwich, UK
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2017
Shanaynay 2017, Shanaynay, Paris, FR
Condo New York - Bureau hosts Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
2016
How Deep is the Ocean, Shanaynay, Paris, FR.
An Idle Visitation, organized by AND NOW, Plaza Mercado, Santa Fe, US
Irony Comes From a Vanishing Point, Galeria Stereo, Warsaw
Ver lento, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, MX
2015
Finite Project Altered When Open, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, UK
City, William Arnold, New York, US
Limited Liability Corporation, Frankfurt am Main & LLC, Berlin, DE
Borrowed Alibis, Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zürich, CH
Minuit Vernissage / CINEMA SPECIAL, Grand Teatret, Copenhagen, DK
2014
In the Wake (curated by Julia Marchand), Truth and Consequences, Geneva, CH
Enigma, Minibar, Stockholm, SE
Fight (with Renaud Jerez), Center, Berlin, DE
Pre-Pop to Post-Human (curated by Isobel Harbison), Hayward Touring, UK
2013
From Morn Till Midnight, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, DE
To Clear The Bush Of Your Garden (with Richard Sides), David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Every bird brings a different melody to the garden (curated by Amy Botfield and Rob Dowling), No Format, London, UK
2012
Remainder (curated by Alex Ross), Hilary Crisp, London, UK
Technicolour Yawn (curated by Nadim Samman), Import Projects, Berlin & Karst Projects, Plymouth, UK
Painting Without Paint, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
2011
Performance Anxiety (curated by Nicolas Djandji), Stadium, New York, US
Steve Bishop & Dan Shaw-Town, Christopher Crescent, London, UK
Common Room (curated by Christopher Crescent), Pianissimo, Milan, IT
Studio Artists Group Show, Woodmill, London, UK
2010
Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Converse / Dazed Emerging Artists Award 2010, Stephen Friedman, London, UK
Newspeak: British Art Now Part II, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
New Panorama, Pianissimo, Milan, IT
The Devil’s Necktie, Woodmill, London, UK
2009
Ventriloquist, Timothy Taylor, London, UK
Grey Matter, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Awards, Grants, & Scholarships
2017
Exhibition funding, Botschaft von Kanada, Berlin
2015
Exhibition funding – Centre cultural canadien, France
2013
Residency – Fondazione MACC, Sardinia
2012
Residency – Artists Unlimited, Bielefeld
2011
Funding for Mono publishing project – The Elephant Trust
2011
Reuben Mackintosh - Travel grant
2010
Exhibiting finalist at Converse/Dazed Emerging Artist Award
2007
Villiers David Trust - Research & Travel Grant
Website
http://stevebishop.org
Bibliography
Selected Publications
2016
Paul Teasdale, “By the Boundary”, Frieze.com, August 2016 (interview)
Strangers' Guide to Home Territories, publication with Motto Books and Supportico Lopez
2015
This is tomorrow, David Price, “Standard Ballad”, February 2015 (review)
Hello, How May I Help You?, publication produced with La Salle de bains, Lyon
2009 - 13
Published the biannual paper Mono
2013
Gilda Williams, “An Escalator Can Never Break”, Artforum, April, pp. 269-70 (review)
You Don't Miss Your Water 'Till Your Well Runs Dry, 6 page project for Misery Connoisseur Issue #2
Focus II, publication produced with Beyond Entropy Mediterranean, Fondazione MACC, Sardinia
Karen Archey, “Post Materiality”, Kaleidoscope, Summer Issue #18, pp. 36, 41
Rob Sharp, “An Escalator Can Never Break”, Modern Painters, May, p.105 (review)
Chris Fite-Wassilak, “London Round-up”, Art Monthly, April, p.33 (review)
Alex Bennett, Interview, Part I & Part II, www.amodernmatter.com
Michael Heilgemeir, The Nomadic Studio, Edition Taube, Stuttgart, DE
2012
Laura McLean-Ferris, "The Air Medium", Mousse #36, Dec/Jan, pp.148-151 (interview)
Oliver Basciano, "Off-Space Travels - No.4: Supplement, London", Art Review, March, pp. 40-41
Martin Herbert, "Steve Bishop & Dan Shaw-Town", Frieze, Issue 114, Jan/Feb, p.136 (review)
2011
Art Review, Oliver Basciano, “Steve Bishop & Dan Shaw-Town”, Oct, p. 106 (preview)
Orit Gat, Artist Profile, Rhizome.org, Nov
Coline Millard, “Why Young London Works”, Modern Painters, Oct, p.86 (review)
Francesca Gavin, Laurence King ed., Despite Moments of Clarity There is No ‘Ism’ in This Book: 100 New Artists, London (pub.)