SUPPORTICO LOPEZ

Born 1956, Oxford, UK

Lives and works in London, UK

Education

1975-78

Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK

1973-74

Vancouver School of Art, Vancouver, CA

1972, 1973

Banff Centre, Alberta, CA

Awards, Grants & Scholarships

2011

Contemporary Art Society Annual Commission with Nottingham Castle Museum

Shortlist Max Mara Prize 2012, UK

2010

Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists 2010-2013, UK

Arts Council Oxford/Melbourne Fellowship 2010, UK

British Council Berlin Exhibition Support, UK

2006

VASL Residency, Karachi and Gadani, PK

Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts, Individual, UK

2005

Becks Futures Prize, UK

2000

Professor, CCA Kitakyushu, JP

1999

London Arts Board Medium-scale Projects, UK

Arts Council England, Artists First Time Publications, UK

Production IIP, Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds, UK

1998

British Council Travel Award, New York, US

1997

British Council Vienna, Exhibition Support, UK

1994

Arts Council England, Research and Development Grant, UK

Solo Exhibitions

2017

Drift Rust, Herald St, London, UK

2015

Tate Britain Commission 2015: Christina Mackie, Tate Britain, London, UK

2014

Cycle 3: 
Christina Mackie and Matt Mullican, PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE

Colour Drop, Renaissance Society, Chicago, US

2013

The Judges III, Nottingham Castle Museum & Gallery, Nottingham, UK

2012

Painting the Weights, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK

Painting the Weights, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK

Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, CA

2010

Us, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, AU

The Judges, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, DE

The Judges, Jerwood Room, Oxford, UK

2008

Steal, In the Silent, Sonia Rosso, Turin, IT

2007

This that & the other, Herald St, London, UK

Art Now Sculpture Court, Tate Britain, London, UK (cat)

2006

How to Begin, I-Cabin, London, UK

Gadani Project, Gadani, PK

Five 06, VM Gallery, Karachi, PK

2005

I Can’t Help You, Herald St, London, UK

2003

Solo, Magnani, London, UK

2002

The Interzone, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK

2001

AC Project Room (with Katrin Asbury), New York, US

2000

Meanwhile, CCA Kitakyushu, JP (cat)

Forcing It, Magnani, London, UK

1999

AC Project Room, New York, US

IIP Intron Image Project, The Showroom, London, UK

1998

show 50, (with Mark Hosking), City Racing, London, UK

Group Exhibitions

2017

Neither, Mendes Wood DM, Bruxelles, Belgium

2015

Nobody Home, with Charlie Billingham, Giulio Delvè, Douglas Gordon, Natalie Häusler, Niels Trannois, Pentti Monkkonen, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, IT

DLA Piper Series: Constellations, Tate Britain Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

BP Walk Through British Art, Tate Britain, London, UK

2012

La Demeure Joyeuse II, Francesca Pia, Zurich, CH

Peer, London, UK

Ruby, curated by Eddie Peake, Gallery Vela, London, UK

2011

Fragmented Bodies, Tate Britain, London, UK

Has the film already started? Special Display, Tate Britain, Fragmented Bodies, Tate Britain, London, UK

2010

Sillabario, Nomas Foundation, Rome, IT

Molecular Etwas, Curated by Angela Bulloch, Kunstewerke, Berlin, DE

2009

The Knights Tour, De Hallen Haarlem, NL

All Art Now 1st International Video Festival, All Art Now, Damascus, SY

V22 Presents: The Sculpture Show, The Biscuit Factory, London, UK

Celebration, curated by Isabella Bortolozzi & Karl Holmqvist, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, DE

Hi, Low and In Between, curated by Matthew Day Jackson & Simone Subal, Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, NL

2008

Busan Biennale, Korea, curated by Tom Morton Roger Hiorns, Christina Mackie, Maaike Schoorel, Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL

2007

It starts From Here, De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill on Sea, UK

Love Me Tender, Tate Britain, London, UK

2006

Flutter, curated by Michael Readecker, The Approach, London, UK

British Art Show 6, Baltic, Newcastle, UK (touring)

5five, VM Gallery, Karachi, PK

Open day, Vasl International Artists Workshop, Gadani, PK

2005

British Art Show 6, Baltic, Newcastle (touring), UK

5 Sculptors, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, DE

Beck’s Futures, ICA, London, UK & CCA, Glasgow, UK

Inaugural, Herald St, London, UK

2004

Real World, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK

Concert in the Egg, The Ship, London, UK

2003

Still Life, Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile, UK

Black Box Recorder, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE

2002

There is a Light That Never goes Out, Villa Galvani, Pordenone, IT

Animations, Kunstwerke, Berlin, DE

2001

Animations, PS1, New York, US

City Racing, a Partial Account, ICA, London, UK

1999

Retrace Your Steps: Remember Tomorrow, Sir John Soane Museum, London, UK

OLDNEWTOWN, Casey Kaplan, New York, US

Sweetie – Female Identity in British video, British School at Rome, IT (touring)

1998

Common People: British Art between Phenomenon & Reality, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Turin, IT

How will we Behave?, Robert Prime, London, UK

Imperial College, London, UK

1997

Life/Live, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, PT (CAT)

Landschaft and Later, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, AUT

1996

Something Else, Curated by Kirsty Bell, Exmouth Market, London, UK

Against, 30 years of video and film, Anthony D’Offay, London, UK

1995

“Speaking of Sofas…”, London Electronic Arts touring program curated by Gregor Muir

1994

The Curator’s Egg, Anthony Reynolds, London, UK

Public Collections

Tate Collection, London, UK

Arts Council Collection, London, UK

British Council Collection, UK

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, IT

Nomas Foundation, IT

Selected Books and Exhibition Catalogues

2012

Monika Szewczyk, Christina Mackie, Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Chisenhale Gallery

2005

Rob Bowman, Becks Futures, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK

Alex Farquharson, British Art Show 5, Hayward Gallery, London

2004

Michael Archer and Suzanne Cotter, Real World, Modern Art Oxford, UK

2002

Ann Gallagher, Still Life, British Council, London and Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile

Penelope Curtis, The Interzone, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

2001

Christina Mackie, The Feeling of Being Found Out, CCA, Kitakyushu, Japan (artists’ book)

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Klaus Biesenbach (eds.), Animations, MoMA PS1, New York

2000

Colin Ledwith and Simon Morrisey, Black box recorder, British Council, London and Museum Ludwig, Cologne

1999

Jennifer Higgie, Intron Image Project, Arts Council First Time Publications & The Showroom, London

Francesco Bonami, Common People, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte, Turin

Francesco Bonami and Hans Ulrich Obrist (eds.), Dreams, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte, Turin

Cristiana Perrella and Maria Rosa Sossai, Sweetie – Female Identity in British video, British School at Rome

1998

Hans Ulrich Obrist, ‘Christina Mackie’, Cream, Phaidon Press, London, UK

1996

Laurence Bossé, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Carrie Pilto, Life/Live, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

Selected Press

2015

Jan Verwoert, 'Spell Bound' on Mimesis, Art and Alchemy on Frieze, Issue 173, Sept 2015

Ben Luke, ‘Artist Christina Mackie on Canada, Central Saint Martins and her new exhibition at Tate Britain’, London Evening Standard, 19 March

Adrian Searle, ‘Christina Mackie’s The Filters’, The Guardian, 23 March

Nicolas Forrest, ‘Tate Britian Unveils Christina Mackie Commission’, BlouinArtInfo International, March 26

J.J. Charlesworth, ‘Christina Mackie Sets Duveen Galleries Ablaze with Color at Tate Britain’, Artnet News, 2 April

2014

Allese Thomson, ‘Christina Mackie: 500 Words’, Artforum online, 16 June

Kirsty Bell, ‘The Weight of Things’, Art in America, September

2013

Wayne Burrows, ‘Christina Mackie, A-N online, 13 March

Rhea Dall, ‘A Constant Drift,’ Mousse, December – January

2012

Nicholas Cullinan and Christina Mackie, ‘1000 words: Christina Mackie’, Artforum, February

Isobel Harrison, ‘Christina Mackie: Painting the Weights’, Art Review, March

Christina Mackie, ‘Sculptors discuss sculpture’, Frieze, May

2008

Tom Morton, ‘Christina Mackie,’ Frieze, January – February, p.185

2007

David Barrett, ‘Christina Mackie’, Art Monthly, July – August

2005

Lizzie Carey-Thomas, Untitled, Summer

Louise Gray, ‘Christina Mackie: Project for ArtReview’, ArtReview, July

Sally O’Reilly, ‘One Atom That Was You’, Frieze, May

2002

Emily Pethick, ‘Christina Mackie’, Artext, Fall

Nancy Princenthal, Artist’s Book Beat, art on Paper, vol 6 no 3, Jan-Feb, 2002, pp.100.

Christina Mackie, ‘Friday Harbor’, Frieze (special project), March

2000

Pat Cadigan, ‘Insight’, Make, Issue 89

Mark Currah, ‘Christina Mackie’, Time Out, 3 May

1999

Laura Moffatt, ‘Christina Mackie’, Art Monthly, May

Stuart Shave, ‘Coded Creations’, I-D, April

1998

Jennifer Higgie, ‘Christina Mackie: City Racing’, Frieze, June – July

1996

David Barrett, ‘Something Else’, Frieze, September – October