SUPPORTICO LOPEZ

Born 1977, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

Lives and works in London, UK

Education

Goldsmiths College, London, UK

Awards, Grants, & Scholarships

2014

Winner of ‘The Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award’ for Visual Arts

Residencies

2013

Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK

2012

Lenikus Artist in Residence Programme, Wien, A

2011

Zabludowicz Collection, Sarvisalo, FIN

2009

Henry Moore Institute Research Fellowship, Leeds, UK

2008

Feurig 59, Berlin, DE

2007

Expósito International Residency, Naples, IT

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2018

“Having you on”, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (forthcoming, June)

“Analogue LOL”, ShanghART, Shanghai, CN

2017

“Markers”, David Zwirner London, UK

Four Fucksakes, Herald St, London, UK

Taexths and Angeruage ,Portikus, Frankfurt, DE

2016

Lost True Leaves, Sightings: Michael Dean, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, US

Stamen Papers, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, IT

Sic Glyphs, South London Gallery, London, UK

2015

Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, BR

Albert the kid is ghosting, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK

look at them fucking laughing, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, DE

With This Is Eyes Is Looks Defaultly On, Rond-Point Projects Room, Marseille, FR

Jumping Bones, Extra City Kunsthal Antwerp, Antwerp, BE

Qualities of Violence, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL

2014

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, DE

Dans l’attente d’autre chose (meanwhile, this is it), Aimable, Paris, FR

Uo, with Henri Chopin, Focus – Art Basel, Basel, under the auspices of Supportico Lopez, R12

Sharing Space, with Fred Sandback, David Zwirner, London

2013

The Introduction of Muscle, Arnolfini, Bristol

nnnhnnh nnh nnhnnnhu nnhnhn, Pied-à-terre, San Francisco, USA

(Untitled), Mendes Wood, Sao Paolo, BR

Hah Ahahahahaha ha Hahaha, Herald Street, London, UK

2012

Thoughts, curated by Jamie Stevens Cubitt, London, UK

architecture of a mothers arms, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, DE

Government, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK

2011

State of being in space, Kunstverein Freiburg, DE

Acts of Grass, Serpentine Gallery (Pavilion), London, UK

Food, About Painting, ABC, Berlin, DE

Our Daily Permanence, MAK. Austrian Museum of Applied Art, Wien, A (Fruit Flowers and Clouds)

The Colour of Public, KIM? Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, LV

Cope, Herald Street, London, UK

2010

Our Daily Permanence, Nomas Foundation, Rome, IT

The Look of Touch, Lorcan O’neil, Rome, IT

Face, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, DE

Symmetry of Intimacy, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

The Floor is the Object, INDEPENDENT, New York, US

Tolerance, Scaramouche, New York, US

2009

Dialogue, FRAME/Frieze, under the auspices of Supportico Lopez, London, UK

Near to no attention to fears and without anything between the opposite of tears, works|projects, Bristol, UK

2008

Her body in the same place as my body, Alessandro De March, Milan, IT

You cant reflect in the distance and you dont reflect distances towards you closing, curated by Gigiotto Del Vecchio, Feurig59, Berlin, DE

2007

All the trees bend this way, Guestroom, London, UK

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2018

Give Up the Ghost, Baltic Triennial, Center for Contemporary Arts Estonia, Tallinn, EST (forthcoming, June)

2017

Markers, David Zwirner, London, UK

Skulptur Projekte, Münster, DE

More than just words, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, AT

2016

Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London, UK

The Language of Things, Public Art Fund - City Hall Park, New York, US

Pierre Guyotat: La matière de nos œuvres, Galerie Azzedine Alaïa, Paris, FR

Sighs Trapped by Liars – Language in Art, Künstlerhaus- Halle für Kunst & Medien, Austria

2015

Qwaypurlake, Hauser&Wirth Somerset, Bruton, UK

Safe, HOME (former Cornerhouse), Manchester, UK

Albert the kid is ghosting, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK

Speaking Part, Raven Row, London, UK

Anche le sculture muoiono, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, IT - Curated by Lorenzo Benedetti

The Registry of Promise: The Promise of Literature, Soothsaying and Speaking in Tongues, De Kabinetten van de Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL

Beautiful Monsters, Gladstone Gallery, 24th Street, New York, US – Curated by Douglas Fogle Till the Stars turn cold, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow, UK

2014

The Word Today Serves No One Except To Say To The Grocer Give Me A Pound Of Lentils, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, DE

Mirror City, Hayward Gallery London, London, UK – Curated by Stephanie Rosenthal

Itself Not So, Lisa Cooley, New York – Curated by Rachel Valinsky

Essential Loneliness, Taylor Macklin, Zürich – Curated by Nikola Dietrich

The Mystic Gardener, Bonnefanten Hedge House, Maastricht – Curated by Paula van den Bosch (In collaboration with Maurice van Valen)

Till the stars turn cold, S1, Sheffield – Curated by Laura McLean-Ferris & Kyla McDonald

Le musée d’une nuit (script for leaving traces), Propos d’Europe 13, Fondation Hippocrène, Paris, France – Curated by Vincent Honoré

Hey, I´m Mr Poetic, Wysing Arts centre, Cambridge – Curated by Kathy Noble

Manners of Matter, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg – Curated by Chris Sharp

A Thousand Doors, Gennadius Library, Athens Curated by Iwona Blazwick OBE

Everything is About to Happen (An ongoing archive of artists’ books), Corvi-Mora and Grengrassi, London – Curated by Gregorio Magnani

Annals of the Twenty-Ninth Century, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, curated by Gareth Bell-Jones

To continue. Notes towards A Sculpture Cycle, Nomas Foundation, Rome – Curated by Cecilia Canziani and Ilaria Gianni

Bard girls can fly, White Flag Projects, St. Lois – Curated by Matthew Strauss

Mediating Landscape, Sala Murat, Bari – Curated by flip Projects

2013

taktilitet, Nils Stærk, Copenhagen – Curated by Nikolaj Stobbe

A History of Inspiration, as part of Nouvelles Vagues (New Waves), Palais de Tokyo, Paris – Curated by Adnan Yildiz

Museod’Arte (MAN), Nuoro, IT

2012

Pale Ontology, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, US

A Readers of Materials and a Writer of Forms, curated by Lucy Macdonald, MOT International, Brussells, BE

From Stavanger with love, curated by Chris Sharp Galerie Opdahl, Stavanger, NO

Accidentally on purpose, Quad, Derby, UK

Soundworks, ICA, London, UK

The Language of the Flowers and the Stars, curated by Andy Holden and Fiona Parry, Cubitt, London, UK

2011

Beyond the Fragile Geometry of Sculpture, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti De Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL

No colour in your cheeks unless the wind lashes your face, curated by Timothee Challiou, IOP, UK

Two Figures in Dense Violet Night, (with Becky Beasley) LIDO, St Leonard-on Sea, UK

Mind Games, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, US

We Will Live, We Will See, curated by Pavel S. Pyś, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK

A Fire in the Masters House in Set, curated by Jan Hoet Chapter, Cardiff, UK

Hieros Glyphos, curated by Jan Hoet, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer Antwerp, BE

Friendship of the peoples, Simon Oldfield Gallery, London, UK

Bold Tendencies, London, UK

The Responsive Subject, ICA, London, UK

Young London, V22, London, UK

The Dying Artist, ICA, organised by Ed Atkins and Siôn Parkinson, London, UK

Part Of The Process 4, Zero, Milan, IT

Nothing Personal, Marcelle Alix, Paris, FR

2010

The Daily Exhaustion: An Exhibition of Artist Publications, curated by Anouk Kruithof, The Future, Berlin, DE

Syndrome, curated by Francesco Pedraglio, Le Magasin, Grenoble, FR

Volume One: Prop, Events and Encounters. Theatricaility in Contemporary Sculpture , curated by Fiona Boundy, supported by the British Council, The HUB, Athens,GR

Undone: Making and Unmaking in Contemporary Sculpture, curated by Stephen Feeke and Sophie Raikes, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK

The Concrete Show, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, IT

Chasm, curated by Oliver Martìnez Kandt, The dictionary of received ideas, London, UK

Our Blindsides, with Beckey Beasley, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, UK

V, with Andrew Lord, Ancient & Modern, London, UK

Fade Into You, curated by Nicky Verber, Herald Street Gallery, London, UK

Sculpture also Dies (Les Sculture Meurent Aussi), curated by Lorenzo Benedetti, Kunsthalle Mulhouse, FR

2009

On Paper, curated by Thomas Fischer, Wendt and Friedmann GAlerie, Berlin, DE

Punctuation Marks: text and language in modern British sculpture, curated by Sophie Raikes, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK

Fallen, curated by Maurice van Valen, Jan Mol, London, UK

The Young People Visiting Our Ruins See Nothing but a Style, curated by Form Content, GAM Turin, IT

A Corpes & a Textes, curated by Francesco Pedraglio, La Galerie Noisie Le Sec, Paris, FR

Sculpture Show, curated by Ruth Claxton and Gavin Wade, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK

Black Sun, curated by Thomas Fischer, Souterrain, Berlin, DE

2008

35 Books from London, Salon fur Kunstbuch, Wien, AT

Rehearsal Room, FromContent, London, UK

Wednesday (Intervention Decoration), curated by Tabitha Clayson and Simon Morrissey, Foreground Projects, Frome, UK

Italia Italie Italien Italy Wlochy, curated by G. Del Vecchio, A. Rabottini, E.L.Scipioni, A. Viliani, ARCOS Museum of Contemporary Art, Benevento, IT

The Mythology Of Everyday Matters, curated by Francesco Pedraglio, Bilton, Centre for Contemporary Art, Red Deer, CA

Your Ramp My Slide, FormContent, London, UK

2007

Yours, curated by Francesca Boenzi, T293, Naples, IT

This is the time (and this is the record of the time), curated by Carlo Fossati, Simone Menegoi, BLANK, Turin, IT

2006

Picnic Area Dumb Interior, curated by Simon Morrissey, R O O M, Bristol, UK

The Social Ocean, Temporarycontemporary, London, UK

Selected readings and performances

2012

Selected Readings, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

Face. Performance as Publishing, Kunsthalle Basel – Curated by Manuela Schlumpf

2011

The Stone walls of yes and no (with Nadine Werner), Kunstverein Freiburg, DE

The doors effect describe your reply, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK

Selected Early Writing. The Responsive Subject, ICA, London, UK

N. A Dying Artist, ICA, London, UK

The Colour of Public, Kim? Centre for Contemporary Art. Riga, LV

Our Daily Permanence, MAK. Austrian Museum of Applied Art, Wien, AT

Fruit and Vegetables. Marcelle Alix. Paris, FR

2010

Our Daily Permanence. Nomas Foundation, Rome, IT

The Floor is the Object. The Hub, Athens, GR

Your face when I look at you. (Notes) Existential Territories, FormContent/BookWorks, London, UK

The Array of Rain. LISTE, Basel, CH

Symmetry of Intimacy. Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

V. Ancient & Modern, London, UK

The Array of Rain. Zero Budget Biennial, Rokeby, London, UK

The Array of Rain. Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK

The Floor is the Object. INDEPENDENT, New York, US

2009

Dialogue. FRAME, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK

2008

The machine of the machine of our hands. FormContent, London, UK

Three. Alessandro De March, Milan, IT

Two. FormContent, London, UK

One. Supportico Lopez, Naples, IT

Untitled. GuestRoom, London, UK

Public Collections

Walker Art Center, USA

Arts Council Collection, UK

Frac des Pays de la Loire, FR

Nasher Museum of Art, US

Bonnefanten Museum, NL

website

michaeldean.net

Selected artist's publications

2015

NOW LEAVES, Michael Dean, published by Book Works, London and Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (ISBN: 978-1-906012-71-7)

2014

Uo, Michael Dean, Berlin, Motto Books & Supportico Lopez, Edition of 500 (ISBN: 978-2-940524-22-8)

2012

Dialogue, Leeds, Henry Moore Institute

2011

Act of grass, London, Serpentine Gallery (ISBN 978-1-905190-45-4)

An Introduction to the Principles of Symmetrical Intimacy, Kunstverein Freiburg (ISBN 978-3-9811268-2-2)

N, Hedron Edition

2010

The Array of Rain, Leeds, Henry Moore Institute (ISBN 978-1-905462-31-5)

2008

November to November, Hedron Edition

Mirrors and Mirrors, (with Francesco Pedraglio) London, FormContent (ISBN 978-0-9559029-0-1)

2006

Mountains and triangles, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Forma (ISBN 0-9548288-3-6)

2004

Untitled, Zurich, Hedron Edition

Selected articles and texts

2015

Mihnea Mircan, "In Advance of an Erratum. Or in anticipation of Michael Dean's Jumping Bones", exhibition's text, Extra City, Antwerp,

2011

Mark Prince, On the resistance of objects, Art Monthly, November 2011

What’s next? 100 years of the Contemporary Art Society, Thames and Hudson, ISBN 978-0954707132

Paul Teasdale, Focus, Frieze Magazine, Issue 143, November – December 2011

Dietrich Roeschmann ” Nichts ist es nicht, was man sieht” Badische Zeitung, 10 October 2011

“Soon All Your Neighbours Will Be Artist” ESP1, Eastside project ISBN 978-1-906753-30-6

Lee Triming, Art in america. June – July 2011

‘Tango’, in conversation with Jason Dodge. Drawing Room Confession. Mousse Publishing. Issue 2 ISBN 978-88-96501-41-2

2010

Concerto di pietra e di corde vocali, Danilo Maestosi. Il Messaggero. 15 December 2010

UNDONE. Making and Unmaking in Contemprary Sculpture. Henry Moore Foundation. ISBN: 978-1-905462-32-2

Volume ONE: Theatricaility in Contemporary Sculpture. IF Architects. ISBN 978-960-99562-0-8

Charlotte Bonham-Carter, “Our Blindsides”, Review, Flash Art, September-October 2010

Chris Sharp, "Like a Whisper", Kaleidoscope June-July 2010

Fiduccia, Joanna: ‘Sculptures Also Die’ (Les Sculture Meurent Aussi), ARTFORUM, May 2010

‘Systems’, Contemporary Art Society, ISBN 978 0 951755075

2009

Tagliafierro, Marco: The Young People Visiting Our Ruins See Nothing but a Style, ARTFORUM (online)

I Giovani Che Visitano Le Nostre Rovine Non Vi Vedono Che Uno Stile, exhibition catalogue, GAM Torino ISBN978-0-9559029-2-5

A Corpes & a Textes, exhibition catalogue, La Galerie, La Galerie Noisie Le Sec, Paris, FR, p. 11

THE SCULPTURE SHOW, exhibition catalogue, Eastside Projects, p. 24

Glen, Colin: Review, Art Monthly, April 2009, p.31

Trigg, David: Review, Metro, 3 March 2009, p.19

New Work EXTRA, ArtWorld, April-May 2009, p.54-55

Polsinelli, Michael: Flash Review, Flash Art, March-April 2009, p.94,

Del Vecchio, Gigiotto: Emerging Artists, Frieze, January-February 2009, p. 111

Grulli, Antonio: Michael Dean, Flash Art, February-March 2009, p.274.

2008

Bria, Ginevra: Michael Dean,Exibiart, December 2008, p.32

Delux, Bertrand: Michael Dean, Zero, p.34

Del Vecchio, Gigiotto: Focus London-Artists Dictionary, Flash Art, p.90, October 2008

Glen, Colin: intervention/decoration, Art Monthly, p.30-31, June 2008

Exhibition Catalogue, Morrissey, Simon: Michael Dean, intervention/decoration Foreground Projects, p.6-7

Exhibition Catalogue: Michael Dean Italia Italie Italien Italy Wlochy, ARCOS: Electa,p.38-41

Pedraglio, Francesco: Calligraphic Formalism, Mousse Magazine, No13, p.108-109

Viola, Eugenio: Yours, Flash Art, February 2008, p.148

Riva, Caterina: Your Ramp My Slide, Velvet Magazine (London), January 2008, p.14-15

2007

Mountains and triangles, Grafik Magazine, March 2007, p.78

Selected writings

2011

Contemporary Sculpture: Writing and Interviews, ed. J. Kelly & J. Wood. Richter Verla

The Array of Rain. Modern British Sculpture, Royal Academy of Arts London. ISBN 978-1905711727

Selected early writing. The Responsive Subject, Mu.Zee. FormContent. ISBN 978-9081666527

2010

Physique. Novel. ed. A. Rowlands and M. Williams. Issue 3

Put. Every revolution has its own method. Walk. The Mock and other superstitions. ed. Francesco Pedraglio. Issue 3

2009

The Veils of Axaxaxas. Anecdotes as new theory. The Mock and other superstitions. ed. F. Pedraglio. Issue 2

2008

The Machine Of The Machine Of Our Hands. Blackletter. The Mock and other superstitions, edited by Francesco Pedraglio, Issue 1

Notes. A Certain Realism. The Mock and other superstitions, edited by Francesco Pedraglio, Issue 0