SUPPORTICO LOPEZ

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

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.)