Phillip Lai
Born in Kuala Lumpur, 1969 Lives and works in London Education 1994 MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK 1993 BA Fine Art, sculpture, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK 1989 Foundation Course, Middlesex Polytechnic, London, UK Solo Exhibition 2023 For Caution, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong 2021 Drunken Sailor, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK 2018 In the Half Life, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong Spinning (with Peter Robinson), Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland, New Zealand 2016 Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK 2014 Besides, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK 2012 Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK 2009 Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK Introduction and Jargon, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK 2008 Open Container, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany 2007 A Metal Bar Fell on Someone's Head or Something, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy Free to Meet For Coffee Sometime Soon, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK 2000 His Divine Grace, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK 1997 Phillip Lai, The Showroom, London, UK (commissioned by The Showroom in collaboration with inIVA) Selected Group Exhibitions 2024 Transposition 1: Observing the Walking Patterns, Whistle, Seoul, South Korea 2023 Modern Art, Paris, France Phantom Sculpture, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK Ubiquitous no.14, Tube Gallery, Palma, Spain 2022 Water Being Washed Away, curated by Alessandro Rabottini, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria SSSSSSSSSCULPTURESQUE, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong Testament, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London, UK 2021 L’acqua, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy 2019 Yona Lee, Phillip Lai, Hany Armanious, Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia 2018 The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK Spinning (with Peter Robinson), Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland, New Zealand Fences & Windows, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK 2017 one second ago, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong 2016 Theories of Modern Art, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK Can I Step on It?, Galeria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy When Did Intimacy Begin Width, Jeffrey Stark, New York, NY, USA 2015 An Intervention, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton University, Southampton, UK 2014 Interior, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK Somewhat Abstract, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK 2012 London Twelve, City Gallery Prague, Prague, Czech Republic 2010 No Soul For Sale: A Festival of Independents (Mousse contribution, curated by Jonathan Griffin), Tate Modern, Turbine Hall, London, UK 2008 Seven Times Two or Three, Cubitt, London, UK 2007 Republic - L’est, London, UK In the Poem about Love you don’t write the word Love, Overgaden, Institute for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen, Denmark; and Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN, USA 2006 In The Poem About Love You Don't Write The Word Love, Artists Space, New York, NY, USA John Frumism, Phillip Lai, Paul Thek, Mike Nelson, Hotel, London, UK The Triumph of Painting, Part 6, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK If It Didn't Exist You'd Have To Invent It: A Partial Showroom History, The Showroom, London, UK 2005 In The Poem About Love You Don't Write The Word Love, CCA, Glasgow, UK Drawing Two Hundred, The Drawing Room, London Tannery Arts Exhibition, part of Artists Studios Open Weekend, Tannery Arts, London, UK 2004 Uscita Pistoia, SpazioA, Pistoia, Italy Strange Weather, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK Tag Team Experiment, two-person relay exhibition, alternative project space, Edinburgh, UK 2003 Drawing One Hundred, The Drawing Room, London, UK 2002 We Want Out, CityLights Project, Melbourne, VIC, Australia 2000 Senselessness-lessness, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland, UK Death Race 2000, Threadwaxing Space, New York, NY, USA Drawing Exhibition, Herefordshire College of Art & Design, Hereford, UK 1999 Cities on the Move, Hayward Gallery, London, UK Black Box, Angel Row, Nottingham; Artezium, Luton, UK New Video from Great Britain, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela; Museo Carillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico 1998 Black Box, Open Eye, Liverpool; Lift, London; Aspex, Portsmouth; ARC, Stockton-on-Tees, UK New Video from Great Britain, MoMA, New York, NY, USA Bed and Workshop, alternative space, Rennes, France Grey Area, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham, UK 1996 Deep Signal, Gasworks, London, UK Deep Signal, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK Off Camp/On Base (Pimple Life), Tokyo Big Sight Exhibition Centre, Tokyo, Japan I beg to differ, Milch, London, UK Update 96, The Old Turbine Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark 1995 Institute of Cultural Anxiety, ICA, London Fresh, Video Positive 95, Liverpool; Tate, London, UK 1994 Weirdos, SAGA Basement, Copenhagen, Denmark Fresh, ICA, London; CCA, Glasgow; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK Miniatures, The Agency, London, UK No Vacancies, alternative venue, Frankfurt, Germany Collections Tate, London, United Kingdom Arts Council Collection, London, United Kingdom Camden Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom Goss-Michael Foundation, USA Nomas Foundation, Rome, Italy La Colección Jumex, Mexico Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China