Works

Biography

 

Born 1969, Goole Yorkshire, England

Lives and works in London

 

Solo Exhibitions

2012

Herald St, London, UK

Jack Chiles/208 Bowery Public Sign Residency

2008

The Penultimate Straw, Herald St., London, UK

The Trial Continues, Bortolami, New York

The Fisters/Scott King, European Championships of Graphic Design, Museum of Graphic Design, Breda, Netherlands

Pieces, Artist’s project, commission by Tesesco foundation, Pisa, Italy

Marxist Disco (CANCELLED), Munich Kunstverein, Munich

2006

Information, Bortolami Dayan, New York

Oh! Pylon Heaven, Sonia Rosso, Turin

‘And The Pylons Stretched For Miles’, Herald Street, London, UK

‘Scott King’, Frac Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkirk, France

2005

Statements, Sonia Rosso, Basel 36, Switzerland

2004

Scott King, Sonia Rosso, Turin, Italy

Scott King, Millers Terrace, London

2003

Issue Zero, CNEAI, Paris

Scott King, Supportico Lopez, Naples, Italy

2002

Scott King, Magnani, London

2000

Flatplan, Magnani, London

The Robin Hood Complex, Forde, Geneva

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2012

Bulletin Boards, Venus over Manhattan, New York

Point Systems, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein

Herald St, London

SNAP2012, Art at the Aldeburgh Festival, Aldeburgh, UK

2011

Herald St (with Matthew Darbyshire), London

Commercial Break, curated by Neville Wakefield, Venice, IT

Backstage Riders, former Tagespiegel building, Berlin

In Your Face, Showstudio, London

‘All of the above’, Carte Blanch à John M Armleder, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Scott King and Richard Serra, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis

2010

Newspeak: British Art Now, Part I, Saatchi Gallery, London

Newspeak: British Art Now, The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

So Be It: Interventions in Printed Matter, Roth Gallery, New York

A.D.D. Attention Deficit Disorder, Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary, Trevi, Perugia

2009

Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London

2008

100 Years, 100 Artists, 100 Works of Art, Rochelle School, London, UK

‘Nick Sanderson’, (curated by Scott King), Take Courage, London, UK

‘I Have (No) Issues’, Tracey Lawrence gallery, Vancouver, Canada

‘Sound of Music’ (selection from FRAC Nord collection), Espace 36, Saint-Omer, France

‘Neville Record covers’ NY

‘Blitzkrieg Bop’, Man & Eve, London, UK

‘All That is Solid Melts into Air / Winston’s Children’, Jeremy Deller and Scott King, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

‘Sympathy For The Devil: The Convergence of Art and Popular Music’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA

‘TEMPORARY EYESORE’, artist’s commission, Bankside SE1, London, UK (commissioned by the Architecture Foundation)

‘Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art’, Barbican Art Gallery, London

‘Sound of Music’, Marres CCC, Maastricht, Netherlands

‘Publish & Be Damned’, Ludlow 38, New York, USA

‘Pop Goes The Weasel!’, Badischer-Kunstverein, Karlsrhue, Germany

‘Good News For People Who Love Bad News’, Studio 495/Swiss Institute, New York, USA (curated by Gianni Jetzer)

2007

‘Left Pop’, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2nd Moscow Biennale), Russia

‘Scott King / Graphic Semantics’, Il Ju Art Space, Seoul, Korea

‘Sympathy For The Devil: The Convergence of Art and Popular Music’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA

‘Talk/Show’, Tranzit, Bratislava, Slovakia (curated by Stefan Kalmar/Daniel Pies)

‘The Sound of Music’, Kortrijk Museum, Belgium (travelling show)

‘Deaf 2’, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France (curated by Peter Coffin)

‘The Word In Art: From Futurism to the Present Day’, MART (Museo d’arte di Trento e RoveretoMuseo d’arte di Trento e Rovereto), Italy

‘Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now’, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

2006

’25×25′ Cerealart, Philadelphia, PA, USA, (curated by Matthew Higgs & Amie Scally)

‘Che Guevara: Revolutionary and Icon’, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

‘Defamation of Character’, PS 1, New York, USA (curated by Neville Wakefield)

‘Conversation Pieces’, Centre D’art Contemporain Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland

“People: Contemporary faces, bodies and signs from the collection of Ernesto Esposito’Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples, Italy

2005

Lee Brilleaux Memorial Bench, White Columns, NYC, USA

Et Maintenant?, Crac Alsace , France

Post No Bills, White Columns, NYC

Bridge Freezes Before road, curated by Neville Wakefield, Gladstone gallery, NYC

Inaugural, Herald St, London

Herald St & The Modern Institute present, GBE, NYC

Other People’s projects, White Columns, NYC

Regarding Terror: The RAF Exhibition, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany

2004

The Age Of Optimism, Kilchmann plus, Zurich, Switzerland

Communicate: British Graphic Design Since The Sixties, The Barbican, London

Inventory / Scott King/ Donald Urquhart presented by Wolfgang Tillmans, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany

Louder This Time, curated by Sonia Rosso, Pordenone, Italy

The Black Album, Antonio Colombo Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy

Power, Corruption and Lies, Roth Horowitz, New York

2003

The Unique Phenomenon Of A Distance, Magnani, London

2002

Framing My View, Galleria Maze, Torino, Italy

Air Guitar, Milton Keynes Gallery, GB

Face/Off, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, GB

2001

Part False Part True Like Everything, San Filippo Neri, Turin

2000

Etat des Lieux #2, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Fribourg

1999

How Shall We Behave?, Robert Prime, London

CRASH!, ICA, London

CRASH!, billboard, the Westway, London, commissioned by the ICA

Urban Islands, Cubitt, London

1998

London’s Burning with Boredom Now, billboard, Cubitt, London

1997

The Problem Is You, ICA, London

 

PRESS

Selected

Review, Mousse Magazine – Scott King at Herald St, June 2012

Art Review – Scott King and Matthew Darbyshire at Herald St, Summer 2011

Art Review – A Profile of Scott King, December 2010

The Guardian, U.K. – “Scott King: Top Marx,” November 2010

Review, New York Times – Scott King at Bortolami, Summer 2008

The Guardian, U.K. – An Interview with Scott King, March 2008