Steven Claydon_

Born in 1969, lives and works in London

Education

1997
MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins School of Art & Design, London.

1991
BA (Hons.) Fine Art: Painting, Chelsea School of Art & Design, London

Solo Exhibitions

2008
Osram and Omar, HOTEL, London
Independent Project Space, Bourneville, Birmingham
Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf

2007
New Valkonia, David Kordansky, Los Angeles

2006
Courtesy Of The Neighbourhood Watch, White Columns, New York
The Glidded Baum, Art Statement, Art Basel 37, Switzerland

2005
All Across the Thready Eye, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf
Fear of a Planet, HOTEL, London

2004
The Third of the Third, Hoxton Distillery London (Solo)

2000
Five works in lieu of a particle accelerator, two-person collaborative exhibition (with Neil Chapman), greengrassi, London

Selected Exhibitions and Events

2010
Goldene Zeiten, Haus der Kunst, Munich

2009
Remote Memories, Kai10, Düsseldorf, curated by Zdenek Felix

2008
Novel, Bibliothekswohnung Anna-Catherina Gebbers, Berlin
Homage to Modern Art, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan
The Ancient Set, Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London
Busan Biennial, Busan, South Korea
In Geneva No One Can Hear You Scream, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland

2007/8
Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring, curated by Steven Claydon, Camden Arts Centre, London

2007
Nueva Dimension, Hats Plus, London, organised by Dick Evans
Old School, Hauser and Wirth Colnaghi, London, travelling to Zwirner and Wirth, New York
Sympathy For The Devil, Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Chicago
New Valconia, David Kordansky, Los Angeles (Solo)
Come Into The Open, Opening Exhibition Projekt 0047, Oslo
Pale Carnage, Arnolfini, Bristol
Gallery Swap, Hotel at Guido Baudach, Berlin

2006
The Metal Bridge, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
Deep Into That Darkness Peering, Galerie Kamm, Berlin
Rings of Saturn, Tate Modern, London
Dereconstruction, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, curated by Matthew Higgs
White Columns, New York (Solo)
Keep Passing The Open Windows Or Happiness, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Statements, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Ossian Ward, Steven Claydon, a hybrid history of the avant-hard, The Art Newspaper, Basel, June 14
Writing the Strobe, Curated by Andrew Hunt, Dicksmith Gallery, London

2005
Time Lines, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westphalen, Düsseldorf
Flies Around the Fury Flotsam, Curators Space, London
Odiseado Tra Tempo, Peter Kilchmann Galerie, Zurich, curated by Charlotte Mailler
Jack too Jack, live performance, Portikus, Frankfurt
Paris – Londres: Le Voyage Interieur, Espace Electra, Paris, curated by Alex Farquharson
Jack too Jack, live performance, Inverleith House, Edinburgh
All Across The Thready Eye, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf (Solo)
Even a Stopped Clock Tells the Right Time Twice a Day, ICA London
Jack too Jack, live performance, Rio Cinema, London
Post no Bills, White Columns, New York
Clouds of Witness, Islington Town Hall, London
From Earth, film, Light Box, Tate Britain, London
Fear of a Planet, HOTEL, London (Solo)
Remixed Water, live performance, Manchester.

2004
Shades of Destructors, live performance, Prince Charles Theatre, London.
Shades of Destructors, live performance, Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York.
Shades of Destructors, live performance, Humanist society, London.
Live web-cast of sculpture at Show studio
The Last Supper, Group show, Hoxton Distillery
Remixed Water, remix collaboration with Lawrence Wiener and Ned Sublet
The Third of the Third, Hoxton Distillery London (Solo)
In The Gathering Darkness, contribution with Neil Chapman for ‘The Poster The Show 1,2,3...’, group exhibition Hoxton Distillery London

2003
Nibs. Group show curated by Steven Claydon, Hoxton Distillery, London
R.I.P. photographic contribution with Neil Chapman for the Box of the Uncanny, a multiple produced by Christine Walter, Munich.
Strange Greeny from The Sum of the Earth, video screening at Kunstwerk, Berlin
The Sum of the Earth, exhibition of sculpture, installation, video and sound, with Neil Chapman, Hoxton Distillery, London E8

2002
Grey Field Bulge/Tin Foil Blanket, contribution with Neil Chapman for The Poster The Show +1,
group exhibition Hoxton Distillery London

2001
Stepped Series In Response To A Nothing, contribution with Neil Chapman, group exhibition, The
Poster, The Show, The Hoxton Distillery London
It Grows Away, collaboration with Neil Chapman, The Hoxton Distillery London
Loud Like Nature, ADD N TO (X), installation and video, La Box, Borges, France

2000
One Geocrab, film screening as part of Night Stop Cinema, The Week of Small Miracles,, London
Five works in lieu of a particle accelerator, installation with Neil Chapman, Greengrassi, London

1999
The Opposite of a Good Idea, performance with Neil Chapman, Inventory, Volume 3, issue 2, launch, Guy’s Hospital London
ADDING N TO (X), installation and performance, February and April, Villa Noailles, Hyeres, France

1998
Shrimp-Ice Briefing, Live Arts Event, collaboration with Neil Chapman, ICA, London SW1, 30/5
ADD N TO (X) Dinner Music for Electronic Quartet, ICA London
Live performance of group composition to the film, Paper Moon, in collaboration with Barry Adamson, Nick Cave and Pansonic, Royal Festival Hall, London.

1998/99
Its A Curse Its A Burden, video installation in group show curated by Glenn Brown, Approach Gallery, London

1997
City Of Gold, Mister Chicks, Peripheral Visionary, Group Show, Eindhoven, Curated by Colin and
Lowe and Roddy Thompson, Holland, May.

Bibliography

2008
Tom Morton, ‘Back to the Future’, Frieze, Issue 117, September, pp.152-157
Sympathy for the Devil, Art and Rock and Roll since 1967, published by MCA Chicago, Ed. Dominic Molon
Tom Morton, ‘Strange Events…’, Frieze, Issue 113, March 2008.
Review of Strange Events Permit Themselves The Luxury of Occurring, Independent on Saturday, 12th January

2007
Keep on On’ing, Art Now, inc. Lizzie Cary Thomas essay, Tate publishing
The New Faces of 2008, Review, The Observer newspaper, 30th December 2007
Harbison, Isobel, Pale Carnage, Untitled, Issue 42, October 2007
Pale Carnage, edited by Martin Clark, Arnolfini
Day, Charlotte, Rings Of Saturn - Tate Modern, Art & Australia, Vol. 44, No.3, Autumn 2007, p.448

2006
Martin Coomer, Steven Claydon, Modern Painters, Dec 2006.
Dan Fox, Simon Reynolds, Music 2005, http://www.frieze.com/column_single.asp?c=293.
Publication for Dereconstruction, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, curated by Matthew Higgs
Jian-Xing Too, review of Le Voyage Intérieur at Espace EDF Electra, Paris, ArtReview,February 2006, p.109.
Alex Farquharson, Le Voyage Interieur, Pais –London, published by Pais Musées

2005
Tom Morton, Selection of 2005, Frieze, December.
Tom Morton, Publication for Even a Stopped Clock Tells the Right Time Twice a Day, ICA, London, August.
Catherine Wood, review of Fear of a Planet at Hotel, Frieze, September
Jessica Lack, preview of Fear of a Planet at Hotel, Guardian Guide, March 19 – 25

2001
Twinterview, Interview with Steve and Paul Claydon, Untitled, No. 25, Summer

Essays and Publications

2007
Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring, Filenotes essay, Camden Arts Centre

2006
The Gilded Beams/The Golden Bough, Art Statements, Basel

2004/5
‘Re-routing, remixed water’, introductory text, Bookworks

2003
‘Total All Out Water’, edition, box set, SHOWstudio.

2002
‘Architecture in Architecture’, Sleazenation.
‘Sometimes Leather’, Underwood Audio 2

2001
‘Autointerview’, with Neil Chapman,

1999
‘The Approach’, with Neil Chapman, Inventory, Vol. 3 Issue 3
‘The Opposite of a Good Idea’, Inventory Vol.3 Issue 2

1998
‘The Fullness that Fills up the Pulse of Durations: The Ambassadors’, CD Box Set, (collaboration with Chris Ofili)

1997
‘Carousel’, with Neal Chapman, pamphlet

Teaching Posts

Goldsmiths College, BAFA.
Visiting tutor Chelsea MA & St Martins MA