Graham DOLPHIN
British-born visual artist and sometime curator Graham Dolphin explores the concept of self-identification and idolism through meticulous and laborious processes of repetition, reordering and manipulation. Working in a variety of media – film, object, drawing, sound and text – his work draws parallels with religious acts of pilgrimage and the ‘fan’, whilst questing the cultural and economic values of art. His work has been included in exhibitions at BALTIC, EMMA, Kiasma, ICA, National Portrait Gallery, Grand Palais and DCA.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
2013
Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
2012
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
“View”, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
“What is the Word”, Seventeen, London
2011
“The Stars will Remain Here”, Regina Gallery, Moscow
“Graham Dolphin – Work / Arbete” – Växjö Konsthall, Växjö
2010
“Burn away, fade out”, Seventeen Gallery, London
“Rock”, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
2008
Galería Leyendecker, S/C de Tenerife
“6 Sheet”, SEVENTEEN, London
2007
“Repeater”, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
2006
33 1/3, SEVENTEEN, London
2005
“BOUDICCA Animate Collected, Exploded and Condensed”, David Risley
Gallery, London
“Everything in Vogue”, MIMA, Middlesbrough
2002
“Everyword In Vogue”, Five Years, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
“Furniture by Artists”, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
2017
“In the Pines”, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
2016
“On the Immense and the Numberless”, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
2015
“The Curves of the Needle”, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, UK
“The Secret Self”, Nest, The Hague, Netherlands
“Absence”, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
2014
“37 Pieces of Flair”, NewBridge Project Space, United Kingdom
“Exotica And 4 Other Cases Of The Self”, me Collectors Room Berlin, Berlin
2013
“Kith and Kin II”, National Glass Centre, Sunderland
2012
“I Wish This Was a Song”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
2011
“Thank You For The Music”, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
“Nothing in the World But Youth”, Turner Contemporary, Margate
“Terrible Baeauty: Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance”,
Dublin Contemporary
2010
“Chapter 16. Growing Pains”, Charles de Jonghe Contemporary Gallery,
Brussel
“Dirty Kunst”, Seventeen Gallery, London
“Party!”, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, West Midlands
“Spasticus Artisticus”, Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool
2009
Contemporary Culture – Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
Mark-Making: Dots, Lines and Curves – Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
Rotate – Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne Pattern Recognition – The City Gallery, Leicester
A Secret Understanding – Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
Drawing 2009 Biennal Fundraiser – The Drawing Room, London
In the Pines. – David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
Timecode – Visual Research Centre, Dundee
2008
Microwave 6, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York
The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place – Zabludowicz Collection London
MashUp – University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa
Harry Smith Anthology Remixed – Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA),
Glasgow
Yours, Mine, Ours – UECLAA – University of Essex, Colchester
ARTfutures 2008 – Bloomberg Space, London
2007
Case Study, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival Becks Fusions, Video Pod, Trafalgar Square, London
Plus, Museum Weisbaden, Germany (Vordemberge-Gildewart Award)
When We Build, Lets Think That We Build Forever, The Zabludowicz
Collection, BALTIC, Gateshead Ultrasonic International II, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles
2006
You Shall Know Our Velocity, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art,
Gateshead
Beyond the Valley, Beyond the Valley, London
2005
Seventeen Presents…, Seventeen, London
They call us lonely when we’re really just alone, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne
The Space Between the Sole and the Heel, Globe Hub, North Shields
Interference, The Great Unsigned, Waugh Thistleton Architecture, London