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Selected Works Exhibitions Biography Press

MATHEW HALE

Born 1962 in Swindon, Wiltshire, GB
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Los Angeles, California

Education

Winchester School of Art, 1981–82
Goldsmith College, London University, 1982–85 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2017
J KM H, Ratio 3, San Francisco (With Jordan Kantor)
A PICTURE AND ITS PRICE, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris

2016
NO RECTO || no verso, joségarcía ,mx, Mexico City

2015
5TH HELENA or ELECTIVE SURGERIES (PERKS OF RELINQUISHMENT) or SIRHAN SIRHAN or L’AMERICA or 1 + 1 NOT APPEARING = 2 or CANDLES IN THE WIND or 11 or MATHEW HATES BEING PHOTOGRAPHED BUT LOVES PORNOGRAPHY or SHUFFLE OFF THIS MORTAL COIL YOU CUNT or COSMAS UND DAMIAN or NEW WHITE NEW YORKER CARTOONS MADE IN L.A. or SHE DOES NOT LACK or 1000 SHIPS or THERE WAS SILENCE IN HEAVEN ABOUT THE SPACE OF HALF AN HOUR or TOPLESS TOWERS, P!, New York

2014
ALONE, LES VOICI À PARLER, CCA Kitakyushu, Japan

2013
MA THE WHALE, Ratio 3, San Francisco
MARIA UND JOSEF, abc Berlin, Berlin

2012
THE WELCOME STRANGER, Wentrup, Berlin
DER WILLKOMMENE FREMDE, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris 

2011
Modern Monday: Screening of "DIE MÜNZE", Museum of Modern Art, New York

2010
WACHT SCHATZ, Wentrup, Berlin
Frau Münze und Frau Münz, Münzsalon, Berlin

2009
Art Statements, Art 40 Basel
LE MONDE v DER MOND, The Narrows, Melbourne
DER MOND v LE MONDE, Peer, London

2008
JOURNAL MURAL, Galerie Jan Wentrup, Berlin
Taxi Stop FIJI, Institut im Glaspavilion, Berlin

2007     
TASUK! TSUKKU-SAN!, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris

2006   
BerlinFluorescent, Galerie Jan Wentrup, Berlin

2004
40 Pages from the Miriam Books by Mathew Hale, Walther Koenig Books, London, Rheinschau Köln
Make Me Mare, Mobile Home, London

2003
DIE STADT – LA CITTA‘ – THE MOTHER, DAAD Galerie, Berlin

2001
Miriam stealing and Miriam & William, Mobile Home, London

1988
Mathew Hale: Recent Work, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

Selected Group Exhibitions

2016
THOMAS DEMAND: L'IMAGE VOLÉE, Fondazione Prada, Milan
3rd ISTANBUL DESIGN BIENNIAL - ARE WE HUMAN?, Istanbul

2015
The Ultimate Vessel, Koppe Astner, Glasgow, UK
Pangrammar, P!, New York

2014
The Elephant Test, Lothringer 13 Halle, Munich
Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2013
In the Cut, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Southbank, Australia
Walkie Talkie, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris
Drawing Biennial 2013, The Drawing Room, London
ACCA, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia

2012
Mathew Hale, Collages, Espace de l'Art Concret / Centre d'Art contemporain, Mouans-Sartoux, France
The Poster Show, Carlier Gebauer, Berlin

2011
Fax, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Boston

2010
Panorama, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris
Friday 13th, Forgotten Bar, Berlin
There’s a tear in my beer, West Germany, Berlin
Fischgrätenmelkstand, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
Alles Berliner, Niels Borch Jensen Galerie, Berlin
2. UM-Festival für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Musik und Literatur in der Uckermark 
A moving plan B – Chapter ONE, The Drawing Room, London Art, Haas & Fuchs, Berlin
Berlin – Paris, Michel Rein, Paris
Katarina Burin, Mathew Hale, Matt Saunders, Ratio 3, San Francisco
Berlin Box, Kunsthalle Andratx, Mallorca

2009
Zeigen. Ein Audioguide durch Berlin, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
Appaloosa, The Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin (with Ulrich Hakel)
Maison pour Monsieur X, FormContent, London (with Katarina Burin)
private view, Städtische Galerie, Villingen-Schwenningen
Drawing 2009, The Drawing Room, London
Free Association, Gallery AREA 53, Vienna
Roots, Wentrup, Berlin
Prose pour des Esseintes, Karma International, Zurich
Wallis dies and goes to heaven…and the dark show returns as a ghost, Paradise Row, London

2008
Phoenix vs. Babel, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris
London Calling, Galerie Jan Wentrup –Temporary Space, London
With Love Dieter Rot, Viennabiennale 08, Offspace am Hundsturm, Vienna (Austria) 
Pleinairism, i8 gallery, Reykjavik (Island)
18, Center, Berlin
Honey Honig (In collaboration with Susan Morris), Auto Italia, London
The Dark Show, The Wallis Gallery, London
UNDERWOOD, Ballhaus Ost, Berlin
PAST-FORWARD, Project Space 176 / Zabludowicz Art Projects, London

2007     
Our Period, Mathew Hale and Susan Morris, Five Years, London

2005     
36 x 27 x 10, White Cube Berlin, Palast der Republik, Berlin
Pale Raman, Analix Forever, Geneva
Very early pictures, Luckmann Gallery, Los Angeles  

2004 
Chaim Soutine,The Happy Sailor, London

2003 
Biennale Venedig, Utopia Station, Venedig 
Bonobos, Niels Borch Jensen Galerie, Berlin
Addiction, 15 Micawber Street, London

2002     
Biennale Montréal 2002     
PizzaExpress Prospects, Essor Gallery, London 

2001     
The difference between You and Us, Five Years, London
My Friends, Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø

2000     
Sleight of Hand, Five Years, London
John, I’m only dancing, The Margaret Harvey Gallery, University of Hertfordshire, St. Albans

1999
Itinerants, The View Gallery, Liverpool
Sublime: The Darkness and the Light, Hayward Gallery, National Touring Exhibition of Arts Council Collection, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton and seven further venues in the UK

1998     
United in Death, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge

1997
On Boredom, Virtual exhibition on CD Rom, launched at the I.C.A., London (in co-operation with Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge)

1992     
Let Me Look, San Miniato

1990
Now for the Future, The Arts Council Collection, Recent Acquisitions, Hayward Gallery, London
River, Goldsmith Gallery, London 

1989     
Trigon ’89, “Aktuelle Kunst”, Neue Galerie & Künstlerhaus, Graz

1985     
85° Show, Serpentine Gallery, London

1984     
New Contemporaries, I.C.A. London

Awards

Whitechapel Artists Award, 1987     

Collections 

Arts Council Collection of Great Britain