GAVIN TURK

In 1991, the Royal College of Art refused Turk a degree on the basis that his final show, Cave, consisted of a whitewashed studio space containing only a blue heritage plaque commemorating his presence, ‘Gavin Turk worked here 1989-91’. Instantly gaining notoriety through this installation, Turk’s work has since been collected and exhibited by many major museums and galleries throughout the world.

Solo exhibitions include: Who What When Where How and Why, Newport St Gallery, London (2016), Yard, CCA Andratx (2015), Seven Billion Two Hundred and One Million Nine Hundred and Sixty-Four Thousand and Two Hundred and Thirty-Eight, The Bowes Museum, UK (2014), GT - The Project, Ecole Supérieure d’Arts Plastiques de la Ville de Monaco, (2013), Burnt Out, Kunsthaus Baselland (2008), Gavin Turk: Oeuvre, Tate Britain (2002), Copper Jubilee, The New Art Gallery Walsall (2002), The Stu Show, South London Gallery (1998).

Selected group shows include: Play Kortrijk Belgium (2018), Poor Art | Arte Povera: Italian Influences, British Responses, Estorick Collection (2017), In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive and You Were Full of Joy, Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester (2016), Fashion & Art Collusion, V&A (2012), Color in Flux, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art (2011), This is Sculpture, Tate Liverpool (2009), In the Darkest House There May Be Light, Serpentine Gallery (2006), Art Out of Place, Norwich Castle (2005), Independence, South London Gallery (2003), Face o : A Portrait of the Artist, Kettle’s Yard (2002) and Sensation, Royal Academy, London, Berlin and New York (1997). Reflex presented Gavin Turk’s first solo show in the Netherlands in 2019.

Courtesy Reflex Amsterdam