Biography Born 1967, Guildford 1989-1991, Royal College of Art Currently lives and works in London Forthcoming Exhibitions 2010 CAC Malaga, Spain Almine Rech, Paris Selected Solo Exhibitions 2009 Turkey Foil, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin Gavin Turk Ltd,Paul Stolper Gallery, London Jazzz, Sean Kelly, New York The Mirror Stage, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa 2008 Burnt Out, Kunsthaus Baselland, Switzerland Piss Off, Gallerie Krinzinger, Vienna Gavin Turk, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels 2007 The Negotiation of Purpose, GEM, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands, toured to Magasin, Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble Me as Him, Riflemaker Gallery, London The Font Project, Fine Art Society, London 2006 Last Year in Eggenberg (The Paradise Show), Schloss Eggenberg, Graz, Austria Wanted, The Suburban, Chicago Waste Not, Want Not, Galleri Veggerby, Copenhagen 2005 The Paradise Project, Schloss Egenburg, Austria Melange, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna Ha Ha Ha!, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris 2004 White Elephant, Sean Kelly, New York The Golden Thread, White Cube, London 2003 Spare Change, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin The Che Gavara Story, The New Foundry, East London Subsistence, Galleri Veggerby, Copenhagen Et in Arcadia Eggo, Roche Court, Salisbury 2002 Copper Jubilee, The New Art Gallery, Walsall 2000 More Stuff, Centre D'Art Contemporain, Geneva Gavin Turk fig-1 project, fig 1, London 1999 The Importance of Being Ernesto, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna 1998 The Stuff Show, South London Gallery, London 1996 Unoriginal Signature, Habitat, Kings Road, London Gavin Turk, (Part of British Art in Rome) Galleria D'Art De Crescenzo & Vesti, Rome 1995 Turkish, Aurel Schiebler, Cologne 1993 Collected Works 1989-1993, Denmark St, London A Marvellous Force of Nature, White Cube , London A Night out with Gavin Turk, Victoria Public House, Bapisha Gosh, London and Schiefer Haus, Cologne 1992 Signature, Bipasha Ghosh, London Selected Group Exhibitions 2009 No Show, Nicholas Robinson Gallery, New York, New York, USA Magritte and Light, Almine Recch, Paris, France Pop Life: Art in a Material World, Tate Modern, London, England 2008            Rock My Religion, Domnus Artium, Salamanca, Spain Presque Rein II, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, England Shaping A Space II, Mario Sequeira Gallery, Braga, Portugal Demons, Yarns & Tales: Tapestries by Contemporary Artists, The Dairy, London, England The Art of Chess, Sebastian Guinness Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Cancelled, Erased, and Removed, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York, USA 2007 Starstruck, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall Unfinished Syphony, Fine Art Society, London Freaks Show, Museum of Contemporary Art Lyon, Lyon 2006 In Between, Galleria Presenca, Portugal Beauty and the Beast, National Trust Stourhead Che Guevara: Revolutionary and Icon, Victoria and Albert Museum, London Dark Matter, White Cube Gallery, London Youth of Today, Shirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt Mima Draw, Middlesborough, Middlesborough 2005 Art Out of Place, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich Summer Exhibition 2005, Royal Academy, London London Calling, Gallerie Kaare Berntsen, Oslo, Norway 25th Annual Series - ICI New York Studio Events, New York The Stuff of Life, Bristol's City Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol Et Maintenant?, Crac space, Alsace Superstars, Kunshalle, Vienna M City, Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria 2004 Chaim Soutine, Happy Sailor, London The Christmas Exhibition 2004, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh Art 4 All, Tea Building, London The (de) Construction of Living, Odapark Foundation, Netherlands Paper Democracy, Edificio Cultura Inglesa, Sao Paulo, Brasil Printers Inc.: Recent British Prints, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester 2003 Bag Lady, Cell Project Space, London The Art of Reinvention, Hotbath Gallery, Bath Sculpture, London Institute Gallery, London Artlab Especial, Mobile Home, London FRESH: Contemporary British Artists in Print, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh Independence, South london Gallery, London Cool Lustre, Collection Lambert en Avignon, London Let's See the Nature in You, Pepperton Gallery, London 2002 It's Unfair, Museum de Pavilijeons, Netherlands Face Off, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop. Tate Liverpool, Liverpool Art Tube 01, Circle Line, London Second Skin, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds 2001 Teeth and Trousers, Ideal House, London Tattoo Show, Modern Art, London Summer Exhibition 2001, Royal Academy of Arts, London Conversation, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes Please Disturb Me, Great Eastern Hotel, London Dead, The Roundhouse, London Century City, Tate Modern, London 2000 In Memoriam, The New Art Gallery, Walsall Conversation, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes Ever get the feeling you've been…, A22 Projects, London Warning shots, Royal Armories Museum, Leeds Out There, White Cube2, London Ant Noises 2, Saatchi Gallery, London White Ass European Cowboys, Rob Malasch / Galerie Serieuze Zaken, Amsterdam Art at the Dome, Greenwich, London Psycho, Anne Faggionato, London 1999 Officina Europa, Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna Now It's My Turn to Scream. Works by Contemporary British Artists from the Logan Self Evident, Vaknin Schwartz, Atlanta Skin Deep, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Gronningen 1999, Charlottenbrog, Copenhagen Mode of Art, Kunstverein, Dusseldorf Multiple Choice, Mexico & Brasil Sensation, Brooklyn Museum of Modern Art, New York 1998 UK Maximum Diversity, Galerie Krinzinger, Benger Fabrik Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria Dinstinctive Elements: Contemporary British Art Exhibition, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea New Displays, The Canon Photography Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, London Bathroom, Thomas Healy Gallery, New York Cultivated, Feeringbury Manor / Firstsite, Colchester Drawing Itself, London Institute Gallery, London Heatwave, The Waiting Room, School of Art and Design, University of Wolverhampton; Shoreditch Camouflage 2000, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris 1997 Sensation, Royal Academy of Arts, London Material Culture, Hayward Gallery, London Renovate, Shoreditch Town Hall, London Dissolution, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London Mutants, Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris All of a Sudden II, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne 1996 Plastic, Richard Salmon, London; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol Other Men's Flowers, Aurel Scheibler, Cologne; The British School at Rome, Rome Private View, The Bowes Museum/Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Two Seconds. Nine Months, Bankside London Fuck Off, Bank, London Museum Vitale, Museum Schloß Morsbroich, Leverkusen All of a Sudden, Aurel Scheibler, Cologne Sex & Crime, Springel Museum, Hannover Works on Paper, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 1995 Young British Artists III, Saatchi Collection, London Mito [Myth], Museo Dell'arredo, Ravenna, Italy Hardcore (Part II), Factual Nonsense, London Other Men's Flowers, Icebox, Athens Beauty is Fluid, Dering Street, London Contemporary British Art in Print, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh Dissolution, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London 1994 Karaoke & Football, Portikus, Frankfurt The Shuttle, Kunstlerhaus Bethanian, Berlin The Fate Worse than Death, Hoxton Square, London Minatures, The Agency, London Other Men's Flowers, Factual Nonsense, London 1992 Seventeen, Greenwich Street, New York Molteplici/Cultura, Speaker Project, Rome The Tattoo Collection, Jennifer Flay, Paris London Portfolio, Karsten Schubert, London Il Mistero dei 100 Dollari Scomparsi, GioMarconi, Milan 1991 Clove Gallery Show, Clove gallery, London [Back to top]