 I am interested in the rituals we employ in order to manage and create spaces and systems, and how we self-preserve through preserving the things around us. I make works that talk about the body and its habitat: the conditions of being, for being. For me these conditions or boundaries are always physical, virtual, administrative and contested. I ask myself how can ideas of care, management or affect be extended or imbued into a sculptural form? In this way the works are always somehow figurative. I was born in 1986 in Evanston, Illinois. I live and work in Amsterdam and Brussels. Education 2013 MFA, Piet Zwart Institute. Rotterdam, NL 2009 BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago US Residencies, Fellowships 2021 Starr Fellowship, Royal Academy, London, UK 2015-2017 De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL 2015 Triangle France, Marseille, FR Futura, Prague, CZ Solo and two-person exhibitions 2020 Figuration, Alma Sarif, Brussels, BE 2018 Retreat, Satoshi, Seggiano, IT 2017 Care and Rearing, Fluent, Santander, ES 2015 Find Yourself a Human Activity, Futura, Prague, CZ (with Perri MacKenzie) CHEW, Rond-Point Projects, Marseille, FR square shape faint aroma, Lodos, Mexico City, MX 2014 Real Snow, Pracownia Portretu, Lodz, PL (with Perri MacKenzie) Selected Group Exhibitions 2019 Inspections From Above, Lesage, BE 2018 Porcupine, Jan Van Eyck, Maastricht, NL (cur. Artun Alaska Arasli) B-Sides, Saloon, Brussels, BE Apres la pluie, la pluie, After Howl, Brussels, BE 2017 Deep State, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL The Life Intense, w139, Amsterdam, NL (performance) Jaguar, Fundación Botín, Santander, ES 2016 Project Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL 2015 Outrage #2, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR (cur. Joel Riff) Les Drames 3D Grillagés,Triangle France, Marseille, FR Percussive Hunter, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, TK (cur. Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk) 2014 An Evening in Three Acts, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL (performance) 2013 Alongside::D,A,K,A, Lodos, Mexico City, MX Nothing Could Be Slow Enough… TENT, Rotterdam, NL (cur. Arnisa Zeqo) 2012 Corso Aperto, Fondazione Antonio Ratti Como, IT (cur. Andrea Lissoni) Three Artists Walk Into a Bar..., De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, NL As Curator 2017- Kantine, Brussels, BE (with Perri MacKenzie) 2016 Whiskers by the Name of Lilacs, Galerie Rianne Groen, Rotterdam, NL 2015 Dead Gabber’s Society, Peach, Rotterdam, NL 2014 A Thousand Varied Uses, Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid, ES Public Collections Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL AVL Mundo, Rotterdam, NL Grants 2017 Working Grant - Established Talent, Mondriaan Fonds Production grant, Atelier Van Lieshout (AVL Mundo) 2014 Research & Development Grant, CBK Rotterdam 2013 Working Grant - Young Talent, Mondriaan Fonds Publications/Writing 2020 Qu€$£ions, Le Chauffage Magazine Perri and Kevin Go Large, Montez Press Radio NYC 2019 “Swallow the Spirit: Michaela Eichwald at dependance” Conceptual Fine Arts “This is Not a Hard Day: On the work of Monika Stricker” FR David 2018 “Wreal Wrappers Wrinkle” Pfiel Magazine, Montez Press 2012 The Choice is Yours, ed. Annie Ratti and Andrea Lissoni, Mousse Publishing 2011 “86% Pasolini” Supremir Moraleja, ed. Andrew J. Greene and Marion Ramos
Bibliography 2017 “Kevin Gallagher at Fluent, Santander” Mousse Magazine Larios, Pablo. “Kevin Gallagher” Deep State. Ter Borg, Lucette, “Nieuwe lichting De Ateliers maakt vooral dystopisch werk” NRC. 2016 Buehler, Melanie. “Visceral Upcycling: Kevin Gallagher, Nancy Lupo, Rebecca Stephany” Metropolis M. 2014 “Artguide Madrid: A Thousand Varied Uses at NoguerasBlanchard” Artforum 2013 Verwoert, Jan. “Faith to Facts: On the work of Kevin Gallagher,” Nothing Could Be Slow Enough Teaching 2020 Artist talk, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK Visiting tutor, LUCA - School of Arts, Brussels, BE 2019 Artist talk, LUCA - School of Arts, Brussels, BE |