Margaret Salmon
Born in New York, USA, 1975. Lives and works in Kent, London and New York.
Education
| 2003 | M.A., Fine Art (Photography), The Royal College of Art, London |
| 1998 | B.F.A. (Photography), The School of Visual Arts, New York |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2011 | Margaret Salmon: Company, (curated by Susanne Stich), Void Contemporary Art Gallery, Derry, 12 April - 13 May |
| 2010 | Afternoons have to do with the World, Office Baroque, Antwerp, 12 December 2010 – 29 January 2011 |
| 2008 | Projects in Art & Theory, Cologne, Germany The Moon is Down, STORE, London, England Art Statements, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2007 | Margaret Salmon, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Margaret Salmon, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London |
| 2006 | Ramapo Central, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2012 | Coup Double, Frac Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France, 19 January-21 April 2012 |
| 2011 | Les Marques Aveugles, (curated by Katya Garcia-Anton and Emilie Bujes), Centre d'Art Contemporain Geneve, Geneve, 25 November 2011 - 22 Janaury 2012 Past Desire, (curated by Jürgen Tabor), Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria, 15 October - 4 December, Opening 14 October 2011. Livret III, (curated by Magalie Meunier of Irma Vep Club) Motive Gallery, Amsterdam, 9 September - 29 October 2011. 38 reasons why we still need Superman, (curated by Tim Crowley), UCCA, Beijing, China, December 2009 – December 2011 (24 month event in different locations). Spectrums of Light, (curated by Regina Barunke), Temporary Gallery, Cologne, 30 July - 3 September 2011. Now Showing 2, New Film and Video from the Arts Council Collection, at Hayward Gallery, London, Touring exhibition starting at Hayward Gallery in 2011. The Art of Narration changes with Time, (curated by Gigiotto del Vecchio), Sprüth Magers, Berlin, opening June 8, 08 June- 27 August Margaret Salmon, (curated by Dominic Molon), Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, 8 March - 27 March Elastic Frames, (curated by Corin Sworn), at Transmission Gallery, 8 February - 5 March |
| 2010 | Berlin Biennale, 6. Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin 11 June - 8 August 2010 (curated by Kathrin Rhomberg) AbbaraCadabra, Mardin Biennial, Mardin, Turkey, June 2010 (curated by Döne Otyam) Silver & Salt, The Sculpture Center/Anthology Film Archive, New York |
| 2009 | Return to Form, STORE, London Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong (with Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paul Chan, , Gilbert and George, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Andreas Gursky, Pierre Huyghe, Jeff Koons, Bertrand Lavier, Christian Marclay, Richard Prince and Wolfgang Tillmans) Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Leeds UK (UK Arts Council Show) |
| 2008 | Rooms Look Back, Rosa Barba, Ursula Mayer, Margaret Salmon, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel Intimacy, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Victoria, Australia Kunstverein Fur Die Rheinlande und Westfaalen, Dusseldorf Faces, GB Agency, Paris |
| 2007 | La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy You have not been honest: Contemporary film and video from the UK, Museo MADRE, Naples, Italy …what will be told of today tomorrow: KolnShow2, European Kunsthalle and Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany Raw, Irma Vep Lab, Chatillon sur Marne, France |
| 2006 | Archepology, Bureau Gallery, Manchester, England Printemps de septembre,Fondation Espace Ecureuil, Toulouse, France |
| 2005 | The Mind is A Horse (Part 2), Bloomberg Space, London |
| 2004 | New Contemporaries, Barbican Art Gallery, London, New Contemporaries, Liverpool Biennial, , Liverpool Stalker, Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago |
| 2003 | Summer Works, Alice Austin House Museum, Staten Island, New York Video Screening, Galerie Der Stadt Schwaz, Vienna, Austria Fair Play Video Festival, Play Gallery for Still and Motion Pictures, Berlin, Germany Video Screening 04, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria Photography for people, for us, Wallspace, New York Urban and Suburban Stories, V.T.O., London, England |
| 2002 | Beck’s Futures Student Film & Video Award Exhibition, I.C.A., London Holiday Shopping, Wallspace, New York Montebello Road, Wallspace, New York BIG Magazine’s New Jersey Issue, Bronwyn Keenan, New York Sledge, The Jam Factory, London |
Film Festivals
| 2010 | Ambulante Documentary Film Festival, Injerto Program, Mexico |
| 2007 | Depiction, perversion, repulsion, obsession, subversion, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, & the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands |
| 2003 | Portobello Film Festival, Westbourne Studios, London, England |
Awards/Residences
| 2007 | The Vincent 2007, Amsterdam, longlist |
| 2006 | Le Prix Giles Dusein, Paris, France MaxMara Women’s Art Prize, in association with the Whitechapel Gallery, London American Academy in Rome, Artist Residency, Rome, Italy Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Artist Residency, Biella, Italy |
| 2002 | 2nd Prize, Beck’s Futures Student Film and Video Award, I.C.A., London, England |
| 2000 | John Kobal Photographic Awards Exhibition, The National Portrait Gallery, London, England |
Selected Press and Publications
| 2011 | Gail Prentice, Review: 'Margaret Salmon: Company', Art Monthly, May, 2011 |
| 2008 | Gabriel Coxhead, ‘The Moon is Down’, Time Out London, September 10 Bettina Brunner, ‘Margaret Salmon’, Frieze, Issue 119 |
| 2007 | André Bazin; Raymond Carver; Zoë Gray; Nicolaus Schafhausen; Bina von Stauffenberg, 'Margaret Salmon', WdW Publishers, Rotterdam, 'You Have Not Been Honest. Contemporary Film and Video from the UK', (cat.)The British Council, London Christiane Hitzemann, 'Margaret Salmon / Max Mara Art Prize for Women', Style & The Family Tunes, December 6 'Portraits in Time, The Films of Margaret Salmon', Publ. by Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (Essay by Bina von Stauffenberg) Anonymous, 'MaxMara prize for women', a-n Magazine, March, p.20 Sarah Crompton, 'MaxMara’s drive to put art at the heart of society', The Daily Telegraph, January 6 Laura Gascoigne, 'Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman', The Times, January 23 Nick Hackworth, 'Out of the Ordinary', The Evening Standard, February 1 Rebecca Rose, 'A lullaby with resonance', The Financial Times, January 29 Margaret Salmon, 'Margaret Salmon’s best shot', The Guardian G2, February 7 Helen Sumpter, 'Review & Critic’s Pick', TimeOut London, January 31 Lisha Lilia Diu, 'Stella Loves', Stella, January 21 |
| 2006 | 'Printemps de septembre – Volume 3: Lignes Brisées/Broken Lines', Les presses du réel, Toulouse Anonymous, 'MaxMara Art Prize', Shattered Magazine, June, pp. 109-112 Anonymous, 'Film-maker first to win art prize', The Scotsman, January 26 Samantha Conti, 'Mothering Instinct', W Magazine, December, p.126 Brian Dooks, 'Mum’s the word for prize artist', Yorkshire Post, January 28 Andrew Dickson, 'Film-maker wins MaxMara Art Prize for Women', The Guardian, January 26 Sarah Kent, 'The art profile: Margaret Salmon', TimeOut London, February 15-22, p.36 Tom Teodorczuk, 'Film-maker wins women’s art prize', The Evening Standard, January 26 Iwona Blazwick, 'Unfathomable, repellent, delightful', _Guardian Review |
| 2005 | Lauren Cochrane, 'Artistic Endeavour', British Vogue, December 2005, p.82 Tom Morton, 'Celluloid portraits; time tears and suburbs; discord and repetition – Margaret Salmon', Frieze, Issue 90, April, p.96 Alice O’Keeffe, 'The new art, young, gifted, female', The Observer, October 23 |
Radio and Television
| 2006 | Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4, January 27 The Culture Show, BBC 2 Television, January 26 Arts Extra, BBC Radio Northern Ireland, January 26 Television News, BBC London Television, January 26 |