GRAHAM LITTLE
Born in Scotland, 1972
Lives and works in London
EDUCATION
1997-1998 Goldsmiths College, London, Associate Research, Fine Art
1996-1997 Goldsmiths College, London, MA Fine Art
1990-1995 Duncan of Jordanstone College, Dundee, BA Fine Art
(1st Class Painting)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
2008Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
2005Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
2003aspreyjacques, London, UK
2002Works on Paper Inc., Los Angeles, CA
2001griedervonputtkamer, Berlin, Germany
Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
2000aspreyjacques, London, UK
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011Among Flesh, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
2010Lebenslust & Totentanz a selection from the Olbricht Collection, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
2009The Associates, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK
Drawing 2009 Biennial Fundraiser, The Drawing Room, London, UK
2008WALL ROCKETS: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, curated by Lisa Dennison, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, toured to Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY 2009
2007Attention to Detail, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
Sublime: Experience and Perceptions in Contemporary Sculpture, Pilar Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain
Final Exhibition at 4 Clifford Street, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
2006The Souvenir Mine, Mizuma Action, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Multiplication, MAC Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Universidad de Chile,
Santago, Chile
New Trajectories I: Relocations: Recent painting, drawing and multi-media work from the Ovitz Family Collection, Los Angeles, Cooley Gallery, Portland
2005post_modellismus, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria (touring)
Girls on Film, Zwirner and Wirth, Germany
Works on Paper, Max Hetzler Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2004The Birthday Party, The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Collage, Bloomberg Space, London, UK
2003Portraiture, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Images of Society, Kunstmuseum, Thun, Switzerland
Not Everything, Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London, UK
The Moment of Fiction, Cooper Gallery DJCAD University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
Some Things We Like..., aspreyjacques, London, UK
Chocker Fucking Blocked, Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London, UK
2002Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, MoMA, New York, NY
Now Is The Time, curated by Kenneth Freed, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2001What if I Told the Truth? Cell, London, UK
Multiplication, The British Council, National Museum of Art, Bucharest; Muzeul de Arta, Brazov; Muzeul Brukenthal, Sibu
Tailsliding, The British Council, curated by Stephen Hepworth, touring exhibition commencing at Bergen Contemporary Art Centre, Norway
The Alan Woods Collection, Cooper Gallery DJCAD University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
Works on Paper Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Tatoo Show, modern art, London, UK
Hallucinating Love, curated by Gigiotto Del Vecchio, aspreyjacques, London, UK
Clean, W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2000Include me Out, Unit 6, 48 Provost Street, London, UK
The Songs I Like, Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany
Lets Get to Work, Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, curated by Gavin Wade; Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA; Rosenwald Wolf Gallery, University of Arts, Philadelphia, PA
www.blackandwhite.colour.3d.com, Gio' Marconi, Milan, Italy
Shadow of Glamour, One In The Other, London, UK
Paint Two, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK
Hard Candy, 42 Westbourne Gardens, London and Weiland Gallery, Berlin, Germany
1999Heart and Soul, 60 Long Lane, London; Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Painting Lab, Entwistle Gallery, London, UK
This Season, Laure Genillard, London, UK
Networking, P-House Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
DIN, 4 x 4, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ways of Living, RMIT, Melbourne; The Freak Brother, Paris; Tablet at Tabernacle, London, UK
coming up for air, Cooper Gallery DJCAD University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
Accelerated Learning, Lower Foyer Gallery, Dundee, UK
Readymade project, Wunderkammer, London, UK
1998dumbpop, Jerwood Gallery, London; LMU Gallery, Leeds, UK
new contemporaries 98, Tea Factory, Liverpool; Camden Arts Centre, London; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Clusterbomb, Morrison Judd, London, UK
Helen Beckman / Graham Little, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Art Futures, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK
1997Documentation 98, Hotel, Zürich, Switzerland
Cookie, Kingsgate Gallery, London, UK
Sweetie, Levi's Gallery, London, UK
Underworld, 52 Commercial Road, London, UK
Royal Society Portrait Painters, Mall Gallery, London, UK
1996Brave Art, SSA 'Mayfest' Exhibition, Glasgow, UK
1995Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh, UK
Cluster, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Exchange, Dundee University, Dundee, UK
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Museum of Contemprary Art, Los Angeles
British Council Collection
Zabludowicz Collection, London
Olbricht Collection, Berlin
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009David Trigg, MAP Magazine
2008Laura Mclean-Ferris, 'Exhibitionist: What to see this week', Guardian.co.uk
Bronwyn Cosgrove, 'Fashion's A-Z of 2009', The Telegraph
Focus London, Artist Directory, Flash Art, October 2008, p94
40 Artists under 40, Time Out, October 2008, p. 21
2007Model and Supermodel: The Artists' Model in British Art and Culture, edited by Jane Desmarais, Manchester University Press
2006The souvenir mine, Bijutsu, Vol.58, 2006, p.21 -213
Eliza Williams, 'Surface Beauty', Flash Art, May/June
2005'BritArt: the next generation', The Independent, 1 December
Sally O'Reilly, 'Graham Little', Modern Painters, September (illus)
100 Future Greats, Art Review, December 2005
Barry Neuman, 'An Interview with Graham Little',
Boiler www.boilermag.it
2004Matt Price, 'Mixed Paint, A Survey of Contemporary Painters', Flash Art, November - December (illus)
Nicoletta Cobolli Gigli, 'British Style', Arte, May, Numero 369, (illus)
2003'Graham Little', review in Kultureflash, November
Margaret Studer, 'Contemporary Art is a Big Draw', The Wall Street Journal, October 24 - 26, (illus)
Sally O'Reilly, 'Graham Little', review in Time Out, October 22-29 (illus)
Julia Royse, 'Graham Little', review in Elle, October, P 71 (illus)
Florence Hallett, 'Model Concept', interview in What's on in London, October 1, p27, (illus)
'Kunstmuseum Thun Gesellschaftsbilder', Praxis Magazin, October 1, (illus)
Konrad Tobler, 'Der unbestimmte Blick auf die Gesellschaft', Zeitung im Espace Mitteland, September 12, (illus)
'Austellungen', NZZTicket, September 11 - 17, (illus)
'Gesellschaftsbilder im Visier', www.moneycab.com, September 10, (illus)
'In bester Gesellschaft', Sontags Zeitung, September 7, (illus)
'Gesellschaftsbilder', Woz die Wochenzeitung, September 4, (illus)
'Leben und Leute', Zeitung im Espace Mittelland, August 23, (illus)
Laura Hoptman, Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, published in conjunction with the exhibition at MOMA QNS, New York
Barbara Pollack, 'Drawing Now: Eight Propositions', Art Monthly, February, p 35
Tim Griffin, 'Drawing now', Artforum, January
Simona Juracková, Britové obrazy a sochy vyrábejí', Mlada Fronta DNES, April 25, (illus)
2002Halle, 'Pampering the house, MOMA tries to wrest a zeitgeist from Drawing
Now', Time Out New York, November 7 - 14
Deborah Solomon, 'Pencil Revivalism', The New York Times Magazine, December 15
Mark Stevens,' Out of line, MoMA's exuberant survey of contemporary drawing rescues the genre from second class status', New York, December 16
Giancarlo Politti, 'Drawing Now?', Flash Art, December
Jyrki Vuori, 'Nuori brittitaide rullalautaili Turkuun', Turun Sanomat, November 18, (illus)
Graham Little, 'Self Portrait', Tema Celeste, September/October
Eliza Williams, ZOO, June
I-D Magazine, May
Tim Hitcock, 'Multiples of choice', Weekend FT, April
Claire Canning, Tank, March
2001Sissel Hamre Dagsland, 'Lek og moro i Kunstforeningen', Bergens Tidende, October 12, P 23 (illus)
Rachel Campbell-Johnston, 'How to get the needle', The Times, July 18
tailsliding, touring exhibition catalogue organised by The British Council, London; Colin Ledwith.
Multiplication, exhibition catalogue, The British Council, London;
Stephen Bury
Rachel Campbell-Johnston, 'How to get the needle', The Times, July 18
Morgan Falconer, 'Hallucinating Love', What's On in London, July 18-25
Alex Coles, 'Graham Little', Artext, May/June/July 2001
Yvonne Charitonidou, 'Treibhaus der Kunst', Bolero magazine, July
Helen Smithson, 'Brush Strokes', Ham and High, 25 May
Laura Gascoigne, 'Graham Little', What's On, 23 May
Paul Clark, Going Out, Evening Standard, 8 May
Cedar Lewisohn, 'Generation Games', ArtReview, May, pp. 34-37
2000Martin Coomer, Reviews in Time Out, 13 - 20 December
Louisa Buck, The Art Newspaper, December, no. 10
Gemma de Cruz, Artclub Magazine, Winter
Niru S Ratnam, 'Stealing beauty', THE FACE, December
Minnie Gastel, 'Se l'arte si ispira a un vestito', Donna, October, no.10
Nigel Prince, Zing Magazine, Summer
ST, 'Paint Too', The North Guide, May
1999William Packer, 'Dumb by name but not by nature', Financial Times, January 12
Alexandra Bradley, 'This Season', Art Monthly, December - January, no. 232
Patricia Ellis, 'Love and Rockets Virtually Virtual', Flash Art, March - April, no. 205
Gilda Williams, 'Heart & Soul, Art Monthly, September
The Fiona Interview, 'Just a Little bit different!', The Courier, Friday, November 19 Stuart Shave, 'This Season's Colours', i-D Magazine, December, no. 193
Martin Coomer, 'This Season' at Laure Genillard, Time Out, December 8-15
Alex Farquharson, 'Painting Lab', Art Monthly, April, no. 225
Mark Sladen, 'Painting Lab', Contemporary Visual Arts, issue 21, pp. 32-37
Richard Jevons, 'dumbpop', Flux, February / March, no. 11
The Times Metro, January 3
1998Tim Hilton, 'Dumb, dumber and dumbest', The Independent on Sunday, December 13
Sarah Kent, 'Dumb and Dumber', Time Out, December 9-16
David Barrett, 'dumbpop', booklet published by Jerwood Gallery, London
Sarah Kent, 'Dumbpop', Critic's Choice, December 9-16
John Russel Taylor, 'The Big Show: Dumbpop', Metro, January 2-8
i-D Magazine, August
William Feaver, 'new contemporaries 98, Liverpool', The Observer, July 12
William Feaver, 'Exhibition of the Week', The Observer, August 18
Bev Bytheway and Sacha Craddock eds., 'new contemporaries 98', UK: New Contemporaries (1998) Ltd.
'new contemporaries 98', Artclub, Summer
Helen Sumpter, 'new contemporaries 98', Big Issue, August 3-9
'new contemporaries 98', An Magazine, September
David Burrows, 'new contemporaries 98', Art Monthly, September
Celia Lyttleton, 'Pop Goes the Easel', Tatler, July, vol. 293, no. 7, p. 31
Sarah Kent, 'Sweetie', Time Out, June
John Beagles, 'Helen Beckman & Graham Little, The List, May 14-28
1998'Graham Little', Northern Exposure Magazine, September 3
Matthew Collings, 'Martin's Rhetoric', Modern Painters, Winter
Judith Jammers, 'Originell Statt Cool', Berliner Zeitung, August 27
'Exit Poll-D umbpop', The Independent, December 12
Lucy Ryder Richardson, 'Zip Codes', Evening Standard Magazine, June 12
PUBLICATIONS
2008WALL ROCKETS: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
Attention to Detail, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift, MoMA, New York
2005Vitamin D, published Phaidon Press
Valentina Sansone, Prague Biennale 2 expanded painting, published by Giancarlo Polti Editore
Works on Paper, Max Hetzler Galerie, Berlin
2003Laura Hoptman, Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, published in conjunction with the exhibition at MOMA QNS, New York
Madeline Schuppli Einfuhrung, 'Gesellschaftsbilder- Images of Society', published in conjunction with the exhibition at Kunstmuseum Thun, Germany
2001Tailsliding, published in conjunction with The British Council's touring exhibition