Biography
PAUL MCDEVITT
Born 1972 in Troon, Scotland
Lives and works in Berlin
EDUCATION
2007 International Artists Fellowships, Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Northumberland
2000-01 Saatchi Fellow, Artist in Residence, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
1999-00 MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
1997 Artist in Residence, Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, California
1992-95 BA (Hons) Visual Arts, Lancaster University
1991-92 Foundation Course, Jacob Kramer College of Art & Design, Leeds 2009
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS/ PROJECTS
2009
Bierstadt (with Cornelius Quabeck), Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Cant, Artspeak, Vancouver, Canada
Ecstatic Visions etc., Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam
Spastic with Cheer (with Heike Kati Barath), Kunstverein Schwerte
2008
A Journal of the Winds, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin
Bierstadt (with Cornelius Quabeck), Galerie Horst Schuler, Düsseldorf
Bierstadt (with Cornelius Quabeck), Dunckerstrasse 17, Berlin
2007
Solitary Figure in Landscape, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Guide Me, Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Northumberland
2004
Paul McDevitt, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
2003
Merge, Jerwood Print, Jerwood Foundation, London
The Horns of Moses, Habitat, Kings Road, London
2002
Lost Weekend, Galala, Fukuoka, Japan
2001
Half-Life, Hales Gallery, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
The Golden Record – The Sounds of Earth, The Collection, Lincoln, UK
Nus, Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Collection Art Foundation Mallorca, CCA Kunsthalle Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
2008
Chambres a part II, la Réserve Paris, 10 place du Trocadero, Paris, France
100 Years 100 Artists 100 Works of Art, A Foundation Gallery, London
Golden Record – the Sounds of the Earth, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
Supernatural, Kunsthalle Andratx, Majorca, Spain
Pendre la crémaillère, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin, Germany
Space to Draw, Jerwood Space, London
Art on the London Underground, Rochelle School, Shoreditch, London, UK, October
2007
Star Dust, Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne (MAC/VAL)
Cult Fiction, Hayward Gallery; touring to New Art Gallery, Walsall; Nottingham Castle, Nottingham; Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds; Aberystwyth Art Gallery, Aberystwyth; Tullie House, Carlisle, (catalogue)
Drawing 2007 Biennial Fundraiser, The Drawing Room, London
2006
Drawing Inspiration, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
The Starry Messenger: Visions of the Universe, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, (catalogue)
2005
Sonnenblume Titanic, Kjubh Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Ticker, carlier | gebauer, Berlin, Germany, (curated by Aurélie Voltz)
The Failure, Korridor, Berlin, Germany
Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Post Notes, ICA, London; toured to Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
Communism, Project, Dublin, (curated by Grant Watson)
2004
Implosion, Raum500, Munich, Germany
Pledge, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Germany, (curated by Dave Beech)
No-How, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh,
2003
Post It, Floating IP, Manchester
EU3–European Drawing, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
I want! I want! NGCA, Sunderland
Some Panoramas, Pump House Gallery, London
Arrangement: the use of flowers in art, Rhodes+Mann, London, (catalogue)
Please Take One, 39, London
Bad Touch, Keith Talent Gallery, London
Ponce, the Ship, London
Phillip Allen, Diana Cooper, Paul McDevitt, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland,
Tullie House, Carlisle, Angel Row, Nottingham
2002
Non-Plan, domoBaal, London, (catalogue) YesteryearNowadays, Hales Gallery, London
Air Guitar: Art Reconsidering Rock Music, MK G, Milton Keynes; Cornerhouse, Manchester, (curated by Emma Mahony, catalogue)
Neverland, Cell Project Space, London
Reverberator, Houldsworth, London, (curated by Michael Archer)
Lovely, Kohlenhof, Nuremberg, (curated by Andreas Oehlert)
2001
Please Use The Space Provided For Additional Information, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London
What's Wrong?, The Trade Apartment, London, (curated by Dave Beech)
Die München Sonne, Maximiliansforum, Munich, (with Declan Clarke)
Skuggspel Tullkammaren, Umeå, Sweden
The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2001, Jerwood Space, London, (catalogue)
Cheltenham & Gloucester College, Cheltenham
The Alberto Vilar Gallery at the Prince's Foundation, London
EICH Gallery, Hull
Teeth & Trousers, Cell Project Space, London
Freie Wahlen, (McDevitt, Purdy, Quabeck), Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany, (catalogue)
Saatchi Gallery Bursaries 1999-2001, The Saatchi Gallery at 30 Underwood St, London, (catalogue)
2000
Compilation, PLUS, Düsseldorf, Germany
Felt-Tip, Zwemmer Gallery, London
Hellseher, Projektraum Konkordiastrasse, Düsseldorf, Germany
The Armchair Project, Cinch, London
Assembly, Stepney City, London
McDevitt, Purdy, Quabeck-Bigger Monster Lover, Glasgow Project Space, Glasgow, Scotland
McDevitt, Purdy, Quabeck-Uptight (Outta Sight), PLUS, Düsseldorf, Germany
CURATED PROJECTS (with Declan Clarke)
2008
Coney Island HotDog Eating Championship (event), Galerie Ben Kaufmann, Berlin, Germany
video screening: films by Andreas Bunte, Sebastian Buerkner, Matt Calderwood, Declan Clarke, Annika Eriksson, Nick Laessing, Chris Shepherd, David Shrigley, Annika Ström, Dunckerstrasse 17, Berlin, Germany
Printed Project #9, The Call of the Wild is Now a Cry for Help, published by Visual Artists
Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
2007
Expect Nothing, Gallery for One, Dublin, Ireland
Feint publication Dublin, Ireland
2005
Matt Calderwood, Bj"rn Dahlem, Sophie von Hellerman, Ian Kiaer, Cornelius Quabeck, Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland
2002
Play it as it Lays-17 artists from Los Angeles, London Institute Gallery Millbank, London
2000
The Armchair Project, Cinch, London
Dust Up-Two Down, The House, Chelsea College of Art, London
PUBLICATION
2007
Cult Fiction Art and Comics, Hayward Gallery Publications
2006
The Starry Messenger: Visions of the Universe, Compton Verney
2005
Clarke & McDevitt present, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane
2002
Paul McDevitt-Piranesi Penguin Pool & other stories, Der Atom No. 3,
The Galleries Book, Royal Academy of Arts
Bambi, April, (poster)
Paul McDevitt 'Lost Weekend', Pocko Editions
2001
Tafelrunden, RischArt Produktion
2000
Parallel Lines, London Institute
BIOGRAPHY
2009
L'art, BON 15, Spring/Summer 09, p.29
Exposição, VEJA Sao Paulo, 18 March
2008
The Independent, Charlotte Crisps, January
Müller, Dominikus; Kunstrundgang, taz Berlin, 24 September, p.27
Reber, Simone; Der Charme von Charlottenburg, Der Tagesspiegel, 6 September, p.29
Boese, Daniel; ABC 123, artforum.com, 11 September 2008
Chrambach, Adam; Art Crawl: A Journal of the Winds, Exberliner, September
Stott, Tim; Clarke & McDevitt: Expect Nothing review, Art Review, March, p.168
Mania, Astrid; Grosszügige Geste, Artnet, 14 February
Charlesworth, J.J.; Space to Draw review, Time Out, January
2007 Smashing Pumkins, BBC Collective, 6th September
Fite-Wassilak, Chris; Cult Fiction, Frieze issue 109, September, p.193
Charlesworth, J.J.; Ka-Pow!: Cult Fiction: Art & Comics’, Art Review Issue 10 April, p.40
2006
‘Clarke & McDevitt Present’, Artforum, August
2005
Beech, Dave, ‘I Could’ve Been a Contender’, The Internationaler Pilot Issue, October, pp. 11-12
Humphrey, David, Miser & Now, Issue 7, pp. 22-24
Ho, Gitta, ‘Räume für Wirklichkeit’, Artnet, review of Ticker 9, July 21
Clancy, Luke, ‘Clarke & McDevitt present’, Modern Painters, July/Aug, review, pp. 108-109
Long, Declan, ‘From Despair to Where…’, Feint, Volume 1, Issue 2, pp. 3-6
‘Clarke & McDevitt present’, The View, RTÉ TV panel discussion, May 17
‘Summer Sights’, The Irish Times, April 14, pg. 3
‘Live Radio interview’, NewsTalk106, April 10
‘On-site at the Hugh Lane’, The Irish Times, April 9
O’Halloran, Robbie, Circa, Spring, review, pp. 110-111
Charlesworth, JJ, ‘Communism’, Art Monthly, No. 284, March, review, pp. 19-21
Stott, Tim, ‘Communism’, CIRCA Art Magazine Online
‘Communism’, The View RTÉ Television panel discussion, January 25
Dunne, Aidan, ‘Bursting the Art Bubble’, The Irish Times, January 25, pg. 16
2004
Kultureflash 101, ‘Paul McDevitt at Stephen Friedman Gallery’, November 10
Coomer, Martin, Time Out, No. 1785, ‘Paul McDevitt at Stephen Friedman Gallery’, Nov 3-10, review, pg. 57
‘Postcard’, Art Review, July/August, Volume LIV, pg. 110
Conrads, Martin, ‘No Future Revisited’, Zitty, 14, pg. 80
Eklund, Karin, ‘EU3’, Untitled, No. 31, Spring, review, pg. 73
2003
Charlesworth, JJ, ‘I want! I Want!’, Art Monthly, October, No. 270, review, pp. 33-35
McIntosh, Jackie, ‘Arrangement’, a-n magazine, October, review, pg. 7
‘Flora Historia’, Tank, Volume 3, Issue 7, pg. 155
Lack, Jessica, ‘Arrangement’, The Guardian, September 1, pg. 18
Hickling, Alfred, ‘I Want! I Want!’, The Guardian, review, August 27, pg. 24
Underhill, Emma, Factory DVD Magazine, Issue 2, interview
Hopwood, Alasdair, Sleaze Nation, Volume 4, Issue 26, May, pg. 124
King, Emily, 'Palm Reading', Frieze, Issue 73, March, pp. 48-49
2002
Kitamura, Katie, 'YesteryearNowadays', Contemporary, October, review, pp. 81-82
Blandford, Richard, 'Play it as it Lays', Frieze, Issue 69, September, pg. 112
Lack, Jessica, ‘YesteryearNowadays’, July 26
Charlesworth, JJ, 'Reverberator', Art Monthly, No. 258, Jul-Aug, pp. 33-35
Wilson, Andrew, 'Summer Reading (Lost Weekend)', Art Monthly, Jul-Aug, No. 258, pg. 54
Charlesworth, JJ, 'Play it as it Lays', Artext, No. 77, Summer, pp. 82-83
Ihara, Nathan, 'The Pocko Collection', LA Weekly, June 21-27
'Pocko', Flux, No. 30, April/May, pg. 23
'Gotta catch 'em all!', lab 03, Spring, pp. 20-21
Ward, Ossian, 'Seven days in LA', Art Review, April, Volume LIII, pp. 50-51
Fergusson, Ben, 'Lost Weekend - review', Art Review, Volume LIII, April, pg. 84
Gavin, Francesca, 'Weekender', Dazed & Confused, No. 88, April, pg. 169
'Monet und adidas', Fürther Nachrichten, March 21, pg. 25
Maucher, Ute, 'An der Oberfläche kratzen', Abendzeitung Nürnberg, March 21, pg. 15
2001
Hedge, Paul, 'Hard Labour', Art Review, Volume LII, Dec/Jan, pp. 46-47
'Art Under £500', Art Review, Dec/Jan, Volume LII, pg. 70
'Paul McDevitt - Observatory', Tank, Volume 2, Issue 7, pp. 72-81
Ward, Ossian, 'Paul McDevitt, ‘a 72-hour guy or a one minute man?', Art Review, Volume LII, October, pp. 59-60
Västerbottens-Kuriren, Umeå, September 7, pg. 1,5
'Last Chance - Art, Saatchi Gallery Bursaries', Evening Standard, August 3
'Breaking Down Barriers', Insight, Issue 2, pg. 27
2000
Creative Review, December, pg. 94
Ewald, Gudrun, ‘Hellsen ist eine Kunst’, Coolibri, October, pg. 50