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Biography
- 1964
Born in Glasgow, Scotland
- 1990-94
Studied at Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland, BA (Hons) Fine Art
Lives and works in Glasgow
Solo Exhibitions
- 2020
NORTHERN SOUL, Sadie Coles, London, England
- 2019
Wild is the Wind, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Zobop (Cerulean) Stairs, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Skin Shape, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY - 2018
Totally Wired, Franco Noero, Torino, Italy
Spiral Scratch, Pacific Place, Hong Kong
Both Ends Burning, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany - 2017
Electrolux, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
- 2016
La Scala, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
- 2015
Train in Vein, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Zero Concerto, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Sun Rise, Sun Ra, Sun Set, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan - 2014
Answer Machine, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland - 2013
The Flowers of Romance, Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong
- 2012
Shaved Ice, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
Metal Box, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany
you drunken me – Jim Lambie in collaboration with Richard Hell, Arch Six, Glasgow, Scotland
Everything Louder Than Everything Else, Franco Noero Gallery, Torino, Italy - 2011
Spiritualized, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Beach Boy, Pier Art Centre, Orkney, Scotland
Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, TX - 2010
Boyzilian, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France
Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Metal Urbain, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland - 2009
Atelier Hermes, Seoul, South Korea
Jim Lambie: Selected works 1996- 2006, Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, Belgium
Television, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK - 2008
RSVP: Jim Lambie, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Festival Secret Affair, Inverleith House, Ediburgh, Scotland
Forever Changes, Glasgow Museum of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Rowche Rumble, c/o Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany
Eight Miles High, ACCA, Melbourne, Australia
Unknown Pleasures, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan - 2007
The Prismatics, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
- 2006
Byrds, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Directions – Jim Lambie, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C
Jim Lambie P.I.L., Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan - 2005
The Byrds, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
Thirteenth Floor Elevator, Concentrations 47, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Shoulder Pad, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK - 2004
Mental Oyster, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Grand Funk, OPA, Guadalajara, Mexico
Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul, Turkey
My Boyfriend’s Back, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
Mars Hotel, Franco Noero, Sonia Rosso, Turin, Italy - 2003
Kebabylon, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland
Male Stripper, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
Paradise Garage, Moore Space, Miami, FL - 2002
Salon Unisex, Sadie Coles, London, UK
The Breeder projects, Athens, Greece - 2001
Boy Hairdresser, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Jim Lambie, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
Blank Generation, Jack Hanley, San Francisco, CA
Jim Lambie, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy - 2000
Black Gloss, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Sonia Rosso Gallery, Milan, Italy [cat.]
Fictional, Triangle, Paris, France - 1999
Weird Glow, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
ZOBOP, The Showroom Gallery, London, UK
Voidoid, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland - 1998
Ultralow, Video Screening Carnival, Soho, London, UK
Group Exhibitions
- 2020
Remix 2020, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
MY C ART OGRAPHY. The Erling Kagge Collection, Sala de Arte Santander, Madrid, Spain
- 2019
Surface Tension, Carolina Nitsch, New York, NY
Alan Kane: 4 Bed Detached Home of Metal, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, England
Artworks from the Videoinsight® Collection, The Art and Science Videoinsight® Foundation, Turin, Italy
The TURNER, The Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, Glasgow, Scotland
Chairs Beyond Right and Wrong, R & Company, New York NY
Reason Gives No Answers: Selected Works from the Collection, Newport Street Gallery, London, England
Cut and Paste | 400 Years of Collage, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern Two), National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Closer Look: Intimate-Scale Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA - 2018
Op art in Focus, Tate Liverpool, UK
Five plus Five: Sculptures of China and Great Britain, Haikou Hainan Airlines Sun & Moon Plaza, Hainan, China
ISelf Collection: The Upset Bucket, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK - 2017
Now, Today, Tomorrow And Always, An Arts Council Collection National Partner Exhibition, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
L’emozione dei COLORI nell’arte, Castello Di Rivoli - Museu D'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Attics of My Life, 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY - 2016
Implosion 20, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Bill Culbert, Dale Frank, Jim Lambie, TV Moore, Callum Morton, Michael Parekowhai, Gareth Sansom, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
I still believe in miracles., Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland
Artistic Differences, ICA London, UK
Collected, Pier 24, San Francisco, CA
VoidoidARCHIVE billboard project with Matthew Higgs, Glasgow International, UK
Generosity: The Art of Giving, The National Gallery, Trade Fair Palace, Prague - 2015
Devils In The Making: Glasgow School of Art & The Collection, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Eyes on the Prize, The Travelling Gallery, Various cities, Scotland
40 Years, 40 Artists, Lillie Art Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Platform, The Holden Gallery, Manchester, UK
Summer Exhibition 2015, The Royal Academy of Arts London, UK
Andy Warhol in the Closet, From Rosetta Barabino Collection, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genova, Italy
The Curves of the Needle, Baltic39, Newcastle, UK
A Secret Affair: Selections from the Fuhrman Family, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
20 Years of Collecting: Between Discovery and Invention, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Misappropriations, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
The Triumph of Love: Beth Rudin DeWoody Collects, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Color Fields, Bakalar & Paine Galleries, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
Schlaflos – Das Bett in Geschichte und Gegenwartskunst, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria
Private Utopia: Contemporary Works from the British Council Collection, Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan - 2014
Below Another Sky, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
Manic Panic, Shoot The Lobster, New York, NY
Spaced Out: Migration to the Interior, curated by Phong Bui, Red Bull Studios, New York, NY
ARCHIVE FEVER! Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
A MAN WALKS INTO A BAR…, Landshuter Strasse 49, Mainburg, Germany
Discordia, Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow, Scotland
Private Utopia: Contemporary Works from the British Council Collection, Itami City Museum Of Art, Itami, Japan; Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo; The Museum Of Art, Kochi, Japan (2014);
Contort Yourself, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, CA
That Petrolemotion, Metropolitan Art Society, Beirut, Lebanon
Mutant Moments And Memorabilia – Andy Warhol, Jim Lambie and Baldvin Ringsted, Voidoid, Archive at The Poetry Club, Glasgow, Scotland
You Imagine What You Desire: The 19th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia - 2013
You Are Here, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Somos Libres, MATE, Asociacion Mario Testino, Lima, Peru
Fading Nights, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
My Crippled Friend, Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus, OH
40/40, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, Scotland
A Conspiracy of Detail, Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
The Humors, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Something About a Tree, curated by Linda Yablonsky, The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
LAT. 41° 7' N., LONG. 72° 19' W, organized by Bob Nickas, Martos Gallery, East Marion, NY
Pull Down The Future, SWG3, Glasgow, Scotland
Beg Borrow and Steal, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Desert, CA
Cranford Collection. Out of the House, Sala de Arte, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain
Fading Nights, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany - 2012
Reliefs, Objects and Sculptures from the Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany
AKA Peace, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Take off your silver spurs and help me pass the time, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
Untitled (Works from the Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg Collection), Riverview School, Capcod, MA [cat.]
The Sculpture Show, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Look Now: Modern and Contemporary Art from Private Collections, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
Accrocharge, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany
you drunken me: Richard Hell collaborates with Jim Lambie, Glasgow, Scotland - 2011
Made in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Industrial Aesthetics: Environmental Influences on Recent Art from Scotland, Hunter College, Scotland, Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
Vanishing Points: Paint and Paintings from the Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL
Terrible Beauty – Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance, Dublin Contemporary, Dublin, Ireland, Scotland
The Sculpture Show, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland - 2010
Dwelling, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
The New Décor, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Altogether Elsewhere, Rodeo, Istanbul, Turkey
Selections from the Hara Museum, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Toyko, Japan
The Library of Babel/ In and Out of Place, Zabludowitz Collection, London, UK - 2009
Musical Paintings, Wurlitzer Art, Berlin, Germany
Saints and Sinners, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, MoMA, New York, NY
White Noise, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
Saint-Nazaire Biennale 2009: Le Sang d'un poète, Frac Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today, Tate Liverpool, UK
The Kaleidoscopic Eye: Thyssen-Bornemizsa Art Contemporary Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Il Giardino dei Lauri, Citta della Pieve, Italy
Beg, Borrow and Steal, The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
What Matters, Worchester Art Museum, MA
(re)Visions:(di)Visions, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI - 2008
Family and Friends, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Towada Art Project, Towada Art Centre, Towada, Japan
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection as Aleph, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
FILMS, (screening of Ultralow), Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
Color Chart, MoMA, New York, NY
Malcolm McLaren Musical Paintings, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin, Germany
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Musee D’Art Contemporarian de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Glasgow International, Glasgow, Scotland
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Centre, London, UK - 2007
Unmonumental, New Museum, New York, NY
Wild West, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Berlin, Germany
Fit to Print, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Melting Point, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
When We Build, Let Us Think We Build Forever, Baltic Gateshead, UK Substance and Surface, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
Domestic Irony. A curious glance at private Italian collections, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Off the Wall, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Half Square, Half Crazy, Villa Arson, Nice, France
Breaking Step, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia Reconstruction 2, Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, UK Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; travel to North Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami [cat.]
Passion Complex: Selected Works from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan [cat.]
Gallery Artists Summer Show, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
Ironie der Objekte, Museion, Bozen, Italy
Collezione La Gaia, CeSAC Caraglio, Italy
Breaking Step, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrad, Serbia - 2006
All Hawaii Entrées / Lunar Reggae, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
In the darkest hour there may be light, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
JaGGy-edge, The Traveling Gallery, touring Scotland
Among The Ash Heaps And Millionaires, Ancient & Modern, London, UK
How to Improve the World, British Art 1946-2006, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Life’s a Beach, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
absract art now – strictly geometrical?, Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
Strange Powers, Creative Time, New York, NY
IMPLOSION, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Gregor Schneider: Totalschaden/Total Damage, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
If it didn’t exist you’d have to invent it: a partial Showroom history, The Showroom, London, UK
This Is Not For You – Sculpture as Tropes of Criticality, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria - 2005
Post Notes, ICA, London, UK
Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France
Extreme Abstraction, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Post No Bills, White Columns, New York, NY
Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London, UK - 2004
54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Sodio y Asfalto: Arte Contemporáneo Britanico en Mexico, Museo Tamayo Rufino, Mexico City and Museum of Contemporary Art Monterrey, Monterrey, CA
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Drunk vs. Stoned, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise at Passerby, NY
Brand New Retro, Empire Bethnal Green
Ouroboros, CCA, Glasgow, Scotland
From Aural Sculpture to Sound by Ink, Galerie Art: Concept, Paris, France
Collage, Bloomberg SPACE, London, UK
Stalemate, MCA, Chicago, IL
Into My World, Recent British Sculpture, The Aldrich Contemporary Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Synth, Kunstraum B/2, Leipzig, Germany
Unplugged, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy - 2003
Love Over Gold, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Painting on Sculpture, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, NY
The Unhomely, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK
ZENOMAP, 50th Venice Biennale, Scotland Pavilion, Palazzo Giustiani, Venice, Italy
OUTLOOK, Athens, Greece
Tailsliding, Turku Art Museum, Finland; Brno House of Arts, Czech Republic
The Fourth Sex, curated by Francesco Bonami, at the Pitti Immagine, Firenze, Florence, Italy
Painting Not Painting, Tate, St. Ives, UK
Architecture Scmarchitecture, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Plunder, Culture as Material, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland
MART, Trento, Italy
Cut Out, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
I Got Ants in My Pants, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan
The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Objects in mirror are closer than they appear, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruche, Germany
Days Like These : Tate Trinniale, Tate Britain, London, UK
Silver Convention, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany
Grayscale/CMYK, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland - 2002
Hello, My Name is…, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Superlounge, GAle GAtes et al., Brooklyn, NY
Life is Beautiful, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
My Head Is On Fire But My Heart Is Full Of Love, Charlottenbourg Museum, Copenhagen [cat.]
Early One Morning, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Stedelijk Bureau, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Electric Dream, curated by Susan Hiller, Barbican Gallery, London, UK
Sudden Glory: Sightgags and Slapstick in Contemporary Art, California College of Arts and Crafts/CCAC Institute, San Francisco, CA
Tailsliding, Vilnius Centre of Contemporary Art, Lithuania; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tallin, Estonia; Centro de Arte de Salamanca (CASA), Spain - 2001
Superimposition, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
Between Object and Arabesque, Kunstallen Brandts Klaedesfabrik, Denmark
Here and Now, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK [cat.]
Functional Fictional, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany [cat.]
Tailsliding, British Council touring show; Bergen Centre of Contemporary Art, Bergen, Norway [cat.]
Silhouettes, Lenbachhaus, München, Germany [cat.]
Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN [cat.]
G3NY13, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, The LAB, San Francisco, CA
Schattenrisse, Städtische Galerie Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany [cat.]
Patterns: Between Object and Arabesque, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
I Love NY, Benefit show, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY - 2000
What if, curated by Maria Lindh, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Milan: Sonia Rosso Gallery
Electric City, The Lighthouse, Glasgow, Scotland
Off the Record, Bucknell Art Gallery, Pennsylvania, PA
Raumkörper, Basel Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland
Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
Heart and Soul, Los Angeles, Ca
The British Art Show 5, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Birmingham, Southampton, UK
herz aus glas, Parking Meters, Köln, Germany
Group show with Modern Institute and Clarissa Dalrymple, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA
Dream Machines, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Mapin Gallery, Camden Arts - 1999
Papermake, Modern Art Inc, London, UK
Matthew Higgs @ Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
Creeping Revolution, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Dots and Loops, Video Works Group Show, Rotterdam, Netherlands
“To be Continued…”, Walsall Public Projects [cat.]
Heart and Soul, Long Lane, London, UK
Silk Purse, Waywood Gallery, Newcastle, UK
New Art Gallery, Public works, Walsall, UK
The Queen is Dead, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, UK [cat.] - 1998
Lovecraft, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK
All or Nothing, La Friche Gallery, Marseille, France
Slant 6, Jacob Javits Center, New York, NY
Ultralow Video Screening, Carnival Cinema, London, UK
Host, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland [cat.]
The Modern Institute @ Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
Two Up, Property Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland - 1997
This is....These are, Kirsty Ogg, Norwich
European Couples and Others, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland - 1996
The World of Ponce, Southpark, Glasgow, Scotland
Brainmail, Broad Studio 17, Cal Arts, Santa Clarita, CA
Girls High, Fruitmarket Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Insanestupidphatfuctpervert, Cubitt Street, London, UK
Sick Building, Globe Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Insanestupidphatfuctpervert, Concrete Skates, Glasgow, Scotland
Art for People, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Kilt a Double, La Vigie Gallery, Nimes, France - 1995
Jonnie Wilkes, Jim Lambie, 115 Dalriada, Glasgow, Scotland
Sun Hung Low, Assembly Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
In Stereo, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Press
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2019The New Yorker -
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2019Garage -
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2018whiteboard journal -
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2015New York Observer -
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October 29,
2011Time Out New YorkReview: Jim Lambie: Spiritualized
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2011Artforum.comCritics' Picks: Jim Lambie -
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2011D MagazineTechno Colored: Jim Lambie at Goss-Michael -
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2011Art ReviewJim Lambie -
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2008Art ReviewJim Lambie -
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2004ArtforumReview: Jim Lambie -
May 1,
2003Flash ArtJim Lambie: Low Kick and Harp Bop
Publications
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Not Just For Me: A Sample of The Poetry Club
Jim Lambie
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Jim Lambie at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK, June 27 - October 19, 2014
Poetry by John Giorno, Richard Hell, Liz Lochhead, and Gerard Malanga
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