Born in Birmingham

BA, Staffordshire University, UK

MFA, Goldsmiths College, London

Lives and works in London, UK

The Great Perhaps, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY

Field Trip, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
Scene Inbetween, Nils Staerk, Copenhagen, Denmark

Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Time is over, time has come, Firstsite, Colchester, UK

Where it All Happened Once, Tramway, Glasgow, UK

Endless Bummer, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY

One Man’s Struggle to Struggle to Take It Easy, The Modern Institute at Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK

Nothing left, it's alright, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd., Glasgow, Scotland
One Man’s Struggle to Struggle to Take It Easy, The Modern Institute at Sadie Coles HQ

Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY

KEEP ON ONNIN’, Sculpture Court, Tate Britain, London, UK

What a Dude’ll Do, Nils Staerk, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland

RomaRomaRoma, Rome, Italy
The Shelf-life of Milk, The Showroom, London, UK

Nothing Original To See Here, Turnpike Gallery, Manchester, UK

O ENIGMA RISÍVEL DO QUOTIDIANO/ THE LAUGHABLE ENIGMA OF THE EVERYDAY, Arquipelago Centro de Artes Contemporaneas, Azores, Portugal

Double Act: Art and Comedy, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK

I hear your voice reflected in a glass and it sounds like it is inside of me, Carlier Gebauer Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Birmingham Show, curated by Ruth Claxton and Gavin Wade. Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK,
THE NOING UV IT, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway

Beautiful Monster, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece

0 to 60: The Experience of Time through Contemporary Art, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY; traveling to North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Krasj 0.1, Ninove, Belgium
Lost Boys, The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland

WONDERS- Masterpieces from Private Collections in Denmark, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark
Panem et Circenses, 83 Page Street, London, UK

Art Public, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL
Yes, we don’t, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
Niles Staerk, Copenhagen, Denmark

Rive Gauche, Rive Droite, Paris, France
Country Music, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA

Mapping the studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
TONITE, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow, UK
Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Suns Neither Rise Nor Set, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Trying to Cope with Things that Aren’t Human (Part 1), Cell Project Space, London, and Airspace Gallery, Stock on Trent, UK
Richard Hughes and Des Hughes, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA

Family and Friends, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Life on Mars: 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh
All Inclusive, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankurt
NOW: Selections from the Ovitz Family Collection, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Variable Capital, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Living London, 176, London, UK
All Inclusive. A Tourist World, Schirn Kunsthalle, Zurich, Switzerland

When We Build, Let Us Think We Build Forever, Baltic Gateshead, UK
Clarke and McDevitt Present: Expect Nothing, Gallery For One, Dublin, Ireland
Summer Show, Nils Staerk, Copenhagen
Re-dis-play, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Drawing 2007, The Drawing Room, London, UK

Goshka Macuga, A Foundation: The Furnace, Liverpool, UK
Among The Ash Heaps And Millionaires, Ancient & Modern, London, UK
deep into that darkness peering, Galerie KAMM, Berlin, Germany
Life’s a Beach, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Strange I’ve Seen That Face Before, Museum Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach, Germany
Summer, Nils Staerk, Copenhagen, Denmark
Beck’s Futures, (nominee), ICA, London; CCA offsite, Glasgow; Arnolfini offsite, Bristol, UK
If it didn’t exist you’d have to invent it: a partial Showroom history, The Showroom, London, UK

BRITISH ART SHOW 6, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead touring to Manchester, Nottingham, and Bristol, UK
The Pantagruel Syndrome, The Turin Triennial, Threemuseum Pala Fuksas, Turin, Italy
Nicole Klagsburn Gallery, New York, NY
The Addiction, curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers), Gagosian Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Closing Down, Bortolami Dayan, New York, NY
Bridge Freezes Before Road, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Ordering The Ordinary, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
Drawing 200, The Drawing Room/ Tannery Arts, London, UK
Herald St and The Modern Institute present, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY
Post Notes, ICA, London; Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN
Showcase, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland

Wider than the Sky, 117 Commercial Street, London, UK
Goldsmiths college graduates 2003, Mirko Mayer Galerie, Cologne, Germany
No More Reality, Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Genesis Sculpture, Domain Pommery, Rheims, France
Like Beads On An Abacus Designed To Calculate Infinity, Rockwell, London, UK
Granite, Whitechapel Project Space, London, UK
Tealeaf, Cell Project Space, London, UK

Corpa Nova, London, UK
Have A Go Heroes, Cell Project Space, London, UK
East International, (winner), Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK
BagLady, Cell Project Space, London, UK

Sitting Tenants, Lotta Hammer, London, UK
Allotment Archive, 125 Lambeth Walk, London, UK
Lilo2, ASC, London, UK

Blue Screen at Levi’s, Levi’s Store, Regent Street, London, UK

Glory Hole, 2 Magri Walk, London, UK
Artists Edition, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK

Away From Home, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK

Glitter, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK

On The Buses, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, Scotland
Young Parents, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK

Pulse, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK

Gift Rap, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK
No Exit, Visionfest, Liverpool, UK