Jim Lambie (b. 1964) is an artist from Glasgow, Scotland, where he continues to live and work. The artist’s sculptures and installations reference music, often drawing from his own experience in the Glasgow music scene—particularly visible in the way his work has a rhythmic flow, and often noted in the titles that reference his favorite albums and musicians. The artist celebrates the ability of humble, everyday materials to transform a space into something new: which can be seen in his incorporation of found materials such as tape, record covers, paper, doors, and sunglass lenses. 

Throughout his career, the artist’s work has been exhibited at preeminent art institutions across the globe, including MoMA New York, the Royal Academy in London, TATE, and more. His work is included in numerous permanent collections including the Albright Knox Museum, Cincinnati Art Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, MoMA, among many others.

This Spring, the Peninsula New York will present a selection of works by the artist, including one of his Zobop floors  at 700 5th Ave, New York, NY, 10019. Zobop transforms a space using just one simple material: continuous lines of multi-colored vinyl tape, laid in concentric circuits of the room from its outside edges to its center. Each Zobop is unique in that it responds to the intricacies and individual architecture of the space it occupies. The original concept behind his famous Zobop was the question of how to fill a space without using any objects.