Ceal Floyer was born in Karachi, Pakistan. She lives and works in Berlin.

 

EDUCATION
1991-94
BA Goldsmiths College, London, UK

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019

Ceal Floyer, Kunsthal 44 Møen, Askeby, Sweden
Ceal Floyer: Things, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

 

2018

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany (2018–2019)

 

2016

Ceal Floyer, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, USA
On Occasion, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Swiss

 

2015

Ceal Floyer, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

 

2014

Ceal Floyer, Museion, Bolzano, Italy

 

2013

Ceal Floyer, Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany

 

2011

Things, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
Works on Paper, CCA, Tel Aviv, Israel
Ceal Floyer, DHC/ART, Montreal, Canada

 

2010

Auto Focus, Museum of Modern Art, Miami, USA

 

2009

Ceal Floyer, KW Institute For Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Gakona, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

 

2007
Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany

Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain

Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan, France

Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany

 

2006
303 Gallery, New York, USA

Lisson Gallery, London, UK

Swiss Institute, New York, USA

 

2005
Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany

Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy

 

2004
Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany

Waterline, Art Unlimited, Basilea, Swiss

 

2003
Again, Casey Kaplan, New York, USA

Peel, Portikus, Francoforte sul Meno, Germany

 

2002
Lisson Gallery, London, UK

X-rummet, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark (cat.)

Index, The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden

Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy

 

2001
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Inova: Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Massive Reduction, Peer, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, UK

Ceal Floyer (Matrix 192): 37’ 4”, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, USA

 

2000
Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy

 

1999
Casey Kaplan, New York, USA

Kunsthalle Bern, Berna, Swiss

 

1998
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

 

1997
Galleria Gianluca Collica, Catania, Italy

City Racing, London, UK

Herzliya Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

Lisson Gallery, London, UK

Galleria Primo Piano, Rome, Italy

 

1996
Galleria Primo Piano, Rome, Italy (part of “Artisti Britannici a Roma”)

Tramway Project Room, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art, London Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, USA

 

1995
Picture Gallery, Science Museum, London, UK

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019

Aichi Triennale 2019: Taming Y/Our Passion

 

2018

KNOCK KNOCK. Humour in Contemporary Art, South London Gallery, London, UK
Anders, Kunstmuseum Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany
Rehearsal, Tai Kwun Contemproary, Hong Kong, China
Rehearsal, Old Bailey Galleries, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, China
Møenlight Sonata – A homage to the starry sky of Møn, Konsthal 44 Møen, Askeby, Sweden
General Rehearsal. A Show in Three Acts from the Collections of V-A-C, MMOMA, and Kadist, MMOMA Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia

 

2017

The Transported Man, Broad Art Museum, Lansing, Michigan, USA
moving is in every direction, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
WAITING. Between Power and Possibility, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Poor Art | Arte Povera: Italian Influences, British Responses, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, UK
Mentally Yellow (High Noon), Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn and Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany

 

2016

Behind the Curtain. Concealment and Revelation since the Renaissance. From Titian to Christo, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
Manifesta 11, Zurich, Swiss
L’image volée, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
Unsettling Green, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany

 

2015

More Konzeption Conception Now, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

 

2014

The Event Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
The Part In the Story Where a Part Becomes a Part of Something Else, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Unendlicher Spass / Infinite Jest, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

 

2012

Explosion! Painting as Action, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Invisible: Art about the Unseen, 1957–2012, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany

 

2009

53rd Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

 

2007
Preis der Nationalgalerie für Junge Kunst 2007, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany

Half-Square, Half-Crazy, Villa Arson, Nice, France

Draw, mima, Middlesbrough, UK

Brave New Year, 303 Gallery, New York, USA

 

2006
ON/OFF, Frac Lorraine, Metz, France

Seeing Double, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, USA

The Shadow, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy

The Secret Theory Of Drawing, The Drawing Room, London, UK

Artificial Light, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, USA

5 Milliards d’Années, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

Nam June Paik Award 2006, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Colonia, Germany

As If By Magic, Bethlehem Peace Centre, Bethlehem, Palestine

Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai, China

Just Another Kind Of Rendez Vous, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany

The Known and The Unknown, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark

Group Show, Galleri MGM, Oslo, Norway

Nothing, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

La Monnaie Vivante, CAC Bretigny, Bretigny-sur-Orge, France

If It Didn’t Exist You’d Have To Invent It: A Partial Showroom History, The Showroom, London, UK

Wrong, Klosterfelde Linienstraße, Berlin, Germany

Reykjavik Arts Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland

Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany

 

2005
36 x 27 x 10, White Cube – Palast der Republik, Berlin, Germany

Radio Kills The Video Stars / Side A, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France

Not a Drop But the Fall, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany

EindhovenIstanbul, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Material Matters, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York, USA

Beauty So Difficult, The Stelline Foundation, Milan, Italy

Light LAB: Alltägliche Kurzschlüsse, Museion, Bolzano, Italy

The Stars are so Big, the Earth is so Small… Stay as you Are, Studio Manuela Klerkx, Milan, Italy

What’s New Pussycat?: Neuerwerbungen und Sammlung Ströher, MMK Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fundacion Marcelino Botin, Santander, Spain

Daumenkino: The Flip Book Show, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Slide Show, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, USA (cat.)

 

2004
Was ist in meiner Wohnung wenn ich nicht da bin?, Chodowieckistr 34, Berlin, Germany (cat.)

Densité Plus ou Moins 0, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris; Fri-Art, Fribourg, Swiss

Five Billion Years, Swiss Institute, New York, USA

Schöner Wohnen, Centre for Contemporary Art, Waregem, Belgium

9th Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, Fellbach, Germany

(Dys)Function, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden

Umedalen Skulptur 2004, Galleri Stefan Anderson, Umea, Sweden

The Stars are so Big, the Earth is so Small… Stay as you Are, c/o Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany

Around The Corner, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2003
Spiritus, Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden

Perfect Timeless Repetition, c/o Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany

Band Wagon Jumping, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK

Lapdissolve, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, USA

Centre Culture Swiss, Paris; Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany

 

2002
Sunday Afternoon, 303 Gallery, New York, USA

Colour White, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, UK

Liminal Space, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, USA

Tempo, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Four Women and One Pregnant Man, Galleri MGM, Oslo, Norway

Invitation, Museum für Moderne Kunst,Francoforte sul Meno, Germany

poT, The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, UK

travelled to: Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Loop. Back to the Beginning, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

40 Jahre: Fluxus und die Folgen, Kunstsommer Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany

Summer Cinema, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, USA

 

2001
City Racing 1988 – 1998: a Partial Account, ICA, London, UK

Nothing, NGCA, Sunderland. Touring to Contemporary Arts Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania and Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden

1, Witte De With, Center For Contemporary Art, Rotterdam & Museu De Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Media Connection, The Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy

Out of Bounds: Working Off Paper, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, USA

Passion, Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg & Berlin, Germany

Ingenting, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden

Loop – Alles auf Anfang, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Monaco, Germany

 

2000
Action, we’re filming, Villa Arson, Nice, France

Edit, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany

Crossroads: Artists in Berlin, Communidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Quotidiana, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy

Pompeiorama, Casina Pompeiana, Naples, Italy

Drive, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Video & Film, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, Florida, USA

La repetition, la tete dans les nuages, Villa Arson, Nice, France

Point of View – Works from a Private Collection, Richard Salmon Gallery, London, UK

Extra Ordinary, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA

Film / Video Works – Lisson Gallery at 9 Keane Street, Lisson Gallery, London, UK

A Shot in the Head, Lisson Gallery, London, UK

 

1999
Looking at Ourselves: Works by Women Artists from the Logan Collection, MoMA, San Francisco, USA

Richard Wentworth & Ceal Floyer, Galeria Rafael Ortiz, Sevilla, Spain

Inside Out, Overgaden – Kulturministeriets Udstillningshus for Nutidig Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark

On Your Own Time, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York, USA

This Other World of Ours, TV Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Luminous Mischief, Yokohama Portside Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan

Mirror’s Edge, Bild Museet, Umeå, touring : Vancouver Art Gallery; Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italia; Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Peace, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Swiss

Trace, International Exhibition, Tate Gallery, Biennale di Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

From Where to Here: Art from London, Göteborgs Konsthall, Goteborg, Sweden

 

1998
Genius Loci, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Swiss

Martin Creed, Ceal Floyer, John Frankland, Delfina Studios, London, UK

Dimensions variable, British Council touring exhibition; The Ludwig Museum Budapest – Museum of Contemporary Art,Budapest, Hungary

Sunday, Cabinet Gallery, London, UK

Seamless, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands

In the Meantime, Galeria Estrany-de la Moto, Barcelona, Spain

Real /Life – New British Art 1998-1999, Tochigi; Fukuoka; Hiroshima; Tokyo, Japan; Ashiya (Japanese touring exhibition)

Drawing Itself, London Institute Gallery, London, UK

Recent British Art at Kunstraum, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

Then and Now, Lisson Gallery, London, UK

In the Meantime, Galeria Estrany De La Mota, Barcelona, Spain

New Art from Britain, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Innsbruck

Every Day, 11th Biennale a Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Malos Habitos, Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain

Triennale der Kleinplastik, Stuttgart, Germany

Thinking Aloud, South Bank Centre touring exhibition: Kettles Yard, Cambridge; Cornerhouse, Manchester; Camden Arts Centre, London, UK

minimalismus, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany

Richard Wentworth & Ceal Floyer, Galerie Carlos Poy, Barcelona, Spain

 

1997
Light, Richard Salmon Fine Art, London, UK (toured to Spacex, Exeter)

Snowflakes Falling on the International Dateline, Casco, Utrecht, Netherlands

Belladonna, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK

Treasure Island, Centro de Art Moderna / Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisboa, Portugal

Sentimental Education, Cabinet Gallery, London, UK

Urban Legends – London, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany

Belladonna, A Selection, The Minories, Colchester, UK

You Are Here, Royal College of Art, London, UK

I Luoghi Ritrovati, Centro Civico Per L’Arte Contemporanea La Grancia Serre di Rapolano, Siena, Italy

Material Culture: the object in British art in the 80’s and 90’s, Hayward Gallery, London, UK

Projects, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

Pictura Britannica, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (touring to Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; City Gallery, Wellington)

Not Yet Titled, 7 Alexandra Mansions, Norwich, UK

 

1996
Life / Live, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisboa, Portugal

Kiss This, Focal Point Gallery, Southend, UK

Oporto Festival of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal

Version 2.2, Saint Gervaise Geneve, Ginevra, Swiss

A4 Favours, Three Month Gallery, Liverpool, UK

Viper, Bank TV, Londra & Manchester, UK

 

1995
Freddy Contreras/Ceal Floyer, The Showroom, London, UK

General Release: Young British Artists at Scuola di San Pasquale, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

Just Do It, Cubitt Gallery, London, UK

4th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey

British Art Show 4, Manchester / Edinburgh / Cardiff, UK

Five Artists, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK

 

1994
Fast Forward, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK

Making Mischief, St. James’ Street, London, UK

The City of Dreadful Night, Atlantis Lower Gallery, London, UK

 

1993
Infanta of Castile at Goldhawk Road, London, UK

Eye Witness, Endeavour House, London, UK

Good Work, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, UK

Fast Surface, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK

 

1992
Hit & Run, Tufton Street, London, UK

Screenings

 

1999
Fourth Wall – Waiting, Public Art Development Trust in association with the Royal National Theatre, South Bank, London, UK

 

1996
The Meaning of Life (Part II), CCA, Glasgow; Art Nolde, Stockholm, Sweden

Such is Life, Serpentine Gallery Bookshop, London, UK

 

PREMI
2007
Nationalgalerie Prize for Young Art nomination

 

2005
‘Bremerhaven-Stipendium’, working grant by the association “Kunst und Nutzen” in Bremerhaven

 

2002
The Paul Hamlyn Award

 

1997
Philip Morris scholarship, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany