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BIOGRAPHIES

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Olivia Plender
Artist and Co-Editor of Untitled Magazine

Education/ Residencies/ Awards
2005
Triangle Arts Trust residency - El Basilisco, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2004
Arts Council London – Research and Development Grant
Dundee Contemporary Arts/ University of Dundee - Research Fellow
Grizedale Arts – Research and Development Grant

2001
London Arts - Individual Artist Award
British Council - Award for Artist Exhibiting Abroad

1995 – "98
Central St Martins College of Art and Design, London - BA Hons, Fine Art

1996
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria - Erasmus Exchange

1994 – "95
Chelsea School of Art and Design, London - Foundation Studies

Solo Shows/ Projects
2006
-A Stellar Key to the Summerland, to be published by Bookworks
-Project for Rem Koolhaas Pavilion, Serpentine Gallery, London

2005
-The Medium and Daybreak Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
-A Public Meeting to Address the Phenomenon of Materialization, Man in the Holocene, London

2004
-Solo Show, Visual Research Centre at Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee

2003
-The Masterpiece published by Millimetre.org

2002
-Rationalize, Standardize, Mechanize Plattform Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Selected Group Shows/ Projects
2006
-Tate Triennale, Tate Britain, London (includes cat.)
-Becks Futures, ICA, London; touring to Arnolfini, Bristol and CCA, Glasgow (includes cat.)
-Project for Critical Documents conference, Iaspis, Stockholm
-Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea (includes cat.)
-2nd International Bienniale of Young Artists, Bucharest, Romania (includes cat.)
-Radio Gallery, Resonance FM, London curated by Anna Colin
-Scarecrow, Evangelos Averoff Museum, Metsovo, Greece
-Le Retour de la Colonne Durutti, Isabella Bortolozzi Gallery, Berlin
(curated by Gyonata Bonvicini)
-Flip, Chung King Projects, Los Angeles (includes cat.)
-Published and be Damned, London, curated by Sarah McCrory
2005
-1X Baltic Triennale of International Art, Contemporary Arts Centre (CAC), Vilnius and Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London (includes catalogue)
-Paris-Londres: Le Voyage Interieur, Espace Electra, Paris curated by
Alex Farquharson and Alexis Vaillant (includes catalogue)
-A Press Conference with Ken Russell, performance at Camden Arts Centre, London
-Bienal de Jafre, Girona, Spain
-Published and be Damned, London, curated by Emily Pethick and Kit Hammonds
-On the Way to the Peak of Normal, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
-Coniston Water Festival, Grizedale Arts, Cumbria
-Aw Jock Tamson's Bairns, Changing Room Gallery, Stirling, Scotland (organised by Kevin Reid)
-Centrifuge, Tannery Arts, London
-Dance of the Seven Veils, Cooper Gallery, Dundee
-London Now, The Art Centre, St. Petersberg, Florida
-From our Cold Hands, VTO Gallery, London
-A Crack at the Cosmic Egg, Cell 77, Edinburgh
-Take it Furthur!, Andrew Mummery, London curated by Gyonata Bonvicini
-Project for Guest Room publication

2004
-Romantic Detachment PS1/ MoMA, New York (touring to Chapter Gallery, Wales; Q Gallery, Derby; Folly, Lancaster and Grizedale Arts, Cumbria)
-East End Academy, Whitechapel Gallery, London
-For Example, Hayward Gallery, London, (performance with Christopher Howell)
- PROJECT # 01, curated by Assembly projects, Liverpool Biennale
-Publish and Be Damned, Cubitt Gallery, London (touring to International 3, Manchester)
-Thermo 04, The Lowery, Manchester (with Castlefield Gallery)
-Trailer, Man in the Holocene, London
-Like Beads on an Abacus Designed to Calculate Infinity, Rockwell, London
-One Bright Day People Get Together, The Ship, London
-Slim Volume, edited and published by Andrew Hunt

2003
-Anyway published by Alberta Press, with text by Mathew Higgs
-Happy Pappy published by Milch Gallery
-Artists Project for Atlantica Magazine
Published by Centro Atlantico De Arte Moderno, Gran Canaria
-Succubus, Banshee and Medusa, Comme Ca Gallery, Manchester
-International Stopover, Pugh Pugh Gallery, Berlin
-Bootleg Spitalfields Market, London. Curated by Tom Morton and Catherine Patha

2002
-Project for Aleksandra Mir"s Daily News. Published by Gavin Brown"s Enterprise, NY and Greengrassi, London
-The Toons are Loose G7 Project Space, Berlin, Germany
-Viva Pablo The Bartwell"s Institute, Hackney, London
-Prospects Pizza Express Drawing Prize Essor Gallery, London
-Gatsby The New Lansdowne Club, Hackney, London

2001
-Department The Changing Room Gallery, Stirling, Scotland
-We Buy for Cash Aroma Informations Design, Berlin

1999
-Department Victoria Plaza, Southend on Sea, Essex
-Passion Gasworks Gallery, Kennington, London

Selected Bibliography
2006
-Art Forum, April, "Olivia Plender: Top Ten"
-Flux Magazine, May, "Flux Space", Jane Chavez-Dawson
-Evening Standard, 28 March, "Becks Futures", Tom Teodorczuk
-The Independent, 31 March, "Becks Futures", Sue Hubbard
-The Sunday Times, 2 April, "Becks Futures" Waldemar Januszczak
-The Daily Telegraph, 4 April, "Becks Futures" Serena Davies
-The Guardian, 4 April, "Becks Futures", Adrian Searle
-The Herald, 10 April, "Becks Futures", Moira Jeffrey
-Financial Times, "Drawing, Crossing the Line" Gabriel Coxhead
-Dazed and Confused, April, "Olivia Plender", Iphgenia Baal
-ID, April, "Olivia Plender", Jessica Lack
-Art Monthly, February, "Le Voyage Interieur", Mark Wilsher
-Frieze, Issue 96, Jan, "Olivia Plender" Romilly Eveleigh
-Canecalon, March/ April, "Olivia Plender"

2005
-Art Review, November 2005, Lupe Nunez-Fernandez
-Frieze, Issue 95, Nov 2005, "Coniston Water Festival", Sally O"Reilly
-Frieze, Issue 94, Oct 2005, "Publish and Be Damned", Jennifer Higgie
-Flash Art online, September 2005, Coniston Water Festival, Aaron Moulton
-The Guardian, 1 Oct, "Old Devil", Stephen Armstrong
-The Guardian Guide, 8 Oct, Robert Clark
-The Guardian Guide, 30 July, Jessica Lack
-The Guardian G2, Pick of the Week, 23 May, Jessica Lack
-Arena Magazine, March, "I wanna buy some art", Tom Morton

2004
- Put About: a Critical Anthology on Independent Publishing, a Bookworks publication, edited by Maria Fusco with Ian Hunt
-East End Academy exhibition catalogue, Whitechapel Gallery, text by Nav Haq
-Flux Magazine, Nov/Dec, 'Profile - Olivia Plender', Mike Chavez-Dawson
-Flux Magazine, Nov/Dec, 'Man in the Holocene', David Maass
-The Guardian G2, 4 Oct, 'Pick of the Week', Craig Burnett
-Art Monthly, July/ August "East End Academy", Jennifer Thatcher
-Arena, August "The Big Draw", Tom Morton
-The Guardian, 14 June "East End Academy", Jessica Lack
-Time Out, 9-16 June "East End Academy", Martin Coomer
-The Guardian Weekend, 5 June "E is for Art", Caroline Roux
-The Observer Review, 20 June "East End Academy", Oliver Bennet
-The Times, 16 June "A Little of What You'll Fancy", Rachel Campbell Johnston
-Metro London, 14 June "Bow Bells Selector", Fisun Guner
-Collective BBC, 11 June "East End Academy", Laura Bushell
-The Guardian Guide, 17-23 April "Like Beads on An Abacus…", Jessica Lack
-The Guardian, 26 April "Like Beads on An Abacus…", Jessica Lack
-Art Monthly, May "Anyway", Bruce Haines
-Arena, January, "Portrait of the Artist…", Tom Morton

2003
-Sleazenation, March, "In the Bedroom"

2002
-Evening Standard Hot Tickets, August, "Viva Pablo", Helen Sumpter

2001
-The Wire, May, "Department"
-Metro Scotland, May 18 "Department", Paul Whitelaw
-Art Review, May, "Department", Elizabeth Mahoney

Commissions/ curatorial:
2006
-Two Worlds (curatorial project) film screenings for Camden Art Centre, London
-Paranormal film programme (curatorial project) film screenings for Goshka Macuga at Liverpool Biennale
Public Commission for Great Western Railways (curated by Erica Burton)
Commission - poster design for The Island, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Surrey

2005
Dazed and Confused – commission for illustrations, Dec Issue

2004
Whitechapel Gallery/ Rich Mix Cultural Foundation - Public art commission
Hayward Gallery – commission for activity guide for Eyes Lies and Illusions exhibition