Ewan Gibbs
Born London, 1973
Currently lives and works in London
Education
1993-1996
Goldsmiths College, University of London, BA (Hons.) Fine Art
1991-1992
Hertfordshire College of Art and Design, Diploma in Foundation studies
Solo Exhibitions
2010
• Here and There, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin
• Chicago, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
• Belk Visual Arts Center, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2009
• Ewan Gibbs: Colorado: New Drawings, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
• Commissioned artist for The Armory Show, New York
2008
• Ewan Gibbs: Pictures of Pitchers, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin
• Ewan Gibbs, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England
2007
• Ewan Gibbs: New Work, Paul Morris Gallery, New York
2005
• From the Empire State Building, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin
2003
• From the Empire State Building, Paul Morris Gallery, New York
• From the Monument, Maureen Paley, London
2002
• Facades, Paul Morris Gallery, New York
2001
• Facades, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London
2000
• Magazine, February 7 - February 11
1999
• Typical Interiors, Paul Morris Gallery, New York
• Typical Interiors, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London
1997
• Typical Interiors, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London
Group Exhibitions
2011
• Drawn from Photography, The Drawing Center, New York
2009
• Mark-Making: Dots, Lines and Curves, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin
2008
• Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, curated by Lisa Dennison, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
• Drawn Together, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
• Attention to Detail, curated by Chuck Close, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
2007
• Recent Drawing Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Houston
2006
• Black Moon Island: Contemporary International Drawings, One in the Other, London
• Agnes Martin, Vija Celmins, and Ewan Gibbs, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
2005
• Originality and Repetition: The Grid in Contemporary Works on Paper, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
2004
• Fresh Works on Paper, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• ARTitecture, Rena Branston Gallery, San Francisco, California
2003
• The Great Drawings Show 1550-2003 A.D., Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
2002
• Drawings 2002, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, New Jersey
• Ewan Gibbs and Alessandro Raho, One in the Other, London
• Painted, Printed and Produced in Great Britain, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, New York
• Copy, Roth Horowitz, New York, New York
2001
• furor scribendi: Works on Paper, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
• Collectors Choice, Exit Art, New York
• Sages, Scientists and Madmen, One in the Other, London
2000
• Ewan Gibbs, David Shrigley, One in the Other, London
1999
• Heart & Soul, 60 Long Lane, London
• A Slip of the Mind, Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Séte, France
1998
• Surfacing, contemporary drawing, I.C.A., London
• Architecture & Inside, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, curated by Kenneth L. Freed
• Works on Paper, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
• Short Stories, (with Jason Martin & Alex Hartley), One in the Other.
1997
• Craft, Richard Salmon, London; Kettles Yard, Cambridge
• Within these Walls, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
• Slight, Norwich Gallery, Norwich; Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, curated by Kirsty Ogg
1996
• Physiognomical Corpus, One in the Other, London
Selected Bibliography
2009
• Ewan Gibbs / False Starts, UK: Folly Books
2008
• Carman, Ronda, ‘Profile: Ewan Gibbs', www.allthebest2007.blogspot.com, 12 February
2006
• ‘Vija Celmins, Ewan Gibbs and Agnes Martin', Kultureflash, 27 April
• Ewan Gibbs, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
2005
• Mathews, Heather, ‘Ewan Gibbs: The Relation of the Parts to the Whole', Glass Tire, 25 June
2004
• ‘ARTitecture', www.likeyou.com, July
• ‘Ewan Gibbs', kultureflash, 30 March
2003
• Herbert, Martin, ‘Ewan Gibbs', Contemporary, April-May
• Reid, James. Straight to the point, wallpaper*, N?58, May
• Ewan Gibbs: monument, Interim Art, The Art Newspaper, What's On, March
• Ewan Gibbs ‘From the Monument', This is London, 28 March
2002
• Johnson. Ken, Ewan Gibbs, The New York Times, 01 February
• Ollman, Leah. Scribes of Precision and Obsession, The Los Angeles Times, 11 January
2001
• Optical Ecstacy: Ewan Gibbs, Bijutsu Techno Art Monthly, Vol. 53 N? 808
• Gibbs, Ewan. I could hear these paintings, The Guardian G2, 21 June
• art: ewan gibbs, tank, Vol.2 Issue 4
• Lack, Jessica. Picks of the week, exhibitions: Ewan Gibbs, The Guardian G2, 21 May
• Mullins, Charlotte. The Reality Bug, Thames & Hudson, w.o.a., 45th Birthday Issue
2000
• McLaren, Duncan. Ewan Gibbs and David Shrigley, The Independent on Sunday, 30 April
• Cash, Stephanie, Ewan Gibbs at Paul Morris, Art in America, April
• Glueck, Grace. Ewan Gibbs ‘Drawings', The New York Times, 07 January
1998
• Kent, Sarah. ‘Surfacing', Time Out, N? 1469 October 14-21
• Exley, Roy. Sites of Absence, Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 20
1997
• Ingleby, Richard. Making an exhibition of yourself at 40, Independent on Sunday, August 10
• Melvin, Jeremy. Diverse perceptions of interior space, Architect's Journal, August 14 -21 p.43
• Tozer, John. Within these Walls, Kettles Yard, Art Monthly N? 209, September p. 32-34
• Cumming, Laura. Condiments of the Season, The Observer Review 10 August, p.10
• Wallis, Simon. Within These Walls exhibition catalogue
• Hubbard, Sue. Ewan Gibbs, Interim Art, Time Out No. 1394, May 7 - 14, p.51
• Feldman, Melissa E. Slight, Norwich Gallery, Art Monthly. N? 204, March 1997, p. 26-27
1996
• Wegner, Nick. Art Fair, Artists Newsletter. November 1996, p. 28
• Jones, Dylan. Mail on Sunday, YOU Magazine. 3 November 1996, p. 42
Public Collections
• Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
• Museum of Modern Art, New York
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• Tate Modern, London
• Government Art Collection, London, UK
• Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
• Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
• Denver Art Museum, Colorado
• The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
• Museum of London, UK
• FRAC, Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France