SMITH/STEWART

 

Stephanie Smith

1968 born Manchester, England

Art Education

1986-87       Foundation Year, Manchester Polytechnic

1987-91       BA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London

1991-93       Participating artist, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam

 

Edward Stewart

1961 born Belfast, N.Ireland

Art Education

1984-85       Foundation Year, University of Ulster

1985-88       BA Fine Art &

1988-90       MA Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art

1990-92       Participating artist, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam

 

SMITH/STEWART work & live together in Glasgow, Scotland.

                                                     

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1997            Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London

1998            Hooded.Bared., Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

1999            NGBK, Berlin, Germany

1999            Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland

1999            Concourse Gallery, Barbican Centre, London

1999            Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany

2000            In camera, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada

2002            A Black Thread, Chisenhale Gallery, London (a Film and Video Umbrella Touring Exhibition commissioned in association with Chisenhale Gallery)

2004            Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes (a Film and Video Umbrella Touring Exhibition commissioned in association with Milton Keynes Gallery)

2005            Gi: Glasgow International, 1st Floor, 64 Osborne St., Glasgow

2007/8         Enter Love and Enter Death, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh

2011            What have we done?, The Changing Room, Stirling

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

1995            Video Positive, Tate Gallery, Liverpool

1995            X/Y, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

1995/6         Biennale d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France

1996            Now Here, Louisiana MOMA, Humlebaek, Denmark

1996            Electronic Undercurrents, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark

1997/8         Correspondences: Scotland/Berlin, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin & Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

1998            Pandaemonium, LEA Gallery, London

1999            Signs of Life, Melbourne International Biennial, Melbourne, Australia

1999/00       Seeing Time: Selections from the Pamela & Richard Kramlich Collection of Media Art, San Francisco MOMA, San Francisco, USA

2000            The Anagrammatical Body - The Body and its Medial Construction, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany

2000            Mixing Memory and Desire, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland

2001            Black Box. The Dark Room in Art, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland

2002            afterthelostones, Galerie de l'UQAM, Montreal, Canada

2002            Sensitive Screens: Videoart of the 90's, Fundacio "La Caixa", Lerida, Spain

2002            The British School at Rome, Rome, Italy

2002            Tate Modern, video room, London

2002            New: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary British Art, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

2002            Self Evident: the artist as the subject 1969-2002, Tate Britain, London

2003            Into the Breach, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2003            Orifice, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia

2003            Incommunicado, Hayward Gallery National Touring Exhibition, The Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich

2005/6         Night Sites, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany

2006            Into Me/Out of Me, Kunst Werke ICA, Berlin, Germany

2007/8         Words in Art, Mart- Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy

2009/10       Emporte-moi / Sweep me off my feet, Musee d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Quebec, Canada & MACVAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, Paris, France

2012/13       Acts of Voicing: On the Poetics and Politics of the Voice,

                    Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (Autumn/Winter 2012/13)

                    Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong (Spring 2013)

                    Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul (Autumn 2013)

 

Collections

                    Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark

                    Toyama Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan

                    Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

                    Fondation Leschot, Bern, Switzerland

                    Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

                    Contemporary Art Society, London / Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

                    Arts Council Collection, London

                    Tate Gallery, London

                    Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland

                    San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA

                    Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland

                    Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland

 

Selected Solo Publications

1998            Fruitmarket Gallery catalogue, Edinburgh (ill.), ISBN: 9780947912529

1999            Kunstmuseum Luzern & Portikus, Frankfurt catalogue, Luzern & Frankfurt am Main, text by Ulrich Loock (ill.), ISBN 9783267001287

1999            Godforsaken Hole / Free Hand publication, Barbican Centre, London, text by Francis McKee (ill.), ISBN 0 946372 37 3

2000            In Camera catalogue, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada text by Michele Theriault (ill.), ISBN 0921972296

2000            Ahead, publication, Codax Publisher, Zurich, Switzerland, text by Ulrich Loock (ill.), ISBN 3-9521227-4-2

2001            Smith/Stewart Film & Video Umbrella minigraph publication, London (ill.), ISBN 978-1-84166-074-5

2004            A Black Thread publication, Film & Video Umbrella, London, text by Tom McCarthy (ill.), ISBN 978-1-904270-08-9

2009            Enter Love and Enter Death publication, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (ill.), ISBN 978-1-906129-24-8

 

Selected  Reviews

2002            A Black Thread, Chisenhale Gallery reviews:

                    Art Monthly Dec.02 - Jan. 03, Mark Wilsher, (ill.)

                    Time Out Nov. 27 - Dec. 4 2002, Rebecca Geldard (ill.)

                    Evening Standard Claire Bishop

2003            Contemporary issue no. 47 / 48, Gabriel Coxhead (ill.)

2004            'Milton Keynes Gallery, Smith/Stewart', Jane Neal, Contemporary, issue no.62

2005            Glasgow International reviews, including:

                    'Reaping its just rewards', Moira Jeffrey, The Herald, 29 April

                    Catriona Black, The Sunday Herald , 1 May

                    Iain Gale, Scotland on Sunday, 1 May (ill.)

                    'Glasgow International 2005', Alexander Kennedy, Map, Issue 2, Summer 2005

2007            Enter Love and Enter Death, Inverleith House reviews:

                    'Smith/Stewart: Enter Love and Enter Death', Rosalie Doubal, The List, 15-29 Nov, Issue 590

                    'The space in which we move', Jack Mottram, The Herald, Friday 30 November

                    'Smith/Stewart: Enter Love and Enter Death', Kirsten Norrie, Art Monthly, Dec-Jan 07-08, No. 312

2008            'Smith/Stewart: Enter Love and Enter Death', Rosamund West, The Skinny, January 08

                    'Negotiating a maze of hidden meaning', Susan Mansfield, Scotsman Review, The Scotsman, Friday 11 January

                    'Fine lines between love and death', Iain Gale, Review Arts, Scotland on Sunday, January 13

2011            ‘The fruit of their actions’, Laura Edbrook, MAP no. 25, Summer 2011