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IAN GILES was born in Gloucester in 1985. Working across performance, moving image, installation, painting and events; his work fosters new networks to record and celebrate queer histories and experiences.
Selected exhibitions, Performances and screenings include: Middlesbrough Collection: Soft Structures at MIMA, Middlesbrough [2023/24]; ‘On Railton Road’ at Museum of the Home, London [2023]; ‘a Clear comfort’ at van gogh House, London [2023] ‘A Reflection in Time’ commissioned by MIMA and broadcast on BBC Sounds [2023] ; ‘The London Open’, The Whitechapel Gallery, London [2022] ; ‘On Railton Road’, supported by the Jerwood New Work Fund [2021] ; 'After BUTT', Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo [2020] ; 'Please Divide In Groups of Two or Three', KV Leipzig [2019] ; 'Outhouse', Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge & Firstsite, Colchester [2019] ; ‘Studio Four’, OUTPOST, Norwich [2019] ; ‘Trojan Horse / Rainbow Flag’ presented by Gasworks at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, London [2019] ; 'After BUTT' at MoMA PS1 during the NY Art Book Fair, New York [2018] ; 'Video Club: Sex Talks', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam [2018] ; Call Me Mr benson, OCB Chinatown, New York [2018] & 'After BUTT', Chelsea Space, London [2018]. His work has also been shown at Harvard University, the Chisenhale Gallery and Grand Union.
ian was awarded an A-N Bursary [2021/22]. He was a New Geographies commissioned artist [2018/20] his resulting performance and installation was acquired with the support from the V&A Purchase Grant Fund for Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery Collection. he was the inaugural winner of the Shannon Michael Cane Award [2018] presented by Printed Matter, New York. Residencies include Hospitalfields [2017] and Cambridge School of Art [2023]. He was awarded a Production Bursary by Spike Island and The Centre For Moving Image Research [2016].
He has been a visiting artist and lectured at Chelsea College of Arts, Cambridge School of Art, Camberwell College of Arts, Birmingham School of Art, City University London and University of Cambridge Department of Architecture.
He completed his BFA at Chelsea College of Arts and his MFA at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. upon graduating he was a LUX Associate Artist. Ian was a cohort member of constellations [2023/24] a programme Curated by UP Projects in partnership with Flat Time House and in association with Liverpool Biennial.
Future projects include a video installation commissioned by God’s House Tower & Southampton City art Gallery funded by Arts Council England - the work has been Acquired with the support of artfund and foSMAG.
Education
2013 | 2012 LUX Associate Artists Programme
2012 | 2010 Slade School of Fine Art | MFA
2008 | 2005 Chelsea College of Art and Design | BA Honours Fine Art
2005 | 2004 Camberwell College of Art and Design | Foundation
Exhibitions | Screenings | Performances
2023
Middlesbrough Collection: Soft Structures | MIMA | Middlesbrough
On Railton Road | Museum of the Home | London *
A Reflection in Time | Performance | MIMA | Middlesbrough *
Edward / Maurice | Heong Gallery | Cambridge *
A Clear Comfort | Charleston | Firle *
After BUTT & Trojan Horse / Rainbow Flag Screening | The Howard Theatre | Cambridge *
A Clear Comfort | Van Gogh House | London *
A Reflection in Time | BBC Radio Tees Broadcast | Curated by MIMA and Navigator North | Middlesbrough
A to Zine | Queercircle | London
Love, Leda Edition | Pensinula Press and Foyles | London
2022
The London Open | The Whitechapel Gallery | London
Smells Like Gay Pride Candle Launch | Tenderbooks | London *
From Here A Home Was Imagined: Part 3 | CCA Annex | Glasgow
2021
On Railton Road | Brixton Community Base | Jerwood New Work Fund | London *
2020
Gay Bar Galaxy | Online via Zoom | London
After BUTT | Kunstnerforbundet | Oslo *
Let’s Gather To Remember Everything We Forget | LU Arts | Loughborough University *
Bonington Film Night #10 | Bonington Gallery | Nottingham
After BUTT | Soho House | Toronto, Canada *
2019
Please Divide In Groups of Two or Three | KV Leipzig | Germany
Dick Van Dykes | Great Yarmouth Library | Great Yarmouth *
Outhouse | Kettle’s Yard | Cambridge *
Studio Four | OUTPOST | Norwich *
Scottish Queer International Film Festival | CCA | Glasgow
Outhouse | Firstsite | Colchester *
The Rural Assembly | Wysing Arts Centre / Whitechapel Gallery | Cambridgeshire
After BUTT | Strange Perfume | Queer Culture Book Fair | South London Gallery | London *
Trojan Horse / Rainbow Flag | Star and Shadow Cinema | Presented by videoclub | Newcastle
Trojan Horse / Rainbow Flag | Tribeca | Presented by videoclub | Manchester
Trojan Horse / Rainbow Flag | Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club | Presented by Gasworks | London
Trojan Horse / Rainbow Flag | The Marlborough | Presented by videoclub | Brighton
Open Ramble East Walks | New Geographies Commission | Cambridge, Colchester, Norwich & Great Yarmouth
Toby's Diary | 15 Orient | New York
2018
Call Me Mr Benson | OCD Chinatown | New York *
After BUTT | The NY Art Book Fair | MoMA PS1 | New York *
Video Club: Sex Talks | Stedelijk Museum | Amsterdam
Clay Meditation | Eastside Projects | Birmingham *
Three Models for Change | Grand Union and the University of Birmingham | Birmingham
Rainbow Flag / Trojan Horse | Recent Activity | Birmingham *
Strange Perfume | Queer Culture Book Fair | South London Gallery | London
After BUTT | Entrée | Bergen, Norway *
Different Ways | LUX | London
After BUTT | Chelsea Space | London *
2017
The Lives of Artists | Global Committee | Online
Singles | Global Committee | New York
Multiplexing II | LUX | Cineworld Cinema | Glasgow
2016
On The Way To Language | Recent Activity | University of Birmingham | Birmingham *
Connected Works | Harvard University Graduate School of Design | Cambridge *
Common Room | The Java Project | New York *
Is To As Is To, Youth Forum collaboration | Whitechapel Gallery, London *
Clay Meditation | Spike Island, Bristol *
Community Spirit | St Luke's Church, New York
Art Projects: Dialogues | London Art Fair, London
2015
On Air | Tank TV, tank.tv *
Beatrix Kiddo | Global Committee, New York
Free Time | Poole Museum, Poole *
Artists' Film Club: Tenderflix | ICA, London
What one can be... | The House of St Barnabas, London
One Way Can Be Another Way | DKUK, London *
m-Health | Cell Project Space, London
Re-Launch | UCL Art Museum, London
Girls on Screen | Galerie HFBK, Hamburg
Body 2 Body, Global Committee, New York
The Decorator and the Thief | Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
2014
MULTIPLEXING | LUX Associate Artist Programme Final Project | Peckham Plex, London
Always and Again | Steambox | Research Centre at the Irish Museum of Contemporary Art, Dublin
Selected 4 | Videoclub | UK tour: Nottingham Contemporary; Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle; CCA, Glasgow; Fabrica, Brighton; FACT, Liverpool and Whitechapel Gallery, London
Living Walls | Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London
All Silent but for the Buzzing | Curating Contemporary Art | Royal College of Art, London
Sensing Spaces : Friday Late | Royal Academy of Arts, London
2013
Out of Time | Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow *
A Thin Place | Schönleinstraße 33, Berlin
Stop, Look, Listen! | Art Licks Weekend, London | Funded by Jerwood Charitable Foundation [with Laura Cooper]
Now Festival | Wilderness Festival, Oxfordshire
FLUX: Beat | MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
We Are All Alternative Structures | T-A-P, Southend-on-Sea
The In Between | Carroll / Fletcher, London *
Punctuation Programme: A Small Hiccup (Version III) | Limoncello Gallery, London
Red Herrings and Chinese Whispers | Lincoln Art Programme, Lincoln
Congratulations, you are the most recent visitor | Outpost at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
2012
BP Saturdays: We Are Temporary Structures | Tate Britain, London [with Laura Cooper]
Loop | PAMI [Peckham Artist Moving Image Festival] | New Gallery, London *
21st Century Screening | Chisenhale Gallery, London
Outpost Open Film | Outpost Gallery, Norwich
Captivity | TJ Boulting, London *
Vincula | UCL Art Museum, London
Arrives in Starting curated by the Duchy | Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art
I’m In This Weird Part of Your Tube Again | Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam
Platform 1 | Camden Arts Centre, London [with Laura Cooper]
2011
Object Subjects | Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
A Smaller Sound, A Bigger Crowd | The Floating Cinema, Canary Wharf, London | Solo *
Everything | Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Textures of Time | Frederick Parker Gallery | London
It was Raining in the Capital | Birkbeck College, London [with Laura Cooper]
Physical Centre | Guest Projects, London
2010
Rhubaba Presents: Blockbuster | Central Reservation, Bristol
Whitstable Biennale 2010 | Whitstable
All Together Now | 20 Hoxton Square Projects, London *
Manifesten | Trolley Gallery, London
Blind Alchemy | The Royal Standard, Liverpool and Studio Warehouse, Glasgow | Solo with Rachel Adams
Architectural Playgrounds | The Barbican, London
2009
After Cravan | Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales *
Play | Paradise Row Mayfair, London
Making Mistakes : Woman | Paradise Row, London
Caught In The Act | Chelsea Futurespace, London
I am Still Your Worst Nightmare, Arnolfini, Bristol
* Solo exhibition, performance or screening
Grants, Awards, Residencies and Talks
2024 | Artist's Talk & Screening | City University | London
2023 / 24 | Constellations | UP Projects & Flat Time House in association with Liverpool Biennial
2024 | Arts Council England | Grants for the arts | God’s House Tower
2024 | Artist's Talk | Birmingham School of Art | Birmingham
2023 | Artist's Talk & Screening | Originalprojects; | Great Yarmouth
2023 | Fine Art Research Unit Talk | Cambridge School of Art
2023 | Living Monuments: Jeremy Deller and Ian Giles | Museum of the Home | London
2023 | Ian Giles and Diarmuid Hester | Screening and Talk | CVC | Kettle’s Yard | Cambridge
2023 | Arts Council England | Grants for the arts | Museum of the Home
2023 | Arts Council England | Grants for the arts | Van Gogh House Commission
2023 | Elephant Trust Grant | Van Gogh House Commission
2023 | Remembering Ron Peck | BFI Flare Film Festival | London
2022 / 23 | Artist in Residence | Artists Access to Art Colleges Scheme | Cambridge School of Art at Anglia Ruskin University
2022 | Queer Flower Arranging Workshop | Heritage Open Days | The Masham | Middlesbrough
2022 | Open Ramble: conversation with Ian Giles | Gaada, Shetland | Scotland
2022 | Visiting Artist | MA Illustration | Camberwell College of Arts | London
2021 | a-n Artists Bursaries: Time Space Money | UK
2012 - 2021 | Associate Lecturer | BA Fine Art | Chelsea College of Arts | London
2020 | Developing Your Creative Practice | Arts Council England | UK
2020 | Wysing & New Geographies | Online Symposium | Moderated by Amy Tobin curator at Kettle’s Yard | Cambridge
2020 | LUX | Screening of Nighthawks (Ron Peck, 1978) followed by Q&A between Ron Peck and Ian Giles | London
2019 | Arts Council England | Grants for the arts | UK
2019 | Jerwood New Work Fund | London | UK
2019 | Strange Perfume | Post screening Q&A with Beth Bramich | South London Gallery | London
2018 | Shannon Michael Cane Award | NY Art Book Fair | New York
2018 | New Geographies | Commissioned Artist | UK
2018 | Arts Council England | Grants for the arts | UK
2017 | Hospitalfield | Scotland | Residency
2017 | Arts Council England | Grants for the arts | UK
2016 | SIVA Currents: Springfield Art Museum, Missouri, USA | Artist Talk
2016 | Spike Island and Centre for Moving Image Research | Moving Image Bursary
2016 | Drury University, Missouri, USA | Visiting Artist Fellow
2015 | British Council / Arts Council England | International Funding Grant
2015 | Arts Council England | Grants for the arts | UK
2014 | Create London | Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London | Grant
2013 | Creative Lab | Centre of Contemporary Art, Glasgow | Residency
2011 | I-Park, Connecticut, USA | Residency
2011 | Live Art Development Agency, The Canary Wharf Group, UP Projects | Commission and Grant
2011 | Slade School of Fine Art, UCL | Herbert Seaborn Memorial Scholarship
2010 | 2012 AHRC Full Funding | Grant
2009 | Wandsworth Arts | Grant
2009 | Academi di Belle Arti in Macerata, Italy | Residency
2007 | Chelsea Arts Club Trust | Travel Bursary