Artist's arttributes:
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Most exhibitions in:
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| United Kingdom | 64 |
| Germany | 29 |
| USA | 26 |
| Austria | 16 |
| France | 9 |
Most exhibitions held at:
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Victoria Miro Gallery, United Kingdom |
16 |
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David Nolan Gallery, USA |
8 |
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Galerie Hubert Winter, Austria |
8 |
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Ingleby Gallery, United Kingdom |
5 |
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Stampa, Switzerland |
4 |
Biography: 
1925 Born in Nassau (BS)
Lives and works in Stonypath, Scotland (UK)
2006 Died in Edinburgh (UK)
External links:
| | Public exhibitions (Selection) 185  from 21.6.
until 30.6.
until 22.6.
Solo shows 53
2012
2011
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia |
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Definitions - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
2010
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| Heimweh nach den Tempeln - Galerie Margareta Friesen, Dresden |
2009
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| IAN HAMILTON FINALY - Camouflage - Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Camouflage - David Nolan Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Obra Gráfica - Galería Kewenig, Palma de Mallorca |
2008
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| Intermezzo 2 - Etablissement d´en face projects, Brussels |
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - (Neo)Classicism--A Noble Arrow - Nolan Judin Berlin, Berlin |
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Druckgrafik - Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen |
2007
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
2006
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - The Graphic Work - - Kewenig Galerie, Cologne (closed) |
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Stampa, Basel |
2005
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - David Nolan Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Sentences - Inverleith House, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
2004
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Vessels - David Nolan Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Vessels - Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
2003
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Maritime Work - David Nolan Gallery, New York City, NY |
2002
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| Souvenirs - 100 Postcards by Ian Hamilton Finlay - Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire (England) |
2001
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Poem-prints - Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen (Scotland) |
2000
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| Nature over again - after Poussin - McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON |
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Dean Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Garden Works - David Nolan Gallery, New York City, NY |
1999
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Druckgraqhik - - Galerie Six Friedrich Lisa Ungar, Munich (closed) |
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| A Poesy: Selected Works by Ian Hamilton Finlay - National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON |
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Variations on different themes - Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona |
1998
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - prints 1963 - 1997 - Galerie Stadtpark, Krems |
1997
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Heerlen |
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - prints 1963 - 1997 - Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U, Dortmund |
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna |
1996
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Reef Points - David Nolan Gallery, New York City, NY |
1995
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay – Works: Pure And Political - Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg |
1994
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Streiflichter, Fragments from the French Revolution - David Nolan Gallery, New York City, NY |
1992
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| Evening will come...: - Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney (Scotland) |
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
1991
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay: The Garden and the Revolution - Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
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| Ian Hamilton FInlay / Matrix 116 - The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT |
1990
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Frith Street Gallery, London (England) |
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
1989
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Paperworks - Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna |
1987
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| Camouflage: Ian Hamilton Finlay, Poursuites Revolutionnaires - Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris |
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
1986
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
1976
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| A Work for Wool, Fluorotubes, and Open Door - IMA Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD |
1968
Group shows 129
2013
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| Specific Collisions - Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York City, NY |
2012
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| Projects 3 Zeichnung / Drawing 1969 - 1981 - Stampa, Basel |
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| 30th São Paulo Biennial - Bienal de Sao Paulo, São Paulo |
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| From The Age Of The Poets - Kunstsaele, Berlin |
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| Not In The Corners - Maria Stenfors, London (England) |
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| Polly Apfelbaum, - Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX |
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| Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| The Artists’ Postcard Show - Spike Island, Bristol (England) |
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| Printed in Norfolk: Coracle Publications 1989-2012 - The Gallery at Norwich University , Norwich (England) |
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| Néon, Who’s afrmaid of red, yellow and blue ? - La Maison Rouge, Paris |
2011
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| Language To Cover A Wall: Visual Poetry Through Its Changing Media - UB Art Galleries - University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY |
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| Faster and Slower Lines - From the Collection of Pétur Arason and Ragna Róbertsdóttir - Listasafn Reykjavikur - Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavik |
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| Black & White Show - Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen (Scotland) |
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| Grow Together: Concrete Poetry in Brazil and Scotland - Highland Institute of Contemporary Art, Dalcrombie, Inverness-shire (Scotland) |
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| Partitions - Galerie ARKO, Nevers |
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| Art + Architecture 11 - Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| Intangibles in Terra Australis - Flinders University Art Museum & City Gallery, Adelaide, SA |
2010
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| Hausbesuche - 175 Jahre Kasseler Kunstverein - Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel |
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| one blue moment - Galerie Schütte, Essen |
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| Portrait of a Gallery - The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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| The Ground Around: idylls, earthworks & thunderbolts - Vilma Gold, London (England) |
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| ... umso mehr - Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen |
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| Sin título, 2004-2010 - Galería Kewenig, Palma de Mallorca |
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| Bense und die Künste - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
2009
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| Art With Paper - Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| upside down / inside out - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England) |
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| PROJECTS 2 - Stampa, Basel |
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| British Council Collection: The Third Dimension - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (England) |
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| Poor. Old. Tired. Horse. - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) |
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| Nous tournons en rond dans la nuit… - Musée Départemental d'Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart |
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| Spazio Libro d’Artista - Palazzo Manganelli , Catania, CT |
2008
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| Arbeiten auf Papier – von Arakawa bis Zimmer – Smlg. Kulak - Otto-Galerie, Munich |
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| Conversations - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England) |
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| Xviii Biennale Internazionale di Scultura - Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara, Carrara |
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| Dear Stieglitz - Gallery 360 Degree, Tokyo |
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| Sol LeWitt x2 - Austin Museum of Art - AMOA, Austin, TX |
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| Here We Dance - Tate Modern, London (England) |
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| Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art - Barbican Art Gallery, London (England) |
2007
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| Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring - Camden Arts Centre, London (England) |
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| PEEP: Glimpses of the last 4 decades of the Kerry Stokes Collection - TarraWarra Museum of Art, Box Hill, VIC |
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| Geminal - Ancient & Modern, London (England) |
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| DIE ELBE [in] between - Wasser, Ströme, Zeiten - Kunstmuseum Kloster unserer lieben Frauen Magdeburg, Magdeburg |
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| a north light - cynosure - Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney (Scotland) |
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| Lost Tongues Rediscovered - Stroom Den Haag, The Hague |
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| Fish and Ships. Maritimes in der zeitgenössischen Kunst - Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| Im Fluss - Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen |
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| Elger Esser: new landscapes. Ian Hamilton Finlay: numbers and letters. - Galerie Sfeir-Semler - Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| Gartenlust - - Augarten Contemporary, Vienna (closed, 2011) |
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| Recent Loans - Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
2006
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| Eye on Europe - Prints, Books & Multiples, 1960 to Now - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Dialog - Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe |
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| Outdoors - Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London (England) |
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| Mapping - Bury Art Museum, Bury (England) |
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| Tate Triennial 2006 - New British Art - Tate Triennial, London (England) |
2005
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| Looking at Words - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The Philosopher's Garden - Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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| Spotlight - The Changing Room, Stirling (Scotland) |
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| Schrift, Zeichen, Geste. Carlfriedrich Claus im Kontext von Klee bis Pollock - Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz |
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| BIG BANG - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Die Ordnung der Natur - OK Offenes Kulturhaus OÖ, Linz |
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| Far from the Sea - Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis BV:BKV, Bregenz |
2004
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| L’artiste éditeur - FRAC - Limousin, Limoges |
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| Wer bietet mehr? - Fünfzehn Jahre Deichtorhallen Hamburg - Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| The Demarco Archive - Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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| Art of the Garden - Tate Britain, London (England) |
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| Far From the Sea: October Foundation 1998–2003 - Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, TN |
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| Orizzonti Aperti - Da Felice Casorati a Vanessa Beecroft - Palazzo Forti - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Verona |
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| The 1960s - Dean Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
2003
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| Une collection de « Chefs-d’œuvre » - Emprunts, pastiches, copies, citations et interprétations - FRAC - Limousin, Limoges |
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| Signatures of the Invisible - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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| Die Himmel - Kunstraum Eisengraberamt p.p., Gföhl |
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| Zona People 1974-1985 Non profit art space - Firenze - Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva |
2002
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| A Library for a Justified Sinner - Dean Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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| Espacio Concepto - Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona |
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| Signatures of the Invisible - Centre d´Art Contemporain Geneve, Geneva |
2001
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| Signatures of the Invisible - Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome |
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| Dílna Kollerschlag - Galerie Navrátil, Prague |
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| Sous Les Ponts, Le Long De La Riviere... - Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg |
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| Signatures of the Invisible - The Old Truman Brewery, London (England) |
2000
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| Expressions - Scottish Art (3) 1976 - 1989 - Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen (Scotland) |
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| dans l'espace - Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva |
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| Skulpturenpark Ismaning 2000 - Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning |
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| Group Exhibition - HeimatWeh - FernLust - Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna |
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| Raw - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
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| Flower Show - Pump House Gallery, London (England) |
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| TOMORROW FOR EVER - Galerie Sfeir-Semler - Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| Tuttle - Finlay - Stampa, Basel |
1999
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| Visible-Invisible - Centre d'art contemporain de Pontmain, Pontmain |
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| Liberation and Tradition: Scottish Art (2) 1963-1975 - Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen (Scotland) |
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| Heads Up - Highlights from the Permanent Collection - Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL |
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| Group Exhibition - My house is your house... - Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna |
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| WordVolume - Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne |
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| inter esse - Galerie Stadtpark, Krems |
1998
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| Heads Will Roll - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
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| Green Waters - Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney (Scotland) |
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| La Biennale de Montréal 1998 - Biennale de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
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| Peter Weibel - Birgit Jürgenssen - Ian Hamilton Finlay - Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna |
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| René Magritte en de hedendaagse kunst - Mu.ZEE, Oostende |
1997
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| Oktober 1917-1997 - The Gallery at Norwich University , Norwich (England) |
1996
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| Travaux Publics [Public Works] - Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven |
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| Schwerelos - Skulpturen - Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz |
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| Werkstatt Kollerschlag - Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis BV:BKV, Bregenz |
1995
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| Temples - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
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| Yo Soy Tu. Artistas internacionales contra la violencia y la xenofobia - MADC Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José |
1994
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| Out of This World - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1993
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| I Am You - MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp |
1992
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| POIESIS The Exhibition - Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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| Instructions and Diagrams - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
1991
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| Zone D – Innenraum - Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst - GfZK, Leipzig |
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| Acht Entwürfe für die Landspitze - Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn |
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| Ian Hamilton Finlay - Hannah Villiger - Nikola Vuco - Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main |
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| Metropolis - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin |
1990
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| Rhetorical Image - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
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| High Season 1: A Multiple/Print Show. - Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna |
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| Visual Poetry - Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 8th Biennale of Sydney 1990 - The Readymade Boomerang - Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, NSW |
1989
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| Guillaume Bijl & Ian Hamilton Finlay - Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna |
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| The Mindful Page - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Another Group Show - Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna |
1987
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| Skulptur. Projekte in Münster 1987 - Skulptur Projekte Münster, Münster |
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| documenta 8 - Documenta, Kassel |
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| Unpainted Landscapes - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
1984
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| At the Serpentine: Graeme Murray Gallery - Serpentine Gallery, London (England) |
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Australia
| | Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney, NSW
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Austria
| | Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna
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France
Germany
| | Nolan Judin Berlin, Berlin
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| | Galerie Sfeir-Semler - Hamburg, Hamburg
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Lebanon
| | Galerie Sfeir-Semler - Beirut, Beirut
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Spain
| | Galería Kewenig, Palma de Mallorca
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Switzerland
United Kingdom
| | The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland)
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| | Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London (England)
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| | Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England)
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USA
| | David Nolan Gallery, New York City, NY
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Australia
| | Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
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Canada
| | Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
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France
| | Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
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| | Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg
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Germany
| | Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
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| | Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst - GfZK, Leipzig
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| | Herbert-Gerisch Stiftung, Neumünster
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Italy
| | Palazzo Forti - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Verona
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Liechtenstein
| | Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
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Luxembourg
| | MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
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Poland
| | ms - Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, Lodz
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Portugal
United Kingdom
| | Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England)
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| | Cass Sculpture Foundation, Chichester, West Sussex (England)
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| | Visual Research Centre, Dundee (Scotland)
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| | Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh (Scotland)
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| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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| | Tate Modern, London (England)
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| | University Gallery and Baring Wing - Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne
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| | Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton (England)
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USA
| | Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | Laumeier Sculpture Park, Saint Louis, MO
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Catalogs
| | Skulptur statt Denkmal- Galerie M + R Fricke - Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf |
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