Lucy Gunning

Biography

Lucy Gunning is an Artist and a Senior Lecturer at Chelsea College of Arts.
Her practice involves installation and live events that juxtapose diverse material and spatial elements, engaged with the entanglement of a given site/context. Often working with moving image, sculptural or found objects, architectural intervention. There is an ongoing interest in performativity, temporality, space, matter. Informed by a politics of feminist, queer, decolonising, and ecological intent.

Recent solo projects include; ‘un’, No Show Space (2023); ‘Xylo-Phone’, Mattflix, Matts Gallery (2022);
‘In passing’, Palfrey Space (2021); ‘My Heart is like a Singing Bird’, The Bower, London, (2018);
Recent collaborative projects include; [these roarers], Whitstable Biennale 2018; ‘Incandescent’, Grand Square, Royal Naval College, Greenwich 2017, both with Bernice Donszelmann and Helen Robertson.

Past solo exhibitions include; Focus 4;RePhil, Philbrook Museum, Oaklahoma, 2007; The Archive, the Event and it’s Architecture, The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, Cumbria, 2007; Intermediate II, Art Now, London Tate Britain 2001; and solo shows at Matt’s Gallery, London; Green Naftali, New York; City Racing, London, Spike Island, Bristol etc.
Past Group Exhibitions include; 'Knock Knock', South London Gallery, London, (2018); Artists’ Walks: The Persistence of Peripateticism, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, New York (2017); We Are Grammar, Pratt Institute, New York, (2011); Gestures and Procedures, ACCA, The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2010): Big Bang, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2005; With Hidden Noise, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds( 2004); British Art Show 5, 2000-2001; Killing Time, White Columns, New York, (1997); New Contemporaries (1994).

Awards and residencies include; The Lorne Trust Award 2018-19; The Kenneth Armitage Foundation Fellowship 2011-13; The Wordsworth Trust Residency 2007; The Paul Hamlyn Individual Artist Award 2004; The Rome Scholarship 2001; BT New Contemporaries Award, 1994;

Publications include; The Archive, the Event and its Architecture, The Wordsworth Trust, 2007; Lucy Gunning Monograph, Matt’s Gallery, 2007; Grey Hope, Atopia Projects, 2006; What is Drawing? Black Dog Publishing Limited, 2003;

She has work in the following public collections; The Arts Council England, London; Tate Gallery Collection; Museum of Modern Art, Toyama; Centre George Pompidou, Paris; Contemporary Art Society, London; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York;

She is represented by Matt’s Gallery, London.