PAUL CHANEY
Contact: info at paulchaney dot co dot uk
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Born U.K. 1974
Prizes:
2020....South West Creative Technology Network Award, Cornwall, UK
2019....Honorary Mention, Bloxhub Prix, Copenhagen, DK
2015....Runner up, Arts Foundation Prize, London, UK
Public Programming:
2019....... Planning Matters – public programme at Kestle Barton Gallery, Cornwall
2016 – Now End of the World Garden – artist led research platform, founder/director
2016 – 2017 Critical Camps - public programme at Kestle Barton Gallery, Cornwall
2004 - 2012 Co-founder/lead artist - FIELDCLUB, Cornwall
2008 - 2010 Artistic consultant/exhibitions manager - Urbanomic, Falmouth, Cornwall
Residencies:
2014....Lizard Centre for Apocalyptic Studies II, Kestle Barton Gallery, Cornwall, UK
........The Ultimate Yarnwork (with Urbanomic), Bergan Kunsthall, Norway,
2013....Lizard Centre for Apocalyptic Studies I, Kestle Barton Gallery, Cornwall, UK
2012....Turborealism Breaking Ground, IZOLYATSIA Center for Cultural Initiatives - Donestk, UA
2011....DIVUS, Prague, CZ
Seminars, Events and Presentations:
2018....Art and Agriculture, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2017....Hyper Rural, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
2014....IZOLYATSIA at Kyiv Bookfair, Kyiv, UA
2013....When Site Lost the Plot, Goldsmiths, London, UK
........Where are we Going Walt Whitman?, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
2012....Urban Ecologies, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, PL
........The Penzance Convention, Cornwall, UK
2011....Garden Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
........FIELDCLUB and Friends, Late at TATE, TATE St Ives, UK
2010....Hydroplutonic Kernow Tour, The Falmouth Convention, UK
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Solo Shows:
2016....Donetsk Syndrome Diagrammatic, Tranzitdisplay, Prague, CZ
2016....Lizard Exit Plan - Kestle Barton Sector, Kestle Barton Gallery, Cornwall, UK
2014....Lizard Exit Plan, Kestle Barton Gallery, Cornwall, UK
2012....The Sun is Black, Museum of Art and Design, Benesov, CZ
2011....The Sun is Black, Divus, Prague, CZ
2008....The Lonely Now, Goldfish, Penzance, UK
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Selected Group Shows:
2024....Make Voices Be Heard, Fotograf Festival, Prague, CZ
2018....Il Faut Cultiver Notre Garden! Hunt Kastner, Prague, CZ
2017....Ecovention Europe, Museum De Domijnen, Sittard, NL
2016....Cities and (Velo)cities, De Markten, Brussels, BE
2015....Soil Culture, Hauser and Wirth Somerset, UK
2014....Second Autumn, Art Stations Poznan, PL
........Islands, g39, Cardiff, Wales, UK
2013....STILL/Life Ecologies of Perception National Trust Tyntesfield, Bristol, UK
........TURBOREALISM - Breaking Ground, IZOLYATSIA Center for Cultural Initiatives, Donetsk, UA
2012....There Was a Country Where They Were All Thieves, Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Fine Art, Amsterdam, NL
2011....In Abundance, Kestle Barton, Cornwall, UK
........Von Ribbentrop in St Ives - Art and War in the Last Resort, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
........Von Ribbentrop in St Ives - Art and War in the Last Resort, PEER, London, UK
2010....Exquisite Trove, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, UK
2009....Exquisite Trove, New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
........Wastelands, Newlyn Art Gallery, UK
........The New Landscape, Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, UK
........Nature Morte, Urbanomic, Falmouth, UK
........Psycho-geographies, Newlyn Art Gallery, UK
2004....Voicing Dissent, Falmouth Arts Center, UK
2003....Garden Delights, Falmouth Art Gallery, UK
2002....El Puente Roto, Cuenca, EC
2000....Duchamps Suitcase, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
........Ad Veritas, Brewhouse Arts Center, Taunton, UK