Steve Bishop
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Steve Bishop an artist whose works are part of the Saatchi Collection also makes use of the medium. Interested in the fetishisation of the art object his work often combines taxidermy with other media such as fluorescent industrial lights and concrete borrowed from the minimalist tradition. His work presents the taxidermy out of its normal context, thus drawing attention to it and further exploring the fetishisation of animal life and by extension the art object. by Jeremy Parker
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Born, 1983, Toronto, Canada
Lives and Works in London
Education:
MA, Royal College of Art BA Fine Art, Kingston University
Solo Exhibitions:
2011: 2 person show with Dan Shaw-Town, Christopher Crescent, London, The Myth of Fingerprints, Galerie Koal, Berlin
2010: ><><, Gallery Vela, London Sheer Fatigue, Christopher Crescent, London
2009: Instant Distance / Distant Instance, Outpost, Norwich Some Thing to Believe in, Pianissimo, Milan 2008: Simply Read, Supplement, London
Group exhibitions:
2011: Off Site, Rod Barton, London Stuart Bailes, Steve Bishop, Jost Münster, Margini Arte Contemporanea, Tuscany Young London, V22, London Common Room (curated by Christopher Crescent), Pianissimo, Milan Studio Artists Group Show, Woodmill, London
2010: New Panorama, Pianissimo, Milan Point of Address: Members' Show 2010, Outpost, Norwich Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, 176 / Zabludowicz Collection, London Converse / Dazed Emerging Artists Award 2010, Stephen Friedman, London Newspeak: British Art Now Part II, The Saatchi Gallery, London Grammar See (curated by Jessica Watts), Rod Barton, London Something Left Undone, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva There is no solution because there is no problem, Art Sheffield Fringe, Sheffield The Devil's Necktie, The Woodmill, London
2009: Ventriloquist, Timothy Taylor, London Removed from the Eyes of Strangers, Galeri Andersson / Sandstrøm, Umeä Grey Matter, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh 2008: Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2008, A-Foundation, Liverpool, Rochelle School, London V22 Presents: The Wharf Road Project (with Supplement), London The Culture Clash, Working Rooms, London 2007: Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2007, New Art Gallery, Walsall, Cornerhouse, Manchester, Rochelle School, London
Projects: 2009 - 2011 (ongoing): Curates and publishes the biannual paper MONO