BIOGRAPHY ABIGAIL LANE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

KEY:
Bold = Exhibition title and venue
Italics = Work in show
CAT = Exhibition catalogue

2024

DECEMBER 2024 - JANUARY 2025: Three Graces, 303 gallery, Lowestoft

NOVEMBER 2024 - APRIL 2025: le fait divers: une hypothèse en 26 lettres, 5 équations et aucune réponse » (miscellaneous fact: a hypothesis in 26 letters, 5 equations and no answer). Curated by Nicolas Surlapierre and Vincent Lavoie.MACVAL Museum, Paris.
Bloody wallpaper, Heads and Tails 12 embroideries including guest artist Mathew Weir's Woundman. CAT

OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2024: For Folks Sake. The Cut, Suffolk IP19 8BY Dis Grace, Grace Full, Grace Land

SEPTEMBER 2024: Zig Zag Ladies at Home, an exhibition of Abigail Lane's works at Sarah Lucas's house. Crub, London Zig Zag Ladies (Coutntry Life, MissALaneous, Has been and She's Febreze, Dis Grace, Landscape, Import, Export, Supernatural) CAT (Heads and Tails newspaper)

JUNE 13 - 15 2024: Nature The Artist group exhibition organized by The Great Imagining, part of The Garden of Tomorrow Festival, London.

JUNE - AUGUST 2024: Thread Count, an exhibition of contemporary textile work, The Art Station Bank, Suffolk. Co-curated by The Art Station and Freddie Robins. Zig Zag Lady (Spiral Milk). Seer.

MARCH - SEPTEMBER 2024: A Change of Scenary, works from the Sammlung Goetz collection. Neus Museum, Nuremburg, Germany. Martin Boyce, Robert Gober, Rodney Graham, Andy Hope 1930, Abigail Lane and Sarah Lucas. Bottom Wallpaper (blue), Ink pad (blue), Inked chair

JANUARY - MARCH 2024: Doing Time. Abigail Lane at Semiose, Paris

JANUARY - MARCH 2024: Five By Five. Incubator, London
Ingrid pollard. Mathew Arthur Williams, Abigail Lane, Rebecca Hancockc, Georgie Hopton, Alice McCabe, Mona Hatoum, Tamara Al-Mashook, Maggi Hambling, Jelly Green. On the blob. Heads & Tails (Making Tracks and Jam)


2023

JUNE - AUGUST 2023: Heads and Tails. The Art Station, Suffolk. Abigail Lane solo exhibition (with guest appearances by Glenn Brown, Gavin Turk and Mathew Weir).

FEBRUARY - JUNE 2023: Big Women. Firstsite, Colchester, Essex. curated by Sarah Lucas. Group show (Renata Adela, Erica Akerlund, Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press, Kate Boxer, Yoko Brown, Angela Bulloch, Phillippa Clayden, Sonia Coode-Adams, Vanessa Fristedt, Maggi Hambling, Pam Hogg, Rachel Howard, Merily Humphreys, Patricia Jordan, Princess Julia, Abigail Lane, Tory Lawrence, Millie Laws, Sarah Lucas, Polly Morgan, Clare Palmier, Georgina Starr, Milly Thompson, Gillian wearing, Sue Webster). Doing Time (Jay and Black Cap female), Zig Zag Lady Spiral Milk, Rainbow Warrior.

DEC 2022 - JANUARY 2023: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral. The Art Station, Suffolk. A collection of artist's objects curated by Annabel Dover and Karen Densham. Sausage Pelt.


2022

JULY - SEPTEMBER 2022: Earth: digging deep in British Art 1781-2022. RWA, Bristol. The final installment of the RWA's elements series, curated by Emma Stibbon, Christiana Payne and Nathalie Levi. Bronze Molehills. CAT


2021

JULY- NOVEMBER 2021: Balls. OOF Gallery, Warmington House, London. Group show. (Nicola Costantino | Paul Deller | Dario Escobar | Rosie Gibbens | Jj Guest | Jazz Grant | Marcus Harvey | Richard Hughes | Abigail Lane | Kieran Leach | Lana Locke | Sarah Lucas | Lindsey Mendick | Laurent Perbos | Hank Willis Thomas | Gavin Turk | Dominic Watson.) Self-portrait as a Pheasant.

JUNE - AUGUST 2021: Here. The Art Station, Saxmundham, Suffolk. Curated by Clare Palmier and Jane Watt. Installations with: Fool, The Crux, Shirt and Tie, Scenic Route print.

MAY - JUNE 2021: The Waiting Place. The Art Station, Saxmundham, Suffolk . Curated by Ann-Marie James and Emily Godden. The Eve of Creation (unopened).


2020

NOVEMBER - MARCH 2020:  The Forest is the Museum. Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Fineshade Wood near Corby, Rockingham Forest, England. Exhibition to mark the end of a residency with artist Lala Meredith-Vula.

MAY 2020: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. (No. 16, reader Alan Cumming, artist Abigail Lane). The Big Read Project. A digital project (www. ancientmarinerbigread.com). The Arts Institute, University of Plymouth, Curated by Sarah Chapman, Philip Hoare and Angela Cockayne. Forever Always Somewhere footage

JANUARY - MARCH 2020: The Frangenberg Collection. Wolfson College, Cambridge. Curated by Philip Lindley. For His Own Good print. 2019

2019

MAY – JUNE 2019: Unboxed. The Art Station, Suffolk. BB orchestra satellite

OCTOBER: Children of Saturn (les enfants de saturne), curated by Sebastien Faucon
Rochechouart Museum, Musée d'art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne - Château de Rochechouart, Place du château 87600 Rochechouart, France. Bloody Wallpaper/ Concrete Dog installation, For His Own Good. 5th Oct - 15th Dec 2019

OCTOBER: MYBA, A special retrospective exhibition alongside the British art fair. Curated by Gavin Turk. Saatchi Gallery, King's Rd London SW3 4RY. October 3rd - 6th 2019. Blueprint.

JULY- DECEMBER: Forest is the Museum, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Fineshade Wood near Corby, Rockingham forest, England. 6-month artist residency,

JULY: DOG SHOW, Southwark Park Galleries, 1 Park Approach, Southwark Park, London SE16 2UA. 18th July – 16th September. Ethel print

JUNE onward: Women as Currency, Curated by Kate Bryan, head of collections, Soho House. Princes Dome, The Ned, London. Manifestation currency prints

MAY: ALIVE in the UNIVERSE. Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Calle de la Racheta, Venice, Italy. Curated by Caroline Wiseman and David Baldry during the Venice Biennale 2019. Forever Always Somewhere, (2 screen projection). Showing 21st May

MAY: As Seen On Screen: art and cinema. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Curated by Beth Lewis.


2018

DECEMBER: Ecstasy in Norwich. Lower Green Gallery, Norwich.(An exhibition inspired by the life of Julian of Norwich curated by Jonathan P Watts). All that is made (a wax vision 2018)

OCTOBER: “ THE ANNOTATED READER? ”. Cork Street Galleries, 9a – 9b Cork Street, London W1S 3LL Contribution to Ryan Gander and Jonathan P Watts's compilation of annotated texts.

SEPTEMBER: The Everyday and Extraordinary. Towner art gallery, Eastbourne, then Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. Conceived as part of the Arts Council Collection National Partners Program 2016-19.

AUGUST: Heart of the Forest. Baby Forest creative website headquarters. Foherlagh, Skibbereen, Ireland. Festival of projects. Underneath the Abject Willow installed in The Ash Grove.

JUNE: Collaborative Collections, National Museum, Centinje, Montenegro and touring venues in the Western Balkans until August 2019. Untitled (Anne Elliot) from 1992. CAT

APRIL: The Lore of the Land  group exhibition curated by artist David Harrison, Churchgate gallery, Somerset. Scenic Route (print).

MARCH - JUNE: Sawdust and Sequins: The Art of Circus. An exhibition of historic and contemporary art about circus. RWA, Bristol. Cat and Ballwallpaper, Golden Age prints.

FEBRUARY: The Arca Project (16 artists and 16 writers: a project inspired by W.G Sebald). PayneShurvell, London. Wok this Way print.

2017

NOVEMBER: Zoo 1994-2017, part of the Future Revisited. Solo show at Andréhn-Schiptjenko gallery, Stockholm, Sweden.

SEPTEMBER: Female Ejaculation Vol 1, Berlin Art week, 13 September, curated by Jonny Star. Kosmetiksalon Babette, Berlin.

JUNE: Finding Words. An installation commissioned by Aldeburgh Music for the concert hall foyer to mark its 50th anniversary. Snape Maltings, Suffolk.

MAY: Brexit- out of the matrix? Curated by Kitty Schaertlin and Dominique von Burg. Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liesthal, Basel, Switzerland. Forever Always somewhere, EXIT, Gesticulation, Scream paper portrait, Missing sector orb, Henny Penny.

APRIL: Art collection opens at The Ned, London. Scream paper portrait II.

APRIL: The Arca Project (16 artists and 16 writers: a project inspired by W.G Sebald). PayneShurvell Suffolk. Wok this Way print.

MARCH: Transparency. Group show, Walker Art gallery, Liverpool in collaboration with the Arts Council. Houses and Occupants series.



2016

JULY: Something Old Something New. Monthly, online magazine page for Baby Forest creative space.

MARCH (4th): CAST Helston, Cornwall. Film Club. Curated by Kelly Taylor. Short films by 8 artists: Steve Claydon, Graham Dolphin, William E Jones, Dexter Dalwood, Manon de Boer, Abigail Lane, Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind. Cornwall. Forever Always Somewhere.



2015

JUNE: SNAP Art at Aldeburgh Festival 2015. Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin, Damián Ortega. Snape Maltings, Suffolk. Show produced by Abigail.



2014

DECEMBER: Queensize - Female Artists from the Olbricht Collection. ME collectors Room Berlin/ Olbricht foundation. (Until August 2015). Fear was Her Crime. CAT

NOVEMBER 4-15: From the Cute to the Powerful. Paddle8. Online Auction curated by Tracey Emin. Auld Lang Syne, Nature’s Way.

SEPTEMBER: Wallpaper – Artists’s Interior worlds. London print studio, London. Bloody Wallpaper.

SEPTEMBER: Untitled (survey of work produced by key British artists between 1988 and 1997), Ekaterina Foundation, Moscow. Russia (in association with the British Council.) Curated by David Thorpe, Elena Kuprina-Lyakhovich and Alexandra Danilova. CAT . CANCELLED.

JULY: A Fete worse than Death 2014, Red gallery and Rivington street fair, London. Mind Over Matter/ Arse Over tit etc.

JUNE: SNAP Art at Aldeburgh Festival 2014. Anya Gallaccio. Show produced by Abigail.

MAY: Exhibition based on the Pigdogandmonkeyfestos publications, curated by Shaun Doyle and Mally Mallinson. Airspace Gallery, Stoke on Trent. Auld Langs Syne, Make your misery earn its keep.



2013


OCTOBER: L'Œil photographique, (œuvres majeures de la collection photographique du centre national des arts plastiques), Le CNAP, France, curated by Jean-Charles.Vergne. Clermont-Ferrand, Fonds régional d'art contemporain Auvergne, (until Feb 2014). She didn’t need her eyes open…CAT

SEPTEMBER: SNAP The 2011 Portfolio. Espacio Minimo galleria de arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain. (until Nov 2013) No Miracle in Sight.

JUNE: SNAP Art at Aldeburgh Festival, Inspired by Britten. Snape Maltings, Suffolk.. Show produced by Abigail as well as contributed to. Underneath the Abject Willow. CAT

APRIL – Postcard Narratives, Jeremy Cooper & invited artists. ROOM Gallery, London. Your World is a Burden to Me. CAT



2012


JUNE: SNAP Art at Aldeburgh Festival, Snape Maltings, Suffolk. Show produced by Abigail. CAT

AUGUST – DECEMBER: New prints produced for Art Barter and Sophie Parkin’s book about the Colony Room Club.
New studio built at home in Suffolk.



2011


NOVEMBER: Intercourse Day, ICA, London. Forever Always Somewhere.

OCTOBER: SNAP The Portfolio, Stolper and Friends Gallery, Oslo. No Miracle in Sight, Levitational Being (Tracey).

JULY - SEPTEMBER 2011: Historias de A. Obras de la Colección Jumex. MUSEO AMPARO, Mexico. Curated by Michel Blancsubé. (Marcos Castro, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Michel François, Rodney Graham, Carlos Huffmann, Marine Hugonnier, Mike Kelley, Abigail Lane, Ugo Rondinone, Emilio Valdés)

JUNE: SNAP Art at the Aldeburgh Festival, Snape Maltings, Suffolk. Show produced by Abigail as well as contributed to. Forever Always Somewhere installation, Nature’s Way, Pilgrim. CAT

JUNE: SNAP The Portfolio, Paul Stolper Gallery, London. No Miracle in Sight.



2010


JULY: Back to Hackney Group Show. Millie Laws. Hackney Empire, London.MAY: ART curated by Michael Craig Martin. Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin. Nature’s Way. CAT

FEBRUARY: Walls Are Talking. Whitworth gallery, Manchester. Wallpapers. CAT



2009


NOVEMBER: Art Barter. The Rag Factory, London. Bully For You.
Abigail buys house in Yaxley, Suffolk.



2008


JUNE: For Your Pleasure, works and installation at Matches store, London.

APRIL: You dig the tunnel, I’ll hide the soil. Edgar Allan Poe inspired exhibition, curated by Harland Miller. White Cube gallery, London. Tell Tale Heart sculpture and print. CAT

FEBRUARY: The kiss of a lifetime. Rogue project space, Manchester and touring other venues into 2009. Still at it in Eden.

FEBRUARY: Black and White. Karre Bernsten Gallery, Oslo. Skeleton Lenticulars. CAT



2007


DECEMBER: Pretty Taxing project, London. I Skull You and Valentine images.

JUNE: Art Car Boot 2007, London. Print collaboration with Peter Blake – A Deck of Prints.

JANUARY: 7.1. CAAM – Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Sleight of Hand Complete Arthole film installation.

Abigail’s son Eric is born. Moves from London to Suffolk.



2006


AUGUST: Showroom Dummies fashion show. In association with Hackney Empire, London.

JUNE: Art Car Boot Fair 2006, London. From the Cradle to the Grave customised caravan/shop.

JANUARY: Bone Idle - The Shop. Showroom Dummies, Selfridges, London.

Abigail’s father, Dennis Lane dies.



2005


NOVEMBER: Bone Idle Skull Auction. Charing X Gallery, London. (November 24th)

NOVEMBER: Goetz collection in Falckenberg Museum, Hamburg.

NOVEMBER:Bone Idle – The Shop. Charing X Gallery, London.

OCTOBER: Group Show curated by Toby Clark at FAS, London. Smoking House JUNE: Here and Now. British Sculptors at the Serpentine from 1970 until the present. Serpentine Gallery, London. Vacuum.

MAY: London Calling. Karre Bernsten Gallery, Oslo. Fear was her Crime – large.

MARCH: Size Matters. Hayward Gallery, and touring. Arts Council Collection. Ink Pad 1 and Dinomouse sequal… CAT

Album Cover: Angel Milk for Telepopmusik (adapted Inspirator images).
Prints for Eyestorm, London. For His Own Good and You Know Who You Are.



2004


DECEMBER: Showroom Dummies event with Mulberry, London.

DECEMBER: Christmas Windows project – installation at Monumental Masons E.M Lander, London, for BBC3 and installed for the month. TV programme.

MARCH: Man Rubble. Hackney Wick, London. Eye am the Chairman, Black Dog and The Joker.

JANUARY: Dream Extensions curated by Filip Luyckx. SMAK Museum, Ghent, Belgium. Inspiritor installation. CAT



2003

DECEMBER: Dead Bird Show curated by David Harrison, Whitechapel, LondonNever Never Mind, outdoor film installation.

OCTOBER: Succubus, Banshee and Medusa curated by Mike Dawson, Comme Ca Art, Manchester. Figment poster.

OCTOBER: Launch of Showroom Dummies Ltd. Interior Motives (Natural Histories and Natural Disasters) Argyle Square, London.

AUGUST: Restoration project. Event with You Take My Breath Away installed in Clerkenwell Magistrates Court, Kings Cross, London.

JUNE: The Good the Bad and the Beautiful. Solo show. Distrito 4, Madrid, Spain. Figment (without shed) and Inspirator installations with posters and collage. CAT

JUNE: In Print, Contemporary British Art from Paragon Press. Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido and toured to Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contempory Art, Japan. CAT



2002

MAY: La part de l’autre, Carre d’art, Nimes, France. Still Lives.

APRIL: In the Freud Museum. Exhibition and auction. Freud Museum, London. Perfume bottles (Eau de Ego etc), My God and Freudian Slip.

FEBRUARY: Second Skin curated by Stephen Feeke and Penelope Curtis. Henry Moore Institute, Leeds. Complete Arthole, Lead by the Nose sculpture and poster. Vacuum sculpture. CAT



2001

NOVEMBER: Multiplication. A British Council exhibition of artists’ multiples touring internationally until 2007.

NOVEMBER: Hriller Show, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, NL.

NOVEMBER: Somerset House Fountain Court, London. Outdoor installation of Sleight of Hand projection. Complete Arthole. (Nov. 9th)

OCTOBER: Tomorrow’s World, Yesterday’s Fever (Mental Guests Incorporated) Solo Show. Victoria Miro Gallery, London. Inclination, Figment and Inspirator installations with Bollywood paintings, collage, My God, Figment print etc. CAT

OCTOBER: 2001 A Space Oddity, Colony Room Show at James Birch Gallery, London. Inspirator photograph. CAT

MAY: Tomorrow’s World, Yesterday’s Fever (Mental Guests Incorporated) Solo Show. Milton Keynes Gallery. Inclination, Figment and Inspirator installations with posters. CAT

MAY: Summer Exhibition curated by Peter Blake. Royal Academy, London. Figment Poster

MAY:Uncovered. The Gallery, University of Essex, UK.

APRIL: The Inspirator. Solo Show. Andrehn-Shiptjenko Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden. Inspirator installation and posters etc.

Renovates and moves into Hackney Wick live/work studio.



2000

DECEMBER: The Scream. Galerij ‘t Leerhuys, Bruges.

NOVEMBER: From Film, Victoria Miro Gallery, London. Complete Arthole Sleight of Hand prints.

NOVEMBER: Mayday. Curated by Marc- Olivier Wahler. CAN Centre d’Art Neuchatel, Switzerland. You Know Who You Are
installation, Never Never Mind.

JUNE: Transfert, Art in an Urban Space. Curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler. Biel-Bienne, Switzerland. For His Own Good, The Figment. CAT

JUNE: Space. A BBC2 documentary with section about Burbage House. Sleight of Hand etc (shown June14th).

JUNE: Works on paper: from Acconci to Zittel. Victoria Miro Gallery, London.

MAY: Close Up. Kunstverein Freiburg, Marienbad and touring to Kunsthaus Baselland, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany, until March 2001. Still Lives etc. CAT

MAY: From the Horse’s Mouth – exhibition and auction (May 7th). Burbage House, London.

MAY:Raw. Victoria Miro Gallery, London.

APRIL: Herausforderung Tier: von Beuys bis Kabakov. Stadtische galerie Karlsruhe, Germany.



1999


SEPTEMBER: Eve of Sensation. Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection. toured to Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York.

SEPTEMBER: Complete Arthole, Sleight of Hand installation. Rooftop at Burbage House, London. (September 8th)

APRIL: Graphic! British Prints Now! Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

AUGUST: Articultural Show organised by Gavin Turk, Southbank, London. (August 7th) Complete Arthole participate with An Eye for an Eye.



1998

OCTOBER: Trance. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA. Never Never Mind.

OCTOBER: Moving Images Without Tears. Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany. Still lives.

OCTOBER: Emotion – Junge Britische und Amerikanische Kunst in der Sammlung Goetz, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany. CAT

JUNE: Made In London. (Simmons and Simmons). Museu de Electricidada, Lisbon, Portugal. CAT

JUNE: London Calling. The British School at Rome, Italy.

JUNE: Fotografie als Handlung, 4 Internationale Foto-Triennale Esslingen. Galerien der Stadt Esslingen. CAT

APRIL: Whether the Roast Burns, the Train Leaves or the Heavens Fall. Solo Show. MCA, Chicago, USA. Figment installation and Still Lives. CAT

FEBRUARY: Close Echoes. Public Body and Artificial Space. City Gallery Prague and Kunst Halle Krems, Austria. Still Lives. CAT

JANUARY: Never Never Mind. Solo show. Victoria Miro Gallery, London. Film installation.

JANUARY: Exterminating Angel curated by Joshua Decter. Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France.

JANUARY: Privacy curated by Gianni Romano, Documentario, Milan, Italy. CAT.



1997


DECEMBER: Abigail Lane. Solo show. Andrehn Shiptjenko Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden. Still Lives and Never Never Mind projection.

OCTOBER: Art from the UK: Abigail Lane, Mona Hatoum, Rachel Whiteread, Douglas Gordon. Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany. CAT

OCTOBER: Arthole International present The Great Stromboliin Paris. (October 4th) CAT

SEPTEMBER: Another Time… Another Place. Solo show. Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris. Still Lives, Smoking Shoe installation, In Every Dreamhome a Heartache

SEPTEMBER: Sensation. Young British artists from the Saatchi Collection. Royal Academy of Arts, London and toured to Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany, October 1998. Blueprint. CAT

SEPTEMBER:Minor Sensation. Victoria Miro Gallery, London.
AUGUST: Livestock Market organised by Gavin Turk, Shoreditch, London, (August 9th). Complete Arthole participates with Lead by the Nose.

SUMMER: Eyes Dogs and Eternity, a collection of writing by Abigail Lane and Paul Fryer produced. Extracts are for Goetz catalogue, Germany later in the year. CAT

JULY: L’Autre curated by Harold Szeeman. Biennale de Lyon, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France. CAT

MAY: Apocalyptic Wallpaper, curated by Donna De Salvo, Wexner Centre for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USA. Installation with Blue Bottom Wallpaper and Ink Chairs. CATAPRIL: Gothic, curated by Christoph Grunenberg, ICA Boston, and toured to Portland Art Museum, Oregon, USA in 1998. The Bride The Body … CAT

APRIL: Material Culture, Hayward Gallery, London.

MARCH: Material Culture: the object in British Art of the 1980’s and 90’s. Hayward Gallery, London.

MARCH: Complete Arthole present The Great Stromboli event, Burbage House, London. (March 12th).
FEBRUARY:L’Empreinte, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. CAT



1996

DECEMBER: Full House, Young British Art. Veit Görner, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany. You Take My Breath Away and 25 Watt Moon.In Every Dream Home a Heartache. Artist project. Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht.

NOVEMBER:Interieurs. Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France. Broken Heart installation.

OCTOBER: Painting - the extended field. Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthall, Sweden, and touring to Rooseum Centre for Contemporary Art, Malmö, January 1997. Red Ink Pads and Bloody Wallpaper. CAT

SEPTEMBER: From Figure to Object. Karsten Schubert and Frith St. Gallery, London.

JULY: Chaos, Madness. Permutations of Contemporary Art. Curated by Johannes Gachnang. Kunst Halle Krems, Austria. Sculpture, Bottom Wallpaper and Ink Pad installation (Blue). CAT

JULY: An exhibition of Young British Artists. Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney and RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.

APRIL:* 10. Rhona Hoffman Gallery and Gallery 312, Chicago.

FEBRUARY:Brilliant! New Art from London, Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, USA. CAT Installation with Concrete Dog and Bloody Wallpaper

FEBRUARY: 25 Watt Moon. Solo Show. Ridinghouse Editions, London. Film installation and print.

The Salon - a weekly Hair Salon with Guy Healy, Burbage House, London.



1995

DECEMBER: Images of Masculinity, Victoria Miro Gallery, London. For His Own Good.

NOVEMBER: 4th International Istanbul Biennial, curated by Rene Block, Istanbul, Turkey. Bloody Wallpaper and Concrete Dog. CAT

OCTOBER: Brilliant! New Art From London, curated by Richard Flood. Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, USA. Bloody Wallpaper and Concrete Dog. CAT

OCTOBER: Brilliant: works on paper by Brilliant Artists. Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, USA
JULY: Karaoke: 4 for 4 and 2 x 2 Too curated by Georg Herold. South London Gallery, London. (collaborative piece with Mat Collishaw)

JULY: Group show of Young British Artists (part of LA international). Shoshana Wayne gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA.

JUNE: Here and Now, Serpentine Gallery, London. Vacuum.
MAY: Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away… Portalen, Copenhagen. Misfit.
MARCH:Corpus Delicti. Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen. Bloody Wallpaper and Concrete Dog. CAT

MARCH: Skin of the Teeth. Solo Show. ICA London. Bloody Wallpaper, Concrete Dog, Vertigo, Red Ink Pad and sound installation. CAT

JANUARY: Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away… MCA, Chicago. USA. Misfit.

Abigail moves to Burbage House live/work studio in Shoreditch, London.



1994

JUNE: Karaoke World Cup Football, curated by Georg Herald. Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany.

JUNE: Soggetto Soggetto, curated by Francesca Pasini and Giorgio Verzotti. Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’arte contemporana, Milan, Italy. CAT

MAY: Fiction / Non-fiction, curated by Glenn Scott Wright. Galleria Bonomo, Rome, Italy.

MAY: Ars Lux, billboard project, various sites, Bolongna, Italy.

MAY: Not Self Portrait. Karsten Schubert Gallery, London.

MAY: Cyberintimismo erotica, Bologna, Italy.

MAY: Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away …, Serpentine Gallery, London and touring to Nordic Arts Centre, Helsinki, Finland (August), Kunstverein, Hannover, Germany (September). Misfit, I Spy. CAT

APRIL: Punishment and Decoration curated by Michael Corris. Hohenthal und Bergen, Cologne, Germany.

APRIL: Domestic Violence curated by Alison Jacques. Gio Marconi gallery, Milan, Italy.

FEBRUARY: Abigail Lane. Solo Show. Emi Fontana Gallery, Milan, Italy. Blue Bottom Wallpaper, Blue Ink Pads, I Spy, Murdered Typewriter etc.

Photo ’94. The Photographers Gallery, London.



1993

OCTOBER: Displace curated by Tanya Bonakdar. Cohen Gallery, New York.

SEPTEMBER: Peccato di Novita, curated by Francesca Pasini, Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy. CAT

JUNE: Ha-Ha, Killerton House Gardens and Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK. Curated by Iwona Blaswick. The Bride, The Body, The Mystery and it’s… CAT

MARCH: Recent British Sculpture from the Arts Council Collection. Exhibition from South Bank Centre touring throughout Britain until 1995. CAT

MARCH: Visione Britannica, Valentina Moncada and Pino Casagrande Gallery, Rome, Italy. Ink Pads.

JANUARY: Privacy curated by Gianni Romano, Documentario, Milan, Italy. CAT


1992

NOVEMBER:Group Show. Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne, Germany. Conspiracy.

OCTOBER: 20 Fragile Pieces. Galerie Barbara et Luigi Polla Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland. CAT

SEPTEMBER: Making History. Solo Show. Karsten Schubert Gallery, London. (In collaboration with Maureen Paley) Black Ink Pads, Bottom Wallpaper, Blueprint, Conspiracy, Shoes etc.

SEPTEMBER: Group show curated by Clarissa Dalrymple. Barbara Gladstone Gallery and Stein Gladstone Gallery, New York. CAT

AUGUST: Abigail Lane, Cathy de Monchaux, Vincent Shine, Kunsthalle Luzern, Switzerland. Installation with Bottom Wallpaper and Inked chairs.

JUNE: Etats Specifiques. Francoise Cohen, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Le Havre, France. Ink Pads and shoes. CAT

MARCH: Mat Collishaw, Angus Fairhurst, Abigail Lane, curated by Emi Fontana. Via Farini, Milan, Italy. Making History photos, Inked Chair. CAT



1991


AUGUST: Show Hide Show. Curated by Andrew Renton at Anderson O’Day Gallery, London. Ink pads and glass works. CAT



1990


MARCH:Modern Medicine. Building One, London. Evidence, Props 1, 2 and wall photo. CAT



1989

DECEMBER: New Contemporaries, ICA, London. Advance. CAT

SEPTEMBER: Home Truths. Castello di Rivara, Turin, Italy, Work made on site. CAT



1988


JULY: Freeze. PLA Building, Surrey Docks, London. CAT



1986 – 89


Moved to London. Goldsmiths College, London. BA Fine Art.

1985 – 86

Bower Ashton, Bristol. Art Foundation.


1972 - 1986

Grows up in Bristol.



1967

Born in Penzance, Cornwall.