Paul McDevitt
Paul McDevitt
Born 1972 Troon, Scotland. Lives and works in Berlin.
Solo Exhibitions/Projects
2021 McStock Farbvision, Berlin (with Tommy Støckel)
Modern Furnishings Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen
2018 40 sipgate, Düsseldorf
2017 Cave Paintings Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen
Modern Furnishings SMAC, Berlin
Hogwash Mrs Rick’s Cupboard, Nottingham, UK
Dolph Projects, London
2016 Kunstbibliothek, Berlin (with Cornelius Quabeck as Infinite Greyscale)
Von Holden Studio, Palermo, IT (with Cornelius Quabeck as Infinite Greyscale)
House of St Barnabas, London
2015 Grand Canyon Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Hunker Down LICA, Lancaster, UK
2014 Kunstverein Düsseldorf Schaufenster (with Cornelius Quabeck as Infinite Greyscale)
Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen
2013 Espacio Valverde, Madrid
A Life Without Shame Sommer & Kohl, Berlin
2012 If You Haven’t Any Hay (with Cornelius Quabeck), Galerie Horst Schuler, Düsseldorf
Night Soil Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen
2011 Running on Woollen Legs Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
2010 OBE Sommer & Kohl Berlin
What Survives APT/Peter Bergman, Stockholm
2009 Bile and Manias Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen
The Cant Artspeak, Vancouver (cat.)
Bierstadt (with Cornelius Quabeck) Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Ecstatic Visions etc. Galerie Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam
Spastic with Cheer (with Heike Kati Barath) Kunstverein Schwerte, Schwerte, DE (cat.)
- Bierstadt (with Cornelius Quabeck) Galerie Horst Schuler, Düsseldorf
Journal of the Winds Sommer & Kohl, Berlin
Bierstadt (with Cornelius Quabeck) Dunckerstrasse 17, Berlin
2007 Guide Me Berwick Gymnasium, Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK (cat.)
Solitary Figure in Landscape Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
2004 Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
2003 Merge ‘inbrief’ print project, Jerwood Foundation, London
The Horns of Moses Habitat Kings Road, London
2001 Half-Life Hales Gallery, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 AAIP Sint Lucas Showroom, Antwerp, BE
Kunst im Traum HibertRaum, Berlin
AAIP Weserburg Museum, Bremen
Porös Lobe Block, Berlin
2020 Figure Up BCMA Berlin
Flagge Zeigen multiple locations, Brandenburg
2018 Wunderkammer Esberg Museum, Esberg, DK
Multiple Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
History of Line Milchhof, Berlin
Malevolent Eldritch Shrieking AttercliffeTM, Sheffield, UK
2016 Costermongering Belmacz, London
2015 Recordings Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, DE (with Cornelius Quabeck as
IGR)
1+1=22 Galerie Roy, Zülpich, DE
20 Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Ouvrez l’œil Le Bel Ordinaire, Pau, France (with Cornelius Quabeck as IGR)
2014 Associations – New SALTS, Basel
Le Temps de la Rentrée Sommer & Kohl, Berlin
Just Add Water CCA Andtratx, Majorca
Body and Void: Echoes of Henry Moore in Contemporary Art Henry Moore
Foundation, Perry Green, UK
Decline and Fall online exhibition (Artsy.net), curated by Francesca Gavin
Study From The Human Body Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
2012 About Stupidity curated by Doreet LeVitte Harten and Diana Dallal, The Petach Tikva
Museum of Art, Israel
Es war einmal was nie gewesen ist curated by Henrik Schrat, Galerie Ute Parduhn,
Düsseldorf
Zeichen und Wunder curated by Andreas Oehlert, Kunsthaus Nürnberg, Nürnberg
Collaborations and Interventions curated by Friederike Nymphius, CCA Kunsthalle,
Andratx, Majorca
Glamourie PSL, Leeds
2011 Under Stor Press Dunckers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden
Backstage Rider Kunst Magasin, Berlin
Laws and Sausage nationalmuseum, Berlin
Summer in the City Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen
From Berlin Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen
Press Release Essays and Observations, Berlin
No Government, No Cry (a project by Kendell Geers) C.I.A.P, Hasselt, Belgium
Der Menschen Klee KIT, Düsseldorf (cat.)
2010 Lei da Selva Lehmann Maupin, New York
Summer in the City Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen
The Berlin Box CCA Kunsthalle, Andratx, Majorca
Radical Adults The Forgotten Bar, Berlin
2009 Abstract Cabinet Show Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK (cat.)
Paper Moon Sommer & Kohl, Berlin
Summer in the City Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen
The Golden Record – The Sounds of Earth g39, Cardiff, UK
The Golden Record – The Sounds of Earth The Collection, Lincoln, UK
Nus Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Col-lecció Art Foundation Mallorca CCA Kunsthalle, Andratx, Majorca
2008 Chambres à part II curated by Laurence Dreyfus, La Réserve, Paris
100 Years 100 Artists 100 Works of Art A Foundation Gallery, London
Golden Record – the Sounds of Earth Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
Supernatural curated by Friederike Nymphius, CCA Kunsthalle, Andratx, Majorca
Pendre la Crémaillère Sommer & Kohl, Berlin
Cult Fiction curated by Emma Mahony, Tullie House, Carlise (cat.)
Space to Draw Jerwood Space, London (cat.)
2007 Star Dust ou la Dernière Frontière MAC/VAL Musée D’Art Contemporain Du Val-De-
Marne, Paris (cat.)
Cult Fiction curated by Emma Mahony The New Art Gallery, Walsall, touring to
Nottingham Castle, Leeds City Art Gallery, Aberystwyth Art Gallery (cat.)
2006 Prints Now: Directions & Definitions V&A, London (cat.)
The Starry Messenger: Visions of the Universe Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
(cat.)
Drawing Inspiration Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, UK (cat.)
2005 Sonnenblumen Titanic Kjubh, Cologne
Ticker curated by Aurélie Voltz, carlier | gebauer, Berlin
The Failure Korridor, Berlin
10th Anniversary Exhibition Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Post Notes ICA, London & touring
Communism curated by Grant Watson, Project, Dublin
2004 Implosion Raum500, Munich
Pledge Sparwasser HQ, Berlin
No-How Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
2003 Post it Floating IP, Manchester
EU3 – European Drawing Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
I want! I want! Towner Art Centre, Eastbourne
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
Some Panoramas Pump House, London
Arrangement: the use of flowers in art Rhodes+Mann, London (cat.)
Please! Take One 39, London
Bad Touch Keith Talent Gallery, London
Ponce the Ship, London
Phillip Allen, Diana Cooper, Paul McDevitt Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Air Guitar: Art Reconsidering Rock Music curated by Emma Mahony (cat.)
Tullie House, Carlisle
Angel Row, Nottingham
2002 Non-Plan domoBaal, London (cat.)
YesteryearNowadays Hales Gallery, London
Air Guitar: Art Reconsidering Rock Music curated by Emma Mahony (cat.)
Cornerhouse, Manchester
MK G, Milton Keynes
Neverland Cell Project Space, London
Reverberator curated by Michael Archer, Houldsworth, London
Lovely curated by Andreas Oehlert, Kohlenhof, Nuremberg
2001 Please Use The Space Provided For Additional Information
Andrew Mummery Gallery, London
What’s Wrong? curated by Dave Beech, The Trade Apartment, London
Die München Sonne (with Declan Clarke) Maximiliansforum, Munich
Skuggspel Tullkammaren, Umeå, Sweden
The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2001 (cat.)
Cheltenham & Gloucester College, Cheltenham
The Alberto Vilar Gallery at the Prince’s Foundation, London
EICH Gallery, Hull
Teeth & Trousers Cell Project Space, London
Freie Wahlen (McDevitt, Purdy, Quabeck) Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden,
Germany (cat.)
Saatchi Gallery Bursaries 1999 – 2001 The Saatchi Gallery at 30 Underwood St,
London (cat.)
2000 Compilation PLUS, Düsseldorf
Felt-Tip David Risley/Zwemmer Gallery, London
Hellseher Projektraum Konkordiastrasse, Düsseldorf
The Armchair Project Cinch, London
McDevitt, Purdy, Quabeck – Bigger Monster Lover Glasgow Project Space, Glasgow
McDevitt, Purdy, Quabeck – Uptight (Outta Sight) PLUS, Düsseldorf
Teenage Comedown 15c, London
Curated Projects (with Declan Clarke)
2014 Youth 10 page project in Twin.
2013-14 Rain, Steam, and Speed Sommer & Kohl, Berlin
2012 Farbige Schatten Goethe-Institut Dublin, Ireland
2011 Herbei ein Licht! Lismore Castle Arts: St Cathage Hall, Lismore, Ireland
2009 Fuck Book Publication, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
2008 Coney Island Hotdog Eating Championship (event) Galerie Ben Kaufmann, Berlin
Video Screening Dunckerstrasse 17, Berlin
Printed Project #9 ‘The Call of the Wild is Now a Cry for Help’ published by Visual
Artists Ireland
2007 Expect Nothing Gallery for One, Dublin
Feint publication, Dublin
2005 Matt Calderwood, Björn Dahlem, Sophie von Hellerman, Ian Kiaer, Cornelius
Quabeck Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin (cat.)
2002 Play it as it Lays – 17 artists from Los Angeles London Institute Gallery Millbank,
London
2000 The Armchair Project Cinch, London
Dust Up – Two Down The House, Chelsea College of Art, London
Solo publications:
2022 48 published by Infinite Greyscale (forthcoming)
47 published by Infinite Greyscale (forthcoming)
Innenhalb des Rings published by Infinite Greyscale (forthcoming)
untitled (with Jefre Ledesma-Cantu) published by Farbvision (forthcoming)
2020 HMF published by Infinite Greyscale
46 published by Infinite Greyscale
2018 Muse published by Re:Surgo
2015 The Fall of Professor M (with Declan Clarke) published by Hunker Down
One Two (with Matt Calderwood) published by Hunker Down
Conference published by Hunker Down
Enveloped published by Hunker Down
43 published by Infinite Greyscale
2013 40 published by Infinite Greyscale
One Hour Photos (with Matt Calderwood) published by Infinite Greyscale
2012 39 published by Infinite Greyscale
Paul McDevitt (monograph) published by Kerber
Paul McDevitt & Cornelius Quabeck published by Infinite Greyscale
Muse published by Infinite Greyscale
2011 Recent Collaborations published by Martin Asbæk Gallery
2010 Stellar Paralax: North Kent published by Artlands
2009 The Cant published by Artspeak
Printed Project (guest editor), published by Visual Arts Ireland
2008 McDevitt • Quabeck published by Anti Hero
2007 Guide Me published by Art Editions North
2006 What is Subjectivity? published by Compton Verney
2005 Clarke & McDevitt Present published by Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane
2001 Lost Weekend published by Pocko
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