Charlie Prodger works with moving image, sculpture, photography and writing. She won the 2018 Turner Prize and represented Scotland at the 2019 Venice Biennale. She received the 2017 Paul Hamlyn Award and the 2014 Margaret Tait Award. The monograph Charlotte Prodger: Selected Works was published by Koenig books in 2022, documenting twelve years of art practice.
Prodger’s writing has been published in Frieze, F.R. DAVID (De Appel), 2HB (CCA), Victor & Hester, The Happy Hypocrite (Bookworks), Intertitles: An Anthology at the Intersection of Writing and Visual Art (Prototype Publishing) and What Artists Wear by Charlie Porter (Penguin).
Solo exhibitions include Blanks and Preforms, Kunstmuseum Winterthur; SaF05, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2021); Scottish Pavilion, Venice Biennale (2019); Colon Hyphen Asterix, Hollybush Gardens (2018); BRIDGIT/Stoneymollan Trail, Bergen Kunsthall; Subtotal, SculptureCenter, New York (2017); BRIDGIT, Hollybush Gardens, London; Charlotte Prodger, Kunstverein Düsseldorf (2016); 8004-8019, Spike Island, Bristol; Stoneymollan Trail, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (2015); Markets (with The Block), Chelsea Space, London; Nephatiti, Glasgow International (2014); Percussion Biface 1-13, Studio Voltaire, London; Colon Hyphen Asterix, Intermedia CCA, Glasgow (2012) and Handclap/Punchhole, Kendall Koppe, Glasgow (2011). Select group exhibitions include Language is a River, Monash University, Melbourne; Nine Lives (2021), The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago; A Sculpture & Six Videos, Wesleyan University, Connecticut; Freedom is Outside the Skin, Kunsthal 44 Moen, Denmark (2020); Migrating Worlds: The Art of the Moving Image in Britain, Yale Center for British Art; Palimpsest, Lismore Castle Arts (2019); Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London; Always Different, Always the Same: An Essay on Art and Systems, Bunder Kunstmuseum, Chur; ORGASMIC STREAMING ORGANIC GARDENING ELECTROCULTURE, Chelsea Space, London (2018); British Art Show 8 (2016); Weight of Data, Tate Britain, London; An Interior that Remains an Exterior, Künstlerhaus Graz (2015); Annals of The Twentieth Century, Wysing Arts, Cambridge (2014) Holes In The Wall, Kunsthalle Freiburg and Frozen Lakes, Artists Space, New York (2013) and Soundworks, ICA, London (2012).
Performances include Orange Helvetica Title Sequence, New York Book Art Fair, MOMA PS1 (with Bookworks); Fwd: Rock Splits Boys, Artists Space, New York and Café Oto, London (collaboration with Mason Leaver-Yap); Microsphaeric Howard Hughes Heaven Movie, Tramway, Glasgow and Assembly: A Survey of Recent Artists’ Film and Video in Britain, Tate Britain (2014) and Querido John, Kings Place, London (with Electra and The Wire, 2012). Prodger’s work has been presented at numerous film festivals including London Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Courtisane Festival, Seoul International New Media Festival; Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival and Vancouver International Film Festival.
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