Born in 1982, Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom
Education
2005-2007 Städel Schule, Frankfurt-am-Main
2002-2005 Glasgow School of Arts, Glasgow
2001-2002 Falmouth College of Arts, Falmouth
Solo Exhibitions
2018 ‘Walking Sonic Texts – Sound Poetry and Movement in Space’, with a contribution by Marc Matter, Jan Mot, Brussels
2018 ‘Material Longevities’, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon
2018 ‘Tris Vonna-Michell’, Local Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago
2017 ‘From The Serralves Collection: Tris Vonna-Michell’, Museu Serralves, Porto
2017 ‘PUNCTUATIONS & PERFORATIONS’, La Verrière, Brussels
2016 ‘Register’, T293, Rome
2015 ‘Wasteful Illuminations: Distracted Listening’, Jan Mot, Brussels
2015 ‘Capitol Complex’, Appleton Square, Lisbon
2015 ‘Tris Vonna-Michell’, Overduin & Co., Los Angeles
2015 ‘Tris Vonna-Michell’, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver
2014 ‘Turner Prize 2014’, Tate Britain, London
2014 ‘Postscript III (Berlin)’, Metro Pictures, New York
2014 ‘Capitol Complex’, TPW, Toronto
2014 ‘Tris Vonna-Michell’, VOX Centre de l’image contemporaine, Montreal
2013 ‘Postscript II (Berlin)’, Jan Mot, Brussels
2013 ‘Pebble Dash’, T293, Rome
2013 ‘Capitol Complex’, Jan Mot, Mexico City
2012 ‘Ulterior Vistas’, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (in collaboration with Inheritance Projects)
2011 ‘Tris Vonna-Michell’, Metro Pictures, New York
2010 ‘Wasteful Illuminations’, T293, Naples
2010 ‘Not a Solitary Sign or Inscription to Even Suggest an Ending’, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles
2010 ‘Tris Vonna-Michell’, Capitain Petzel, Berlin
2010 ‘No more racing in circles – just pacing within lines of a rectangle’, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea
2009 ‘Capstans’, Halle fur Kunst, Lüneburg
2009 ‘Finding Chopin: Endnotes’, Jeu de Paume, Paris
2009 ‘Tris Vonna-Michell’, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm
2009 ‘Auto-Tracking: Ongoing Configurations’, Jan Mot, Brussels
2009 ‘Tris Vonna-Michell’, X Initiative, New York
2009 ‘Auto-Tracking-Auto-Tracking’, Kunsthalle Zurich
2009 ‘Studio A: Monumental Detours / Insignificant Fixtures’, GAMeC, Bergamo
2008 ‘Tris Vonna-Michell’, Cabinet Gallery, London
2008 ‘Auto-Tracking’, Kunsthalle Zurich
2008 ‘The Trades of Others’, T293, Naples
2007 ‘Tall Tales and Short Stories’, Cubitt, London
2007 ‘Puzzlers’, Kunstverein Braunschweig Cuboid, Braunschweig
2007 ‘Tris Vonna-Michell’, Witte de With, Rotterdam
2006 ‘Faire un effort’, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
2006 ‘Down the Rabbit-Hole’, Milliken Gallery, Stockholm
Group Exhibitions and Performances
2018 ‘Involucri pittorici rigidi. A descriptive evening of a publication’, Istituto Italiano di Cultura ‘C. M. Lerici’, Stockholm
2018 ‘Back to the Future! Im Karussell der Diakonservierung’, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
2017 ‘Performance lecture’, Lothringer13, Munich
2017 ‘Artist’s Books’, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
2017 ‘Rosebuds’, D21 Kunstraum Leipzig
2017 ‘t twoninethree in-residence at Luciana Brito Galeria’, São Paulo
2017 ‘Morphogenesis’, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon
2016 ‘Par Tibi, Roma, nihil’, Palatino archeological area, Rome
2016 ‘VI x VI Positionen zur Zukunft der Fotografie’, Landesgalerie Linz, Linz
2016 ‘… und eine Welt noch’, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg
2016 ‘Poésie Balistique’, La Verrière – Hermès Foundation, Brussels
2016 ‘This Is Your Replacement’, Sies + Höhe, Dusseldorf
2016 ‘New-Self-Portrait-Paradox’, MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38, New York
2015 ‘A story within a story’, 8th Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA)
2015 ‘The day will come when photography revises’, Triennial of Photography, Kunstverein in Hamburg
2015 ‘Digital Voices’, Oxford Library and the Language Center, Oxford
2014 ‘Society Acts – The Moderna Exhibition 2014’, Moderna Museet, Malmö
2014 ‘Against the grain’, Centre de la photographie, Genève
2014 ‘T293-in-residence’, Sadie Coles HQ, London
2014 ‘Un Nouveau Festival’, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2014 ‘Return Journey’, MOSTYN, Wales
2013 ‘The Story Behind’, NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona
2013 ‘Lecture-Performance: New Artistic Formats, Places, Practices and Behaviours’, MUSAC – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León
2013 ‘Unrest of Form. Imagining the Political Subject’, Secession, Wien
2013 ‘I knOw yoU’, IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2013 ‘The Butterfly Image’, Mudam, Luxembourg
2013 ‘Only here’, Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn
2012 ‘Reactivation’, 9th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai
2012 ‘CARA DOMANI opere dalla Collezione Ernesto Esposito’, MAMbo, Bologna
2012 ‘Storytelling as Craft’, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville
2012 ‘Ephemeropterae’, TBA21 Augarten, Vienna (performance)
2012 ‘Swans, Amputees’, Fondation Cartier, Paris (performance)
2012 ‘Searching for the fountain’, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
2012 ‘Soundworks’, ICA, London
2012 ‘Setting the Scene’, Tate Modern, London
2012 ‘OEI/Letterism’, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (performance)
2012 ‘Descriptive Acts’, San Francisco MOMA, San Francisco
2012 ‘enfolds: books I & II’, Mount Analogue, Stockholm
2012 ‘Never odd or even’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde (performance)
2011 ‘Balustrade: endless tapes’, Milliken Gallery, Stockholm
2011 Fotofestival 4, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Heidelberg
2011 ‘Folk Variations’, Radar, Loughborough (performance)
2011 ‘The Other Tradition’, Wiels, Brussels
2011 ‘La Casa Encendida’, Madrid (performance)
2011 ‘Subtext Part II’, Un Projects, Melbourne
2011 ‘British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet’, touring; Nottingham Contemporary, Hayward Gallery, London, Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Art, and Plymouth Arts Centre
2010 ‘New Frankfurt Internationals’, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
2010 FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Troyes
2010 ‘Fun Palace’, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2010 ‘Manifesta 8’, Murcia, Spain
2010 ‘Exhibition, Exhibition’, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli
2010 ‘Performance’, Museo Marino Marini, Florence (performance)
2010 ‘Balustrade’, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Dusseldorf (performance)
2010 ‘Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance’, Guggenheim Museum, New York (performance)
2010 ‘Finding Chopin’, performance Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (performance)
2010 ‘NineteenEightyFour’, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
2010 ‘ACT VII: Of Facts and Fables’, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
2010 ‘Leipzig Calendar Works’, Project Kaufhaus Joske, Leipzig (performance)
2010 ‘A Performance Cycle’, Nomas Foundation, Rome (performance)
2009 ‘Lecture Performance’, Cologne Kunstverein, Cologne (performance)
2009 ‘Accecare l’ascolto / Aveugler l’ecoute / Blinding the ears’, Artissima, Turin (performance)
2009 ‘5×5 Castello 09’, Espai d’art contemporani de Castello EACC, Valencia
2009 ‘This World & Nearer Ones’, Creative Time, New York (performance)
2009 ‘Ars viva 08/09. Inszenierung / Mise en scene’, Atelier Augarten Contemporary, Wien
2009 ‘Spatial Works’, Färgfabriken, Stockholm
2009 ‘Critical applause 3: Tris Vonna-Michell’, CCA, Glasgow (performance)
2009 ‘Finding Chopin’, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
2009 ‘Art Cologne / Open Space’ (with Cabinet), London
2009 ‘The Generational: Younger than Jesus’, New Museum, New York
2009 ‘Just in the dark/Solo al buio’, Mercati di Traiano, Rome
2009 ‘The Front Room’, Contemporary Art Museum, Saint Louis
2009 ‘Ars viva 08/09. Inszenierung / Mise en scene’, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
2009 ‘The Space of Words’, Mudam Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Due Jean, Luxembourg
2009 ‘I Repeat Myself When Under Stress’, MOCAD Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit
2009 ‘Iaspis Open House’, Iaspis, Stockholm
2009 ‘Altermodern: Tate Triennial’, Tate Britain, London
2009 ‘A spoken word exhibition’, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art Gateshead, Gateshead
2008 ‘Speak and Spell’, performance at Vienna Art Week, Vienna (performance)
2008 ‘Storyteller – Organizing Time and Space’, 0047, Oslo
2008 ‘Lieber Kunstler, erzahle mir!’, Kunstverein Hildesheim, Hildesheim
2008 ‘Stone-Paper-Scissors’, Hebbel am Ufer (HAU), Berlin (performance)
2008 ‘Kunst Im Heim’, Capitain Petzel, Berlin
2008 ‘Ars viva 08/09. Inszenierung / Mise en scene’, Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg
2008 ‘Bending the Word / MATRIX 226’, BAM/PFA – UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley
2008 ‘Time Crevasse’, Yokohama Triennial 2008, Yokohama
2008 ‘ICA:60 Past, Present and Future’, performance at ICA – Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
2008 ‘Fia Backstrom: That social space between speaking and meaning’, White Columns, New York (performance)
2008 ‘The Store’, Tulips & Roses, Vilnius
2008 ‘Experiment Marathon Reykjavik’, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik
2008 ‘Oral Culture’, performance at Jan Mot, Brussels (performance)
2008 ‘Tate Triennial 2009 Prologue 1’, Tate Britain, London (performance)
2008 ‘Self-Storage’, CCA – California College of the Arts, Metro Self Storage, San Francisco
2008 ‘Of this Tale, I cannot Guarantee A Single Word’, Royal College of Art, London
2008 ‘5th Berlin Biennial’, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2007 ‘Monumental Detours / Insignificant Fixtures’, performance at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (performance)
2007 ‘Performa 07’, The second Visual Art Performance Biennial, New York (performance)
2007 ‘Playground’, Stuk Performance Festival, Leuven
2007 ‘The Year of the Human Sciences’, performance at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU), Berlin (performance)
2007 ‘Experiment Marathon’, Serpentine Gallery, London (performance)
2007 ‘Floating Territories’, Evens Foundation, Transbiennial Project, Istanbul and Athens (performance)
2007 ‘The Present Order’, Museum de Hallen, Haarlem
2007 ‘The Moment You Realise You Are Lost’, Johann Konig, Berlin
2007 ‘Köln Show2’, European Kunsthalle, Cologne
Residencies
2014 Darling Foundry, Montreal
2012-2013 Mejan Residency, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
2012 Inheritance projects Gibside and Baltic, Newcastle
2012 Valand research center residency, Göteborg
2011 Happy & Bob Doran Artist in Residence, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
2009 Focal Point Gallery Residency, Southend-on-Sea
2008 Iaspis Residency, Stockholm
Curated projects
2010 – ongoing ‘Mount Analogue’
2008 ‘Three Minutes’, Cubitt, London
Permanent Commissions
2014 ‘audio poems: distracted listening’, sound and photographic installation for Svenska Institutet, Stockholm (commissioned by Statens Konstråd)
2013 ‘Tiles & Tides’, reception desk commission for Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea (commissioned by Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea)
Site-specific Sound Commissions
2014 ‘The Artist and The Gravedigger: after D.O. Hill’, for ‘Observers’ Walks’ sound work series (commissioned by Collective Gallery, Edinburgh)
2012 ‘Capitol Complex’ commission for the exhibition ‘To the moon via the beach’, Amphitheatre of Arles, Provence (commissioned by LUMA Foundation)
Prizes and awards
2014 Turner Prize (shortlisted)
2012 Hugo Boss Prize (shortlisted)
2008 Baloise Art Prize, Art | 39 | Basel (with T293, Naples)
2008 Ars Viva Prize
Monograph publications
2013 ‘Capitol Complex / Ulterior Vistas’ (book and 10 inch vinyl), published by Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea and Mount Analogue, Stockholm
2011 ‘Tris Vonna-Michell’ (book), published by JRP|Ringier, together with with Fondazione Galleria Civica—Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneità di Trento, GAMeC—Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg e.V., and Kunsthalle Zürich
2009 ‘Finding Chopin Endnotes’ (book), published by Jeu de Paume, Paris
2009 ‘Monumental Detours / Insignificant Fixtures’ (12 inch vinyl), published by GAMEC Bergamo and Kunsthalle Zürich
2007 ‘Tall tales and short stories’ (7 inch vinyl), published by Witte de With, Rotterdam
Public collections
Serralves Museum, Porto
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Centre National Des Arts Plastiques, Paris
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne
Tate Modern, London
Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
