C V Tom Dale was born in Kendal, Cumbria.
He currently lives and works in London. Selected Solo Exhibitions Machine Borders, Gosport Museum and Art Gallery, 2025 Air Bridges, Studio 2, Todmorden, 2021 The Black from the Blue, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, 2017 Dragnets Spell, Milton Keynes Art, Centre, 2016-2017 Black Attols, NIMAC, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2015-2016 Department of the Interior, Copperfield, London 2014 Terminal Blue, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton 2014 Zero is Immense, Aid & Abet, Cambridge Oct 2013 Formal Pleasure, CAN, Neuchatel, Switzerland Feb 2012 Memorial Drag Strip, Poppy Sebire Gallery, London Sept 2011 Shot Through, IFC Cinema, New York Feb 2010 Kings Island, Plymouth Arts Centre Sept/Nov 2008 Six Flags, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw Aug/Sept 2008 Back Seat Driver, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand April, 2008 Template, Union Gallery, London Dec 2006 – March 2007 Invertebration, The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh April 2002 Clearing, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw May 2000 Selected Group Exhibitions Enchanter la terre, Chäteau du Rivau, Léméré, France, 2023 Eyes wide Open, Aeroplastics, Brussels 2022 Come what may, Aeroplastics, Brussels 2021 Middlesbrough Art Weekend, MIMA 2019 Roosevelt Private Views Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, 2019 SCAPE Public Art Commission, Christchurch, New Zealand 2018 'Cinema' Kunsthalle, Lingen, Germany 2017 Terra Meditteranea: In Action. NIMAC, Cyprus 2017 Living In Dreams. De Bond. Ghent 2017 So Many Steps, So Little Time, De Bond , Bruges 2017 Forever, Bubox, Kortrijk 2016 Prememories, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels 2016 Trio Biennale, Rio, Brazil 2015 Humble Me, Aeroplastics , Brussels 2015 Take You There Radio Magasin Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble 2015 The Written City, Bruges Triennial 2015 L’Hospice des Mille-Cuisses, CAN, Neuchatel, Switzerland, 2015 The Remarkable Lightness of Being, 2014, Aeroplastics, Brussels Obsessive Compulsive Order, Copperfield Gallery, London 2014 The Art of Pop Video, FACT, Liverpool 2013 Curator's Egg Altera Pars, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London 2012 Outrageous Fortune, Hayward gallery touring exhibition 2011 The Art of Pop Video, Museum of Applied Arts, Cologne April 2011 UR-NOW: The Ruins of the Contemporary Whitstable Biennale June 2010 Dawnbreakers, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton April 2010 Deceitful Moon, Hayward Gallery London July 2009 Videonale 12, Kunst Museum, Bonn April 2009 This is the Future Before it Happened, Outpost Contemporary Art, L.A. Feb 2009 13+, Florence Lynch gallery, New York February 2008 Reckless Behaviour, The Getty Museum, L.A. April 2006 Selected Commissions: SUMMER PLAY, Raum, Utrecht, Holland 2019 SCAPE Public Art Commission, Christchurch, New Zealand 2018 SCAPE Public Art Commission, Christchurch, New Zealand 2017 Dragnets Spell, MKAC, Milton Keynes 2016 Arnolfini & Art in the Public Realm, Ashley Down commission, Bristol 2013 Arnolfini & Art in the Public Realm, County Cricket ground commission, Bristol 2013 NIMAC & Pierades foundation Sculpture Commission, Cyprus 2013 Ping! Cultural Olympiad commission: A collaboration with a string Quartet and a table tennis team performed at the Hayward Gallery, and the Mead Gallery, Warwick 2012 The Garden of Reason, sculpture commission, Ham House, Richmond 2012 Flights of Fancy, Tatton Park Sculpture Biennale, 2012 Cabinet Magazine Artists Project, Edition 47 2012 Education: Doctoral Researcher, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge 2009–13 MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, London 2004 – 2006 BA Hons Sculpture, Sheffield Hallam University, 1994 – 1997 Scholarships and Awards: British Council and ACE Travel Award, 2017. Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England 2011 British Council Grant, for overseas exhibitions 2010 Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England 2008/09 Wholphin DVD magazine, film commission 2007 Arena Magazine artist of the year award, nominated by Tom Morton. 2007 Fondazione Pistoletto Art Scholarship, Biella, Italy 2000 Polish Government Scholarship, Academy of Fine Art, Warsaw 1998 – 2000 Collections include: Art Space MErode, Belgium Ernest & Young, London. Fidelity, London. Galila , POC , Belgium John Rubeli, LA. Pirades Foundation, Cyprus. Soho House, London. The Servais collection, Belgium |
PRESS & REVIEWS
'Machine Borders' Criticismism
'Five of the best bouncy castles in the world', Time Out 'Tom Dale: Terminal Blue', Art Monthly 'Members Only', World of Interiors magazine 'Tom Dale's Memorial Drag Strip', Dazed Digital 'Tom Dale: Memorial Drag Strip', Time Out 'Tom Dale: Memorial Drag Strip', A.N magazine 'Best exhibitions of 2014', A.N magazine 'Tom Dale: Template', Flash Art Artist of the week 153: Tom Dale | Art | The Guardian Dragnets Spell – Tom Dale - Milton Keynes Arts Centre Art and the Public Realm Bristol - BISON - TRUMPET Art and the Public Realm Bristol - Primary/Bristol: Ashley Down Primary School Tom Dale | UK Sculptor - SCAPE Public Art Tom Dale, Department of the Interior (2012) – criticismism ii Tom Dale's Pursuit of Nothingness Tom Dale, Rock on Standby (2014) – criticismism ii HALLE 14 | TERRA MEDITERRANEA: IN ACTION | Interview with Tom Dale on Vimeo Tom Dale, Rock on Standby (2014) – criticismism ii Tom Dale: The Scape artist who wants you to look up | Stuff.co.nz Middlesbrough Art Weekender — Corridor8 PUBLICATIONS
The World Atlas of Public Art| Yale University Press
Bubbletecture | Architecture | Phaidon CABINET |Artist Project | Dead ESSAYS
'Evel Knievels of the Art World', Glenn Phillips
'Information v. Knowledge', Jennifer Thatcher 'Take something, do something to it ...' Tom Morton 'Black Atolls: Tom Dale's Guide to a Galaxy', Yiannis Toumasis 'Culture Gone to Seed', Gabriel Coxhead CONTACT
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