Lucy Skaer
Born 1975, Cambridge (UK)
Lives and works in Glasgow and London (UK)
Lucy Skaer’s multimedia practice is equal parts material and conceptual, drawing from a background of socially engaged and Environmental Art. Skaer works in sculpture, film, and printmaking, and exhibits artworks of various media alongside each other in complex installations. Often engaging collaboratively with her contemporaries or in concert with her predecessors, she examines the history of objects, events, and historical works of art, and how their meanings change over time.
The veritable craftsmanship of individual artworks points to the inheritance of artistic techniques and contrasts handmade works with processes of reproduction. Altering the content of her source material, Skaer reanimates the significance of images in the collective consciousness. The use, ritual and history of the materials she uses are both implied and concealed, but there is a recurrent concern for their relationship to the landscape. Contrasting the structure of our daily lives with the expansive uncertainty of geologic time, Skaer’s work reminds us that value and meaning are abstract and ever-changing, and in this there is a utopian potential for re-definition.
Lucy Skaer (b. 1975 in Cambridge, UK) lives and works in London (UK ) and Glasgow (UK). She graduated from the Glasgow School of Art with Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art in 1997. In 2009, Skaer was a Turner Prize finalist, and in 2007 she represented Scotland at the 52nd Venice Biennale. She was a resident at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (US) in 2016 and at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver (CA) in 2015.
Her recent solo exhibitions include: Forest on Fire, Bloomberg SPACE, London (UK); Future Sun, S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE); Day Divider, Meessen De Clerq, Brussels (BE); Heavy Weather, with works by Carol Rhodes & Hanneline Visnes, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL); The Green Man, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (UK); Sentiment, Peter Freeman Inc., New York, NY (US); Available Fonts, Kunsthalle, Salzburg (AT); La Chasse, Kunstverein, Salzburg (AT); Available Fonts, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (DE); Una Casa Más Pequeña (The Smaller House), Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (MX); La Chasse, Musée, Régional d’Art Contemporain, Serignan (FR); Past Shows, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL); Leonora, Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury (UK); One Remove, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (NL); Sticks & Stones, Murray Guy, New York, NY (US); and Random House, Peter Freeman, New York, NY (US).
Lucy Skaer’s work is inclused in the collections of Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (FR); THE EKARD COLLECTION; FRAC, Marseille (FR); Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow (UK); Government Art Collection, British Consulate General, New York (US); Musée Régional d’Art Contemporain Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée, Sérignan (FR); Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (US); S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE); Tate, London (UK); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (US); UBS Art Collection, Zürich (CH) and many private collections.
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Lucy Skaer
Rural works 21 May - 20 Jun 2021 GRIMM Van Baerlestraat 80, Amsterdam (NL) -
54 White Street | Inaugural exhibition
GRIMM's new gallery in Tribeca 20 Mar - 17 Apr 2021 GRIMM 54 White St, New York, NY (US)Join us in March 2021 for the grand opening of GRIMM's new space in Tribeca at 54 White Street. For more further information, please email info@grimmgallery.comRead more -
Frieze New York
Group presentation 8 - 16 May 2020 GRIMM Van Baerlestraat 80, Amsterdam (NL)Frieze presentation at GRIMM's new Van Baerlestraat 80 location in Amsterdam.Read more -
Nashashibi/Skaer
Future Sun 30 Nov 2019 - 16 Feb 2020 S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE), Other locations -
Away in the Hill
Group Exhibition 27 Jun - 2 Aug 2019 GRIMM 202 Bowery, New York, NY (US) -
Lucy Skaer, Carol Rhodes, Hanneline Visnes
Heavy Weather 18 May - 13 Jul 2019 Frans Halsstraat 26, Amsterdam (NL), Other locations -
Lucy Skaer
The Green Man 26 Jul - 6 Oct 2018 Talbot Rice Gallery, South Bridge, Edinburgh (UK), Other locations -
Pop-up GRIMM Brussels
Group Exhibition 18 Apr - 5 May 2018 Ravensteinstraat 44, Brussels (BE), Other locations -
Community Board
Group Exhibition 24 Nov 2017 - 20 Jan 2018 Frans Halsstraat 26, Amsterdam (NL), Other locations -
Lucy Skaer
Available Fonts 13 Oct 2017 - 17 Jan 2018 KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (DE), Other locations -
Lucy Skaer
Past Shows 12 Jan - 25 Feb 2017 Frans Halsstraat 26, Amsterdam (NL), Other locations -
Lucy Skaer
Past Shows 12 Jan - 25 Feb 2017 GRIMM Keizersgracht 241, Amsterdam (NL)
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South Africa's LGBTQ+ heroes, bull sacrifices and a fearless Roman feminist – the week in art
Jonathan Jones, The Guardian, October 30, 2020 -
Nashashibi/Skaer at Murray Guy, New York
Tyler Coburn, Art Agenda -
Lucy Skaer and Rosalind Nashashibi explore the intriguing idea of non-linear time at S.M.A.K
Artdaily, December 1, 2019 -
Gauguin’s disturbing visions brought to life at Tate St Ives
Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times, October 30, 2018 -
Our Magnolia, Nashashibi/Skaer, Doggerfisher, Edinburgh
Matt Barnes, The Independent, September 17, 2018 -
Edinburgh visual art review: Lucy Skaer: The Green Man Talbot Rice, University of Edinburgh
Nancy Durrant, The Times, August 25, 2018 -
Art reviews: Lucy Skaer | Tacita Dean | Gunnie Moberg & Margaret Tait
The Scotsman, August 23, 2018 -
Now Showing #258: The week’s top exhibitions
Jack Hutchinson, a-n UK, August 20, 2018 -
Lucy Skaer: The Green Man
Neil Cooper, The List, August 15, 2018 -
GRIMM Gallery presents the politically charged exhibition 'Community Board'
Artdaily, January 1, 2018 -
Community Board
Wall Street International, December 8, 2017 -
COMMUNITY BOARD
Art Bahrain, November 26, 2017 -
SHARE Palestinian-English artist Rosalind Nashashibi among nominees for prestigious Turner Prize 2017
Ben East, The National, May 4, 2017 -
Vertigo #1
Ellen Greig, LUX, February 25, 2015 -
Lucy Skaer: ‘Sticks & Stones’ and ‘Random House’
Roberta Smith, The New York Times, February 19, 2015 -
Critics' Picks: Lucy Skaer
Frank Expósito, Artforum , January 30, 2015 -
Nashashibi/Skaer
Lauren O’Neill Butler, Arttforum, May 1, 2010 -
Lucy Skaer
Chris Sharp, Art in America, September 18, 2009 -
Mining for Gold
Melissa Grondlund, Frieze, November 1, 2007
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'Lamb' at Art Genève 2020
Nashashibi/Skaer, 30 January - 2 February 2020 December 1, 2019Commissioned by S.M.A.K., Museum for Contemporary Art, Ghent (BE), the film Lamb will be featured in the 2020 edition of artgenève's special focus on Video...Read more -
Nashashibi/Skaer 'Future Sun' opens at S.M.A.K.
30 November 2019 - 16 February, 2020 November 1, 2019For the first time, Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer bring together films and works from their joint and individual practices in the exhibition ‘Future Sun’...Read more -
Lucy Skaer in conversation with Stephanie Straine: ‘Available Fonts: looking at drawing as language’
Lucy Skaer, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square, Penton Rise, London May 1, 2019This day-long symposium takes as its subject the status of drawing since 1960 as a complex and dynamic medium. Bringing together artists, curators, and art...Read more -
Nashashibi/Skaer in the group exhibition “La Rivière m’a dit” at Le Plateau, Paris (FR)
Nashashibi/Skaer January 24, 2019La Rivière m’a dit (The River Told Me) 24.01 - 14.04.19 Grand Opening on Wenesday 23th January, from 6pm to 9pm Melanie Bonajo, Charlotte...Read more -
Nashashibi/Skaer – Thinking Through Other Artists | Tate
Nashashibi/Skaer November 12, 2018 -
Lucy Skaer | The Green Man at Talbot Rice Gallery
Lucy Skaer August 13, 2018Lucy Skaer | The Green Man at Talbot Rice Gallery from CAHSS Webteam on Vimeo .Read more -
Lucy Skaer in group exhibition “A Slice through the World: Contemporary Artists’ Drawings” at Drawing Room, London (UK)
Lucy Skaer June 13, 2018Modern Art Oxford and Drawing Room jointly present A Slice through the World: Contemporary Artists’ Drawings, a group exhibition that celebrates the sustained power of...Read more