Lucy Skaer

GRIMM is delighted to present an exhibition of works by the British artist Lucy Skaer at the gallery in Amsterdam (NL). This is the Scotland-based artist’s fifth solo presentation with GRIMM, opening on July 25 and on view until 7 September.

Throughout her practice, Lucy Skaer interprets imagery and objects found within diverse contexts and histories, before transforming or disrupting their material and metaphorical origins. Blurring the line between abstract and representational, formal and functional, her sculptures mesh together different visual vocabularies in order to evade easy identification, so as to reveal the multiple potentials of each object or image.

About the artist

Lucy Skaer (b. 1975 in Cambridge, UK) lives and works in Scotland (UK). She graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 1997. In 2009, Skaer was a Turner Prize finalist, and in 2007 she was a representative for 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. 

Recent solo exhibitions include Day Division, GRIMM, London (UK); 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). 

Skaer's work is included in the collections of Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (FR); Government Art Collection, London (UK); Arts Council Collection, (UK), 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) and the UBS Art Collection, Zürich (CH), Kunsthaus Zurich (CH), among others.