Born in Alexandria, Scotland, 1972
Lives & works in Glasgow

Education

2002-2004 Masters Degree in Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art
1999-2000 Master of Philosophy (Art in Organisational Contexts), Glasgow School of Art
1995-1999 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Sculpture, Glasgow School of Art

Solo Exhibitions

2011
Karla Black. Scotland + Venice 2011, curated by the Fruitmarket Gallery, Palazzo Pisani (S.
Marina), 54th Venice Biennale, Venice

2010
Capitain Petzel, Berlin
Wittmann Collection, Ingolstadt
Ten Sculptures, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg

2009
Karla Black: Sculptures with paintings by Bet Low (1924-2007), Inverleith House, Edinburgh
Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg
Migros Museum, Zürich
Mary Mary, Glasgow

2008
Champagne Perrier-Jouët Prize (Winner 2007), Zoo Art Fair, London
Catch This: New Works from the Arts Council Collection, Longside
Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
West London Projects, London
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Köln

2007
IBID Projects, London

2006
Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin
Mary Mary, Glasgow
Outpost, Norwich
Have Him Be Her, Broadway 1602, New York

2004
Mary Mary, Glasgow

2002
Robert, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow

Group Exhibitions

2011
Before the Law, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Turner Prize 2011, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse
Pour un art pauvre (inventaire du monde et de l’atelier), Carré d'Art - Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes, Nimes
Frauenzimmer, Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Flaca (curated by Tom Humphreys), Portikus, Frankfurt
Tableaux. Principe d’incertitude, Magasin – Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble,
Grenoble
Watercolour, Tate Britain, London
Arte Essenziale, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Radical Autonomy, Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium
Structure and Material, Longside Gallery, West Yorkshire; The New Art Gallery, Walsall, Walsall
British Art Show 7, Nottingham, London, Glasgow, Plymouth
All of this and nothing, 6th Hammer Invitational (curated by Douglas Fogle and Anne
Ellegood), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Nouvelles Collections IV, CentrePasquArt Kunsthaus Centre d’art Seevorstadt, Biel Bienne

2010
British Art Show 7, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
Neue Alchemie. Kunst der Gegenwart nach Beuys, Landesmuseum Muenster, Muenster
Neugierig?, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
Group show, Andrea Rosen, New York
Profusion, Calke Abbey, Derbyshire

2009
Material Intelligence, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (touring to Huddersfield Art Gallery,
Huddersfield
Reduction & Suspense, Magazin 4, Bregenz
Black Hole (curated by Dr. Friederike Nymphius), CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
Nothing to say and I am saying it, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg
Don’t Expect Anythng, Galleria Francesca Minini, Mailand
Contemporary Scottish Art: New Acquistitions & Loans, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

2008
Brussels Biennal for contemporary art, Brussels
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (curated by Heike Munder), Salzburg
Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
Wollust, Columbus Art Foundation in Halle 14, Leipzig
Strange Solution, Art Now, Tate Britain, London

2007

Ultramoderne, Hall Paul Wurth, Luxembourg; travelled to: La Passerelle, Brest
What remains. Quello che resta, Lambretto Art Project, Milan
Poor Thing (curated by Simone Neuenschwander, Kunsthalle Basel
Special Presentation, Broadway 1602, New York
Untitled - Works on Paper, Art:Concept, Paris
Planting the tele (curated by Hayley Tompkins), Mary Mary, Glasgow

2006
Karla Black / Sally Osborn / Sue Tompkins, Flaca, London
Karla Black / Dean Hughes / Duncan Marquiss /Jonathan Owen / Hanneline Visnes,
Doggerfisher, Edinburgh

2005
Pilot 2, London
Like It Matters, CCA, Glasgow
Exile, New York is a Good Hotel, Broadway 1602, New York
Not Yet Night, Studio Voltaire, London
Karla Black / Babak Ghazi, S1 Artspace, Sheffield

2004
Spacemakers, Lothringer Dreizehn, München
MFA Degree show, Tramway, Glasgow
Rheinschau Art Projects, Köln (with Transmission)
Synth, Kunstraum B/2, Leipzig
Cheyney Thompson / Karla Black, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow

2003
Pallas, The Changing Room Gallery, Stirling
East International (curated by Toby Webster & Eva Rothschild), Norwich Gallery, Norwich
An American Conversation (with Alex Frost), Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of
Art & Design, Dundee

2002
The Châteaux, Switchspace, Glasgow
Half the World Away, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York

2001
Man Dancing, Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow
October: (curated by Karla Black & Katie Exley), Contemporary Art in St. Vincent Street,
Glasgow
Hi-Civics, Market Gallery, Glasgow

2000
Louder than Love, De Zeyp, Brussels
Someone, Somewhere, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow