RESIDENZA d’ARTISTA
workshop di ceramica nell’arte contemporanea
14 – 19 maggio
DANIEL SILVER
a cura di Marco Tagliafierro
workshop di ceramica nell’arte contemporanea
14 – 19 maggio
DANIEL SILVER
a cura di Marco Tagliafierro

DANIEL SILVER
1972 Born in London. Lives and works in London
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012 Galleria Suzy Shammah, Milan, 2011Acne, London, Letting go, AMP, Athens
Coming Together, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus (Switzerland), 2010 The Smoking Silver Fathers Figures, Frieze Sculpture Park, London, 2009 Studies for Adam and Eve, Cabinet #4, SE8, London, Lionz in Zion, Galleria Suzy Shammah, Milan, 2008 The Monks, Ancient & Modern, London, Making Something Your Own, Ibid Projects, London, 2007 Heads, Camden Arts Centre, London, Demos, The Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland (UK) 2006 Galleria Suzy Shammah, Milan, 2005 Daniel Silver AT Pescali & Sprovieri, Pescali & Sprovieri, London, 2003 Pilot Project, Gropiusstat, Berlin The Buddha & The Chaise Longue, Tal Esther Gallery, Tel Aviv 2001 Cake Snake, Sprovieri Gallery, London 1998 Gallerie s.e., Bergen (Norway)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 WHO’S BEEN HERE, Bukowskis, Stockholm 2011 Among flesh, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, Newspeak: British Art Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, 2010 We Will Live, We Will See, curated by P. S. Pys, Zabludowicz Collection, London Savage Messiah, curated by R. Tufnell and M. Cotton, Rob Tufnell at 1 Sutton Lane, London Self-Similar / seen somewhere else at the same time, curated by G. Unsworth, Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam, British Sculpture: Landscape in Sculpture as Object, Connaught Brown, London
No New Thing Under the Sun, The Royal Academy of Arts, London Head, The approach, London Sensitivity Questioned, curated by I. Fokianaki, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, Athens L’uomo ridotto, Brown Project Space, Milan The Cannibal’s Muse, curated by M. Henry, Patricia Low Gallery, Gstaad (Switzerland) The Big Ripoff, Camden Art Centre, London Psychic Geography, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead (UK) Ibrido, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan Milestone, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Pier Centre, Orkney (UK) Profusion, curated by S. Kyriacou and J. Plowman Calke Abbey, Derbyshire (UK)Supernature – an exercise in loads, curated by R. Panagiotor and A. Melas, AMP, Athens Family/Tree II. New Acquisitions donated by the Rivka Saker and Uzi Zucker Fund for Contemporary Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv
2009 Newspeak: British Art Now, State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Milestone, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh / Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield (UK) Remap2, Athens, 2008 Group Show, Ibid Projects, London The Krautcho Club, Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin In Silence, Rothschild 69, Tel Aviv ART TLV – Open plan living, curated by A. Renton, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv M25 Around London, curated by B. Schwabsky, CCA Andratx, Mallorca Origins, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill (USA) A Colour Box, Arcade, London Sculpture Trail, Grieder Contemporary, Küsnacht (Switzerland) A Life of Their Own, curated by R. Cork, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore (UK), 2007 Boys Craft, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa (Israel) Strange Weight, curated by R. Tufnell, Martos Gallery, New York Out, Still & Kicking, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, 2006 Getting on Mother’s Nerves, Mother’s Tank Station, Dublin Sleep of Ulro, A Foundation, Liverpool Summerise, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv Heads: Jimmie Durham, Tim Hawkinson, Ilya Kabakov, Jannis Kounellis, Mike Nelson and others, Pescali & Sprovieri, London, Ten of the best, Tal Esther Gallery, Tel Aviv Young Artist Award exhibition, Ministry of Education and Culture, Museum of Art, Jerusalem
2005 London in Zurich, curated by G. Muir, Hauser and Wirth, Zurich WE (with Eline McGeorge), Neues Problem Gallery, Berlin Both of Them (with Moshe Gershuni), Tal Esther Gallery & Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv 30+, Neues Problem Gallery, Berlin
2004 Bloomberg Art School, Bloomberg Space, London 25 Drawings-25 Artists, The Drawing Gallery, London Frigid Atmosphere, Tal Esther Gallery, Tel Aviv Pets, Time For Art, Tel Aviv, The Possibility of Experiencing the Death of Others, One in the Other Gallery,
London 2003 Home Show, Neta Eshel, Caesarea (Israel)
Fireflies, Tal Ester Gallery, Tel Aviv Young Israeli Art, The Jacques and Eugenie O’Hana collection, Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, 2002 Winning the Cornetto, The British School at Rome, Rome Arcadia in the city, Marble Hill House Museum, London Artic 4, Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 2001 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2001, Camden Arts Centre, London Artic 3, Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 2000 Design Exhibition Center, Commission for Holland Park, London Assembly, Stepney City, London Two in One, Camden Lofts, London
1998 We Have Moved, 23 Edis Street, London 1997 Macroland, Das Semper-Depot, Vienna, Tramway Video Festival, Glasgow 1996 Free Beer, Shooting Gallery, London
A Big Deal, Big Issue HQ, London
Studies
1999 – 2001 1995 – 1999 1994 – 1995
MFA Sculpture Department, Royal College of Art, London BFA Honours, Slade School, University College London, London Business and Fine Art, London Guildhall University, London
Grants, Awards and Residences
2012 Artist-in-residence, Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza (Italy)
2005 The Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture, Young Artist Award
The Henry Moore Sculptor in Residency, University of Sunderland (UK)
2003 Gropius Pilot Projects Scholarship, Berlin
2002 Rome Scholar in the Fine Arts, The British School at Rome, Rome
2001 Credit Suisse First Boston Award
2000 The America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship, Karten Scholarship
Eric & Jean Cass Scholarship, Royal College of Art, London
1997 Audrey Wykeham Prize for Fine Art, UCL – University College London, London
Selected Bibliography
2012 M. Tagliafierro, Critics’ Picks, artforum.com, Mar. G. Bria, Neoplasticità totemiche, artribune.com, 5 Feb.
2011 M. Casadio, About a Dress, Vogue Italia, Dec. G. Greco, Attenti a quei due, Io Donna, 24 Sep.
2010 C. Gleadell, The Biggest Art Party in Town, The Daily Telegraph, 13 Oct. 2009 L. McLean-Ferris, Exhibitionist, the best art shows to see this week, guardian.co.uk, 19
Jun. K. Wright, Two Sides of the Fence: Wafa Hourani and Daniel Silver, Phillips ART Expert, Feb. Daniel Silver: Lionz in Zion, acnestudios.com, Mar. V. Sansone, Daniel Silver at Suzy Shammah, Flash Art International, May/Jun. N. Trezzi, Re: Diaspora, Yael Bartana, Elad Lassry, Ohad Meromi and Daniel Silver in correspondence, Flash Art, Oct.
2008 Daniel Silver: Untitled (Works on Paper), Succour, Autumn/Winter T. Persson, Interview with Daniel Silver, Acne Paper, Winter 08/09 issue G. Williams, Openings: Daniel Silver, Artforum, Summer issue S. Thorn, A Life of Their Own, Frieze, Jul. R. Cork, A Life of Their Own, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore H. Kearns, A Life of Their Own, review, Circa, Aug. R. Cork, Expect the Unespected, Financial Times, 27 Apr.
2007 Boys Craft, exhibition catalogue, text by T. Katz-Freiman, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
Daniel Silver, texts by A. Robinson, P. Herkenhoff, Camden Arts Centre,
London / The Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland 2005 London in Zurich, exhibition catalogue, Hauser and Wirth, Zurich 2004 Pilot Project, exhibition catalogue, Gropiusstat, Berlin 2003 Young Israeli Art, exhibition catalogue, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv 2002 Winning the Cornetto, exhibition catalogue, The British School at Rome,
Rome 2001 Artic 3, exhibition catalogue, Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
University, Tel Aviv Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2001, exhibition catalogue, Camden Arts Centre, London
2000 Assembly, exhibition catalogue, Stepney City, London
Pubblic Collections
The Saatchi Gallery, London Rubell Family Collection, Miami Sender Collection, New York Zabludowitz Collection, London Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv