Lucy Stein
b. 1979, Oxford
Education
2004 - 2006 De Ateliers, Amsterdam
2001 - 2004 The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, BA (hons) Painting
2003 Erasmus exchange to UdK, Berlin
1999 University of Brighton, Critical Fine Art Practice
1998 - 1999 Camberwell College of Art and Design, London
Foundation Diploma in Fine Art
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012 Manderley, Gimpel Fils, London
2011 The Lost Art of Convalescence, Gimpel Fils Lower Gallery, London (with Andrew Gilbert)
2011 THE LAST BOHEMIAN ON THE COSTA BLANCA, Gregor Staiger, Zurich
2010 ‘Everything Rhymes With Your Condition’, Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam
2009 Creemie Myopic Fables/Purpling (curatorial project), Gimpel Fils, London
2009 Breakfast, Broadway 1602, New York
2008 Extasi!/Extano, Broadway 1602, Frieze Art Fair (with Shana Moulton)
2007 Tender is the Night, Me.di.um residency, Galerie Porta, Gustavia, St Barts
2007 Inadequate Tableaux, Gimpel Fils, London
2007 Dirty Magpie, Broadway 1602, New York
2007 Calorific, Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam
2006 Lucy Stein- Paintings and drawings Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam
2006 Holy Worry, Gimpel Fils Lower Gallery, London
2003 Keeping ourselves in at the edges The Art House Hotel, Glasgow
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 Les Biennale, 187 Wilton Street, Glasgow (with Joanne Robertson, Gordon Schmidt, Hannah Sawtell, Milly Thompson)
2012 A votre décharge, Château de Servières, Marseille, France
2012 L’AMOUR HÉROÏQUE, MUba Eugene Leroy, Tourcoing, France
2012 STROHWITWE, with Carole Gibbons, Manuela Gernedel, Rachal Bradley, 24 St Vincent Crescent, Glasgow International
2012 The Hair in the Cannibal-Prophetic Soup of Dr. Emil Holub, Galerie NTK/National Technical Library, Prague
2011 5x5Castelló2011, Premi Internacional d’Art Contemporani Diputació de Castelló, EACC, Castelló
2011 The Invincible Summer Within, Jesus Pobre, Alicante (with Marlene Dumas, Habima Fuchs, Andrew Kerton, Henry Guy, France Lise McGurn, Shana Moulton, Alex Neilson)
2011 HYSTERIA, LAUGHTER AND A SENSE OF SERIOUSNESS, Karma International/ Gregor Staiger, Zurich (curated by Mareike Dittmer and Raphael Gygax)
2010 Gimpel Fils, London
2010 Jerwood Contemporary Painters 2010, Jerwood Space, London
2010 Gimpel Fils, London
2010 RIVE GAUCHE /RIVE DROITE, Marc Jancou, Paris
2010 Inaugural group show, Broadway 1602, New York
2009 Unicorns vs. Mermaids, I-20 Gallery, New York
2009 The Show Continues Upstairs, Supportico Lopez, Berlin
2009 Deep End, The Company, Los Angeles
2009 Holy Destruction, Polad-Hardouin Contemporary Art, Paris
2008 Cobra to Contemporary, Artnews Projects, Berlin
2008 Faces and Figures (Revisited), Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York
2008 In Geneva No One Can Hear You Scream, Marc Jancou Contemporary, Geneva
2006 Bonger Bonger Prijs voor Schilderkunst Arti et Amicitea, Amsterdam
2006 Koninklijke Prijs voor de Schilderkunst Prize Winner, Gemeente Museum, Den Haag
2006 Just in Time, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
2006 Floodlit Wendy House, NYRT, Berlin
2006 St Mungo and me, Lightbox Gallery, Los Angeles
2006 Beck’s Futures ICA, London (with Jo Robertson)
2006 Blood’n’Feathers Jerwood Art Space London (with Jo Robertson)
2006 Blood’n’Feathers, Collective Art Gallery, Edinburgh (with Jo Robertson)
2005 The Mother of all Parties, Beaconsfield Galley, London
2005 Teaming, The Embassy, Glasgow
2005 7 young painters, Bowie Van Valen, Amsterdam
2005 Killing the Angel in the House, Sloterdijk studio space, Amsterdam
2005 “Decorations of the soul” Aurora, Edinburgh (with Shana Moulton)
2005 Campbell’s Soup, Glasgow School of Art
2005 Flounder2! Geuzenveld, Amsterdam
2004 Flounder, Geuzenveld, Amsterdam
2004 Magnifitat, Edinburgh
2004 Panorama The Old Gaolhouse, Glasgow
Awards and residencies
2012 A Paper, A Drawing, A Mountain Banff Centre, Banff Alberta, Canada
2011 5x5Castelló2011, Premi Internacional d’Art Contemporani Diputació de Castelló, EACC, Castelló
2010 Jerwood Contemporary Painters Prize
2010 Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughn, County Clare, Ireland
2007 Me.di.um residency, Galerie Porta, Gustavia, St Barts
2006 Queen’s Painting Prize GEM, den Haag
2006 Becks Future Award Short Listed with Jo Robertson as Blood ‘n’ Feathers
2004 - 2006 Dutch Ministry grant to attend De Ateliers
2004 The Armoury Travel Bursary Glasgow School of Art
Curatorial Projects and writings by the artist
Stein, Lucy, Gray, Alasdair, 'in conversation on the paintings of Carole Gibbons', Turps Banana, 2012
Stein, Lucy, Gernedel, Manuela, 'on Carole Gibbons as an inspiration', Map Magazine, 2012
Trembling bells, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Marble Downs, Honest Jon's Records, 2012
(ed) Xavier Franceschi. Four Seasons / Nightmare, Keren Cytter. Le Plateau / Frac Île-de-France, Les Presses Du Réel, 2011
“The Last Bohemian on the Costa Blanca” poem performed by Andrew Kerton during “Ever-Changing Moods” Rachal Bradley and Jess Wiesner, AutoItalia South East, London, 2011
"Cross my eyes and hope to die!" Essay in "A Moto" published by Ozlem Altin/Orient Press, Berlin, 2010
LIVING IN ORANGE!!! (easyjetsetters), The Forgotten Bar / Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin, curated by Lucy Stein, 2010
Purpling, Downstairs at Gimpel Fils, curated by Lucy Stein, 2009
Sarah Lowndes, Simone Neuenschwander, Lucy Stein. Aleana Egan - We sat down where we had sat before, 2007
Collections
Nederlandsche Bank
KPN Nederland
Selected Writings
Jeffrey, Moira, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art: Encountering the sublime and the ridiculous, Scotland on Sunday, April 2012
Latimer, Quinn, Review, ARTFORUM, December 2011, pg. 270
Latimer, Quinn, 'Hysteria, Laughter and a Sense of Seriousness', Art Review; May 2011, Issue 50, p128
Verhoeven, Martijn. Lucy Stein. Metropolis M: Utrecht, 21/07/09
Wilson, Michael, Lucy Stein, ‘Breakfast’. TimeOut NYC, Issue 699: 19-25 February 2009, p49
Berecz, Agnes, Broadway 1602 Review. Art In America: NYC, May 2009, p158
Busta, Caroline. Broadway 1602 Review. Artforum: NYC, April 2009, p191
Mason, Tom. Interview with Lucy Stein. Whitehot Magazine: Victoria B.C., March 2008
Leij, Machteld. Stein Herself Calls Her Painting Hysterical. NRC Handelsblad: Rotterdam, April 2007
NRC Handelsblad, March, 2007
NRC Handelsblad, November, 2006
NRC Handelsblad, September, 2006
Kennedy, Alexander. Blood ‘N’ Feathers Review. The List: Edinburgh, 30 March-13 April 2006
Jeffrey, Moira. The Serious Art of Having Fun, Blood ‘N’ Feathers Review. The Sunday Herald, 26.03.06
Bouwhuis, Jelle. Hysterical Painting. Htv de Ijsberg: Amsterdam, vol. 63, 2006
Bouwhuis, Jelle. Hysterical Painting. Stedelijk Museum Bulletin: Amsterdam, 2006: 04/05, p28-29;72-73;101; backcover
Bibliography
Jerwood Painter’s Prize catalogue 2010, with essay by David Thorpe
The Invincible Summer Within- Catalogue, with essays by Lucy Stein and Amelia Bande Echavarria, Jesus Pobre, Alicante
(ed) Catherine Griffiths and Dan Rees. Home for Lost Ideas. Archive Books: Berlin, Torino, 2009
Jancou, Marc; Lieberman, Justin. faces and figures (revisited). Marc Jancou Contemporary: New York, 2008
(ed) Yanai, Ayelet; Stein, Lucy. Balsamic Injections. Veenman Publishers: Rotterdam, 2008 (monograph)
ringier: Zurich, 2008 (Interview with Lucy Stein)
