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Bedwyr Williams
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Born 1974, Wales
Lives and works in Caernarfon
Education/Awards/Residencies
2008 Residency Museum of Welsh Life Cardiff
2006 Arts Council of Wales Fellowship
2005 Arts Council of Wales, Creative Wales Award
2004 Paul Hamlyn Award
1998 – 99 Ateliers Arnhem, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, The Netherlands
1994 – 97 Central St Martins School of Art, London
Solo Exhibitions (*denotes catalogue)
2008 ‘No More Mr Nice Guy’, STORE Gallery
2007 ‘Chydig Bach yn Too Much’, The City Gallery, Leicester
2006 ‘Chydig Bach yn Too Much’, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales
‘Lwmp o dda da’ Galeri Caernarfon, Caernarfon, Whales
2005 ‘Tyranny of the Meek’, STORE, London
‘Basta’, Welsh Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice*
‘Albatros’, Golf/Harp Performance at Camden Arts Centre, London and National Eisteddfod 2005
2004 ‘Tyranny of the Meek’, Chapter, Cardiff*
2003 ‘Operation Ferrule’, Arts Council of Wales Pavilion at the National Eisteddfod, Wales*
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 ‘Of this tale I cannot guarantee a single word’, Royal College of Art, London
2007 ‘Among the Living’, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, City Gallery Leicester, MIMA Middlesborough, Chapter, Cardiff
2006 ‘Becks Futures’, ICA, London and touring*
‘The Seven Samurai’, organised by Grizedale Arts for the Echigo-Tsumari Triennial, Tokamachi, Japan
‘Seamus Hrahan/Bedwyr Williams’, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2005 ‘Flourish: Contemporary Artists from Wales’ curated by Anthony Shapland and Marek Pokorn_, The Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
‘Spectator T’, various venues in Sheffield, UK
‘Over & Over, Again & Again’, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
‘Summer Show’ curated by Gyonata Bonvicini, Andrew Mummery, London
‘Take It Furthur! Part 1’, curated by Gyonata Bonvicini in association with Artprojx for Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, England
‘Cumbriana Proof’, 2005 Coniston Water Festival/Grizedale Arts, England
‘Anima Animus’ B312 Gallery, Montréal, Canada
‘Somewhere Else – Artists from Wales’ Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2004 ‘Romantic Detachment’, PS1 New York and touring
‘Now then, Now then’, International 3, Manchester UK
‘Summer Invitational’, fa Projects, London
2003 ‘Apropos of Nothing’ G39, Cardiff, Wales
‘Let’s Get Married Today and Blaenau Vista Social Club’, part of Roadshow Grizedale Arts, Cumbria and touring in UK*
‘Anglo Ponce’, Trade Apartment, London
2001 ‘Mista Ar Mistar Mostyn’, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales
‘Talwrn Celf (Art Cockfight)’, Performance at the National Eisteddfod of Wales
1999 ‘Game, Set, Match’, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1998 ‘Social Realism’ Performance at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
‘Box Clever’, de fabriek, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Publications and Reviews
‘Bedwyr Williams’, Kim Dhillon, Frieze, March 2006
‘Bedwyr Williams’, Charles Danby, iD magazine, March 2006
‘Bedwyr Williams’, Bruce Haines, Untitled, Dec 2005
‘Tyranny of the Meek’, Sarah Kent, Time Out, Jan 2006
‘Critics Picks’, Artforum.com, June 2005
‘Basta’, Welsh Arts Council, Venice Biennale, 2005
‘Tyranny of the Meek. Chapter Arts Cardiff, 2004
‘Best young artists’, Adrian Searle, The Guardian, October 2004
A Grizedale Arts Project 2003, Grizedale Arts, 2003
Operation Ferrule, The Year of the Artist Investigation,
Ffotogallery Wales Ltd 2000
Public Collections
Government Art Collection
Saatchi Collection
Arts Council Collection
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