Born in 1968.
Lives and works in Berlin.
Education |
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| 1991–1994 | BA Goldsmiths College, London |
Awards |
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| 2009 | Nam June Paik Art Centre Prize, South Korea |
| 2007 | Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst, Germany |
Solo Exhibitions (selection) |
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| 2018 | Ceal Floyer: Things, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor |
| 2016 | Ceal Floyer, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO |
| On Occasion, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau | |
| 2015 | Ceal Floyer, Kunstmuseum Bonn |
| 2014 | Ceal Floyer, Museion, Bolzano |
| 2013 | Ceal Floyer, Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven |
| 2011 | Things, Project Arts Centre, Dublin |
| Works on Paper, CCA, Tel Aviv | |
| Ceal Floyer, DHC/ART, Montreal | |
| 2010 | Auto Focus, Museum of Modern Art, Miami |
| 2009 | Ceal Floyer, KW Institute For Contemporary Art, Berlin |
| Gakona, Palais de Tokyo, Paris | |
Group Exhibitions (selection) |
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| 2018 | Rehearsal, Old Bailey Galleries, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong |
| General Rehearsal. A Show in Three Acts from the Collections of V-A-C, MMOMA, and Kadist, MMOMA Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow | |
| 2017 | The Transported Man, Broad Art Museum, Lansing, MI |
| moving is in every direction, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin | |
| WAITING. Between Power and Possibility, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg | |
| Poor Art | Arte Povera: Italian Influences, British Responses, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London | |
| Mentally Yellow (High Noon), Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn and Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich | |
| 2016 | Behind the Curtain. Concealment and Revelation since the Renaissance. From Titian to Christo, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |
| Manifesta 11, Zurich | |
| L’image volée, Fondazione Prada, Milan | |
| Unsettling Green, MARTa Herford | |
| 2015 | More Konzeption Conception Now, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen |
| 2014 | The Event Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds |
| The Part In the Story Where a Part Becomes a Part of Something Else, Witte de With, Rotterdam | |
| Unendlicher Spass / Infinite Jest, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt | |
| 2012 | Explosion! Painting as Action, Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
| Invisible: Art about the Unseen, 1957–2012, Hayward Gallery, London | |
| Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou | |
| dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel | |
| 2009 | 53rd Venice Biennale |
Ceal Floyer’s work often uses everyday but generally overlooked objects or images to introduce defamiliarizing and somewhat startling moments into the spectator’s experience of a space. Slight alterations to found objects that are usually familiar from everyday experiences (a hairbrush, the sign for an emergency exit, or the projection of an image of a nail, for instance) create often surprising interventions that heighten the awareness of our surroundings.
