ZieherSmith : Artists : Corin Sworn



		ARTISTS : CORIN SWORN EXHIBITIONS AT ZIEHERSMITH The Wild Ones Are So Tame Now, 2008 Evenings and Weekends, 2005 CORIN SWORN BIO 1977 Born in London, England. Raised in Vancouver, Canada Lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland EDUCATION 2010 MFA, Glasgow School Of Art, Glasgow 2002 BFA, Integrated Media, Emily Carr Institute of Arts and Design, Vancouver 2001 Art and Design Program, Central St. Martins College, London 1999 BA, Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2008 The Wild Ones Are So Tame Now, ZieherSmith, New York Back in 5, Blanket Gallery, Vancouver 2006 Adventure Playground, Or Gallery, Vancouver Atmosphere and Architecture, Access, Vancouver 2005 Evenings and Weekends, ZieherSmith, New York SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2008 Heritage Complex, curated by Tejpal Ajii, Art Gallery of Peel, Ontario The Psychology of the Pawn, curated by Mari Spirito, Participant, Inc., New York Exponential Futures, Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver In the Shadows, Kunstverein, Wolefsburg, Germany 2007 There Are Those, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver 2006 Canada Dreaming, Kunstverein, Wolefsburg, Germany 2004 Nowhere Else But Here, Daniel Arnaud Gallery, London 2003 Explorations in Psychic Geography, Or Gallery, Vancouver Into the Grey: Landscape and Natural History Series, Cover Up, London Bauhuas, Dessau, Germany The Picture Room by Goshka Macuga, Gasworks, London 2002 Overkill, Berlin, Germany Prisoners, Or Gallery, Vancouver Tripite, Contemporary Art Galleyr, Bogotá, Columbia Total Ass with David Young, performance tour, Blinding Light Cinema, Vancouver; Little Theater, Seattle; Mission Theater, San Francisco; Creat Theater, Sacramento Beyond Terminal City, VTO Gallery, London 2001 Minimum Wage Portraits, Penny Arcade Gallery, Toronto BIBLIOGRAPHY Morgan Falconer, “ZieherSmith: Corin Sworn,” Frieze 199, November/December 2008 Kevin Griffin, “Blurring the line… with a rich vein of material,” Vancouver Sun, February 2, 2008 The National Post/Financial Post, January 24, 2008 Lance Blomberg, Playtime Visual Codec, www.visualcodec.com July 2006 Deborah Campbell, “Top BC Artists Re-Imagine School,” The Tyee, April 18, 2006 Paul Grant, “Adventure Playground,” CBC Radio, April 2006 Jessie Caryl, “Tower Ghosts and Swing Shifts,” fillip Review, Spring 200 Centerfold Image, C Magazine, Spring 2006 Lance Blomberg, “Internal Obsession vs. External Internalization,” Visual Codec Magazin, Feb 2006 “Portfolio,” Doppelganger Magazine, January 2006 Michael Wilson, “Corin Sworn,” Artforum, November 2005 Aaron Peck, “Floating Utopia,” Terminal City, February 2005 P. Lafuente & C. Warren, Art Review, December/ January 2003 Max & Abby Scholar, “Beyond Terminal City,” Mind Magazine 3, 2002 Shamus Keely, “Total Ass,” Terminal City, October 2001 PUBLICATIONS Corin Sworn, catalogue essay, Kevin Schmidt, Presentation House, forthcoming Corin Sworn, “Holly Ward at the Or Gallery,” Canadian Art (Fall 2004) Corin Sworn, “Mark Lecky and Tony Romano at Mercer Union,” C Magazine (Summer 2004) Corin Sworn, “Republic of Love at the Power Plant,” Canadian Art (Summer 2004) Corin Sworn, “Shannon Oksanen: Spins,” D’Or: Notes on Collaboration, Or Gallery Press: 2004 AWARDS AND HONORS 2007 BC Arts Council Production Grant Canada Council Research and Creation Grant 2005 Visual Arts Development Award (VADA) 2004 Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant 2001 Millennium Scholarship COLLECTIONS Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Colecção Madeira Corporate Services - MCA, Portugal Whitney Museum of American Art, New York