BIOGRAPHY
Rosalind Nashashibi
1973 Born in Croydon, UK.
Lives and works in London.
Lucy Skaer
1975 Born in Cambridge, UK.
Lives and works in Glasgow and London.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland. Video room: Nashashibi/Skaer "Why Are You Angry?"
(June 2025 – ongoing) [permanent collection]
2021 Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada.
Farness, The More Near / Consequences | Lucy Skaer & Nashashibi/Skaer
(25 September – 14 November)
OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shanghai.
CURRENT: Contemporary Art from Scotland, Phase Four. Nashashibi/Skaer: Chimera
(22 May – 21 August). Exhibition travelled: Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee, UK
(30 September – 10 December 2022)
2019 Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Gent, Belgium. Future Sun
(30 November 2019 – 16 February 2020)
2018 Tate St Ives, UK. Nashashibi/Skaer: Thinking through other artists
(20 October 2018 – 6 January 2019)
2017 KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Why Are You Angry?
(13 October)
Tate St Ives, UK. Why Are You Angry?
(20 September)
2015 South London Gallery, UK. WE (Not I) screening: Nashashibi/Skaer
(29 April)
2013 Musée Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France. Pygmalion Event
(3 March – 9 June)
2012 Musée du Château des ducs de Württemberg, Montbéliard, France.
Contemporary Archeologies (1 June – 14 October). Catalogue.
2010 Murray Guy, New York. Nashashibi/Skaer
(25 June – 6 August)
2009 doggerfisher, Edinburgh. Our Magnolia
(1 August – 25 September)
2008 Tate Britain, London. Art Now: Nashashibi/Skaer
(8 November 2008 – 4 January 2009)
CAC Brétigny, Centre d'art contemporain d'intérêt national, France. Pygmalion Workshop
(21 September – 13 December)
2007 Spike Island, Bristol, UK. Flash in the Metropolitan
(14 July – 16 September)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Fondation Boghossian, Brussels. Portrait of a Lady
(24 March – 4 September)
Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London. Testament
(21 January – 3 April)
2021 GRIMM, New York. Inaugural exhibition
(20 March – 17 April)
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent. Why Are You Angry?
(13 February – 30 May)
2020 Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. Paul Gauguin – Why Are You Angry?
(19 November 2020 – 16 May 2021). Exhibition travelled: Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
(26 March – 10 July). Catalogue.
2019 GRIMM, New York. Away in the Hill
(27 June – 2 August)
Frac Île-de-France, Le Plateau, Paris. La Rivière m’a dit (The River Told Me)
(24 January – 14 April)
2018 Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh. The Green Man
(26 July – 6 October). Catalogue.
Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia. Archaeology of the Screen
(6 July – 14 October)
East Gallery at NUA, Norwich University of the Arts, UK. A Place in the World
(9 March – 28 April)
Palazzo Grassi, Venice.
Projecting/Displaying. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Remediation (11 January)
2017 Sirius Arts Centre Cobh, Ireland.
The Other Dark: Tacita Dean, Jeremy Millar, and Nashashibi/Skaer (16 July – 26 August)
Kassel, Germany. documenta 14
(10 June – 17 September)
EMΣT | National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, Greece. documenta 14 at EMST
(8 April – 16 July)
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, California. I can call this progress to halt
(8 March – 23 April). Catalogue.
Frac Île-de-France, Le Plateau, Paris. Strange Days
(19 January – 16 April)
Murray Guy, New York. Group Exhibition
(10 January – 4 February)
2015 Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. The Biography of Things
(5 December 2015 – 21 February 2016). Catalogue.
2013 The Royal Standard, Liverpool. The Narrators
(10 October – 17 November)
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle. Now Here is also Nowhere: Part II
(26 January – 5 May)
2012 Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid. Telling everything, Not Knowing How
(13 June – 11 November)
Musée du Château des ducs de Württemberg, Montbéliard, France.
Contemporary Archaeologies (1 June – 14 October)
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images 2012
(24–27 May)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video (7 February – 26 August)
KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf. Reflexion und Einfühlung
(21 January – 31 March)
2010 Hatton Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.
Another Face: Works from the Arts Council Collection
(3 December 2010 – 19 February 2011)
Frac Provence‑Alpes‑Côte d’Azur, Marseille. Prendre la porte et faire le mur
(11 September – 11 December)
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.
Forum 65: Jones, Koester, Nashashibi/Skaer: Reanimation (2 July – 3 October)
Anthology Film Archives, New York. Silver and Salt
(18 January 2010)
2009 Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri.
For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn't there
(11 September 2009 – 3 January 2010). Exhibition travelled:
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (3 December 2009 – 31 January 2010);
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Michigan (5 February – 4 April 2010);
de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam (12 February – 28 March 2010); Culturgest, Lisbon
(29 May – 29 August 2010). Catalogue.
2nd Athens Biennale, Greece. AB2: Heaven
(15 June – 4 October)
Maisterravalbuena, Madrid. The Garden of Forking Paths
(28 May – 31 July)
Domaine de la Garenne Lemot, Gétigné, France. Dreamologie domestique
(11 April – 20 September)
Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland. SLOW MOVEMENT OR: Half and Whole
(31 January – 22 March). Catalogue.
Rotterdam Film Festival, the Netherlands.
(21 January – 1 February)
2008 Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson,
New York. The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art
(27 September 2008 – 1 February 2009)
Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland. A Life of Their Own, curated by Richard Cork
(26 April – 30 September)
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
5th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art: When Things Cast No Shadow
(5 April – 15 June). Catalogue.
2007 Mechelen, Belgium. Contour 2007 – third biennial for video art: Decoder
(18 August – 21 October)
Esther Schipper, Berlin. The Droste Effekt
(6 July – 15 September)
Museo dʼArte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples. You have not been honest
(23 May – 23 September)
Office Baroque, Antwerp. Alabama
(27 April – 26 May)
Galerie Elisabeth Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart. About the possibility of a Sculpture
(23 March – 5 May)
2006 de Appel, Amsterdam. If I Canʼt Dance, I Donʼt Want to Be Part of Your Revolution
(17 November 2006 – 7 January 2007)
2005 Tramway Glasgow, UK. In Between Times
(21 October – 20 November)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2015 Sharp, Chris. “Flash in the Metropolitan (2006),” in The Biography of Things
(Southbank: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2015), p. 29. Exhibition catalogue.
2012 Schwendener, Martha. “At the Mausoleum, Art About Art Houses,” The New York Times
(10 February 2012).
“Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video,” The New Yorker
(12 February 2012).
2010 Burton, Johanna. “Nashashibi/Skaer,” Artforum (October 2010).
Coburn, Tyler. “Nashashibi/Skaer at Murray Guy, New York,” artagenda (August 2010).
O’Neill Butler, Lauren. “Nashashibi/Skaer,” Artforum online (9 July 2010).
2009 Cairns, Steven. “Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer,” Artforum online (26 August 2009).
McLean-Ferris, Laura. “Nashashibi/Skaer,” Art Review (10 August 2009).
Walker, Lynne. “Our Magnolia, Nashashibi/Skaer,” The Independent (17 September 2009).
2008 Filipovic, Elena, and Adam Szymczyk, eds.
5th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art: When Things Cast No Shadow
(Berlin: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2008). Exhibition catalogue.
WORKS
2021 Bear – 16 mm film, commissioned by Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee, UK
2019 Lamb – 16 mm film
2017 Why Are You Angry? – 16 mm film, co-commissioned by Tate St Ives,
La Fayette Foundation, and Creative Scotland, UK
2009 Our Magnolia – 16 mm film, commissioned by doggerfisher, Edinburgh
2008 Pygmalion Event – 16 mm film, commissioned by Tate Britain, London
Pygmalion Workshop – 16 mm film installation, commissioned by Berlin Biennale
2006 Flash in the Metropolitan – 16 mm film, commissioned by Spike Island, Bristol
2005 Ambassador – 2 screen video work, commissioned by Lyon Biennale
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Artist Pension Trust, New York
Arts Council Collection, London
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Frac Île-de-France, Le Plateau, Paris
Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, UK
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
LUX, London
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Gent, Belgium
Tate, UK