Toby Christian

Born Lincolnshire, 1983

Lives/works in London

Education

2009-2012 Royal Academy Schools, London

2004-2007 Wimbledon College of Art, London

2002-2003 Lincoln College of Art, London

Current Projects

Inaugural Group exhibition, Gallery Baró, São Paulo, Brazil, March - April, 2010

The Saatchi 10, selected by Charlotte Bonham-Carter for Saatchi Online in October,featuring Suse Bauer, Jef Bourgeau, Alex Burdiak, Toby Christian, Marsilio Diteramo,Jessica Drum, Megan Jacobs, Mandy Williams, Women's Rooms, Mehran Zamani, Detroit Museum of New Art, MI, 6 February - 6 March, 2010

New and Used Pianos publication, release date to coincide with the opening of Stage Hands exhibition at Fold Gallery London, featuring texts by Tania Kovats, Coline Milliard, and conversation between Brian Griffiths and Toby Christian. Published by Full Flag. Designed by Tom Merrell

Selected Solo Exhibitions/Projects

Stage Hands, Fold Gallery, London, May 2009, curated in collaboration with Coline Milliard

Blankets, House Gallery, London, December 2007

This Clown Aint Big Enough For The Both Of Us, Kate and Narrow, London, March 2007

Selected Group Exhibitions/Fairs/Projects

The Nature of Things / The Things of Nature, The Two Jonnys project space, London, January - February 2010

The London Art Fair, Fold Gallery booth, London Business Centre, January 2010

Exquisite Trove, The House of Fairy Tales at The New Art Gallery Walsall, October 2009 - January 2010

It's All Over, Eleven Howland Ltd, London, October - December 2009

Rob Pruitt's Flea Market, Tate Modern, December 2009

Psychedelia Paradise, EXPRMNTL Galerie, Toulouse, France, September - November 2009

Video in Foco/Photo in Foco, Galeria Baró Cruz, São Paulo, Brazil, July-September 2009

murmurART at Selfridges, The Concept Store, Selfridges, London, July 2009

Cooler Warmer, Standpoint Gallery, London, May - June 2009

Knights Move: Chess Laboratory, The House of Fairy Tales at Tate Modern, London, May 2009, curated by Byrne and Lau

Presque Rien II, Laure Genillard, London, October 2008 - January 2009, curated by Cedric Christie and Gavin Turk

The Culture Clash, Working Rooms Project Space, London, November 2008

You Know I Know He Knows We Know - New Art From London, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium, September-November 2008

Heart of Glass, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, October 2008, curated by Paul Hitchman and Flora Fairbairn

Scope Art Fair, Saatchi Online booth, Lord's Cricket Ground, London, October 2008

Yellow Freight, Fold Gallery, London, September-October 2008. To see a video about this exhibition,

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New Acquisitions/St Ives to Saatchi, Caroline Wiseman Modern and Contemporary, London, April 2008

In Pieces: Christopher Landoni 1972 - 2005, as part of 'The Mortality Room', by Deborah Curtis, 39 Myddleton Square, London, April 2008

ArtFutures 2008, Bloomberg Space, London, March 2008

4 New Sensations, The Saatchi Gallery in association with Channel 4, London, October 2007, curated by Rebecca Wilson

Deserter, Gallery-33, Berlin, September 2007

Stick*Stamp*Fly, Gasworks, London, August 2007

Wimbledon College of Art Degree Show, London, June 2007

The Summer Exhibition 2007, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, June-August 2007

Material Intelligence, UEL/Keith Talent Gallery, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, April-May 2007, selected by Clunie Reid and Richard Wilson

Shoes Without Laces, Wimbledon College of Art, London, March 2007, selected/curated by Soraya Rodriguez

Chop, Chop, Bartlett’s Gallery, London, November 2006

Sculpt Paint Vomit Faint, temporary contemporary, London, July 2006

The Summer Exhibition 2006, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, June -August 2006

Swell, La Viande, London, March 2006

Skulpcha, Cannizaro Park, London, selected by David Austen, Jeremy Deller, Richard Wilson, curated by Sally Shaw, May 2005

Bibliography

Emerging Artists, selected by Alexis Vaillant, Frieze, January/February 2010

Featured artist, Catalogue magazine, October 2009

New and Used Pianos, published by Full Flag, May 2009

Perry, Colin, 'Presque Rien II', Art Monthly, December 2008

Yellow Freight, exhibition catalogue, published by Fold Gallery London, October 2008

Scope International Contemporary Art Fair: London, exhibition catalogue, October 2008

4 New Sensations, exhibition catalogue, published by The Saatchi Gallery in association with Channel 4, October 2007

Less Common More Sense magazine, A Drawing on a Photocopy of Bernini's Ecstacy of St. Teresa, Issue 8, March 2007

'Snap', Unrealised Projects, Volume 2, www.unrealisedprojects.org

‘Student Strips Sculpture for Exhibition’, Wimbledon Guardian,12/05/05, p.3

Clover, Ben, 'Art Not Set In Stone’, Wimbledon Post, 19/05/05, p.5

Prizes and Awards

2008 - Winner, The Noble Sculpture Prize, London

To see RAI3 Italian news feature, click here

2007 - Shorlisted, 4 New Sensations Prize, London

2007 - Nominee, The Idris Pearce Prize, London

Other

November 2009 Visiting Lecturer, Newport School of Art

October 2009 Saatchi Online Top 10, selected by Charlotte Bonham-Carter

August 2009 Saatchi Online Critic's Choice, by Daria De Beauvais

June 2009 Artist Member, Contemporary Art Society, London

March 2009 Visting Speaker, Wimbledon College of Art

February 2009 Panel, 'Careers and Young Talent', The London Cultural Strategy Group, City Hall, London

February 2009 Advisor, 'How to Make it as a Visual Artist', Chelsea College of Art, London

July 2008 Saatchi Online Top 10, selected by Rebecca Wilson

May 2008, Saatchi Online Top 10, selected by Alix Rule