MERLIN CARPENTER

Born 1967 in Pembury, UK
1986-89 Saint Martins School of Art, London
Lives in London


SOLO EXHBITIONS

2011 TATE CAFÉ, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
„Heroes”, MD 72, Berlin, Germany
Merlin Carpenter, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles, US
2010 Solo Show, Formalist Sidewalk Poetry Club, Miami, US (exh. cat)
Ballard in Narnia, (with Richard Parry), the interzone, London, UK
2009 The Opening, Dépendances, Brussels, Belgium
The Opening, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
2008 The Opening, Galerie Mitterrand + Sanz, Zürich, Switzerland
The Opening, Galerie Christian Nagel (at Mercedes-Welt am Salzufer & The Corner), Berlin, Germany
The Opening, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles, US
2007 The Opening, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, US
Relax It's Only a Bad Cosima von Bonin Show, Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Vienna, Austria (exh. cat)
2006 Sounds of War, Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Geneva, Switzerland
2005 A Roaring RAMPAGE of Revenge, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, US
Merlin Carpenter, Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln, Germany
Look What You Made Me Do, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
2004 Nueva Generación, Distrito 4, Madrid, Spain
Take It Easy Default, M-Project, Paris, France
2003 Children of the Projects, American Fine Arts, Co., New York, US
When in Doubt Blame the Victim, (with Jeremy Glogan), Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Graz, Austria
2002 The Making of 1945, 1997, (screening) The McAllister Institute, New York, US
Militant, Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln, Germany (exh. cat)
2001 My Father, the Castaway, White Cube, Kunstakademi Bergen, Bergen, Norway
2000 When You Drain the Pool, You Don't Consult the Frogs First, Magnani, London, UK
Merlin Carpenter, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
As a Painter I Call Myself the Estate of, Secession, Vienna, Austria (exh. cat)
VOLVO, Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Graz, Austria
1999 Survivors, Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln, Germany
1998 Doppelganger, The Top Room, London, UK
Chant No 1, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
1996 Merlin Carpenter, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, US
1995 Voluntary Effort, Tom Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles, US (exh. cat)
1994 Merlin Carpenter, Friedrich Petzel/Nina Borgmann, New York, US
1993 Meet You by the Strange Twisted Old Oak Tree on the Secluded Knoll at Dawn in Your Swimming Trunks and I'll Tell You Something Secret. (Don't Be Late), (with Nils Norman), Galerie Z, Göttingen, Germany
Les Jeunes, Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
1992 Meadow/Wiese, Galerie Max Hetzler, Köln, Germany
1991 Electric, Pavillon Ryszard Varisella, organised by Galerie Grässlin-Ehrhardt, Frankfurt, Germany
To the extreme, Fettstrasse 7A (Birgit Küng), Zürich, Switzerland
1990 Crusade, Münzstrasse 10, Hamburg, Germany

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011
 The Institute of Mental Health is Burning, Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Newport, UK
Rituals of the Art World, Ludlow 38, New York, US
Rebus, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
2010 Novel, Dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Barbaric Freedom, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
2009 Malen ist Wahlen, 1981-2009, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany
Paintings By, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
Untitled (History Painting), University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, US
RN IHRE ARBEIT, Galerie Sandra Bürgel, (show by Instituto Divorciado), Berlin, Germany
2008 The Coma Lounge Edinburgh, The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Congratulations You Are Represented By Nang Gallery, (and other Nang shows late 2008), Nang Gallery, London, UK
Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix, Museion, Bolzano, Italy. This exhibition travelled to Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany (2009); and Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden (2009)
Painting: Now and Forever, Part II, Greene Naftali Gallery/Matthew Marks Gallery, New York US
How Can You Represent When You Can't Pay The Rent, The New Dome, Cable St. Studios, London, UK
Zodiac 3000, International Project Space, Birmingham, UK (exh. cat)
DO WHAT THY WILLT, Nang Gallery, London, UK
2007 Élégance, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln, Germany
Genesis I'm Sorry, Greene Naftali Gallery, (collaboration with Melanie Gilligan), New York, US
2006 LIVE HUMANS, The George Tavern, London, UK
Make Your Own Life, Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US
slow burn, curated by Jonah Freeman, Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Geneva, Switzerland
2005 Painters Without Paintings & Paintings Without Painters, Orchard 47, New York, US
The Top Room: A Retrospective, Chelsea Space, London, UK
TOTAL ASBO, Pogo Cafe, London, UK
Miradas y conceptos en la colección Helga de Alvear, MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain
Islands of Glory in Streets Caked With the Fæces of Decadence, Nang Gallery, London, UK
2004 Werkleitz Biennale, Halle, Germany
Edge of the Real, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2003 Wild Nights: Remembering Colin de Land, CB's 313 Gallery, New York, US
Messe in der Galerie, Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln, Germany
Frieze Art Fair, booth of Galerie Christian Nagel, London, UK
Haupt- und Nebenwege, Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln, Germany
Malerei II Ausstellung Nulldrei, Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln, Germany
2002 Art Crazy Nation Show, MK G, Milton Keynes, UK
2001 Favoritin, Danzigerstr. 44, Berlin, Germany
Jewels-in-Art, Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Graz, Austria (ext. cat)
Works on Aluminum Selected by Paper, WhiteCube, Kunstakademi Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Musterkarte, Goethe-Institut, Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Galería Elba Benítez, Galería Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid, Spain
2000 Girlfriend, curated by Sarah Morris, Galerie für Zeitgenössiche Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
21st Gear, The Top Room, London, UK
It May be a Year of Thirteen Moons But it's Still the Year of Culture, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Drawings, Taché-Lévy Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Part One, Magnani, London, UK
1999 Painting Lab, Entwistle Gallery, London, UK
Malerei, INIT Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany
How Will We Behave, Robert Prime, London, UK
Taché-Lévy Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
1998 Art Club Berlin, Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain
Art Club Berlin, Berlin Art Forum, Berlin, Germany
1995 The Message is the Medium, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, US
1994 The Ideal Place, Haags Centrum Voor Aktuelle Kunst, The Hague, The Netherlands
Sarah Staton's Supastore Boutique, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK
Untitled Group Show, Metro Pictures, New York, US
Sammlung Volkmann, Berlin, Germany
Museum auf Zeit, Fridericianum Museum, Kassel, Germany
1993 London Photo Race, Friesenwall 120, Köln, Germany
Galerie Fettsack, Friesenwall 120, Köln, Germany
1992 A Show by Kiron Khosla, The Long Gallery, Chelsea Old Town Hall, London, UK
Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
1991 Paris Bar, Berlin, Germany
Group Show Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, US
Fallen und Fallen Lassen, Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Graz, Austria
1990 Peace and anarchy & I love form but she doesn't love me & strange flowers & homage to Schnabel equals freedom and fun forever, 64-65 Guilford St., London, UK
Heimspiel, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
1989 Rotation - Art Critic's Art, Galerie Esther Schipper, Köln, Germany

OTHER SELECTED PROJECTS

2005-2008 Nang Gallery, London
2001-2004 merlinstore, merchandising website
1998-2011 Victim
1994-1996 Poster Studio, London