Melanie Gilligan
Melanie Gilligan (born 1979, Toronto, Canada) is an artist living in London and New York who works in video, performance, text, installation, and music. About Popular Unrest, a feature-length film released online and touring as an exhibition by Gilligan, the critic Aileen Burns says, "Like her TV counterparts, Gilligan uses professional actors and mixes taping strategies to yield documentary-styled fiction, and divides her gory, fast-paced narrative into a series of episodes that builds toward a surprise finish."[1] Art critic Dan Fox said about Gilligan's 2008 production Crisis in the Credit System that "[the] film takes as its starting point a brainstorming workshop run by an investment bank. The characters are asked to take part in a role-playing game, which develops from the familiar (hedge-fund managers spinning profit from the misfortune of others) through to the surreal (a financial analyst is put under hypnosis in order to forecast stock market activity, and ends up delivering gnomic utterances on the state of the markets)."[2]
Gilligan graduated from Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in 2002 and studied at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program, 2004-2005.
Gilligan is represented by Galarie Max Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany.[3]
Notable solo exhibitions
- Trondheim kunstmuseum, Trondheim, Norway (2016)
- Künstlerhaus – Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria (2016)
- "The Common Sense", de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2015)
- "The Common Sense", Museum De Hallen, Haarlem, The Netherlands (2014)
- "The Common Sense", Casco, Utrecht, The Netherlands (2014)
- "4 x exchange / abstraction", Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany (2014)
- "Popular Unrest", VOX Centre de l’image contemporaine, Montreal, Canada (2012)
- "Crisis in the Credit System", Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto, Canada (2012)
- Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany (2010)
- Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK (2010)
Selected group exhibitions
- "British Art Show 8", Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK (2015)
- "Everyone Is Unique – You Most Of All", Kunstverein Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany (2015)
- "The Little Things Could Be Dearer", MoMA PS1, New York, USA (2014)
Awards
- Canada Council for the Arts Production Grant for The Common Sense (2012)
- Illy Present Future Prize (2010)
- Arts Council of England Grant (2010)
- Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Visual Arts (2009-2010)
- Artangel Commission (2008)
Bibliography
- Gilligan, Melanie, "Prairial, Year 215", Veneer Magazine, 2007
- Gilligan, Melanie, "Five Scripts", Bard College Publications Office, 2009
- Gaitán, Juan, Melanie Gilligan, Antonia Hirsch, Candice Hopkins, "Intangible Economies", 2012
References
- ↑ Burns, Aileen. "Melanie Gilligan at Walter Phillips at the Banff Center". Art in American. Art in American. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
- ↑ Fox, Dan. "Crisis in the Credit System". Frieze Magazine. Frieze Magazine. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
- ↑ Mayer, Max. "Melanie Gilligan". Galarie Max Mayer. Retrieved 6 March 2016.