Sculptor

Biography

1956 Born in Methil, Fife, Scotland

1974-79 Attended Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee

1979-82 Attended Royal College of Art, London

1998 Elected to Royal Academy of Arts

1999 Became Honorary Professor in the Sculpture Department at Edinburgh College of Art

2000 Became Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy of Arts, London

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1982 Lisson Gallery, London; New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh; Galerie t'Venster, Rotterdam

1983 Mock Shop, Kingston Polytechnic, London; Castaways, Galerie Andata/Ritorno, Geneva; Ateliers Contemporains d'Arts Plastiques, St Brieuc

1985 Towards A Landscape, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Galerie Foksal, Warsaw; Stoke City Museum, Stoke-on-Trent

1986 David Mach Roadshow, Barbara Toll Fine Art, New York; Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto; Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning, Denmark; Fuel for the Fire, Riverside Studios, London; Seagate Gallery, Dundee; If you go down to the woods, Corner House, Manchester; Chimney Sweep, Town Hall, Manchester; National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford

1987 Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Centre du Verre, Paris; Si avui t'endinses en els boscos, Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona; Natural Causes, Wiener Secession, Vienna; One of two British representatives at the 19th Biennale, Sao Paolo; Chinese Whispers, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London

1988 A Hundred and One Dalmations, Tate Gallery, London; Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan; A Million Miles Away, Barbara Toll Fine Art, New York; Signs of Life, Provinciaal Museum, Hasselt, Belgium; Multi-Story Car Park, BBC Television Centre, London; A Nice Location, Kawasaki City Museum, Tokyo; The Art that Came Apart, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal; David Mach, Galerie Ek'Ymore 1, Bordeaux; Parvis 2, Tarbes, France; Galerie Andata/Ritorno, Geneva;

1989 David Mach, FGG Gallery, Frankfurt; Tamed, Trained and Framed, Maurice Keitelman Gallery, Brussels; Kissin' Cousins, Hamburg Messe, Hamburg; Along Classical Lines, Melbourne Spoleto Festival, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourn; Wet and Dry, Cultural Centre, Madrid; Five Easy Pieces, Barbara Toll Fine Art, New York; A Hair's Breadth, Brooklyn Museum, New York

1990 Here to Stay, The Tramway, Glasgow; Chicago Trophies, Chicago Art Fair, Chicago; Over to the Right a Bit, House of Ukrainian Artists, Kiev; Creature Comforts, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh

1991 David Mach:Sculpture, Ace Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; David Mach:Sculpture, Maurice Keitelman Gallery, Brussels; Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago

1992 Orpheus Gallery, Belfast; Barbara Toll Fine Art, New York; Welcome to Euromach, Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt, Paris

1993 David Mach: Sculpture, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw; Between the Lines, Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan; David Mach: New Work, Viafarini, Milan; Square Town/Town Square, Seagate Gallery, Dundee; Matchheads, The Gallery, Essex University, Colchester; Flayed, Stretched and Tanned, Walsall Art Gallery, Walsall

1994 Fully Furnished, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Drawings, CASK, Kitkyushu, Japan; Hako, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow; Likeness Guaranteed, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall; Headcase, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen; Sculpture installation in the Sun Pavilion, Harrogate; David Mach, Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate

1995 Whirl, Summerlee Museum, Coatbridge; David Mach: Sculpture, Sunderland City Art Gallery; Matchheads, Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles; Drawings, Jill George Gallery, London; David Mach, Galerie Andata/Ritorno, Geneva

1996 Naked, Jason & Rhodes Gallery, London; Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull

1997 Heavy Duty, Hamumche Gallery, Tel-Aviv; The Last Detail, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris; New Drawings, Jill George Gallery, London

1998 Columns, CRDC, Nantes; Drawings, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Nantes; Touring exhibition of drawings, Cyprus; The Great Outdoors, sculpture installation and drawing exhibition, Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati

2000 David Mach, APT Galley, London; David Mach at the Advance Factory, Kilkenny Arts Festival; David Mach: Species, Galerie Jerome De Noirmont, Paris; David Mach: New Drawings, Jill George Gallery, London

Selected Group Exhibitions

1982 Hildebrandtstrasse, Dusseldorf; Sculpture at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, London; London/New York, Lisson Gallery, London

1983 Truc et Troc, Leçons des Choses, ARC, Paris; Young Blood, Riverside Studios, London; British Sculpture '83, Hayward Gallery, London; Ars '83, Ateneum Museum, Helsinki November Art Ink 83, ICA, London

1985 Still Life, Barbara Toll Fine Art, New York; Royal Scotsman, Edinburgh; FRAC du Rhones-Alpes touring exhibition, France , ICA

1986 Conversions, Germans van Eck Gallery, New York; Sculpture in the City, Bath; International Contemporary Art Fair, London; Painting

1987 City Artists Gallery, London; The British Edge, ICA, Boston; Century 87, Amsterdam; The Vigorous Imagination, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

1988 New British Art, Tate Gallery, Liverpool; British Arts Retrospective, touring exhibition in France

1989 Barbizon Gallery, Glasgow; Scottish Art since 1900, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Contemporary British Art, Hammond Galleries, Lancaster, Ohio; Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London

1990 Three Scottish Sculptors, Venice Biennale; 1990 - British Art Now : A Subjective View, touring in Japan, to June 1991 Setagaya Museum, Tokyo; Fukuoka Art Museum ; Nagoya City Art Museum ; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts ; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art and Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

1991 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London; Virtue and Vision : Sculpture and Scotland 1540-1990, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

1992 New Purchases, National Art Collections Fund, Sothebys, London; Critics' Choice, Cooling Gallery, London; Decade Show, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, City Museum and Art Galleries, Dundee

1994 British Sculpture, Beaux Arts, London; A Changing World: 50 Years of Sculpture from the British Council Collection, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg

1996 David Mach, Peter Randall-Page, Michael Sandle, Jason & Rhodes Gallery, London

1997 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London

1998 Contemporary Sculpture, Ace Art Inc. New York; Fife Artists, Heritage Museum, Methil; David Mach and Zadok Ben-David, BUPA House, London

1999 British Council touring exhibition of works from its collection; Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London

2000 Sculpture, 5000 Years Of It, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; Artists Choice, Angela Flowers Gallery, London; The Eye Of the Storm, La Mandria, Turin; Artaid, Vinopolis, London

Awards

1975 Awarded Pat Holmes Memorial Prize

1976 Won Duncan of Drumfork Travelling Scholarship

1977 Won SED Minor Travelling Scholarship

1978 Won SED Major Travelling Scholarship

1982 Awarded RCA Drawing Prize

1988 Nominated for Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London

1992 Won Lord Provost's Prize, RGI, Glasgow

Public commissions

1989 Out of Order, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, commissioned by the Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames

1993 All Around the Houses, commissioned by Union des Banques Suisses for their new headquarters building in Geneva

1994 Temple at Tyre, Leith Docks, Edinburgh, commissioned by Edinburgh City Council as part of their bid to be City of Architecture & Design

1996 Urn, commissioned for their collection by McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario; Installed Some of the People, Partick Underground Station, Glasgow, commissioned to celebrate Glasgow Underground's Centenary

1997 Installed It Takes Two on Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia - part of Sydney's International Arts Festival; Unveiled Train, Britain's largest contemporary public sculpture in Darlington, commissioned by Darlington Council, Morrison Supermarkets and Northern Arts

1998 Installed gargoyle sculpture commissioned by the town of Nicosia, Cyprus ;

1999 Unveiled Big Heids, three sculptures sited by the M8 motorway in North Lanark, Scotland; Completed A National Portrait, a 225' x 10' collage of Britain, commissioned by the NMEC for the Self Portrait Zone of the Millennium Dome at Greenwich