Ian Hamilton Finlay

Installation view gallery Sfeir-Semler
 
   
 

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1925 Born in Nassau, Bahamas
2006 Died in Edinburgh
   
 

Selected solo exhibitions

   
2007

Letters & numbers, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg
Victoria Miro Gallery, London

2004

souvenirs, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg
Art of the Garden, Tate Britain, London

2003

Idylls and Interventions , Victoria Miro Gallery , London
MaritimeWorks, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York

2002

Maritime Works , Tate St. Ives
Blast to Freeze, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg , Germany

2001

Souvenirs – Postcards by Ian Hamilton Finlay,The Scottish National Gallery of Art

1999

Variation on Several Themes,Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain

1998 Modern Antiquities , Landesmuseum, Mainz, Germany
1997

Wild Hawthorn Press , Academie Beeldende Kunsten, Maastricht, the Netherlands
Prints 1963 - 1997 , Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany

1995

Inscriptions, Galerie Sfeir-Semler , Kiel
Works: Pure and Political , Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

1993

Wildwachsende Blumen, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany

1991

Malerisamling Lillehammer , Norway
Ideologische Äusserungen, Frankfurther Kunstverein, Frankfurt/ Main, Germany
Definitions , Galerie Sfeir- Semler, Kiel
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Tate Gallery, Liverpool

1990

Kunsthalle Basel
Christine Burgin , New York
Holzwege , Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen

1989 1789 – 1794, Hamburger Kunsthalle , Hamburg
1988 Musee d’Art Contemporain , Dunkerque
1987

Inter Artes et Naturam , Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Midway , Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris

1986 Marat Assasine and other works, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
1980 Rijksmuseum Kroller-Mueller , Otterlo, The Netherlands
1977

Serpentine Gallery , London

1974

National Maritime Museum , London

  Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art , Edinburgh


Selected group exhibitions
   
2000

Tomorow for ever , Galerie Sfeir-Semler , Hamburg
Encounters, National Gallery London

1999 Heads will Roll , Victoria Miro Gallery, London
1998 Les Capteurs de rêves , 1re Biennale de Montréal
1997

Material Culture , Hayward Gallery, London

1996 Schwere-Los - Skulpturen , Landesmuseum Linz
1995 LapisLazuli & Gold , Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Kiel
1994 Das Jahrhundert des Multiple , Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
1993

Words, Galerie Sfeir-Semler , Kiel & Hamburg
Konfrontation, Museum Moderner Kunst, Groningen, Netherlands
Die Sprache der Kunst, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

1991

Rhetorical Image , The New Museum of Contemporary Art , New York

1990

Allegorie , Galerie Sfeir- Semler , Kiel
British Art Now: A Subjective View, Stagaya Art Museum, Fukuoka Art Museum , Japan

1989

Prospect ´89 , Frankfurter Kunstverein/Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
Buhnen Stucke, Kunstverein Munich
Freiheit- Gleichheit – Brüderlichkeit, Germanisches Nationalmuseuem, Nuremberg

1988

Starlit Waters , British Sculpture 1968-88, Tate Gallery Liverpool

1987
1983

Documenta 8, Kassel
Hayward Gallery , London