Toby Christian

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Lives/works in London


Education

2004-2007, Wimbledon College of Art, London

2002-2003, Lincoln College of Art, London


Forthcoming Exhibitions/Projects

AGORA: simultâneo/instantâneo (NOW: simultaneous/instantaneous) (group),
Santander Cultural de Porto Alegre RS, Brazil, May 25th to August 7th,
curated by Angélica de Moraes

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

Premiums, Royal Academy of Arts, London, February 2011

Transcending, LARM galleri, Copenhagen, October - Dec 2010

The Agile Rabbit, The Lighthouse, London, July - September 2010

Exquisite Trove, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall, July 2010

The Summer Exhibition 2010, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, June - August 2010

PRO: Toby Christian and Stephen Warrington, 52 Meters Art Projects, London, June - July 2010

Arsenal, Baró Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil, May - August, 2010

Pinta Art Fair, Baró Galeria booth, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, June 2010

The Saatchi 10, Detroit Museum of New Art, MI, February - March, 2010

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 New Art Gallery Walsall, October 2009 - January 2010

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,
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, click here

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

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, curated
by Soraya Rodriguez

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

Sculpt Paint Vomit Faint, temporarycontemporary, 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

Unrealised Projects: Volumes 1 - 6, by Sam ELy and Lynn Harris, published by
Unrealised Projects and AND Publishing, ISBN 978-1-907840-00-5, 2010

Cannizaro: Beyond the Gates, by Tony Mattthews, Wimbledon Society Museum Press, 2010

Artist You Should Know, ThirtyDaysNY, April 2010

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

Winner, The Noble Sculpture Prize, London, 2008
To see RAI3 Italian news feature, click here

Shorlisted, 4 New Sensations Prize, London, 2007

Nominee, The Idris Pearce Prize, London, 2007


Other

Saatchi Online Top 10, August 2010, selected by Paul Carey-Kent

Visiting Speaker, Wimbledon College of Art, March 2010

Visiting Lecturer, Newport School of Art, November 2009

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

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

Artist Member, Contemporary Art Society, 2009

Visting Speaker, Wimbledon College of Art, March 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, February 2009

Saatchi Online Top 10, July 2008, selected by Rebecca Wilson

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