Martin Boyce
Martin Boyce’s sculptures, photographs and installations poetically investigate the intersections between art, architecture, design, and nature. Since the beginning of his career, he has incorporated a palette of shapes and forms that frequently recall familiar structures from the built environment – a phone booth, a chain-linked fence, a ventilation grill, to name a few – yet presents them in a way that is entirely new. Collapsing distinctions between past, present, and future, Boyce’s works seem to exist in their own autonomous world, untethered to any fixed time or place.
Martin Boyce’s sculptures, photographs and installations poetically investigate the intersections between art, architecture, design, and nature. Since the beginning of his career, he has incorporated a palette of shapes and forms that frequently recall familiar structures from the built environment – a phone booth, a chain-linked fence, a ventilation grill, to name a few – yet presents them in a way that is entirely new. Collapsing distinctions between past, present, and future, Boyce’s works seem to exist in their own autonomous world, untethered to any fixed time or place.
Winner of the Tate’s 2011 Turner Prize, Boyce was born in Hamilton, Scotland in 1967 and currently lives and works in Glasgow. He attended the Glasgow School of Art, where he received a BA in Environmental Art in 1990 and an MFA in 1997. In 1996, he also studied at California Institute for the Arts in Valencia, CA.
His work is represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Tate in London, Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt, Germany, Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, PA, Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow, and Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, among other institutions worldwide.
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Martin Boyce: Long Distance
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles September 17 - October 29, 2022 -
Martin Boyce: HOUSE OF CARD
M Leuven, Leuven, Belgium October 9, 2020 - April 18, 2021 -
Living in a Lightbulb curated by Jenny Jaskey and Mia Locks
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles June 1 - August 30, 2019 -
Martin Boyce: AN INN FOR PHANTOMS OF THE OUTSIDE AND IN
MOUNT STUART, ISLE OF BUTE, SCOTLAND May 25 - November 18, 2019 -
Martin Boyce: HANGING GARDENS
A4 ART MUSEUM, CHENGDU, CHINA April 27 - July 29, 2018 -
MARTIN BOYCE: SLEEPING CHIMNEYS. DEAD STARS.
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York May 3 - June 16, 2017 -
Martin Boyce: When Now is Night
RISD, Rhode Island October 2, 2015 - January 31, 2016 -
MARTIN BOYCE
KUNSTMUSEUM BASEL April 25 - August 18, 2015 -
The Bigger Picture
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York June 12 - August 1, 2014 -
Between the Lines
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York January 9 - February 8, 2014 -
Martin Boyce: IT'S OVER AND OVER
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York April 18 - June 8, 2013 -
MARTIN BOYCE AT THE ADAA
PARK AVENUE ARMORY, NEW YORK March 7 - 10, 2013 -
TATE TURNER PRIZE EXHIBITION 2011
BALTIC CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, GATESHEAD, UK October 21, 2011 - January 8, 2012 -
Martin Boyce: WINTER PALMS
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York January 8 - February 5, 2011 -
Multiple Pleasures: Functional Objects in Contemporary Art
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York June 25 - July 30, 2010 -
SUMMER SHOW 2009
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York June 25 - July 31, 2009 -
MARTIN BOYCE: NO REFLECTIONS
SCOTTISH PAVILLION, VENICE BIENNALE June 7 - November 22, 2009 -
MARTIN BOYCE: WE ARE SHIPWRECKED AND LANDLOCKED
KALDOR PUBLIC ART PROJECT, MELBOURNE October 22 - November 30, 2008 -
Martin Boyce: WE MAKE AN UNSUBSTANTIAL TERRITORY
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York September 15 - October 13, 2007 -
MARTIN BOYCE: OUR LOVE IS LIKE THE FLOWERS, THE RAIN, THE SEA AND THE HOURS
TRAMWAY, GLASGOW January 1 - July 1, 2002
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Martin Boyce: Hanging Gardens
Matthew Dickman, Geoff Dyer and Christian Ganzenberg, 2019 Hardback, 204 pages pages
Publisher: Distanz
Dimensions: 30 x 24 cm Read more -
Manuel No. 3: Martin Boyce
Søren Grammel , Daniel Pies, 2015 Read more -
Martin Boyce: When Now Is Night
Dominic Molon, 2015 Softcover, 160 pages pages
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 1616894032
Dimensions: 7.2 x 0.8 x 9.2 inches Read more -
Martin Boyce: A Partial Eclipse
2013 Hardcover
Publisher: MACK, UK Read more -
Martin Boyce
Baltic Center for Contemporary Art Renate Wiehager, Christian Ganzenberg, Martin Boyce, 2011 Clothbound, 80 pages pages
Publisher: Snoek
Dimensions: 190 x 250 mm Read more -
Martin Boyce
Paul Elliman, 2009 Paperback, 159 pages pages
Publisher: JRP|Editions
ISBN: 3905770741
Dimensions: 29 cm Read more -
Martin Boyce: This Place is Dreaming
2003 Softcover, 80 pages pages
Publisher: Tramway, Glasgow
ISBN: 1899551298
Dimensions: 21.6 × 16.6 × 0.7 cm Read more -
Martin Boyce: Undead Dreams
Will Bradley, RomaRomaRoma, 2003 Softcover, 32 pages pages
Publisher: Walther König Verlag, Köln
ISBN: 388375742X Read more -
Martin Boyce: For 1959 Capital Avenue
Michael Archer, 2002 Softcover, 28 pages pages
Publisher: Revolver, Frankfurt am Main
ISBN: 3934823408
Dimensions: 22 x 29 cm Read more -
Martin Boyce
Tom Gidley, Robert Johnston, 1999 Softcover, 64 pages pages
Publisher: Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
ISBN: 094791272X
Dimensions: 23 cm Read more