BIOGRAPHY
Born 1967, Lisburn, Northern Ireland
Lives and works in Glasgow
EDUCATION
1986 - 1990 BA (Hons) Painting, Glasgow School of Art
1985 - 1986 Liverpool School of Art
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Tony Swain: To Get Her, May 4 – 26, 2007
London, Herald Street, Soon Divided And So On, November 17 - December 16, 2007
2006
Glasgow, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster, Ltd., The Flashes That Came To Stand For Us, June 24 – July 22, 2006
Southampton, England, Millais Gallery, Southampton Institute, Not New Went On, November 24, 2006 – January 27, 2007
2005
Dublin, Kerlin Gallery, You Have Decorated Me The Wrong Colour, April 29 – May 28, 2005
London, Herald Street, Never Even, December 10, 2005 – January 29, 2006
2004
Glasgow, The Modern Institute, Water Through Window, Husband Mental, September 3 – October 1, 2004
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
Venice, Palazzo Zenobio, Collegio Armeno Moorat Raphael, Scottish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Scotland and Venice 2007, June 10 – November 2, 2007
2006
Manchester, Bankley Studios & Gallery, Down With You
Berlin, Anna-Catharina Gebbers, The Three Cities- Berlin: The Apartment, March 23 – 25, 2006
Tel Aviv, Sommer Contemporary Art, Life's A Beach, August 31 – October 13, 2006
The Travelling Gallery, touring Scotland, JaGGy-edge, August 26 – December 8, 2006
2005
Krakow, Poland, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Supernova, a British Council touring exhibition, April 29 – May 29, 2005. Traveled to Tallinn, Estonia, Kunstihoone, August 12 – September 18, 2005; Vilnius, Lithuania, Centre of Contemporary Art, December 9, 2005 – January 11, 2006; Prague, Czech Republic, City Art Gallery, March 3 – April 30, 2006; Trnava, Slovakia, Jan Koniarek Gallery, May 18 – July 2, 2006; Zagreb, Croatia, Gliptoteka, December 7, 2006 – January 7, 2007
New York, Gavin Brown's enterprise, Herald St and The Modern Institute present
Glasgow, Glasgow Print Studio, Prisms & Shadows, (curated by Toby Paterson)
2004
Glasgow, Transmission Gallery, "JP Munro, Alex Pollard, Tony Swain," February 10 – March 13, 2004
Dublin, Kerlin Gallery, Mark Garry, Tony Swain, Andrew Vickery
London, Millers Terrace, Curb Your Enthusiasm
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007
"One to Watch," Artkrush, October 3, 2007, http://artkrush.com/146544
2006
Anderson, Randall. "Tony Swain," Flash Art, October, 2006, p. 120
Kennedy, Alexander. "The Flashes that Came to Stand For Us," in The List, July 6 – 20, 2006, p. 91
Peter, Mick. "Tony Swain," frieze, October, 2006, p. 263
Harrison, Sara. "Tony Swain," Art Monthly, February, 2006
Sumpter, Helen. "Tony Swain," Time Out (London), January 18 – 25, 2006
2005
Douglas, Caroline. "Supernova," in Supernova, London, The British Council, 2005
2004
Price, Matt. "Tony Swain," Flash Art, November/December, 2004, p. 97
Figgis, Laurence. "JP Munro, Alex Pollard, Tony Swain," Untitled, Summer 2004
McDermott, Leon. "Tony Swain," The Metro, September 17, 2004
Moira, Jeffrey. "Showing vital spark," The Herald, September 10, 2004
McLaughlin, Aideen. "Writings on the Wall," The Big Issue. September 2 – 8, 2004, p. 32
James, Merlin. "Munro, Pollard and Swain at Transmission," Transmission Newsletter, April, 2004