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Biography

1967 Born in Scotland
Lives and works in London


Education

1991-1993 Slade School of Art, London, Diploma in Fine Art
1988-1991 Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen
B.A. Fine Art, Painting (First Class Honors)


Scholarships and Awards

1996/97 Artist in Residence, Durham Cathedral
1993/94 Abbey Major Award, The British School at Rome


Solo Exhibitions

2024 Day Release, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
Materials For Reasoning, Emanuel Von Baeyer Cabinet, London
2022 Neil Gall - Bozzetti, Emanuel Von Baeyer Cabinet, London
2018 The Studio, New Collages, Painting and Sculpture, The Artist’s House, New Art Centre, Roche Court, Wiltshire, UK
Against Nature, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
The Least We Could Do Is Wave To Each Other, DOMOBAAL, London
Neil Gall: Covers and Counterfeits, Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast
The Studio: Cover Versions, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
2016 Paperhouse, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
2015 Arrange your face, DOMOBAAL, London
Cut-Outs, Offcuts and Holes, David Nolan Gallery, New York
2012 art berlin contemporary with Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
David Nolan Gallery, New York
2010 The Great Constructor, David Nolan Gallery, New York
2009 Re-make/ Re-model, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
2008 The Outward Urge, ScheiblerMitte, Berlin
2005 Atoll Villas, Hales Gallery, London
2001 Model Paintings, Agnews, London (catalogue)
1998 Durham Paintings, Aberdeen City Art Gallery, Aberdeen
1997 
Durham Paintings, Vardy Gallery, University of Sunderland and Durham City Art Gallery, Durham (catalogue)


Group Exhibitions

2023 8am in London, Midnight in LA, Thames Side Studios Gallery, London
No Comment, Ohsh Projects, London
OMGWTF, Primary Projects, Miami
Andrieskapel, Emanuel Von Baeyer, Maastrich
2022 Art on paper since 1960: The Hamish Parker collection, The British Museum, London
Subradar: The Deceptive Image in the Screen Environment, Laure Genillard, London
2021 Andiamo!, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (catalogue)
FIGURE/S: drawing after Bellmer, Drawing Room, London
Drawing Biennial 2021, Drawing Room, London (catalogue)
2020 Take Your Conscience to the Pawnshop, Terrace Gallery, London
Memories, Simmons & Simmons, London
Real Time, Coleman Project Space, London
Drawing & Studio, Drawing Room, London
2019 Au rendez-vous des amis, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
Dark Lantern, Sabine Knust, München
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Backyard Sculpture, Domobaal, London (co-curated with David Gates)
2018 Not Dream of Islands, Palfrey Space, London
Destroyed by Shadows, curated by Mike Stubbs, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool
2017 Moto ondoso stabile (Average Waves in Unprotected Waters), z20 Sara Zanin Gallery, Rome
Humble as Hell, Kurt Schwitters Merzbarn Langdale, Cylinders Estate, Ambleside
2016 Black Light, Slate Projects, London
Nulla Dies Sine Linea, Satellite, Berlin
2015 The Wanderer’s Nightsong II, C&C Gallery, London
Embracing Modernism, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York
Neil Gall & Rut Blees Luxemburg, DOMOBAAL, The House of St Barnabas, London
2014/15 Painting About Painting, Simmons & Simmons, London
2014 A Sense of Things, Zabludowicz Collection, London
2013 Theatrical Dynamics, The Torrance Art Museum, Torrance
2012 Entr’acte, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
The Line of Beauty and Special Guests, DOMOBAAL, London
London Twelve, City Gallery Prague, The Stone Bell House, Prague
Summer, David Noland Gallery, New York
This This Monster This Things, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea

R.S.A Annual Exhibition, Invited Artist, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

Constructions, Suite 5, London
2011 Sagacity, Forman’s Smokehouse Gallery, London (curated by Roberto Ekholm)
Robert Mapplethorpe: Night Work, Alison Jacques Gallery, London (curated by Scissor Sisters)
Twenty, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
Cross-Check, Petra Rink Galerie, Dusseldorf
Watching Me Watching You, Denver Art Museum
2010 Undone: Making and Unmaking in Contemporary Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (catalogue)
The Visible Vagina, David Nolan, New York and Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York (catalogue)
Redefining Landscape, Stephane Simoens Contemporary Fine Art, Knokke-Zoute
Deliberations from a Collector, selected by Stuart Evans, Centre for Recent Drawing, London
Wall-to-Wall, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
2009 Obsession: Contemporary Art from the Lodeveans Collection, University of Leeds, Leeds (catalogue)
Shadow/Existence, ScheiblerMitte Berlin
A Sort of Night of the Mind, a Kind of Night for our Thoughts, Herbert Read Gallery, University for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Kent

2008 Something Less, Something More, Gallery One One One, London
Says the Junk in the Yard, Flowers East, London (catalogue)
2007 Max. Durchfahrtshöhe , ScheiblerMitte, Berlin
Layer Cake, Fabio Tiboni Art Contemporanea, Bologna (catalogue)
Small Wonders, The Grey Gallery, London
The End Begins, The Hospital, London
Auction Exhibition, British Friends of the Art Museums of Israel, Christies, London
2006 Lodestar, Terrace Studios Gallery, London
World Gone Mad, Herbert Read Gallery, Kent, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester and Limehouse Arts Foundation, London (catalogue)
2005 Under-lie, Keith Talent Gallery, London
2004 Tubeway Army, Keith Talent Up West, London
Obstractivist, Hales Gallery, London
2003 Blow Up, St Paul’s Gallery, Birmingham (catalogue)
2001 Group Show, Agnews, London
2000 New Publications, Peacock, Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney
1999 Equinox, Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth
Jerwood Painting Prize 1999, Jerwood Gallery, London (catalogue)

1997/98 John Moores 20 Liverpool Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (catalogue)
1994 
British School at Rome Mostra, British School at Rome (catalogue)



Publications



2012 Neil Gall: Works 2007-2011, Neil Gall, Hatje Cantz
Text by Nicholas Cullinan
2008 Collage: Assembling Contemporary Art, Black Dog Publishing


2007
 Shelf Life, Neil Gall, Black Dog Publishing

Texts by Simon Groom, Charles Darwent and Dr Johanna Malt


2001 Model Paintings, Neil Gall, Agnews
Text by Charles Darwent


1997
 Durham Paintings, Neil Gall, University of Sunderland Publications

Text by Mel Gooding