Born 1965. Lives and works in Kilcreggan, Argyll, Scotland.

Selected Solo and Group exhibitions since 1990

Major Exhibitions

2005
Repeat Pattern. Dick Institute Museum, Kilmarnock, Scotland.

2004
Conservatory. Contemporary Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaid; touring to Anna Schwarz Gallery, Melbourne.
Simulated Patient. Lisson Gallery, London.

2003
An Hospital. Mount Stuart, Bute, Scotland.
Take All the Time You Need. Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden.

2002
Christine Borland. Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas.
To be Set and Sown in The Garden. Permanent Sculpture Commission, Glasgow University, Glasgow.
Christine Borland, Survey. Presentation of 7 Projects throughout 2002/03, Kunstverein Munich.
Significant Notes. Aarhus Kunstforening af 1847, Aarhus, Denmark.
Dragon Doll with Claire Barclay. Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow.

2001
Nephila Mania. Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia.
Christine Borland. York University Art Gallery, Toronto.
Hoxa Sound. The Constant Moment. Site Specific Project, Orkney.
Christine Borland. Lisson Gallery, London.
Fallen Spirits. Anna Schwarz Gallery, Melbourne.

2000
Spirit Collection. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.
Treasury of Human Inheritance. Galeria Toni Tapies/Editions T, Barcelona.
Christine Borland. Galerie Cent 8, Paris.

1999
What Makes for the Fullness and Perfection of Life, for Beauty & Happiness is Good.
What Makes for Death, Disease, Imperfection, Suffering is Bad.
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee.
Christine Borland. Galerie Eigen & Art, Berlin.

1998
Christine Borland. De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland; Fundaçao Serralves, Porto, Portugal.
Christine Borland. Galerie Cent 8, Paris.
L'Homme Double. Project Room, Aarhus Kunst Museum, Aarhus, Denmark.

1997
Christine Borland. Galerie d'Ecole, FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France.
Christine Borland. Lisson Gallery, London.
The Dead Teach the Living. Skulpturen Projekte, Munster, Germany.

1996
From Life. Kunstwerke, Berlin.
Second Class Male, Second Class Female. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.
Christine Borland. Galerie Eigen & Art, Berlin.


Selected Group Exhibitions

2005
Home Testing. Part of the Conference for Medical Humanities, The Knowledge Spa, Peninsula Medical School, Royal Cornwall Hospital Truro.

2004
Designer Bodies: Towards the Posthuman Condition. Stills Gallery, Edinburgh.
Wonderful :Visions of the Near Future. Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; touring 2004-5.

2003
Liquid Sea. Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
Beinal Da Maia 3. Forum da Maia, Maia, Portugal.
Arrangement:The Use of Flowers in Art. Rhodes & Mann, London.
Fresh. Contemporary British Artists in Print. Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh.
Love Over Gold. Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow.
From Dust to Dusk. Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen.
Bloom – mutation, toxicity and the sublime. Govett-Brewster Art Gallery Contemporary Art Museum, New Plymouth, New Zealand

2000
Apparition: the Action of Appearing.Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol.
The Gap Show, Young critical art from Great Britain. Museum am Ostwall. Dortmund.
Mirroring Evil. Jewish Museum, New York.
Mendel, The Genius o f Genetics. Mendel Monastery, Brno, Czech Republic.
Happy Outsiders. Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw.
Iconoclash, Beyond the Image Wars. ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Remarks on Colour. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.
New, Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary British Art. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.
Medicate. Art Gallery & Museum, Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa.
The Hygiene Show. The School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London.


2001

Open Country – Scotland. Musee cantonal des Beux Arts de Lausanne, Lausanne.
Circles 4. Centre for Art & Media Technology, Karlsruhe.
Humid. Spike Island, Bristol; Melbourne Festival, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Auckland Art Gallery,Auckland.
Devoler. Institut d'Art contemporain,Villeurbanne, France.
Paradise(Lost). Ecole Superieure de'art, Perpignan, France.
G3. Casey Kaplan, New York.
Here & Now. Scottish Art 1990 – 2001. Aberdeen City Art Gallery & Museum, Aberdeen.
Working Drafts. Envisioning the Human Genome. TwoTen Gallery, The Welcome Trust, London.
Space. Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow.
Gene(sis) Contemporary Art explores Human Genomics. Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; touring.
From Beuys to Hirst: Art Works at Deutsche Bank. Scottish National Museum of Modern Art, Edinburgh.


2000
Spectacular Bodies. Hayward Gallery, London.
Biennale de Lyon. Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon.
Paradise Now. Exit Art, New York.
Warning Shots. The Royal Armouries, Leeds.
A Shot in the Dark. Lisson Gallery, London.

1999
High Red Centre. CCA, Glasgow.
Sampled, The Use of Fabric in Sculpture. Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.
Rewind the Future. Chac Mool Contemporary Art in collaboration with Lisson Gallery, West Hollywood.

1998
Artranspennine '98. Tate Gallery Liverpool, Liverpool.
Manifesta 2. Casino de Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
In Your Face.The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh.
Nettwerk-Glasgow. Museet fur Samtidskunst, Oslo.
To be Real. Yerba Beuna Centre for the Arts, San Fransisco.
Close Echoes. City Gallery, Parague, travelled to Kunsthalle Krens, Germany.
Artists Editions. The Modern Institute, Glasgow.
New Art from Britain. Kunstraum, Innsbruck.
Here to Stay Arts Council Purchases of the 1990's.

1997
Life / Live. Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon.
Material Culture. Hayward Gallery, London.
Flexible.Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich.
Turner Prize Exhibition. Tate Gallery, London.
Letter & Event. Apex Art, C.P., New York.
absence/presence. Kopavogur Art Museum, Iceland.
Wish you were here too. 83 Hill St, Glasgow.
Connections Implicities. Ecole Nationale Superiere des Beux Arts, Paris.
Pictura Britannica; Art from Britain. Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; City Gallery, Wellington, Australia.
Building Site. Architectural Association, London.

Selected Bibliography

Liquid Sea. Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, 2003
Apparition: the Action of Appearing Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England, 2002
Significant Notes Aarhus Kunstforening, Denmark, 2002
Bullet Proof Breath,Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada, 2002
New, Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary British Art Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 2002
Mirroring Evil, Nazi Imagery/Recent Art The Jewish Museum, New York, USA, 2002
Mendel. The Genius of Genetics An exhibition at the Abbey of St Thomas, Brno, Czech, 2002
Happy Outsiders from London & Glasgow Galerie Sztuki, Warsaw, Poland, 2002
Paradise Now, Picturing the Genetic Revolution Exit Art, New York, The University of Michagan, The Tang Museum, Skidmore College, USA , 2001'Progressive Disorder D.C.A. Dundee, Scotland & Bookworks, London, England, UK 2001 *
Nothing Graham Gussin & Elle Carpenter 2001
Here & Now D.C.A. Dundee, Scotland, Scotland, UK 2001
Open Country - Scotland'Musee cantonal des Beux Arts de Lausanne, Switzerland, 2001
Humid Spike Island, Bristol, England and a separate publication by the Melbourne Festival at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia, 2001
Christine Borland, The Dead Teach the Living De Appel, Amsterdam / Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich ,Switzerland, Fundaçao Serralves, Porto, 2000 'Spectacular Bodies Hayward Gallery, London, England, UK 2000
Partage d'Exotismes Biennale de Lyon, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon 2000
Warning Shots, The Royal Armouries, Leeds, England, UK, 2000
Artranspennine '98, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Liverpool, 1998
Manifesta 2, Casino de Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 1998
Nettwerk-Glasgow Museet fur Samtidskunst, Oslo,1998
Close Echoes, City Gallery, Parague, travelled to Kunsthalle Krens, Germany, 1998
New Art from Britain, Kunstraum, Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, 1998
Here to Stay, Arts Council Purchases of the 1990's, 1998
Sculpturen Projekte 3, Munster, Germany 1997
Christine Borland, FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France 1997
Letter & Event,Apex Art, New York, 1997
absence/presence Kopavogur Art Museum, Iceland 1997
Connections Implicities, Ecole Nationale Superiere des Beux Arts, Paris, France 1997
Pictura Britannica; Art from Britain Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney,1997
Flexible, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland, 1997
Life / Live, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon,1997
The Cauldron, The Henry Moore Scukpture Trust, Leeds, 1996
Sawn Off, Stockholm, Sweden, 1996
Material Culture, Hayward Gallery, London,1996
'Nach Weimar, Kunstsammlung, Weimar, Germany 1996
More Time, Less History,Fundacio Serralves, Oporto, Portugal, 1996
Full House, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany, 1996
From Life,Tramway, Glasgow / Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany 1996 *'Christine Borland & Craig Richardson, Chisenhale Gallery, London, England,1993
Guilt by Association, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin,1991
Self Conscious State 3rd Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland,1990