Angela Bulloch (born 1966 in Rainy River, Ontario, Canada), is an artist who often works with sound and installation; she is recognised as one of the Young British Artists.^[1] Bulloch lives and works in Berlin.^[2]

Life and career

Bulloch studied at Goldsmiths' College, London (1985–1988).^[1] She was included in the Freeze Exhibition in 1988 and was established as one of the Young British Artists.^[1] On reflecting on being a Young British Artist, Bulloch said "When I was 22, it was important for me. It was helpful in terms of managing media responses to my work because whenever I mentioned this little label, everyone was like, “Oh yeah, YBA”. But they were just talking about a media generated label, instead of the actual work. It's easier, isn't it? It's for lazy journalists."^[3] In 1989 she won the Whitechapel Artists' Award.^[4]

Bulloch undertook a two-month residency at ARCUS- project in Moriya, Japan in 1994.^[4] She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1997, part of an all-female shortlist that also included Cornelia Parker, Christine Borland and Gillian Wearing (who won the prize that year).^[5] For the Turner Prize exhibition, Bulloch exhibited her playful artwork called Rules Series.^[5] In 2005, she was nominated for the Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst.^[6]

In 2002 Bulloch was awarded the ASEF (Asia-Europe Foundation) Cultural Grant.^[4] Between 2001 and 2003 she undertook a guest professorship of sculpture at the Akademie für Bildende Künste, Vienna.^[4]

Within her art, Bullock plays with the boundaries of mathematics and aesthetics.^[1] She has a particular interest in instructions and rules, especially in the context of technology.^[6] She is an ambiguous multi-disciplinary artist and has worked in multiple media, including video, installation, sculpture, painting.^[7] In particular, she has used video, animation, sound and light to explore pre-edited systems.^[8] Bulloch is recognised for her 'Pixel Boxes' originally constructed using beech wood and a plastic front screen and later with materials such as copper, aluminium or corian.^[1] The boxes use different lights and colours to create a variety of abstract patterns.^[1] Many of her works make use of biofeedback systems, such as in her 1994 work Betaville, a 'Drawing Machine' painting vertical and horizontal stripes on a wall, was triggered whenever someone sat on the bench in front of it.^[9] Bulloch has also made a number of works using Belisha beacons, which are more commonly used to illuminate pedestrian crossings.^[10] More recently, Bullock's Stacks are unique structures made of compiled rhomboids which play with light and colour to create optical effects.^[1] Bullock's art commonly relies on the interpretation of the viewer, with its meaning being determined by their subjectivity.^[11] A lot of her light and music works are developed using technology Bulloch has created herself.^[12]

Bulloch is a fan of music and performs live.^[3] She is also the owner of the record label LBCDLP.^[3] Music is often incorporated into her art in a variety of ways such as light instillations that respond to a musical score.^[3]

Since 2018 Bulloch is a professor of Time-Based Media at HFBK Hamburg.^[12]

Exhibitions

Bulloch exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in 1997.^[13] Other museum exhibitions include Kunsthaus Glarus (2001);^[14] Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2003);^[15] Le Consortium, Dijon (2005);^[16] Modern Art Oxford, Vienna Secession, and The Power Plant, Toronto (2005); and Lenbachhaus, Munich (2008).^[17] Her work was also included in notable group exhibitions such as The New Decor at Hayward Gallery, London; Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour 1950 to Today at Tate Liverpool and Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Theanyspacewhatever for which she created an installation for the ceiling of Frank Lloyd Wright's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.^[18]

Selected solo exhibitions

• Angela Bulloch: "...then nothing turned itself inside-out and became something", Simon Lee Gallery, New York, USA (2019)^[1]
• Anima Vectorias, MAAT, Lisbon, Portugal (2019)^[19]
• Heavy Metal Stack of Six, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal (2019)^[19]
• Angela Bulloch, Omi International Arts Center, The Fields Sculpture Park, Ghent, New York (2017)^[19]
• Large Blue Music Listening Station, artgenève Salon d'Art, Geneva, Switzerland (2017)^[19]
• Euclid in Europe, Cristina Guerra Contemporary, Lisbon, Portugal (2017)^[20]
• Heavy Metal Body, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany (2017)^[20]
• Considering Dynamics & The Forms of Chaos, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (2016)^[19]
• Angela Bulloch: One Way Conversation, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong (2016)^[1]
• Space Fiction Object, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland (2016)^[20]
• Angela Bulloch: New Wave Digits, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK (2015)^[1]
• Topology: No Holes, Four Tails, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA (2015)^[20]
• Archetypes and Totem Antidotes, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Brussels, Belgium (2015)^[20]
• In Virtual Virto, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany (2014)^[20]
• Pentagon Principle, Galería Helga De Alvear, Madrid, Spain (2014)^[20]
• Universal Pixels and Music Listening Stations, Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna, Austria (2014)^[20]
• Angela Bulloch: UNIVERSAL MINERAL, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong (2013)^[1]
• Short Big Drama, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands (2012)^[19]
• ABCDLP 002- Short Big Dramaby George van Dam for Short Big Yellow Drawing Machine by Angela Bulloch, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany (2012)^[20]
• Time & Line, Städtische Galerie, Wolfsburg, Germany (2011)^[19]
• Information, Manifesto, Rules And Other Leaks…, Vattenfall Contemporary Art Prize, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (2011)^[19]
• Angela Bulloch: Discrete Manifold Whatsoever, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK (2010)^[1]
• Molecular Etwas von Angela Bulloch, Kunst Werke Berlin, Germany (2010)^[20]
• Redux, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany (2010)^[20]
• X Wohnungen Hilbrow, Johennesburg, South Africa (2010)^[20]
• Smoked, Formed & Quatered, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain (2009)^[20]
• Angela Bulloch, Trajectories and Other Lines, Cristina Guerra Contemporary, Lisbon, Portugal (2009)^[20]
• Riley Optimism, Air de Paris, Paris, France (2009)^[20]
• Galerie Kreo, Paris, France (2009)^[20]
• The Space that Time Forgot, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany (2008)^[19]
• Zhang Jiang Public Art Project, Shanghai, China (2008)^[20]
• V., Galeria Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland (2008)^[20]
• X Wohnungen Neukölln (with Michael Iber), Gropiusstdadt Neukölln, Germany (2008)^[20]
• Repeat Refrain, Enel Contemporanea, Ara Pacis, Rome, Italy (2017)^[20]
• Are you coming or going, around?, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany (2017)^[20]
• Angela Bulloch, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada (2006)^[19]
• De Pont Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Tilburg, The Netherlands (2006)^[20]
• We Are Medi(eval) (with Liam Gillick), Cubitt Artists, London, England (2006)^[20]
• Yuko Gothic Grid, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium (2006)^[20]
• Vehicles, Le Consortium, Dijon, France (2005)^[19]
• Angela Bulloch, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK (2005)^[19]
• To the Power of 4., Secession, Vienna, Austria (2005)^[19]
• The Missing 13th, Galerĺa Helga de Alvear, Madrid Spain (2005)^[20]
• Antimatter, Galeria Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland (2004)^[20]
• Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna, Austria (2004)^[20]
• Angela Bulloch/ Matrix 206. Macromatrix: For Your Pleasure, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, USA (2003)^[20]
• New Work 8: Angela Bulloch, World Reflections, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, USA (2003)^[20]
• Disco Floor Bootleg: 4, Medienturm Graz, Graz, Austria (2003)^[20]
• Search and Arrest, Y8 International Sivananda Yoga Center, Hamburg, Germany (2002)^[20]
• Micro World, 1301 PE Brian D. Butler, Santa Monica, California, USA (2002)^[20]
• Macro World: One Hour³ and Canned, Schipper & Krome, Berlin, Germany (2002)^[20]
• Chain, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Atwerp, Belgium (2002)^[20]
• Angela Bulloch, Z-Point, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland (2002)^[19]
• Institute of Visual Culture, Cambridge, England (2002)^[20]
• Matrix, Magnani, London, England (2001)^[20]
• Z Point, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland (2001)^[20]
• Prototypes, Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland (2000)^[20]
• BLOW-UP T.V., Schipper & Krome, Berlin, Germany (2000)^[20]
• From the Eiffel Tower to Riesenrad, Gelerie Kerstin Engholm, Vienna, Austria (2000)^[20]
• Headless with Legs + Tripping, 1301 PE, Los Angeles, California (2000)^[20]
• Angela Bulloch & Sylvie Fleury, Medhi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany (1999)^[20]
• Codes, Schipper & Krome, Berlin, Germany (1998)^[20]
• Superstructure, Museum für Gegenwartkunst, Zürich, Switzerland (1998)^[20]
• Sounds Off, Robert Prime Gallery, London, England (1998)^[20]
• Vehicles, Le Consortium- Centre d'Art Contemporain, Dijon, France (1997)^[20]
• Soundbank, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Germany (1997)^[20]
• Galerie Walcheturm, Zürich, Switzerland (1996)^[20]
• Robert Prime Gallery, London, England (1996)^[20]
• Mudslinger, Schipper & Krome, Cologne, Germany (1995)^[20]
• From the Clink to Panorama Island, PADT, London, England (1995)^[20]
• Marc Foxx Gallery with 1301/ Brian Butler, Santa Monica, California, USA (1995)^[20]
• Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany (1994)^[20]
• FRAC, Languedoc- Roussillon; Aldebaran, Baillargues, France (1994)^[20]
• Centre Pour la Crėation Contemporaine Tours, France (1993)^[20]
• Rules Series, Esther Schipper and Friesenwall 116a, Cologne, Germany (1993)^[20]
• 1301, Santica Monica, California (1993)^[20]
• The Art of Survival/ Baby Doll Saloon with Sylvie Fleury, Laurie Genillard, London, England (1993)^[20]
• Esther Schipper, Cologne, Germany (1992)^[20]
• Galleria Locus Solus, Genoa, Italy (1992)^[20]
• Le Case d'Arte, Milan, Italy (1991)^[20]
• Interim Art, London, England (1990)^[20]
• APAC Centre d'Art Contemporain, Nevers, France (1990)^[20]
• Galerie Claire Burrus, Paris, France (1990)^[20]
• Esther Schipper, Cologne, Germany (1990)^[20]

Selected group exhibitions

• Bulloch, Pryde: Sky, Rocks & Digits, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong (2020–21)^[1]
• En Plein Air, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK (2019)^[1]
• A Time Capsule, Works Made by Women for Parkett, 1984–2017, Parkett Exhibition Space, Zurich, Switzerland (2018)^[19]
• Double Lives. Visual Artists Making Music, mumok Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria (2018)^[19]
• Always Different. Always the Same, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland (2018)^[19]
• Metropolis, Simon Lee Gallery, New York, USA (2017)^[1]
• Mentally Yellow (High Noon), Kunstmuseum Bonn and Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany (2017)^[19]
• Ugo Rondinone: I <3 John Giorno, Howl!, New York, USA (2017)^[19]
• RULES, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland (2017)^[19]
• Fractured: Kathryn Andrews, Angela Bulloch, Bernard Frize, Louise Lawler, Daido Moriyama, John Stezaker, Christopher Wool, Toby Ziegler, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong (2016)^[1]
• Development, Okayama Art Summit, Okayama, Japan (2016)^[19]
• Night in the Museum, Wakefield, Birmingham, Leicester, UK (2016)^[19]
• L’Almanach 16, Le Consortium, Dijon, France (2016)^[19]
• The Natural Order of Things, Fundacíon Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico (2016)^[19]
• Faux Amis, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK (2015)^[1]
• Walk the Line, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (2015)^[19]
• I Love John Giorno, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2015)^[19]
• 1984–1999 The Decade, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France (2015)^[19]
• Datascape. What You See is Not What You Get, LABoral, Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain (2014)^[19]
• 8th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany (2014)^[19]
• The Whole Earth, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany (2013)^[19]
• Das Neue Lenbachhaus, Lenbachhaus Kunstbau, Munich, Germany (2013)^[19]
• Turbulences, L’espace culturel, Louis Vuitton, Paris, France (2012)^[19]
• Un Nouveau Festival, 3e Edition, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2012)^[19]
• theanyspacewhatever, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA (2008)^[19]

Awards

• Canada Council, Visual Artist's Grant, Canada (2011)^[19]
• Kunstpreis der Stadt Wolfsburg – Junge Stadt sieht Junge Kunst, Germany (2011)^[19]
• Vattenfall Contemporary Art Prize, Germany (2011)^[19]
• Preis der Freunde der Nationalgalerie Nomination, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Germany (2005)^[19]
• Cultural Grant of the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), Singapore (2002)^[19]
• Turner Prize Nomination, Tate Britain, United Kingdom (1997)^[19]
• Artist Residency (two months), ARCUS Project, Japan (1994)^[19]
• Whitechapel Artist's Award, United Kingdom (1989)^[19]

Recognition

Bulloch was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1997^[21] and for the Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst in 2005.^[22]