EXPOSITIONS
2025
Charles Avery, GRIMM, New York, USA
2023
The Nothing of the Day, GRIMM, London, UK
2022
The Hunter returns/ goes away from, GRIMM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021
Zoo, Hate, Bridge, Tree: Architectural Propositions of Onomatopoeia, Vistamarestudio, Milan, Italy a wall, a bridge, an arch, a hat, a side-show, a square circle, a group of friends, and two one-armed snakes, GRIMM, New York, NY
2020
The Taile of the One-Armed Snake, GRIMM, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019
The Gates of Onomatopoeia, Ingleby, Edinburgh, UK
2018
What is it about the red-headed girl with the weak chin? New Portraits of the Sales, Rome, Italy
Indepenent Brussels, GRIMM, Brussels, Belgium
Onomatopoeians, Studio
2017
These Waters, GRIMM, New York, USA
Study #15: The Ninth Resort, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
The People and Things of Onomatopoeia: Part II, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, UK
2016
Charles Avery, GRIMM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerala, India
Charles Avery, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
2015
The People and Things of Onomatopoeia, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK The Improbable City, Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh, UK
What’s the matter with Idealism?, GEM Museum for Contemporary Art, The Hague, The Netherlands Fig-2 2/50 Charles Avery, ICA Studio, London, UK
2014
What’s so great about Happiness? The people and things from Onomatopoeia – Part II, Studio Sales di Norberto Ruggeri, Rome, Italy
What’s so great about Happiness? The people and things from Onomatopoeia, GRIMM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2013
It Means It Means! Pilar Corrias, London, UK
It Means, It Means! Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
Vitrines: Charles Avery, L’Antenne, Le Plateau, FRAC lle de France, Paris, France Charles Avery, Studio Sales di Norberto Ruggeri, Rome, Italy
2012
New Works from the Islanders Project (Concerning the Qoro-Qoros, The Jadindagadendar and the Eternal Dialectic), GRIMM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2011
Place de la Revolution, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
New Drawings of Onomatopoeia, Studio Sales di Norberto Ruggeri, Rome, Italy A Million Miles from Home, The Folkstone Triennial, Folkestone, UK
2010
Onomatopoeia, Part 1, EX3 – Centor per l’Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy; Kunstverein, Hanover, Germany; Frac Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris, France
Onomatopoeia, Part 2: The Port, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
2009
Onomatopoeia, Part 1: Creeds, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin, Italy
2008
The Islanders: An Introduction, Parasol Unit, London, UK; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
2007
Maquette of the Eternity Chamber, Gowen Contemporary (former Galerie Arquebuse), Geneva, Swizerland
The Islanders: An Introduction – Part III, Gowen Contemporary (former Galerie Arquebuse), Geneva, Switzerland
2006
Charles Avery & Keith Wilson, Alexandre Pollazzon, London, UK The Plane of the Gods, Cubitt Gallery, London, UK
The Islanders: An Introduction - Part II, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin, Italy
2005
The Islanders: An Introduction, Doggerfisher, Edinburgh, UK
Hunting The Noumenon, Galleria Archimede Staffolini, Nicosia, Cyprus AVATARS, Studio Sales di Norberto Ruggeri, Rome, Italy
2004
The Hunter, Man in the Holocene, London, UK It thinks, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin, Italy
2003
The Square Root of 2, Sleeper, Edinburgh, UK
The Freedom of the Universe, Studio Sales di Norberto Ruggeri, Rome, Italy, Rome, Italy
2002
The Truth about the Truth, Doggerfisher, Edinburgh, UK Triangle Land, Dee Glasoe, New York, USA
2001
The Palace of the Gulls, Percy Miller Gallery, London, UK
2000
The Last Yolk, Sonia Rosso Gallery, Pordenone, Italy
The Riddle of Pooch Avery, Dee Glasoe Gallery, New York, USA
The Ghost of Scirribin, Nylon Gallery, London, UK
1999
Charles Avery, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
The Life and Times of Nancy Haselswon, Tablet Gallery, London, UK 1998 The Creation of the Omniverse, Nylon, London, UK
Portraits of People Who Never Existed, Entwistle Gallery, London, UK 1997 The Underground Exhibition, Aldwych Tube Station, London, UK
GROUP EXPOSITIONS
2024
My World, Singer Laren, Laren, The Netherlands Positions, Part Three, Alma Pearl, London, UK
Arte a Casa, Casa Cipriani, Milan, Italy Self Portraits, GRIMM, New York, USA
2023
Twenty-Five, Ingleby, Edinburgh, UK
2022
GLASSTRESS: Venetian Glass Today, Millesgården Museum, Stockholm, Sweden Cubitt 30th Birthday Fundraising Exhibition, Victoria Miro, London, UK
Le Voci della Sera, Vistamarestudio, Milan, Italy
Planet B. Climate Change and the New Sublime, Palazzo Bollani, Venice, Italy
We, on the Rising Wave, Busan Biennale 22, Busan, South Korea
The Hunter’s Return, Paradys, Arcadia, Friesland Triennial, Oranjewoud, The Netherlands Art is the Antidote, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands
2021-22
Escape Line II: Drawings and Sculptures, Gowen Contemporary, Switzerland
2021
54 White Street Inagural Exhibition, GRIMM, New York, NY
2020
The City & The City & The City, Frestonian Gallery, London, UK Other Wordly, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
2019
Away in the Hill, GRIMM, New York, USA
NOW: Anya Gallaccio, Charles Avery, Aurélian Froment, Roger Hiorns, Peles Empire, Zineb Sedira, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
16th Istanbul Biennale: The Seventh Continent, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
2018
Auto fictions - Contemporary Drawing Prix de dessin Guerlain, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
TWENTY, Ingleby, Edinburgh, UK
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Rhasody in Blue, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands Pop-up, GRIMM, Brussels, Belgium
On a Pedestal, Castletown House, County Kildare, Ireland
2017
Plurivers, La Panacée Centre d’art Contemporain, Montpellier, France Art Night 2017, in association with Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK GLASSTRESS, Palazzo Franchetti, 57th Beinnale di Venezia, Venice, Italy Exhibition Paintings, Kunst Meran/Merano Arte, Merano
Prix de Dessin, Salon du Dessin, Palais Brongniart, Paris, France
2016
The Science of Imaginary Solutions, Breese Little, London, UK Drawing Conclusions, RISD Museum, Providence, RI, USA
Constructing Nature, Huize Frankendael, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi Biennale Foundation, Kunnumpuram, India
2015
Animals in Art – Collectie de Heus-Zomer, Museum Nairac, Barneveld, The Netherlands
Tree No.5, commission for Parasolstice- Winter Light projects, Parasol Unit, London
Tree No.5, public commission in Waverley Station as part of The Improbable City, Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh, UK
The Improbable City,Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh, UK
Fig-2 2/50, ICA Studio, London, UK
2014
Feels like Heaven, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Intenzione Manifesta, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
The Great Acceleration: Art in the Anthropocene, Taipei Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan
GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
Year After Year: Works on paper from the UBS Art Collection, Galleria D’Arte Moderna di Milano (GAM),
Milan, Italy
Huidige Zaken, GRIMM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Potent Wilderness, Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, The Genia Schreiber Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2013
Drawing Room, Carre St Anne, Montpellier, France
Mijn Derde Land [My Third Land], Frankendael Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Revealed2: CollectorSpace, Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, Australia
The World is Almost Six Thousand Years Old, Collection and Usher Gallery, Lincoln, UK
Imagining Islands: Artists and Escape, The Courtauld Gallery, London, UK
Beastly Hall: A Place Where Artists and Creatures Collide, Hall Place, Bexley, USA A Parliament of Lines, The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney, UK
2012
Galicia: Topographies of Myth, SOKOL, Nowy Sacz, Poland
A Parliament of Lines, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, UK; The RMIT University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Hedendaagse Surreele Tekeningen Uit Rotterdam, Collectie Boijmans van Beuningen, Institut Neerlandais, Paris, France
Le mirir et l’encyclopedie, Galerie Michel Journiac, Paris, France
Haunts and Follies, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne, Australia
Machines for Living, Yaffo 23, Jerusalem, Israel
The Comic Side of Art, Nest, The Hague, The Netherlands
2011
Folkestone Triennial: A Million Miles from Home, Folkstone, UK
As The World Turns: New Art From London, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2010
British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet, UK Touring Exhibition: Nottingham
Contemporary, Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Nottingham; Hayward Gallery, London; Centre for Contemporary Art, Gallery of Modern Art and Tramway, Glasgow; Peninsula Arts, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, The Slaughterhouse, and Royal William Yard, Plymouth, UK
Recent British Sculpture, GRIM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Languages and Experimentations, Casa d’Arte Futurista Depero, Trento, Italy
Acquisition Presentation Contemporary Drawings, Museum Boijmans van Beuiningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2009
Altermodern, 4th TATE Triennial, London, UK Walking in My Mind, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
A Duck for Mr Darwin, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK Life Forms, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Biennal Fundraiser, The Drawing Room, London, uk
2008
Made Up, International Festival of Contemporary Art, 5th Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool, UK Scotland & Venice 2003, 2005, 2007, Charles Avery, Simon Starling and Cathy Wilkes, The Pier, Orkney, UK
Irony and Gesture, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Artfutures, Bloomberg Space, London, UK
2007
Scotland & Venice, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy The Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France
The Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece
Timer, Triennial Bovisa, Milan, Italy
Every Eye Sees Differently as The Eye, The Drawing Room, London, UK
Welcome to My World, Alexandre Pollazzon, London, UK
Ironie der Objekte, MUSEION Museum fur moderne und zeitgenossische Kunst, Bolzano, Italy
2006
Flip, Francois Ghebaly/Chung King Project, Los Angeles, USA
2005
Sculpture Garden, Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner, London, UK Memphis, Flaca, London, UK
Theoroma, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Avignon, France
Inaugurazione Nuovo Spazio, Studio Sales di Norberto Ruggeri, Rome, Italy
2004
Premio del Golfo, La Spezia, Italy
Jerwood Drawing Prize, London and touring trailer, UK
Trailer, Man in the Holocene, London, UK
Io Mi Ricordo, Studio Sales di Norberto Ruggeri, Rome, Italy
2003
Il Premio per la Giovane Arte Italiana, Padiglione di Venezia, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Love Over Gold, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK
Necessary Kids: Charles Avery, Piotr Uklanski, Costa Vece, Gallerie Civico d’Arte Contemporanea di Siracusa, Sicily, Italy
Dark Shadows, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Works on Paper, Archimede Staffolini Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
Prospects Drawing Prize, Truman Brewery, London, UK
2002
Contemporary Art Project, Museum of Modern Art, Seattle, USA A measure of distance, Magnani, London, UK
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London; MAC Birmingham; Glasgow School of Art; EICH Gallery, Hull; The Lowry, Manchester, UK
Prospects Drawing Prize, Truman Brewery, London, UK
Supersonic and Alien, S.A.L.E.S., Rome, IT
Flights of Reality, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK 2001 Ghosty, Mille Eventi, Milan, Italy
Works on Paper, Studio Sales di Norberto Ruggeri, Rome, Italy
2000
Made Space, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, UK; Changing Room, Stirling, UK; Pekao Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Drawing, Percy Miller Gallery, London, UK Innuendo, Dee/Glasoe Gallery, New York, USA
1999
Surveying the Landscape, Lombard Freid Gallery, New York, USA Selection from the Files, Nylon, London, UK
The British on Paper, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Pordenone, Italy Untitled, Archimede Staffolini Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus DRAW, Ten in One Gallery, Chicago, USA
Fine Line, Duncan Cargill Gallery, London, UK
1998
Golf Sale, Merc house, London, UK
1997
The Underdogs, Uncle Grey Presents, London, UK
1996
Charles Avery & Peter Harris, Uncle Grey Presents, London, UK Conversation Pieces, Uncle Grey Presents, London, UK
Publishers
2019
Onomatopoeia: Its people and surroundings, Frame Publishers, Amsterdam (NL) 2010 Onomatopoeia: The Port, Walther König/ Koenig Books, Germany
2008
The Islanders: An Introduction, Parasol Unit/ König Books, London
Selected Collections
AKZO Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Arts Council England Collection, London, UK
The Roberts Institute of Art (RIA), London, UK
De Heus-Zomer Collection, Barneveld, The Netherlands Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Edinburgh City Art Centre Collection, Edinburgh, UK THE EKARD COLLECTION
FRAC Île de France, Paris, France Kunstmuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, Tel Aviv, Israel
Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands
National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
ProWinko Collection, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
Tate Modern, London, UK
VandenBroek Foundation, Lisse, The Netherlands