Paul McDevitt

Born 1972 in Troon, Scotland.
Lives and works in London, United Kingdom, and Berlin, Germany.

EDUCATION

1999-2000 – MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, United Kingdom

1992-1995 – BA (Hons) Visual Arts, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

1991-1992 – Foundation Course, Jacob Kramer College of Art & Design, Leeds, United Kingdom

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021

Modern Furnishings, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2017

Modern Furnishings SMAC, Berlin, Germany

Cave Paintings Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

Hogwash Mrs Rick’s Cupboard, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Dolph Projects, London, United Kingdom

2016

Kunstbibliothek (with Cornelius Quabeck as Infinite Greyscale), Berlin, Germany

Von Holden Studio (with Cornelius Quabeck as Infinite Greyscale), Palermo, Italy

House of St Barnabas, London, United Kingdom

2015

Grand Canyon Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Hunker Down LICA, Lancaster, United Kingdom

2014

Kunstverein Düsseldorf Schaufenster (with Cornelius Quabeck as Infinite Greyscale), Germany

Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2013

Espacio Valverde, Madrid, Spain

A Life Without Shame Sommer & Kohl, Berlin, Germany

2012

If You Haven’t Any Hay (with Cornelius Quabeck), Galerie Horst Schuler, Düsseldorf, Germany

Night Soil Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2011

Running on Woollen Legs Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2010

OBE Sommer & Kohl Berlin, Germany

What Survives APT/Peter Bergman, Stockholm, Sweden

2009

Bile and Manias Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

The Cant Artspeak, Vancouver, Canada (catalogue)

Bierstadt (with Cornelius Quabeck) Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Ecstatic Visions etc. Galerie Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Spastic with Cheer (with Heike Kati Barath) Kunstverein Schwerte, Schwerte, Germany (cat.)

2008

Bierstadt (with Cornelius Quabeck) Galerie Horst Schuler, Düsseldorf, Germany

Journal of the Winds Sommer & Kohl, Berlin, Germany

Bierstadt (with Cornelius Quabeck) Dunckerstrasse 17, Berlin, Germany

2007

Guide Me Berwick Gymnasium, Berwick-upon-Tweed, United Kingdom (catalogue)

Solitary Figure in Landscape Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2004

Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2003

Merge ‘inbrief’ print project, Jerwood Foundation, London, United Kingdom

The Horns of Moses Habitat Kings Road, London, United Kingdom

2001

Half-Life Hales Gallery, London, United Kingdom

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2023

Pop Life, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2022

Pop Life, Teckningsmuseet I Laholm, Laholm, Sweden

Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2021

Porös, Sculplobe, Berlin Germany

Kunst Im Traum, Teckningsmuseet I Laholm, Laholm, Sweden

Drawing Biennial 2021, The Drawing Room, London, United Kingdom

Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2020

Figure Up, Berlin Con Mucho Arte, Berlin, Germany

2019

Drawing Biennial, 2019, The Drawing Room, London, United Kingdom

2018

Wunderkammer I – Flydende form / Liquid Form, Esbjerg Art Museum, Esbjerg, Denmark

Multiple, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Summer In The City, Gallery Asbæk, Copenhagen, Denmark

2017

Summer in the City 12th edition, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

Golden Ass – LADEN FUER NICHTS, Leipzig, Germany

2016

Costermongering Belmacz, London, United Kingdom

Summer in the City, Martin Adbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2015

Recordings Kunstverein Hamburger Bahnhof (with Cornelius Quabeck), Hamburg, Germany

1+1=22 Galerie Roy, Zülpich, Germany

20 Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Ouvrez l’œil Le Bel Ordinaire (with Cornelius Quabeck as IGR), Pau, France

2014

Associations – New SALTS, Basel Switzerland

Le Temps de la Rentrée Sommer & Kohl, Berlin, Germany

Just Add Water CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Germany

Body and Void: Echoes of Henry Moore in Contemporary Art Henry Moore Foundation, Perry Green, United Kingdom

Decline and Fall, curated by Francesca Gavin, online exhibition, Artsy.net

Study From The Human Body, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2012

About Stupidity curated by Doreet LeVitte Harten and Diana Dallal, The Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel

Es war einmal was nie gewesen ist curated by Henrik Schrat, Galerie Ute Parduhn, Düsseldorf, Germany

Zeichen und Wunder curated by Andreas Oehlert, Kunsthaus Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany

Collaborations and Interventions curated by Friederike Nymphius, CCA Kunsthalle, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain

Glamourie PSL, Leeds, United Kingdom

2011

Under Stor Press Dunckers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden

Backstage Rider Kunst Magasin, Berlin, Germany

Laws and Sausage Nationalmuseum, Berlin, Germany

Summer in the City Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

From Berlin, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

Press Release Essays and Observations, Berlin, Germany

No Government, No Cry (a project by Kendell Geers) C.I.A.P, Hasselt, Belgium

Der Menschen Klee KIT, Düsseldorf, Germany (catalogue)

2010

Lei da Selva Lehmann Maupin, New York City, United States

Summer in the City Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

The Berlin Box CCA Kunsthalle, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain

Radical Adults The Forgotten Bar, Berlin, Germany

2009

Abstract Cabinet Show Eastside Projects, Birmingham, United Kingdom (catalogue)

Paper Moon Sommer & Kohl, Berlin, Germany

Summer in the City Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

The Golden Record – The Sounds of Earth g39, Cardiff, United Kingdom

The Golden Record – The Sounds of Earth The Collection, Lincoln, United Kingdom

Nus Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Col-lecció Art Foundation Mallorca CCA Kunsthalle, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain

2008

Chambres à part II curated by Laurence Dreyfus, La Réserve, Paris, France

100 Years 100 Artists 100 Works of Art A Foundation Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Golden Record – the Sounds of Earth Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Supernatural curated by Friederike Nymphius, CCA Kunsthalle, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain

Pendre la Crémaillère Sommer & Kohl, Berlin, Germany

Cult Fiction curated by Emma Mahony, Tullie House, Carlisle, United Kingdom (catalogue)

Space to Draw Jerwood Space, London, United Kingdom (catalogue)

2007

Star Dust ou la Dernière Frontière MAC/VAL Musée D’Art Contemporain Du Val-De Marne, Paris, France (catalogue)

Cult Fiction curated by Emma Mahony The New Art Gallery, Walsall, touring to Nottingham Castle, Leeds City Art Gallery, Aberystwyth Art Gallery, United Kingdom (catalogue)

2006

Prints Now: Directions & Definitions V&A, London, United Kingdom (catalogue)

The Starry Messenger: Visions of the Universe Compton Verney, Warwickshire, United Kingdom (catalogue)

Drawing Inspiration Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, United Kingdom (catalogue)

2005

Sonnenblumen Titanic Kjubh, Cologne, Germany

Ticker curated by Aurélie Voltz, carlier | gebauer, Berlin, Germany

The Failure Korridor, Berlin, Germany

10th Anniversary Exhibition Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Post Notes ICA, London & touring, United Kingdom

Communism curated by Grant Watson, Project, Dublin, Ireland

2004

Implosion Raum500, Munich, Germany

Pledge Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Germany

No-How Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

2003

Post it Floating IP, Manchester, United Kingdom

EU3 – European Drawing Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom

I want! I want! Towner Art Centre, Eastbourne, United Kingdom

Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, United Kingdom

Some Panoramas Pump House, London, United Kingdom

Arrangement: the use of flowers in art Rhodes+Mann, London, United Kingdom (catalogue)

Please! Take One 39, London, United Kingdom

Bad Touch Keith Talent Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Ponce the Ship, London, United Kingdom

Phillip Allen, Diana Cooper, Paul McDevitt Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Air Guitar: Art Reconsidering Rock Music curated by Emma Mahony (catalogue), Tullie House, Carlisle, United Kingdom

Angel Row, Nottingham, United Kingdom

2002

Non-Plan domoBaal, London, United Kingdom (catalogue)

YesteryearNowadays ,Hales Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Cornerhouse, Manchester, United Kingdom

MK G, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Neverland Cell Project Space, London, United Kingdom

Reverberator curated by Michael Archer, Houldsworth, London, United Kingdom

Lovely curated by Andreas Oehlert, Kohlenhof, Nuremberg, Germany

2001

Please Use The Space Provided For Additional Information, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, United Kingdom

What’s Wrong? curated by Dave Beech, The Trade Apartment, London, United Kingdom

Die München Sonne (with Declan Clarke) Maximiliansforum, Munich, Germany

Skuggspel Tullkammaren, Umeå, Sweden

The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2001 (catalogue)

Cheltenham & Gloucester College, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

The Alberto Vilar Gallery at the Prince’s Foundation, London, United Kingdom

EICH Gallery, Hull, United Kingdom

Teeth & Trousers Cell Project Space, London, United Kingdom

Freie Wahlen, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany (catalogue)

Saatchi Gallery Bursaries 1999-2001 The Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom (catalogue)

2000

Compilation PLUS, Düsseldorf, Germany

Felt-Tip David Risley/Zwemmer Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Hellseher Projektraum Konkordiastrasse, Düsseldorf, Germany

The Armchair Project Cinch, London, United Kingdom

McDevitt, Purdy, Quabeck – Bigger Monster Lover Glasgow Project Space, Glasgow, Scotland

McDevitt, Purdy, Quabeck – Uptight (Outta Sight) PLUS, Düsseldorf, Germany

Teenage Comedown 15c, London, United Kingdom