Ant Macari

Biography
Born 1976 Galashiels, Scotland, UK
2000 - 2004 BA(hons) Fine Art, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

Selected Solo Exhibitions
 
2007
Caput Mortuum (Fresh As Tomorrow), Baltic CCA, Gateshead, UK
2005
W.I.P: Work In Progress, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK

Selected Group Exhibitions
 
2010
No Souls For Sale, Festival of Independents, Tate Modern, London
Volta Art Fair, New York (with Imperfect Articles)
2009
Thank You For Staying No 2, Platform, Newcastle, UK (with Oliver Beck)
Zoo Art Fair, London, UK (with Workplace Gallery)
Rank: (Picturing the social order), NGCA (Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK) touring to Leeds City Art Gallery, and Grundy Art Gallery Blackpool.
Morphic Resonance, Project Space Leeds, UK
2008
TOMORROW THE FUTURE, Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton, UK
All my favourite singers couldn't sing, Workplace Gallery, UK
Geekfest, Poole, Dorset, UK (book work)
2007
Zoo Art Fair, Royal Academy, London. (wall drawing)
Harry Smith Anthology Remixed,Alt.Gallery,Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and CCA Glasgow.
DC, Workplace Gallery stand, Dusseldorf, Germany
False Witness, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK
Textual Healing, The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Pulse Art Fair, Workplace Gallery stand, New York, USA
2006
Zoo Art Fair, London, UK
Yacht Club, (collab. with Peter J Evans) Make Your Own Damn Art World (Bob and Roberta Smith), MIMA, Middelsborough, UK
Blue star, Red wedge, Wasps, Glasgow International, Glasgow, UK
Novellus Castellum, multiple locations, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Pulse Art Fair, Workplace Gallery stand, New York, USA
normalife unlimited, Art In Carnaby, London, UK
The Space In-between the Sole and the Heel, (touring) Collective Gallery, Edinburgh and Globe Gallery Newcastle, UK
2005
Lex Talionis, South Tyneside Unofficial Fringe Festival (STUFF), Bede's World, Jarrow
Waygood International Art Fayre, Waygood Gallery, normalife© stand, Newcastle, UK
The Unlimited Dream Company,  ('everybody's got to learn sometime'), The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle, UK, curated by NGCA
Modus Operandi, Globe Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Adamwantstobeahumanbeing, The Cumberland Arms, Newcastle, UK

Selected Collections
 
Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, USA
Locus , Newcastle upon tyne, UK
Globe Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
MGMS International, London, UK
Russell Reynolds, London, UK
Alan Dunn, FACT, Liverpool, UK
Ebb and Flow Fine Art, Newcastle, UK
Nigel Villalard, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Newcastle United FC, St James' Park, Newcastle, UK
Borders College, Hawick, Scotland, UK

Commissions

2008
Side Café, the Side, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
2006
All About the Benjamin's, Locus (Christmas Card ) Locus , Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Macari's Bullshit Diary (Arts Council Elswick), Peter J Evans, Newcastle, UK

Curating

2006
the spectacularization of everyone (a gig as an essay towards a new reciprocity of sound, vision and audience), The Cumberland Arms, Byker, Newcastle, UK
normalife unlimited, NCA Temporary site, Neil's Yard, London, UK
2004
Modus Operandi, Globe Gallery, North Shields, Newcastle, UK

Bibliography

2009
Younger Than Jesus:Artist Directory, New Museum, New York and Phaidon Press
2007
Help In The Workplace for Artists, The Journal 07/04/04
This Will Not Happen Without You: from the archive of The Basement Group, Projects UK and Locus (1977-2007), Locus publication, Newcastle,UK
2006
Spank The Monkey, ex Cat. Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
Yacht Or Die, Narc magazine, August Issue 5, p30
the spectacularization of everyone, Narc magazine, June issue 3, p21
essaythirty, Narc. Magazine, April  issue 1, p21
2005
15 Minutes With..., Ant Macari, Accent Magazine, August 2005 
Art Review-Ant Macari: Work In Progress , Sarah Jones, Metro Life, 07/12/2005