Darren Banks
Biography
Born 1978, Orsett, Essex, UK
1998 - 2002 BA Fine Art (Hons), University of Newcastle upon Tyne
2003 - 2005 MA Fine Art, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011
Backwater, Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton, UK
2010
Soothsayers, Sierra Metro, Edinburgh, UK
2009
Fantasmagora: Better Place Portraiture, Auto Italia South East, London
Prussian Projekte, Nottingham
2007
Goddess, British & European Legs, CAN07, Norwich
2006
Sci-fi Looking Thing, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012
Out of site, Matt Roberts Arts, International Touring Exhibition
2011
The Art of Fear, Nighthawk Cinema, Brooklyn, New York
Translate/Transcribe, Central House of Artists, Moscow
Double, Double, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK
Pale Fire, Generator Projects, Dundee, UK
Throw the Switches, TROVE, Birmingham, UK
ROTATE, Contemporary Art Society & Shortlist Media, London
Drawing 2011, The Drawing Room, London
Mural Newspaper (organised by Hugo Canoilas), Abrons Art Center, New York
Defective Science, Sala Dogana, Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy
The Days of This Society are Numbered, Abrons Arts Center, New York
Rummage Sale and Floor of the Forest, Barbican Art Gallery, London
2010
NADA Art Fair, Miami with Workplace Gallery
Hello World, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, UK.
Cinephemere, The Louvre Museum in collaboration with the Ricard Foundation and FIAC, Paris, France
Palace Bandwagon, Tuileries Sculpture Gardens and FIAC, Paris
FIAC Art Fair, Paris, France with Workplace Gallery.
Remake Remodel, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK.
The Dictionary of Received Ideas, Q, London
No Soul For Sale (presented by Auto Italia Gallery, London), Tate Modern, London, UK
No Soul For Sale (presented by Embassy Gallery, London), Tate Modern, London, UK
Better Place Portraiture: Surreal House, Barbican Art Gallery
2009
Better Place Portraiture Auto-Italia southeast, London
Better Place Portraiture, Summer Group Show, the Old Police Station, London
Panda Milan-Head, Auto-Italia southeast, London
The Intimate, The Infinite & The Impossible at Magican, Belgrade
Drawing 2009, The Drawing Room, London
Yes Way, Auto-Italia & UTR, London
The Golden Record, Lincoln Museum & BAC London
BCN Exhibition, Cooper's Building, Newcastle
2008
TOMORROW THE FUTURE, Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton, UK
"All My Favourite Singers Couldn't Sing…" Workplace Gallery, Gateshead
The Golden Record, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
Back Garden Biennial, curated by Sara Sinclair, Edinburgh
Epic, Auto-Italia, London
King Fisher's Tales, Union Gallery, London
Art Futures, Bloomberg Space, London
2007
Beacon Of Hope, Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria
Metteurs en Scène, The Embassy, Edinburgh
Drawing 2007, The Drawing Room, London
DC Workplace Gallery stand, Düsseldorf, Germany
Spook up I can't hear you, The Embassy, ECA, Edinburgh
Comfort Zones, Oriel Davies Gallery, Wales, Touring exhibition
Art Futures, Bloomberg Space, London
The Opposite of Vertigo, The Drawing Room, London
2006
Better Place Portraiture, MIMA, Middlesbrough
Electrical Activity, Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle
The Opposite of Vertigo, Burren College of Art, Ireland
Formal Dining, Hales Gallery, curated by Workplace
Blue Star Red Wedge, Glasgow International, curated by Workplace
The Space In-Between the Sole and the Heel, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
2005
Darren Banks and Mattias Harenstam, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead
The Space In-Between the Sole and the Heel, Globe Gallery, Newcastle
2004
Windows Wide Open, Side Cinema, Newcastle
Practice, Newcastle
2003
Show 2, Starboard Home, Newcastle upon Tyne
Novotel Rooms, Magnifitat, Edinburgh
Film Screenings
2011
Pale Fire, Generator Projects, Dundee, UK
2010
Cinephemere, The Louvre Museum in collabortion with the Ricard Foundation, Paris, France
Yes Way, Auto-Italia & UTR, Auto-Italia southeast, London UK
The City and the Stars (film lounge), Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Selected Video Works Scratch Nights at Milton Keynes Gallery
2008
Beyond Film, curated by Workplace, Durham, UK
Back garden Biennial, curated by Sara Sinclair, Edinburgh
2007
Spook Up I Can't Hear You, The Embassy, ECA, Edinburgh
Bibliography
2011
Darren Banks: Backwater, AN Interface, Annabelle Shelton
Hyperdrawing: Beyond the Lines of Contemporary Art, Produced by TRACEY, an electronic journal for contemporary drawing research hosted by Loughborough University in the UK. To be published in 2010 with I. B. Tauris
2010
Get on the band wangon by Caryn Coleman
archive les 80's dans une sombre Cadillac, ARTINFO france - Grégory Picard
Cadillac Noire Cinema Couleurs Papilon, ARTINFO france
Dialogues , a publication by the graduating class of goldsmiths MFA Curating
Lux Blog , Caryn Coleman interviews artist Darren Banks
Soothsayers, Map magazine - John Beagles
Soothsayers, the Edinburgh Journal - Joao Abbot-Gribben
Soothsayers, the List - Neil Cooper
Soothsayers, the skinny - Adeline Amar
Yes Way Auto-Italia & UTR, Auto-Italia southeast, London
2008
Brave New Disc World (The Golden Record - Review), Christian Pambrun, The Times
When Worlds Collide (The Golden Record), Mark Fisher, The List
Lost In Our Own Space (The Golden Record - Review), Susan Mansfield, The Scotsman
2009
It's not the end of the world, NVA- Jennie Syson
Untitled, Axis Artist Database- Neil Mulholland
Unpublished 'Stop, Rewind, Eject'- Benjamin Newell
2007
The Opposite of Vertigo, Flash Art magazine - Courtney J. Martain
British & European Legs, Artist Newsletter - Stephanie Douet
Domestic Virtues: Art, Interiority and Domesticity, Chris Townsend
2006
Untitled, axis artist database - Alessandro Vincentelli,
Sci-fi looking thing, the crack Margazine - Chloe Corkhill
Unpublished 'Blue Star, Red Wedge - Matt Hearn
Glasgow International 06, Martin Vincent, Art Monthly
Northern Lights, Dazed & Confused
Collections
Private collections, UK / USA
The Guangdong Museum of Art, China
Commissions and Awards
2009
Artist Member of the Contemporary Art Society
2006
Graduates, Axis Artist Database
2003
European Social Fund Bursary
2002
The Hatton Gallery Student Prize