CHARLES SANDISON
1969 Born in Haltwhistle, Scotland, UK Lives and works in Tampere, Finland
EDUCATION
1991–93 Master of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
1988–91 Bachelor of Art (hons), Fine Art Photography, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Signs of Life, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
2013 The Terrestrial Echo of Solar Storms, The Grande Manege, Moscow, Russia
Frames of Reference, Galerie Bernier, Athens, Greece
2012 Galerie Baronian-Francey, Brussels, Belgium
Nature Morte, Galeria Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain
2011 Ihmisparca, Tampere Cathedral, Tampere, Finland
Ars Fennica Award, Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Hämeenlinna, Finland Body Text, Yvon Lambert, New York, NY, USA
Age, Love, Hope, and Despair, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
2010 Figurehead, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, USA Writing with Light, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Eigse, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland Se Hace Camino, Sala Amós Salvador, Logroño, Spain The River, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France
2008 Proclamación Solemne, (façade projection) Grand Palais, Paris, France
Jose Saramago, Instituto Tomie Ohtake. São Paulo, Brazil Sinuhe, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland Systema Naturae (Deus creavit, Linnaeus disposuit), Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
2007 Jose Saramago, Fundación César Manrique, Lanzarote, Spain
Subtext, CentrePasquArt, Biel. Switzerland Charles Sandison, Paikhaeoung Gallery. Seoul, Korea
Cryptozoologies, Gallery Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany Utopia, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Covenant, Aurora-sali, Oulu. Finland Oma Kuva, Galerie Rajatila. Tampere, Finland
2006 The Book of Light, Fundacio La Caxia, Palma Mallorca, Spain
Recent Works, Galerie Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain Irakurgela - The Reading Room, Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian, Spain
Received Text, Centre pour l'image contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
2005 The Blind Watchmaker, Galerie Arndt & Partner, Zurich, Switzerland Good and Evil, 2YK, Berlin, Germany
Charles Sandison, Galerie Baronian-Francey, Brussels, Belgium Hello World, Galerie Yvon Lambert, New York, NY, USA
Charles Sandison, Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens, Greece
Living Rooms, Cornerhouse Centre for Visual Art, Manchester, UK Éigse Carlow, Ireland
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 Jardins de Bagatelle II, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
What is the smell of an exhibition?, Laboral - Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain
Datascape – Laboral, Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain
2013 Play - Stars Of Media Art, Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Sign, Symbol, Image, Egeran Galeri, Istanbul, Turkey
Datascape, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey Inner Journeys - Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium
2012 Mirages d’Orient, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France Venice Biennale of Architecture, Venice, Italy
Expanded Drawing, Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Nereden Nereye / From Where to Where, Galeri Manâ, Istanbul, Turkey
El Hilo de Ariadna: Lectores/Navegantes, Matadero, Madrid, Spain
Migration, CAS, Sydney, Australia
2011 Summer 2011, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
Open House Singapore Biennale, Singapore
Blink! Light, Sound and the moving image Denver Art Museum, CO, USA
Paradise Lost, Istanbul Modern, Turkey
Monanism, The Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart Tasmania, Australia
2010 From the Beginning, 313 Art Projects, Seoul, Korea
Ars Fennica prize, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Palazzo Spada, Rome, Italy Odyssey of Light, Galerie Messine, Paris, France
Systematic, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Esprit, es-tu là? Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, France
Changing the World, Arndt, Berlin, Germany
De Matisse à Barcelo la collection Lambert en Avignon, Musée de Vence - Château de Villeneuve, Vence, France
LECTURING
2003–04 Visiting professor, Le Fresnoy National Studio of Arts, Lille, France
1997–2001 Head of Fine Art, Tampere School of Art and Media, Finland
1996–97 Lecturer, Tampere School of Art and Media, Finland
1992–95 Lecturing assistant, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Bonn City Art Museum, Bonn, Germany Burger Collection, Berlin, Germany
The CB Collection, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA
Dresden Museum of Military History, Dresden, Germany
Kiasma Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, Québec, Canada
Musée d’Art Moderne, Luxembourg
Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Museum of New and Old Art, Hobart, Australia
National collection of France The National Museum for the XXI Century Arts, Rome, Italy
Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem, MA, USA
Turku City Library, Turku, Finland Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland