Charlotte Prodger (born 1974) is a British artist and film-maker
who works with "moving image, printed image, sculpture and writing".
Her films include ''Statics'' (2021), ''SaF05'' (2019), ''LHB'' (2017), ''Passing as a great grey owl'' (2017), ''BRIDGIT'' (2016), ''Stoneymollan Trail'' (2015) and ''HDHB'' (2012). In 2018 she won the
Turner Prize
The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist. Between 1991 and 2016, only artists under the age of 50 were eligible (this restriction was removed for the 2017 award) ...
.
Early life
Prodger was born in
Bournemouth
Bournemouth () is a coastal resort town in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council area of Dorset, England. At the 2011 census, the town had a population of 183,491, making it the largest town in Dorset. It is situated on the Southern ...
in 1974.
Between 1997 and 2001, she studied Fine Art (Studio Practice and Contemporary Critical Theory) at
Goldsmiths, University of London
Goldsmiths, University of London, officially the Goldsmiths' College, is a constituent research university of the University of London in England. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Wor ...
, and between 2008 and 2010 she studied Masters in Fine Art at the
Glasgow School of Art
The Glasgow School of Art (GSA; gd, Sgoil-ealain Ghlaschu) is a higher education art school based in Glasgow, Scotland, offering undergraduate degrees, post-graduate awards (both taught and research-led), and PhDs in architecture, fine art, and ...
.
Career
Prodger works with "moving image, printed image, sculpture and writing".
Her film ''Stoneymollan Trail'' is a compilation of scenes made since the late 1990s using "old camcorder, HD and more recent iPhone footage".
Her film ''BRIDGIT'' (2016) addresses issues of queer identity and was shot using an iPhone.
In 2017 Prodger undertook the Berwick Artists' Moving Image Residency, where she developed ''LHB,'' a new single-screen work for cinema that premiered at
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2017.
In 2018 she won the
Turner Prize
The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist. Between 1991 and 2016, only artists under the age of 50 were eligible (this restriction was removed for the 2017 award) ...
for an exhibition of ''BRIDGIT'' and ''Stoneymollan Trail'' at Bergen Kunsthall in
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
.
Between 11 May – 24 November 2019 she was presented by Scotland + Venice
at the Arsenale Docks as part of the
58th Venice Biennale
The 58th Venice Biennale was an international contemporary art exhibition held between May and November 2019. The Venice Biennale takes place biennially in Venice, Italy. Artistic director Ralph Rugoff curated its central exhibition, ''May You ...
.
As part of the Collateral Events, Scotland + Venice commissioned Charlotte Prodger to create ''SaF05'' (2019)'','' a new
single channel video work to be screened across seven cinemas and art centres in Scotland. The UK premiere was held at The Tower Digital Arts Centre in Argyll & Bute on 27 June 2019. The work shown is the last of a trilogy that began with ''Stoneymollan Trail'' (2015) followed by ''BRIDGIT (2016).'' The work was curated by Linsey Young in partnership with Alexia Holt of Cove Park, where the work was developed.
She is represented by Hollybush Gardens, London and Koppe Astner, Glasgow.
Films
*''HDHB'' (2012) in collaboration with Corin Sworn – 10 minutes
*''Stoneymollan Trail'' (2015) – 43 minutes
*''BRIDGIT'' (2016) – 32 minutes
*''Passing as a great grey owl'' (2017) – 6 minutes
*''LHB'' (2017) – 20 minutes
*''SaF05'' (2019) – 39 minutes
Solo exhibitions
*''handclap/punchhole,'' Kendall Koppe, Glasgow, 2011
*::-*, Intermedia
CCA,
Glasgow International
Glasgow International (GI) is a biennial visual arts festival that takes place in Glasgow, Scotland. While Glasgow has a thriving contemporary art scene of its own, GI offers a platform to artists from other countries as well, showcasing the bes ...
, 2012
*Charlotte Prodger/Jason Loebs, Essex St, New York, 2012
*''Percussion Biface 1-13'',
Studio Voltaire, London, 2012
*''Sunday Art Fair,'' Kendall Koppe, London, 2013
*''Nephatiti'', Glasgow International Director's Programme, 2014
*''Markets,'' Chelsea Space, London, presented by The Block, 2014
*
Frieze Art Fair
Frieze Art Fair is an international contemporary art fair in London, New York, and Los Angeles. Frieze London takes place every October in London's Regent's Park. In the US, the fair ran on New York's Randall's Island from 2012–19 and in 2 ...
, Koppe Astner, Randall's Island, New York, 2015
*''Stoneymollan Trail,''
Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, 2015
*''8004-8019'',
Spike Island, Bristol, UK, 2015
*''Charlotte Prodger,'' Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Germany, 2016
*''BRIDGIT,'' Hollybush Gardens, London, 2016
*''SUBTOTAL,''
SculptureCenter
SculptureCenter is a not-for-profit, contemporary art museum located in Long Island City, Queens, New York City. It was founded in 1928 as "The Clay Club" by Dorothea Denslow. In 2013, SculptureCentre attracted around 13,000 visitors.
History
Fou ...
, New York, 2017
*''BRIDGIT/Stoneymollan Trail,''
Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway, 2017/2018
*''Colon Hyphen Asterix,'' Hollybush Gardens, London, 2018
*Scotland + Venice, 58th International Art Exhibition,
La Biennale di Venezia
The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...
, 2019
*''SaF05'', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2021
*''Blanks and Preforms'', Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland, 2021
Group exhibitions
* ''What We Make With Words,''
CCA, Glasgow, 2011
* ''Soundworks,'' ICA, London, 2012
* ''Old Photocopier,'' HOTEL, London, 2012
* ''Paraphantoms,'' Temporary Gallery, Cologne, Germany, 2012
* ''Analogue Other,'' Poor Farm, Wisconsin, USA, 2013
* ''Frozen Lakes,''
Artists Space
Artists Space is a non-profit art gallery and arts organization first established at 155 Wooster Street in Soho, New York City. Founded in 1972 by Irving Sandler and Trudie Grace and funded by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), Artist ...
, New York, 2013
* ''Costume: Written Clothing,'' Tramway, Glasgow, 2013
* ''Holes In The Wall,'' Kunsthalle Freiburg, 2013
* ''Annals of The Twentieth Century,''
Wysing Arts, Cambridge, 2014
* ''Phantom Limbs,'' Pilar Corrias, London, 2014
*
Frieze Art Fair
Frieze Art Fair is an international contemporary art fair in London, New York, and Los Angeles. Frieze London takes place every October in London's Regent's Park. In the US, the fair ran on New York's Randall's Island from 2012–19 and in 2 ...
, London, with Kendall Koppe, 2014
* ''It Happens Without You'', Kendall Koppe, Glasgow, 2014
* ''The Ultimate Vesse''l, Koppe Astner, Glasgow, 2015
* ''Anarchic Sexual Desires of Plain Unmarried Schoolteachers'', Project Number, London, 2015
* ''The Secret Life'',
Murray Guy
Murray Guy was a contemporary art gallery specializing in emerging and mid-career contemporary artists. Founded by Margaret Murray and Janice Guy in 1998, the gallery was located in the Chelsea, Manhattan gallery district at 453 West 17th Street. ...
, New York, 2015
* ''An Interior that Remains an Exterior'', Künstlerhaus Graz, 2015
* ''Windows Hung with Shutters'', Raeber Von Stenglin, Zürich, 2015
* ''
British Art Show 8'',
Leeds Art Gallery
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, Edinburgh Inverleith House,
Norwich University of the Arts,
Southampton City Art Gallery, 2015
* ''Weight of Data'',
Tate Britain
Tate Britain, known from 1897 to 1932 as the National Gallery of British Art and from 1932 to 2000 as the Tate Gallery, is an art museum on Millbank in the City of Westminster in London, England. It is part of the Tate network of galleries in ...
, London, 2015
*
''British Art Show 8'',
Leeds Art Gallery
Leeds Art Gallery in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, is a gallery, part of the Leeds Museums & Galleries group, whose collection of 20th-century British Art was designated by the British government in 1997 as a collection "of national importance" ...
, Edinburgh Inverleith House,
Norwich University of the Arts,
Southampton City Art Gallery, 2016
* Ewig Weibleche, Koppe Astner, Glasgow, 2017
* ''Coming Out: Sexuality, Gender and Identity'',
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 2017
* ''When My Eyes Saw And My Ears Heard'', Hollybush Gardens, London, 2017
* ''ORGASMIC STREAMING ORGANIC GARDENING ELECTROCULTURE,'' Chelsea Space, London, 2018
* Turner Prize 2018,
Tate Britain
Tate Britain, known from 1897 to 1932 as the National Gallery of British Art and from 1932 to 2000 as the Tate Gallery, is an art museum on Millbank in the City of Westminster in London, England. It is part of the Tate network of galleries in ...
, London, 2018
* ''Always Different, Always the Same: An essay on Art and Systems,'' Bundner Kunstmuseum, Chur, 2018
* ''Palimpsest,'' Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland, 2019
*''Migrating Worlds: The Art of the Moving Image in Britain'', Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2019
*''The Blazing World'', S, 2 Gallery, Sotheby’s, London, 2019
*''Every Crack, Every _ _ _ _'', 47 Canal, New York, 2020
*''A Sculpture, A Film & Six Videos'', Wesleyan University Zilkha Gallery, Connecticut, USA, 2020
*''Nine Lives'', The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, 2020
*''Conflicts,'' Eugster Belgrade and Drugstore Belgrade, Belgrade, 2021
*''Dislocations'', Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, 2021
*''Language Is a River'', Monash University Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia, 2021
Collections
Prodger's work is held in the following public collections:
*
Arts Council Collection, UK: 1 film, ''BRIDGIT'' (as of December 2018)
Personal life
Prodger lives and works in
Glasgow
Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated popul ...
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References
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1974 births
Living people
British women artists
British contemporary artists
Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art
Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London
Artists from Bournemouth
British video artists
Women video artists
Queer artists
21st-century LGBT people