Scott Myles
Scott Myles is a Scottish artist based in Glasgow, UK. His practice is strongly gestural and consists of sculpture, painting, printmaking, artist’s books, photography and performance-based projects, a kind of reactivation of ideas relating to the value of art and social reality by means of reusing already established codes. As a whole, his artworks constitute a complex network of responses to social and physical infrastructures, and examine the subject in their own environment.
Scott Myles’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Swim Club, Dallas, US (2022); Penthause, Margate, UK (2021); Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany (2019); The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK (2017, 2014 and 2010); Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2016); Maison Lafayette (in collaboration with Fondation Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France (2014); Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai, India (2014); Dundee Contemporary Arts, UK (2012), Sonia Rosso gallery, Turin, Italy (2011, 2006, 2003) and Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland (2005). His work has also been featured in group shows at Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow, UK (2022); the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK (2019); Luhring Augustine, NY, US (2017); The Menil Collection, Houston, US (2016); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US (2015); Tate Liverpool, UK (2011); Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany (2008); Tate Britain and …
Scott Myles is a Scottish artist based in Glasgow, UK. His practice is strongly gestural and consists of sculpture, painting, printmaking, artist’s books, photography and performance-based projects, a kind of reactivation of ideas relating to the value of art and social reality by means of reusing already established codes. As a whole, his artworks constitute a complex network of responses to social and physical infrastructures, and examine the subject in their own environment.
Scott Myles’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Swim Club, Dallas, US (2022); Penthause, Margate, UK (2021); Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany (2019); The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK (2017, 2014 and 2010); Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2016); Maison Lafayette (in collaboration with Fondation Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France (2014); Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai, India (2014); Dundee Contemporary Arts, UK (2012), Sonia Rosso gallery, Turin, Italy (2011, 2006, 2003) and Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland (2005). His work has also been featured in group shows at Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow, UK (2022); the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK (2019); Luhring Augustine, NY, US (2017); The Menil Collection, Houston, US (2016); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US (2015); Tate Liverpool, UK (2011); Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany (2008); Tate Britain and Tate Modern, London, UK (2006) and Secession, Vienna, Austria (2003). Myles’s works are held in many private and public collections, including: Tate Gallery, London; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The British Council Collection, London; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh and The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US. Myles was awarded two Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowships at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Richmond (2016 and 2019). The artist is represented by The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Berlin/Karlsruhe, Germany, and The Breeder Gallery, Athens, Greece.
