Barry Sykes
Born: 26/05/1976
Lives and works in London
m: +44 (0)7951039663
e: barry@sykes.tc
Education
1999 - 2000 MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design
1995 - 1998 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Liverpool Art School
Forthcoming Exhibitions
Early 2011 - Solo show at Plymouth Arts Centre after 2010/11 residency and commission
Solo exhibitions
09.2009 'The Desperate Designer' Gallop, Deptford, London. Part of The London Design Festival 2009
09.2008 'I Was Born On The Day Heidegger Died (But I Don't Know Much About His Work)', i-cabin, London
03.2008 'Tree Hugger - New works by Barry Sykes', Platform, Vaasa, Finland
03.2006 'Putting Spark In Your Relationships', Gallop, Deptford, London (with Sean Parfitt)
08.2004 'John Wynne / Barry Sykes', 2YK Galerie, Kunstfabrik, Berlin
07.2004 'Staying Alive: 90 minutes of Whittling', Museum Van Nagsael, Rotterdam (with Sean Parfitt)
Selected Group Exhibitions
08.2010 'Agitprop', Project Space 11, Plymouth, UK
05.2010 'No Soul For Sale', curated by Maurizio Cattelan, Cecilia Alemani and Massimiliano Gioni, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern. (invited by i-cabin)
04.2010 'Multichannel', Artists film and video group show, Artsway, Sway, New Forest, UK
02.2010 'Performance Metrics', The Gallery, Goldsmith's College, London (curated by Elisa Kay and Shama Khanna)
11.2008 'The Apartment', 222 Mare Street, London (curated by Lewis Amar and Brian Chalkley)
10.2008 'Exchange', The Arts Gallery, London (curated by Beth Greenacre, director of Rokeby gallery)
10.2008 'SIRKUS' with Kling and Bang, Iceland, at the Frieze Art Fair, London
09.2008 'alt_cph', Copenhagen (with Platform gallery, Finland)
04.2008 'Itchy Park 5: Be the change that you want to see happen tomorrow, Today!', Limehouse Town Hall, London
07.2007 'Untitled (Questioning Adults)', commissioned work for a private residence, Brockley, London
03.2007 'Itchy Park 4: Duality' Limehouse Town Hall, London
03.2007 'Evolution de l'Art', Bratislava. www.evolutiondelart.org
06.2006 'Deja Vu', Group Show, Pro Artibus, Elverket, Finland
10.2005 'Notion Nanny', (with Sean Parfitt) Studio Voltaire, London
02.2005 'Itchy Park 3: Pestilence', Limehouse Town Hall, London
12.2004 'Romantic Detachment', Chapter Arts, Cardiff (with Sean Parfitt)
09.2004 'Romantic Detachment', P.S.1 MoMA , New York , (with Sean Parfitt)
09.2004 Brixton Village Market, Brixton, London (with Sean Parfitt)
06.2004 'Itchy Park: The Young Reappropriate the Old', Limehouse Town Hall , London
12.2003 Christmas Fayre, Spike Island, Bristol
07.2003 'Exhibition of Findings', Czech Centre, London (with Sean Parfitt)
06.2003 'The Artist as Entrepreneur', The Place, Letchworth
06.2003 Prague Biennial, National Gallery, Veletrzni Palac, Prague (with Sean Parfitt)
05.2003 'Model', Kent Institute of Art and Design, Rochester , England (with Sean Parfitt)
04.2003 'The Poster The Show 1,2,3', Hoxton Distillery, London
02.2003 'PrintROOM', ROOM, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
09.2002 'MAIS4: The Good The Bad', Duke St, Liverpool Biennial
06.2002 Doubles Collection 1998-2002, Lenbachhaus, Munich
05.2002 'three times twelve is nine', britart.com Gallery, London
01.2002 'Doubles II', Jeffrey Charles Gallery, Whitechapel, London
06.2001 'Faith in Fakes', The Place, Letchworth
04.2001 'Record Collection', VTO Gallery, London , toured to Geneva and Manchester
12.2000 'Fate', Beaconsfield, London
07.2000 MA Show, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
06.2000 'Staying Alive', Chelsea School of Art project space, London (with Sean Parfitt)
06.2000 'Year', a year long curatorial project featuring 365 artists
05.2000 'democracy?', Royal College of Art, London
03.2000 'Vim and Vigour', S1 Artspace, Sheffield
04.1999 'Marks Out Of Ten', S1 Artspace, Sheffield
02.1999 'Grand Prix', Parking Space Gallery, Liverpool
Curated Projects
09.2008 'Resolution Way' reconfiguring the original exhibition for the Deptford X retrospective Exhibition, APT Gallery Deptford
07.2002 'Resolution Way', Deptford, London . Three projects by Bob and Roberta Smith, Cesare Pietroiusti, Semloh Bbew &Artlab. (Co-curated with Emma Ridgway and Sean Parfitt).
Residencies and Awards
2010/11 Research and commission residency, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, UK
02.2008 Six week residency and exhibition at Platform gallery, Vaasa, Finland
07.2005 Nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Visual Arts (with Sean Parfitt)
07.2004 Two month residency, 2YK Studios, Berlin
2004-05 Grizedale Arts Research and Development Bursary (with Sean Parfitt)
10.2003 Shortlisted for Bookworks Emerging Artists Commission
09.2002 10 day GARBA Residency, Montescaglioso , Italy
Talks and Presentations
Aswell as numerous talks on my work at various colleges and galleries nationally and internationally I have also presented a number of other specific public presentations
06.2010 'Imagine Being Here Now (What Just Happened?)', Artist's talk on all 51 works made during last decade, Plymouth Arts Centre. *NEW*
06.2009 Artist's talk to the directors and executives of Arena BLM media planning company, London
10.2008 'A Sort Of Open Secret', A cryptic illustrated lecture about my career and finances.
08.2008 'Hello Sebastian ... Did You Say A4?' Reading extracts from this publication for a Resonance.fm podcast from the Publish and be Damned book fair, London
04.2008 'Itchy Park 5: Be the change that you want to see happen tomorrow, Today!', Limehouse Town Hall, London
03.2007
'Itchy Park 4 - Duality', Limehouse Town Hall
12.2004 'Lessons in Boredom and the Outdoors', Chapter Arts, Cardiff (with Sean Parfitt)
09.2004 Lessons in Boredom…, Artists Talk, PS1, New York (with Sean Parfitt)
03.2004 JG Ballard's ‘The Smile', White Out , Spike Island , Bristol
07.2003 All I Can Remember I Know, Artist's Talk, CBA Studios, Deptford
Visiting Lecturer at The City Lit, Adult Education College (twice a year since 2003)
06.2002 Artists Talk with commissioned deaf signing, The Place, Letchworth
Writing and Book Projects
2009 'On The Nude Beach'. Commissioned essay for 'The Earth Not A Globe' Exhibition catalogue, Rokeby Gallery, London
2008 'Hello Sebastian ... Did You Say A4?'. Limited edition compendium of a written collaboration with i-cabin gallery, London
2008 'The Newpaper' contributor to edition 3 of this mock free-sheet devised and edited by Eleanor Brown
2004 'Staying Alive: Lessons in Boredom and the Outdoors, Incorporating the world's longest list of uses for vinegar'. Designed and edited by Simon and Tom Bloor (with Sean Parfitt).
2002 'All I Can Remember I Know – in five days', Artist's Book project.
2002 'Clip City', review for Italian website designboom.com.
2000 'Parallel Lines', devised and edited and designed, collected writings of the Chelsea MA.
Publications
06.2007 'The 2007 Almanac of Political Art' Devised by Sophie Hope,
edited by Leigh French, Adam Jeanes & Simona Nastac
10.2006 'Museum van Nagsael - 11 Years, 132 Exhibitions', Veenman Publishers, Netherlands
06.2006 'Deja Vu' (Exhibition Catalogue), Proartibus, Finland
09.2003 'Static Pamphlet', static-ops.org, (review of Exhibition of Findings )
09.2002 'MAIS4: The Good The Bad' (Exhibition Catalogue)
08.2002 Create 24/7, (review of Resolution Way )
06.2002 Time Out, (preview of Resolution Way )
06.2002 Evening Standard, (preview of Resolution Way /Deptford X)
07.1998 The Big Issue, (Artist's profile)
Collections
Ostrobothnian Museum, (Finland)
Various private collections (UK and Abroad)
Other Income
2001 - Sole trader, Animals in Wire
