Bobby Niven
      b. 11.07.81
         
      EDUCATION
  2006   MFA — University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada
  2003   BFA — Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
         
      SOLO EXHIBITIONS
  2012   new work — Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
  2012   Single Screen — Sierra Metro, Edinburgh
  2010   Hermit’s Castle. Chez Galip — Sierra Metro, Edinburgh
  2009   Dawson City — Tentilten Gallery, Glasgow
  2007   Renfrew St. Social Club — Lowsalt Gallery, Glasgow
  2006   Black Milk and Blind Owls — CSA Space, Vancouver
         
      GROUP EXHIBITIONS
  2011   Hermits Castle — Madatac Film festival, Madrid
  2011   Chez GALIP — SWG3, Glasgow
  2011   Resident 11 — Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
  2011   MOLAF — Bergen, Norway
  2010   This Matter — The Royal Standard, Liverpool
  2010   Kiss of Life — Glue Factory, FINN collective, Glasgow International
  2009   Until We Have A Helicopter: Prequel — Gallery Atsui, Vancouver
  2008   Memoirs — Shakespeare and Co festival, Paris
  2007   H o t H a n d s C o l d F e e t — Flat 4/L, 259 Garrioch Road, Glasgow
      S.A.W. SHOW — disused Finneiston saw doctors, Glasgow
  2006   Strange Bedfellows — Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver
      Common Room — Belkin Satellite, Vancouver
      The Packet Agency — TBC Gallery, Melbourne
      Bewilderness — Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver
  2005   Humble Beginnings — Belkin Satellite, Vancouver
      This Experiment — The Butchershop Gallery, Vancouver
      Discarded Library — Lobby Gallery, Vancouver
  2004   Good Bye — Other Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff
      Art Cup — Galeria Quadrum, Lisbon
      Away Home — Peterfabers Gallery, Copenhagen
      Sample Glasgow — Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm
  2003   Chateau — World of Possibilities, London
      Winking Bear — Podium Gallery, Glasgow
  2002   Just add Water — Street Level Gallery, Glasgow
         
      CURATORIAL PROJECTS
  2010   Kiss of Life, FINN collective, Glue Factory, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art
  2007   Hot Hands Cold Feet, Flat 4/l Garrioch Road, Glasgow
  2007   S.A.W. SHOW, FINN collective, Finneiston Saw Doctors, Glasgow
         
      PUBLICATIONS
  2007   Article Journal — Issue 3 Fall 2007, ISSN 1934-9068
  2006   Strange Bedfellows — published by MFA (UBC), text by Lance Blomgren, ISBN 0—88865—791—9
      Bewilderness — published by Helen Pitt Gallery, text by Collin Johanson, Lance Blomgren and Carey Ann Schaefer, ISBN 0—9698831—7—X
      Common Room — published by MFA (UBC), text by Liz Park
         
      ARTIST TALKS
  2010   Soap Box, FINN collective, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 25th November
  2010   Curatorial talk, FINN collective, The Common Guild, Glasgow, 24th September
  2008   Artist talk, KIAC Art Centre, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, 23rd January
  2007   Artist talk, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, 2nd June
  2006   Bewilderness, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, 9th February
      Entropy the Bastard Child of Metamorphosis, UBC, 18th March
         
      AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
  2011   Hope Scott Trust grant
  2011   Arts Trust Scotland grant
  2011   Artist in Residence, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop as part of the Royal Scottish Academy, Residencies for Scotland Programme 2011
  2011   Creative Development Award, Creative Scotland
  2010   Members Award, This Is Central Station
  2010   Glasgow Visual Artists Grant Scheme, Glasgow City Council
  2008   Artist in Residence, Pandemonium, Istanbul, Turkey
  2008   Artist in Residence, KIAC Art Centre, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada
  2007   Creative Development Award, Scottish Arts Council
  2007   Glasgow Visual Artists Grant Scheme, Glasgow City Council
  2006   Commonwealth Scholarship, CCSP, Canadian/UK Government
  2005   Graduate Entrance Scholarship, UBC
  2004   International Tuition Scholarship, UBC
      Donald Dewar Prize, Donald Dewar Award Agency
      Artist in Residence, The Banff Centre, Canada