Born 1970, Catania, Italy
Lives and works in London

Education

2000

Goldsmiths University, London, MA Fine Art

1996

Central St Martins college of Art & Design, London, BA Fine Art

Awards and Residencies

2013

Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn, Cambridge, UK

2012

Artist in residence, Belvedere and Augarten Contemporary, Vienna, Austria

2003

ACAVA First Base award

Teaching

2012

Visiting and associate lecturer: Goldsmiths University, London, Slade School of Art, London, Leeds University, Leeds, UK, John Moore University, Liverpool, UK, Kensington and Chelsea College, London, Morley College, London

Solo Exhibitions

(C) denotes that a catalogue was published with the exhibition.

2021

Glee, Ridley Road Project Space, London, UK

2020

Vauxhall Ever Green, Hudson Yards, New York, USA

2017

RE-MASTER, Beaconsfield Gallery, London, UK
Vorrei Regnare, Palazzo Vigo, Riposto (CT), Italy

2016

SP Arte, São Paulo, Brazil

2015

As Unreal as Everything Else, Museo Civico, Castelbuono, Palermo, Italy (C)

2014

Abdomen, Fonti, Naples, Italy

2013

The Foreigners Stand Still, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, Italy (C)

2011

Year of The Corn, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, USA
La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse, France (C)
Entrano il Coro e gli Attori, Galleria Fonti, Naples, Italy

2009

Maureen Paley, London, UK
Art Statements, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland

2008

So this song kills fascists, Art Now, Tate Britain, London, UK
China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, USA

2007

Violenza D’Avanguardia, Fonti, Naples, Italy
Live in Pankow, REC., Berlin, Germany

2006

Maureen Paley, London, UK
Imperial, Bureau, Manchester, UK

2004

Ha Loo Sin Nation, Lawrence O’Hana Gallery, London, UK

2003

Christiane, Shoreditch Electricity Showrooms, London, UK (site specific sound installation)

Group Exhibitions

(C) denotes that a catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition.

2023

MELTDOWN, Ridley Road Project Space, London, UK

2021

Intermezzo Strumentale, Fonti, Naples, Italy

2019

Pushing paper: Contemporary Drawing from 1970 to now, British Museum, London; Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea (travelling) (C)

2019

ME TWO, Opere dalla collezione di Ernesto Esposito, Museo Ettore Fico, Turin, Italy

2018

Bumped Bodies; Works from the Iself Collection, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

2017

Collections on display: Rituals, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
The map is more interesting than the territory, Hamburg Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
Colloquio Mitico, Fonti, Naples, Italy

2015

Sweet Sixteen, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, USA

2014

Portrait of the artist as a young (wo)man, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy
The influence of furniture on love, Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn, Cambridge, UK
Annals of the twenty ninth century, Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn, Cambridge, UK

2013

Girls Can Tell, GAK, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany (C)
new work, Sprovieri, London, UK
Cara Domani, works from the Ernesto Esposito collection, Mambo, Museo d’arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy
Cosmic Laughter, timewave zero, then what?, Ursula Blickle Stiftung Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim, Germany (C)

2012

History I never lived through (Indirect Witness), Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy
Utopia Gesamtkunstwerk, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria (C)

2010

Le Dernier Roman Du Monde, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, Germany
No New Thing Under The Sun, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK
Performative Attitudes, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland (C)
SI-Sindrome Italiana, Magasin – Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France

2009

Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawing Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (C)
The Object of The Attack, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK

2008

China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, USA
Archeology of Mind, touring exhibition: Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, Sweden; Kuntsi, Museum for Contemporary Art, Vasa, Finland
Italia Italie Italien Italy Waochy, Museo Arcos, Benevento, Italy
Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Yours Mine Ours, University of Essex, Colchester, UK

2007

Salon Nouveau, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna, Austria
REC.OLLECTION, REC, Berlin, Germany
Nueva Dimension, Hats/Plus, London, UK

2006

While Interwoven Echoes Drip into a Hybrid Body, migros museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland (C)
Beck’s Futures, touring exhibition: ICA, London, CCA (off site), Glasgow, Arnolfini (off site), Bristol, UK (C)
Figure of the Player, The Paradox of the actor, Collection Lambert En Avignon, France

2005

Prague Biennial 2, Karlin Hall, Czech Republic

2004

The Black Album, Maureen Paley, London, UK
Contrapop, Vamiali’s, Athens, November 2003, Kick it till it breaks, VTO Gallery, London, UK
Pretty Little Things, The Ship, London Bootleg, Spitalfields Market, London, UK
Sound and Vision, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK

2001

Penny Dreadfuls, VTO Gallery, London, UK
Unchaperoned, Aroma Project Space, Berlin, Germany

2000

Self Service, 5 Years Gallery, London, UK

1998

Glossy, Milch Gallery, London, UK
Exhibitionists Festival, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK

Curatorial Projects

2006

Sweet Home Under White Clouds, peles empire, London, UK

Publications

2015

As Unreal as Everything Else, Museo Civico, Castelbuono

2013

The Foreigners Stand Still, Nero, Fondazione Giuliani

2011

Seb Patane, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Distanz Verlag

Bibliography

2015

Pancotto, Paolo, Pier, Seb Patane, Galleria Fonti, Artforum, Vol. 53, No. 7, March 2015, p. 297

2011

Basciano, Oliver, Consumed, Art Review, Summer 2011, p.69
Steinbrügge, Bettina, Seb Patane: 400 Sonnets in Reverse, Together, Artinside, pp.30-31
Tisci, Riccardo, Visionaire No. 60: Religion, Visionaire Publishing, July 2011
Taft, Catherine, Seb Patane, China Art Objects, Artforum, March 2011, pp.274-275
Patane, Seb, in conversation with Tsitsovits, Yannis, Phantoms of the Avant-Garde, Under / Current, Issue 6, Autumn-Winter 2011, pp.86-95
Young, Rob, Cross Platform, Sound in other media, Wire, August 2011, p.18

2010

Atwood, Roger, Seb Patane, ARTnews, March 2010, p.120
Herbert, Martin, No New Thing Under the Sun, Time Out, 25 November 2010, p.66
Hutchinson, Jack, No New Thing Under The Sun, Dazed and Confused, October 2010, p.146
Milliard, Coline, Seb Patane, Art Monthly, February 2010, pp.28-29
Riva, Caterina, Emerging Artists; Seb Patane, Kaleidoscope, April – May 2010, pp.96-97
Shea, Claire, Seb Patane at Maureen Paley, whitehotmagazine.com, 21 January 2010
Gygax, Raphael and Heike Munder, Between Zones, On the Representation of the Performative and the Notation of Movement, Zürich: migros museum für gegenwartkunst Zürich, 2010, pp.237-24

2009

Gavin, Francesca, Spellbound, Twin, Issue 1, Autumn/Winter 2009, pp.98-103
Fisher, Alice, Maureen, Fantastic Man, Autumn/Winter 2009, pp.148-155
Herbert, Martin, Seb Patane, Art Review, December 2009, p.34
Moro, Michela, Il gran teatro del Lingotto, Vedere a Torino, November 2009, p.5
Moro, Michela, Più collezionisti, meno soldi (extract), Il Giornale Dell’Arte, November 2009, p. 6
Rettemeyer, Christian, The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection; Catalogue Raisonné, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Wood, Catherine, Seb Patane: Chain Reaction, Flash Art, March 2009, pp.72-74

2008

Churchill, Abbye, Altered States, Tokion, Vol.2, No.5, 2008, p.22
Field, Marcus, Jeff Wall, White Cube, Mason’s Yard, London; Seb Patane, Tate Britain, London, The Independent, 2 December 2007
Focus Italy, Artists Dictionary: Seb Patane, Flash Art, May-June 2008, p.122
Focus London, Artists Dictionary: Seb Patane, Flash Art, October 2008, p.96
Potts, Rachel, Art and music now, Garageland, issue 7, 2008
Sumpter, Helen, Ward, Ossian, Fresh Set of Eyes, Time Out, 23 October 2008, pp.20-23

2007

Anyango, Catherine, Contemporaneity: Seb Patane gives it a second chance, Useless, Issue 5, 2007, p. 61
art round-up: Seb Patane, The London Paper, 6 November 2007, p.15
Coomer, Martin, Seb Patane: Playing Hard to Get, Art Review, December 2007, pp.60-63
Filippo, Romeo, Seb Patane: Galleria Fonti, Artforum.com, September 2007
Razzia, Basso Magazin no. 4 perfectly you, 2007
Seb Patane, Guardian Guide, 29 December 2007
Seb Patane, Q&A, 2007
Seb Patane, Warm Red U, 2007, pp. 3, & 17-19
Special Guest: Seb Patane, Mousse, Issue 10, September 2007, pp.59-61

2006

Bowman, Rob and Hoffman, Jens (editors), Beck’s Futures 2006, ICA Exhibitions, 2006, (C)
Clinton, Paul & Patane, Seb, exibartonpaper.com, October 2006
Coomer, Martin, Beck’s Futures, Modern Painters, pp.111-112
Cumming, Laura, Sip it and see, The Observer, 02 April 2006
Falconer, Morgan, Beck’s Futures, World of Interiors, April 2006
Hatherill, Chris, Patane and Able, Tank, Volume 4, September 2006, pp.36-37
Herbert, Martin, Seb Patane, Modern Painters, November 2006, p.106
J,J, Art Previews: Seb Patane, Dazed & Confused, Vol 2, Issue 41, September 2006, p.205
Kennedy, Alexander, Glasgow International 2006, MAP, Issue 6, Summer 2006, p.48-50
Kent, Sarah, Picture this: Beck’s Futures, Time Out London, 29 March – 05 April 2006, p.5
Lack, Jessica, Preview: Seb Patane, Guardian Guide, 02 – 08 September 2006, p.37
M, A, News: a Beck’s future, Flash Art, No. 249, July – September 2006, p.50
Manchester, Elizabeth, London: Institute of Contemporary Art, Contemporary, No 84, 2006, pp.67-68
Patane, Seb, Pull-Out Poster Special!, Super Super, April 2006, pp.41-44
Price, Matt, What a performance, Art Review, Vol LXII, March 2006, p.25
Searle, Adrian, Foot Fetish, The Guardian, 04 April 2006
Sumpter, Helen, Seb Patane, Time Out London, 20 – 27 September 2006, p.48
Williams, Eliza, Flash Art, No. 250, October – November 2006
Pick of the week, The Guardian Guide, 09 - 15 September 2006, p.35
The glittering prizes, Art Newspaper, March 2006
Migros Museum, Tema Celeste, March 2006
News, Art Newspaper, March 2006
Note to self... This week’s cultural must do list, Time Out, 29 March 2006
Art Exhibitions: Seb Patane, Hello London, September 2006, p.34

2005

Jones, Jonathan, The Black Album, The Guardian, 10 January 2005
Lafuente, Pablo, Display - Recent installation photographs from London galleries and venues, Rachmaninoff’s , p.18, p.102
O’Reilly, Sally, The Black Album, Time Out Magazine, 12-19 January
Thornton, Sarah, The Power 100, (extract), Art Review, Volume LVIII, November 2005, p.101
Wood, Catherine, She seemed ready to die daily more than once a day, Untitled, February 2005
extract from: Prague Biennale Special, Flash Art, July 2005, p.142
Welcome 2 Prague Biennial special, Flash Art, July-September

2004

SS, Sin Nation, www.urbanjunkies.com, 31 March
Art / Performance, Seb Patane, www.kultureflash.net, 31 March

2003

Aidin, Rose, The Outsiders, Vogue UK, May

2002

Herbert, Martin, Meltdown: Sound & Vision, Time Out Magazine, 19-25 June
Williams, Gilda, Penny Dreadfuls, Art Monthly, February