Prof. Susan Philipsz

My work deals with the spatial properties of sound and with the relationships between sound and architecture.  I am particularly interested in the emotive and psychological properties of sound and how it can be used as a device to alter individual consciousness. I have used sound as a medium in public spaces to trigger an awareness in the listener, to temporarily alter their perception of themselves in a particular place and time.

2007 Prize Pilar Juncosa I Sotheby’s 2007

2010 Turner Prize Winner

2014 OBE Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to British Art

2015 Villa Aurora Artist Fellowship, Los Angeles

2016 Global Fine Art Award winner for War Damaged Musical Instruments at Tate Britain 2015

2017 Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD) University of Dundee, Scotland

Recent solo exhibitions include The Wind Rose, Castello di Rivoli/ Cerruti Villa, Turin (forthcoming 2019); Susan Philipsz, Pulitzer Art Foundation, St Louis (forthcoming 2019); White Flood, Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand (forthcoming 2019); I See a Darkness, The Tanks, Tate Modern, London (2018); The Yellow Wallpaper, Belsay Hall, Northumberland, UK (2018); The Voices, Heldenplatz, Haus der Geschichte Österreich, Vienna (2018); Separated Strings, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (2018); A Single Voice BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (2017) Susan Philipsz, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2017); Lost in Space, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (2017), Returning, Kunstverein Hannover (2016), Night and Fog, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2016); Part File Score, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington (2016); War Damaged Musical Instruments, Duveen Galleries, Tate Britain, London (2015); Follow Me, various locations Genoa, Museo de Arte Contemporana Villa Croce, Genoa (2015) War Damaged Musical Instruments (Pair), Theseus Temple, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (2015); As Many As Will, Hauser & Wirth Somerset (2015);The Distant Sound, various venues, Denmark, Sweden, Norway (2014); Part File Score, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2014); The Missing String, K21 Ständehaus, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, (2013); The River Cycle, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo (2012); Close To Me,Palazzo Reale, Milan (2012);It Means Nothing To Me,Mizuma Gallery, Beijing, (2012); You Are Not Alone, Haus des Rundfunks, Berlin (2011); We Shall Be All, MCA Chicago (2011); Surround Me; A Song Cycle for the City of London, Artangel, London (2010); Lowlands, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Glasgow (2010);

Recent group exhibitions include Resonating Spaces, Fondation Beyeler, Basel (forthcoming 2019) Machines à Penser, Fondazione Prada, Venice (2018), Divided We Stand, Busan Biennial, Busan, Korea (2018); Revolt and Revolutions, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK (2018), Moving is in Every Direction, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2017) Soundtracks, SF MoMA, San Francisco (2017); The Distant Unknown, OCAT, Shanghai (2016); Wanderlust, The High Line, New York (2016), Saltwater; 14^th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (2015); Soundscapes, The National Gallery London (2015); Parasophia, Kyoto (2015); Manifesta 10, St. Petersburg (2014); Soundings, A Contemporary Score, MoMA, New York, (2013); dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel (2012); Haunted, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2010); Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London (2010); The 29^th Biennale de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo (2010); The 55^th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, (2008); Sydney Biennale, Sydney (2008); Skulptur Projekte (Sculpture projects) Münster 07, Münster, (2007); 4^th Berlin Biennale, Berlin (2006); Borderline Syndrome, Manifesta 3, Ljubljana, (2000)
 

Permanent commissions include

Station Clock, Curzon Street Station, Birmingham, UK (forthcoming) Seven Tears, Erasmus Bridge, Rotterdam; Day Is Done, Governors Island, New York; The Lost Reflection, Törminbrucke, Münster

Public collections include Tate, London; Nationalgalerie, Berlin, SF MoMA, San Francisco; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Park, Washington; Fondation Beyeler, Basel; Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; MCA Chicago; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL), Münster; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Palazzo Reale, Milan; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; MONA; Hobart; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, Kentucky; Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo.

Susan Philipsz, Lost in Space, Art & Theory Publishing, 2017. ISBN 978-3-86335-912-6

Susan Philipsz, Night and Fog, Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2016. ISBN 978-3-86335-912-6

Susan Philipsz, Follow Me, Humboldt Books, 2015. ISBN 978-88-99385-02-6

Susan Philipsz, The Distant Sound,Art & Theory Publishing, 2014. ISBN 978-91-981573-4-5

Susan Philipsz, The Missing String, K21, Verlag Kettler, 2014. ISBN 978-3-86206-367-3

Susan Philipsz, You Are Not Alone, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2014. ISBN 978-3-86335-405-3

Susan Philipsz, Appear to Me, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2009. ISBN 978-84-8026-390-0

Susan Philipsz, When Day Closes, Pro Arte Foundation, 2010. ISSN L-1799-8239

Susan Philipsz, I See a Darkness, Jarla Partilager, 2009. ISBN 978-91-976351-4-1

Susan Philipsz, Modern Art Oxford, 2009. ISBN 978-901352-42-9

Susan Philipsz, There Is Nothing Left Here, with 12” vinyl CGAC, 2008. ISBN 978-84-453-4588-7

Susan Philipsz, Stay With Me, Malmö Konsthall, 2005. ISBN 91-7704-106-2

Susan Philipsz Ziggy Stardust, CD, Pork Salad Press, 2004. ISBN 87-91409-12-8