Artists Index: Liam Gillick

Liam Gillick (b.1964, lives and works in New York.) Liam Gillick deploys multiple forms to expose the new ideological control systems that emerged at the beginning of the 1990s. Gillick’s work exposes the dysfunctional aspects of a modernist legacy in terms of abstraction and architecture when framed within a globalized, neo-liberal consensus. His work extends into structural rethinking of the exhibition as a form. Gillick’s work has been included in numerous important exhibitions including documenta and the Venice, Berlin and Istanbul Biennales - representing Germany in 2009 in Venice. Solo exhibitions have taken place at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Tate in London and Eastside Projects in 2009. Over the last twenty five years Gillick has also been a prolific writer and critic of contemporary art. His book ‘Industry and Intelligence: Contemporary Art Since 1820’ was published by Columbia University Press in March 2016. High profile public works include the British Government Home Office (Interior Ministry) building in London and the Lufthansa Headquarters in Frankfurt.