24 Facts About Liam Gillick

Liam Gillick was born on 1964 and is a British artist.

Liam Gillick was among the artists included in the Traffic exhibition at the Musee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux in Bordeaux in 1996, where Nicolas Bourriaud's concept of relationality was first proposed.

Liam Gillick graduated from Goldsmiths College in 1987 with a degree in fine art.

In 1991, together with art collector, and co-publisher of Art Monthly, Jack Wendler, Liam Gillick founded the limited editions and publishing company G-W Press.

Liam Gillick produced limited editions by artists including Jeremy Deller and Anya Gallaccio.

Liam Gillick was included in the 1996 exhibition Traffic, curated by Nicholas Bourriaud, which first introduced the term Relational Aesthetics.

In 2002, Liam Gillick was selected to produce artworks for the canopy, the glass facade, the kiosks, the entrance ikon, and the vitrines, of the then-recently completed Home Office building, a United Kingdom government department, at Marsham Street, London.

In 2002, Liam Gillick was nominated for the annual British Turner Prize.

Liam Gillick has contributed written articles to fine art journals Frieze and Artforum.

In 2008, Liam Gillick was short-listed for the Vincent Award of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

In 2009, Liam Gillick represented Germany in the Giardini Pavilions of the Venice Biennale.

In October 2010, Liam Gillick contributed a recipe for a vodka and lime juice-based cocktail as his participation in the Ryan Gander art project "Ryan's Bar".

The focus of Liam Gillick' practice is evaluations of the aesthetics of social systems with a focus on modes of production rather than consumption.

Central to Liam Gillick's practice are the publications that function in parallel to his artworks.

Between 1990 and 1994, Liam Gillick collaborated with artist Henry Bond on their Documents Series, a group of 83 fine art works which appropriated the modus operandi of a news gathering team, in order to produce relational art.

Bond worked as if a typical photojournalist, joining the other press photographers present; whilst Liam Gillick operated as the journalist, first collecting the ubiquitous press kit before preparing his audio recording device.

In 2016, Liam Gillick presented a solo exhibition, titled Campaign at Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto.

Alongside Ingrid Schaffner, Tirdad Zolghadr and others, Liam Gillick is a member of the Graduate Committee of the Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

Liam Gillick has been on the faculty of Columbia University School of the Arts in New York City since 1997.

In 2018, Liam Gillick was a member of the jury that selected Kapwani Kiwanga for the Frieze Artist Award.

Liam Gillick is represented in the UK by Maureen Paley, in the US by Casey Kaplan, and in Ireland by Kerlin Gallery.

Liam Gillick is cousin to British artists James and Theodore Liam Gillick.

Liam Gillick was married to artist Sarah Morris in 1998 at a ceremony in Miami.

In July 2024, Liam Gillick married independent curator Piper Marshall in a ceremony on the North Fork of Long Island.