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Margaret Salmon is an American and British based film maker-artist.

The work of this New York-born filmmaker is fuelled by references to the great realist tradition in film, be it the propaganda documentary of the Farm Security Administration in the United States, Italian neorealism, or French cinéma vérité. Her subjects are taken from everyday life: people with modest incomes, showing their at once ordinary and dramatic lives. Salmon is particularly sensitive to interactions between the soundtrack and the image,[1] which she uses to produce disturbing effects that heighten the documentary sobriety of her films with a lyrical dimension. She shoots all of her works, working as both Director and Cinematographer, on 16mm & 35mm film.

She won the first MaxMara Art Prize for Women in association with the Whitechapel in London in 2006.[2][3] She has had a solo show at the Witte de With, Rotterdam and the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London in 2007 and Salmon was shown at The Venice Biennale in 2007.[4]

Biography

Salmon was born in Suffern, New York on June 1, 1975 and now lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland.[5] She graduated from School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York with a B.A. in 1998 and received an M.A. from the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London in 2003.

She won second prize at the Beck's futures student show at the ICA while at the Royal College of Art. She appeared in the New Contemporaries shows at The Liverpool Biennial and Barbican in London in 2004 and was the first recipient of the MaxMara Art Prize for Women in association with the Whitechapel in 2006, which included a six-month residency in Italy. In 2006 she won the Paris-based Art Prize 'Prix Gilles Dusein' in association with La Maison européenne de la photographie. Her solo show at the Whitechapel was in Time Out London's Top 5 Critics Pick. Salmon was a visiting artist/resident at The American Academy in Rome and Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella, in Italy during 2006 as part of winning the MaxMara Art Prize. She has received grants from the Arts Council of England and Elephant Trust among others.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 2007: Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (May to August 2007)
  • 2007: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (January–February 2007)
  • 2008: The Moon is Down at Store Gallery, London (from Aug 28 2008), featuring the new films, Guns Trilogy and Fireman
  • 2010: Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.
  • 2011: Void, Derry, Northern Ireland
  • 2011: Margaret Salmon, (curated by Dominic Molon), Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, 8 March - 27 March - Salmon's 'first solo museum exhibition in an American museum'.[6]
  • 2013: Pyramid, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium
  • 2014: Oyster, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium
  • 2015: Margaret Salmon, film survey (touring program) GFT, Glasgow; Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle; Cornerhouse, Manchester Silent Cinema, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
  • 2016: Eglantine, ICA, London; Eglantine, World Premier, The London Film Festival, Experimenta programme; Crossing the Line, Glasgow Film Festival, Director’s Preview of Eglantine presented by LUX Scotland; New Natural History, ICO Parallel Art+Cinema @ Arnofini
  • 2017: Eglantine, CHP:DOX, Artists & Auteurs; Eglantine, Beursschouwburg, Brussels
  • 2018: Circle, Tramway, Glasgow; Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK (forthcoming)

Group shows and festivals

  • 2002: Montebello Road, Wallspace Galley, New York.
  • 2003: Becks futures student, ICA, London.
  • 2003: Martin Janda Gallery, Vienna.
  • 2003: Play Gallery, Berlin.
  • 2004: New Contemporaries, Liverpool Biennial and Barbican, London.
  • 2005: Mind is a Horse part 2, Bloomberg Space, London.
  • 2006: Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse (selected by Jean-Marc Bustamante).
  • 2006: Collective, Edinburgh.
  • 2006: Bureau, Manchester.
  • 2007: The Maramotti Collection, Reggio Emilia, Italy (from September 20 for 2 years).
  • 2007: Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense, Venice Biennale, Arsenale, Venice, Italy.
  • 2007: 'You have not been honest' British Council Show, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina (Museo MADRE), Naples, Italy.
  • 2007: KölnShow 2, Gisela Capitain Gallery, Cologne. (April to May 2007).
  • 2007: Film Screening, Rotterdam International film Festival (February 2007).
  • 2008: Intamacy Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne ( with Louise Bourgeois, Nan Goldin, Steve McQueen, Sophie Calle, Mariele Neudecker, Jesper Just, Gabrielle de Vietri, Mutlu Çerkez, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Amikam Toren and Annika Ström).
  • 2008: Kunsthalle Basel -
  • 2008: GB Agency, Paris -
  • 2008: KUNSTVEREIN FÜR DIE RHEINLANDE UND WESTFALEN, DÜSSELDORF -
  • 2008: Art Basel (Statements solo show) with Store Gallery -
  • 2008: Irma Vep Lab, France -
  • 2009: Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Leeds UK. (UK Arts Council Show). -
  • 2009: Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong (with Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paul Chan, Cao Fei, Yang Fudong, Gilbert and George, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Andreas Gursky, Pierre Huyghe, Jeff Koons, Bertrand Lavier, Christian Marclay, Richard Prince and Wolfgang Tillmans). -
  • 2010: 6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. The Sculpture Center, Long Island City, Queens, New York. Now Showing 2 - UK Arts Council Touring Show (forthcoming) - Museum and Art Gallery, Derby. DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery, Durham. Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum, Lochmaddy, Scotland. OVADA, Oxford, The Brindley, Runcorn, Museum and Art Gallery, Newport, Wales. Lightbox, Woking, The Collection, Lincoln, Rhyl Library, Rhyl, Wales. AMBULANTE Film Festival Mexico Touring (forthcoming) - Mexico City (Toluca), Cuernavaca, Leon, Puebla, Morella, San Cristobal, Oaxaca, Monterrey, Tijuana, Xalapa, Guadalajara. Mardin Biennale, Turkey (forthcoming)
  • 2011: The Art of Narration changes with Time, (curated by Gigiotto del Vecchio), Sprüth Magers, Berlin, 26 February - 2 April 2011
  • 2011: ICA, London. Now Showing 2, New Film and Video from the Arts Council Collection, at Hayward Gallery, London, Touring exhibition starting at Hayward Gallery in 2011
  • 2012: The Human Board (curated by Michel François), Centre Photographique d’Ile-de-France, Pontault-Combault, France

Coup Double, Frac Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France

  • 2013: Assembly, Tate Britain; BFI London Film Festival; What Do We Do Now, Now That We Are Happy, ICA and BFI Nuit Blanche; Paris 1966-1979 (curated by Laurent Montaron), Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhone-Alpes, France; Salon Der Hoffnung, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria; 1966-79, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, France; Filmprogramm Minutes (1): Constructedness of the real, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany; Exposition Collective (curated by Laurent Montaron), Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, France; Paint it Black, Le Plateau, Paris, France
  • 2014: Attention Economy, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria; Videogud, Smedjebacken, Sweden; Oyster, Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, UK; Total Art: Contemporary Video, National Museum of Women in the Arts; Washington D.C., USA; Out of Site: Co-commission with Animate Projects, Peer, London, UK
  • 2015: Dredgers on the Rail (curated by Tyler Murphy), Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles, USA; Station to Station, Barbican, London, UK
  • 2016: The Big Picture Show, Tramway, Glasgow; The People’s Cinema, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria; Now Showing: St.Ives, Cinenova & LUX St.Ives Images Festival, Toronto; The Artists Cinema, Tate Britain
  • 2017: Outdoor Living (curated by Jenni Crain and Carey Denniston), Rzeplinski, Brooklyn, USA

Collections

Films of Salmon

  • P.S. (shot 1998 completed 2002).[7][8]
  • M 2002 (2002)
  • Peggy (2003)
  • Ramapo Cental (2003)
  • Ninna Nanna (2007)
  • M 2007 (2007)
  • Fireman (2008)
  • Guns Trilogy (2008)[9]
  • Rooms - East New Orleans (2008)
  • Hyde Park (2009)
  • The Enemies of the Rose (2010)
  • Times Square (2010)
  • Colour Line (2011) – study of man in truck based on the story John Told Me (2010)

Awards

Publications

  • Portraits in Time, The films of Margaret Salmon. Whitechapel Publishing, 2007. 20 pages.
  • Margaret Salmon. WdW Publishing, 2007. 80 pages.

Music videos

  • Matthew Herbert - Leipzig.
  • Matthew Herbert - Dublin.
  • Megan Wyler - Through the noise.

References

  1. ^ Griffiths, Keely (1 June 2007). "Margaret Salmon". No. 59. Aesthetica.
  2. ^ "Exhibition preview: Margaret Salmon, London". The Guardian. 23 August 2008. Retrieved 2013-06-13.
  3. ^ "MaxMara Art Prize". Woman's Hour. BBC. 27 Jan 2006. Retrieved 2013-06-13.
  4. ^ "List of artists, Central International Exhibition". Universes in Universe, 52nd Venice Biennale.
  5. ^ "Artists' Film Surveys: Margaret Salmon". Retrieved 2013-06-13.
  6. ^ "Margaret Salmon". Contemporary Museum St Louis. Retrieved 8 Mar 2011.
  7. ^ "A lullaby with resonance". January 28, 2007. Retrieved 2013-06-13.
  8. ^ "You Have Not Been Honest". Archived from the original on 2012-02-28. Retrieved 2013-06-13. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  9. ^ "Margaret Salmon 'Guns Trilogy'" (PDF). Retrieved 2013-06-13.
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