1977 Born in Glasgow
1995 – 1999 Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee
2007- 2008 Van Der Kelen Logelain High School for Decorative Painting, Brussels
Upcoming/2024
Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
Big Tobacco, Cromwell Place, London
2023
Beyond the Collection, Lucy McKenzie with Antonio Canova, VULCANIZZATO, Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin (upcoming)
2022
Approval of the Committees, Cabinet Gallery, London
Lucy McKenzie & Atelier E.B, curated by Karel Cisař, MEYER*KAINER, Vienna
Buildings in Belgium, Buildings in Oil, Buildings in Silk, La Verrière, Brussels
2021
Lucy McKenzie, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Lucy McKenzie: Tour Donas, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin
Lucy McKenzie: No Motive, Galerie Buchholz, New York, Upper East Side, New York
2020
Lucy Mckenzie: Prime Suspect, Museum Brandhorst, Munich
2019
Lucy McKenzie: Giving Up The Shadows On My Face, Cabinet Gallery, London
2017
La Kermesse Héroïque, Palazzetto Tito – Istituzione Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice
Lucy McKenzie: In My Area (For Kato), Rue des Chartreux / Kartuizersstraat, Brussels
2016
Inspired by Inspired By, Galerie Buchholz, New York (cat)
Cukrovarnická 39, Prag (with Laurent Dupont), Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
The Inventors of Tradition II (with Atelier E.B), Galerie Buchholz / Thea Westreich, New York
OIEEVAAR, UMPRUM, Prague (cat)
2015
Paintings (with Laurent Dupont), SVIT, Prague
The Inventors of Tradition II (with Atelier E.B), fashion collection and exhibition, Palace of Art, Glasgow (cat)
Intim im Team (with Josefine Reisch), White Cubicle, London
The Inventors of Tradition II (with Atelier E.B),fashion collection, Galerie Micheline Szwacjer, Brussels, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
Inspired by an Atlas of Leprosy, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
2014
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
2013
Something They Have to Live with, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
The Artist’s Institute, New York
2012
50 Shades, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
2010
Something Different, Cabinet, London
Museum Ludwig, Cologne (cat)
Slender Means, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
(with Ian Hamilton Finlay), Theseus Temple, Vienna (cat)
2009
Ludwighaus, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (cat)
2008
Etablissement d’en Face Projects, Brussels
Projects 88: Lucy McKenzie (with Atelier E.B), MoMA, New York
2007
Noel sur le balcon / HOLD THE COLOR (with Paulina Olowska), Sammlung Goetz, Munich (cat)
Ten Years of Robotic Mayhem (Including Sublet), Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, Arnolfini, Bristol, SFMoMA, San Francisco
2006
Jigsaw (Jeu de Société) (with Lucile Desamory and Birgit Megerle), Cabinet, London, Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin
2005
SMERSH, Metro Pictures, New York
Jigsaw (Jeu de Société) (with Lucile Desamory and Birgit Megerle), Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
2004
Deathwatch, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (cat)
Bi-Curious, Cabinet, London (cat)
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Kulaks, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
2003
MMIV, Tate Britain, London
Nova Popularna (with Paulina Olowska), Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw (cat)
Brian Eno, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen (cat)
2002
If It Moves, Kiss It, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin
2001
Global Joy, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne (cat)
Festiwal Malarstwa Sciennego (with Paulina Olowska), Kliniczna, Gdansk
Heavy Duty (with Paulina Olowska), Inverleith House, Edinburgh
2000
Request Concert, Nomaden Oase, Hamburg
Decemberism, Cabinet, London
2023
Art Night, various venues inc. V&A, Dundee, Scotland
CRAFT, curated by Nicolas Trembley, (with Atelier E.B),Galerie Francesca Pia,Zürich, Switzerland
Alea iacta est, curated by Milovan Farronato, Vistamare, Milan, Italy
Pride and Prejudice. Art & Craft – A Love Story, Universitätsgalerie der Angewandten im Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna
2022
Art of the Terraces, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Broken Music Vol. 2: 70 Years of Records and Sound Works by Artists, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlin
Je Veux: Vienna 1975–2022, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Geneva Biennale: Sculpture Garden, Parc des Eaux-Vives, Parc La Grange, Geneva
Einrichtung und Gegebenheit. Infrastruktur als Form und Handlung, Exhibit Eschenbachgasse
Exhibit Galerie, Academy of Fine Art, Vienna, Austria
Images for Sounds, Artist Covers for Music Records,Villa Lontana, Rome, Italy
2021
Painting Stone, Villa Lontana, Rome
2020
Inner Spaces, Biennial of Painting, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle
Linea, SVIT, Prague
Faces and Names, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
Portraits & Self-Portraits. Made by Artists for Parkett since 1984, Parkett Editions, Zurich
Atelier E.B: Passer-by, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Slow Painting, Peninsula Arts, Plymouth University, Plymouth
2019
Slow Painting, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
Schöne Sentimenten, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle
Dry Crust And Oceans Of Liquid Matter, HORSEANDPONY Fine Arts, Berlin
2018
Generations Part 3. Female Artists in Dialogue, Sammlung Goetz (Goetz Collection), Munich
Atelier E.B: Passer-by, Serpentine North Gallery, London
Painting: Now & Forever, Part III, Greene Naftali, New York
Now & Forever, Part III, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Swiss Institute Architecture and Design Series: 3rd Edition. Readymades Belong To Everyone, Swiss Institute, New York
General Rehearsal. A show in three acts from the collections of V-A-C, MMOMA and KADIST, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
Optik Schröder II. Works from the Alexander Schröder Collection, mumok, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
2017
Where to?, Carlos/Ishikawa, London
2016
I still believe in miracles, Inverleith House, Edinburgh
The Painting Show (British Council touring exhibition), CAC, Vilnius, (cat)
Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, Centre Pompidou, Paris
(with Atelier E.B.), MoMu, Antwerp
2015
Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2014
Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
A Machinery For Living (with Atelier E.B, curated by Walead Beshty), Petzel Gallery, New York
2013
Hello goodbye thank you, again, and again, and again (with Atelier E.B), Castillo / Corrales, Paris
A Whole Range of Furtively Titillating Stereotypes, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
Volcano Extravaganza (curated by Lucy McKenzie), Stromboli
Painting Now, Tate Britain, London
The Artist’s Institute (curated by Lucy McKenzie), New York
2012
A Bigger Splash, Tate Modern, London
Studio 58: Women Artists in Glasgow since World War II (with Atelier E.B), GSA, Glasgow
Rendezvous der Maler II, Akademie-Galerie, Düsseldorf
Cirio, Dorothea Schlueter, Hamburg
The Space Between (curated by Michael Bracewell), Karsten Schubert, London
White Oxford Cotton, Cabinet, London
Te Kust en te Keur (curated by Lucy McKenzie), Mu.Zee, Oostende
Print/Out, MoMA, New York
2011
Germany is your America (curated by Michael Bracewell), Broadway 1602, New York
The Inventors of Tradition (with Atelier E.B), exhibition with Panel, Glasgow (cat)
Town – Gown Conflict (curated by Lucy McKenzie), Kunsthalle Zurich (cat)
2010
Artists’ editions for Transmission, Glasgow
2009
Quodlibet II, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
Apres Crepuscule – Na Schemering – After Twilight – Nach Dämmerung, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
The Associates, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee (cat)
Breaking New Ground Underground, Stonescape, Napa Valley
2008
…In The Cherished Company of Others... (with Atelier E.B, curated by Marc Camille Chaimowicz) De Appel, Amsterdam, Mu-Zee, Oostende
2007
Atelier (with Beca Lipscombe and Bernie Reid), Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
Concrete Works, Mitchell-lnnes & Nash, New York
2006
Optik Schroeder, Kunstverein Braunschweig (cat)
Painting in Tongues, MoCA, Los Angeles (cat)
Next to Kin, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
Galerie Daniel Buchholz at Metro Pictures, Metro Pictures, New York
Make your Own Life, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Museum of Contempoprary Art, North Miami (cat)
Tate Triennial – New British Art, Tate Britain, London (cat)
2005
Painters Without Paintings and Paintings Without Painters (curated by Gareth James), Orchard47, New York
2004
The Undiscovered Country, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (cat)
Teil 2 Quodlibet, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
Sans Soleil, Galerie NEU, Berlin
2003
Unbekannte Schwester, unbekannter Bruder I, Kunsthaus Dresden
Flourish Nights (curated by Lucy McKenzie), Flourish Studios, Glasgow
Kontext, Form, Troja, Secession, Vienna (cat)
25th International Biennal of Graphic Arts, International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana (cat)
I and My Chimney, (with Lukas Duwenhogger and Lari Pittman) Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
50th Venice Biennale, Venice (cat)
2002
The Best Book About Pessimism I Ever Read (curated by Lucy McKenzie), Kunstverein Braunschweig (cat)
Flourish Nights (curated by Lucy McKenzie), Flourish Studios, Glasgow
Painting on the Move – Nach der Wirklichkeit, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (cat)
Hotel Sub Rosa, Cabinet, London
2001
Here and Now: Scottish Art 1990-2001, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, DCA, Generator Projects & McManus Galleries, Dundee (cat)
2000
Dream of a Provincial Girl (curated with Paulina Olowska), M3, Gdansk (cat)
Die Gefahr Im Jazz, Deutsche Britische Freundschaft, Berlin
Beck’s:Futures, ICA, London; Comerhouse, Manchester; Cca, Glasgow (cat)
The British Art Show, Edinburgh, Southampton, Cardiff, Birmingham (cat)
Telescopic Memories (curated by Sarah Staton and Josephine Pryde), Orbit House, London
Charisma Presents: It May Be a Year of Thirteen Moons, But it’s Still the Year of Culture (curated with Keith Farquhar), Transmission, Glasgow
Malerei 6, Monika Spruth Galerie, Cologne
Panache (with Keith Farquhar and Alan Michael), Els Hanappe Underground, Athens
1999
Shake the Disease (curated by Lucy McKenzie), Duncan of Jordanstone, Dundee
EAST International, Norwich Gallery, Norwich (cat)
Village Disco, Cabinet, London
Misty in Roots, (curated by Alan Michael and Alex Frost) Fly Gallery, Glasgow
2007 – present Atelier E.B design / fashion collaboration with Beca Lipscombe
2011 – 2013 Professor of Painting at Kunstakademie Dusseldorf
2004 – present Decemberism record label
MoMA, New York
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Tate Britain, London
MoCA, Los Angeles
ICA, Boston
Atelier E.B. is the company name under which the artist Lucy McKenzie and the designer Beca Lipscombe sign their collaborative projects. The group was formed in 2007 by Lipscombe and the illustrator Bernie Reid, who are based in Edinburgh, and McKenzie, who is originally from Glasgow and lives in Brussels. The intention from the beginning has been to explore the commercial realities of production and distribution, and, by extension, to incorporate the expertise and pragmatism of the applied arts to fine art. Underpinning their ethos is a desire to form new associations, where both
research-led and self-generated material combine to create a vision which is both personal and critical of contemporary hierarchies. Of utmost importance is their desire to work with the best in local industry and independent producers and thinkers. Works to date include commissioned display and interiors for public and private spaces, fashion, textiles, furniture, events and publishing. In Glasgow, Atelier E.B. presented The Inventors of Tradition (2011), an exhibition, catalogue and fashion collection that examined the legacy of Scotland’s textile industry. This and subsequent collection Ost End Girls (2013) was sold directly to the public through a series of showrooms and is now worn all over the world. The Inventors of Tradition II, their next project was presented in spring 2015. It encompassed retail, performance and installation. Their new fashion collection was released simultaneously. Atelier E.B. continue to work closely with the independent curatorial practice Panel (Catriona Duffy and Lucy McEachan), and graphic designers HIT Studio.
2022
Lucy McKenzie & Atelier E.B, Curated by Karel Cisař, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
2020
Lucy McKenzie Prime Suspect, Brandhorst Museum, Munich
Passer-by, Garage, Moscow
Faux Shop, V&A, Dundee
2019
Passer-by, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris
Encore, Miguel Abreu Gallery, Orchard Street, Lower East Side, New York
2018
Atelier E.B: Passer-by, Serpentine North Gallery, London
2017
MEDUSA – Jewellery and Taboos, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
2016
The Inventors of Tradition II fashion collection, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Galerie Buchholz / Thea Westreich, New York
2015
The Inventors of Tradition II fashion collection and exhibition, The Palace of Art, Glasgow (cat)
The Inventors of Tradition II fashion collection, Galerie Micheline Szwacjer, Brussels, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
2014
Scotland Can Make It!, Commonwealth Games, Glasgow (cat)
A Machinery For The Living (curated by Walead Beshty), Petzel Gallery, New York
2013
Hello goodbye thank you, again, and again, and again, curated by Anthony Huberman
Group show at Castillo / Corrales, Paris
Ost End Girls, collection showrooms / temporary shops, Magazijn, Amsterdam, World Lantern, Brussels, Cabinet, London, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Volcano Extravaganza, Stromboli, The Artist’s Institute, New York (cat)
2012
Critical Alliances, HDLU, Zagreb (group show)
Work in Progress, Paris, Au 8 Rue Saint-Bon, Paris (solo)
Scotland Can Make It! (in collaboration with Marc Camille Chaimowicz), exhibition curated by Panel, People’s Palace, Glasgow (cat)
Studio 58: Women Artists in Glasgow since World War II, Mackintosh Museum, GSA, Glasgow (cat) (group)
Te Kust en Te Keur, Mu-ZEE, Oostende (group)
2011
The Inventors of Tradition exhibition with Panel, Glasgow (cat)
The Inventors of Tradition, collection showrooms, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, GSA, Glasgow, TWAAS, New York, Cabinet, London, Etablissement d’en Face, Brussels, Mehringdamm 72, Berlin (cat)
Town Gown Conflict, Kunsthalle Zurich, (group) (cat)
Cologne Kunstverein Annual Editions Exhibition, Cologne (cat)
2009
Limited edition screenprint for Schweizerische Graphische Gesellschaft, Zurich
2008
Atelier, The Lighthouse, Glasgow (solo)
…In the Cherished Company of Others… (curated by Marc Camille
Chaimowicz), Mu-Zee, Oostende (group)
Projects 88, Lucy McKenzie & Atelier E.B, MoMA, New York (solo)
2007
Atelier, showroom / interior design, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
The Flying Duck, interior design, Flying Duck Club, Glasgow