FORTHCOMING
My film Apparent Time (2024) has been selected for the Sea Change Film Festival which takes place this September on the remote Hebridean Isle of Tiree, Scotland.
My film Mystics After Modernism (2012) has been selected for the Braziers International Film Festival taking place this August at Braziers Park, Oxfordshire, UK.
SCREENINGS & EVENTS
2025 Land as Language Screening event at The Filmmakers Coop, NYC with films by Peggy Ahwesh (USA), Karen Cunningham (UK) and Takahiko Iimura (Japan).
2019 Decolonising the Nuclear International Symposium, Goldsmiths, London
2018 Its origins are indeterminate. Curated by Erik Martinson, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Screening and talk with Dr Dominic Paterson (Glasgow University) at Cample Line
2017 Make Something (Seen) With Your Body VBKÖ Vienna, Austria
2016 The Hallucinating Edge Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China
Like slow breathing, it seemed to emanate from inside the walls LUX Salon, London
2015 Ripples on the Pond CCA Glasgow
Touring Video Programme Spike Island, S1, Transmission, Eastside Projects, Castlefield & ICA
Factish Field Symposium, Edinburgh College of Art
Double Back screening event Store Association, London.
BALDACHI video programme Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
2013 Four Cities, More Women The Nightingale Cinema, Chicago, USA
Quantum Leap The Embassy, Edinburgh and Malmo Konsthall, Sweden
An Endless Theatre; the convergence of contemporary art and anthropology in observational cinema Symposium and screening, University of Edinburgh
2012 Artists Moving Image Festival Tramway, Glasgow
2011 Video on Tour Screening programme, selected by Benjamin Cook, LUX.
1999 Pixelvision International touring video programme, selected by Collective, Edinburgh
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021-22 Parataxis, University of Edinburgh
2020 Mean Time, Collective, Edinburgh
2018 Deploying Culture, Cample Line, South-West Scotland
Poly , No. 35 Stirling, Scotland. UK
2016 Movable Type; Under Erasure, The Showroom, London
2013 Fib, Collective, Edinburgh
Plasma, Walden Affairs, The Hague, The Netherlands
2009 Karen Cunningham, Outpost Gallery, Norwich
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Here Was Elsewhere: >>FFWD Cooper Gallery, Dundee, Scotland
Video Days Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University
2017 Make Something With Your Body (3-person) VBKÖ Vienna, Austria
FFWD>> Moving Image From Scotland Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, China
2014 Temporary Autonomous Zone/3 Palace of Culture & Science, Warsaw, Poland
2013 An exhibition is an exhibition is an exhibition Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
mass, en mass, mass medium curated by Alys Williams, Café Park Gallery, London
2012 Sculpture Garden Kritzendorf Strombad, Vienna, Austria
Accidentally on Purpose Quad, Derby
2011 Early Relativity Two person show with Zara Idelson. The Duchy, Glasgow
Hand to Eye Three person show with Anne-Marie Copestake & Chalrie Hammond. The Project Room, Glasgow
2009 Lobby Curated by Stefano Calligaro. Cell Project Space, London
Natural Order Three person exhibition. The Mackintosh Gallery, Glasgow School fo Art.
2008 Karen Cunningham, Luca Frei, Babak Ghazi. Glasgow International
2001 Blind Date, 2 person show with Stefan Huas, Galerija Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb, Croatia
COMISSIONS
2021 The Centre for Research Collections University of Edinburgh & The A. G. Leventis Foundation, Greece
2016 Legion TV, London
2013 LUX Moving Image London and Collective gallery Edinburgh
RESIDENCIES
2020 SGSAH Artist in Residence, Collective, Edinburgh
2008 Scottish Arts Council Artist in Residence, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2003 Pilot Summer School, Cove Park, Scotland
2001 British Council/New Media Scotland Residency. Split, Croatia
1999 Visual Artists in Residence. Villa Walberta, Munich, Germany
CURATORIAL PROJECTS *events curated by 'The Open Eye Club'
2017 Make Something (Seen) With Your Body Screening event at VBKÖ Vienna, Austria
2014 Viewfinders for the Artists Moving Image programme at Tramway, Glasgow and Part of ‘GENERATION’
2013-14 The Anthropology Effect Programme of video and accompanying essays commissioned by MAP magazine.
2013 An Endless Theatre; the convergence of contemporary art and anthropology in observational cinema University of Edinburgh
2011 Hand to Eye The Project Room, Glasgow
2008 Karen Cunningham, Luca Frei, Babak Ghazi. Glasgow International
The Human Arc* Tramway, Glasgow
2007 The Reflex Effect* The Project Room, Glasgow
I see prisms* Gallery g126 Galway, Ireland
2006 The Social Contract* The Project Room, Glasgow
bazaar* Tramway, Glasgow
totally P.C.* Glasgow International CCA cinema, Glasgow
This is not a painting* The Project Room, Glasgow
2005 PREMIERE* The Project Room, Glasgow
2001 A Practice Room (for amateurs) Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
CATALOGUES
2021 Edina/Athena. The Centre for Research Collections Edinburgh & The A. G. Leventis Foundation
2017 Current: Moving Image from Scotland Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, China
2013 mass, en mass, mass medium Vitrine at Cafe Park Gallery, London
2009 Natural Order Catalogue with essay by Sarah Smith
2008 Cross Section Glasgow International
2001 Blind Date New Media Scotland & The British Council
PUBLICATIONS
2024 Parataxis Published by The Centre for Research Collections Edinburgh
2015 Ripples on the Pond Ed. Tina Fiske. Published by Affiliate - Glasgow University
2008 SHIFTER Magazine NYC issue 11: Intimate. NYC
2007 Frozen Tears 3 published by John Russell. London
2006 Not Yet 5 published by Babak Ghazi, London
2004 Not Yet 2 & 3 published by Babak Ghazi, London
TEACHING
I am the Course Leader for MA Film Practice (online) an international postgraduate degree programme with Arts University Bournemouth.
I have also taught on undergraduate and post-graduate programmes at Edinburgh College of Art and Glasgow School of Art and have been a visiting lecturer at a number of institutions.
EDUCATION
My practice-based PhD, ‘Worldmaking and Undoing: Looking at minor forms through moving image practice’ was undertaken at Edinburgh College of Art/University of Edinburgh
I hold an MFA from Glasgow School of Art, and a BA Hons. degree (1st class) in Photography from Edinburgh College of Art including exchange study at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, USA.