Lucy Orta: CV
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Survival, Fashion Space Gallery, London College of Fashion, London, UK
2007 Nexus Architecture, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
2005 Lucy Orta, Barbican Curve Gallery, London, UK
2004 Dwelling X, RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects), London, UK
2003 Transgressing Fashion?0103, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
2003 Connector Mobile Village, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington
2003 Body Architecture, Lothringer 13, Munich, Germany
2003 Collective Dwelling, Institute for Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia
2003 Collective Dwelling act VIII’, Cicignon High School, Fredrikstad, Norway
2002 Connector Mobile Village, Florida Atlantic University Galleries, Boca Raton, USA
2002 Fluid Architecture II, Stroom centre for the visual arts, The Hague, Holland
2002 Connector Body Architecture sector IX, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Cholet, Cholet, France
2002 Fluid Architecture I, City of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
2002 Life Nexus, The Welcome Trust, London, UK Solo with Jorge Orta
2001 Connector Mobile Village sector IV, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, USA
2001 Connector Guardian Angel sector VIII, Casa de Francia, Mexico City, Mexico
2001Arbor Vitae (Making History), Freeport Talke, Staffordshire, UK
2000Connector Mobile Village sector VII, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2000 Connector MacroWear sector VI, Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2000 Connector Mobile Village I, Pitti Imagine, Florence, Italy
2000 Connector Mobile Village I, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
1999 Hortirecycling Enterprise Act II, Wein Secession, Vienna, Austia
1999 Nexus Architecture, Passages centre d’art contemporain, Troyes, France
1999 Collective Dwelling Act VII, Fabrica Gallery, Brighton, UK
1999 Urban Life Guards - works in progress, Expofil, Paris, France
1998 Urban Armour, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
1997 Collective Dwelling Act II, Le Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers, France
1997 All in One Basket Act I, Galerie du Forum St Eustache, Paris, France
1997 Commune Communicate (Actions Urbaines), Metz detention centre, Metz, France
1997 Ici et Ailleurs, Le Parvis, Tarnes, France
1996 Modular Architecture, La Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Soirées Nomades, Paris, France
1996 Refuge Wear, Espace d’Art Yvonamor Palix, Paris, France
Group Exhibitions
2008 Carried Away Procession in Art, MMKA, Arnhem, Holland
2006 This is America!, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Holland
2006 Monument Minimal, Château d’Avignon, Bouches-du-rhône, France
2006 Metro Pictures, MOCA North Miami, Florida, USA
2006 Taille Humaine, Orangerie du Sénat, Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris
2006 LESS – Strategie alternative dell’ abitare’, PAC contemporary art museum, Milan, Italy
2006 Nexus Architecture, 9th Havana Biennale, La Habana Vieja, Cuba
2006 Other than Art, G-Fine Art Gallery, Washington DC, USA
2006 Channel, Cupola Gallery Hillsborough, Sheffield, UK
2006 The Fashion of Architecture, Centre for Architecture, New York, USA
2006 Dark Places, The Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica (CA), USA
2005 Five Rings/Ornaments of Suffering, Fort of Exilles, Piedmont, Italy
2005 Sweet Taboos, Tirana Biennale 3, Tirana, Albania
2005 Future Textiles: Fast Wear for Sport & Fashion, The HUB, Sleaford, UK
2005 Fear Gear, Roebling Hall, New York, USA
2005 Pattern Language/ Clothing as Communicator exhibition, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Massachusets
2005 Fée Maison, La Briqueterie en Bourgogne, Le Creusot, France
2005 Contemporaneo Liquido (The Liquid Contemporary), FrancoSoffiantino Artecontemporanea Gallery, Turin, Italy
2005 Totipotent Architectecture, University of Brighton Gallery, Brighton, UK
2005 Est-Ouest/Nord-Sud, faire habiter l'homme là encore autrement, Arc-en-Reve centre d'architecture, Bordeaux, France
2005 Art-Robe: Women artists in a nexus of art and fashion’, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
2005 On Conceptual Clothing, Musashino Art University / Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Tokyo / Yokohama, Japan
2005 Biennale de l’urgence en Tchétchénie, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2004 Dwelling X, City of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
2004 A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water, Gwangju Biennale 2004, Gwangju, South Korea
2004 Totipotent Architectecture, Arte all’ Arte / Association Continua, Buonconvento Tuscany, Italy
2004 Nexus Architecture x 110, L.O.G. Attwood Green, Birmingham, UK
2004 Nexus Architecture - Peace Intervention 25.6.04, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
2004 Dwelling X, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK
2004 The Interventionists , MASS MoCA, USA
2004 Flexible 4: Identities, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
2004 Space Between, John Curtin Gallery, Perth, Australia
2004 Lies and Lust: Art & Fashion, Podewil, Berlin, Germany
2003 Connector Mobile Village, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
2003 Flexible, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
2003 Creuats/Cruzados/Crossed, CCCB, Barcelona, Spain
2003 Armour, Fort Asperen, Holland
2003 Design et Habitats, Pompidou Centre, Paris, France
2003 Nexus Architecture x 50 (Micro Utopias), Art and Architecture, Valencia, Spain
2003 M.I.U. Mobile Intervention Units, Kaape Helder, Den Helder, Holland
2003 Fashion The Greatest Show on Earth, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, USA
2003 Dwelling X, Market Square, Nottingham, UK
2003 Doublures, Musée national des beaux-arts du Quebec, Quebec, Quebec
2002 Nexus Architecture x 110, Miami Design District / Art Miami Basel, Miami, USA
2002 Fluid Architecture II, The Dairy, St Siméon, France
2002 Connector Body Architecture, The Laing Gallery, Newcastle, UK
2002 Strike, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK
2002 Somewhere, places in refuge, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2002 Shine, The Lowry, Salford Quays, UK
2002 Portable Living Spaces, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, USA
2002 Fragilités, Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France
2001 OPERA.tion Life Nexus act VII, Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln, Cologne, Germany, Performance with Jorge Orta, Markus and Simon Stockhausen, Anamaryl Van der Plujm
2001Mobile Village: Plug In, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Munster, Germany
2001Untragbar, Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln, Cologne, Germany
2001To the Trade, Diverse Works, Houston, USA
2001 Wegziehen, Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany
2001 Global Tools, Künstlerhaus Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2001 M.I.U. (Transforms), G8 Environment Summit, Trieste, Italy
2000 OPERA.tion Life Nexus act III, Chapiteau LarueForaine, Paris, France, Performance with Jorge Orta, Co-Caspar, Kasper Toeplitz, Marina Rosenfeld, Christof Kurzmann, Paco Decina, Francois Chat
2000 Connector Mobile Village sector V, Musashino Art University Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2000 Dynamic City, La Fondation pour l’architecture, Brussels, Belgium
2000 Connector Mobile Village II’, E.N.S.A.V. La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium
2000 Air en Forme, Musée des Arts Décoratifs / Vitra Design Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland
2000 Ici On Peut Toucher, Galerie TBN, Rennes, France
2000 Life Nexus Village Fete (Home), Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
2000 Mutations/Modes 1960-2000, Musée Galliera, Paris, France
2000 The Dairy, La Laiterie, St Siméon, France
1999 Nexus Architecture, Haus der Kulturen / City of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
1999 Body Architecture, Institut Français d’Architecture, Paris, France
1999 Visions of the Body, Museum of Modern Art Kyoto / Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Kyoto / Tokyo, Japan
1999 Life Nexus Village Fête (In the Midst of Things), Bournville Village Green, Birmingham, UK
1999 Design Machine, Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow, UK
1999 Collective Dwelling Act VI, Gorbals Estate, Glasgow, UK
1999 Model Homes, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Canada
1999 Untitled, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, USA
1998 Personal Effects - The Collective Conscious, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
1998 Collective Dwelling act V, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
1998 Nexus Architecture, Appel d’Air/March Against Child Labour, Paris/Lyon (intervention), France
1998 Collective Dwelling Act III, Grand Street Rink, New York, USA
1998 Addressing the Century, The Hayward Gallery, London, UK
1998 The Campaign Against Living Miserably, The Royal College of Art Galleries, London, UK
1998 Untilted, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
1997 Refuge Wear, East End London, London, UK
1997 Trade Routes, History & Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa
1997 All in One Basket Act I (Produire Créer Collectionner), Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, France
1997 PSI Open, PSI, New York, USA
1997 Bournes Citoyenne (Ici et Maintenant), La Villette, Paris, France
1997 Touche pour Voir, Le Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers, France
1996 Refuge Wear, Soho Festival, New York, USA
1996 Visual Reports, ICC Cultural Centre, Antwerp, Belgium
1996 Nexus Architecture (On Route to Mex), Art & Idea, Mexico City, Mexico
1996 Commune Communicate (Actions Urbaines), Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
1996 Commune Communicate Act I, Metz detention centre/Metz city centre, Metz, France
1996 Identity + Refuge Act II (Shopping), Deitch Projects / Salvation Army, New York, USA
1996 L’art du plastique, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France
1996 Refuge Wear, Première Vision/international textile trade fair, Paris, France
1995 Identity + Refuge Act I, Salvation Army Cité de Refuge, Paris, France
1995 Shopping, CAPC Musée d’art contemporain / TATI, Bordeaux, france
1995 Nexus Architecture - Collective Wear x 16, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1995 Survival Kits (On Board), Venice Biennale - Off project, Venice, Italy
1995 Untilted, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweeden
1994 Refuge Wear, Montparnasse station, Paris, France
1994 Nexus Architecture x 8, Cité La Noue, Montreuil, France
1994 Refuge Wear, Louvre / Le Pont des Arts, Paris, France
1994bAteliers 94, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris - ARC, Paris, France
1994 Refuge Wear, Salvation Army Cité de Refuge, Paris, France
1993 Art Fonction Sociale!, Salvation Army Cité de Refuge, Paris, France
1993 Body Ware: Habitus, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
1992 Studio Orta, Studio Orta Bastille, Paris, France
1992 Imprints on the Andes, Imprints on the Andes, Machu Picchu / Andes Mountain range, Peru
1992 Poussière, Galerie Paris Bastille, Paris, France
Public Art
2005-ongoing: Totipotent Cubicle, Saint Etienne, Public sculpture for the Cité de Design
2005-ongoing: Nexus Bridge, Leebank Middleway Attwoodgreen Birmingham, Proposal for a 20m span pedestrian bridge across the Leebank Middleway, linking two communities to the city centre
2005-2006 Totipotent Atoll, Park Mirafiori Nord Turin, Permanent public sculpture for the new city park
Academic
2008 London College of Fashion (University of the Arts London)
post: Professor of Art, Fashion and the Environment
2007 Nottingham Trent University
post: Honorary Degree Master of Fine Art, School of Art and Design
2006-ongoing: University of the Arts London
post: Member, Fashion Body and Material Culture Research Centre
2005-ongoing: London College of Fashion (University of the Arts London)
post: Research coordinator, Artefact Hub
2004 University of Edinburgh
post: Particiapnt, ARHB/EPSRC's 'Designing in the 21st Century'
2002-2007 London College of Fashion (University of the Arts London)
post: Rootstein Hopkins Chair of Fashion, Professor
2002-2005 Design Academy Eindhoven, Holland
post: Founding member and Head of Man & Humanity, Master in Industrial Design
2002-2004 E.N.S.A.D. (École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs)
post: Visiting professor
2000-2001 Edinburgh College of Art
post: Virtual Fellow
1999-2002 E.N.S.A.D. (École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs)
post: Head tutor fashion/costume
1995-1999 Nottingham Trent Polytechnic
post: Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Fashion Knitwear Design
Awards
2007-2009 EU-Roma, a survey of Roma housing and culture
EU Funding (Education, Audio visual and Culture Executive Agency) Culture Programme 2007-2013 Co-operation Measures (Strand 1.2.1) Partners: LOCUS Greece; LAN Italy; ATUN Romania
2004-2008 Arts Council of England (South East)
Artist production grant for Common Ground (Greenham Common)
2004-2005 Sciart (The Wellcome Trust)
Research award for Totipotent Architecture
2003-2004 Arts Council of England (East Midlands)
Artist production grant for Dwelling X
2003-2004 Henry Moore Foundation
Production grant for Dwelling X
2003 The Arts and Humanities Research Board
Research Award for Dwelling X
2003 Synoecismic Dwelling
AHRC, Small Grants in the Creative and Performing Arts
2001 Andy Warhol Foundation Grant
Awarded for her first American solo exhibition and US tour organised by the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa
1993 Sissel d'Or
Prize for innovation awarded for her Habitent research