Education:
1990-1992 Royal College of Art, London, England, MFA in Photography
1989-1990 City University, London, England, MA in Arts & Education
1988-1989 New York University, New York
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2019
Centre d’art/Museum Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland
BTV Stadtforum Innsbruck, Oesterreich
2018
Open Ended Now, MAC VAL, Musee d’art contemporain Val de Marne, Paris, France
White Light Black Snow, Parafin, London, UK
2017
11/18, Galerie m, Bochum, Germany
Dance (All Night, London), new film & performance commission forthcoming for Art Night, July 2017, UK
2016
People Places Propositions, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
Dance (All Night, Paris) at Herrenhausen Kunstfestspiele, Hannover, Germany
Twelve, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK
2015
The Gift, Bloomberg Space, London, UK
11/18, ICA/Fig-2, London, UK
Twelve, Peckham Platform, London, UK
Twelve, Galerie m, Bochum, Germany
Twelve, Castlefield, Manchester, UK
2014
The Hall, Its All About the River Festival, Plymouth, UK
Tracer, Oriel Davies, Newtown, Wales, UK
2013
Leap after The Great Ecstasy, Carslaw St*Lukes, London, UK
2012
The Continuous Still, Series of photographs displayed as public billboards commissioned by the Contact Toronto Photography Festival, Canada
2011
Leap after The Great Ecstasy, Galerie m, Bochum, Germany
Tank TV, 10 years of moving image works (online exhibition)
Gathering, Fabrica, Brighton, UK
2010
Celebration (Cyprus Street), The Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2009
Celebration Studio, The Whitechapel Gallery, The Street Programme, London, UK
2008
May happiness knock you over, Brighton Museum, Brighton, UK
2007
Shave, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Shave, Galerie m, Bochum, Germany
Security, Goff + Rosenthal, New York, USA
Shave, Fred (Leipzig), Spinnerei Gelaende, Leipzig, Germany
2006
Security, Fred (London), London, UK
Moscow Girls und andere Geschichten, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
Security, Lolita, Madrid, Spain
2005
Stories from Russia, The Photographers Gallery, London, UK
2004
Moscow Girls, Rhodes + Mann Gallery, London, UK
2003
Love is a stranger, Leicester City Art Gallery, UK
Melanie Manchot, The Tea Building, off site Rhodes + Mann project, London, UK
2002
Cornerhouse Manchester, Manchester, UK
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon, USA
Staedtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Focalpoint Gallery, Southend, UK
University of Illinois Art Gallery, Illinois, USA
2001
just one kiss?, Rhodes + Mann Gallery, London, UK
Fotogalerie in der Feuerwache, Mannheim, Germany
2000
Intimate Distance, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, UK
1999
look at you loving me, Poster Project, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, USA
1998
OUT, Poster Project, South Kensington, London, UK
look at you loving me, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London, UK (plus book launch)
Group Shows (Selection)
2018
Action. The image of the world could be different, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK
Street. Life. Photography: Photography Triennial, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Twelve in Hooked, inaugural show of The Science Gallery, London, UK
Many & Beautiful Things, Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange, Newlyn/Penzance, UK
Visions at The Nunnery, London, UK
2017
Transient Space, Parafin, London
Gravitas, Photo 50, London, UK
The Kiss, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Calais, France
Ils sont tous des sang-melee, MAC/VAL, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Twelve in Group Therapy, UNSW Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Dance (All Night, Paris), Imagepassage, Annecy, France
2016
Twelve at Aesthetica Film Festival, York, UK
Marl Video Art Award, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Germany
Changing City – Shifting Spaces, Videonale, Centre for Contemporary Art CCA, Lagos
La Ville au Corps, Le Carreau de Temple, Paris, France
2015
Essex Road II, Tintype Gallery, London, UK
The Dreamcollector in Festival of the Unconscious, Freud Museum, London, UK
‘WORK, REST AND PLAY – British Photography from the 1960s to today’, OCT Loft, Shenzhen, touring to Mingsheng Arts Museum, Shanghai and K11 Foundation in Wuhan
A Light Shines in the Darkness, Film and Video Umbrella touring exhibition, 7 venues, UK
Group Therapy, FACT, Liverpool, UK
Walking Sculpture, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Boston, USA
2014
The Rhythm is…, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
In the Heat of the Night, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, Germany
Night Contact, Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton, UK
Walk On, Plymouth Art Center and Peninsula Arts, UK
Tracer in UHF42, Apexart Project at Wattan TV, Ramallah, Palestine
Dance like nobody’s watching, Rhubaba Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art, Video Art Review, Krakow, Poland
Walk on, mac, Birmingham, UK
Welde Art Prize, Stadtgallerie Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
2013
When The Grid Goes Soft, MOT Projects, London, UK
Leap after The Great Ecstasy. Video Dumbo, Film Festival, New York, USA
Leap after The Great Ecstasy in STILL, Solent Gallery, Southampton, UK
Leap after The Great Ecstasy in Videonale 14, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Filmweek, Galerie Wentrup, Berlin, Germany
Walk on, Touring show: Pittshanger Manor Museum, London/Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland/Aberdeen Art Gallery
2012
The Gathering, European Media Arts Festival, Kunsthalle Osnabrueck, Germany
Leap after The Great Ecstasy and Dance (All Night, Paris), Oriel Davies, Newton, UK
Wunder, Deichtorhallen, Museum fuer Gegenwartskunst, Hamburg, Germany
Celebration (Cyprus Street), In OBJET TROUVE at Plataforma Revolver, Lisbon, Portugal
Celebration (Cyprus Street), Canary Wharf Screening, Film and Video Umbrella/Art on the Underground, London, UK
Situations, MAC/VAL Musee d’art contemporaine, Paris, France
2011
Celebration (Cyprus Street) Videonale 13, GoMA Glasgow Centre of Contemporary Art, Glasgow, UK
Wunder, Museum Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Nuit Blanche, 1 October 2011: performance and production of videowork: ‘Dance (All Night, Paris)’, Paris, France
No Neutral Ground, Deutsche Botschaft London, (3-Person show), London, UK
Videonale 13, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
East End Film Festival, London, UK
Coming of Age, Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle, UK
Sex Drive, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford, PA, USA
2010
Another Face: Works from the Arts Council Collection, Hatton Art Gallery, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
Dimensions in British Contemporary Art, Touring Show, British Council Centres, India
Celebration (Cyprus Street), Re-location, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Tape Modern, Tape Club, Berlin, Germany
Journeys with no return, A Foundation, London, UK
Peeping Tom, Vegas Gallery, London, UK
Emporte Moi/Sweep me off my feet, MacVal, Musee d’Art Contemporaine, Paris, France
Do you see me, Galerie m, Bochum, Germany. (As Part of the NextOne Festival, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany)
Lets Dance, MacVal, Musee d’Art Contemporaine, Paris, France
IMPAKT, Film Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Moving Portraits, Womad Artists Film Screening, UK
2009
Kiss, Theatre de Chatelet, Nuit Blanche, Paris, France
Journeys with no return, Akbank Istanbul, collatoral event of the Istanbul Biennial, Turkey
Neighbours, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Thessaloniki Biennale 2: Art In Times Of Uncertainty, Thessaloniki, Greece
Insomniac Promenades, Sleeping/Dreaming in contemporary art, Petach-Tikva Museum, Israel
2008
Three Colours White, Rohkunstbau, Program Galerie, Warsaw, Poland
Vollendete Zukunft, Galerie Paterre, Berlin, Germany
El cuerpo (con) sentido. Una representación visual, Centro de Historia, Zaragoza, Spain
Menschen und Orte, Kunstverein Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Uprising, Horus & Deloris Contemporary Art, (Sydney Biennale programme), Sydney, Australia
Insomniac Promenades, Sleeping/Dreaming in contemporary art, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
2007
Global Feminisms, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, Mass, USA
My Vision, Reiss Engelhorn Museum, Mannheim, Germany
A question of Gesture, Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
The Naked Portrait, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh and Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
New Forest Pavilion, 52nd La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
The Art of Growing Old, Ar/ge Kunst Bozen and Stadtgalerie Schwaz, Italy/Austria
1+1=3: Collaborations in Recent British Portraiture, Australian Museum of Photography, Sydney, Australia
Global Feminisms, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
2006
Portraits – The view behind the mask, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany
Territories of Freedom, Moscow Centre For the Arts, Moscow, Russia
1+1=3: Collaborations in Recent British Portraiture, Fotofreo Festival of Photography, Australia
Anstoss Berlin, Haus Am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
European Media Arts Festival, Kunsthalle Osnabruck, Germany
Summertime, Galerie m, Bochum, Germany
Animalcity, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Rohkunstbau: Three Colours- Blue, Schloss Gross Leuthen, Brandenburg, Germany
URP!, Ministry of Culture, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
A question of Gesture, Leipzig Opera, Leipzig, Germany
2005
First Moscow Biennale, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Art Digital. M’Ars Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Detroit International Film + Video Festival, The Museum of New Art, Detroit, USA
After Dark. Flm + Video Festival, Custard Factory, Birmingham, UK
Anonyme Portraits, Fotogaleie Wien, Vienna, Austria
2004
Polaroids, 39 Gallery, London, UK
Naked, The Academy of the West of England, Bristol, UK
moving images, tank.tv, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
Arte et Naturaleza, Jardin Botanico, Bogota, Colombia
Under 5s, Video programme, 39 Gallery, London, UK
2003
Influence, Anxiety and Gratitude, MIT List Visual Art Centre, Boston, USA
Furtive Gaze, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA
Bid, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon, USA
Of Bodies and other Things. German Photography in the 20th Century: City Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic/Deutsches Museum, Berlin/ House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
East Wing, Courtauld Institute, London, UK
2002
Intimacy, The Russel Coates Museum & Art Gallery, Bournmouth, UK
Odalisque, Mafuji Gallery, London, UK
Sensitive Skin, Performance Festival, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Welde Kunstpreis, Kunstverein Schwetzingen, Germany
Frauen, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria
St James Group Ltd Photography Prize, Flowers East Gallery, London, UK
Over Time, Rhodes + Mann Gallery, London, UK
2001
Something happened, Hasselblad Centre, Goteburg, Sweden
Don’t go to work, Rhodes + Mann Gallery, London, UK
Love me/Love me, Galerie La Peripherie, Paris, France
Video Umbrella, Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, Shrewsbury, UK
2000
The Insanity Benefit, Vilma Gold, London, UK
Mommy Dearest, Gimpel Fils, London, UK
Fusion, Rhodes + Mann Gallery, London, UK
Crossing Place, Bucknell Art Gallery, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
1998
The Whitechapel Open, London, UK
The Ugly Show, Leeds Metropolitan Museum + touring, UK
The Century of the Body, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal & Musee de l’Elysee, Switzerland
Spaete Freiheiten, Historisches Museum Bielefeld & Siemens Kulturforum, Munich, Germany
1997
Caren Golden Gallery, New York, USA
Awards/Prizes/Residencies:
2017 Shortlisted for The Jarman Award, UK
2013 Recipient of the Great North Run Moving Image Commission
2012 Winner Oriel Davies Award
2011 Nominated for Deutsche Boerse Photography Prize
2010 Nominated for the Jarman Award
2009 British Council Residency, Istanbul, Turkey
2007 Goethe Institute (Mexico) Production Grant
2005 British Council Travel Grant
2004 Arts Council of England Grant
2003 Goethe Institute (Colombia) Residency
2002 Welde Kunstpreis, Germany
2001 ifa, Institut fuer Auslandsbeziehungen
2000 MacDowell Fellowship, USA
1999 British Council Award (Grants to Artists Scheme)
John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award
1997 Arts for everyone Award, through the Arts Council of England
1992 Chesterton Award
Fuji Award
Papers/Lectures/Conferences:
2009 Contemporary Photography Conference, Falmouth College of Art and Design
2008 Urban Photography Conference, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
2005 Gender, Performance and Identity, Conference, Tate Modern, London, UK
Photogrpahy in the 90’s, conference, Tate Britain, London, UK
2004 The Oxford Brookes Photography Colloquium, paper on performative portraiture
ICA, What is beauty, artists presentation and panel discussion with Alain de Botton, Howard Caygil and John Armstrong Teaching Appointments, London, UK
1995-2008 Visiting and Part time lectureships at the following institutions (selection)
Goldsmith College, University of London, London, UK
New York University, New York, USA
London College of Printing, , London, UK (MA & BA)
Royal College of Art, London, England
Central Saints Martin College of Art & Design, London, UK
Middlesex University, London, UK
The Architectural Association, London, UK
Westminster University, London, UK
Kent Institute of Art and Design, UK
1993-1997 Lecturer Bournemouth & Poole College of Art and Design, UK
Public Collections:
Arts Council Collection, UK
Brooklyn Museum, New York. USA
Bucknell Art Gallery Collection, USA
DG Bank Collection, Germany
Mead Collection, Warwickshire University , UK
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, USA
Staedtische Gallery Wolfsburg, Germany
Unilever Collection, UK
Selected Bibliography: Books/Publications:
Emporte-moi/Sweep me off my feet, MacVal Publications, Paris, France, 2010
The Body in Contemporary Art, Sally O’Reilly, Thames + Hudson, 2009
Praxis: Art in Times of Uncertainty, 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale, Greece, 2009
The Naked Portrait, Martin Hammer, National Gallerie of Scotland, 2007
Global Feminism, New directions in contemporary Art, Merrel Publishers/The Brooklyn Museum, 2007
Anstoss Berlin, Exhibition catalogue, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, 2006
Melanie Manchot/Moscow Girls, Exhibition catalogue, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, 2006
Three Colours Blue, Rohkunstbau, Prestel Verlag, Muenchen 2006
Susan Bright, Art Photography Now, Thames + Hudson, England, 2005
The Photograph as contemporary Art, Charlotte Cotton, Thames + Hudson, England, 2004
Five, The Labyrinth of the Gaze, edited by Gavin Turk, England, 2004
Miser & Now, inaugural issue, Keith Talent Gallery, England, 2004
Von Koerpern und anderen Dingen. Deutsche Fotografie im 20. Jahrhundert. Klaus Honnef & Gabriele Honnef-Harling, Edition Braus, 2003
Der imperfekte Mensch, Boehlau Verlag, Edited by Petra Lutz, Thomas Macho, Gisela Staupe, Heike Zirden, Germany 2003
For a moment, a stage, Public Art Leicester, with a text by Chris Townsend, 2003
Breast, Maura Spiegel & Lithe Sebesta, Workman Publishing Company, USA, 2002
Frauen, Fotogalerie Wien, Fotobuch Nr. 29/2002
Prestel Lexikon der Fotografen, Reinhold Misselbeck, Prestel Verlag, Germany, 2002
Love is a stranger, Monograph, Prestel Verlag, Muenchen, Germany, 2001
The Century of the Body, William Ewing, Thames & Hudson, London 2000
Ist die Photographie am Ende, mdv Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2000
The Saatchi Gift, Hayward Gallery Publishing, 2000
Spaete Freiheiten, Prestel Verlag, Muenchen, Germany, 1999
Love and Desire, William Ewing, Thames & Hudson, England, 1999
The Saatchi Decade, Young British Art from the Saatchi Collection, 1999
Public Sightings, Cornerhouse Publications, England, 1999
look at you loving me, Monograph, Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel, Switzerland, 1998
Seeing Ourselves, Women Self portraiture, Franzes Borzello, Thames & Hudson, 1998
Vile Bodies, Prestel Verlag, Muenchen, Germany, 1998