Charlie Prodger

Charlie Prodger (b. 1974, United Kingdom) is a Glasgow-based artist working with moving image, drawing, writing, sculpture and installation. She was the winner of the 2018 Turner Prize and represented Scotland at the 2019 Venice Biennale. She received the 2017 Paul Hamlyn Award and 2014 Margaret Tait Award. She was a 2023–24 Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, USA.

Recent solo exhibitions include Cardinal Beams, Hollybush Gardens, London (2024); The Offering Formula, Secession, Vienna (2023–24); Blanks and Preforms, Kunst Museum Winterthur (2021); SaF05, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2021); SaF05, Scottish Pavilion, Venice Biennale (2019); Colon Hyphen Asterix, Hollybush Gardens, London (2018); BRIDGIT/Stoneymollan Trail, Bergen Kunsthall; Subtotal, SculptureCenter, New York (2017); BRIDGIT, Hollybush Gardens, London; Charlotte Prodger, Kunstverein Düsseldorf (both 2016); 8004-8019, Spike Island, Bristol; Stoneymollan Trail, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (2015); Markets (with The Block), Chelsea Space, London; Nephatiti, Glasgow International (2014); Percussion Biface 1-13, Studio Voltaire, London; Colon Hyphen Asterix, Intermedia CCA, Glasgow (2012) and Handclap/Punchhole, Kendall Koppe, Glasgow (2011). Group exhibitions include Following Ravilious – Newhaven Views, Newhaven, East Sussex, England (2023);To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, Wellington, New Zealand (2023); An Insular Rococo, Hollybush Gardens, London, England; Language Is a River, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia; Dislocations: Territories, Landscapes and Other Spaces, Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland; Conflicts, Eugster Belgrade and Drugstore Belgrade (all 2021); Nine Lives, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago; A Sculpture & Six Videos, Wesleyan University, Connecticut; Freedom is Outside the Skin, Kunsthal 44 Moen, Denmark (2020); Palimpsest, Lismore Castle (2019), Ireland; Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London; Always Different, Always the Same: An Essay on Art and Systems, Bunder Kunstmuseum, Chur; ORGASMIC STREAMING ORGANIC GARDENING ELECTROCULTURE, Chelsea Space, London (2018); British Art Show 8 (2016); Weight of Data, Tate Britain, London; An Interior that Remains an Exterior, Künstlerhaus Graz (2015); Annals of The Twentieth Century, Wysing Arts, Cambridge (2014) Holes In The Wall, Kunsthalle Freiburg, and Frozen Lakes, Artists Space, New York (2013). 

Prodger’s work has been screened at various film festivals, including London Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival; International Short Film Festival Oberhausen; Courtisane Festival, Gent; RAI Ethnographic Film Festival, Bristol, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival; Lux Biennial of Moving Images, London; GIFF Festival of New Cinema, Manadaluyong; Seoul International New Media Festival; Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival and Vancouver International Film Festival. Performances include Orange Helvetica Title Sequence, New York Book Art Fair, MOMA PS1 (with Bookworks); Microsphaeric Howard Hughes Heaven Movie, Tramway, Glasgow and Assembly: A Survey of Recent Artists’ Film and Video in Britain, Tate Britain (2014). Fwd: Rock Splits Boys, Cafe Oto, London and Spike Island, Bristol; Re: Re: Re: Homos and Light, Artists Space, New York, (with Mason Leaver-Yap, 2013) and Querido John, Kings Place, London, John Cage Centenary (with Electra and The Wire, 2012).

Her work is held in various museum and public collections, including Tate, London, UK; Arts Council England, UK; Australian Film Television and Radio School, Moore Park, Australia; FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France; Bristol Museums, UK; British Council, UK; University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada; McMaster University, Hamilton, US; Glasgow Museum of Modern Art, UK; Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, UK; Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland; and Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, UK.