Margaret Salmon
Margaret Salmon
Eglantine, 2016 (still)
Filmed on 35mm, with sound
70 minutes
Margaret Salmon
Eglantine, 2016 (still)
Filmed on 35mm, with sound
70 minutes
Margaret Salmon
Eglantine, 2016 (still)
Filmed on 35mm, with sound
70 minutes
Margaret Salmon
Bird, 2016 (still)
Filmed on 35mm on HD,
4 minutes
Margaret Salmon
Bird, 2016 (still)
Filmed on 35mm on HD,
4 minutes
Margaret Salmon
Bird, 2016 (still)
Filmed on 35mm on HD,
4 minutes
Margaret Salmon
Oyster, 2014 (still)
super 16mm film on HD, sound, 14 minutes 25 seconds
Margaret Salmon
Oyster, 2014 (still)
super 16mm film on HD, sound, 14 minutes 25 seconds
Margaret Salmon
Still from Pyramid, 2013
5-channel video installation
colour and b&w 16mm film on digital, silent
Margaret Salmon
installation view, Pyramid
Office Baroque, Antwerp, 2013
Margaret Salmon
(Untitled) Color Line, 2011
16mm colour film on digital, silent
3 minutes
Margaret Salmon
Everything that rises must converge, 2010
colour Kodachrome and fuji negative 16 mm film transferred to DVD, silent
8min 8sec
Margaret Salmon
The enemies of the rose, 2010
16mm film transferred to DVD,
5 min 15 seconds, silent
Margaret Salmon
The enemies of the rose, 2010
16mm film transferred to DVD,
5 min 15 seconds, silent
Margaret Salmon
Everything that rises must converge, 2010
colour Kodachrome and fuji negative 16 mm film transferred to DVD, silent
8min 8sec
Margaret Salmon
Everything that rises must converge, 2010
colour Kodachrome and fuji negative 16 mm film transferred to DVD, silent
8min 8 sec
Margaret Salmon
Rooms (East New Orleans), 2008
four screen installation, 16mm colour film tranferred to DVD
6min 56sec
Margaret Salmon
Rooms (East New Orleans), 2008
four screen installation, 16mm colour film tranferred to DVD
6min 56sec
Margaret Salmon
Rooms (East New Orleans), 2008
four screen installation, 16mm colour film tranferred to DVD
6min 56sec
Margaret Salmon
Rooms (East New Orleans), 2008
four screen installation, 16mm colour film tranferred to DVD
6min 56sec
Margaret Salmon
Rooms (East New Orleans), 2008
four screen installation, 16mm colour film tranferred to DVD
6min 56sec
Margaret Salmon
Rooms (East New Orleans), 2008
four screen installation, 16mm colour film tranferred to DVD
6min 56sec
Margaret Salmon
Fireman, 2008
16mm colour film transferred to DVD, silent
3min 40sec
Margaret Salmon
Fireman, 2008
16mm colour film transferred to DVD, silent
3min 40sec
Margaret Salmon
Guns Trilogy, 2008
three screen installation, 16mm film transferred to DVD
9min 30sec
Margaret Salmon
Guns Trilogy, 2008
three screen installation, 16mm film transferred to DVD
9min 30sec
Margaret Salmon
Guns Trilogy, 2008
three screen installation, 16mm film transferred to DVD
9min 30sec
Margaret Salmon
Guns Trilogy, 2008
three screen installation, 16mm film transferred to DVD
9min 30sec
Margaret Salmon
Guns Trilogy, 2008
three screen installation, 16mm film transferred to DVD
9min 30sec
Margaret Salmon
Guns Trilogy, 2008
three screen installation, 16mm film transferred to DVD
9min 30sec
Margaret Salmon
Ninna Nanna, 2007
16mm colour and b/w film transferred to DVD
8min 16sec
Margaret Salmon
Ninna Nanna, 2007
16mm colour and b/w film transferred to DVD
8 minutes 16 seconds
installation view Witte De With, Rotterdam, 2007
Margaret Salmon
Ninna Nanna, 2007
16mm colour and b/w film transferred to DVD
8min 16sec
Margaret Salmon
Ninna Nanna, 2007
16mm colour and b/w film transferred to DVD
8min 16sec
Margaret Salmon
Ninna Nanna, 2007
16mm colour and b/w film transferred to DVD
8min 16sec
Margaret Salmon
Ninna Nanna, 2007
16mm colour and b/w film transferred to DVD
8min 16sec
Margaret Salmon
Ramapo Central, 2003
16mm b/w and colour film transferred to DVD
8min 14sec
Margaret Salmon
Ramapo Central, 2003
16mm b/w and colour film transferred to DVD
8min 14sec
Margaret Salmon
Ramapo Central, 2003
16mm b/w and colour film transferred to DVD
8min 14sec
Margaret Salmon
Ramapo Central, 2003
16mm b/w and colour film transferred to DVD
8min 14sec
installation view Witte De With, Rotterdam, 2007
Margaret Salmon
Peggy, 2003
super 8 and 16mm colour and b/w film transferred to DVD
13min 30sec
Margaret Salmon
Peggy, 2003
super 8 and 16mm colour and b/w film transferred to DVD
13min 30sec
Margaret Salmon
Peggy, 2003
super 8 and 16mm colour and b/w film transferred to DVD
13min 30sec
Margaret Salmon
Peggy, 2003
super 8 and 16mm colour and b/w film transferred to DVD
13min 30sec
Margaret Salmon
PS, 1998/2002
16mm b/w film transferred to DVD
8 minutes 13 seconds
installation view Witte De With, Rotterdam, 2007
Margaret Salmon
PS, 1998/2002
16mm b/w film transferred to DVD
8min 13sec
Margaret Salmon
PS, 1998/2002
16mm b/w film transferred to DVD
8min 13sec
Margaret Salmon
PS, 1998/2002
16mm b/w film transferred to DVD
8min 13sec
Margaret Salmon
Oyster, 2014 (fragment)
super 16mm film on HD, sound, 14 minutes 25 seconds
Born 1975, New York, USA. Lives and works in Glasgow.
EDUCATION
2003 | MA, Fine Art (Photography), The Royal College of Art, London, UK |
1998 | BFA (Photography), The School of Visual Arts, New York, USA |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 | Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK (forthcoming) Circle, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland |
2015 | Silent Cinema, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany |
2014 | Oyster, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium |
2013 | Pyramid, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium |
2011 | Margaret Salmon: Company (curated by Susanne Stich), Void Contemporary Art Gallery, Derry, UK Margaret Salmon, Artists Film Survey, ICA, London, UK Margaret Salmon (curated by Dominic Molon), Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, USA |
2010 | Afternoons have to do with the World, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium |
2008 | Projects in Art & Theory, Cologne, Germany The Moon is Down, STORE, London, UK Art Statements, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland |
2007 | Margaret Salmon, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Margaret Salmon, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK |
2006 | Ramapo Central, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 | Outdoor Living (curated by Jenni Crain and Carey Denniston), Rzeplinski, Brooklyn, USA |
2016 | The People’s Cinema, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria |
2015 | Dredgers on the Rail (curated by Tyler Murphy), Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles, USA Station to Station, Barbican, London, UK |
2014 | Attention Economy, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria Videogud, Smedjebacken, Sweden Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, UK Total Art: Contemporary Video, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., USA Out of Site: Co-commission with Animate Projects, Peer, London, UK |
2013 | Salon Der Hoffnung, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria 1966-79, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, France Filmprogramm Minutes (1): Constructedness of the real, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany Exposition Collective (curated by Laurent Montaron), Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, France Paint it Black, Le Plateau, Paris, France |
2012 | The Human Board (curated by Michel François), Centre Photographique d’Ile-de-France, Pontault-Combault, France Coup Double, Frac Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France |
2011 | Les Marques Aveugles (curated by Katya Garcia-Anton and Emilie Bujes), Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneve, Geneve, Switzerland Past Desire (curated by Jürgen Tabor), Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria Livret III (curated by Magalie Meunier of Irma Vep Club), Motive Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 38 reasons why we still need Superman (curated by Tim Crowley), UCCA, Beijing, China Spectrums of Light (curated by Regina Barunke), Temporary Gallery, Cologne, Germany Now Showing 2, New Film and Video from the Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London, UK The Art of Narration changes with Time (curated by Gigiotto del Vecchio), Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany Elastic Frames (curated by Corin Sworn), Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK |
2010 | Berlin Biennale (curated by Kathrin Rhomberg), Berlin, Germany AbbaraCadabra (curated by Döne Otyam), Mardin Biennial, Mardin, Turkey Silver & Salt, The Sculpture Center/Anthology Film Archive, New York, USA |
2009 | Return to Form, STORE, London, UK Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong (with Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paul Chan, Gilbert and George, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Andreas Gursky, Pierre Huyghe, Jeff Koons, Bertrand Lavier, Christian Marclay, Richard Prince and Wolfgang Tillmans) UK Arts Council Show, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Leeds, UK |
2008 | Rooms Look Back, Rosa Barba, Ursula Mayer, Margaret Salmon, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland Intimacy, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Victoria, Australia Kunstverein Fur Die Rheinlande und Westfaalen, Dusseldorf, Germany Faces, GB Agency, Paris, France |
2007 | La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy You have not been honest: Contemporary film and video from the UK, Museo MADRE, Naples, Italy …what will be told of today tomorrow: KolnShow2, European Kunsthalle and Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany Raw, Irma Vep Lab, Chatillon sur Marne, France |
2006 | Archepology, Bureau Gallery, Manchester, UK Printemps de septembre,Fondation Espace Ecureuil, Toulouse, France |
2005 | The Mind is A Horse (Part 2), Bloomberg Space, London, UK |
2004 | New Contemporaries, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK New Contemporaries, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK Stalker, Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago, USA |
2003 | Summer Works, Alice Austin House Museum, Staten Island, USA Video Screening, Galerie Der Stadt Schwaz, Vienna, Austria Fair Play Video Festival, Play Gallery for Still and Motion Pictures, Berlin, Germany Video Screening 04, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria Photography for people, for us, Wallspace, New York, USA Urban and Suburban Stories, V.T.O., London, UK |
2002 | Beck’s Futures Student Film & Video Award Exhibition, ICA, London, UK Holiday Shopping, Wallspace, New York, USA Montebello Road, Wallspace, New York, USA BIG Magazine’s New Jersey Issue, Bronwyn Keenan, New York, USA Sledge, The Jam Factory, London, UK |
FILM FESTIVALS
2016 | London Film Festival, London, UK Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow, UK |
2011 | Sheffield Fringe, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Sheffield, UK Courtisane Film Festival, Ghent, Belgium Belfast Film Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland |
2010 | Ambulante Documentary Film Festival, Injerto Program, Mexico City, Mexico New British Film Festival, Moscow, Russia |
2007 | Depiction, perversion, repulsion, obsession, subversion, Witte de With & the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands |
2003 | Portobello Film Festival, Westbourne Studios, London, UK |
AWARDS/RESIDENCES
2007 | The Vincent 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, longlist |
2006 | Le Prix Giles Dusein, Paris, France MaxMara Women’s Art Prize, in association with the Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK American Academy in Rome, Artist Residency, Rome, Italy Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Artist Residency, Biella, Italy |
2002 | 2nd Prize, Beck’s Futures Student Film and Video Award, I.C.A., London, UK |
2000 | John Kobal Photographic Awards Exhibition, The National Portrait Gallery, London, UK |
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Arts Council Collection, London, UK
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C., USA
Frac Île-de-France, Paris, France
Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy


Invisible Dust will launch Shore with Margaret Salmon at Coast, Arran, Scotland
June 2018
Margaret Salmon: Eglantine at Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, UK
20 – 28 March 2018
Margaret Salmon at Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
16 February – 18 March 2018
Screening of Eglantine by Margaret Salmon in 13th Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de La Plata Festi-Freak, Argentina
13-21 October 2017
Margaret Salmon in Outdoor Living (curated by Jenni Crain and Carey Denniston) at Rzeplinski, Brooklyn, USA
30 September – 1 October 2017
Screening of Mm by Margaret Salmon at Festival of Artists’ Moving Image, The MAC, Belfast, Ireland
Friday 29 September at 4pm
Screening of Mm by Margaret Salmon at Berwick Film Festival, Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK
Saturday 23 September at 7pm
Screening of Eglantine by Margaret Salmon at Spike Island, Bristol, UK
Saturday 16 September 2017 at 7.30pm
Screening of Eglantine by Margaret Salmon at Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium
16 March 2017 at 8:30pm
Margaret Salmon is nominated for the Margarat Tait Award
Screening of Eglantine by Margaret Salmon at Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Thursday 9 February 2017 at 6pm
Screening of Oyster by Margaret Salmon at Tramway, Glasgow, UK
Thursday 8 December from 7 to 9pm
Screening of Eglantine followed by a Q&A with Margaret Salmon at ICA, London, UK
5 November 2016 at 5pm
Margaret Salmon in The People’s Cinema at Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
23 July – 11 September 2016
Margaret Salmon on The Burden of Representation? at Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds, UK
Saturday 9 July 2016 from 3pm to 5pm
Preview of Eglantine and Q&A with Margaret Salmon at Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Saturday 5 March 2016
Screening of Eglantine by Margaret Salmon at the Glasow Film Festival, Glasgow, UK
Saturday 27 February at 5pm
Screening of Bird by Margaret Salmon at Tate Brintain
Monday 8 February 2016 at 7pm
Margaret Salmon shortlisted for the Jules Wright Prize
Screening of Oyster by Margaret Salmon at Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
26 November 2015 from 8pm till 12am
Margaret Salmon in Dredgers on the Rail (curated by Tyler Murphy) at Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles, USA
26 July 26 – 5 September 2015
Margaret Salmon in Station to Station, Barbican, London, UK
26 June – 27 July 2015
Screening of Housework by Margaret Salmon as part of An Antropomorphic Display at The Borough Road Gallery, London, UK
2 July 2015 7-8pm
Silent Cinema, Margaret Salmon at Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
3 February – 1 March 2015
Screening of Short Films by Margaret Salmon at Union Theatre, Milwaukee, USA
17 February 2015
Screening of Pyramid by Margaret Salmon at International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
25 january
Margaret Salmon screening and Q&A at Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
15 January 2015
Screening of Oyster by Margaret Salmon at Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
13 January 2015
Margaret Salmon in Total Art: Contemporary Video, at National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., USA
6 June – 12 October 2014
Presentation of Flip-book Workshop by Margaret Salmon at Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, UK
14 June 2014
Margaret Salmon in Attention Economy at Kunsthalle Wien
16 May – 9 June 2014
Screening of Oyster by Margaret Salmon at The Sea Cadets Hall, Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, UK
14 June 2014
Margaret Salmon in Total Art: Contemporary Video, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., USA
June 6 – 12 October 2014
Margaret Salmon in Videogud, Smedjebacken, Sweden
25 April 2014
Margaret Salmon in Out of Site at Peer, London, UK
16 January – 8 March 2014
Margaret Salmon in Assembly: For People at Tate Britain, London, UK
25 November 2013
Screening of Gibraltar by Margaret Salmon during the Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
7-17 November 2013
Screening of Gibraltar by Margaret Salmon during the London Film Festival, London, UK
15-18 October 2013
Screening of Gibraltar by Margaret Salmon during Nuit Blanche Paris at le Barraçao
5 October 2013
Margaret Salmon in 1966-79 at Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, France
23 May – 11 August 2013
Margaret Salmon in Paint it Black at Le Plateau, Paris, France
14 March -12 May 2013
Margaret Salmon in Filmprogramm Minutes (1): Constructedness of the real at Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
30 April 2013
Matt Turner, ‘Margaret Salmon in the round’, Sight and Sound, 10 March 2018
Alex Hetherington, ‘Margaret Salmon: Circle’, This Is Tomorrow, 27 February 2018
Margaret Salmon, ‘Bolex’, Spike Art Quarterly, Spring 2012
Isla Leaver-Yap, ‘Images from Life’, Spike Art Quarterly, Spring 2011
Gail Prentice, ‘Margaret Salmon: Company’, Art Monthly, May 2011
Bettina Brunner, ‘Margaret Salmon’, Frieze, November/December 2008
Christiane Hitzemann, ‘Margaret Salmon / Max Mara Art Prize for Women’, Style & The Family Tunes, 6 December 2007
Keely Griffiths, ‘Margaret Salmon: Understanding Relationships’, Aesthetica, 1 June 2007
Nick Hackworth, ‘Out of the Ordinary’, The Evening Standard, 1 February 2007
Rebecca Rose, ‘A lullaby with resonance’, The Financial Times, 29 January 2007
Iwona Blazwick, ‘Unfathomable, repellent, delightful’, The Guardian, 2006
Lisha Lilia Diu, ‘Stella Loves’, Stella, 21 January 2007
Tom Morton, ‘Celluloid portraits; time tears and suburbs; discord and repetition – Margaret Salmon’, Frieze, April 2005