TANIAKOVATS

TaniaKovats,AlltheSea,2012-14;installationview,soloexhibition,TheFruitmarketGallery,Edinburgh,2014Tania Kovats first came to prominence when she won the Barclays Young Artist Award at the SerpentineGallery, London in 1991. She is renowned for producing sculptures, large-scale installations and temporalworkswhichexploreourexperienceandunderstandingoflandscape.Herworkwasthesubjectofamajorsoloexhibition at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh in 2014, encompassing sculptures and drawings whichexploredKovats'preoccupationwiththesea.Bestknownforherlarge-scaleworksinthepublicrealm,KovatsproducedTree (2009),apermanent installation for theNaturalHistoryMuseumwhereshe tooka thinslicefromtheentirelengthofa200year-oldoaktreeandinserteditintothemuseum’sceiling;andRivers(2012),installed in the landscape of Jupiter Artland outside Edinburgh, in which Kovats collected water from onehundredriversaroundtheBritishIslesandhousedthecollectioninaspeciallyconstructedboathouse.ShewasaRomeScholarintheFineArtsattheBritishSchoolatRomein1997-8andwonaCivicTrustAwardforheroutstandingcontributiontothequalityandappearanceoftheenvironmentin2000.Inthesameyear,KovatswasinvitedtocurateanexhibitionatIkonGallery,whichshecalledLOST.ShewasawardedtheHenryMooreDrawingFellowshipin2004andwasVisitingFellowattheSchoolofArchaeology,OxfordUniversityin2006. She has also recently completed a residency and commission for the Astronomy Department at theUniversityofCambridge. In2010,herworkwasthesubjectofamajormonograph,TaniaKovats,byJeremyMillarandPhilipHoare,publishedbyLundHumphriesandtheRuskinSchoolofDrawing.Kovats has shown extensively in the UK and abroad, with solo shows, in addition to those above, at theMuseum of Science and Industry,Manchester; Yorkshire Sculpture Park,Wakefield; Peer Arts, London andNewlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall. Group shows include those at BALTIC, Gateshead; Hayward Gallery, London;Tate Liverpool; V&A, London;MuseumOf Contemporary Art, Sydney; Kettle's Yard, Cambridge; KunstraumInnsbruck and ICA, London.Her sculptures anddrawings feature in numerous collections including theArtsCouncil Collection, UK; The British Council, UK; Speed Art Museum, Kentucky; Royal Museums Greenwich,London; Yale Center For British Art, New Haven; Government Art Collection, UK and the Victoria & AlbertMuseum,London.KovatswasnominatedfortheMaxMaraArtPrizeforWomenincollaborationwiththeWhitechapelGallery:6th Edition (2015-17). Shewas recently appointed Professor of Drawing at Bath SpaUniversity andwill beGuestCuratoratEdinburghInternationalBookFestivalinAugust2018.ShewillbepartofaforthcominggroupshowatModernArtOxfordandwillhaveasoloexhibitionofnewworkatBerwickVisualArtsin2019.

TANIAKOVATSBornin1966,London.LivesandworksinDevon,UK.Education1990 MA,RoyalCollegeofArt,London1988 BA,NewcastlePolytechnicSoloExhibitions2019 BerwickVisualArts2018 ExeterPhoenix2017 Bleached,HumberStreetGallery,Hull2016 Evaporation,MuseumofScience&Industry,Manchester2015 Watermark,PippyHouldsworthGallery,London Oceans,SidneyCooperGallery,Canterbury2014 Oceans,TheFruitmarketGallery,Edinburgh;HestercombeGallery,Taunton2011 LOG,BathSpaCollegeofArtandDesign,Bath2010 SmallFinds,SalisburyMuseum2008 TaniaKovats,CatchThis,ArtsCouncilofGreatBritainprojectspace,YorkshireSculpturePark2007 SmallFinds,PeerArts,London2004 Offshore,NewlynArtGallery,Cornwall Offshore,OrielMostynGallery,Llandudno,Wales2002 Slip,YorkshireSculpturePark,WestYorkshire2001 Schist,AspreyJacquesGallery,London1999 NewArtCentre,Salisbury1998 AspreyJacquesGallery,London TaniaKovats,GalleriaMarinaMarabini,Bologna1997 Erosion(withCarloGuiata),BritishSchoolatRome LaureGenillardGallery,London1995 LaureGenillardGallery,London1994 GaleriePhilipRizzo,Paris GalerieStaten,DenHaag,Netherlands1993 LaureGenillardGallery,London1992 Lokaal01,Breda,Netherlands1991 RiversideStudios,LondonGroupShows2018 FutureKnowledge,ModernArtOxford2016-18 CollectionDisplay,Queen'sHouse,RoyalMuseumsGreenwich2017 DrawingBiennial2017,DrawingRoomLondon Offshore,FerensArtGallery,Hull COMMAND-ALTERNATIVE-ESCAPE,SchoolforCuratorialStudies,Venice 5YearsatHeddonStreet,PippyHouldsworthGallery,London TheSea,HullMaritimeMuseum2016 Land,SeaandAir,NewArtGalleryWalsall2015 PeriodicElements,ComptonVerney,Warwickshire OneandAll,SomersetHouse,London VITAVITALE,PalazzoGrassi,VeniceBiennale2012 Galapagos,launchofinternationaltouringgroupexhibition,BlueCoat,Liverpool;TheFruitmarket

Gallery,Edinburgh;CAMLisbon,Portugal PertainingtoThingsNatural,ChelseaPhysicGarden,London Roots,GrizedaleArts,Northumberland2010 EdgeoftheWorld,RoyalBotanicGarden,Edinburgh,BritishCounciltouringshow

SoThatIMayComeBack,DanielleArnaudGallery,London Earthscapes,SherbourneHouseArts KlookKlook,TravellingGallery,Scotland2009 ADuckforMr.Darwin,Baltic,Gateshead TheWhiteShow,ArtsCounciltouringexhibition2006 You’llNeverKnow:DrawingandRandomInterference,HaywardGallery,London RepatriatingTheArk,TheMuseumofGardenHistory,London InternationalWaters,StevenWolfFineArts,SanFrancisco ArtatTheRockface,NorwichCityArtGallery2005 WildLandscapes,ComptonVerney,Oxford TabereiDeCreatieInternationale,MiercureaCiuc,Transylvania2004 DecelerationProject,London BadBehavior,ArtsCounciltouringshow OfftheBeatenTrack,LongsideGallery,YorkshireSculpturePark,WestYorkshire2002 MedicinePumpRooms,LeamingtonSpaArtGallery,Warwickshire2001 Landscape,BritishCouncilinternationaltouringexhibition CloseEncountersoftheArtKind,VictoriaandAlbertMuseum,London AtSea,TateGallery,Liverpool UnseenLandscapes,TheLowery,Salford2000 LOST,CuratedbyTaniaKovats,IKONgallery,Birmingham1999 ExplorationsoftheEnvironment:LandscapeRedefined,BarbaraGillmanGallery,Miami LemonTreeHill,AspreyJacquesGallery,London Realplaces?WestfalischerKunstverein,Münster Landscape,BritishCounciltouringexhibition LOST,CuratedbyTaniaKovats,IkonGallery,Birmingham1999 CognitiveLandscapes,GalerieDorotheeDePauw,Brussels ThinkingAloud,Kettle’sYard,Cambridge1998 IlPassatonelPresente,TheTannery,LondonandTurin NewArtFromBritain,KunstraumInnsbruck1997 Belladonna,ICA,London PicturaBritannica,MOCA,LosAngeles1995 HappySquirrel,ClubBank,Eindhoven ACE!,ArtsCouncilnewpurchasestouringexhibition,HaywardGallery,London GalerieUrsulaWalbrol,Dusseldorf StationTransformation,TelAviv Sculptor’sDrawings,NewlynArtGallery,Cornwall Fetishism,ArtsCounciltouringexhibition1994 ‘Appearances’,MassimoMininiGallery,BresciaPublicArtProjects2017 Commission,HullCityofCulture2015 OneandAll,NationalTrust2014 OneBillionObjectsinSpace,SpacexBarn,Cambridge2012 Rivers,commissionforJupiterArtland, Edinburgh Grain,commissionforWiltshireCountyHall Nowhereisland,commissionfortheSouthWestCulturalOlympiad2011 Habitat,IslingtonCouncilcommissionforCityRoadBasin,London2010 Birch,ContemporaryArtsSocietycommissionfortheCicelySaundersInstitute,London Holm,WondersofWeston,Weston-Super-Mare,NorthSomerset2009 Tree,permanentworkfortheNaturalHistoryMuseum,London2008 Root,ShadwellDLRStation,London2007 MuseumoftheWhiteHorse,touringexhibitiontoNaturalHistoryMuseum,London;PittRivers

Museum,Oxford;CheltenhamRaceCourse,Gloucestershire2006 Meadow,wildflowermeadowtransportedfromBathtoLondonviatheinlandwaterways2000 Sitooteries,BelsayHall,Northumberland1999 Contour,SecretGarden,Salisbury1998 Viewpoint,commissionatKielderWater,Northumbria Plinth,architecturalworkforIkonGallery,Birmingham1995 Garden,PublicArtDevelopmentTrust,London

Performance

2010 AlltheIslandsofAlltheOceans,RoyalGeographicalSociety,London2011 MobyDick,Chapter88SchoolsandSchoolmasters,collaborativeperformancereadingwork

organizedbywriterPhilipHoarePublications

2014 TaniaKovats.DrawingWater:DrawingasaMechanismforExplorationed.FionaBradley(Edinburgh:TheFruitmarketGallery,2014).

2010 JeremyMillerandPhilipHoare.TaniaKovats(OxfordandFarnham:RuskinSchoolOfDrawingandFineArt,UniversityofOxfordandLundHumphries,2010).

2005 TaniaKovats,ed.TheDrawingBook:ASurveyofthePrimaryMeansofExpression(London:BlackDogPublishing,2005).

AwardsAndFellowships

2015 NominatedforMaxMaraArtPrizeforWomen(2015-2017)LovelockCommission

2013/14 ArtistResidencyAstronomyDepartment,UniversityofCambridge2009 GuilbekianArtistResidencyProgram,theGalapagosIsles,Ecuador2006/7 VisitingFellow,OxfordUniversitySchoolofArchaeology,withaLeverhulmefundedresidency2005/6 VisitingResearchFellow,BathSpaUniversityoftheArts2006/9 VisitingResearchFellow,BristolSchoolofArt,MediaandDesign2004/5 HenryMooreDrawingFellowship,UWE,Bristol1999 RSAArtforArchitectureAward,IKONGallery,Birmingham

CollaborationwitharchitectsLevittBernstein1998 RSAArtforArchitectureAward,GreatNotelyPrimarySchool,Essex

CollaborationwitharchitectsAlfordHallMonahanandMorris1991 BarclaysYoungArtistoftheYearaward

SelectedBroadcastingAndDocumentaries

2009 TheDarwinianSistineChapel,BBCRadio4halfhourprogram,onthethinkingandconceptualcontextforTREE,broadcastApril2009

2007 TheMakingofTREE,ahalfhourdocumentaryvideomadebyindependentfilmmakerSallyWealeTheMuseumoftheWhiteHorse,adocumentaryfilmbyDavidBickerstaff

Collections

ArtsCouncilCollection,UKBritishCouncilCollectionContemporaryArtsSociety,LondonDocklandsLightRailwayCollection,LondonGovernmentArtCollection,UKHenryMooreInstitute,LeedsKingsHospital,LondonMellonCollection,YaleCenterForBritishArt,NewHavenNaturalHistoryMuseum,LondonRoyalMuseumsGreenwichSpeedMuseum,KentuckyVictoriaandAlbertMuseum,LondonWolverhamptonMuseum