Born          
Merseyside, 1965
Lives in Glasgow

Education                                    
Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, B.A. (Hons)
Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, M.F.A.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2013
Pearl Lam, Shanghai, China

2012                                                      
Blum and Poe Gallery, Los Angeles 
Dresden, Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland

2011                                                     
Le Temple, Paris 

2009                                                     
'Lions After Slumber', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow

2005                                                                        
The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
Daniel Hug, Los Angeles

2004                                                      
Sutton Lane, London 
Wrong Gallery, New York

2003                                                      
Gallery Yvon Lambert, Paris

2001                                                      
'Present Future', Artissima, Turin
'v.delay entain', Collective Gallery, Edinburgh 

2000                                                      
'VOGUE', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow

1998                                                      
'No Frills Public Sculpture', Kwik Save, The Gorbals

 
Selected Group Exhibitions

2010
Rubble Stir, The Glue Factory, Glasgow
Wayfinders, 135 Castlebank Street, Glasgow
White Columns 2010 Benefit Exhibition & Auction, White Columns, New York

2009
Sundown, Office Baroque, Antwerp

2007
Laying Bricks, Wallspace Gallery, New York
The Saw Show, Finneston Saw Doctors, Glasgow2006
All That Is Solid Melts into Air, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou

2004
Transmission, Kunstverein Graz, Austria
Gertcha!, flat show, Glasgow
The Birthday Party, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
Tonight, Studio Voltaire, London

2003
Wight Biennale, UCLA
Contemporary Abstraction, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
Plunder: Culture as Material, DCA, Dundee
Primary Colours, City Gallery, Leicester

2002
Roma Roma Roma, Rome
Air Guitar, Milton Keynes Gallery
Half the World Away, Hallwalls CAC, Buffalo
Happy Outsiders, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw

2001
Vilma Gold, London
Circles °4, ZKM Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe
Here and Now, DCA & Generator Projects, Dundee
Noir, Transmission, Glasgow
October, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow
Songs of Love and Hate, Galerie Weiland, Berlin

2000
Country Casual, B16, Birmingham
Deep in This Custard, Changing Room, Stirling
Modell; modell, NAK, Aachen
Tonight, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow

1999
Vienna Art Fair, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
BSOH, The Bond Gallery, Birmingham
Citizen 2000, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
Museum Magogo, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow
Networking, P-House, Ebisu
What it is, what ain’t ain’t nothing, Fly, Glasgow

1998
Browsing, The Changing Room, Stirling
Lapland@, The British Council, Edinburgh
Text Aviary, White Room, Glasgow
The Bible of Networking, Sali Gia, London
The Janus Programme, Transmission, Glasgow

Catalogs and Publications

2011                                                      
Michael Wilkinson: 1979. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2011.

2009                                                      
Lions After Slumber, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow

2003                                                      
The 2003 Wight Biennial Catalogue, University of California, California

2002                                                      
Air Guitar: Reconsidering Rock Music, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes
Happy Outsiders from London and Scotland, Zachęta Państowowa Galeria Sztuki, Warzsawa

2001                                                      
Here and now: Scottish Art 1990 - 2001, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
October, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow
PRESENT FUTure ARTissima, Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin

Articles and Reviews

2013
Gaskin, Sam. "Michael Wilkinson Reflects on Repression, the Boston Bombings, and Pink Floyd in China." Blouinartinfo.com, April 19, 2013.

2012
Wagley, Catherine. "Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the LACMA Rock's Debut," LAWeekly.com, June 20, 2012.
Mizota, Sharon. "May 1968, sans the Excitement," Los Angeles Times, June 15, 2012. 

2010          
Fisher, Mark. "Militant Tendencies Feed Music," New Statesman, March 29, 2010.                  

2007                                    
Coburn, Tyler. "Build It High: Laying Bricks." Art Review, no. 13 (July-August 2007): 28.
Smith, Roberta. "In These Shows, the Material is the Message," New York Times, August 10, 2007.

2006                                    
Holte, Michael Ned. "Micheal Wilkinson." Artforum 44, no. 5 (January 2006): 230.

2005                                   
Jeffery, Moira. "It’s Truly an Education," Herald, January 7, 2005.
Reynaud Dewar, Lili. “So What.” 02, no. 33 (2005).

2004            
Bagner, Alex. "A Chimp off the Old Block." Wallpaper (May 2004).

2003                                    
Dallas, Sorcha. "Contemporary Abstraction," List, July 31, 2003.

2002
Reynaud Dewar, Lili. “The Modern Institute: quand la logique est bonne.” 02, no. 22 (2002): 12-13.

2001
Calcutt, John. "Michael Wilkinson, Janice McNab, Peter McGoldrick," Scotland on Sunday, January 28, 2001 .
Harald, Fricke. "Songs of Love and Hate." Artforum 40, no. 2 (October 2001): 168.                      
Monhagen, Helen. "Peter McGoldrick, Michael Wilkinson and Janice McNab," The List, (February 2001).
Tufnell, Rob. "Michael Wilkinson." Frieze, no. 58 (April 2001): 103-104.

2000                                   
Jeffery, Moira. "Deep in this Custard," List, March 2000.
Kane, Chris. "How I Took on the Art Bullies," Stirling Observer, February 23, 2000.