b. 1978, Swansea, UK
Lived and worked in London since 2001

Education

2006-2007 MA Contemporary Art Theory, Goldsmiths College
1998-2001 BA Fine Art, University of Derby

Exhibitions

2008
Dave Ball: How to Live, solo show at Galerie Art Claims Impulse, Berlin
Navigator, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
The Mausoleum of Lost Objects, InIVA, London
Closing Down Sale, Another Roadside Attraction Gallery, London
If You Build It They Will Come, g39 Gallery, Cardiff
Won't Get Fooled Again, Cafe Gallery Projects, London
2007
Disposable Fetish, The Nunnery Gallery, London
Temporary Measures, Associates Gallery, London
In Their Own Words, The End Gallery, Sheffield
Hung Drawn Quasi Stellar Object, Portman Gallery, London
Experience: The Image, Nolias Gallery, London
In Their Own Words Too, Merchants Warehouse, Manchester
2006
Teetotum, Fold Gallery, Cumbria
Eco Vandalism, Sydenham Hill Woods, London
Beneath, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
Normalife Unlimited, Neal's Yard, London
2005
Service Not Included, ADi Gallery, London
Waygood International Art Fayre, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle
The Working World, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
Deptford X Open Season, Astra House, London
25 (25th anniversary show), Exposure Gallery, Swansea
About Face, Euroart Gallery, London
2004
Love N Bullets, Transition Gallery, London
Fifty Come, Fifty Hung, Campbellworks, London
Kick Start: A Vision in Art Showcase, Start Woolwich, London
Stuffestrade, Cart Blanche (mobile gallery project), London
Damn Fine Cup Coffee, Rowse Close, London
Flat, Hackney Road, London
2003
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London
The Joy of Kitsch, Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Carmarthen
picsel+, Queen Street display screen & g39 Gallery, Cardiff
Surface Gallery Open Show, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2002
Nature Selected Them for Extinction, Charlton Bonds Building, Newcastle
2001
After the Umbilical Cord Was Cut Somebody Smacked My Arse and I Began to Breathe, Britannia Mill, Derby
Berlin Revisited, Banks' Mill, Derby
2000
Second Sight, Regent's House, Derby

Screenings

2008
Speed is Open, Bearspace, London
Plus 3 Ferris Wheels, Richmond Center Art Galleries, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo MI, USA; [touring to] University at Buffalo Center for the Arts; Smart Wall, Alfred University School of Art & Design; Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University; Hiram Van Gordon Gallery, Tennessee State University; The University of Connecticut
2006
Irrational Reels, Rational Rec at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, London
Art Video Screenings, Village, Västerås, Sweden
2005
SSA 2005, Royal Scottish Academy Galleries, Edinburgh
Eat Art, Riverhouse Barn Gallery, Surrey
Max5, Cafe Gallery Projects, London
2004
Max10, Falmouth Arts Centre, Falmouth
Island Art Film & Video Festival '04, Prenelle Gallery, London
Max5, Cafe Gallery Projects, London
Video Screenings, Escape Bar and Art, London
Max10, The Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance
Slack Video, The Lamp, Hull
2003
made@home, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
Purescreen, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
picsel+, Queen Street display screen & g39 Gallery, Cardiff
Lux Open, Royal College of Art, London
Max5, New Foundry, London
2002
Tabula Rasa, various locations in Croydon, London
Nothing Serious, Cube Cinema, Bristol
Island Film & Video Festival, Prenelle Gallery, London
2001
Models of Practice, Dilston Grove, London

Curatorial Projects

2008
Ha Ha Road; group show based around the notion of humour as a "rupture of sense"
2006
Coryat's Crudities, various locations in Nottingham; Discotheque project exploring notions of tourism, using the suitcase as a central motif
The Wisdom of Solomon, Neal's Yard, London; Discotheque project based on the production of a series of collaborative works made by splitting and rejoining existing works
2005
The Glorious Twelfth, Deptford X, London; Discotheque investigation into the implications of an urban recontextualisation of a traditional grouse hunt
Strangers on a Train, London to Newcastle train route; travel and exchange project
One and Three, Euroart Gallery, London; Discotheque interactive installation
2004
Damn Fine Cup of Coffee, Acme Studios, London; Discotheque group show
Flat, Hackney Road, London; Discotheque group show
2003-04
Group discussions initiated with a view to forming an art collective

Residencies

2009
Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, Germany; grant awarded for 3-month residency
2008
Galerie Art Claims Impulse, Berlin; six-week residency followed by solo show
2006
Fold Gallery, Cumbria; part of Teetotum series of artists' residencies

Awards

2008
Shortlisted for New Contemporaries 2008
2006
Open Frequency; practice profiled as part of Axis's survey of new developments in contemporary art www.axisweb.org/openfrequency
2005
NAN bursary for Strangers on a Train project

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