2022

Ok! Cherub! Bluecoat, Liverpool

A/W 2022 Holden Gallery, Manchester, UK

Eye of Newt, Quad, Derby

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2021

Cruise 2021, Holden Gallery, Manchester, UK

Cruise 2021, Microneme, Wuhan, China

S/S 2021, STREAM, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK

Hot Air, Manor Place Warehouse, London

Eye of Newt Installation, OAF, Coal Drops Yard, Kings Cross, London

S/S 2021, Power, Curated by Andrea Hadley-Johnson, National Justice Museum

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2020

S/S 2020, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham

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2019

A/W Collection, Bacchanal, Kunstraum, London

Ningbo Cultural Expo, Ningbo, China

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2018

Isadora Curated by Susan Finlay, MoHA, Austin Texas

Bruce Asbestos A/W Collection 2018, Nottingham Contemporary

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2017

A/W Collection, Research, New York and Philadelphia 

Bonington Film Night #7, curated by ANNEXINEMA

 

2016

Bloc Billboard, Bloc Projects, Sheffield 
Plymouth Art Weekender, Main commission (As Reactor)

Weekend of Weird, Radar, Loughborough (As Reactor)

Mask - with Andrea Bergart, Jonathan Baldock, Frances Disley, Dave Evans, Justin Fitzpatrick, Hannah Knox, Plus Space, Coventry

IF A PAIR IS TWO, WHAT IS THREE? Harley Gallery, Nottinghamshire

SUNSCREEN - New Art Exchange, Nottingham

Of The Sea, Historic Dockyard Chatham, Kent

 

2015

Bruce Asbestos A/B Testing, Concrete, Hayward Gallery, London (solo)

British Moving Image in México, Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, Mexico City 

'The one where we wonder what Friends did', Oliver Braid, Wasps Studio, Glasgow

National Videogame Arcade / Game City - Minekraftwerk with Simon Raven, Beth Kettle and Tom Coogan 

MTN DEW, Commission by EM15 for ‘Sunscreen’, Venice Biennale

Faux Sho, curated by It’s All Tropical, Assembly House, Leeds

FR€€ THING$, curated by Jack Fisher at STCFTHOTS, Leeds

Dear Thoughtful, Charming Reader n0.4, HOAX Publication

 

2014

Social Media Takeaway Series Two, Bangkok, online

Is There WIFI? Cedar Lewisohn’s project space, London (solo)

A Union of Voices, curated by Tim Ellis, Horatio Junior, London

Sailor King, The King William IV, Nottingham

OTS/BLK, New College, Nottingham / Bergen

Mexico Members Exhibition, Leeds

Wysing Art Centre 25 Years, Publication

 

2013

Cardinal Keith O'Brien, Nottingham Contemporary (Performance)

Social Media Takeaway (13 Episodes) Derby Museum and Gallery, Derby

Out of this World, Syson Gallery, Nottingham

Embassy Annuale, Telfer Gallery, Edinburgh

Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh

LANparty,Two Queens, Leicester

Live Art Dogging, Reactor Halls, Curated by Daniel Oliver

 

2012

Reactor’s Function 6, Primary, Nottingham

Circle of Transcendence, Derby Museum and Gallery, Derby

Nottingham Trent MA Degree Show, Nottingham

Circle of Transcendence, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia

Open Ended Ending, Death Trap, Reactor Towers, Nottingham

Bruce Asbestos and John Harris, OTS, Nottingham

 

2011

An action, event or other thing that occurs or happens again, Nottingham

Quick Fox Jumps Over ­ EMVAN, Primary, Nottingham

Green Man & Regular Fellows, Trade, Nottingham

Agitprop! Project Space 11, Plymouth

YH485, Outpost's Summer Fayre, Norwich

2010 Sideshow, Black Swan 1#, 2#, 3# Gameshow, Tether, Nottingham

Big Lizards Big Idea, Reactor, Frankfurt and Newcastle

 

2005­-08

Ayling and Conroy, Collaboration

 

Commissions and Residencies

E­Flux cover design, for Nottingham Contemporary, Art Basel

Biocity Design Commission, Nottingham

Neils Post / Kunst en Complex, Rotterdam

 

Articles and Media

"This is Art for the social media age" The Stylist, Emerald Street

"Maybe Asbestos is playing the role of spectator and is waiting to see what the Internet will make of the extreme quantity of work"  VICE, The Creators Project

"The Asbestos website promises that the displays will be changed to reflect the public response to the show. If so, how will he deal with people behaving as if the café telly is

on the blink? " Mark Lawson, New Statesman

"Bruce Asbestos experiments with internet presence and social media to explore ideas of marketing and monitoring" Aesthetica Magazine

"it's like, about the internet and shit. Such modern" Crack Magazine

"...we were now firmly of the opinion that all art is tremendous...I watched, with creeping nausea, Mr Asbestos’ piece" Deserter

"Asbestos' love of pop culture has been evident throughout all of his recent work" Ouch Magazine

"Cheeky Digital Artist Bruce Asbestos" Double Negative

"Colourful bursts of internet carnage" FAD Website

 

Curating

Moot Gallery 2005-­6

My House Gallery 2005-­8

Trade Gallery 2010 -

 

Education

2011-­2 MFA Fine Art, RMIT Melbourne, Australia (2 Month Scholarship)

2012 MA, Distinction, Nottingham Trent University

2002 Arts Policy and Management : Musashino University, Tokyo (4 Month Scholarship)

2001­-4 Art BA Hons : Nottingham Trent University