EXHIBITION HISTORY

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