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Full Name
  
Mike Dawson

Name
  
Mike Chavez-Dawson

Nationality
  
British

Role
  
Artist

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Born
  
14 April 1974 (age 50) (
1974-04-14
)
Maidstone, Kent, England

Education
  
Manchester Metropolitan University

Mike chavez dawson making a poet rorschach as part of thank you for the names 2 2013


Mike Chavez-Dawson (born 1974 in Maidstone) is an English artist and curator.

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Life and career

Chavez-Dawson graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University, Interactive Arts BA (Hons) in 1997 and MA (Art as Environment) in 1999. He is attaining a PhD (by practice) research fellow at MIRIAD under the supervision of Prof. Jim Aulich and Prof. John Hyatt. He was the Visual Arts Editor for FLUX and founding curator for Flux Space.

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Chavez-Dawson's work covers a number of disciplines including fine art & design, performance, music, curating and publishing. Collaborating with artist Len Horsey, he has devised a variety of performance and multi-part works titled 'Artours' as live texts for numerous group exhibitions, projects and events.

The Guardian complimented the "imaginative flair" of Chavez-Dawson's curatorial work for David Shrigley. This exhibition supported Shrigley's nomination for the Turner Prize 2013.

Chavez-Dawson judged the neo:artprize 2013.

Works

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  • 2013-2014 'The Dark Would: Language Art Exhibition' (Group Show), Summerhall, Edinburgh
  • 2013 'Duchamps Ring by Mike Chavez-Dawson, 2013' Louisa Guinness Gallery, Miami, USA
  • 2013 'The Specter of Derrida' Islington Mill, Salford
  • 2012 'Re-Carrying the Frame / Part 1. LDP Associates' Manchester
  • 2012 'Paraphrase' (group show), Contemporary Six, Manchester
  • 2011 'Notational Portrait(s) Performance Fig.1 Billy Childish, 18032011', Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
  • 2010 'Apophatic Pareidolia is a condition...', BEARSPACE, London
  • 2010 'The Night of the Comet', British Art Show 7, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
  • 2010 'Re-Motive View(s), The Surreal House', Barbican Art Gallery, London
  • 2009 'Title Murdered', Storey Gallery, Lancaster
  • 2009 'Selling the Psycho-Geographical Breakdown', Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
  • 2009 'A bANdA dA' (Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009, Shezad Dawood Selects for Late at Tate Britain), TATE Britain, London
  • 2008 'The Remarkable Apperception, (The Market Place Requires Heykll & Jybe)', Embassy, Edinburgh, Scotland
  • 2008 'The Mind Projected Cinema', Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, Kent
  • 2007 'Mr. Nature-Bold as The Mariachi' (Feature - Shezad Dawood), Wysing Art Centre, Cambridge
  • 2003 'Essential Phenomena, (Lavish Conviction, Part 2)', VTO, London

    • Curated projects

  • 2012-13 David Shrigley: How are you feeling? Cornerhouse, Manchester
  • 2011 Magda Archer: Crazy Mad, Cornerhouse, Manchester
  • 2011 Re-Covering and The Reading, Untitled Gallery, Manchester
  • 2010 Unrealised Potential, Cornerhouse, Manchester
  • 2009 The Kiss of a Lifetime (Part 2), VANE (As part of the Northern Print Biennale), Newcastle

    • Publications

  • 2013 'The Dark Would: Language Art Anthology', Waldrop et al - Apple Pie

    • References

    Mike Chavez-Dawson Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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