RUTH LEGG Born – 1980, Hampshire, England Lives and works in the Netherlands ruthlegg@gmail.com
EDUCATION 2005-2007 MFA Fine Art – Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2001 BA (Hons) Sculpture (on 5 month exchange) - Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA 1999-2002 BA (Hons) Fine Art (Sculpture) - Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK 1998-1999 BTEC National Diploma in Art and Design – Leeds College of Art and Design, Leeds, UK
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2005 Vacant Shop Front (II), (part of EmergeD) Glasgow, UK Beloved Sister, Daughter and Mother, (an exhibition in a flat) Great George Street, Glasgow, UK 2003 Vacant Shop Front, (part of EmergeD) Glasgow, UK
GROUP EXHIBTIONS 2008 Art Sheffield 08, Sheffield, UK Getting a Hoek, Cacaofabriek, Helmond, NL 2007 Knowing Nothing of agility, Tent., Rotterdam, NL Normal Desires, Rm 103, Auckland, New Zealand 2006 Throughout the last century there has been many developments, De Veemvloer, Amsterdam, NL …- - - ….- - - -, (part of Cabin Exchange), Glasgow, UK 2004 An exhibition where everything happens – Twice, (an exhibition in a flat) Great George Street, Glasgow, UK Occupied, (Part of the Merchant City Festival) Glasgow, UK 2002 Accommodation, (organised by EmergeD) Glasgow Youth Hostel, Glasgow, UK Degree Show, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK
PUBLICATIONS 2007 Use Me Up, Jan Verwoert, Metropolis M (February 2007) 2004 Tutu Publications www.tutuprojects.org
WORKSHOPS 2006 Art and its institutions, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria, guided by Nina Moentmann 16mm film workshop, WORM Rotterdam
EVENTS 2007 India Song (Performance with Katarina Zdjelar as part of If I Can’t Dance…), Huis a/v Werf, Utrecht, NL 2004 I dream of Canada (Performance with Reader part of ‘The magic of real life in real situation’) www.fishandgame.org.uk CCA, Glasgow, UK The Little Death Sequence (video screening) Lab Night, CCA, Glasgow, UK 2003 Pink and Blue (video screening) Lab Night, CCA, Glasgow, UK
RELEVANT JOBS 2002-2005 Gallery Assistant CCA, Glasgow, UK 2004 Committee Member Market Gallery, Glasgow, UK www.marketgallery.org.uk 2002 Events Assistant Zenomap (Scottish entry into Vienna Biennale 2002) Glasgow, UK www.zenomap.org 2002-2004 Establishing Member, EmergeD, Glasgow, UK www.emerged.net