Charlotte Prodger

Charlotte Prodger (born 1974) is a British artist and film-maker who works with "moving image, printed image, sculpture and writing". Her films include Statics, SaF05 (2019), LHB (2017), Passing as a great grey owl (2017), BRIDGIT (2016), Stoneymollan Trail (2015) and HDHB (2012). In 2018, she won the Turner Prize.

Early life Prodger was born in Bournemouth in 1974. Between 1997 and 2001, she studied Fine Art (Studio Practice and Contemporary Critical Theory) at Goldsmiths, University of London, and between 2008 and 2010 she studied Masters in Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art.

Career Prodger works with "moving image, printed image, sculpture and writing". Her film BRIDGIT (2016) addresses issues of queer identity and was shot using an iPhone.

In 2017 Prodger undertook the Berwick Artists' Moving Image Residency, where she developed LHB, a new single-screen work for cinema that premiered at Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2017.

In 2018 she won the Turner Prize for an exhibition of BRIDGIT and Stoneymollan Trail at Bergen Kunsthall in Norway. Between 11 May – 24 November 2019 she was presented by Scotland + Venice at the Arsenale Docks as part of the 58th Venice Biennale. The work shown is the last of a trilogy that began with Stoneymollan Trail (2015) followed by BRIDGIT (2016). The work was curated by Linsey Young in partnership with Alexia Holt of Cove Park, where the work was developed.

She is represented by Hollybush Gardens, London and Kendall Koppe, Glasgow.

Films HDHB (2012) in collaboration with Corin Sworn – 10 minutes Stoneymollan Trail (2015) – 43 minutes BRIDGIT (2016) – 32 minutes Passing as a great grey owl (2017) – 6 minutes LHB (2017) – 20 minutes SaF05 (2019) – 39 minutes

Exhibitions Solo exhibitions handclap/punchhole, Kendall Koppe, Glasgow, 2011 Charlotte Prodger/Jason Loebs, Essex St, New York, 2012 Percussion Biface 1-13, Studio Voltaire, London, 2012 Sunday Art Fair, Kendall Koppe, London, 2013 Nephatiti, Glasgow International Director's Programme, 2014 Markets, Chelsea Space, London, presented by The Block, 2014 Frieze Art Fair, Koppe Astner, Randall's Island, New York, 2015 8004-8019, Spike Island, Bristol, UK, 2015 Charlotte Prodger, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Germany, 2016 BRIDGIT, Hollybush Gardens, London, 2016 SUBTOTAL, SculptureCenter, New York, 2017 BRIDGIT/Stoneymollan Trail, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway, 2017/2018 Colon Hyphen Asterix, Hollybush Gardens, London, 2018 Scotland + Venice, 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, 2019 Blanks and Preforms, Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland, 2021

Group exhibitions

What We Make With Words, CCA, Glasgow, 2011 Soundworks, ICA, London, 2012 Frozen Lakes, Artists Space, New York, 2013 Costume: Written Clothing, Tramway, Glasgow, 2013 Holes In The Wall, Kunsthalle Freiburg, 2013 Annals of The Twentieth Century, Wysing Arts, Cambridge, 2014 The Secret Life, Murray Guy, New York, 2015 An Interior that Remains an Exterior, Künstlerhaus Graz, 2015 British Art Show 8, Leeds Art Gallery, Edinburgh Inverleith House, Norwich University of the Arts, Southampton City Art Gallery, 2015 Weight of Data, Tate Britain, London, 2015 British Art Show 8, Leeds Art Gallery, Edinburgh Inverleith House, Norwich University of the Arts, Southampton City Art Gallery, 2016 Coming Out: Sexuality, Gender and Identity, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 2017 Turner Prize 2018, Tate Britain, London, 2018 Always Different, Always the Same: An essay on Art and Systems, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, 2018 Migrating Worlds: The Art of the Moving Image in Britain, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2019 Nine Lives, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, 2020 Dislocations, Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, 2021 Language Is a River, Monash University Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia, 2021

Collections Prodger's work is held in the following public collections: Arts Council Collection, UK: 1 film, BRIDGIT (as of December 2018)

Personal life Prodger lives and works in Glasgow.