Solo Exhibitions:
2018 - While England Mourns, Touchstones, Rochdale
2017 - Thomas Bell Ale, Portland Basin Museum, commissioned by Arts&Herritage
2015/16 - B/Q- Roland Barthes and Magnus Quaife, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
2014 - Like a Child Running a Stick Along a Fence, WORKS|PROJECTS, Bristol
2012 - 1968 & other Myths, WORKS|PROJECTS, Bristol
2010 - The Cooperative, Liverpool Biennial Fringe
2008 - As long as the pain lasted, The International 3, Manchester
2005 - Magnus Quaife, The International 3, Manchester
2004 - Magnus Quaife Plays the All year Round Club, Manchester
Group Exhibitions:
2018
C.R.McBerny, Berlin
C.R.McBerny, Manchester
Time Tunnel, Liverpool
2017
Fully Awake, Blip Blip Blip, Leeds
2015
One of Those, Curated by Robert Carter
2014
Detail, H Project Space, Bangkok; Usher Gallery, Lincoln; Transition Gallery, London
About Face, Swindon Museum
2013
Schools of Art, Octagon Gallery, Dresden
5 Places, Langford 120, Melbourne, Australia
Fight, Rogue Project Space, Manchester
2011
A Fire in the Masters House is Set, Chapter, Cardiff
Vinyl Art Space, Birmingham
Spike Island Zine Fair, Bristol
The Event, Lombard Method, Birmingham
Bloom, Lombard Method, Birmingham
2010
Malgras|Naudet, Sideshow Artist’s book and zine fair, Nottingham Take Over, Bury Art Gallery & Museum, Bury
Malgras|Naudet Summerhouse, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester,
A Theatre to Address, Arnolfini, Bristol
Bloom, Bury Art Gallery, Bury
Meanwhile, Lombard Method and Grand Union, Birmingham
Unrealised Potential, Cornerhouse, Manchester
2009
Not at this address, Bury Art gallery and Museum, Bury
Abstract Cabinet, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
All Change, the Royal Standard, Liverpool
Deshenos (Drawings A to Z), Museu da Cidade, Lisbon
2008
This is the gallery and the gallery is many things, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
Let me tell you a story, Porta 33, Funchal
o-p-e-n-e-n-d-e-d, Rhys and Hannah Presents, Bristol
ROTATE, Contemporary Art Society
2007
International Enquirer – Art Gene, Barrow In Furness
Rockridge, The Embassy, Edinburgh
2006
Post Notes, ICA, London and Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
Curatorial Projects:
2017 – The Great Medical Disaster, Project Space, Manchester UK
2013; Schools of Art, HfBK Dreseden and Manchester School of Art
2011 – 2014; Curator/Director, Malgras|Naudet, Manchester
2009 – 2011; Curator, Rogue Project Space, Manchester
2006 – 2009; Curator/Director, The Blackpool Museum of Contemporary Art
2001 and 2009; this way up, Holden Gallery Manchester and Eastside Projects Birmingham
Essays and Publications:
Teaching Painting: How Can Painting Be Taught in Art Schools? Black Dog.
Chris Hawtin: The Unity Engine and Other Storiesat ArteLounge Lisbon, Review Published in ArtES, Spain.
I am Spartacus: LEE JOSS at the end of the end of the art world. Published in Microstoria: A Micro History of Curating, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh.
HEY, AUDIENCE! YOU DO THE FUCKING WORK: Helen and Lois’ Hype Machine. exhibition essay for Cornerhouse exhibition.
TROY IS A HORSE: Bristol Diving School v.2.0.1 and the crisis of collaboration. Catalogue essay for the exhibition Mandelbox at Kunsthaus Graz.