Education
Lucy Skaer studied Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art from 1993 to 1997, graduating with a Bachelor with Honors.
Lucy Skaer studied Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art from 1993 to 1997, graduating with a Bachelor with Honors.
She currently lives and works in Glasgow and London. Skaer has exhibited sculptures, films, paintings, and drawings internationally. (She lost out to Glasgow-based artist Richard Wright).
Skaer has made a number of 16mm films with the British artist Rosalind Nashashibi including Flash in the Metropolitan in 2006, which depicts the artifacts and artworks of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as they appeared in a dimmed light of the museum interrupted by the flashes of a strobe.
The two have collaborated on the films Our Magnolia and Pygmalion Event, as well as several others Skaer is represented by Murray Guy in New New York
Exhibitions
52nd Venice Biennale, Scottish Show, 2007
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 2008
Turner Prize Exhibition, Finalist, 2009
"A Boat Used As A Vessel", Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, April 2009-June 2009. "Rachael, Peter, Caitlin, John." Location One, New York, 2010.
Rosalind Nashashibi/ Skaer, (collaborative films) Murray Guy, 2010
"Reanimation.
Nashashibi/Skaer." Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2010. The Centre Pompidou, 2010. "Film for an Abandoned Projector." Leeds, United Kingdom, 2011.
"Harlequin is as Harlequin Does." Murray Guy, New York, 2012.
"Scene, Hold, Ballast," SculptureCenter, New York, 2012. "Flash in the Metropolitan", Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2012.
"Lucy Skaer," Mount Stuart House, Scotland, June-October, 2013. "Lucy Skaer," Yale Union, Portland, Oregon, July-September, 2013.
She is a member of the Henry VIII’s Wives artist collective, and has exhibited a number of works with the group.