SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
2008
— Traceurs: to trace, to draw, to go fast, Chelsea FutureSpace, London, UK
— Layla Curtis, Ormeau Baths, Belfast, UK

2006
— Layla Curtis, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK
— Sky Drawings (Night, Day), commissioned by Vivid, Birmingham, UK
— Polar Wandering, Gimpel Fils, London, UK

2005
— Polar Wandering, www.polarwandering.co.uk, produced by Locus+, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
— NewcastleGateshead, commissioned by Locus+, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2004
— States of Mind, Rhodes + Mann, London, UK
— Message in a Bottle from Ramsgate to the Chatham Islands, commissioned by
Turner Contemporary, exhibited Droit House, Margate, UK

2002
— United European Union 2002, commissioned by La Page, Paris, France
2001
— Layla Curtis, Rhodes + Mann, London, UK
— Cab Gallery, commissioned by Cab Gallery, London, UK

2000
— Layla Curtis, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
— World Political, commissioned by David Blamey for Here, There, Elsewhere: Dialogues on Location and Mobility (publication)
— Northern Isle, Flux Based Gallery, Flux Magazine, Issue 18
— Up North, Projection Window, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
1999
— Mapping, Akiyoshidai International Arts Village, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
— Drawing: James Brooks, Layla Curtis, Claude Heath, Maria Lalic and Jem Southam, Madison, London
— Space Now, Space, London UK
— Art Futures, Bloomberg Space, London, UK
— Topographica, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, UK

2007
— Downstairs: Review, Gimpel Fils, London, UK
— Shifting Ground, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
— Art Futures, Bloomberg Space, London, UK
— The Opposite of Vertigo, The Drawing Room, London, UK

2006
— Living History, Tate Modern, London, UK
— Snowdomes, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK
— This Will Not Happen Without You, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK, touring to The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
— You’ll Never Know: Drawing and Random Interference, Hayward Gallery National Touring Exhibitions, touring to Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, UK; Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, UK; The Lowry, Salford, UK; The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK, and Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, UK
— Passionate Collectors, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK
— British Art 1500–2006, Tate Britain, London, UK
— Territory, University of the Arts Gallery, London, UK
— Culture Bound, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
2005
— Wunderkammer: The Artificial Kingdom, City and County Museum, Lincoln, UK
— Ars Electronica Festival for Art, Technology and Society, Linz, Austria
— 2005 Launch Programme, Vivid, Birmingham, UK
— Collection 2 Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Fondation d’Art Contemporain, Alex, France
— Post Notes, ICA, London, UK

2004
— De Leur Temps, Collections Privées Françaises, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tourcoing, Tourcoing, France
— Magic Don’t Happen by Magic, The Empire, London, UK

2003
— Collage, Bloomberg Space, London, UK
— A Bigger Splash: British Art from Tate 1960–2003, Pavilhão Lucas Nogueira Garcez-Oca, São Paulo, Brazil
— Post it, floating ip, Manchester, UK
— Blueprint Fakers & Citadel Makers, Comme Ca Art, Manchester, UK
— Collection Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Fondation d’Art Contemporain, France

2002
— The Map is Not the Territory Part 2, England & Co., London, UK
— Fabrications: New Art & Urban Memory in Manchester, CUBE, Manchester, UK
— The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2002, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, UK
— Oncethemostdenselypopulatedplaceonearth, floating ip, Manchester, UK
— Location: UK, Gimpel Fils, London, UK
— Here, There, Elsewhere, London Print Studio Gallery, London, UK
— Cab Gallery Retrospective 1999–2001, Essor Gallery Project Space, London, UK
2001
— East Wing Collection No. 5, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
— Landscape Encoded, Tate Modern, London, UK
— Gifts to Walsall, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK
— The Map is Not the Territory, England & Co., London, UK
— Double Take, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK
— Mostyn Open 11, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, UK

2000
— Nightclub Robberies, Rhodes + Mann, London, UK
— Fusion, Rhodes + Mann, London, UK
— The Armchair Project, Cinch, London, UK

1999
— The Office of Misplaced Events, Lotta Hammer, London, UK
— Brainstorm, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
— Newcontemporaries99, Exchange Flags, Liverpool, UK touring to Milch Gallery, London, UK

RESIDENCIES
2006/7
— London Underground, London, UK
— Kielder Reservoir, Kielder, UK

2005
— Artists and Writers Programme, Antarctica, jointly sponsored by the British Antarctic Survey and Arts Council England under the council’s International Fellowship Programme

2004
— Ramsgate Maritime Museum, in partnership with Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK

1999
— Akiyoshidai International Arts Village, Akiyoshidai, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & CATALOGUES
2008
— Mapping England, Simon Foxell, Black Dog, London, UK
— Traceurs: to trace, to draw, to go fast, Richard Grayson, Chelsea Space, London, UK
— Collage, Assembling Contemporary Art, Sally O’Reilly, David Lillington, Black Dog, London, UK
— Mapping London, Making Sense of the City, Simon Foxell, Black Dog, London UK

2007
— This Will Not Happen Without You, From The Collective Archive of The Basement Group, Projects UK and Locus+ (1977 – 2007) , Locus +, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

2006
— Layla Curtis, Sally O’Reilly and Matthew Hart, co-published by Locus+, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK
— New Art on View, New Art Gallery Walsall and the Contemporary Art Society, Scala Publishers Ltd., London, UK
— A Congregation of Vapours, David Barrett, Vivid, Birmingham, UK
— You’ll Never Know: Drawing and Random Interference, Henry Krokatsis and Jeni Walwin, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
— New Art from London, Chris Townsend, Thames and Hudson, London, UK
— All The Downtown Tories: The British Memorial Garden and English Grief, Matthew Hart, essay from Empire and After: Englishness in Postcolonial Perspective, Berghahn Books, New York, USA
— The Cartographic Uncanny: Layla Curtis and the Over-Coding of Britain, Matthew Hart, published on the occasion of the National Identities at the International Word and Image Conference in Philadelphia

2005
— Ars Electronica Festival for Art, Technology and Society, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
— Wunderkammer: The Artificial Kingdom, The Collection, Lincoln, UK
— Else/Where: Mapping, University of Minnesota Design Institute, Minnesota, USA

2004
— Collection 2, Fondation d’Art Contemporain, Alex, France
— Message in a Bottle from Ramsgate to The Chatham Islands, Jeremy Millar, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
— Whitstable Biennale, 19.06.04-04.07.04, Material, UK

2003
— A Bigger Splash: British Art from Tate 1960–2003, BrasilConnects, São Paulo, Brazil
— Regards Croises, Collection Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Fondation d’Art Contemporain, Alex, France

2002
— Fabrications, UmiM Publishing, Manchester, UK
— The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2002, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, UK
— Here, There, Elsewhere: Dialogues on Location and Mobility, Open Editions, London, UK
— Tim Marlow on Tate Modern, published by Spafax Publishing for Channel 5, London, UK
— The Map is Not the Territory, England & co., London, UK

2001
— The Map is Not the Territory, England & Co., London, UK

2000
— Orbis Terrarum, Ways of Worldmaking, Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp, Belgium
— Fusion, Rhodes + Mann, London, UK
— Chelsea MA Fine Art 2000, University of the Arts, London, UK

1999
— Newcontemporaries99, Manchester, UK
— Akiyoshidai International Art Village Residence Support Program 1998, AIAV, Japan

SELECTED REVIEWS
2008
— Martin Coomer, ‘Traceurs: to trace, to draw, to go fast’, Time Out, 9 June
— AP Maginness, ‘Polar Wanderings Result in a Unique Exhibition’, Irish News, 22 March

2006
— Sotiris Kyriacou, ‘Layla Curtis’, Art Monthly, June
— Elizia Volkmann, ‘Polar Wandering’, Flux, Issue 52
— Layla Curtis, ‘To the End of the Earth; Artists Story’, a-n, January
2004
— Martin Coomer, ‘Layla Curtis’, Time Out, 21–28 July
— Robert Hanks, ‘Pore over the map of the Human Heart’, The Independent on Sunday, 11 July
— Jessica Lack, ‘Preview Exhibitions’, The Guardian (Guide), 3–9 July
— Eliza Williams, ‘Collage’, Art Monthly, May
— Lauren Cochrane, ‘Bit Map’, TANK, Vol. 3, Issue 10, May

2002
— Eric Pfanner, ‘The East End Goes Mainstream’, The New York Times, 8 December
— Jo Manby, ‘Fabrications: New Art & Urban Memory in Manchester’, a-n, November
— Amber Cowan, ‘Amber Cowan’s Best Shows Nationwide’, The Times (Play), 7–13 September
— Phil Griffin, ‘Memory Lanes’, The Architects’ Journal, October
— Jonathan Scholfield, ‘On the Make’, City Life, 27 Sept - 10 October,
— Phil Griffin, ‘Art Review, Fabrications’, Metro (Manchester Edition), 11 September
— Rob Gregory, ‘Total Recall’, Building Design, Issue1546, 6 September
— Sue Steward, ‘The Map is Not the Territory Part 2’, Evening Standard, 15 October
— Jane Griffiths, ‘Layla Curtis’, Flux, Issue 33
— Martin Vincent, ‘Fabrications: New Art & Urban Memory in Manchester’, Art Monthly, October
— ‘Fabrications’, The Guardian Guide (Exhibitions), 7-13 Sept
— Jessica Lack, ‘Fabrications’, Exhibitions, The Guardian (G2), 16 September
— John Ross, ‘Artist to Paint Manchester’, Manchester Times (USA), 4 September
— Marcus Field, ‘Where are we? (er, in a gallery)’, The Independent on Sunday, 1 September
— John Dobson, ‘The Name’s the Same’, The Manchester Enterprise (USA), 22 August
— Martin Coomer, ‘Location UK’, Time Out, 21–28 August

2001
— ‘Layla Curtis Profile’, ZOO 11, December
— ‘In Un Mondo Senza Piu Confini’, Glamour (Italy) no. 117, November
— Karen Chung, ‘Topographic Designer’, Wallpaper, September
— Jim Healy, ‘The Map is Not the Territory’, Whats On in London, 1-8 August
— Sue Hubbard, ‘Pick of the Galleries’, The Independent on Sunday, 15 July
— Helen Sumpter, ‘Changing Places’, The Big Issue, 11–17 June
— Paul Clarke, ‘Whats On’, The Evening Standard, 14 June
— Michael Bracewell, ‘Culture Beyond the M25’, Royal Academy Magazine, Spring

2000
— Michael Billington, ‘Swapping Notes’, The Guardian (G2), 11 December
— Paul Usherwood, ‘Layla Curtis, Alison Turnbull, Richard Wright’, Art Monthly, October
— Niru S. Ratnam, ‘The Road to Nowhere’, The Face, October
— Charlotte Mullins, ‘Graduate Profile – Layla Curtis’, Art Review, October
— ‘Map Making’, a-n, October
— John Russel Taylor, ‘Nightclub Robberies’, The Times, (Around the Galleries), 6 September
— Charlotte Mullins, ‘The New Sensation’, Independent on Sunday, 20 August
— Samantha Ellis, ‘Nightclub Robberies’, Evening Standard (Going Out), 10 August
— Martin Coomer, ‘Fusion’, Time Out, June
— Deborah Schultz, ‘The Office of Misplaced Events’, Art Monthly, February

1999
— Mike Dawson, ‘Newcontemporaries’, Flux, Issue 16
— David Barrett, ‘Newcontemporaries99’, Art Monthly, November

SELECTED AWARDS
2005
— Prix Ars Electronica, Honorary Mention, Net Vision

2002
— Woo Charitable Foundation Bursary
— London Arts Board, Development Fund 2001 / 02 for Artists

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
— Tate, UK
— Government Art Collection, UK
— Tyne and Wear Museums, UK
— The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK
— University of Warwick, UK
— University of the Arts, UK
— Edinburgh College of Art, UK
— The World Bank, USA
— Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, France
— James Moores, UK
— London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
— Art Review, UK