CATHERINE YASS


courtesy Alison Jacques Gallery
Corridor Walk

Corridor Walk is a single take looking down at my feet pacing the length of a corridor in
Manhattan Psychiatric Centre.  My voice counts the steps in an attempt to measure its length.  
Perhaps I¹m trying to measure myself in relation to the building; trying to comprehend its scale,
which seems in a different register to mine.  It feels out of scale both physically and emotionally,
too big to establish any sense of myself.


Lives and works in London

EDUCATION  
1988 – 90        Goldsmiths College, London, MA Fine Art
1986 – 87        Boise travelling scholarship
1984 – 85        Hochschule der Künste, Berlin
1982 – 86        Slade School of Art, BA Fine Art                

SPECIAL COMMISSIONS
2003        Merce Cunningham, Split Sides, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York,
             touring to Paris, Seoul and Barbican, London. Still touring

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
     Alison Jacques Gallery, London
2006
     Galerie Lelong, New York
     Herzliya Museum of Modern Art, Israel
     Art Basel, Unlimited, Basel Art Fair
     Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam
2004
     Alison Jacques Gallery, London
2002
     Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London
     Descent, aspreyjacques, London
2001
     Star, National Gallery of Modern Art, Jaipur House, New Delhi;
     National Gallery of Modern Art, CJ Hall, Mumbai;
     Birla, Calcutta; Lalit Kala, Chennai
     Double Agent, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford
     Jerwood Gallery, London
     New Art Gallery, Walsall
     Synagogue, (Art in Sacred Spaces), The Congregation of Jacob, London
     Cell, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik
1999
     British Council Exhibition Space, Prague
     Project Space, Galeri Wang, Oslo
     Baths, The Pool, Central Club Hotel, London
1998
     Galería dels Angels, Barcelona
     Baths, Sabine Schmidt, Cologne
     Invisible City, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
1997
     Stage, Cell Space, Barbican Centre, London
1996
     Stall, Laure Genillard, London
1995
     Spectators, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
1994
     Chair, Viewpoint Photography Gallery, Salford
     Guy’s Cliffe, Herber Percy Gallery, Warwickshire
1992
     Laure Genillard, London
1991
     The Tavistock Centre for Psychotherapy, London

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
     Arts Council of England
     Biblioteca Albertina, Leipzig
     The British Council Collection, London
     Delfina Entrecanales, London
     Dundee City Council, Dundee
     Government Art Collection, London
     The Jewish Museum, New York
     New Art Gallery, Wallsall
     Public Art Development Trust, London  
     Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
     Tate, London