Margaret Salmon

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Margaret Salmon is a British based film maker-artist. The work of this New York-born filmmaker is fuelled by references to the great realist tradition in film, be it the propaganda documentary of the Farm Security Administration in the United States, Italian neorealism, or French cinéma vérité. Her subjects are taken from everyday life: people with modest incomes, showing their at once ordinary and dramatic lives. Salmon is particularly sensitive to interactions between the soundtrack and the image, which she use to produce disturbing effects that heighten the documentary sobriety of her films with a lyrical dimension. She films all her own work. She won the first MaxMara Art Prize for Women in association with the Whitechapel in London in 2006. The prize jurors included Turner Prize winner Gillian Wearing, Iwona Blazwick, gallerist Victoria Miro and Frieze editor Jennifer Higgie. She has a solo show at the Witte de With, Rotterdam starting in May 2007 and Margaret will be at The Venice Biennale from June 10th 2007. Margaret has also featured and been interviewed for BBC Radio 2's Woman's Hour, BBC2 TV's The Culture Show, W Magazine, Frieze Magazine, Guardian Newspaper, Telegraph Newspaper, The Independent Newspaper, FT Newspaper, The Times Newspaper, Corrirere della Sera Newspaper, BBC TV London's London Tonight show, British Vogue, Shattered Magazine, Evening Standard Newspaper, Style and Family Tunes (German Magazine), French TV, German TV among others and also was featured and interviewed in BBC Television documentary (by the Cinema Show) about Technicolor called 'The Wonderful World of Technicolor' in 2006. In the 2007 October issue of Modern Painters magazine she was a featured artist.

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Margaret Salmon was born in Suffern, NY, 35 miles north of New York City in 1975 and now lives and works in Kent in the U.K. She graduated from School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York with a B.A. in 1998 and received an M.A. from the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London in 2003. She won second prize at the Beck's futures student show at the ICA while at the Royal Collage of Art. She also appeared in the New Contemporaries shows at The Liverpool Biennial and Barbiacan in London in 2004. She also was the first recipient of the MaxMara Art Prize for Woman in association with the Whitechapel in 2006 which included a six month residency in Italy. She also won in 2006 the Paris based Art Prize 'Prix Gilles Dusein' in association with La Maison Européenne de la Photographie. Her solo show at the Whitechapel was in Time Out London's Top 5 Critics Pick. Margaret Salmon was a visiting artist/resident at The American Academy in Rome and Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella, in Italy during 2006 as part of winning the MaxMara Art Prize. Margaret Salmon is represented by STORE Gallery, London. She has just completed a British Council/Elephant Trust funded film 'Guns Trilogy'.

Margaret's solo exhibitions included;

2008 Store Gallery, London (late summer)

2007 Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (January-February 2007) Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (May to August 2007)

selected group shows and festivals;

2008 Irma Vep Lab, France Art Basel (Statements solo show) with Store Gallery (June) KUNSTVEREIN FÜR DIE RHEINLANDE UND WESTFALEN, DÜSSELDORF (summer) GB Agency, Paris (May)

2007 Film Screening, Rotterdam International film Festival (February 2007). KölnShow 2, Gisela Capitain Gallery, Cologne. (April to May 2007). 'You have not been honest' British Council Show, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina (Museo MADRE), Naples, Italy. Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense, Venice Biennale, Arsenale, Venice, Italy. The Maramotti Collection, Reggio Emilia, Italy (from September 20 for 2 years).


2006 Bureau, Manchester. Collective, Edinburgh. Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse (selected by Jean-Marc Bustamante).

2005 Mind is a Horse part 2, Bloomberg Space, London.

2004 New Contemporaries, Liverpool Biennial and Barbican, London.

2003 Play Gallery, Berlin. Martin Janda Gallery, Vienna. Becks futures student, ICA, London.

2002 Montebello Road, Wallspace Galley, New York.


COLLECTIONS British Council - (P.S.) Maramotti Collection (Ninna Nanna) Luis Vuitton (M 2007 & 2002)

[edit] Films of Margaret Salmon

Guns Trilogy (2008), M 2007 (2007), Ninna Nanna (2007), M 2003 (2003), Ramapo Cental (2003), Peggy (2003), P.S. (shot 1998 completed 2002)

[edit] Awards/Prizes

MaxMara Art Prize for Women in association with the Whitechapel 2006 (winner).

Prix Gilles Dusein in association with NSM Vie ABN AMRO and La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris. 2006 (winner)

Becks Futures Student Prize, ICA London. 2002 (2nd place)

Hospital Club Creative Award - Art , London 2007 (winner)

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