Agil Abdullayev b. 1992

Selected Solo/Duo Exhibitions

 

2023 Changing room, The Why Not Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

2022 Rewriting Childhood (with Farhad Farzali), Gazelli Art House, Baku, Azerbaijan
2018 Shy boy of the pink future, Curated by Anna Fech, Artim Project Space, Baku, Azerbaijan

2018 Watch in a bright room and at a safe distance from the TV! (with Wendy Asumadu) Curated by Harry Meadley, The Trophy Room, Liverpool, UK
2017 Come dance with me (with Francis Madders) Lofthouse, Nottingham, UK
2012 I go out by myself, Bisque Gallery Space, Baku, Azerbaijan

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

 

2023 VerbivocoVirtual Pavilion, The Wrong Biennale
2023 Pink Black, Painting Museum, Baku, Azerbaijan
2023 Preserved Nature, National Arts Museum, Baku, Azerbaijan
2023 After Hope: Videos of Resistance, Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts, USA
2023 Play and loop IV, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong | curated by Nick Yu

2021 New Horizons, The Writer’s House, Tbilisi, Georgia

2021 Haft Paykar, Kapellhause, Goethe Institut, Baku, Azerbaijan. Curated by Alfons Hug

2021 Do Not Run! This is Only a Mirage You See, ARTIM Project Space, Baku, Azerbaijan. Curated by Zahra Mammadova

2021 Finding properties of the illusion, Bugada & Cargnel, Paris, France  
2021 Individually thinking, collectively working, Copperfield, London, UK
2021 After hope, Curated by Viv Liu, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, US 
2020 Off the velvet chest, Curated by Asli Samadova | Smena | Kazan, Tatarstan
2020 Two snaps of the post-modern society (solo presentation), Salaam Cinema, Baku, Azerbaijan
2019 Off the velvet chest, Curated by Asli Samadova. Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2019 That’s why I don’t hang out with cool kids (As part of the public program of performances of Zadie Xa’s solo show “Child of Magohalmi and the Echoes of Creation”), Yarat Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan
2019 F®ictions, DIY Space for London, UK
2019 Across the mountains: South Caucasus Photography (as part of Tbilisi Photo Festival),
MOMA, Tbilisi, Georgia
2019 Forget what you know, see who I am, Artim Space, Baku, Azerbaijan
2019 There will be different tomorrow (Video Vortex), Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, Malta
2019 To be a woman (as part of Tbilisi Art Fair), HIVE Space, Tbilisi, Georgia
2019 For the time being, curated by RCA CCA, Photographers Gallery, London, UK
2019 On tip of other tongues, Artim Project Space, Baku, Azerbaijan
2019 Becoming, Freehold Projects, Leeds, UK
2019 Hometown Weather, Salaam Cinema, Baku Azerbaijan
2018 New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London, UK
2018 Where are you at these interesting times?, Scaffold Gallery, Manchester, UK
2018 Fluid Sense of Presence, Attic Space, One Thoresby Street, Nottingham, UK
2018 lgbt+f: planet 2028, Curated by Seema Mattu (TOMBOY), LUX, London, UK
2018 New Contemporaries, Liverpool School of Art & Design, Liverpool John Moores
University, UK
2018 Capitalism stole my virginity, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2017 The 15 Cmdments, Curated by Sid and Jim, The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale, Online
2017 Repost_Modern, Curated by Tyler Robarge, Omni Modern Gallery, Online

2017 Is this real lyf ??, Curated by Stacey Davidson, B&D Studios, Newcastle, UK
2017 Boys don’t cry, Curated by Anna Fech, Artim Project Space, Baku, Azerbaijan
2017 Howz Sho, Alternative art location, Sneinton, Nottingham, UK
2017 Film free and easy, Primary Contemporary Art Space, Nottingham, UK
2016 Future Late, Tate Modern, London, UK
2016 Film free and easy, Primary, Nottingham, UK
2015 Limit to transit, Kicik Qala Art Gallery, Baku, Azerbaijan
2014 Astar, Curated by Nailya Allakhverdieva, 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young
Art, YARAT Pavilion at Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia


Awards


2019 Fellowship by Art Prospect, CEC Artlink, Russia/USA
Short course grant by BKA Eastern Europe, Salzburg, Austria
Individual project grant by Swiss Cooperation Office. Baku, Azerbaijan
2018 Studio bursary by One Thoresby Street. Nottingham, UK
Artist of the month, TOMBOY LTD, London, UK

 

Education

 

2023 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2018 BA Fine Art (First Class Honors), Nottingham Trent University, UK
2015 Foundation of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent International College, UK
2012 BA Computer Engineering, Qafqaz University, Azerbaijan