Charlotte Prodger (born 1974) is a British artist and film-maker who works with "moving image, printed image, sculpture and writing". Her films include ''Statics'' (2021), ''SaF05'' (2019), ''LHB'' (2017), ''Passing as a great grey owl'' (2017), ''BRIDGIT'' (2016), ''Stoneymollan Trail'' (2015) and ''HDHB'' (2012). In 2018, she won the

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Early life

Prodger was born in

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in 1974. Between 1997 and 2001, she studied Fine Art (Studio Practice and Contemporary Critical Theory) at

Goldsmiths, University of London Goldsmiths, University of London, formerly Goldsmiths College, University of London, is a constituent research university of the University of London. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by ...

, and between 2008 and 2010 she studied Masters in Fine Art at the

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Career

Prodger works with "moving image, printed image, sculpture and writing". Her film ''Stoneymollan Trail'' is a compilation of scenes made since the late 1990s using "old camcorder, HD and more recent iPhone footage". Her film ''BRIDGIT'' (2016) addresses issues of queer identity and was shot using an iPhone. In 2017 Prodger undertook the Berwick Artists' Moving Image Residency, where she developed ''LHB,'' a new single-screen work for cinema that premiered at Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2017. In 2018 she won the

for an exhibition of ''BRIDGIT'' and ''Stoneymollan Trail'' at Bergen Kunsthall in

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. Between 11 May – 24 November 2019 she was presented by Scotland + Venice at the Arsenale Docks as part of the 58th Venice Biennale. As part of the Collateral Events, Scotland + Venice commissioned Charlotte Prodger to create ''SaF05'' (2019)'','' a new single channel video work to be screened across seven cinemas and art centres in Scotland. The UK premiere was held at The Tower Digital Arts Centre in Argyll & Bute on 27 June 2019. The work shown is the last of a trilogy that began with ''Stoneymollan Trail'' (2015) followed by ''BRIDGIT (2016).'' The work was curated by Linsey Young in partnership with Alexia Holt of Cove Park, where the work was developed. She is represented by Hollybush Gardens, London and Kendall Koppe, Glasgow.

Films

*''HDHB'' (2012) in collaboration with Corin Sworn – 10 minutes *''Stoneymollan Trail'' (2015) – 43 minutes *''BRIDGIT'' (2016) – 32 minutes *''Passing as a great grey owl'' (2017) – 6 minutes *''LHB'' (2017) – 20 minutes *''SaF05'' (2019) – 39 minutes

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

*''handclap/punchhole,'' Kendall Koppe, Glasgow, 2011 *''Untitled'', Intermedia CCA, Glasgow International, 2012 *Charlotte Prodger/Jason Loebs, Essex St, New York, 2012 *''Percussion Biface 1-13'',

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, London, 2012 *''Sunday Art Fair,'' Kendall Koppe, London, 2013 *''Nephatiti'', Glasgow International Director's Programme, 2014 *''Markets,'' Chelsea Space, London, presented by The Block, 2014 *

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, Koppe Astner, Randall's Island, New York, 2015 *''Stoneymollan Trail,'' Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, 2015 *''8004-8019'', Spike Island, Bristol, UK, 2015 *''Charlotte Prodger,'' Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Germany, 2016 *''BRIDGIT,'' Hollybush Gardens, London, 2016 *''SUBTOTAL,'' SculptureCenter, New York, 2017 *''BRIDGIT/Stoneymollan Trail,'' Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway, 2017/2018 *''Colon Hyphen Asterix,'' Hollybush Gardens, London, 2018 *Scotland + Venice, 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, 2019 *''SaF05'', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2021 *''Blanks and Preforms'', Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland, 2021

Group exhibitions

* ''What We Make With Words,'' CCA, Glasgow, 2011 * ''Soundworks,'' ICA, London, 2012 * ''Frozen Lakes,''

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, New York, 2013 * ''Costume: Written Clothing,'' Tramway, Glasgow, 2013 * ''Holes In The Wall,'' Kunsthalle Freiburg, 2013 * ''Annals of The Twentieth Century,'' Wysing Arts, Cambridge, 2014 * ''The Secret Life'', Murray Guy, New York, 2015 * ''An Interior that Remains an Exterior'', Künstlerhaus Graz, 2015 * '' British Art Show 8'',

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, Edinburgh Inverleith House,

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, Southampton City Art Gallery, 2015 * ''Weight of Data'',

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, London, 2015 * ''British Art Show 8'',

, Edinburgh Inverleith House,

, Southampton City Art Gallery, 2016 * Ewig Weibleche, Koppe Astner, Glasgow, 2017 * ''Coming Out: Sexuality, Gender and Identity'', Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 2017 * Turner Prize 2018,

, London, 2018 * ''Always Different, Always the Same: An essay on Art and Systems,'' Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, 2018 *''Migrating Worlds: The Art of the Moving Image in Britain'', Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2019 *''Nine Lives'', The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, 2020 *''Dislocations'', Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, 2021 *''Language Is a River'', Monash University Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia, 2021

Collections

Prodger's work is held in the following public collections: *

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, UK: 1 film, ''BRIDGIT'' (as of December 2018)

Personal life

Prodger lives and works in

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References

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