Michael Lacey
hello@michael-lacey.co.uk
Artist / Curator
b. 1985
Bookshop & Community Manager, Dead Ink Books, 2023 - present
Director of OUTPUT Gallery 2021 - present
Gallery coordinator, Bluecoat 2017 - 2019
Founder / co-curator Little Man Gallery 2016 - 2018
Lecturer in Art & Design, City of Liverpool College, 2019 - 2021
Glasgow School of Art, Painting & Printmaking, 2009
PGDE Further Education, Hope University, 2020
Solo Exhibitions
Michael Lacey - OUTPUT Gallery, Liverpool, 2018
A Hole, A Mountain - A Small View, Liverpool, 2016
New Mythologies - Editions, Liverpool, 2015
Explorers - Arena Studios & Gallery, Liverpool, 2012
Innards - Pipe Factory, Glasgow, 2012
Group Exhibitions
The John Moores Painting Prize - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2023
Shuffle Selects - Roscoe Street, Liverpool, 2022
Now We're Talking - The Pie Factory, Margate, 2020
A Little Painting Show - OA Studios & Gallery, Manchester, 2019
Liverpool, 2028 - Dot-Art Gallery with Bido Lito, Liverpool, 2019
Light Blue - The Royal Standard, Liverpool, 2019
A Little Painting Show - Arena Studios & Gallery, Liverpool, 2018
The Garden of Resistance - Metal, Liverpool, 2017
The Sound Of Grown Up Children Determined Not To Be Afraid - ICW, Blackpool, 2017
Life Babies - 12o Collective, London, 2016
New Paintings - Washington Boardroom, Glasgow, 2016
Liverpool Open - Editions, Liverpool, 2015 (awarded first prize)
Bam Bam Bam - The Royal Standard, Liverpool 2016
Incubarte 7 - Valencia, 2015
Lustre Fabrics - Saltaire Arts Trail, 2015
Pure Ideology Personal Brand Workshop - LEGION TV, London, 2014
Associate Artists - Trispace Gallery, London, 2014
Not Arsed - Drop the Dumbulls, Liverpool, 2013
After The Flood - Mello Mello, Liverpool, 2013
Fantastic Beasts - Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow, 2010
RSA New Contemporaries - Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2010
Glasgow School of Art Degree Show - Glasgow School of Art, 2009
Commissions
40th Anniversary Mural - Ubiquitous Chip, Glasgow, 2011
Book covers for Dead Ink Books:
- The Night Visitors - Jenn Ashworth & Richard V. Hirst, 2017
- The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas - Daniel James, 2017
- Guest - SJ Bradley, 2017
- Three Dreams in the Key of G - Marc Nash 2017
Residencies / Publications
Remote Residency - METAL Liverpool, 2021
Online residency - The White Pube, 2020
Tameside Archive Centre (supported by Greater Manchester City Council), 2019
The Cockeyed Turkey Activity Book, Risotto Press, 2011
Innards - 20 page comic book commissioned by Yuck'n'Yum, 2011
Writing
Mountain Man - Short story for Hoax Publication, 2020
Gated Community - co-writer with Laura Yuile, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (online programme), 2020
Down The Black River - essay for symposium on Crime Fiction at Bluecoat, 2015
Other
Artist's Mentor - Blue Room, Bluecoat, 2022
Instagram Live Interview with Zarina Muhammad, Pages Of Hackney, 2021 Curatorial Projects For OUTPUT Gallery 2023: 2022: 2021: Phillip M Williams, Spare Room Residency, 2018 Other Situational Aesthetics - Air Space, Liverpool, 2014 Events programmed at Dead Ink Bookshop 2023:
Tzuzjj - Crit-a-Oke - Performance lecture, Bluecoat, Liverpool 2016
Artist talk at Liverpool John Moore's University, 2013
Guest host: Rough Trade Irregulars on Soho Radio, 2023
Callan Waldron Hall & Jacques Verkade - say when you can feel it
Will Daw - God’s Toilet
Liverpool Improvisation Collective & Tommy Husband
OUTPUT Painting Open '23
OUTPUT Sculpture Open '23
OUTPUT Photography Open '23 (with Declan Connolly)
George Welch - The Cost of Living
Gareth Kemp - Brutal Abstraction
Zackarea Bakir - Shwaya, Shwaya
Howard & Honey Storey - Storeybookland
Zahra - Phantom Fairy Tales
Dreamchord - Soulweight
Ellie Hoskins - Everything! Is! Futile!
Ciaran Wood
Aline Costa & Tommy Husband - Unease
Kiara Mohamed Amin - Scouse Republic
Collected Postal Exhibitions
Victoria Opomu
Studio Me & You
Millie Chesters
David Blandy, Gabrielle de la Puente & Harriet Burns - Lost Eons: Haven of Aves
Golden Harvest Industries
Donal Moloney
Podge
Mali Draper & Dan Waine - Down Through The Clouds & Back Again
Radical Womxn’s Dance Party & C.A.P.E - Fire To The Prisons
Leo Fitzmaurice - Circus Goes Around
Hassnat Sikander
Sumuyya Khader
Aušra Kleizaite & Irene Izquierdo - The Architecture Of The Journey
Hilan Gully - Voices
OUTPUT Painting Open 2021
OUTPUT Video Open 2021
Leo Fitzmaurice - Circus Goes Around
The OUTPUT Radio Show on Melodic Distraction (1hr monthly episodes July 2022 - May 2023)
For Little Man Gallery:
Henry Yang, Space Studios, London, 2018
Human Pony, Make, Liverpool, 2017
Somnath Bhatt, 2017
Oscar Godfrey, A Small View, Liverpool, 2017
Luke Bird & Emma Ewbank
Alex Pheby
Alex Niven & Tom Hazeldine
Sophie K Rosa & Laura Yuile
Darren Coffield & Rose Ruane
John Reppion & Mark Penman
Preti Taneja & Priya Sharma
Polly Barton & Zarina Muhammad
Writing The Future - Dan Coxon & Oliver K Langmead
Pavement Plants workshop with Frances Disley
So Mayer & Joan Burnett
Jen Calleja & Robin Munby
Alison Rumfitt & Gabrielle de la Puente
Rachel O'Dwyer & Maitreyi Maheshwari
Lovecraft (gig)
