Calum Colvin

BIOGRAPHY

Born in Glasgow, 1961, Calum Colvin is a Scottish artist working in photography, painting and installation. He studied art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee before continuing his studies at the Royal College of Art, London.

Colvin’s practice focuses on the issues surrounding Scottish culture and identity. He investigates this by using digital technology to produce images that ask uncertain questions on what makes an individual ‘truly’ Scottish. Colvin also uses installation to create ‘stage-sets’ from everyday objects to resemble domestic interiors and captures these to produce his distinctive constructive photographic works.

Calum Colvin is a winner of one of the first Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Awards from which he created the acclaimed exhibition for the SNPG ‘Ossian, Fragments of Ancient Poetry’ in 2001. He was awarded an OBE the same year and is Professor of Fine Art Photography at DJCAD, Dundee.

Colvin has been widely exhibited in venues as diverse as Orkney, Los Angeles, and Ecuador, and his works are represented in numerous collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Museum of Fine Art, Houston; Tate, London and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh.