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Artists›Jim Lambie

Jim Lambie

1964

WA-00003287

Mixed MediaContemporary

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

Works in Collection

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Publications Referenced

80%

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Cultural Positioning

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ344051

MoMA

Field Verification (3 fields)

2 cross-verified · 1 single-source

Birth yearArtsy + Duplicate Merge· 85%✓
NationalityArtsy + Duplicate Merge· 85%✓
LocationArtsy· 85%

Source Registry (3)

Anton-Kernhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/jim-lambie
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Sadie-Coleshttps://sadiecoles.com/artists/
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/22939
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

James Lambie is a contemporary visual artist, and was shortlisted for the 2005 Turner Prize with an installation called Mental Oyster.

Source: Anton Kern · Trust score: 100% · Updated 2mo ago

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Movement

Contemporary

Medium

Mixed Media

Related Artists

12 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Modern ArtNew York Tate

Canonical record

Artworks (10)

WattsOS

Spiritualized

2011 · galvanized steel, cement, powder-coated paint, glass, cotton, and automotive paint

Overall: 179.1 x 274.3 x 248.9 cm (70 1/2 x 108 x 98 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Psychedelic Soul Stick no. 55

2006 · T-shirt sleeve, two Marlboro Light packets, women's bead necklace, button, steel wire, bamboo, and cotton thread

42 1/8 x 3 9/16 x 1 9/16" (107 x 9 x 4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Screamadelica

2004 · Gaffer tape and printed paper on wall

Dimensions variable

Museum of Modern Art

Revolver

2003 · Synthetic polymer paint and pressure-sensitive tape on printed paper

35 1/2 x 25" (90.2 x 63.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Ska’s Not Dead

2001 · Record deck, glitter, glove, safety pins, enamel button and beads

object: 360 x 360 x 720 mm

Tate

Imagine

2001 · Poster paint on paper

32 1/2 x 22" (82.6 x 55.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Weird Glow

1999 · Printed paper on paper

object: 2050 x 1630 mm

Tate

Zobop

1999 · Vinyl tape

overall display dimensions variable

Tate

Zobop

1999 · 7-inch vinyl record

cover: 7 1/4 × 7 1/4" (18.4 × 18.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (3)

10 published of 16 catalogued · 13 with image

MoMA
6 publishedof 12 catalogued10 img
Tate
3 published3 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
1 published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 4)

4 entries · 1 sources

Ska’s Not Dead
2001 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Spiritualized
2011 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Weird Glow
1999 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Zobop
1999 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

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Images

Artsy

Art Institute of Chicago

Jim Lambie exhibition at Transmission, Glasgow, 1999

Wikimedia Commons (Instagram fallback)

Wikimedia Commons (Instagram fallback)

Relationships

Movements1

Contemporary

Collections5

Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Modern Art Tate Phillips Sadie Coles HQ

Institutional

Representation & Collections

Represented by

Sadie Coles HQ

Current

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Tate

Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction

Auction house

Phillips

Background

Education

Glasgow School of Art

Visual Arts

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