1956 Born in Cheshire
1974-1975 Gloucestershire College of Art & Design
1975-1978 Wolverhampton Polytechnic - BA Hons
1980-1982 Reading University - MFA
2000 Honorary Doctorate, University of Wolverhampton
Lives and works in London

Selected one person exhibitions

2001 GAM, Galleria Civica D'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy
2000 Boston ICA, USA
Chicago Arts Club, USA
Aspen Museum of Art, USA
Philadelphia ICA, USA
1999 Frith Street Gallery, London
1998 Serpentine Gallery, London
Deitch Projects, New York, USA
1997 ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas, USA
1995 The Maybe (Collaboration with Tilda Swinton), Serpentine Gallery, London
Gallery 102, Dusseldorf
1991 Chisenhale Gallery, London
1989 Cornerhouse, Manchester
Aspects Gallery, Portsmouth
1988 Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

Selected group exhibitions

2002 Pure Containment, Sculptures in the Collection, Arts Council of England, Orleans House Gallery
2000: the end of century. The seeds of the future Comune di Milano, Italy
Paper Assets British Museum
2000 Between Cinema and a Hard Place, Tate Modern, London
Interventions, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin, USA
Melbourne 1st International Biennial, Melbourne, Australia
Postmark: An Abstract Effect, Site Santa Fe, USA
Violent Incident, Tate, Liverpool
1998/9 Silver and Syrup: Selections from the History of Photography,
Canon Photography Gallery at the V&A, London
Contemporary British Artists, Denver Art Museum, USA
Thinking Aloud, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge; Cornerhouse, Manchester; Camden Arts Centre, London
1998 Sarajevo 2000, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiflung Ludwig, Vienna
New Art from Britain, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
Natural Science, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
1997 The Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London
Material Culture, Hayward Gallery, London
1996 Matter of Facts, Hawerkamp, Munster
City Space, Copenhagen
1995 Something The Matter: Helen Chadwick, Cathy de Monchaux, Cornelia Parker, Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes, Rosario, Argentina; and travelling to Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Rio de Janeiro; Galeria Athos Bulcao, Brasilia
A House in Time, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Slovenia
1994 XXII Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil
1992 Northern Adventures, Camden Arts Centre & St. Pancras Station, London
Through the Viewfinder, Stitching De Appel, Amsterdam
1990 The British Art Show, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow; Leeds City Art Gallery,
Edge 90, Newcastle, Glasgow
1986 New British Sculpture, Air Gallery, London

Awards, commissions, projects and residencies

2001 Commissioned sculpture for new British Galleries (Breathless), Victoria & Albert Museum, London
2000 Meteorite Lands in Birmingham Bullring. Happening and installation organised by Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1998-9 Artist in Residence, Science Museum, London
1998 International Association of Art Critics Prize (US), Best Show by an Emerging Artist, for Mass:Colder Darker Matter at Deitch Projects, New York
1997 Nominated for the Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London
International Artist-in-Residence, ArtPace Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Koopman Chair, Jose Loff Gallery, Hartford Art School, Connecticut, USA
1992-95 Senior Fellow in Fine Art, Cardiff Institute
1991-92 Henry Moore Scholarship, Wimbledon School of Art
1990 Edge 90, Commission Inhaled Roof, Newcastle
Edge 90, Commission Exhaled Schoolhouse, Glasgow
1989 British School at Rome Award
Edge 90, Commission Left Luggage, St. Pancras Station, London
1980 First Prize Midland View Stoke City Art Gallery
1979-80 Artist-in-Residence, Crewe & Alsager College, Cheshire

Collections

Arts Council of Great Britain
British Council
British Museum
Contemporary Arts Society
Deutsche Bank
Glaxo Wellcome Collection
Government Art Collection
Henry Moore Foundation
ICA Boston
Leicestershire Council
MAG Collection, UK
Milwaukee Arts Museum,Wisconsin
MOMA, New York
Philadelphia Museum of Art USA
Phoenix Museum of Art USA
Tate
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Yale Center for British Art, USA
Various Private Collections in Europe and the USA

Further Reading

• Blazwick, Iwona; Lajer-Buchart, Ewa Sightings, Cornelia Parker (Galeria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Torino, 2001)
• Kemp, Martin The Oxford History of Western Art (Oxford University Press, 2000)
• Ferguson, Bruce; Morgan Jessica; Cornelia, Parker Cornelia Parker (The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, 2000) Grachos, Louis; Ferguson, Bruce; Moos, David; Postmark: An Abstract Effect (SITE Santa Fe, 1999)
• Buck, Louisa; Moving Targets: A User's Guide to British Art Now, (Tate Gallery Publishing, 1997)
• Button, Virginia; The Turner Prize 1997 (Tate Gallery Publishing, London, 1997)
• Button, Virginia; The Turner Prize (Tate Gallery Publishing, London, 1997)
• Brett, Guy; Cameron, Stuart; Parker, Cornelia; Payne, Antonia; Watkins, Jonathon; Avoided Object (Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, 1996)
• Archer, Michael; De Oliveira, Nicolas; Petry, Michael; Oxley, Nicola; Installation Art, (Thames and Hudson, London, 1994)
• Buck, Louisa; Something the Matter, (British Council, 1994)