Greig Burgoyne

Bio

Burgoyne exhibits extensivley, primarily in Europe and internationally. Selected recent solo commissioned projects include Château De Montsoreau Museé d’Art Contemporain -Loire, The Lowry Manchester, De Vishal Kunstraum Haarlem, Museo Nazionale Pinacoteca Bologna, Verein Für Aktuelle Kunst Rührgebiet Oberhausen (VAKR) with Monika Gryzmala & Ignacio Uriarte), Edinburgh Arts Festival, , Civitella Ranieri Foundation Perugia, Performance Art Bergen, CICA museum South Korea, Palazzo Bentivoglio Bologna, Bochum Kunsthallen, Spazio Mensa Rome, Frost Art Museum Miami , Drawing Projects UK, and The Russian State Museum.
 
His work was selected for Visions 2025, London's international biennale of moving image and performance art. He is the official invited artist and conference speaker for the STARPTELPA 2027- Riga International Festival of Performance art, Latvia. Forthcoming solo exhibitions include Palazzo Collicola Gallery of Modern Art Spoleto in dialogue with works by Sol le Witt, Serra and others from the collection; Fantastic Lab, Valencia in which he brings new performance works around corporeal language based upon the writings of Jan Patočka; a major drawing show at Palazzo Lucarini Contemporea Trevi, and an immersive participatory project for Spazio Hangar Rome.

His work is held in numerous collections including The Russian State Museum, DAAD Bonn. Swiss Bank Corporation, Bank of Montreal Canada, Department of Culture Stadt Mainz.
He is co-presenter for Hosts and ghosts, the annual symposium of performance art at Robert Gordon University/ Grays School of Art Aberdeen in collaboration with the Scottish Graduate School. 
 
Burgoyne presentations at conferences regularly. This includes We are elsewhere Performing’s space Association University of Nafplio Greece 2025 & 2026, International Performance Art Conference, University of  Vigo 2025, Beyond curriculum-expansive creativity -Louisiana state university, USA  2023,On not knowing -how artist teach Glasgow school of art ( with Dr. Laura Luezzi) 2022, The practique of drawing as cognitive process Universidad Complutense Madrid 2019, CIST 2 Rouen Université/ Paris Diderot Université France 2019, Drawing Conversations symposia 2016/17/18.  
 
His research and practice features extensively in numerous publications, including Performance Drawing: New Practices (Bloomsbury, 2023), he co-authored Drawing as Placemaking: Environment, History, and Identity (Bloomsbury, 2026), Drawing: Contemporary Thinking and Practice (Editorial Tirant Lo Blanch, 2026) for Universita De La Laguna Tenerife, When the photograph breaks-Photomonitor journal 2023, The contemplative edge (Cambia Una Virgola Rome 2022). 

He co-wrote a catalogue text for PORT/ FLORA/ FAUNA The story of indigenousness and the ownership of history, Venice Biennale 2022. His book White Noise was published by Marmalade Visual Theory and The Centre for Recent Drawing London in 2018.

His work has been reviewed in journals and magazines such as Drawing Research Theory 7 Practice, Glasgow herald, A-N, and he was co convenor for Drawing Conversations #5 symposia in 2024.
 
Burgoyne has taught extensively within universities and made presentations for cultural institutions within the UK, Europe and North America, including RIBA London, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design University Halifax, Canada, Novgorod State University Russian Federation, Université Lille III Lille, Haût École Des Arts Du Rhin Mulhouse/ Strasbourg, Institute of Art, design &technology (IADT) Dublin and artist mentor for ACE.