Margaret Salmon

Margaret Salmon (1975) lives and works in Glasgow, UK. She holds an MA in Fine Art in Photography from The Royal College of Art, London (UK). Focusing on individuals in their everyday activities, her films capture the minutiae of daily life and infuse them with gentle grandeur, touching upon universal human themes. Margaret Salmon won the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in 2006. Her work was shown at the Venice Biennale (IT) in 2007 and the Berlin Biennale (DE) in 2010 and was featured in individual exhibitions at Dundee Contemporary Arts (Dundee, UK, 2018), Tramway (Glasgow, UK, 2018), ICA (London, UK) and Contemporary Art Museum (St. Louis, US, 2011), Witte de With (Rotterdam, NL) and Whitechapel Gallery (London, UK, 2007). Her work was also shown at Salzburger Kunstverein (AT, 2016), Kunsthalle Wien (AT, 2013) and Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneve (CH, 2011).