1991-93

Royal College of Art, MA

1988-91

Winchester School of Art, BA (Hons)

2005

Napoleon Gardens, Holland Park, London

2004

Ian Dawson, Galerie Xippas, Paris

2003

YDOR, Archimede Staffolini Gallery, Cyprus

Tilt Trucks and Free Fliers, James Cohan Gallery, New York

Ian Dawson, Grand Arts, Kansas, USA

2002

Ian Dawson, Modern Art, London

Ian Dawson, Greidervonputtkamer, Berlin

Art & Public, Geneva

Ian Dawson, James Cohan Gallery, New York

Habitat, Kings Road, London

1999

Ian Dawson, Modern Art, London

1998

Ian Dawson, Hales Gallery, London

1995

London Artforms, London

2005

Do Not Ask Me Who I Am, St Pauls Gallery, London.

Pulp Fantasy, 20-21 Gallery, Scunthorpe, UK

2004

Material Faith, Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Shapeshifters, Galerie M - Project, Paris

Plastic Fantastic, 20-21 Gallery, Scunthorpe, UK

Summertime in the City, Archimede Staffolini Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus

Mesmer, Seager Distillery, London

2003

On, Galerie Xippas, Athens, Greece

Urban Baroque, Plane Space, New York

One Word - Plastic, Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, USAincl. catalogue

The Physical World, APT Gallery, London

POP thru Out, Arario Gallery, Cheonan, S. Korea.

Rendered, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York

IMProVision, Urban Culture Projects, Kansas City, MO, USA

2002

The Nature of the Beast, Caren Golden Fine Arts, New York

Sense and form, the beauty of the practical the practicality of the beautiful, Consument ART, Messertum, Nurnberg, incl. catalogue

Per Saldo, Het Noordbrabants Museum, s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.

Sculpture By The Sea (invited artist), Bondi, Sydney, Australia

Showcase, Sydney, Australia, incl. catalogue

Craft, Cell Project Space, London

Prospects Drawing Prize, Essor Gallery, London

4th Gwangju Biennale, Korea

Love, 14 Wharf Road, London

Giardino, Studio del Arte Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy

Giardino, Studio D'Arte Raffaolli, Trento, Italy incl. catalogue

2001

Giardino, Centro Culturale di Sassuolo, Modena, Italy

Lets Get to Work, Susquehana Art Museum, Harrisburg, USA,

Lets Get to Work, Rosenwald Wolf Gallery & Basekamp, University of Arts, Philadelphia, USA

Paradise Valley, Loughborough University Gallery, UK

2000

Full Serve, 547 W27th St. New York

De Museum Nacht, The Old Stock Exchange, Amsterdam

Beautiful, Oxo Tower, London

Let’s Get to Work, Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco

Abstract Art, Delfina Gallery, London

1999

Y2K, Archimede Staffolini Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus

6min3sec, ABF Konstskola, Umea, Sweden

Drawings, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York City

Millenium, Tate, New York

Holding Court, Entwistle, London

1998

London Now, Saks, New York City 'Paradigms of Oneirology', One in the Other, London

The Status of the Object, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast

1997

Multislot, Notcut House, London

Low Maintenance, Hales Gallery, London

Victoria, Laurent Delaye, London

1996

British Friends, Galerie M, Stockholm, Sweden

Death of the Death of... Curated by Kenny Schacter, 480 Broome Street, New York City

The Boy that Santa Forgot, Galerie M, Stockholm, Sweden

1994

Bantam Open, Connecticut, USA

Turning Up, The View, Liverpool

1992

Rundgang, Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin

2003

Margaret Hall-Silva Award

2002

British Council, Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney Australia

1994-6

Susan Kasen Summer Scholarship

1993

Sir James Knott Scholarship

1992

ERASMUS Exchange, Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin

1991

Atlantida Award, Madrid

2004

Mickey and Janice Cartin Collection, Miami, USA

2003

Habitat, Print on Demand, inaugural print series, UK

2001

Hunter Grey Collection, New York, USA

1999

SEI Collection, Philadelphia, USA

1998

EFrank Cohen Collection, UK

Saatchi Collection, UK

1996

Susan Kasen Summer Collection, Connecticut, USA

2004

Contemporary British Sculpture, Guy Portelli, Schiffer. Publishing, ISBN: 0764321110

2003

One word: Plastic, Nancy Doll, Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, USA

POP thru Out, Mary Dinaburg, Arario Gallery, Cheonan, S.Korea

Tilt Trucks and Free Fliers, David Humphrey, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO

2001

New Labour, The Saatchi Gallery

The TI Group Art Collection

1999

Young British Art: The Saatchi Decade’, Booth-Clibborn

1998

The New Neurotic Realism, The Saatchi Gallery

1994

An American Passion, Glasgow Museum Press

2004

Elle March 22, 2004, pg 154

2003

David Cohen, Urban Baroque, Artcritical.Com

Panagiotou, M., "Art Agenda", Syntheseis, November

Parpa, E., "Art Matters", Cosmopolitan, November, p 28

Tsiamanta, X., "Ydor", Time Out Cyprus, no. 22, November, p113

"Ydor", Alithia, November 6

"Destructive Creation", Selides magazine, November 9, p24

Charalambidou, I., "Ydor", Politis, November 10, p45

Hughes, G., "The lightness of being", Cyprus Weekly (Lifestyle Supplement), Nov. 14-20, p2-3

Hughes, G., "Art, Recycling and Design", Cyprus Weekly (Lifestyle Supplement), Nov. 28 - Dec.4, p3

Parpa, E., "Plastic Stories", Phileleftheros (Culture Supplement), November 9, p2

Kounios, A., "What is it all about", Alithia, November 10, p12

'Wonderland', Ian Dawson, a-n Magazine, October 2003

'Ian Dawson', Ken Johnson, New York Times, Friday July 18th

'Ian Dawson', Jane Harris, Time Out New York, Issue No. 407

'Plastic Fantastic', John Reed, ArtNet, July

'Britain's Ian Dawson distorts normalcy with a well-placed blow

torch', Alice Thorson, Kansas City Star, 9/5/03

2002

Love’, Martin Herbert, Modern Painters, Vol 15 No. 2

‘Zarter Schmeltz’, Ticket, Der Tagesspiegel, 28 March

‘Das muss man Sehen’, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 13 April, Nr.86

‘Rechnerkunst, unplugged’, Ulrich Clewing, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 19 April, Nr.9

2001

'Celebrating Art', Joe Elias, Carlisle Patriot Sunday, Sept 16

'Grab bag of ideas...' E.J. Sozanski, The Philadelphia Enquirer, Dec 2

'Ian Dawson', James Hyde, Art in America, March 2001

'The Mad Muse of Waterloo', Larissa Mac Farguhar, New Yorker, March 19

2000

Galleries, The New Yorker, 2 October,

‘Ubiquity Made Visable’. Art Net, Jeff Crane, September 2000

‘Abstract Art’, Martin Herbert, Flash Art, (May-Jun)

‘Abstract Art’, Martin Herbert, Time Out, (Feb 9)

‘Abstract Art’, Rachel Campell-Johnson, The Times, (Feb 1)

‘Abstract Art’, Sue Hubbard, The Independent, (Jan 30)

‘Abstract Art’, Helen Sumpter, Evening Standard, Hot Tickets, (Jan 21)

1999

‘Art In Review’, Ken Johnson, The New York Times, August.

‘Look Out Damien’, Louisa Buck, E.S. Magazine, June.

Lowis Morgan-Griffiths, The Independent Magazine, June

‘Tea For Two’, Lucy Ryder Richardson, Numero Magazine, May

‘Altered Images’, Louisa Buck, Esquire Magazine, April

‘Plastic Fantastic’, Ella Weimer, i-D Magazine, April

‘Choice’, Helen Sumpter, Hot Tickets (Evening Standard) 11.03.

1998

'Ian Dawson', Gavin Wade, Zing Magazine, Winter

'Ian Dawson', Gavin Wade, Untitled, No 16

'British Art....', The Observer, 12th April, p 18, Roger Trede

'The Art Newspaper', No 79, p 56, Louisa Buck

1997

'Low Maintenance...', David Burrows, Art Monthly, September issue

'Low Maintenance...', Artists Newsletter, Oct issue

'Victoria', Volume 1, Edition 2, Autumn

1995

'An American Passion', Glasgow Museums/RCA

'Clot', Judith Mottram, Woman’s Art Magazine, June

1994

'The British Invasion', Litchfield County Times, April 22nd

'Turning Up', Heidi Reitmaier, Art Monthly, November