Biography
Scott King trained as a graphic designer. He worked as Art Director of i-D magazine and went on to become Creative Director of Sleazenation, for which he was awarded 'Best Cover' and 'Best Designed Feature of the Year' prizes. King occasionally produces work under the banner 'CRASH!' with writer and historian Matt Worley. Although King still accepts some graphic design commissions, he now works primarily as an artist. He has exhibited widely in London, New York and European galleries including the ICA, Cubitt, KW Berlin, Portikus and White Columns.

Gallery Representation
Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin (www.soniarosso.com)
Herald St, London (www.heraldst.com)
Bortolami Dayan, New York (www.bortolamidayan.com)

Commercial Representation
Marco Santucci (www.marcosantucci.com)

Selected Exhibitions
1997 'The Problem Is You', ICA, London, UK
1998 'London's Burning With Boredom Now', billboard commission, Cubitt, London
1999 'How Shall We Behave?', Robert Prime, London, UK
1999 'CRASH!', ICA, London, UK
1999 'CRASH!', billboard, the Westway, London, commissioned by the ICA, UK
1999 'Urban Islands', Cubitt, London, UK
2000 'The Robin Hood Complex', Forde, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
2000 'Etat des Lieux #2', Centre d'Art Contemporain, Fribourg, Switzerland
2000 'Flatplan', Magnani, London, UK (solo)
2001 'Part False Part True Like Everything', San Filippo Neri, Turin, Italy
2002 'Scott King', Magnani, London, UK (solo)
2002 'Air Guitar', Milton Keynes Gallery, UK
2002 'Face/Off', Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
2003 'The Unique Phenomenon Of A Distance', Magnani, London, UK
2003 'Numero Zero', CNEAI, Ile Des Impressionnistes, Chatou, Paris, France (solo)
2003 'I'm Worried About Cliff...', Supportico Lopez, Naples, Italy (solo)
2003 'Scott King', Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin, Italy (solo)
2004 'Inventory/Scott King/Donald Urquhart', Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany (curated by Wolfgang Tillmans)
2004 'Power, Corruption & Lies', Roth Horowitz, New York, USA (curated by Neville Wakefield)
2004 'Scott King', Miller's Terrace, London, UK (solo)
2004 'Louder This Time (Cityloop 2004)', curated by Sonia Rosso, Pordenone, Italy
2004 'Penelope Attend Ulysse', Centre d'Art Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2004 'The Black Album', Antonio Columbus Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy
2004 'For Love…', Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art Montevergini, Sicily
2004 'Communicate: British Graphic Design Since The Sixties', Barbican, London, UK
2004 'The Age Of Optimism', Kilchmann Plus, Zurich, Switzerland
2005 'Other People's Projects', White Columns, New York, USA
2005 'Regarding Terror: The RAF Exhibition', Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany
2005 'Regarding Terror: The RAF Exhibition', Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
2005 'Herald St & The Modern Institute', GBE, New York, USA
2005 'Inaugral', Herald St, London, UK
2005 'Art Statements', Galleria Sonia Rosso , Art Basel 36, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
2005 'Bridge Freezes Before Road', Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA (curated by Neville Wakefield)
2005 'So Klappts', Mouson, Frankfurt, Germany
2005 'Post No Bills, White Columns, New York, USA (curated by Matthew Higgs)
2005 'What Now?/Et Maintenant', CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France
2005 'Lee Brilleaux Memorial Bench', White Columns, New York, USA (solo)
2006 'And On To The Discotheque Comrade?', Centre d'Art Contemporain, Fribourg, Switzerland (with Philippe Decrauzat and James Fry)
2006 'Oh! Pylon Heaven', Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin, Italy (solo)
2006 'Objects of Yesterday and Today' Gallery Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers, France
2006 'Information', Bortolami Dayan, New York, USA (solo)
2006 'And The Pylons Stretched For Miles', Herald Street, London, UK (solo)
2006 'Che Guevara: Revolutionary and Icon', Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
2006 'Defamation of Character', PS 1, New York, USA (curated by Neville Wakefield)
2006 'Conversation Pieces', Centre D'art Contemporain Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland
2006 'People: Contemporary faces, bodies and signs from the collection of Ernesto Esposito'Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples, Italy
2006 'Scott King', Frac Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkirk, France (solo)
2006 '25x25' Cerealart, Philadelphia, PA, USA, (curated by Matthew Higgs & Amie Scally)
2007 'Left Pop', Moscow Biennale, Russia
2007 'Sympathy For The Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967', Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA

Selected Bibliography
Liz Farrelly, 'Putting Type in its Place', Eye magazine, Winter 1996
Ros Wynne-Jones, 'Meet The Men Who Want To Kill Chris Evans', The Independent, August 3 1997
John O'Connell, 'Crash Landing', Time Out (London), November 1997
Steve Beale, 'CRASH!', Sleazenation magazine, November 1998
Kate Mikhail, 'O Branded New World', The Independent, February 19 1999
Dominic Lutyens, 'Join The Fashion Revolution', The Independent On Sunday, February 28 1999
Matthew Worley (ed.) CRASH! (exhibition catalogue), published by ICA, London, 1999
Julian House, Sampler: New Record Sleeve Design, Lawrence King, 1999
Sally Weale, 'System C.R.A.S.H!', The Guardian, November 17 1999
Jacques Peretti, 'Is Man And Machine', The Guardian Guide, November 27 1999
Rachel Newsome, 'CRASH!', The Observer, November 28, 1999
Rose Rouse, 'Where Punk, Art and Work Collide', The Times, December 1 1999
Friebe Holm, 'Die Kinder von Prada Meinhof' Tageszeitung, Berlin, December 12 1999
Martin Herbert, 'Crash!', Time Out London, 8-15 December 1999
Anthony Davies / Simon Ford, 'Kulturpartner im Network', Texte zu Kunst, Berlin 2000
Ian Harrison, 'The 100 Best Album Covers Ever', (Scott King / Earl Brutus), Q Magazine, August 2001
Helen Walters, 'Scott King: Anti Fashion', Creative Review, November 2001
Emily King & Christian Küsters, 'Scott King' in 'Restart: New System in Graphic Design', Thames & Hudson 2001
Rick Poynor, 'A Symbol Returns…', Eye magazine No. 40 Vol. 10, 2001
Prof. Sheila Whiteley, 'Too Much Too Young', Routledge, 2002
Patricia Bickers, 'Scott King', 100 Reviews, London 2002
Stuart Turnbull, 'CRASH In Iceland' Sleazenation magazine, January 2002
Matthew Higgs, 'Scott King', Artforum, January 2002
Emily Pethick, 'Scott King' in 'Air Guitar', Milton Keynes Gallery, 2002
John O'Relly, 'No Brief: Graphic Designer's Personal Projects', Rotovision, 2002
Patricia Bickers, 'Oh Politics Schmolitics!', Art In The Post-Modern Age, Third Text, Vol. 16, Issue 4, 2002
Penny Martin, 'Scott King', Atmosphere, Autumn 2002
Mark Gisbourne 'Face/Off', exhibition catalogue, University of Cambridge, 2002
Jonathan Wingfield, 'Scott King', Numero Homme, Autumn/Winter 2002/2003
Justin Quirk, 'Scott King: I Like What I Bloody Well See!', Arena, December 2002
Dan Fox, 'Unique Phenomenom Of A Distance', Frieze, January 2003
David Crowley, 'Magazine Covers', Phaidon, 2003
Charlotte & Peter Fiell, 'Graphic Design For The 21st Century', Taschen, 2003
John Walker, 'Art & Celebrity', Pluto Press, 2003
Alexandra Marshall, 'Guerrilla Marketing', The New York Times, March 9 2003
Aaron Hicklin, Hail Madonna', Black Book magazine, Fall 2003
Cruwell Konstanze, Politisch, kiritisch …' Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 8 2004
Hortense Pisano, Nie Mehr Ein Sex Pistol!', Frankfurt Journal, May 11 2004
Silke Hohmann, Strapse, security und …', Frankfurter Ruudschenn, May 26 2004
Patricia Bickers, 'Oh! Politics Schmolitics', Third Text magazine, December 2004
Christoph Schutte, Portrat als Kuchendiagramm', Allgemeine Zeitung, June 7 2004
Roberta Smith,'Power, Corruption & Lies', The New York Times, July 2 2004
Rick Poynor, Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design Since The Sixties', Laurence King / Yale University Press
Rick Poynor, The Graphic Grip', The Guardian Weekend Magazine, August 28 2004
Rick Poynor, 'Drawing Our Conclusions', The Times, September 15 2004
Vanessa Eagle (ed.) 'Regarding Terror' (KW RAF exhibition catalogue), January 2005
Nicola Kuhn, 'Christian, matin & I', Der Tagespiegel, 3 January 2005
Shannon Smiley 'Germany Debates Terrorist Chic', Washington Post, 20 February, 2005
David Nobakht, 'Suicide: No Compromise', SAF Publishing, 2005
Hanno Rauterburg 'In Captivity As A Hostage', The Time, March 2005
Dan Jonsson 'Nu tar de Stallning', DN. Kultur, 25 March 2005
Joachim Guentner 'Killing Taste', NZZ, 24 February, 2005
Kirsten Grieshaber 'Glorifying Terrorism…?', The New York Times, February 1, 2005
Jorg Sundermaier, 'Scott King', De-Bug Magazine, Berlin, Germany, February 2005
Markus Mittringer, 'German Romance', der Standard, June 26, 2005
Thomas von Kramar 'RAF', Die Presse, June 28, 2005
Neville Wakefield, 'Bridge Freezes…', Barbara Gladstone (exhib. cat.), July 2005
Mark Gisbourne 'Regarding Terror', Art in America, July 2005
Press Gazette, 'The Top 40 Magazine Covers Of The Last 40 Years', December 2005
Ian Harrison, 'From Canvey Island to NY!', Mojo magazine, February 2006
Hilde Teerlinck, 'Et Maintenant', CRAC Alsace, exhibition catalogue, 2006
RC Baker, ' Scott King', The Village Voice, NYC, April 2006
Michael Nelson, ' Scott King', (review) Artforum, Summer 2006
Caroline Carfena, 'People On Show', L'Uomo Vogue, August 2006
Rick Poynor, 'Designing Pornotopia', PA Press, 2006
Eduardo Cicelyn and Mario Codognato, 'People: Contemporary faces, bodies and signs from the collection of Ernesto Esposito', Electa 2006
Anja Lutz, 'Influences: A Lexicon of Contemporary Graphic Design Practice', Die Gestalten Verlag, 2006
'The Expert's Choice: Frieze Art Fair', Evening Standard, October 20, 2006
Philip Hoare and Chris Heath, 'Pet Shop Boys Catalogue', Thames & Hudson, 2006
Scott King, 'The Reprobates' (artist's project), Nero magazine, Italy, November 2006
Art on Paper, 'New Print Review', USA, Nov/Dec 2006
Luca Beatrice, 'Sound + Vision', Damiani, 2006
Scott King, 'Jeff The Bastard' (artist's project), Mousse magazine, Italy, December 2006
Charlotte & Peter Fiell, 'Graphic Design Now', Taschen, 2007

Past Clients
Earl Brutus (Island Records), Malcolm McLaren, Pet Shop Boys (Parlophone), Diesel, The Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), Smirnoff, Sleaznation Magazine, Sony Music UK, The Michael Clark Dance Company, Suicide (Blast First), Bennetton (Colors), Selfridges (London), Morrissey (Sanctuary Records)

Awards
D&AD Nomination for i-D '15th. Anniversary Issue', September 1996
Total Publishing Award for 'Best Designed Cover Of The Year', for 'Cher Guevara', Sleazenation, February 2001
Total Publishing Award for 'Best Designed Feature Of The Year', for 'Stepford Lives', Sleazenation, February 2001
D&AD Nomination for Sleazenation 'Absolut Sell Out' cover, September 2002