Christopher Langton

Born 1954, Johannesburg, South Africa; lives and works in Melbourne. Christopher Langton’s group exhibitions include the Osaka Triennial, Osaka Contemporary Art Centre, Japan, and Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, both 1998; This Was the Future: Australian Sculpture of the 1950s, 60s, 70s and Today, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2003; Swoon, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2004; and Soft Sculptures, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2009. His solo exhibitions include Pneumatic, Bendigo Art Gallery, 1998; Plastic Life, with Patricia Piccinini, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000; and Buoys, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, 2002. In 2012 he was awarded the inaugural McClelland Achievement Prize.