It is a weird foreign country where they speak a funny language and if you want to operate in that land you have to speak that language - which is why 'craft' people don't get it sometimes.”. Braintree College of Further Education, Art Foundation Course, The Art of Mapping curated by TAG Fine Arts, Dover Street, London, My Civilisation, Mudam, Luxembourg (solo), Unpopular Culture (curated by Grayson Perry, touring exhibition), de la Warr Pavilion (solo), Demons, Yarns and Tales, The Dairy, London, Dargerism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger, American Folk Art Museum, New York, My Civilisation, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (solo), The Charms of Lincolnshire, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo), The Charms of Lincolnshire, The Collection, Lincoln (solo), Designing Truth, Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum – Zentrum Internationaler Skulptur, Duisburg, The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Reveal, Nottingham’s Contemporary Textiles, Nottingham Castle off Maid Marian Way, Fairy Tales Forever, ARoS, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark, Mixed-Up Childhood, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, Collection Intervention, Tate St. Ives, St. Ives (solo), A Secret History of Clay from Gauguin to Gormley, Tate Liverpool, For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, The East Wing Collection, Courtauld Institute, London, Guerilla Tactics, Barbican Art Gallery, London, Sept 21 - Nov 3 (solo), Guerilla Tactics, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam May 18 - Aug 25 (solo), Sense of Occasion, Birmingham and other centres around UK until 2002, Self Portraya, Group show at Laurent Delaye Gallery, London, Carts and Rafts, Camberwell College, London, Sensation, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London (solo), Protest and Survive, Whitechapel Gallery, London, British Art Show 5 curated by the Hayward Gallery touring to Edinburgh (Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Royal Botanical Garden, City Art Centre, Talbot Rice Art Gallery, Stills Gallery, Fruit Market Gallery), Southampton (Southampton City Art Gallery, John Hansard Gallery, Millais Gallery, Southampton Institute), Cardiff (National Museum of Wales, Centre for Visual Arts, Chapter), Birmingham (Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Ikon Gallery), Contained Narrative, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, 541 Vases, Pots, Sculptures and Services, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Over the Top, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, touring show, Craft, Richard Salmon Gallery, London, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, Hot Off The Press, Tullie House, Carlisle, Glasgow, Norwich, Croydon Clock Tower, Crafts Council, London, Objects of Our Time, Crafts Council, London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Belfast, Cardiff, American Crafts Museum, New York, Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London, The Raw and the Cooked, Barbican Art Gallery, London and touring to Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Swansea, Shigarake Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan, Museum of Dunkirk, Fine Cannibals, Oldham Art Gallery and touring to University of Lancaster, Stockport Art Gallery, Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, Words and Volume, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, Nishi Azabu Wall, Tokyo (commission by Nigel Coates), Essex Artists, Epping Forest Museum and Minories, Colchester, Essex, Glad to be grey, Grayson Perry (catalogue essay), The Guardian, 23 April 2008, An Insider Perspective on an Outsider Artist, Ken Johnson, The New York Times, 18 April 2008, The Way I See It: Grayson Perry, The New Statesman, 3 April 2008, Grayson Perry: My Civilisation, Katie Kitamura, Contemporary, Old Hat or the New Bag?