Toby Messenger is a Glasgow-based visual artist and curator, working in Scotland since graduating from the Glasgow School of Art in 2000.

In the first two months of 2025, he was an artist in residence at Shapeero-Murray. In 2024, he was invited to participate in I Hear a New World at Villa Stuck in Munich, Germany, curated by Markus and Micha Acher (The Notwist/Alien Disko Records) and Anne Marr, alongside artists Ruohann Wang, A Happy Return, Adam Higton, Asuna, Katsura Mouri, and Bear Kenchington.

His solo and group exhibitions include Super Night Riders at Shapeero-Murray, Turning up in a Tiger Suit at a Techno Party at The Old Hairdressers in Glasgow, The Effects of Good and Bad Government, Crash n’ Burn and The Psychopathology of Everyday Life at Glasgow Project Room, the RSW annual members show (in The Sculpture Court) The Mound, Edinburgh; in-between at Inter/media, Freedom No.5 at Glasgow Art Club (RGI Fellowship Award), and Flat/Space at Babel in Trondheim, Norway. Additionally, he was a finalist in The Aspect Painting Prize in 2008-2009, exhibiting work at Gallery 28 Cork Street, London.

His residencies include a three-month RSW residency at Hospitalfield House in 2006 (with a subsequent alumni residency in 2008) and Ladamoen Kunstnerverksteder in Trondheim, Norway, in 2007.

Forthcoming shows include Drive at Papple Steading in East Lothian and a solo exhibition at Iota in Glasgow.

He has curated three large group exhibitions under the moniker From the Big Splash to the Last Splash at Terrace, London, and Iota, Glasgow, in 2023, as well as SPACE JUNK at Strange Field, Glasgow, in October 2024.