Modern Art

Born in Manchester, 1975
Lives and works in Hertfordshire

Education
2003–2005

MA Fine Art Painting

Royal College of Art, London

1995–1998

BA Hons Graphic Art and Design

Leeds Metropolitan, Leeds

Solo Exhibitions
2023

How to paint like an athlete

Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, USA

More Me

Station Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2022

300 sun days

Modern Art, London

2020

Recent Paintings

Modern Art, London

2019

I want to live in the afternoon of that day

Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, USA

2017

Modern Art

London

2015

Andrea Rosen Gallery

New York, NY, USA

Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art

London

2013

Modern Art

London

Douglas Hyde Gallery

Dublin, Ireland

2011

Andrea Rosen Gallery

New York, NY, USA

2010

Wexner Centre for the Arts

Columbus, OH, USA

2009

Modern Art

London

Galleria Il Capricorno

Venice, Italy

2008

Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

Middlesbrough

Anthony Meier Fine Arts

San Francisco, CA, USA

Andrea Rosen Gallery

New York, NY, USA

2006

Modern Art

London

Grusenmeyer Art Gallery

Deurle, Belgium

Selected Group Exhibitions
2022

Sabrina, curated by Russell Tovey

Sim Smith, London

By a Thread

Aspara Studio, London

Open Storage: 25 Years of Collecting, curated by Allan Schwartzman

The Warehouse, Dallas, TX, USA

Abstraction Now

The Corn Hall, Diss

2021

To Situations New

Lamb Arts, London

WOOD WORKS: Raw, Cut, Carved, Covered

Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, USA

Abstrakt

Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2018

Summer Exhibition

Modern Art, London

Surface Work

Victoria Miro, London

Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings

Tate St Ives, Cornwall, travelling to: Pallant House Gallery, Chichester; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

2016

Theories of Modern Art

Modern Art, London

2015

Intimacy in Discourse: Reasonable and Unreasonable Sized Paintings

Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ, USA

One Day, Something Happens: Paintings of People. A selection by Jennifer Higgie from The Arts Council Collection (England)

Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds; Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland; The Atkinson, Southport; Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne

Second Chances

Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, USA

2014

Somos Libres II. Works from the Mario Testino Collection

Pinacoteca Gianni e Marella, Agnelli, Turin, Italy

2013

A Personal Choice

Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy

Lloyds Club

London

Painter Painter

Walker Art Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Inevitable Figuration

Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy

2012

The Far and The Near: Replaying Art in St Ives

Tate St Ives, Cornwall

Contemporary Painting, 1960 to the Present: Selections from the SFMOMA Collection

SF MOMA, San Francisco, CA, USA

2011

Magasin - Centre National d'Art Contemporain

Grenoble, France

Creating the New Century: Contemporary Art from the Dicke Collection

The Dayton Art Institute, OH, USA

2010

Tasters’ Choice

Stephen Friedman, London

Le Tableau

Cheim & Read, New York, NY, USA

Feint Art

Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

2009

Visible Invisible: Against the Security of the Real

Parasol Unit, London

We’re Moving

Royal College of Art, London

Surface Reality

Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle

Contemporary Fine and Applied Arts: 1928-2009

Tate St Ives, Cornwall

2008

Art Now: Strange Solution

Tate Britain, London

Selections from the Ovitz Family Collection

ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ, USA

2007

Dining Room Show

Andrea Rosen Gallery, Amagansett, Long Island, NY, USA

Old Space New Space

Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY, USA

The Painting Show: Slipping Abstraction

Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Warwick

Salon Nouveau

Galerie Engholm Engelhorn, Vienna, Austria

2006

A Broken Arm

303 Gallery, New York, NY, USA

New Contemporaries 2006

London and Liverpool (touring)

Young Painters

Grusenmeyer, Belgium

Primetime Painting: Young Art from London

Galerie Seitz, Berlin, Germany

2005

Art Futures

Bloomberg, London

Peculiar Encounters

Ec Artspace, London

London Kicks

The Wooster Project, New York, NY, USA

Morpho Eugenia

San Marino, Italy

MA Show

Royal College of Art, London

Man Drawing Prize

Royal College of Art, London

Selected Collections

Arts Council Collection

London

David Roberts Art Foundation

London

Government Art Collection

London

Pinault Collection

Venice, Italy

Royal College of Art

London

Rubell Family Collection

Miami, FL, USA

Sammlung Goetz

Munich, Germany

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

San Francisco, CA, USA

Tate

London

Walker Art Center

Minneapolis, MN, USA

Zabludowicz Collection

London