Andy Harper

Biography

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Chronology

1971
  Born in the UK
  Lives and works in London
   
 

Education

1997-99
  Middlesex University, M.A., Visual Culture Commendation
1993-95
  Royal College of Art, M.A., Fine Art Painting
1990-93
  Brighton Polytechnic, B.A., Fine Art Painting
 

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

2012
 

New Paintings, Danese, New York

2009
 

Danese, New York

2008
 

One in the Other, London

2007
 

The Ballad of Mistah Bones, Frost and Reed Contemporary, London

    The Visitors, 319 Portobello Rd, London
2004
 

untitled and unfinished, The Groucho Club, London

2003
  Shift, Standpoint Gallery, London
2002
 

Les Halles, Sierre, Switzerland

2001
  green lung, at Essex University Gallery
1998
  New Paintings, Beaux Arts Gallery, London
 

 

   

Group Exhibitions

2009
 

Forces of Nature, Danese, New York, NY

  East End Academy: The Painting Edition, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2008
  Timbuktu, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin
 

This is not a fairy tale, Patrick Heide Gallery, London

 

Whispers of Immortality, Natalia Goldin Gallery, Stockholm

  Drift, Thames River, curated by Illuminate Productions
  Darkness Visible, Galway Arts Centre, Ireland
  Curios Nature, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
2007
  Intervention, Fieldgate Gallery, London
 

Obsession durch Technik, Art Mbassy Gallery, Berlin

  Dorian Gray, Vegas Gallery, London
  Sovereign European Art Prize, Club Row, London
  Behemoth, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London
2006
  Toffee Armistice, Lemon Sky Projects, Miami, USA
  John Moores 24, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
  Core, Illuminate Productions, London
2005-06
  Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London and UK tour
2005
  Garden History Museum, Parabola/Danielle Arnaud
  Mostyn Open, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales
2002
  drive for show, putt for dough, Standpoint Gallery, London
  megareal, K3, Zurich, Switzerland
2001
  ...and then we take Berlin, Kitchener City Hall, Canada
  Coast, Artsway open, collaboration with Abigail Reynolds
  east of eden – art : nature : society, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, Devon
  Art X III, Haus Ennepetal and Hattingen Gallery, Germany
2000
  A-movie-A-night, Braziers International Artists Workshop
  secret garden, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
1999
  The Flower Show: flowers in art in the 20th century, Harewood House, Leeds
  Turf Accountants, The Economist Plaza
   
 

Awards

2004
  Thupelo Workshop, Cape Town, South Africa
2001-02
  Fellow, l'Ecole Cantonale d'Art du Valais, Sierre, Switzerland
2000
  Braziers International Artists' Workshop, Oxfordshire, UK
1994
  Asilah Cultural Palace, Morocco
1994
 

A.R.C.O., Lisbon, Portugal

 

 

Projects

1996-present
  Co-founded NotCut, with the artists Ori Gersht and Robert Davies, running a studio complex in South London. NotCut also curated Lightness & Weight at the Custard Factory in Birmingham and Turf Accountants at the Economist Plaza, London
2003-07
  A member of the organizing committee for Braziers International Artist’s Workshop. An artist–run initiative that provides opportunities for exchange and dialogue between UK and overseas artists at an annual workshop in Oxfordshire
2006-present
  Assembly is a residency program that was founded in the summer of 2006 by Abigail Reynolds and Andy Harper. Based in an old Wesleyan chapel in St. Just, Cornwall, it will provide studio space and accommodation for 5-6 artists. The residencies and events will be trans-disciplinary
   
 

Bibliography

2007
  Coxhead, Gabriel. Andy Harper (review), Time Out, no.1925, p. 37
2007
  Herbert, Martin. The Ballad of Mistah Bones (catalogue)
2005
  Cloud and Vision, catalogue and collaboration with Tracy Chevalier
2002
  CD2, Underwood Audio, four CD compilation of audio works by artists
2002
  Mix, independent art and culture magazine, vol. 27 no. 3, Canada
2001
  Green Lung exhibition catalogue, University Gallery, Essex University
2001
  .... and then we take berlin, contemporary art forum, catalogue
2000
  Braziers International Artists Workshop 2000, catalogue.
2000
  Clark, Robert. Ironic over erotic, The Guardian, 22 June 2000
1998
  Featured artist in Tank, Issue two
1998
  Fulcher, Dawn. New Paintings, Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 20, p.100
1986
  Masterson, Piers. Lightness & Weight, Untitled, Summer Issue
     
   
   
   
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