Hurvin Anderson (born 1965) is a British

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

Early life and education

Anderson was born in

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ...

, England, to parents of Jamaican origin. He was educated at

Wimbledon College of Art Wimbledon College of Arts, formerly Wimbledon School of Art, is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London specialising in theatre, screen and performance art. It is located in Wimbledon and Merton Park, South West London. H ...

, London and

The Royal College of Art The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It off ...

, London.

Career

Anderson often works from photographs and his own memories to create works that range from delicate paintings on vellum to large canvases that can consume an entire wall. His paintings and works on paper "depict places where memory and history converge" and engage with issues of identity and representation. While recent works, such as ''Studio Drawing 15'' (2016) mark a shift toward

abstraction Abstraction in its main sense is a conceptual process wherein general rules and concepts are derived from the usage and classification of specific examples, literal ("real" or "concrete") signifiers, first principles, or other methods. "An abstr ...

in his oeuvre, the motifs of the barbershop, densely layered trees, and Caribbean landscapes have been consistently featured throughout most of his career. Anderson is represented by Thomas Dane Gallery in London and

Michael Werner Gallery In 1963, Michael Werner opened his first gallery, Werner & Katz, in Berlin, Germany with the first solo exhibition of Georg Baselitz. Galerie Michael Werner was later established in Cologne in 1969. Since then, Galerie Michael Werner has worked w ...

in New York.

Exhibitions

His work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in the UK and the US, including at

Tate Britain Tate Britain, known from 1897 to 1932 as the National Gallery of British Art and from 1932 to 2000 as the Tate Gallery, is an art museum on Millbank in the City of Westminster in London, England. It is part of the Tate network of galleries in ...

, London,

Ikon Gallery The Ikon Gallery () is an English gallery of contemporary art, located in Brindleyplace, Birmingham. It is housed in the Grade II listed, neo-gothic former Oozells Street Board School, designed by John Henry Chamberlain in 1877. Ikon was set u ...

, Birmingham, the Studio Museum,

Harlem Harlem is a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It is bounded roughly by the Hudson River on the west; the Harlem River and 155th Street (Manhattan), 155th Street on the north; Fifth Avenue on the east; and 110th Street (Manhattan), ...

, New York and the

Art Gallery of Ontario The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO; french: Musée des beaux-arts de l'Ontario) is an art museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The museum is located in the Grange Park neighbourhood of downtown Toronto, on Dundas Street West between McCaul and Beve ...

Selected solo exhibitions

Foreign Body
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, New York (2016)
Backdrop
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(AGO), Toronto (2016)
Dub Versions
',

New Art Exchange New Art Exchange is a contemporary art gallery in Nottingham's Hyson Green neighborhood representing contexts of Black, Asian, and minority ethnic artists and communities. The organisation formed as a charity in 2003 from APNA Arts (a South ...

, Nottingham (2016)
Backdrop
',

CAM Calmodulin (CaM) (an abbreviation for calcium-modulated protein) is a multifunctional intermediate calcium-binding messenger protein expressed in all eukaryotic cells. It is an intracellular target of the secondary messenger Ca2+, and the bind ...

, St. Louis (2015) ''Reporting Back'',

, Birmingham (2013) ''Subtitles'',

, New York (2011) ''Art Now: Hurvin Anderson'',

, London (2009) ''Peter’s Series 2007–09'', Studio Museum Harlem, New York (2009)

Selected group exhibitions

T''urner Prize 2017,''

Ferens Art Gallery The Ferens Art Gallery is an art gallery in the English city of Kingston upon Hull. The site and money for the gallery were donated to the city by Thomas Ferens, after whom it is named. The architects were S. N. Cooke and E. C. Davie ...

, Hull (2017) ''Jamaican Pulse: Art and Politics from Jamaica and the Diaspora'',

Royal West of England Academy The Royal West of England Academy (RWA) is Bristol's oldest art gallery, located in Clifton, Bristol, near the junction of Queens Road and Whiteladies Road. Situated in a Grade 2* listed building, it hosts five galleries and an exhibition program ...

, Bristol (2016) ''Making & Unmaking'',

Camden Arts Centre Camden Art Centre (formerly known as Hampstead Arts Centre until 1967 and Camden Arts Centre until 2020) is a contemporary art gallery in the London Borough of Camden, England that hosts temporary exhibitions and educational outreach projects. T ...

, London (2016) ''Poetics of Relation'', Pérez Art Museum, Miami (2015) ''Homebodies'',

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago is a contemporary art museum near Water Tower Place in downtown Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The museum, which was established in 1967, is one of the world's largest contemporary ...

(2013) ''Self-Consciousness'', curated by Hilton Als and Peter Doig, VW (VeneKlasen/Werner), Berlin (2010) ''Telling Times'',

Leicester Museum and Art Gallery The Leicester Museum & Art Gallery (until 2020, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery) is a museum on New Walk in Leicester, England, not far from the city centre. It opened in 1849 as one of the first public museums in the United Kingdom. Leiceste ...

, Leicester (2000) ''Inheritance'', Ikon Touring, Birmingham (1995)

Awards

In 2017 Anderson was nominated for the

Turner Prize The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist. Between 1991 and 2016, only artists under the age of 50 were eligible (this restriction was removed for the 2017 award) ...

at the age of 52. Previously, only artists under the age of 50 were eligible for nominating, but that rule has since been abolished. Anderson received the first TenTen artist commission in 2018.

Residencies and fellowships

*2009: Artists in residence,

Headlands Center for the Arts Headlands Center for the Arts hosts an internationally recognized artist-in-residence program, and interdisciplinary public programs. It is situated in a campus of artist-renovated military buildings in the Marin Headlands, in Marin County, Cali ...

Sausalito Sausalito (Spanish for "small willow grove") is a city in Marin County, California, United States, located southeast of Marin City, south-southeast of San Rafael, and about north of San Francisco from the Golden Gate Bridge. Sausalito's p ...

*2005: Artist in residence,

Dulwich Picture Gallery Dulwich Picture Gallery is an art gallery in Dulwich, South London, which opened to the public in 1817. It was designed by Regency architect Sir John Soane using an innovative and influential method of illumination. Dulwich is the oldest publi ...

, London *2002: Artist in residence, Caribbean Contemporary Arts,

Port of Spain, Trinidad Port of Spain (Spanish: ''Puerto España''), officially the City of Port of Spain (also stylized Port-of-Spain), is the capital of Trinidad and Tobago and the third largest municipality, after Chaguanas and San Fernando. The city has a municip ...

*1990–2000: Cheltenham Fine Art Research Fellow in Painting,

Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education , mottoeng = In Spirit and Truth , established = , type = Public , endowment = £2.4 m (2015) , chancellor = Rennie Fritchie, Baroness Fritchie , vice_chancellor ...

Bibliography

* ''Hurvin Anderson: Foreign Bodies'',

, New York, 2016 * ''Hurvin Anderson: Backdrop'', CAM, St. Louis, 2016. Texts by

Duro Olowu Duro Olowu is a Nigerian-born British fashion designer. He is best known for his innovative combinations of patterns and textiles that draw inspiration from his international background. Early life and education Olowu was born in Lagos, Niger ...

and Jeffrey Uslip. * ''Hurvin Anderson: Reporting Back'',

, Birmingham, 2013. Texts by Eddie Chambers,

Jennifer Higgie Jennifer Higgie is an Australian novelist, screenwriter, art critic and editor of the London-based contemporary arts magazine, ''Frieze''. The Australian band Falling Joys, whose lead singer is her sister Susie Higgie, released the song "Jennife ...

and

Jonathan Watkins Jonathan Watkins (born 1957) is an English curator, and the former Director of the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Watkins emigrated to Australia with his family in 1969 and studied Philosophy and History of Art at the University of ...

. * ''Hurvin Anderson: Subtitles'',

, New York, 2011. Text by

Matthew Higgs Matthew Higgs (born 1964) is an English artist, curator, writer and publisher. His contribution to UK contemporary art has included the creation of ''Imprint 93'', a series of artists’ editions featuring the work of artists such as Martin Creed ...

. * ''Hurvin Anderson a View of the Rio Cobre'',

, London, 2006. Text by Ian A. C. Dejardin.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, Hurvin 1965 births English people of Jamaican descent 20th-century British painters English male painters 21st-century British painters Black British artists Alumni of the Royal College of Art People from Birmingham, West Midlands Living people British contemporary artists