ANDY HARPER
Born in 1971, United Kingdom
Lives and works in Cornwall, UK
Education
1989-90 Torquay Tech, Foundation Course in Art and Design
1990-93 Brighton Polytechnic, B.A. Fine Art Painting
1993-95 Royal College of Art, M.A. Fine Art Painting
1997-99 Middlesex University, M.A. Visual Culture
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 Parallel Botany, Carol Corey Fine Art, Kent
2021 Parallel Botany, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London
2019 What remains to be said, Nancy Toomey Fine Art, San Francisco
2018 Plastic Fox, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London
2017 Andy Harper, Lux Institute of Art, San Diego
2016 Sol, Danese Corey, New York
Soft Errors, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London
2014 The Pleasures of Thinking, Morgen Contemporary, Berlin 2013 The Angels of History, The Page Gallery, Seoul Archaeology in Reverse, Newlyn Art Gallery
Festival Britain, James Freeman Gallery, London 2012 New Paintings, Danese, New York 2011 Towards a New Architecture, The Page Gallery, Seoul Truthwall, Morgen Contemporary, Berlin 2010 An Orrery for Other Worlds, Aspex, Portsmouth 2009 Danese Gallery, New York
2008 Silent Generation, One in the Other, London
2007 The Ballad of Mistah Bones, Frost and Reed, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Abstraction: Cool and Hot, Danese Corey, New York
2019 Angels, James Freeman Gallery, London
A Solar Umbrella, Gallery 46, London
2018 Summer, Nancy Toomey Fine Art, San Francisco
2017 referenced, Danese Corey, New York
2015 The First Humans, Pumphouse Gallery, London 2014 Silence, ESMoA, El Segundo Museum of Art, Los Angeles 2012 Merge Festival, Bankside, London Looking Glass, Bernhard Bischoff and Partner Galerie, Bern 2011 In the Presence of Light, Danese, New York Latitude Contemporary Art Prize, (winner), Latitude Festival, Suffolk 2010 Twilight Zone, with Minjung Kim and Chrystel Lebas, Galerie Morgen, Berlin 2009 Now you see it, Cafe Gallery Projects, Southwark Park, London Wall Painting, FringMK, Milton Keynes Forces of Nature, Danese Gallery, New York Pattern Recognition, Leicester City Art Gallery Wastelands, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall 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
2006-05 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
Collections (selection)
J Sainsbury plc, Worcester
Accenture plc, Dublin
Fidelity Investments, Boston, U.S.
Lodeveans Collection, London
West Collection, U.S.
Government Art Collection, British
The Office of Public Works, Ireland
Pigozzi Collection, Geneva
Neil Tennant Collection
Terence Conran Collection
Peter Gabriel Collection