Biography
Born 1978
Lives and works in London, UK
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
Frieze Projects East (with Nicholas Byrne), London, UK *
Solo Show, Firstsite, Colchester, UK *
Two Person show, Peles Empire, London, UK & Cluj, RO (with Julie Verhoeven) *
2011
Open Set (series of performances and events), IBID Projects, London, UK
2009
Anthea Hamilton, IBID Projects, London, UK
Calypsos (with Nicholas Byrne), Studio Voltaire at Zoo Art Fair, London, UK
Turnhalle, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, DE
2008
Gymnasium, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
2007
Cut-outs, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL
Anthea Hamilton and Thomas Kratz, Mary Mary, Glasgow, UK
Art Statements, Art Basel 38, Basel, CH
2006
Athens, IBID Projects, London, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Glaze, Curated by Gerge Henry Longly, Chez Valentin Paris, FR *
Oil Tanks, Tate Modern, London, UK * (performance)
Phases Wallspace, New York, US
Olympic Poster Campaign, London 2012, UK
2011
Frieze Film 2011, Frieze Foundation, UK
One Person’s Materialism is Another Person’s Romanticism (curated by Anthea Hamilton,
Lorna Macintyre and Rallou Panagioutou), ReMap 3, Athens, GR
There are two sides to every coin and two sides to your face, curated by Carlos Cardenas, Galerie Xippas, Paris, FR
Probable, preferable, plausible, possible Galerie Dohyang Lee (curated by Jill Gasparina), Paris, FR
In the Belly of the Whale (curated by Rosie Cooper and Ariella Yedgar), Cartel, London, UK
Freies Material, Weltraum, Munich, DE
Savage Messiah, Rob Tufnell Gallery, London, UK
Tuck Box, St Giles Church, London, UK
2010
Arcadian Night, Racebrook Lodge, NY State, US
Boyfriend Material, LiangWest with Prem Sahib, London, UK
Art International Radio, International Project Space, Birmingham, UK
Newspeak: British Art Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Bold Tendencies 4, Hannah Barry Gallery, London, UK
Bendable Poseable, Brown, London, UK
me Collectors Room, The Olbricht Collection, Berlin, DE
2009
Artist’s Logo, Nottingham Contemporary, UK
Helmut Newton’s Ladies Night, GSK Contemporary at Royal Academy, London, UK (screening)
Small Collections, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
Le Verite Tropicale (curated by Jill Gasparina and Caroline Soyez-Petithomme,
2008 M25 Sobre Londres, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, ES
Anthea Hamilton and Thomas Kratz, Parkhaus, Düsseldorf, DE
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Art Now: Strange Solution, Tate Britain, London, UK
2007
Blackberrying, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, DK
Charlotte Thrane & Anthea Hamilton, The Hex, London, UK
Judith, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, US
2006
Shaking Smooth Spaces, Haptic/Betonsalon, Paris, FR
the air line, The Reliance, London, UK
Hybrid, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt, DE
Live Screen, Sadler’s Wells, London, UK
2005
Ich Bin Eine Sachenäufschießse, i-cabin, London, UK
Video London, Espai Ubu, Barcelona, ES
SVO5, Studio Voltaire, London, UK
Electric Ladyland, Umformwerk, Berlin, DE
2003
London Calling, Con|temporary, Berlin, DE
Minimise Culture, Floating IP, Manchester, UK
2002
From Tarzan to Rambo: in Focus, Tate Modern, London, UK
Yas Kra Yas? (Who is Who?) IBID Projects, Vilnius, LT
2001
Immediate 2, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011
Anthea Hamilton and Alice Channer in conversation, Full Frontal: Because We Can’t Think in Three Dimensions, Mousse Magazine, Issue 33, April-May 2012
Martin Herbert, Anthea Hamilton – Body Image (feature article), Frieze, June/July
Gabriel Coxhead, V22: Young London, Time Out, 20 June 2011
Coline Milliard, New Comets – Five London Artists to Watch, artinfo.com, 3 Feb 2011
2010
Laura Maclean-Ferris, Newspeak: British Art Now London, The Independent, Nov 2010
What Does the Solo Show Mean to You?, Solo Show, Royal College of Art
Martin Herbert, Bendable Poseable, Time Out, May
2009
Susan Finlay, Travelling Hopefully, The Coelacanth Journal, Issue 4, Winter 2009
Francesca Gavin Frieze Week 2009: The Rest DazedDigital.com 10/09
Claire Moulèneles Anthea Hamilton Les Inrockuptibles, September 2009
Sören Schmeling Sportliches Betrachten Regioartline Kunstmagazin, Feb
2008
London Focus: Artist Dictionary, Flash Art International, Oct, p92
Coline Milliard; Anthea Hamilton: Gymnasium, frieze.com, June
Door Ilse van Rijn; Anthea Hamilton, Cut-outs, Metropolis M, Feb/Mar
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery
2007
Anthea Hamilton and Thomas Kratz, Alexander Kennedy, The List
2006
Gilda Williams; Anthea Hamilton, Artforum, Nov
Hybrid, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 9 Sep
Gesine Borcherdt; Anthea Hamilton, Monopol, Nr. 5, Oct/Nov
Beck’s Futures 2006, Exhibition Catalogue, ICA Exhibitions Publishing
2005
Electric Ladyland, Exhibition Catalogue
Video London, El Pais, 8 Dec
2003
London Calling, Die Zeit, 23 May
2002
Sally O’Reilly; Less is a Bore Humans Need More!, Time Out, 14 Aug
JJ Charlesworth; Fuelling Your Bourgeois Lifestyle…, 100 Reviews (3)