Hew Locke

(Scottish, born 1959)

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Hew Locke

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Biography

Timeline

1959
Born in Edinburgh, Scottland
1988
Studied at Falmouth University, UK, BA (Hons) Fine Art
1994 - 1996
Received Wingate Scholarship combined with Delfina Studio Award
1994
Received MA Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London
Awarded Madame Tussauds Prize for Art
1995
Received Discerning Eye New Discovery Prize
2000
Recevied Paul Hamlyn Award
Received East International Award
Lives and works in London

Exhibitions

2015
Hew Locke Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
IWM Contemporary: Hew Locke IWM London, UK(solo exhibition)
The Tourists, HMS Belfast, London, UK(solo exhibition)
Magna Carta Commission, Runnymede Surrey, UK(solo exhibition)
Affinity Atlas, The Tang Museum, Skidmore College (forthcoming)
Colonial Afterlives, Salamanca Arts Centre, Australia (forthcoming)
2014
Hew Locke Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Beyond the Sea Wall, Hales Gallery, London, UK(solo exhibition)
Give and Take, performance in the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London. Part of Up Hill Down Hall(solo exhibition)
Up Hill Down Hall – An indoor Carnival, the Tate Modern, London, UK
White Light / White Heat, The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Sculptural Forms, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
2013
Hew Locke Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
For Those in Peril on the Sea, installation at launch of Pérez Art Museum, Miami(solo exhibition)
Adrift, All Hallows by the Tower Church, Thames Festival, London(solo exhibition)
The Shadows took Shape, Studio Museum Harlem, New York, USA
Artists Make Faces, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth, UK
Characters: Portraits and People from the Arts Council Collection, Holburne Museum, Bath, UK
Glasstress, White Light / White Heat, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice & Berengo Centre for Contemporary Art and Glass, Murano
Ordinary/Extra/Ordinary, The Public, West Bromwich, West Midlands, UK
Vitalic, Hales Gallery, London
2012
Hew Locke Selected Exhibitions in 2012:
Day of the Dead Festival, a new installation titled 'Adrift' created for the Old Vic Tunnels, London 31/10-3/11/2012(solo exhibition)
Affinity Atlas, Wellin Museum of Art, USA
Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, El Museo del Barrio, New York, USA
The Queen: Art and Image, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
London Twelve, The Bell House, Prague, Czech Republic
Happy Islands, part of Prome Encuentro Bienal Arte Contemporaneo di Caribe, Aruba, West Indies
Fourth Plinth: Contemporary Monument, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London, UK
2011
Hew Locke Selected Exhibitions in 2011:
For Those in Peril on the Sea, St. Mary & St. Eanswythe Church, Folkestone Triennial(solo exhibition)
The Nameless, KAdE Kunsthal, Amersfoort, The Netherlands(solo exhibition)
Are We There Yet?, The Gallery, the Arts University College at Bournemouth, UK(solo exhibition)
Starchitect, ArtSway, Hampshire & as part of The New Forest Pavillion, Venice Biennale(solo exhibition)
Preferred Stock, as part of Intercourse, a day-long event at the ICA, London Folkestone Triennial 2011
Global Caribbean, Little Haiti Cultural Center, Miami, USA; MIAM, Sète, France & Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Puerto Rico
2010
Hew Locke Selected Exhibitions in 2010:
The Nameless, Hales Gallery, London, UK(solo exhibition)
Sikandar, The Fourth Plinth Commission, Trafalgar Square, London, UK
Holy Toy, Sølvberget Galleri, Stavanger, Norway
Global Caribbean, MIAM, Sète, France
Behind the Mask, The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK
Adaptation, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
2009
Hew Locke Selected Exhibitions in 2009:
The Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Greece
Mythologies, Haunch of Venison gallery, London
New commission for the San Juan Triennal, Puerto Rico
South South, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto
2008
Hew Locke Selected Exhibitions in 2008:
The Kingdom of the Blind, Rivington Palace, London, UK(solo exhibition)
How do you want me?, Hales Gallery, London, UK(solo exhibition)
21: Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum, New York
2nd Life, Museum of Arts & Design, New York
New commission for the Guangzhou Triennial, China
Now Then, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
2007
Hew Locke Selected Exhibitions in 2007:
Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Alien Nation, Institute of Contemporary Arts and inIVA, Tours to the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art, Norwich, UK
Drawing on Sculpture - Graphic Interventions on the Photographic Surface, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds UK
Installation for Belsay Hall, Northumberland, UK
Drawing 2007, The Drawing Room, London, UK
2006
Hew Locke Selected Exhibitions in 2006:
Restoration, commission for Spike Island exhibited at St Thomas the Martyr's Church, Bristol, UK(solo exhibition)
The Valencia Biennale, Spain
Scarecrow, Evangelos Averoff-Tositsas Foundation, Metsovo, Greece
British Art Show 6: Touring venues around Britain, UK
Et Maintenant? - What Now? Crac Alsace, Altkirch, France

Public Collections

Perez Art Museum, Miami
The Tate Gallery collection, London
The Arts Council of England Collection, London
The Brooklyn Museum collection, New York
The Arnold Lehman collection, New York
The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
Collection of Eileen and Peter Norton, Santa Monica
The New Art Gallery, Walsall
The Victoria & Albert Museum Drawing Collection, London
The British Museum, London The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
The Government Art Collection, London
Various private collections

Literature

2011
Art, Power, Diplomacy-Government Art Collection, The Untold Story, Published by Scala
Critical Dictionary, edited by David Evans, Published by Black Dog Publishing
Sanctuary: Britain's Artists and their Studios, TransGlobe Publishing
2010
Auto Focus: The Self-Portrait in Contemporary Photography, by Susan Bright, Thames and Hudson
Sculpture Now, Edited by Jon Wood, published by Tate
2009
South0South: Interruptions & Encounters, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Canada
Spacecraft II, published by Gestalten, Germany
Hew Locke: How do you want me? published by Editions Jannink, Paris
2008
Collage: Assembling Contemporary Art, published by Black Dog Publishing
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Arts & Design, New York
2007
Infinite Islands-Contemporary Caribbean Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art
Drawing on Sculpture – Graphic Interventions on the Photographic Surface, stand-alone essay published by the Henry Moore Institute
2006
The Portrait Now, published by the National Portrait Gallery, UK
Et Maintenant - What Now? Exhibition catalogue, published by Crac Alsace
2005
Hew Locke, monograph, published by New Art Gallery Walsall, UK
2004
Cooper, Diana, Hew Locke, catalogue to accompany exhibition at The Drawing Room, London
Modern British Sculpture, Schiffer Publishing
2003
Installation Art in the New Millennium, Thames and Hudson
1999
Lucie-Smith, Edward, East 2000 Catalogue, published by Norwich Art School Art Today, published by Phaidon