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Alex Hartley

(British, born 1963)

Alex Hartley

Repository, 2007

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Alex Hartley

If only it could be this way, 2011

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Alex Hartley

Outlook Amazon, 2013

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Alex Hartley

City of the Sun, 2016

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Alex Hartley

Greenside (Bracken House), 2019

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Alex Hartley

The Homewood Jungle, 2019

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Alex Hartley

Pen Pits, 2019

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Alex Hartley

This isn't the Time, 2023

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Alex Hartley

Seen and Unseen, 2023

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Alex Hartley

A Frequent Returning, 2023

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Biography

Timeline

1963: Born in West Byfleet
1983 - 1984: Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts (Foundation Course)
1984 - 1990: Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts (BA Hons)
1988 - 1990: Royal College of Art (MA)
: Lives and works in London
: Awards and Comissions
: 2007 British Embassy, Moscow
: 2005 Winner of Linklaters Commission, the Barbican, London
: 2000 Winner of Sculpture at Goodwood ART2000 Commission Prize, London

Exhibitions

2008: Leeds Metropolitan Gallery (solo)
2007: Edinburgh Art Festival Exhibition, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)
: It Starts From Here, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, 21 Jun - 15 Sep
2006: PLAY: Experience the Adventure of our Cities, Urbis, Manchester 31 March - 9 Sept
: Out of Place, New Art Gallery Walsall. 29 Sept-19 Nov
: The Ship—The Art o f Climate Change, Natural History Museum, National Conservation Center Liverpool Biennale
: Renegade City: Units Moved, The Yard, Architecture Foundation, London
: The Other Pleasure, American Institute of Architects , San Francisco, Architecture + Design Gallery, San Francisco
: International Waters with Archigram, Linda Burnham, Adrianne Colburne, Ginny Cook, Matt Gerring, Alex Hartley, Tania Kovatz, David Maupin, Nam June Paik, Ed Ruscha, Chieko Shiomi, Situationists International, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco
: Don’t want to be part of your world, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)
: Miradas Y Conceptos: from the collection of Helga de Alvear, MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain April - September
2005: XS, Distrito Cuatro, Madrid
: Cape Farewell Project, Davis Langdon LLP, London
2004: Looking With/Out, East Wing Collection No.05, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, Nov-Nov
: Gifted, University of the Arts, London, July
2003: In Good Form, Recent sculpture from the Arts Council Collection, Longside Gallery Yorkshire Sculpture Park
: Contemporary Collecting: New Art for Manchester, Manchester Art Gallery
: Palazzo Delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy. June- July
: Outside, Distrito Cuatro, Madrid (solo)
2002: Art + Mountains: conquistadors of the useless, The Alpine Club, London, 20 Sept – 1 Nov
: Looking With/Out East Wing Collection No.05, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
: Case Study, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)
: Points of View, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany, Sept-Nov
: Museum as Subject, National Museum of Osaka, Japan, Sept- Dec
2001: Uncovered, The Gallery, University of Essex Gallery, U.K, Feb
: No World Without You - Reflections of Identity in New British Art, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Israel, Aug-Nov
2000: Donation, Towner Art Gallery and Museum, Eastbourne, March
: Raw, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
: Vision & Reality, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
: The Poster Show, Cabinet Gallery, London, May
: David Adjaye Associates, C.A.B.E. Offices, London (Architectural Collaboration)
1999: The Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
: Sarajevo 2000, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo
: Il Casa, Il Corpo, Il Curore, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
: Minimum,Galerie Gilles Peyroulet, Paris
: Sensation. Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Brooklyn Museum, New York
: Postcards on Photography, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge. Touring to: 1999John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (23 Feb - 11 April 1999, Site Gallery, Sheffield (25 April-6 June 1999); Camerawork, London (19 June-1 August 1999)
: Alford, Hall, Monaghan and Morris, Great Notley Primary School (Architectural Collaboration)
1998 - 1999: Sarajevo 2000, curated by Lóránd Hegyi, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna
1998: Ewan Gibbs, Alex Hartley, Jason Martin, One in the Other, London
: Close Echoes. Public Body & Artificial Space, City Gallery Prague and Kunst Halle Krems, Austria
: Fotografie als Handlung, 4. Internationale Foto-Triennale Esslingen, curated by Renate Wiehager, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen am Neckar
: Site, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall
: Sensation. Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
: Home Sweet Home,Gilles Peyroulet, Paris
: Lumen Travo, Amsterdam (solo)
: Galerie Ulrich Fiedler, Cologne (solo)
1997 - 1998: Private Face - Urban Space, organised by the Hellenic Art Galleries Association, L. Kanakakis Muncipal Gallery of Rethymnon, Crete
: Alford, Hall, Monaghan and Morris, Walsall Bus Station (Architectural Collaboration)
: Minor Sensation, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
: Sensation. Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1997: Private Face - Urban Space, organised by the Hellenic Art Galleries Association, Gasworks, Athens, Spalins Margaret Harvey Gallery, University of Hertfordshire
: James Van Damme Gallery, Brussels (solo)
: Viewer, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)
1996: Inner London, Delfina Gallery, London
: Abstract/Real, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, Austria
: Wordt Vervolgd, Lumen Travo, Amsterdam
: Espaces Construits/Espaces Critiques, FRAC Basse Normandie, Caen, France
: Fall Out, Walker Fabrik, Darmstadt, Germany
: City Limits, Cadman Studios, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-
: Young British Artists, curated by Glenn Scott Wright, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Paddington, Australia and RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
: Spacious, Alex Hartley & Willy de Sauter, Battersea Arts Centre, London
: James Van Damme Gallery, Antwerp,
: Architectures d’Artistes 2, Galerie Gilles Peyroulet, Paris
1995: Fountainhead, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)
: Galerie Gilles Peyroulet, Paris (solo)
: Conceptual Living, Rhizome, Amsterdam
: Architectures d’artistes, Gilles Peyroulet, Paris
1994: Photo ‘94, Business Design Centre, Islington, London, curated by Sarah Kent
: Bienal Martinez Guerricabeitia, Universitat de Valencia, Spain
: Notions of Space, Valentina Moncada, Rome, curated by Glenn Scott Wright
: Europa ‘94, München, Germany
: Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)
: James Van Damme Gallery, Antwerp (solo)
1993: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
1992: Anderson O’Day Gallery, London (solo)
: July, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
1991: Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
: Show Hide Show, Anderson O’Day Gallery, London
: Crossover, Anderson O’Day Gallery, London
1990: International Departures, Kavalere Kazerne, Amsterdam
: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
: TI Group
: Simmons & Simmons, London
: FRAC Basse Normandie, Caen
: Caldic Collection, Rotterdam
: De Beers Collection, London
: The Saatchi Collection, London
: Contemporary Art Society, London
: Ringier Collection, Zürich
: DG Bank, Frankfurt
: The British Embassy, Moscow
: The Bailey Collection, Toronto
: Arts Council of Great Britain
: Collections
: Deutsche Bank Collection
: Government Art Collection, London

Literature

2007: Alex Hartley, Telegraph Review, Telegraph, July 28, 2007
: Alex Hartley: not part of your world, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
: Alex Hartley, Robert Clark, The Guardian Guide
: Alex Hartley, Sue Wilson, Metro, July 30, 2007
: You have to plan it like a burglary, Susan Mansfield, The Scotsman, August 4, 2007
: Simplicity itself, Iain Gale, Scotland on Sunday, August 5, 2007
: Scaling the giddy heights, Jack Mottram, The Herald, August 8, 2007
: A slow build, Ruth Barker, BBC Collective, August 9, 2007
: A love affair with brick and mortar, Richard Cork, Financial Times, August 16, 2007
: For your eyes only, Sue Hubbard, Newstatesman, August 20, 2007
: Building tension, Rosamund West, The Skinny, August 2007
: Arts festival ready to scale new heights with climbers, Brian Ferguson, Evening News, June 6, 2007
: Alex Hartley, Caroline Ednie, Scottish Architecture, July 26, 2007
: First the good news, Duncan Macmillan, The Scotsman, August 14, 2007
2006: Step by Step, Caroline Roux, Blueprint, June 2006
: Pole Positions: Art’s Arctic Adventures, Martin Herbert, Modern Painters, April 2006
: Art Review, Fisun Guner, Metro, 8 September
: At least we’ll be able to find our way to the show on time, Tom Dyckhoff, The Times June 28
: If only I could live here, Alex Hartley, Next Level, Issue 7
: Buildering at the Barbican, Peter Aspen, The Times, August 5
: Shacks in Bleak Landscapes, Ellie Duffy, Building Design, September
: Alex Hartley, Sarah Kent, Time Out, 21 September
: Our selection A-Z: London, The Art Newspaper, September
: Alex Hartley, Skye Sherwin, I-D, October
: Telling Tales, Charlotte Mullins, Vogue, October
: Alex Hartley, Peter Chapman, The Information (Supp to Independent), 24 September
: Alex Hartley, Mark Rappolt, Modern Painters, November
: Alex Hartley, Jane Neal, Art in America, December
2005: Uncertainties of the topographic?, Liz Wells, Source, December
2004: LA Climbs, Rebecca Barnes, Dazed and Confused, April
: LA Climbs, Michael T Jarvis, Los Angeles Times Magazine, June 13
: Building in Leaps and Bounds, Tom Dyckhoff, The Times, January 6
: Alex Hartley, Outside, Lorenzo Fusi, Distrito Cu4tro, Galeria de Arte, Madrid
2003: LA Climbs, Alternative Uses for Architecture, Black Dog Publishing
2002: Imaging Architecture, Daniel Kurjakovic,Werk, Bauen & Wohnen, Switzerland, March
: No World Without you, Andrew Renton, Keith Lawrence & Nechama Gottlieb, Herzliya Museum of Modern Art, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, The British Council, London
: Eastwing Collection No.05, Courtauld Institute of Art, in association with Thames & Hudson, London
: Museum as Subject, National Museum of Osaka, Japan, Sept- Dec
: ArtAction, Environmental Justice Foundation London, Sotheby’s, London
: Sculpture at Goodwood British Contemporary Sculpture 02/03, Ann Elliot / Angela Dyer, Goodwood Sculpture Park, Chichester
: The Gallery: Uncovered, k. Chatten, P. Sexton, University of Essex, Colchester
: Rule Britannia, Ha’Artez Magazine, Israel, Aug 31
: Alex Hartley,Tracey Moffatt, Annika von Hausswolff ,Fisun Güner, Metro Life, March 27
: Tracey Moffatt, Alex Hartley, Annika von Hausswolff, Sally O’ Reilly, Art Review, April 17
: Richard Cork’s five best London exhibitions. The Times Play, April 7
: Shifting Space, Kester Rattenbury,Building Design, April 6
: He’s a tease, The Guardian Space, March 22
2001: LA Climbs, Alex Wiltshire, ICON, February
: The ills that flesh is heir to. Richard Cork, The Times, April 18
: Art 2000, Business Design Centre, London
: A New Embassy for the 20th Century, The British Embassy, Moscow, Foreign Commission Office, London
: The Saatchi Gift to the Arts Council Collection, Kate Stephens, Hayward Gallery Publishing, London
2000: The Architectural Review - Bus Station, The Architectural Review London
: Kjeld Kjeldsen etc., Vision og Virkelighed (Vision and Reality), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
: Sculpture at Goodwood, British Contemporary Sculpture 01/02, Ann Elliot / Angela Dyer,
: Exhibition 2000., Claire Allfree, Metro Life, Jan 19
1999: The Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
: Art at Ringier, 1995-1998, Beatrix Ruf, Ringier AG
: Young British Art. The Saatchi Decade, Booth-Clibborn Editions, London
: La Casa, il corpo, il cuore, Lóránd Hegvi, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien
: The Architects’ Journal, Educating Essex, Isabel Allen, London
: The glass house that Alex built. by Richard Cork, The Times, Dec 29
: Art of the Epoch, 1997-1999, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo
1998 - 1999: 1998-1999 Postcards on Photography, edited by Naomi Salaman and Ronnie Simpson, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery
: 4. Internationale Foto-Triennale Esslingen 1998. Fotografie als Handlung / Photography as Concept, Renate Wiehager, Cantz Verlag
: Alex Hartley at Victoria Miro Gallery, Richard Reynolds, Flash Art, Mar-Apr
: Alex Hartley, Victoria Miro, William Feaver, ARTnews, Feb
1998: Close Echoes. Public Body & Artificial Space, Olga Malá, Wolgang Denk, Karel Srp, City1 Gallery Prague and Kunst Halle Krems, Austria
: Sarajevo 2000, Lóránd Hegyi, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
1997: It’s a Sensation! But is it art? Everything you need to know about the London art scene, but were afraid to ask. Special supplement, Time Out, No. 1412, Sep
: The spaces in between, David Barrett, RA Magazine, No. 56, Oct
: Alex Hartley, Viewer, Mark Currah, Time Out, No. 1421, Nov 12-19
: Sensation. Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Brooks Adams, Lisa Jardine, Martin Maloney, Norman Rosenthal, Richard Shone, Royal Academy of Arts in association with Thames and Hudson, London
: Abstract Real, Lóránd Hegyi, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
: Private Face. Urban Space, Henry Hughes & Katerina Gregos
: Simon Myers, Building Design, April
: Sasha Craddock, The Times, April 2
: Spacious, Kurt Vanbelleghem, Battersea Arts Centre, London, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke
1996: Made in London, Richard Shone/Stuart Evans, Simmons & Simmons, London
1995: Dominique Barque, Art Press, No.207, Nov
: La Vie dyes Arts, Lye Figaro, Sept 19
1994: Europa ‘94, Junge Europäische Kunst in München, Stuttgart
: 3a Biennal Martinez Guerricabeitia, Various, Universitat de Valencia
: Shark Infested Waters: The Saatchi Collection of British Art in the 1990’s, Sarah Kent Zwemmer, London
: Richard Shone, Burlington Magazine, August
1993: Caldic Collection. EEN Verzameling,Verstilde, JNA Van Caldenborgh
: Sarah Kent, Time Out, July 7-14
: Young British Artists, Saatchi Collection Catalogue
: Andrew Renton, Flash Art, No.165, Summer
: Patrick Marmion,What’s On, June
: Will Harvey,City Limits, April
1992: Publication for exhibition at Anderson O’Day Gallery, David Batchelor, April
: Charles Hall, Arts Review, May
: Sarah Kent,Time Out, May
: London Summer Round-Up, Mary Anne Francis, Art Monthly, July
: Show Hide Show, Charles Hall, Arts Review, Aug 9-23
: Someone to Watch Over Me, Michael Bracewell, Frieze, Issue 1
1991: Show Business, Sarah Kent, Time Out, Jul 31- Aug 7
: Show Hide Show, Natasha Edwards, Artscribe, Nov/Dec
: Show, Hide, Show, Andrew Renton, Anderson O’Day Gallery, London

Alex Hartley

(British, born 1963)

Alex Hartley

Alex Hartley

Alex Hartley

Alex Hartley

Alex Hartley

Alex Hartley

Alex Hartley

Alex Hartley

Alex Hartley

Alex Hartley

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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