ARTIST CV
EDUCATION
1991-92 Foundation: Middlesex Polytechnic
1992-95 Goldsmiths College BA (Hons) Fine Art
2020-present HEA membership
ONE PERSON (SOLO) EXHIBITIONS
2020
Skin Deep, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Lissone, Italy
2019
ALEXIS HARDING: 60 paintings Survey Exhibition, Watson Farley & Williams, curated by Coombs Contemporary
2018
Passing Through: small selected works 2008-2018, Peninsular project space, Singapore
2016
Stirrings Still: Luca Tommasi, Milan (catalogue)
2015
Alexis Harding, H2M-Espace d’art contemporain, Bourg-en-Bresse, France
2013
Alexis Harding In Progress: Nunnery Gallery, London
2012
Fill Line, Platform A Gallery, Middlesborough, UK
Long Room Drying Depot, Two Rooms Gallery, New Zealand
Substance and Accident, Mummery + Schnelle, London
2011
Tondos and Bi-Products, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
Clockwise Stoppages, Gallerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart
2009
Bi-product Depositories, Mummery + Schnelle, London
Broken Lines, Galleria Marabini, Milan
2007
Depthplunge, Mummery + Schnelle, London
2006
Twisting True, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin (catalogue)
Alexis Harding: New Paintings, Verein allerArt, Bludenz, Austria
2004
Alexis Harding Paintings, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan
2003
Painting by the skin of your eyes, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London (catalogue)
2002
Skins, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin (catalogue)
Alexis Harding: Galerie Katharina Krohn, Basel
2001
Alexis Harding: New Paintings, Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon
2000
New Paintings: Andrew Mummery Gallery, London
1998
Alexis Harding Solo Show, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London (catalogue)
Banjaxed! Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
1997
Project Room, Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Cuts, Matthiesen Gallery, London (curated by Alexis Harding)
Royal Academy Autumn Show, London
2019
Skin Deep: Alexis Harding, Daniel Sturgis, Sean Cannaghan. Antonella Cattani, Bolzano, Italy
Tribute to Leonardo, Luca Tommasi, Milan
Fully Awake 4.6, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
Stairway to Heaven, Watson Farley & Williams, Curated by Coombs Contemporary
Substantifs, Arthouse1 gallery, London
2018
Premio Lissone, ‘Premio MAC’, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Lissone, Italy
FLOW, OBS Gallery, Kent
Surfaced: painting and materiality in the screen environment, Thames Side Studio, London
2017
The Extended Field: Mark Francis and Alexis Harding, Luca Tommasi, Milan
Show us your Process, House Of St Barnabas, Soho, London
In Abstracto: Summer Group Show, Luca Tommasi, Milan
2016
Drying Depot: Group Show selected by Alexis Harding. Trinity Buoy Wharf, London
Summer Show: Luca Tommasi, Milan
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Charlie Smith Gallery, London
2015
Robert Combas and Alexis Harding, H2M-Espace d’art contemporain, Bourg-en-Bresse, France
Forgetting the Future: Entropy in the reflective age, Torrance Art Museum, CA, US
Tondo Time, UEL Gallery, selected by Alexis Harding
Remember, St John church, Bethnal Green, London
Fall of the Rebel Angels, Venice
White Out, Eagle Gallery, London
Contemporary British Abstraction, SE9 Container Gallery, London
Borderline (beyond a rationale aesthetic) C&C Gallery, London
Real Painting, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Playpaint, Thames Side Gallery, Woolwich, London
2014
Somewhat Abstract: Nottingham Contemporary, UK, curated by Alex Farquarson
Royal Academy Summer Show 2014, UK
Faszination Fabre, Kunthaus Fursten Feldbruck, Germany
(detail) H project Space, Bangkok, Transition Gallery, London, Usher Gallery, Lincoln
Colour: Move! Galerie Renate Bender, Munich
L.A-London, Mind the Gap, Autonomie Gallery, L.A
Student/Tutor Survey East London, The Miller, London
Straddle the line, APT, London
Group Show: Mummery+Schnelle Gallery, London
2013
Painting Two: Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2012
Painting: Pulled, Stretched, Revealed, SumarriaLunn Gallery, London
Turps Banana, Vigo Gallery, London
Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy, London
1/2 Cut, The Lion and Lamb, London
Solo presentation with Gallerie Hollenbach at The Solo Project, Basel
Malerie: Painting as object. Transition Gallery, London, touring to Newcastle
2011
Royal Academy Summer show, London
What If It’s All True, What Then?, Mummery + Schnelle, London
Model Vs Reality, Fold Gallery, London, selected by Alexis Harding
Absorbency Retreat, AVA Gallery, University of East London, London (curated by Alexis Harding)
Material Worlds: Contemporary Art Society Auction, Victoria House, London
2010
Non-identical abstraction engine, ACME Gallery, Los Angeles
LAYERS, RETROSPECTIVE, John Moores Painting Prize Show, Seongnam Art Centre Cube Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Solo presentation with Gallerie Hollenbach at Art Karlsruhe
Collecting the New: Recent Acquisitions to the IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy, London
Exhibitionism: The Art of Display, Temporary Wet Painting No 11, Courtauld Institute, London.
2009
Supersurface FX, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart
The Path of Most Resistance, OCAD Professional Gallery, Ontario, Canada
Getting Nowhere, Galleria Gentili, Prato (curated by Lorenzo Bruni)
Turps: Part One, Galleria Marabini, Milan, (curated by Marcus Harvey & Peter Jones)
Turps: Part Two, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, (curated by Marcus Harvey & Peter Jones)
2008
…same as it ever was: Painting at Chelsea 1990-2007, University of the Arts, London (curated by Clyde Hopkins)
2007
Painting in the Noughties, Letterkenny, Ireland
Driven, Fieldgate Gallery, London
Strange Geography, Kingsgate Gallery, London
British Painting, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart
Paint, Two Rooms Gallery, New Zealand
2006
Linda Aloysius, Alexis Harding, Warren Neidich, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London
2005
About Painting II, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart
Time Share, Eagle Gallery, London
Tower of Babel, LAF, London
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
Remarkable, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London
Alexis Harding and Peter Lynch, Galerie Katharina Krohn, Basel
Alexis Harding and Andrew Bick, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart
The Red Carpet, Kunst in Schloss Untergröningen, Untergröningen, Germany
Controlled, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Bury St Edmunds
2004
John Moores 23: exhibition of contemporary painting, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (First Prize Winner)
Painting as Process: re-evaluating Painting, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore (curated by Eugene Tan)
Works on Paper, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart
In the Time of Shaking, IMMA, Dublin
2003
Colour Chart, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
Before and After Science, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan
About Painting, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart
Vacant, Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland
Drawn to be Alive, Hales Gallery, London, The Drawing Room, London
2002
Last Chance to Paradise, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London
Prima Facie, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, US
The Day I Had No Cigar, Platform Gallery, London
The Image in Use, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria
Shimmering Substance, Arnolfini, Bristol, and Cornerhouse, Manchester
Andrew Mummery@Collective, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
2001
Showcase: No. 5, Courtauld Institute, London
British Abstract Painting 2001, Flowers East, London
Sue Arrowsmith, Maria Chevska, Alexis Harding, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart
Croma, Galerie Kröhn, Badenweiler, Germany
2000
British Art: Not Enough, VELAN, Turin. Curated by Victor de Circasia.
Mali Morris/Alexis Harding, Pump House Gallery, London
Painting in Europe: different perspectives, Premio Michetti 2000, Francavilla al mare (Chieti), Italy (Curated by Gianni Romano)
Movin’ On Up (Part I), Andrew Mummery Gallery, London
Colour Codes, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
1999
Super-Abstr-Action, The Box Associati, Turin and Les Filles du Calvaire art contemporain, Paris
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 21, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Bick, de Goede, Harding, Heath, Simpson, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart
Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Fantastic Overload, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
Hoxton New Music Days exhibition, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London (with Maria Chevska and composers Deirdre Gribbin & Peter Wiegold
1998
Still, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London
first eleven, The NatWest Art Prize (short-listed artist), Lothbury Gallery, London
1997
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 20, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Stepping Up, Andrew Mummery 33 Great Sutton Street, London
Finish, Spacex Gallery Exeter (with Ian Davenport/Jason Martin/Jane Harris)
1996
Loaded, curated by Terry Shave, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (with Victoria Morton, Richard Wright, Cathy Wilkes, Mark Hammond)
Small Truths, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton. Touring to Todd Gallery, London; Leeds City Art Galleries and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Arts, Sunderland. Curated by Nick de Ville and Jill Sheridan
Die Yuppie Scum, curated by Martin Maloney, Karsten Schubert Gallery, London
Wet Paint, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
New Contemporaries ’96, Tate Gallery Liverpool and Camden Arts Centre, London
Nine Lives, Alternative Arts Space 26 Chiltern Street, London
ART96 London Contemporary Art Fair, exhibition curated by Andrew Mummery
1995
Painting, Alexis Harding/Yinka Shonibare, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Multiple Orgasm, Lost in Space Gallery, Martin Maloney, London
Group Show, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
CATALOGUES, Texts/Reviews/Press
2020
Skin Deep, Exhibition Catalogue, with new Texts by Ben Street, Ivan Quaroni and David Ryan
Cuts, Exhibition Guide
2018
FLOW, OBS Gallery, Kent, [Exhibition Catalogue]
Passing Through, Singapore, Exhibition Guide
2017
The Extended Field, with text by Published by Silvana Editoriale.2017. [Exhibition Catalogue]
2016
Stirrings Still, with text by Stefano Castelli, Published by Silvana Editoriale.2016 [Exhibition Catalogue]
2012-15 To follow
2011
What If It’s All True? What Then? At Mummery + Schnelle, London. Catalogue Published by Mummery projects. 2011. ISBN 978-0-9569040-0-3 [Exhibition Catalogue]
2009
Godfrey, Tony, ‘Painting Today’ (Phaidon Press Ltd, 31 Oct 2009, ISBN 978-0714846316)
2007
Townsend, Chris, ‘On Depthplunge’, a new series of work by Alexis Harding’ (London: Mummery + Schnelle, October 2007). [unpublished: c/o Alexis Harding]
2006
Townsend, Chris, New Art From London (London: Thames & Hudson, 2006)
Holman, Martin, ‘Twisted into True’ (Dublin: Rubicon Gallery, 2006). [Exhibition Catalogue]
2004
Tan, Eugene, Painting as Process: Re-evaluating Painting (Singapore: Earl Lu Gallery, 2004). [Exhibition Catalogue]
Treuherz, Julian, ed., John Moores 23 (Liverpool: Walker Art Gallery, 2004). Exhibition Catalogue]
2003
Charlesworth, J. J, ‘Painting by the skin of your eyes’ (London: Andrew Mummery Gallery, 2003).
[Exhibition Catalogue c/o Alexis Harding]
Marella, Primo, ed., Before and After Science (Milano: Marella Arte Contemporanea, 2003). [Exhibition Catalogue]
2002
Roberts, Catsou/ Schwabsky, Barry Shimmering Substance/View Finder (Bristol: Arnolfini, 2002).
[Exhibition Catalogue]
2001
Collings, Matthew, British Abstract Painting 2001 (London: Momentum, 2001). [Exhibition Catalogue]
2000
Busto, Andrea, Super-Abstr-Action (Torino: The Box, 2000). [Exhibition Catalogue]
1998
Gisbourne, Mark, ‘…Not fade away,’ (London: Andrew Mummery Gallery, 1998). [Exhibition Catalogue]
Harding, Alexis, ‘Rhythm For Reasons’ in John Moores 20 (Liverpool: Walker Art Gallery, 1998), p.68-69. [Exhibition Catalogue]
MacRitchie, Lynn, First Eleven: The Natwest Art Prize 1998 (London: NatWest Group, 1998). [Exhibition Catalogue]
1997
Sheridan, Jill, Nicholas de Ville and Stephen Foster, ed., Small Truths: Repetition and the Obsessional in Contemporary Art (Southampton: John Hansard Gallery, 1997). [Exhibition Catalogue]
1996
Craddock, Sacha and Richard Shone, ed., New Contemporaries ’96, (Liverpool: Tate Gallery, 1996). [Exhibition Catalogue]
COLLECTIONS
Arts Council of England
Bank of Spain
Linklaters
Caldic Collection, Rotterdam
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
National Museums, Liverpool, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Simmons & Simmons, London
UBS, London
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, London
David Roberts Collection, London
*Private Collections Internationally