Programme
Hurvin Anderson
- Venue: Zoom
- Start: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 17:00:00 GMT
- End: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 18:30:00 GMT
Hurvin Anderson was born in 1965 in Birmingham and lives and works between London and Cambridgeshire.
Hurvin Anderson’s paintings explore spaces occupied by Caribbean immigrants, such as public parks, gardens, barbershops and domestic interiors, which function as sites for both social gathering and economic enterprise. These settings represent the artist’s personal and cultural memories of functional spaces and shared experiences of the Caribbean. Born in Birmingham, United Kingdom, to parents of Jamaican descent, Anderson studied at the Wimbledon School of Art followed by the Royal College of Art, where he explored the relevance of figuration in a world dominated by abstraction and Conceptual art. Since then, he has pursued both landscape and abstract painting, exploring his own relationships to place by recalling social history and memory.
Hurvin Anderson has exhibited extensively, including at the Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2019), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2016); Nottingham Arts Centre, Nottingham (2016); Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis (2015); Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2013); Thomas Dane Gallery, London (2013); Tate Modern London (2009); and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2009). He has participated in group exhibitions at, among others, the Perez Art Museum, Miami (2015); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2013); David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen (2011); and Saatchi Gallery, London (2010). Forthcoming exhibitions include a solo-exhibition at the Arts Council Chicago and the British Art Show 9 touring exhibition in 2021.
Hurvin Anderson was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2017.