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Hannah Brown (b. 1977, Salisbury, England)
Lives and works in London

 

EDUCATION

2004 - 2006: MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London
2002 - 2003: PGCE Art and Design (14 - 19), Institute of Education, London
1996 - 1999: First Class BA Hons, Fine Art Sculpture, CSM, London
1995 - 1996: Art and Design Foundation Course, Exeter College, Devon

EXHIBITIONS

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2024

Hollow Pond, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, USA

2023
The Armory Show, Solo booth, Presents section, NY, USA

2022
I Stood Still, Frestonian Gallery, London

2020
This Muddy Eden, two-person show with Christoper Orr, Broadway Gallery, Lecthworth

2019
Before Long, Union Gallery, London

2017
Nocturnes, Cross Gallery, Dublin
Lain fallow for too Long, dalla Rosa gallery, London

2016
Finding Forms, two-person show with Cara Thrope, Cross Gallery, Dublin

2015
A Lane to the Land, PayneShurvell at 71 Blandford Street, London
Not Just Yet, Cross Gallery, Dublin
The Winter Girls, Milton Keynes Arts Centre, Milton Keynes

2014
Hannah Brown: Selected Paintings, PayneShurvell at The House of St Barnabas

2012
The Unseen Landscape, PayneShurvell, London
Time Hangs Heavy, The China Shop Gallery, Oxford

2011
Encounter, two-person show with Gary Colclough, Gallery Primo Alonso, London

2009
Hannah Brown, Vital Arts at Barts Gallery, London

2006
Hannah Brown, Gimpel Fils, London

2004
Life and Love, Great Eastern Hotel, London

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024
Arcadia and Elsewhere, James Cohan Gallery, NY, USA

2023
Twenty Year Anniversary Exhibition, Union Gallery, London
Arcadia for All? Rethinking Landscape Painting Now, The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds and Attenborough Arts Centre, University of Leicester
Entwined: Plants in Contemporary Painting, 
20-21 Visual Arts CentreScunthorpe
Hinterland, 
Curated by Jane Neal at John Martin Gallery, Cromwell Place, London 

2022
Expanding Landscapes: Painting after Land Art, Hestercombe Gallery, Somerset
Entwined: Plants in Contemporary Painting,
Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield
Crossing Boundaries,
APT Gallery, London
If you forget my name, you will go astray
Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, USA
Lustrum Frestonian,
Frestonian Gallery, London
Ground, Messums Wiltshire, Tisbury, Wiltshire
Wish You Were Here, Terrace Gallery, London
Regeneration, Informality Gallery, Oxfordshire
Arcadia, Home House, London, curated by Off Shoot Arts in collaboration with A Space for Art

2021
The Forest, Parafin, London
Companions, Union Pacific, London
Between the bliss and me,
Tin Man Art, London
Unkempt, Messums Wiltshire, Tisbury, Wiltshire
John Moores Painting Prize 2020,
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
A Deeper Shade of Green, University Hospital Galway, Ireland
Holding Hands, Union Gallery, London

2020
The Green Fuse, Frestonian Gallery, London
Everyday, curated by Ben Walker, Terrace Gallery, London

2019
Betwixt and Between, Arthouse1, London
The Immaculate Dream, Collyer Bristow, London
Flat + Earth, Sidney and Matilda, Sheffield

2018
The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London
LAND//SCAPE, Lone Wolf Projects, Exchange Berlin, Kuehlhaus, Berlin
Kristian Day Papercuts, Saatchi Gallery, London
The Annotated Reader, curated by Ryan Gander and Jonathan P Watts, Cork Street Galleries, London
The Waiting Room, curated by Karen David, Wimbledon Space, London
Ash Archive, The Brewery Tap, Folkstone, Kent
New Relics, curated by Kate Terry and Tim Ellis, Thames Side Studios, London
Mindscapes, bo.lee gallery, London

2017
The Arborealists: The Art of Trees, Bermondsey Project Space, London
Below the Surface,
OVADA, Oxford
A Table of Elements, Curated by Graham Crowley and Juilan Perry, Greystone Industries, Suffolk
Silence Un-scence, Lewisham Art House, London
A5-n, dalla Rosa gallery, London

2016
Solid Gone in the Back Room, Holdrons Arcade, London
Landing, Kristian Day at Herrick Gallery, London
Marmite Prize for Painting, Block 336, London and Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland
The Arborealists, St. Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington

2015
Blow Up, Parafin, London
London Painting Survey, Barbican Arts Trust, London
The Arborealists, Mottisfont Abbey, Hampshire
The East London Painting Prize, Bow ArtsTrust, London

2014
Five Painters, Cross Gallery, Dublin
The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
Arboretum, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
The Ruskin Prize Recording Britain Now, at Millennium Gallery, Sheffield and Trinity Buoy Wharf, London
The East London Painting Prize, Bow ArtsTrust, London
This Bright and Guilty Place 2, PayneShurvell at the Hospital Club, London

2013
The Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Group Show, The China Shop Gallery, Oxford
At the Edges, Angus-Hughes Gallery, London

2012
John Moores Painting Prize 2012, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Alter, Vegas Gallery, London
Hello and Goodbye, 17-25 Cremer Street, London
Launch, A-Side B-Side, London

2011
The Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London
Creekside Open 2011, Selected by Phyllida Barlow, APT Gallery, London
Modern British Sculpture, Gimpel Fils, London

2010
Legacy 1, L.I.U, London

2009
Arctic Fox , Vulpes Vulpes, London
Clearout, Globe Gallery, Newcastle
Creekside Open 2009, Selected by Mark Wallinger, APT Gallery, London
Start Your Collection, Contemporary Art Projects at Islington Art fair, London

2008
Start Your Collection, Contemporary Art Projects, London
Suffragette City, The Spare Room, London
'00 Nature, Contemporary Art Projects, London

2007
Downstairs Review, Gimpel Fils, London
Start Your Collection, Contemporary Art Projects, London
Private Prop, The Residence, London
Winter Show, Contemporary Art Projects, London
MA and other Post Graduates, Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, Somerset

2006
Day-to-Day Data, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London
Between Place and Space, Blyth Gallery, London

2005
Dyscotopiary, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London
Day-to-Day Data, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
Day-to-Day Data, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
Short and Sharp, Royal College of Art, London
Gone in 60 Seconds, Café Gallery Projects, London

2004
Shop!,
IMT, London
Damn Fine Cup of Coffee, Discotheque group show, London
Flat 1, Discotheque group show, London
Love N Bullets, Transition Gallery, London

2003
Spike Island Fayre, Spike Island Gallery, Bristol
Render Red Nose, MOT, London
Brand New Letchworth, B+B on tour, The Place, Letchworth
Et Tu Billy Buzman!, Nancy Victor Gallery, London
Artist as Entrepreneur, The Place, Letchworth

2000
21, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, Devon

1999
Directions, Lethaby Gallery, London
Readymade Project, Wunderkammer, London

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESS

2020 What Does it Mean to Paint a Landscape? Hannah Brown and Rebecca Partridge in conversation, Berlin Art Link, 05.06.20 (click here to read)
2018 London Open: a snapshot of the artistic zeitgeist, Financial Times, 09.08.18 by Rachel Spence (click here to read)
2018 Whitechapel open to what’s happening now, Morning Star, 26.06.18 by Michal Boncza (click here to read)
2017 The Arborealists: The Art of Trees, The Observer, 31.12.17 by Rachel Cooke (click here to read)
2017 The artist who prompts us to ask: what are we missing? The Irish Times, 18.12.17 by Adian Dunne (click here to read)
2016 Hannah Brown, Floorr Magazine Issue 6, 30.09.16 (click here to read)
2016 The Aborealists, The Art of the Tree, Sansom and Company
2015 A Form of Making, Turps Banana magazine, Issue15 by Graham Crowley (click here to read)
2015 I don't like art, collected essays and interviews, Graham Crowley
2015 Uncertain prospects and a park that keeps secrets, The Irish Times, 19.05.15 by Aidan Dunne (click here to read)
2013 Landscapes that Pass Over in Silence, The Huffington Post, 2.03.13 by James Payne (click here to read)
2013 At the Edges, Exhibition catalogue with essay by Graham Crowley (click here to read)
2013 Review of At the Edges, a-n Interface (click here to read)
2012 John Moores Painting Prize 2012, Exhibition catalogue, National Museums Liverpool
2012 Hoxton and Shoreditch Contemporary Art Reviews ArtLyst, 10.11.12 by Emily Sack'
2012 The Unseen Landscape, Diva Magazine, 05.11.12 by Anna McNay
2012 Critic's Choice, Time Out London, 10.10.12 by Helen Sumpter
2008 Editorial, The Guardian, 02.07.08
2005 Day-to-Day Data, Exhibition catalogue, Angel Row Gallery, 2005
2005 The Guide, Guardian, 23.07.05 by Robert Clark
2003 Et Tu Billy Buzman!, Time Out London, 30.07.03 by Rebecca Gelard
2003 Sleazenation, July 2003 by Alasdair Hopwood
2003 The Guide, Guardian, 14.06.03 by Jessica Lack
1999 21, Spacex Gallery, Express and Echo, 11.12.99 by Jason Woolfe

AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS

2019 Hospital Rooms commission, Hellingly Centre, East Sussex
2019 Dentons art prize - staff winner
1996 Exeter College Purchase Prize

COLLECTIONS

V&A, London
Office of Public Works, State Art Collection, Ireland
Barts Hospital Collection, London
Cleveland Clinic, Ohio
Private collections in UK, Ireland, USA, Canada, Korea, Switzerland, Australia, and U.A.E.