Mark Hosking

Mark Hosking (* 1971 in Plymouth , England ) is an English contemporary artist .

life and work

Hosking attended the Plymouth College of Art & Design from 1989 to 1990 , from which he graduated with a diploma. He then graduated from the Chelsea College of Art and Design from 1990 to 1993 , from which he graduated with a bachelor's degree. After further studies from 1993 to 1996 at the Slade School of Art , he passed the Master of Fine Arts . Hosking also studied from 1997 to 1999 at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam .

Mark Hosking puts everyday objects such as televisions or bikinis in a new context in order to thwart their consumer status. He provides absurd machines made of garbage with political statements by trying to visualize the contrasts between industrialized nations and third world countries.

Hosking lives and works in London and Amsterdam.

Solo exhibitions

• 2000: New Sculpture , fig-1, London
• 2001: Mark Hosking / Sculptures , l´elac - l´espace lausannois d´art contemporain, Lausanne
• Mark Hosking , ARTLAB 18, Imperial College , London
• 2003: Radio Mayday , IBID Projects , London
• 2004: Slurf Song , Umberto Di Marino Arte Contemporanea, Naples
• 2006: Disconnected , Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna

Prices

• 1993: Duveen Travel Bursary , London
• 1996: Boise Travel Scholarship , London
• 1996: MOMART Prize Winner , The Whitechapel Open, London
• Foundation for sport and the arts, grant aid
• 1997: The Uriot Prize , Amsterdam South West Arts, Visual Arts Award
• 1998: Stichting Intendence , Vrienden van de Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
• 2002: Artist in Residence Scholarship, Imperial College of Science, London

Press

• Article in: Changing the system, Artists talk about their practice. 05/1999, pp. 65-66.
• Article in: The Times . August 15, 1995, p. 36.

Web links

• Mark Hosking at artfacts.net
• Mark Hosking on kunstaspekte.de
• Mark Hosking on the Engholm Gallery website