Thomas Houseago
Thomas Houseago (* 1972 in Leeds , West Yorkshire , England ) is a British visual artist .
Life
From 1990 to 1991, Houseago attended the then Jacob Kramer Foundation College, now renamed Leeds College of Art, in his hometown. He then studied from 1991 to 1994 at London's Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design . From 1994 to 1996 he had a studio in the house of the artists' institute de Ateliers in Amsterdam before moving to Los Angeles , California for a few years .
At the beginning of his career, Houseago worked with cheap materials such as plaster of paris or plywood and then devoted himself to bronze work. His bronze sculpture Hermaphrodite was sold to a European collector in 2011 for $ 435,000.
Solo exhibitions
- 2019: Thomas Houseago , Musée d'Art modern de la Ville de Paris
- 2014: Thomas Houseago. , Gemeentemuseum The Hague
- 2013: My Genghis Khan Suit / Like A Circle around the Sun , Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
- 2012: Thomas Houseago , Hauser & Wirth, London, England
- 2011: The Beat of the Show , Inverleith House / Royal Botanical Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland
- 2011: Amy Bessone and Thomas Houseago , Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- 2011 What Went Down , Museum Abteiberg , Mönchengladbach
- 2011: What Went Down , Center International d'art et du Paysage de l'Ile des Vassivière, France
- 2010: What Went Down , Modern Art Oxford and Ashmolean Museum , Oxford, England
- 2009: with Aaron Curry: Two Face , Ballroom Marfa , Marfa, Texas, USA
- 2003: Thomas Houseage: I Am Here, Selected Sculptures 1995-2003 , Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK), Gent, Belgium
- 2002: with Amy Bessone , Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
Group exhibitions
- 2010: The Whitney Biennial , Whitney Museum of American Art , New York City, New York, USA
- 2009: Beaufort03. Art by the Sea , Beaufort (art manifestation), Blankenberge , Belgium
- 1997: New Acquisitions , Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam, Netherlands.
literature
- Michael Stanley et al. (Ed.): Thomas Houseago: What went down . Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England, ISBN 978-1-901352504 . Exhibition catalog 2010.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Credit card destruction machine in FAZ from October 15, 2011, page 41
- ^ Announcement on the exhibition , in English, accessed on August 2, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Houseago, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leeds , West Yorkshire , England |