1965
Born in Birmingham, UK
1991-1995
Wimbledon School of Art
1996-1998
Royal College of Art, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Hurvin Anderson: Passenger Opportunity, Pérez Art Museum, Miami
Hurvin Anderson: Salon Paintings, Kistefos Museum, Norway
2023
Hurvin Anderson: Salon Paintings, Hepworth Wakefield; Hastings Contemporary; Kistefos Museum, Norway
2021
Reverb, Thomas Dane Gallery, London
Anywhere but Nowhere, The Arts Club of Chicago
2019
They Have a Mind of Their Own, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
2016
Foreign Body, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
Backdrop, Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto
Dub Versions, New Art Exchange, Nottingham
2015
Backdrop, Contemporary Art Museum (CAM), St. Louis
2013
New Works, Thomas Dane Gallery, London
reporting back, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
2011
Subtitles, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
2009
Art Now: Hurvin Anderson, Tate Britain, London
Peter’s Series 2007-09, Studio Museum Harlem, New York
2008
Anthony Meier Fine Art, San Francisco
Thomas Dane Gallery, London
2006
A View of the Rio Cobre, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
2005
New Paintings, Thomas Dane Gallery, London
2003
The Lime, David Risley Gallery, London
2002
Thomas Dane Gallery, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure, National Portrait Gallery, London; The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Soulscapes, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
Accrochage, Michael Werner Gallery, Athens
Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy, London
2023
Life Between Islands, Art Gallery of Ontario
Radical Landscapes: Art Inspired by the Land, Tate Liverpool; William Morris Gallery, London
Bathers, Saatchi Yates Gallery, London
What's New, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
2022
In Our Time: Selections from the Singer Collection, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona
Ghosts of Empires II, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London
Kingston Biennial: Pressure, National Gallery of Jamaica
Christen Sveaas Art Foundation: The Unseen Selected by Hurvin Anderson, Whitechapel Gallery
Radical Landscapes, Tate Liverpool; Warwick Arts Centre
Unnatural Nature: Post-Pop Landscapes, Acquavella Galleries, New York
Ghosts of Empires, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong
Christen Sveaas Art Foundation: The Travel Bureau, selected by Paulina Olowska, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2021
Life Between Islands, Caribbean-British Art 1950s - Now, Tate Britain
Fragments of Epic Memory, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Mixing It Up: Painting Today, Hayward Gallery, London
RELATIONS: Diaspora and Painting, Esker Foundation, Calgary
British Art Show 9, Aberdeen Art Gallery; Wolverhampton Art Gallery; University of Wolverhampton School of Art, Wolverhampton; Castlefield Gallery, Manchester; Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA), Manchester; HOME, Manchester; Manchester Art Gallery; The Whitworth, Manchester; KARST, Plymouth; The Levinsky Gallery, Plymouth; The Box, Plymouth; Plymouth College of Art
2020
Relations: La Diaspora et la peinture, Fondation Phi pour l’art contemporain, Montréal
Received Wisdom, Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens
Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2019
GENERATIONS: Connecting Across Time and Place, Somerset House, London
Get Up, Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers, Somerset House, London
Manifesto: Art x Agency, The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
Stains on a Decade, Josh Lilley Gallery, London
2018
Vile Bodies, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
Land, City and Sea: British Masters from the David Ross Collection, The Collection, Lincolnshire
Á Cris Ouverts, Rennes Biennale, Rennes
2017
Turner Prize 2017, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
Drawing Biennial 2017, Drawing Room, London
2016
Jamaican Pulse: Art and Politics from Jamaica and the Diaspora, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Making & Unmaking, Camden Arts Centre, London
2015
Poetics of Relation, Pérez Art Museum, Miami
2014
4 Painters, 10 Works, Josh Lilley, London
2013
Homebodies, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Four Corners of The World, HITE Collection, Seoul
2011
Flowers for Summer, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
Sometimes I Wish I Could Just Disappear, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
2010
Self-Consciousness, curated by Hilton Als and Peter Doig, VW (VeneKlasen/Werner), Berlin
Newspeak, Saatchi Gallery, London
Dull as I Am, I Hope to Live by These Lines, Simon Preston Gallery, New York
Art of Ideas Presents: The Witching Hour, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Living Across: Spaces of Migration, Xhibit, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna
2007
Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Thomas Dane Gallery, London
Hurvin Anderson/Henriette Grahnert, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre
2006
Crivelli’s Nail, Chapter Gallery, Cardiff
Archipeinture: Artists Build Architecture, Le Plateau, Fonds regional d’art contemporain d'ile-de-France, Paris; Camden Arts Centre, London
2004
Back to Paint, C & M Arts, New York
EASTInternational, Norwich Gallery
When in Rome III, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
2003
When in Rome, Lewisham Art House, London
2002
Cockafuckingdoodledo, Jeffery Charles Gallery, London
1999
Telling Times, Leicester Museum and Art Gallery
Pictures of Pictures, Arnolfini, Bristol, Norwich Gallery, Norwich
1998
Forest, The Bull and Last, London
1996
Inheritance, Ikon Touring, Birmingham
RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2023
Elected Royal Academician in the category of Painting by Royal Academy, London
2018
Outset / Government Art Collection TenTen commission
2017
Nominated for the Turner Prize
2009
Artist in residence, Headlands Centre for the Arts, Sausalito
2006
Artist in residence, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
2002
Artist in residence, Caribbean Contemporary Arts, Port of Spain
1999-2000
Cheltenham Fine Art Research Fellow in Painting, Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education
1997
Basil H. Alkazzi Foundation Scholarship Award, New York
John Crane Award, New York
1994
William Booker Travel Scholarship, Philadelphia