Thomas Houseago
Born 1972, Leeds; Lives in Los Angeles.
Education
| 2010 | St. Martin's |
| 1996 | De Ateliers |
| 1991 | Jacob Kramer Foundation College |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2019 | ‘Almost Human’, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris |
| 2018 | ‘Constructions’, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels |
| 2017 | ‘The Ridge’, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 2016 | ‘Psychedelic Brothers - Drawn Paintings’, Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong |
| 2015 | ‘Before the Room’, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels |
| ‘Lovers’, Le Consortium, Dijon | |
| ‘The Medusa and Other Heads’, Gagosian Gallery Park & 75, New York | |
| ‘Masks (Pentagon)’, Rockefeller Center, New York | |
| 2014 | ‘MOUN ROOM’, Hauser and Wirth, New York |
| Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag | |
| 2013 | ‘My Genghis Khan Suit/ Like A Circle Around the Sun’, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels |
| Hauser and Wirth, London (Outdoor Sculpture. In collaboration with St. James's Church, Picadilly) | |
| ‘Rome Figures’, Gagosian Gallery, Rome | |
| ‘Striding Figure / Standing Figure’, Galleria Borghese, Rome | |
| ‘As I Went Out One Morning’, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville | |
| 2012 | ‘I'll be your sister’, Hauser and Wirth, London (Savile Row, North Gallery) |
| ‘Special Brew’, Hauser and Wirth, London (Savile Row, South Gallery) | |
| ‘The mess I'm looking for’, Hauser and Wirth, Zurich (Lowenbrau) | |
| ‘Thomas Houseago: Where the Wild Things Are’, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich | |
| ‘Lying Figure’, The High Line, New York | |
| ‘Outdoor Scupture’, Hauser and Wirth, London | |
| 2011 | ‘What Went Down’, Centre International D'Art & Du Paysage, Ile de Vassivière |
| ‘The Beat of the Show’, Inverleith House, Edinburgh (Outdoor Sculpture) | |
| ‘What Went Down’, Museum Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach | |
| ‘All Together Now’, L & M Arts, New York | |
| 2010 | ‘What Went Down’, Modern Art, Oxford |
| ‘Amy Bessone and Thomas Houseago’, Rennie Collection, Vancouver (two person show) | |
| ‘The Moon and The Stars and The Sun’, Michael Werner Gallery, New York | |
| 2009 | ‘Two Face’, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX (with Aaron Curry) |
| ‘There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in’, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin | |
| ‘Thomas Houseago: Ode’, Galleria Zero, Milan | |
| ‘TwoFaceTwo’, Veneklasen Werner Gallery, Berlin (with Aaron Curry) | |
| 2008 | ‘Serpent’, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles |
| ‘When Earth Fucks With Space’, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels | |
| ‘Bastards’, Herald St, London | |
| 2007 | ‘A Million Miles Away’, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
| 2004 | ‘Art Brussels’, Brussels (with Xavier Hufkens) |
| 2003 | ‘I Am Here, Selected Sculptures 1995-2003’, S.M.A.K., Ghent |
| 2002 | ‘Amy Bessone & Thomas Houseago’, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels |
| 2000 | ‘Something to Be’, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam |
| 1996 | ‘Mum's tattoo’, Si en La, Antwerp (with Matthew Monahan) |
| Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam |
Group Exhibitions
| 2019 | ‘Our Selfie’, MO Museum, Vilnius |
| ‘The Aerodrome – An exhibition dedicated to the memory of Michael Stanley’, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham | |
| ‘Summer Exhibition 2019’, Royal Academy of Arts, London | |
| ‘A Cool Breeze,’, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague | |
| ‘So British !”, 10 Masterpieces of the Pinault Collection’, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen | |
| 2018 | ‘Debout! Une exposition de la collection Pinault à Rennes’, Couvent des Jacobins, Rennes |
| ‘Polyphon’, Langen Foundation, Neuss | |
| 2017 | ‘LA Invitational’, Gagosian Gallery, New York |
| ‘Versus Rodin: Bodies across Space and Time’, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide | |
| 2016 | ‘I still believe in miracles’, Inverleith House, Edinburgh |
| ‘Shaping Ideas: Sculptures’, Lewben Art Foundation, Vilnius, Lithuania | |
| ‘Human Figure’, Charles Riva Collection, Brussels | |
| ‘Prototypology’, Gagosian Gallery, Rome | |
| 2015 | ‘Picasso Mania’, Grand Palais, Paris |
| ‘CAPPER – HIORNS – HOUSEAGO – ROTHSCHILD – SKAER’, Jesus College, Cambridge | |
| 2014 | ‘Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo’, MCA, Chicago |
| ‘Broken Gods, Broken Heroes’, SLEWE Gallery, Amsterdam | |
| 2013 | ‘Le Pont’, Marseilles Contemporary Art Museum, Marseilles |
| ‘Beg Borrow and Steal’, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs | |
| ‘L'Art à l'endroit: Un parcours d’art contemporain à Aix-en-Provence’, Aix-en-Provence, France | |
| 2012 | Carlson Gallery, London |
| ‘A House of Leaves - First Movement’, David Roberts Art Foundation, London | |
| 2011 | Frieze Art Fair Sculpture Park, London |
| Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse (Musée les Jacobins, Curated by Anne Pontégnie) | |
| 2010 | ‘The Artist's Museum’, Moca, Los Angeles |
| ‘More Pricks Than Kicks’, David Robert Arts Foundation Fitzrovia, London | |
| ‘Statuesque’, City Hall Park, New York | |
| ‘Permanent trouble kunst aus de Sammlung Kopp München’, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg | |
| Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art | |
| ‘The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place’, Zabludowicz Collection, London | |
| 2009 | ‘Beg Borrow and Steal’, Rubell Family Collection, Miami |
| ‘California Maximalism’, Nyehaus, New York | |
| ‘Thomas Houseago, Dieter Roth and André Thomkins’, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow (With Dieter Roth and Andrè Thomkins) | |
| ‘Construct and Dissolve : Works on paper by artists from Los Angeles’, Galerie Sabine Knust, Maximilian Verlag | |
| ‘All that is solid melts into air’, MuHKA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp | |
| ‘The Craft of Collecting’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago | |
| ‘I giovani che visitano le nostre rovine non vi vedono che uno stile’, Gallerie Civica d'Arte Contemporanea di Siracusa, Syracuse | |
| 2008 | ‘Academia Qui es-tu?’, Chapelle de l'Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris |
| 2007 | ‘Sculptors' Drawings: ideas, studies, sketches, proposals and more’, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica |
| ‘Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring’, Camden Arts Centre, London | |
| ‘Kabul 3000 (Love among the cabbages)’, Galleria Zero, Milan | |
| ‘Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner’, Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin | |
| ‘Personal Belongings - Contemporary Sculpture from Los Angeles’, Sabine Knust Galerie Maximilian Verlag, Munich | |
| ‘Sonsbeek 2008: Grandeur’, Arnhem | |
| 2006 | ‘Transformers’, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada |
| ‘Red Eye: Los Angeles Artists from the Rubell Family Collection’, Rubell Family Collection, Miami | |
| ‘Making and Finding’, The Foundation To-Life, Mount Kisco | |
| ‘The Glass Bead Game’, Vilma Gold Project Space, Berlin | |
| 2005 | ‘Both Ends Burning’, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles |
| ‘Six Outdoor Projects’, L.I.U., Brooklyn | |
| 2003 | Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam |
| ‘Passie in Beeld, ruimtelijk werk uit de collectie van de Nederlandsche Bank’, Maliebeeld, Den Haag | |
| 2002 | ‘Stedelijk Museum in De Nieuwe Kerk, Beelden/Sculpture 1947-2002’, Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam (curated by Rudi Fuchs) |
| 2001 | ‘Rondom Jheronimous Bosch’, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
| 1999 | ‘Werk boven de bank’, Archipel, Apeldoorn |
| ‘Glad IJs’, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam | |
| 1998 | ‘Morning Glory’, De Ateliers, Amsterdam |
| ‘Acquisitions 1997’, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam | |
| ‘Summer Show’, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels | |
| 1997 | ‘New Acquisitions’, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam |
Commissions
| 2019 | ‘The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden expansion’ |
Bibliography
Press
| 2019 | Pes, Javier: ‘‘Sculpture Is Dying, If Not Dead’: Artist Thomas Houseago on the Struggle to Make Big, Edgy, Public Art’, artnet news, 18/06/2019 |
| 2014 | Loos, Ted: ‘Leaving the Monsters Behind; Thomas Houseago’s Long Road to ‘Moun Room’, T Magazine, 06/11/2014 |
| 2013 | A Tribute to Dieter Roth: 7 Artists Respond to the Master‘s Work, Modern Painters, Vol. XXV 01/2013 |
| 2012 | Interview Cornelius Tittel: ‘Coming Into Form’, 032c, Issue 23 12/2012 |
| Goldwyn, Mara: ‘Heads Up’, Sleek, 12/2012 | |
| Berardini, Andrew: ‘Thomas Houseago’, Art Review, 09/2012 | |
| Griffin, Jonathon: ‘Sacred Monsters’, Financial Times Weekend Magazine, 18/08/2012 | |
| Tittel, Cornelius: ‘Wer ist dieser Mann?’, Welt Kultur, 15/01/2012 | |
| 2011 | Today‘s Events: Artist in Conversation, Oxford Mail, 18/02/2011 |
| Interpretation (dancers inspired by ‘What Went Down’ by British artist Thomas Houseago), Oxford Times, 03/02/2011 | |
| ‘Dance Performance Is a Work of Art’, Oxford Mail, 02/02/2011 | |
| ‘February Highlights ( Features - Thomas Houseago: Contemporary Sculpture at the Ashmolean)’, Cotswold Life, 02/2011 | |
| Campbell-Johnston, Rachel: Critic‘s Choice - Thomas Houseago: What Went Down, listed number 3, The Times, 29/01/2011 | |
| Williamson, Howard: Natasha‘s arty efforts are family affair..., Yorkshire Evening Post, 24/01/2011 | |
| Reader‘s tips: modern art galleries, The Guardian Online, 17/01/2011 | |
| ‘Pick of the Week: Thomas Houseago exhibition at Modern Art Oxford & Ashmolean’, Oxford Times, 06/01/2011 | |
| Sherwin, Skye: ‘Artist of the Week 120: Thomas Houseago’, The Guardian Online, 05/01/2011 | |
| ‘Pick of the Week: Thomas Houseago exhibition’, Witney Gazette, 05/01/2011 | |
| Finkel, Jori: Sculptor Thomas Houseago‘s shape-shifting world, Los Angeles Times, 02/01/2011 | |
| Finkel, Jori: ‘The larger-than-life sculptures and stranger-than-fiction journey of Thomas Houseago’, Los Angeles Times, 02/01/2011 | |
| ‘Events Diary for January: Thomas Houseago exhibition at Modern Art Oxford and the Ashmolean’, Oxfordshire Limited Edition, 01/2011 | |
| K W T.: ‘Artist to watch’, The Art Economist, Issue 4 2011 | |
| 2010 | Levy, Paul: Energy pulses through Houseago‘s sculpture, Wall Street Journal Europe, 31/12/2010 |
| Peacocke, Helen: ‘Disarming Images’, Oxford Times, 23/12/2010 | |
| ‘Thomas Houseago - Oxford’, Times Higher Education, 23/12/2010 | |
| Walls, Lindsey: ‘Thomas Houseago, What Went Down’, Goss-Micheal Foundation online, 21/12/2010 | |
| James, Annabel: ‘Giant-Baby and The End of Love’, Cherwell online, 20/12/2010 | |
| ‘Modern Art Oxford Presents a Solo Exhibition of New and Recent Sculptures by British Artist Thomas Houseago’, Artdaily.org, 20/12/2010 | |
| Left A Bit! (the installation of one of Thomas Houseago‘s sculptures outside the Ashmolean), Oxford Times, 19/12/2010 | |
| Doolan, Lita: ‘Thomas Houseago: What Went Down - review’, Daily Info Oxford online, 17/12/2010 | |
| ‘Thomas Houseago: What Went Down’, Artrabbit online, 13/12/2010 | |
| ‘Cultural Institutions Get Together For Show’, Oxford Mail, 07/12/2010 | |
| ‘Modern art Oxford - Thomas Houseago: What Went Down’, e-flux, 07/12/2010 | |
| ‘Art must-sees: December’, Culture 24, 12/2010 | |
| Pes, Javier: ‘Oxford double first’, Art Newspaper, 12/2010 | |
| Fox, Dan: ‘Believe it or Not: Religion versus spirituality in contemporary art’, Frieze, Issue 135 11/2010 | |
| Rosenfield Lafo, Rachel: ‘Figuratively Speaking: A Conversation with Thomas Houseago’, Sculpture online, 11/2010 | |
| Rosenfield Lafo, Rachel: ‘Figuratively Speaking: A Conversation with Thomas Houseago’, Sculpture online, 11/2010 | |
| Orlik, Edward: ‘More Pricks Than Kicks’, Tank, 11/2010 | |
| Geldard, Rebecca: Rebecca Geldard‘s Top Shows In London: Nov/ Dec 2010 - More Pricks Than Kicks, Saatchi Online Magazine, 02/10/2010 | |
| Trembley, Nicolas: D‘art, d‘art, Vogue Paris, 09/2010 | |
| ‘Conversation’, Flash Art, 03/2010 | |
| ‘AB-BE-CE-DA-RIO’, Mousse Magazine, 2010 | |
| 2009 | West, Kevin: ‘Thomas Houseago & Aaron Curry’, WMagazine, 11/2009 |
| Cairns, Steven: ‘Review: Thomas Houseago, Dieter Roth, and Andrè Thomkins’, Artforum, 06/10/2009 | |
| Garner, James: ‘Art Review: Thomas Houseago, Dieter Roth and Andrè Thomkins’, Metro, 04/06/2009 | |
| Holte, Michael Ned: ‘Back To the Monumental: On The Sculpture Of Thomas Houseago’, Kaleidoscope, 03/2009 | |
| Foss, Paul: ‘Review: Thomas Houseago’, Art in America online, 03/2009 | |
| Foss, Paul: ‘Thomas Houseago’, Art in America, 03/2009 | |
| Wagely, Catherine: ‘Bringing the Monument back to Life’, Dailyserving.com, 29/01/2009 | |
| Casadio, Mariuccia: ‘3D Futurity’, Vogue Italia, 01/2009 | |
| Campagnola, Sonia: ‘Thomas Houseago’, Flash Art, 01/2009 | |
| 2008 | Kennedy, Alexander: ‘Immaterial world’, The List, Issue 592 13/12/2008 |
| Rhymes, Darren: ‘Thomas Houseago’, Map, Issue 13 2008 | |
| 2007 | Bartels, Daghild: ‘Ein Fulltimejob fur die kunst’, Handelsblatt, 02/03/2007 |
| Sherwin, Skye: ‘Future Greats: Thomas Houseago’, Art Review, 03/2007 | |
| Bartels, Daghild: ‘Jeder Penny fur die Kunst’, Parnass, 01/2007 | |
| 2006 | Wright, Karen: ‘Why Not Open Turner Prize?’, Bloomberg.com, 28/12/2006 |
| Peterson, Kristen: ‘Good Shows’, Las Vegas Sun, 08/12/2006 | |
| Mason, Christopher: It‘s what‘s on the inside that counts: New acquisitions in some familiar territory, Art Basel Miami Beach 2006, 30/11/2006 | |
| Rochette, Anne, Wade Saunders: ‘Place Matters: Los Angeles Sculpture Today’, Art in America, 11/2006 | |
| Segade, Alex: ‘Nothing Up The Sleeve’, Art US, 10/2006 | |
| 2002 | ‘Hot Tickets, Exhibitions: Amy Bessone, Thomas Houseago’, The Bulletin, 19/09/2002 |
| 2001 | ‘2001 a public space odyssey, Nieuwe Kunst in Amsterdam’, Arti et Amicitiae, 2001 |
| 2000 | Smallenburg, Sandra: ‘Thomas Houseago’, NRC, 10/11/2000 |
| van den Boogerd, Dominic: ‘De Frankenstein factor’, HP/De Tijd, 03/11/2000 | |
| Keijer, Kees: ‘Onvoltooid voorkomen’, Het Parool, 03/11/2000 | |
| Veugen, Christine: ‘De energie van gips en klei’, Kunstbeeld, Number 14 11/2000 | |
| Pontzen, Rutiger: ‘De vuile handen van Thomas Houseago’, Vrij Nederland, 28/10/2000 | |
| 1999 | Pontzen, Rutger: ‘Glad IJs: viezige keuzen van Fuchs’, Vrij Nederland, 09/10/1999 |
| 1998 | Lambrecht, Luk: ‘Dissonante Schoonheid’, De Morgen, 07/08/1998 |
| 1996 | Suto, Wilma: ‘De aap die naar een stropdas verlangt’, de Volkskrant, 04/10/1996 |
| ‘Rudi Fuchs speaks with English sculptor Thomas Houseago’, Radio 5 (The Netherlands), 27/09/1996 |
Exhibition Reviews
| 2012 | Sharp, Rob: ‘London: Thomas Houseago‘, Modern Painters, 10 12/2012 |
| Sharp, Rob: ‘Reviews’, Modern Painters, 12/2012 | |
| Sherwin, Skye: ‘Thomas Houseago’, The Guardian Guide, 18/08/2012 | |
| ‘Reviews’, Modern Painters, 04/2012 | |
| 2011 | Wullschlager, Jackie: ‘Edinburgh untamed‘, Financial Times, 05/08/2011 |
| Jones, Jonathon: ‘Martin Creed‘s stairway to heaven‘, The Guardian, 08/2011 | |
| Cooper, Neil: ‘Thomas Houseago: The Beat of the Show‘, The List, 14/06/2011 | |
| Katsof, Alhena: ‘Thomas Houseago‘, Kaleidoscope, Issue 11 06/2011 | |
| Unwin-Jones, Sarah: ‘Thomas Housego and John Hope (Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh)’, The Herald, 30/05/2011 | |
| Heighton, Luke: ‘Thomas Houseago: What Went Down’, Art Review, Issue 48 03/2011 | |
| Carpenter, Aaron: ‘The Head, The Body, The Limbs’, ArtSlant, 01/2011 | |
| Paraskos, Michael: ‘The History Boy’, Epoch Times, 01/2011 | |
| 2010 | Gray, Margaret: ‘More Pricks Than Kicks‘, this is tomorrow, 09/11/2010 |
| Moss, Jennifer: ‘Dynamic duo mixes classic and modern‘, Vancouver Sun, 11/2010 | |
| Guy Nichols, Matthew: ‘Exhibition Review: Thomas Houseago’, Art in America, 11/09/2010 | |
| Johnson, Ken: ‘Pondering Sculpture Under the Trees‘, New York Times, 08/2010 | |
| Kerr, Merrily: ‘Thomas Houseago ‘The Moon and the Stars and the Sun‘, Time Out NY, 17/05/2010 | |
| Gockel, Cornelia: ‘Permanent Trouble, Aktuelle Kunst aus der Sammlung Kopp München’, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, 03/2010 |
Publications
| 2011 | All Together Now, L&M Arts |
| 2005 | Both Ends Burning, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 2004 | Outstanding, Gemeente Haarlemmermeer, Haarlemmermeer |
Exhibition Publications
| 2011 | What went down, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford |
| 2010 | More Pricks Than Kicks, The David Roberts Art Foundation Fitzrovia, London (exhibition guide) |
| Permanent trouble kunst aus de Sammlung Kopp München, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg | |
| The Library of Babel - In and Out of Place, Zabudowicz Collection, London | |
| 2009 | There is a crack in everything - That's how the light gets in, CFA, Berlin |
| 2002 | Stedelijk Museum in 2001, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam |
| Stedelijk Museum in De Nieuwe Kerk, Beelden/Sculpture 1947-2002, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam |