Born 1959, Edinburgh, UK
Lives and works in London, UK
Education
1994
MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London, UK
1988
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Falmouth University, UK
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
Hew Locke, Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium (Upcoming)
2023
The Ambassadors, The Lowry, Manchester, UK
Listening to the Land, PPOW Gallery, New York, NY
The Procession, The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, UK
2022
The Facade Commission: Hew Locke, Gilt, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Foreign Exchange, Victoria Square, Birmingham, UK
The Procession, Tate Britain, London, UK
Hew Locke: The Ghostly Tourists, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, USA
2020
Here’s the Thing, Colby College Museum of Art, Maine, ME, USA
Mindful Vandalism, Hales Gallery and P.P.O.W, (virtual exhibition)
2019
Where Lies the Land?, Hales Gallery, London, UK
Here’s the Thing, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, USA
2017-18
Reversal of Fortune, Fringe Projects Miami, The Alfred I. duPont Building, Miami, FL, USA For Those in Peril on the Sea, Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL, USA
Cui Bono, installation in Bremen Rathouse, originally comissioned in conjunction with Der Blinde Fleck by Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
2016
The Wine Dark Sea, Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
2015
IWM Contemporary: Hew Locke, IWM London, UK
The Tourists, HMS Belfast, London, UK
Magna Carta Commission, Runnymede Surrey, UK
2014
Beyond the Sea Wall, Hales Gallery, London, UK
Give and Take, performance in the Turbine Hall as part of Up Hill Down Hall, Tate Modern, London, UK
2013
For Those in Peril on the Sea, installation at launch of Pérez Art Museum Miami, USA Adrift, All Hallows by the Tower Church, Thames Festival, London, UK
2012
Day of the Dead Festival, a new installation titled ‘Adrift’ created for the Old Vic Tunnels, London, UK
2011
For Those in Peril on the Sea, St. Mary & St. Eanswythe Church, Folkestone Triennial, UK
The Nameless, KAdE Kunsthal, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
Are We There Yet?, The Gallery, the Arts University College at Bournemouth, UK Starchitect, ArtSway, Hampshire & as part of The New Forest Pavillion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2010
The Nameless, Hales Gallery, London, UK
2008
The Kingdom of the Blind, Rivington Palace, London, UK
How do you want me?, Hales Gallery, London, UK
2006
Restoration, commission for Spike Island exhibited at St Thomas the Martyr’s Church, Bristol, UK
2005
Hew Locke, New Art Gallery Walsall, UK (with accompanying monograph) Natives and Colonials, Hales Gallery, London, UK
2004
King Creole, installation on façade of Tate Britain, UK
House of Cards, Luckman Complex, LA, USA
House of Cards, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, GA, USA
2003
The Centre for Drawing, Wimbledon School of Art, UK
2002
Souvenir, The Horniman Museum, London, UK
The Cardboard Palace, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
2000
Hemmed In Two, Installation/Sculpture V&A Museum, London, UK
1999
Hemmed In, Millais Gallery, Southampton, UK
1995- 1996
Ark, De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill on Sea; Gardner Art Centre, Brighton; Oldham Art Gallery and Museum, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Spirit in the Land, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC
2022
In the Black Fantastic, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
A State of Matter: Modern and Contemporary Glass Sculpture, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
2021
Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s, Tate, London, UK
Bold, Black, British, Christie’s, London, UK
The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time, Brooklyn Museum, NY, USA
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, UK
A Fine Day for Seeing, Southwark Park Galleries, London, UK
2020
DISPLACED: Contemporary Artists Confront the Global Refugee Crisis, SITE Santa Fe, NM, USA
20/20 Vision: The Collection Remixed, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
Life During Wartime: Art in the Age of Coronavirus, The University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, (virtual exhibition)
20:20 Twenty Years of Collecting Contemporary Art, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
2019
Pushing paper: contemporary drawing from 1970 to now, British Museum, London UK
Refuge, 21c Bentonville, AR, USA
2018
The Everyday and the Extraordinary, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK; Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
Refuge, 21c Kansas City, MO, USA
EN MAS’: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, TX, USA
2017
The Blind Spot, KunstHalle Bremen, Germany
A Global Table, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem,The Netherlands
Diaspora Pavilion, Palazzo Pisani a Santa Marina, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Public View, Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
EN MAS’: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean, DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago, IL; Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, USA
2016
Un | Fixed Homeland, Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, New Jersey, NJ, USA The Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, Zhejiang Art Museum, China National Silk Museum and Museum of Contemporary Art of CAA, Hangzhou, China
Routes of Influence: Ornament and Empire, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA A Hole in the Sea, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany Structures of Recollection, Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong
EN MAS’: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean, The National Gallery of the Cayman Islands; The National Gallery of the Bahamas
2015-2016
When Artists Speak the Truth, The 8th Floor, New York, USA
Affinity Atlas, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, New York, NY, USA Artist and Empire, Tate Britain, London, UK
2015
EN MAS’: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, USA
Colonial Afterlives, Salamanca Arts Centre, Tasmania, Australia
2014
Kochi-Muziris Bienalle, Kochi, India
Prospect 3. New Orleans Biennial of Contemporary Art, New Orleans, LA, USA
Up Hill Down Hall – An indoor Carnival, the Tate Modern, London, UK
White Light / White Heat, The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Sculptural Forms, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
2013
The Shadows took Shape, Studio Museum Harlem, New York, USA
Artists Make Faces, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth, UK Characters: Portraits and People from the Arts Council Collection, Holburne Museum, Bath, UK
Glasstress, White Light / White Heat, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice & Berengo Centre for Contemporary Art and Glass, Murano
Ordinary/Extra/Ordinary, The Public, West Bromwich, West Midlands, UK
Vitalic, Hales Gallery, London, UK
2012
Affinity Atlas, Wellin Museum of Art, USA
Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, El Museo del Barrio, New York, USA
The Queen: Art and Image, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
London Twelve, The Bell House, Prague, Czech Republic
Happy Islands, part of Prome Encuentro Bienal Arte Contemporaneo di Caribe, Aruba, West Indies
Fourth Plinth: Contemporary Monument, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London, UK
2011
Preferred Stock, as part of Intercourse, a day-long event at the ICA, London, UK Folkestone Triennial 2011, UK
2010-11
Global Caribbean, Little Haiti Cultural Center, Miami, USA; MIAM, Sète, France & Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Puerto Rico
2010
Sikandar,The Fourth Plinth Commission, Trafalgar Square, London, UK
Holy Toy, Sølvberget Galleri, Stavanger, Norway
Global Caribbean, MIAM, Sète, France
Behind the Mask, The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK
Adaptation, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
2009
The Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Greece
‘Mythologies’, Haunch of Venison gallery, London, UK
New commission for the San Juan Triennal, Puerto Rico
‘South South’ Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada 2008
‘21: Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum’, New York, NY, USA
‘2nd Life’ Museum of Arts & Design, New York, NY, USA
New commission for the Guangzhou Triennial, China
Now Then, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
2007
Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art (group show), Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, USA
Alien Nation, Institute of Contemporary Arts and inIVA, Tours to the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art, Norwich, UK
Drawing on Sculpture - Graphic Interventions on the Photographic Surface (group show), Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
Installation for Belsay Hall, Northumberland, UK
Drawing 2007, The Drawing Room, London, UK
2006
The Valencia Biennale, Spain
Scarecrow, Evangelos Averoff-Tositsas Foundation, Metsovo, Greece
2005/06
British Art Show 6: Touring venues around Britain, UK
Et Maintenant? - What Now? Crac Alsace, Altkirch, France
Barrocos y Neobarrocos, Palacio de Abrantes, Salamanca, Spain
2004/05
Two person show with Diana Cooper at the Drawing Room, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff & The City Gallery, Leicester, UK
Boys Who Sew, Crafts Council, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, MAC, Birmingham, Ipswich Museum and Huddersfield Art Gallery, UK
2003
Terrible Beauty Satellite, Roebling Hall, New York, NY, USA
Temporary Fiction, Transition Gallery, London, UK
Jerwood Sculpture Prize, London, UK
2002
Yesteryear Nowadays, Hales Gallery, London, UK
Somewhere, places of refuge in art and life, curated by Angela Kingston, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2000
Beautiful, Oxo Tower, London, UK
East International, Norwich Art Gallery Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London, UK
1999
Routes, Thou Shalt Not Covert Thy Neighbours Idols, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London, UK
Commissions
2017
The Blind Spot: Bremen and Art in the Colonial Era, KunstHalle Bremen, Germany (Commission for Bremen Town Hall by Hew Locke: Cui Bono)
2015
The Jurors, Commissioned by Surrey County Council and The National Trust to mark the 800th Anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta. Free to visit at Runnymede, UK
2013
Selene - permanent sculpture, facade Nadler Hotel, Carlilse Street, Soho, London 2012
Gold Standard, Old Tide Mill School, Frankham Street, London, Commissioned by Deptford X
2008
New Art Exchange, Nottingham, commission for design of permanent artwork for cafe ceiling Awards
2000
Paul Hamlyn Award
East International Award
1994/96
Wingate Scholarship combined with Delfina Studio Award
1995
Discerning Eye New Discovery Prize
1994
Madame Tussauds Prize for Art
Collections
The Arnold Lehman collection, USA
The Arts Council of England Collection
The British Museum, UK
The Brooklyn Museum collection, NY, USA
Collection of Eileen and Peter Norton, CA, USA
The Government Art Collection, UK
The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
Kansas City Collection, MO, USA
The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, MO, USA
Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK
Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL, USA
RISD Museum, RI, USA
Tate Galleries, London, UK
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, NY, USA
The Victoria & Albert Museum, UK
