CONTACT
hoskingmark@gmail.com
instagram.com/mark.hosking
BIOGRAPHY
1971 born in Plymouth, Great Britain
lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Education
| 1997-1999 | Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam |
| 1993-1996 | Slade School of Art |
| 1990-1993 | Chelsea College of Art & Design |
| 1989-1990 | Plymouth College of Art & Design |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2022 2016 | “La Aparience del Sonido”, Galería Artnueve, Murcia, Spain “Equilibrio”, Galería Artnueve, Murcia, Spain |
| 2014 | “Via Negativa”, Galleria Artnueve, Murcia, Spain |
| 2011 | “Mark Hosking”, ‘Árchiduc, Brussels |
| 2010 | “Super Nature”, Skybox Amsterdam |
| 2006 | “Disconnected”, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna |
| “Disconnected”, VRIZA, Amsterdam | |
| 2005 | “Slurf Song”, Umberto Di Marino Arte Contemporanea, Naples |
| 2004 | “Mark Hosking”, Lisson Gallery, London |
| “Net gain and loss”, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna | |
| 2003 | Art Basel Miami Beach, Kerstin Engholm Galerie |
| “A Man Escaped”, Galerie Ludovic de Wavrin, Paris | |
| “Radio Mayday”, IBID Projects, London | |
| 2002 | “Mark Hosking”, ARTLAB 18, Imperial College, London |
| 2001 | “Mark Hosking”, Jerwood Gallery, London |
| “Mark Hosking/ Sculptures”, l ́elac – l ́espace lausannois d ́art contemporain, Lausanne | |
| 2000 | “New Sculpture”, fig-1, London |
| “Darren Almond Mark Hosking”, Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna | |
| 1997 | Lisson Gallery, London |
Group Exhibitions
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2023
2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 |
“It is About Time”, Waterhouse Studios, Amsterdam “Still Life”, Yacay Studio, Amsterdam “Sound Waves”, Westergas, Amsterdam “Beginnings are Endings”, Yacay Studio, Amsterdam “Is the Image Even Human”, Instituto Cervantes, New Delhi, India “Beeld en Storm”, Oosterkerk, Amsterdam “Two Moons”, Mazecollective Studio, Delhi “Structures On Mars”, Pictura, Dordrecht, The Netherlands Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer 2021, Buckinghamshire, England “Un Posto Come Un Altro Dove Appendere Il Cappello”, Galleria Umberto Di Marino, Ascoli Piceno, Italy Mark Hosking & Antony Heywood, SBK Galerie 3, Amsterdam “El Huesped”, Bella Artes de Murcia, Spain |
| 2017 | “Permanent Repetition”, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Incl.; Raymond Cuijpers, Koen Delaere, Jonathan Lasker, Jacco Olivier, Thomas Raat |
| 2016 | “Zu den Sachen Selbst”, Rosalux Berlin, curator Kirsten Hutsch. Incl.; Elspeth Diederix, Ana Genoves. Essay: The Hidden Life of Things (dr. Laurens Landeweerd) |
| 2015 | “Door Schildersogen/From A Painter’s Perspective” Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| “Phantom Limb”, PuntWG, Amsterdam, curated by Mark Hosking incl; Jason Coburn, Ana Genovés, Kirsten Hutsch, Damien Meade, Florian and Michael Quistrebert.”TAOP”, Galerie Schaufenster, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2014 | “The Act Of Painting”, Gallery Valeur, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan |
| “The Act Of Painting”, Casa Sakanoue, Hiyoshi, Kanagawa, Japan | |
| “The Act Of Painting”, TAC Eindhoven, The Netherlands | |
| “Leaping The Fence”, Hestercombe House, Somerset, England | |
| 2013 | “Grondwerk”, Galerie Emmy Miltenburg, Schiedam, The Netherlands |
| 2012 | “Reason Swings Its Bone”, Pesthouse Editions, Amsterdam |
| 2011 | “Magischer Abfall”, Kunsthalle Krems | Forum Frohner, Krems |
| “Pieces”, Kerstin Ehgholm Galerie, Vienna | |
| 2010 | “Global Contemporary”, The Rijksakademie Artists ́ Endowment Fund, Sothebys, Amsterdam |
| 2009 | “Return to Function”, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA |
| 2008 | “Return to Function”, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, USA |
| 2006 | “All-inclusive. Die Welt des Tourismus”, Schirnhalle, Frankfurt |
| 2005 | “Demolition”, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna |
| “Inhabituel”, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan | |
| 2004 | “Wunderkammer: The Artificial Kingdom”, The Collection, Lincoln |
| “Off The Beaten Track – Arts Council Collection Explored”, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park | |
| 2003 | “Sportivement Votre”, Domaine Départemental de Chamarande |
| 2002 | “The Square Show”, Bloomberg Space, London |
| “seven plus or minus one”, ARTLAB 19, Imperial College of Science, London | |
| “Us & Them”, Great Eastern Hotel, London | |
| “The Gap Show. Young critical art from Great Britain”, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund | |
| 2001 | ARTLAB 16, Imperial College of Science, London |
| “Gymnasion”, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz | |
| “Something about Charlois…iets over Charlois”, Rotterdam | |
| “The Silk Purse Procedure”, Arnolfini & Spike Island, Bristol | |
| “City Racing – A partial account”, I.C.A., London. | |
| 2000 | “Altijd staan wij op de grens van de widernis”, W139, Amsterdam |
| 1999 | “Shot in the Head”, Lisson Gallery, London |
| “Neurotic Realism Part 2”, The Saatchi Gallery, London | |
| “British Sculpture 1999”, Lange Voorhout, Den Haag | |
| 1998 | “Near”, Museum of Sharjah, United Emirates of Arabia |
| 1997 | “City Racing”, London |
| 1996 | “EAST International”, Norwich Gallery, Norwich |
| 1995 | “The Whitechapel Open”, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London |
| 1994 | “Ideal Standard Summertime”, Lisson Gallery, London |
| “CARDOSO ART 94”, Garfagnana | |
| Economist Building, London | |
| “FLOU – New Art from London”, Les Etes, Phonongraphique de L’ Est, Paris |
Awards and Grants
| 2002 | Artist in Residence Stipendium, Imperial College of Science, London |
| 1998 | “Stichting Intendence”, Vrienden van de Rijksakademie, Amsterdam |
| 1997 | South West Arts, Visual Arts Award |
| “The Uriot Prize”, Amsterdam | |
| Foundation for sport and the arts, Grant aid | |
| 1996 | “MOMART Prize Winner”, The Whitechapel Open, London |
| “Boise Travel Scholarship”, London | |
| 1993 | “Duveen Travel Bursary “, London |
Residencies
| 2008 | EKWC, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands |
| 2005 | Le Couvent des Récollets, Paris |
| 2003 | Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris |
| 2002 | Artist in Residence, Imperial College of Science, London |
Work in Selected Collections
The Saatchi Collection, London
West Collection, New York
Arts Council Collection, United Kingdom
Publications
| 2017 | Lisson Gallery 50th Anniversary Book, ARTIST / WORK / LISSON |
| 2009 | “Return to function” catalogue of an exhibition held at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, edited by Stephen Robert Frankel, New York 2005 “Inhabituel”, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan |
| 2005 | “Inhabituel”, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan |
| 2004 | “The Evening Rise”, Copyright by Mark Hosking & Onestar press, printed and bound in France |
| “Auto Roto Font” by Mark Hosking, “Book Works” publication, with a text by Edward Allington | |
| 2002 | “The Gap Show. Young Critical Art from Great Britain”, Museum am Ostwall, text by Mark Beasley, Dortmund |
| 2001 | “oost east kunst art. Art in Amsterdam’s Eastern Docks Area”, Amsterdam City Council, Amsterdam |
| “Gymnasion”, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz | |
| “The Silk Purse Procedure”, Arnolfini & Spike Island, Bristol | |
| “50 projects in 50 weeks”, Fig-1, London | |
| 1999 | “Changing the System? Artists talk about their practice”, a discussion event in Rotterdam, April. |
| “Den Haag Sculptuur 1999”, Foundation “Het Voorhout van de Beeldende Kunst II”, Den Haag. | |
| 1998 | “The new neurotic Realism II”, The Saatchi Gallery, London. |
Articles
| 2006 | Ilaria Bombelli, “Mark Hosking”, in: Flash Art, December/January, p. 88. Manisha Jothady, “Designs für eine bessere Welt”, in: artmagazine.cc, 9.10. “Nützliche Bikinis”, in: Der Standard, 28.09, p.14. Bärbel Vischer, “Provokante Zurückhaltung”, in: artmagazine.cc, 28.09. Markus Mittringer, “Mc Gyver greift durch”, Der Standard. Rondo, 387, 15.09., p. 16. |
| 2005 | Mark Prince, “On Sculpture”, in: Art Monthly, December/January, p. 7-10. |
| 2004 | Claudia Aigner, “Rettet unsere Einkaufssackerln!”, in: Wiener Zeitung, 07.05. |
| 2003 | Emily Pethick, “Mark Hosking”, in: artforum online, June. “Mark Hosking”, in: kultureflash, 46, 20.05. |
| 2002 | Pablo Lafuente, “Us & Them”, in: Art Rewiew, July/Aug., p. 94- 95. Edward Ellington, “dream machines”, in: frieze, 66, April, p. 59-63. |
| 2001 | Martin Coomer, “Mark Hosking”, in: Time Out. Mark Wilsher, “Mark Hosking”, in: What’s on in London, 28.03. Jessica Lack, “Mark Hosking”, in: The Guardian: Guide, 10.03. “Mark Hosking”, in: Southwark Life, April/May. “Mark Hosking”, The Guardian: Space, 08.03. |
| 2000 | Johanna Hofleitner, “Ausgestellt in Wien”, in: Die Presse, 24.07. Claudia Aigner, “Galerie Engholm. Hosking, Almond. Der Kampf ums Überleben”, in: Wiener Zeitung, 20.07. “Watchlist – Ausstellung Wien”, in: Der Standard, 11.07. “What’s on in Austria” in: Austria Today, 04.07. Nicole Scheyerer, “Kunst Kurz”, in: Falter, 27. Nicole Scheyerer, “Wienlexikon – Empfohlen”, in: Falter, 26. Nicole Scheyerer, “Wienlexikon – Kunstkalender – Empfohlen: Darren Almond, Mark Hosking”, in: Falter, 25. Michaela Knapp, “Up2Date – Ausstellungseroffnung Darren Almond und Mark Hosking”, in: Die Presse, 08.06. “Watchlist – Ausstellung Wien: Repolitisierung. Ein britischer Beitrag mit Darren Almond und Mark Hosking”, in: Der Standard, 08.06. Patricia Grzonka, “Almond, Hosking. Britische Provokation als politisches Statement”, in: Profil, 26, p. 167. |
| 1999 | “Mark Hosking – Low Tech Sophistication”, in: Les Cahiers de la Sculpture, 3/99, July/ August/September, p. 58. JJ. Charlesworth, “Neurotic Realism Part Two”, in: Art Monthly, October, pp. 30. |
| 1998 | Hani M. Bathish, “Funktional Pieces of Art on Display”, in: Khaleej Times, 17.12., p. 5. “British Contemporary Art”, in: Gulf News, 16.12., p. 2. |
| 1997 | Neal Brown, “Mark Hosking – Lisson Gallery”, in: frieze, 37, Nov./Dec., p. 80. |
| 1996 | Tim Hilton, “The truly East of England Show”, in: The Independent, 27.07., p. 19. |
| 1995 | Neal Brown, “Ideal standard Summertime / Postscript”, in: frieze, 26, Jan./Feb. Richard Cork, “Summer brings cold comfort”, in: The Times, 13.08., p. 36. |