Lot 518 - Hurvin Anderson - The Avenue

ARTIST INFO

About 

Born in 1965, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Hurvin Anderson lives and works between London and Cambridgeshire. Hurvin Anderson’s paintings explore spaces occupied by Caribbean immigrants, such as public parks, gardens, barbershops and domestic interiors, which function as sites for both social gathering and economic enterprise. These settings represent the artist’s personal and cultural memories of functional spaces and shared experiences of the Caribbean.  

Born to parents of Jamaican descent, Hurvin studied at the Wimbledon School of Art followed by the Royal College of Art, where he explored the relevance of figuration in a world dominated by abstraction and Conceptual art. Since then, he has pursued both landscape and abstract painting, exploring his own relationships to place by recalling social history and memory. 

Education 

Wimbledon School of Art (1991-1994), Royal College of Art (1996-1998) 

Select Exhibitions/Awards 

Solo Exhibitions:  
2023 
Salon Paintings: Hurvin Anderson, Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield 
 
2021 
Reverb: Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
 
Hurvin Anderson: Anywhere but Nowhere, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago IL
 
 
2019 
Hurvin Anderson, They have a mind of their own, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 
 
2016 
Hurvin Anderson: Dub Versions, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, England 
Hurvin Anderson: Backdrop, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada  
 
2015 
Hurvin Anderson: Backdrop, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis MO 
 
2013 
Hurvin Anderson: reporting back, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England 
 
Group Exhibitions:  
2024 
Forthcoming: The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure, National Portrait Gallery, London, England 
 
2022 
Radical Landscapes, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England [travelling to Mead Gallery, Coventry, England; William Morris Gallery, London, England] 
 
2021 
Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s – Now, Tate Britain, London, England [travelling to: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada] 
Mixing It Up: Painting Today, Hayward Gallery, London, England 
British Art Show 9, Hayward Gallery, London, England [travelling to Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland; Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, England; University of Wolverhampton School of Art, Wolverhampton, England; Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, England; Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA), Manchester, England; HOME, Manchester, England; Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England; The Whitworth, Manchester, England; KARST, Plymouth, England; The Levinsky Gallery, Plymouth, England; The Box, Plymouth, England; Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth, England] 
 
Hurvin Anderson was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2019. 

Gallery Representation 

Thomas Dane Gallery, London and Michael Werner Gallery, New York 

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