Andy Holden lives and works in Bedfordshire, UK
Works can be found in the permanent collections of Tate Gallery, Leeds Art Gallery, Bristol Museum, Arts Council Collection and Zabludowicz Collection in the UK and various collections in Europe.
List of Events and Exhibitions (* denotes solo exhibition)
2023
Song of Songs, Seventeen, London U.K*
Full of Days, Gallery of Everything, London UK*
Auguries, Permanent public sculpture commission, Wakefield U.K
Behold, Hypha Studio’s, London UK
Amber Rooms, Matt’s Gallery, London U.K
2022
British Art Show 9, Whitworth, Manchester UK
British Art Show 9, Box, Plymouth UK
Raw Nerves, Hannah Barry Gallery, Peckham, UK
Ghost Show, Copeland Park, London
Cubitt 30, Victoria Miro, London
Empathy for People, Empathy for Things, University of Hatfield Gallery, UK
For the Birds, Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, USA
British Art Show 9, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK
2021
Unnatural History, Herbert Coventry
Arcadia, Bold Tendencies, London
Collected Domestic Conceptualism, Pitt Studio, Worcester
British Art Show 9, Aberdeen Art Gallery, UK
Beano: Art of Breaking the Rules, Somerset House (Curator)
To the Edge of Time, The Leuven University Library, Belgium
House Share, First Site, Colchester
2020
Structure of Feeling (Ghost Train), Block 336, London*
Unexpected Views, lecture at National Gallery, London
What am I? Simon Munnery Retrospective, SVA, (Curator)
2019
Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape, Cinema Museum, London*
Natural Selection, Shetland Arts, Shetland*
Natural Selection, Bristol Museum*
Fragile Earth, MIMA
Invisible, Science Gallery, Dublin
What Am I? - An Exhibition by Simon Munnery (Curator),
Hippo Campus, Newlyn Art Exchange
Natural Slection, Hospitalfields/Arbroath Law Courts, Scotland*
Dark Matter, Science Gallery. London
Cartoony, New Media Gallery, Vancouver, CA
2018
Good Grief Charlie Brown, Somerset House, London
Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto*
Natural Selection/Laws of Motion, Front International, Cleveland, USA
Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape (live), Alserkal Avenue Project Space, Dubai
Natural Selection, CAST, Cornwall*
Natural Selection, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne*
Natural Selection, Leeds Art Gallery*
Animals and Us, Turner Contemporary, Margate
Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape (live), Groundwork, Cornwall
Rinnzekete bee bee nnz err müü, Kunstverein Weisbarden (Group show)
Opposite of Time, Henry Moore Studio, Mutch Hadam (performance)
Silly Symphony, Ex-Baldessarre Bedford (Curator)
Estate of Hermione, Ex-Baldessarre, Bedford (Curator)
2017
Natural Selection, Artangel at Former Newington Library, London
Laws of Motion, Kunsthalle Viborg, Denmark (off site in Laws Court)
World as Cartoon, Tate Britain, Performance
Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Foundation, Ukraine
Future Generation Art Prize at Venice Biennale
As Speed Increase Objects can Ben in Several Places At Once, Lancaster Arts*
50 Years of Milton Keynes, M!MS Dream Sequence, Milton Keynes Gallery
2016
The Practice of Theories, Wysing Arts Centre, group exhibition
Secret Surface, K-W Berlin, group exhibition
Playing by the Rules, Royal Standard, Liverpool, group show
Pitt Projects: Music vs Ceramics, at Pulse New York, new works editions and films
TEFAF Maastricht, NL, Installation with Hidde van Seggelen,
Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape, Wasps, Glasgow International*
2015
Towards a Unifie Theory of M!MS, Kunsthall Winterthur*
It's Only Bondage was the Circling Sky, SVA/Site Festival, Stroud*
20 Years, Zabludowicz Collection
Lecture on Nesting, Bristol Museum with Spike Island
2014
The Politics of Friendship Tour, tour of nine artist-run spaces around the UK with the Grubby Mitts
inc: Primary, S1 Artspace, Rhubaba, Supercollider, Karst, Aid and Abet, Grand Union, Open School East
Hey I’m Mr Poetic, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
Anatomy of Anxieties, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong
Towards a Unified Theory of M!MS, Spike Island, Bristol*
Cacotopia / Peach Blossom Spring, Kui Yuan Gallery, China (touring)
Hello, Welcome, performance for Art Licks Weekend
On the Devolution of Culture, Rob Tufnell, London
The Proper Situation is Sublime, commission for Cambridge Hospital
2013
Seven Short Works in Time, Hospitalfield Arts, Angus
Lecture on Nesting, Performa 13, New York, USA
Towards a Unified Theory of M!MS, Zabludowicz Collection, Londonª
As real as walking down the street and going to the grocery store, Rowing, London
Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, Hayward Touring curated by Mark Leckey,
Liverpool Bluecoat, Nottingham Contemporary, De la Ware Pavilion
Version Control, Arnolfini, Bristol
Folly and Landscape, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh*
Random Acts, film for Channel 4, commissioned by TATE Media
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Arnolfini, Bristol (stage production)
2012
Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston
The Dan Cox Library for the Unfinished Concept of Thingly Time, Cubitt*
Soundworks, ICA London
Becoming Thing, Whitechapel, performance with Ed Adkins
Nothing Like Something Happens Anywhere, Chapter, Cardiff
Lecture on Nesting, Penzance Convention, performance with Peter Holden.
Lecture on Bird Song, House of Beasts, Attingham Park, performance.
Latitude Contemporary Art, Latitude Festival, Suffolk
Discussing Metamodernism, Gallery Tanja Wagner, Berlin
A Plea for Tenderness, Seventeen Gallery, Curated by David R Conroy
Stalagmite Rock Club, Art Rotterdam, solo presentation*
Cookham Erratics, Works|Projects, Bristol*
Grubby Mitts, Performance at First Site, Colchester
Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape, Hay-on-Wye festival, performance
Brief Interview’s with Hideous Men, ICA, two night production in collaboration with David Raymond Conroy
Grubby Mitts single launch, Old Queen’s Head, Islington
Human Made Things, Aspex, Portsmouth
Occupants, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston
2011
Chewy Cosmos Thingly Time, Kettle's Yard Cambridge*
Cookham Erratic, Benaki Museum, Athens*
Transcendental Empiricism, Rob Tufnell, London
Art Now Live, Tate Britain (Lecture on Birdsong)
BruderKreigSoundSystem, ICA, London, cuarted by Mark Leckey
I Promise To Love You, Kunsthalle Rotterdam
A Fire in the Master's House is Set, Chapter, Cardiff.
Life of the Mind (Grubby Mitts performance), New Art Gallery, Walsall,(Curated by Bob and Roberta Smith)
Off the Record, Resonance 104.4Fm, curated by Royal College curating MA
2010
Art Now: Andy Holden, TATE Britain*
Be Glad for the Song Has No End ~ a Festival of Artists Music (curator)
Props, Events and Encounters, Hub, Athens
Six Short Works in Time, Victoria University Gallery, Liverpool
Daily, Action, Poetry, (with Grubby Mitts), Hayward Gallery
Lecture on Nesting, London Festival of Architecture
Permanent Vacation, Bureau Manchester*
The Eccentric, The Idiosyncratic and the Unpredictable, Schirman & de Beaucé, Paris
Canadian Pharmacy, Neon Parc, Melbourne, Australia
Three Short Works in Time, TATE Britain (performance with Grubby Mitts)
2009
Desert Project, Works/Projects, Bristol*
Lecture on Migration, performance, Transition Gallery, London
Performed, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
A Series of Small Encounters, Hidde van Seggelen*
Two Short Works In Time, Performance, Odeon Cinema, Covent Garden*
Abstract, Almost Abstract 2 , Gallerie van Gelder, NL
2008
Experimenta Folklore, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany
The World is Round and Mr Wrigley Makes Chewing Gum, Kunstfort, NL*
You Go On Without Me, Hex Projects, London*
Poldergeist, Kunstfort Vijfhuizen, NL
2006
The Thing in Itself, Peles Empire, curated by Mark Leckey
Publications:
Collected Free Labour, Slimvolume, 2021
Natural Selection, Artangel, 2017, with essays by Helen MacDonald and Darian Leader
M!MS, Zabludowicz Publishing, 2013
Chewy Cosmos Thingy Time, Kettles Yard Catalogue
The World is Round and Mr Wriggly Makes Chewing Gum, Catalogue, NL
The Art of Not Making, Thames and Hudson, 2011
Spacecraft, Hideouts, & Fleeting Architectures II, Gestalten, 2009
Spacecraft, Hideouts, & Fleeting Architectures, Gestalten, 2007
The Object, Documents in Contemporary Art, Whitechapel Gallery,
Disgography
Lenny 12" Vinyl, ed 100, Holden
After the Fact, CD, ed 300, The Grubby Mitts
To a Friend's House 7", ed 500, The Grubby Mitts
Standard 7", ed 300, The Grubby Mitts
What the World Needs Now Is, CD, ed 1000, The Grubby Mitts
Music of Exhaustion, unique 7", ed 300, The Grubby Mitts
Towards a Unified Theory of M!MS, 12", edition 250, Holden
Education:
2005-2006: Guest Student Staedelschule, Frankfurt, Germany
2002-2005: BA Fine Art: Goldsmiths College
2001-2002: Foundation in Art, Cambridge Regional College
Currently visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art on Contemporary Art Practice
Awards
Paul Hamlyn Award, 2012
Stanley Picker Fellowship, Kingston University, 2011-12
Boise Travel Award, Slade/UCL, 2008
Selected Press:
Front Row, BBC Radio 4, 17th May 2023
Full of Days, The Wonderfully Strange…, Adrian Searl, Guardian, April 2023
When Outsider Art Entered the Mainstream, Hettie Judah, Appolo, 6th July 2023
Raw Vision, review of Full of Days, Nuala Ernest, Summer 2023
Artnet, Jo Lawson-Tancred, April 2023
Andy Holden Interviewed by Jarvis Cocker, Observer, April 2022
How Our Critic Ended up in the Beano, (5* Review), Guardian, by Adrian Searle, Oct 2021
Heartfelt, Meticulous, and Splendidly Irreverent, Financial Times, Arwa Halder, 2nd Nov 2021
How the Beano Encouraged Generations of Artist’s to Break the Rules, Arts Newspaper, Oct 2021
Natural Selection, review, Himali Singh Soin, Art Forum, Jan 2018
Frieze, Laws of Motion, feature, Darian Leader, July 2017
Observer, 5* Review of Natural Selection, Laura Cummings, Oct 2017
Guardian, Natural Selction Review, Sky Sherwin, Oct 2017
Andy Holden’s Maximum Irony! Maximum Sincerity, Notes on Metamodernism, Elinor Morgan, Sept 2014
Rising stars of 2014 – art, Sky Sherwin, The Observer, Jan 2014
Robert Clark and Skye Sherwin, The best exhibitions of 2014: The Guardian
Interview: Frieze Magazine, June 2012.
Modern Painters, Childish Things: Andy Holden’s Sincere Irony
Mousse Magazine, Andy Holden at Zabludowicz Collection
20 inspirational artist selected by Frieze cover artists, 2010
Interview, Crack Magazine, Feb 2013
I Object, Art Monthly, September 2013
Frieze, review, David Trigg, March 2012
Sound: Be Glad For The Song Has No End, review, Art Monthly, November 2010
Chewy Cosmos, Thingly Time, review by David Ryan, Art Monthly, Sept 2011