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°1973, lives and works in Manchester, UK. Currently the Residency Coordinator at the Chinese Arts Centre and P/T Painting Tutor, University of Huddersfield
Education: BA (Hons) Fine Art, Manchester Metropolitan University
2007 ‘How
Can Someone so Young Sing Words So Sad’, Transit, Mechelen, Belgium
2006 ‘Who
Will Eat my Sadness’, The Agency, London
2005 ‘The
Beautiful People’, Leicester City Gallery
2004 ‘Jane
Says…’, Cooper Gallery, Barnsley
2003 ‘The
Beautiful People’, Comme Ca Gallery, New York, USA
2003 ‘The
Beautiful People’, Kirkby Gallery, Kirkby Liverpool
2003 ‘The
Beautiful People’, The Storey Gallery, Lancaster
2002 ‘The
Beautiful people’, DDM Warehouse, Shanghai, China
2002 ‘The
Beautiful People’, Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax
2001 ‘The
Beautiful People’, View 2 Gallery, Liverpool
‘The
Beautiful People’, Chorlton Mill Gallery, Manchester
2000 ‘The
Beautiful People’, Cartwright Hall, Bradford
2000 ‘The
Horrible People’, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
‘The Beautiful People’,
Pannett Art Gallery, Whitby
1997 ‘Princess
Leia was my first Kiss’, Phillips Contemporary Art, Manchester
2007 ‘Teenage
Kicks’, Vegas Gallery, London
2006 ‘I-POD
Killed the Video Star’, Showroomama, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2005 ‘Children
of the Grave- Masters of Reality’, The Agency London
2005 ‘Young
Masters’, Art Fortnight London
2005 ‘Hand
in Hand we Walk Alone’, Clapham Art Gallery
2004 ‘Forever
Beautiful’, Clapham Art Gallery, London
2003 ‘Thermo
03’ The Lowry, Manchester
2002 ‘A
Word from our Sponsors’, Liverpool Biennial Independents 02
2002 ‘Perverse
Pop’, Catto Contemporary, London
2002 ‘The
Battle for Realism’, Inside Space, Selfridges, London
2001 ‘The
Builder’s Arms’, International 3, Manchester
2001 BP
Portrait Award 2001, National Portrait Gallery, London
2000 ‘Inferno’,
LMN Project, Guildhall, Newcastle
2000 BP
Portrait Award 2000, National Portrait Gallery, London
1999 John
Moores 21, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1996 ‘Graduate
UK’, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
‘Northern Graduates’,
Royal College of Art, London
1995 ‘Re-assessing
Poussin’, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
2007 ‘Faith’,
Dean Clough, Halifax & Gallery Primo Alonso
2006 ‘I’ll
Be Your Mirror’, Liverpool Biennial Independents 06 & Gallery
Primo Alonso, London
2006 ‘Jerusalem’,
Dean Clough, Halifax
2006 ‘Manchester,
So Much to Answer For’, Warsaw Projects, Manchester
2004 ‘Le
Petit Paysage’, Liverpool Biennial Independents 04 & Comme Ca,
Manchester
2004 ‘We
Didn’t Mean to be Bad Kids, TV Made Us Do It’, Warrington Museum & Art
Gallery, Hertfordshire University, St Albans & Collins Gallery, Glasgow
2002 ‘I’ll
be your Mirror’, Warsaw Projects, Manchester
2002 British
Council for DDM Warehouse Residency
2002 Shortlisted
for BOC Emerging Artist Award 2002
2001 City
Life’sVisual Arts Exhibition of the Year 2001
Shortlisted
for Fresh Artist 2001 Award
2001 Northwest
Arts Board- Individual Artists Award
Commended
in BP Portrait Award
1998 Northwest
Arts Board- Individual Artists Award
2004 Pyramid
Arts Centre, Warrington
2002 DDM
Warehouse, Shanghai, China
‘Artist at Work’, Walker Art
Gallery, Liverpool
2007 Artists & Illustrators
(My studio), April Issue
2005 Artists & Illustrators
(Main feature), December Issue
2004 Flaca
Annual 2004
2003 Interview
in V&A Magazine, Winter Edition
2002 Interview
in Art World, China, November Edition
2001 Perverse
Pop, Catto Compemporary, Exhibition Catalogue
BP
Portrait Award 1990-2001, NPG publications
2001 Profiled
in Art Review, March Edition
2000 Flux
Space, Flux Magazine
1999 John
Moores 21, NMGM Publications
2004 Lost
Beneath the Waves by Brya Weths, Warsaw Projects
2003 A
Cure for Everything by Brya Weths, Warsaw Projects