Andy Holden | Backstory

Andy Holden b. 1982, Bedford, England.

2005-2006: Guest Student Staedelschule, Frankfurt, Germany.
2005: Assistant to Jason Rhoades
2002-2005: BA Fine Art: Goldsmiths College (First Class Honours).
2001: Foundation in Art: Cambridge Regional College

List of Events and Exhibitions (* denotes solo exhibition)

2009:
Fallen Out of Space, Mol's Place, London
Two Short Works in Time, Mol's Place, London
Plus+, group exhibition, Southwark
Rotate, Contemporary Arts Society, London
Zoo Art Fair, w/Works/Projects
Desert Project, Works/Projects, Bristol*
Performed, Wysing Arts, Cambridge
Art Amsterdam 'Solo', Rai, Amsterdam*
A Series of Small Encounters, Hidde van Seggelen*
Two Short Works In Time, Odeon Cinema, Covent Garden*
Abstract, Allmost Abstract 2 , Gallerie van Gelder, NL

2008:
Experimenta Folklaw, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany
Black Cube 10, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
The World is Round and Mr Wrigley Makes Chewing Gum, Kunstfort, NL*
The Hex: A Retrospective, Limoncello, London
You Go On Without Me, Hex Projects, London*
Poldergeist, Kunstfort Vijfhuizen, NL

2007:
Colour Now, Gallerie Van Gelder, Amsterdam
Sunday Morning Coming Down, Vienna Fair, Vienna *
Here, Gallery 54, Toronto, Canada *
DC Düsseldorf, Germany (art fair presentation)

2006:
The Thing-In-Itself, Peles Gallery. Curated by Mark Leckey.
Preview, Berlin, with Hidde Van Seggelen. (art fair presentation)
Black Boulder Monochrome Folly, London (self organised event).
So Long See You Tomorrow, Hidde Van Seggelen, London*.
Rundgang, Staedelschule, Frankfurt.

2005:
Guest Room, CD and Journal launch. Music performance.
Degree Show, Goldsmith's College
All Surface No Feeling, (part 2), Numbers Gallery, London.

2004:
Super-Macho-Barbarian-Turbo-Championism, Top Buzzer
Guston’s Boulder, (self-organised event for a temporary public sculpture)
Lecture On Migration, Goldsmith’s College (self organised event).

2003: Faith Artists Space, Cambridge
The Church of the Top Buzzer, Top Buzzer, London.
Break Your Little Heart, various venues, touring. (with Johnny Parry).

2002:
Exhibition! Bird in Hand, Cambridge*.
Wallpaper Cambridge Art’s Picture House (group show).

Publications

Spacecraft, Hideouts, & Fleeting Architectures, Die Gestalten Press. 2007
My Brother Went to an Art Fair & all I got was this Lousy Holden, HVS, 2007
The World is Round and Mr Wrigley Makes Chewing Gum, Kunstfort, 2008

Awards

Boise Travel Scholarship 2008, Slade/UCL.

Other Work

Conducting interviews with artists for Resonance 104.4FM. Recent interviews have included Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen, Georg Baselitz, John Baldessari, Albert Oehlen, Haim Steinbach, and Barry Flanagan .
~To be made available on this website for download in the near future~

Contributer to Turps Banana painting magazine. Recent issues: interviews with Jim Shaw and Alan Davie.

Musician with the performance group The Grubby Mitts on Lost Toys Records www.losttoysrecords.com / www.myspace.com/thegrubbymitts

contact: holdenstudio at gmail.com