Andy Holden | Backstory

Andy Holden b. 1982, Bedford, England.

2005-2006: Guest Student Staedelschule, Frankfurt, Germany
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)

2011
Chewy Cosmos Thingly Time, Kettle's Yard Cambridge*
Cookham Erratics, Benaki Museum, Athens*
Transcendental Empiricism, Rob Tuffnel London
A Fire in the Master's House is Set, Chapter, Cardiff
Lecture on Nesting, RSA, Peterborough
Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape, Stanley Picker Gallery
Art Now Live, Tate Britain (Lecture on Birdsong)
BruderKreigSoundSystem, ICA, London, Curated by Mark Leckey
Cambridge Conflab, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (Lecture on Nesting)
Grubby Mitts performance at New Art Gallery Walsall (curated by Bob and Roberta Smith)
Off the Record, Resonance FM, curated by Royal College of Art Curating
Grubby Mitts performance at Milton Keynes Art Gallery
American Mountains, Grand Union, DJ set with Ed Atkins
Material Worlds, Contemporary Art Society auction

2010:
Art Now: Andy Holden, TATE Britain*
Be Glad for the Song Has No End ~ a Festival of Artists Music (organisor)
Props, Events and Encounters, Hub, Athens
Six Short Works in Time, Victoria University Gallery, Liverpool
Super Farmers' Market, Handle Street Projects, London
Stalagmite Rock Club Beerbottle Rock Shop, Wysing Arts Centre
Daily, Action, Poetry, (with Grubby Mitts), Hayward Gallery
Lecture on Nesting, London Festival of Architecture
Permanent Vacation, Bureau Manchester*
This Matter, Royal Standard, Liverpool (Grubby Mitts)
Children of the Reservation, (Grubby Mitts), Central Reservation, Bristol
Presents: Lost Toys Records Lounge, Wysing Art Contemporary, Cambridge
The Eccentric, The Idiosyncratic and the Unpredictable, Schirman & de Beaucé, Paris
Canadian Pharmacy, Neon Parc, Melbourne, Australia
Three Short Works in Time, TATE Britain, part of "Going Public"
TEFAF, Maastricht, Showcase with Hidde van Seggelen
Sunday Art Fair, London, with Works Projects

2009:
Lecture on Migration, performance, Transition Gallery, London
Fallen Out of Space, Mol's Place, London
Two Short Works in Time, Performance at 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, Performance, Odeon Cinema, Covent Garden*
Abstract, Allmost Abstract 2 , Gallerie van Gelder, NL

2008:
Experimenta Folklore, 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
Andy Holden: Art Now, Tate leaflet and poster, 2010
The Art of Not Making, Thames and Hudson, 2011
Chewy Cosmos Thingly Time, Kettle's Yard catalogue, 2011

Awards

Boise Travel Scholarship 2008, Slade/UCL.
Stanley Picker Fellowship, Kingston University 2011
Grant for the Arts, Arts Council

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.

Artist talks: Goldsmiths College, Bristol UWE, Liverpool John Moores, Bedford College. Visiting teaching (one or two days): Royal College of Art (Sculpture), Goldsmith College BA, Liverpool John Moores.

Musician with the performance group The Grubby Mitts on Lost Toys Records

contact: holdenstudio at gmail.com