| BORN: | - | - |
| Jersey, Channel Islands. 1975 | - | - |
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| LIVES/WORKS: | - | - |
| London, UK | - | - |
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| EDUCATION: | - | - |
| 2001-2002 | MA in Fine Art | Goldsmiths College, London |
| 2000-2001 | Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art | Goldsmiths College, London |
| 1995-1998 | Honours BA Fine Art (Sculpture) | Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London |
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| SOLO EXHIBITIONS: | - | - |
| 2008 | Living History Archive – (PhotoEspana08) | Galeria Fucares, Madrid, Spain |
| 2006 | Neil Hamon - New Work | Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| 2006 | Neil Hamon | Blanca Soto Gallery, Madrid, Spain |
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| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: | ||
| 2008 | ThreeByThree | 1 Andrews Road, London. UK |
| 2008 | Tonight Forget About Your Cars and Houses | Union Gallery, London, UK |
| 2008 | Lucifer's Greatest Works of Art | FRED Gallery, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2008 | Still Cinema | Openeye Gallery, Liverpool, UK |
| 2008 | Gothic | Fieldgate Gallery, London, UK |
| 2007 | When We Build Let Us Think That We Build Forever | When We Build Let Us Think That We Build ForeverZabludowicz Collection, Baltic, Newcastle, UK |
| 2007 | Six Feet Under | Deutsches Hygiene-Museum , Dresden. Germany |
| 2007 | Think with the Senses Feel with the Mind | 52nd International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Italy |
| 2007 | Citadel Front Room/Killing Room | David Risley Gallery, London, UK |
| 2007 | Joke, Satire, Irony and Serious Meaning | European triennial of sculpture, Murska Sobota, Slovenia |
| 2007 | Lattitude | Fieldgate Gallery, London |
| 2006 | Six Feet Under | Fine Arts Museum, Berne, Switzerland |
| 2006 | Urban Gothic | Quartair Gallery, The Hague, The Netherlands |
| 2006 | Davidson Contemporary - Inaugural Exhibition | New York, USA |
| 2006 | Right On – Write Off | Chapman Fine Arts, London |
| 2006 | 8x8x8 LON/MSP/NYC | Soap Factory, Minneapolis, USA |
| 2005 | Larry’s Cocktails | Gagosian Gallery, London |
| 2005 | Portrait | Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| 2004 | Guy Allot, Neil Hamon, Claire Pestaille | Curated by Soraya Rodriguez & David Thorp, 4 Davies Street, London |
| 2004 | The Great Unsigned | Zoo Art Fair, Regents Park, London |
| 2004 | Cinderella | Tower Bridge Business Complex, Bermondsey, London |
| 2004 | Trackers | Pitzhanger Manor House, London |
| 2004 | After Life | Bowes Museum, County Durham. UK. |
| 2003 | Godzilla | Trailer, 2-10 Hartford Road, London |
| 2003 | Home Sweet Home | National Gallery Of Australia, Canberra, Australia |
| 2003 | Neil Hamon / David Van Royan | McNamara Gallery, New Zealand |
| 2003 | Mostyn 13 | Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales |
| 2003 | Chockafuckinblocked | Jeffery Charles Gallery, London |
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| AWARDS & RESIDENCIES: | - | |
| 2003 | BOC Emerging Artist, Finalist Award | |
| 2002 | Woo Foundation Bursary Award | |
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| BIBLIOGRAPHY: | - | |
| 2008 | Danby, Charles. ‘Invasion, Invasion’, Interview, Miser & Now magazine | |
| 2007 | Thorpe, David. ‘European Triennial of Small-Scale Sculpture’, Gallery of Murska Sobota | |
| 2007 | Mecugni, Anna. 52nd Biennale di Venezia catalogue, Marsilio. ISBN 978-0847830015 | |
| 2007 | Olivares, Rosa. ‘Uniforms’ Exit Image and Culture No 27. ISBN 1577-272-1 | |
| 2007 | Eliasch, Amanda. ‘Neil Hamon’, L’Uomo Vogue Magazine, May-June, Issue No 381 | |
| 2006 | Baker, Steve. ‘Nanoq: flat out and bluesome’, Black Dog Publishing, ISBN 1-904772390 | |
| 2006 | de Souza, Eduarda. ‘History, Suicide, Fishing and Taxidermy’, Interview, NYArts Magazine Vol. 11 | |
| 2006 | Freidli, Susanne. ‘The Artists Death’, Six Feet Under, Kerber Publishing, ISBN 3-86678-019-2 | |
| 2006 | PhotoEspana. ‘Neil Hamon – Taxidermia’. ISBN 84-96466-36-1 | |
| 2006 | Starace, Alex. ‘8x8x8’, Twin Cities Daily Planet | |
| 2005 | Borthwick, Ben. ‘Larry’s Cocktails’, Exhibition Catalogue, Gagosian Gallery, London | |
| 2005 | Coomer, Martin. ‘Larry’s Cocktails’, Timeout No.1828 | |
| 2004 | Whetstone, David. ‘Exploring an Undying Fascination’, The Journal | |
| 2004 | Waller, Rosie. ‘Dead Matters’, North East Exclusive | |
| 2004 | Clarkin, Andrew & Pittuck, Simon. ‘Trackers’, a-n Magazine | |
| 2004 | Roberts, David. ‘Art and the Power to Shock’. The Northern Echo | |
| 2004 | Roberts, David. ‘Museum Defends Death Display’, The Northern Echo | |
| 2004 | Morrissey, Simon. ‘After Life’, The Bowes Museum, ISBN 0-9502375-7-4 | |
| 2004 | Morrissey, Simon. ‘Trackers’, PM Gallery & House, ISBN 0-9538583-5-9 | |
| 2004 | Ogden, Rachael. ‘Dealing With the End’, Newcastle Metro | |
| 2003 | Pleass, Anders. ‘Mostyn 13’, Oriel Mostyn Open. ISBN 0906860504 | |
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| COLLECTIONS: | - | - |
| Public and Private Collections in the UK, USA, Brazil, France, Israel, Spain, Monaco, New Zealand and Australia. | ||
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| ARTIST STATEMENT: | - | |
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Neil Hamon uses photography, film and sculpture
to investigate our relationship with loss. Specifically how we
are lured into fictions or narratives in a fruitless effort to
fix that, which is always slipping away. He focuses on outmoded mediums that lay a claim to being accurate re-presentations due to an indexical link to their subject, mediums such as documentary photography and the more obsessive approaches of historical re-enactment and taxidermy. Initially the works appear as familiar documentation, but upon closer inspection reveal themselves as carefully constructed conceits that question how we are lured into falsehoods because of our often-fatal desire to preserve, restore and remember. |
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