Curriculum vitae

DENISE HAWRYSIO

                16 Pullens Buildings, Penton Place, London SE17 3SJ, UK

                +44 (0)20 7793-0872

                denise@hawrysio.com   

                www.hawrysio.com

 

BORN    Toronto, Canada, lives in London, UK

EDUCATION     

 

MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA, 1985

                BFA (Hons), Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 1981

 

ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

               

                Situtational Prints, Open Studio, Toronto, Canada, 2009

                News in Briefs,  36 Bedford Row Gallery, London, 2009

                Situational Prints, Danish Graphic Assoications, Copenhagne, 2009

Situational Prints, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, 2008

                Situational Prints, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 2007

                Hello my name is Jenny, MOCA, London, UK, 2005

                Live or Die, Zsa Zsa Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 2004    

                A city where the traffic lights are a place of contemplation, RACA, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2004

                The Way Things Don’t, Five Years, London, UK, 2002

                In the full light of reason, Dare-Dare Gallery, Montreal, Canada, 2001

                A Catalogue of Errors, The Floating Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada, 2001

                Grasping and Clinging, Project 304, Bangkok, Thailand, 2000

                Safe for all Surfaces, Five Years, London, UK, 2000        

                The Other Journey, The Other Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada, 1997

                The Tannery Project Space, London, UK, 1995

                Forum Bilker Stra, Düsseldorf, Germany, 1994

                Galerie Articule, Montréal, Canada, 1992

                Clove Gallery, London, UK, 1991

                Art & Text, Inset 2, The Showroom, London, UK, 1990

                Helen Pit Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 1989

                Rearrangement, London Film Festival, The London Filmmakers Coop, London, UK, 1989

                Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA, 1985

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

                New Prints 2009/Spring, International Print Center New York, New York, 2009

                Transcentric, Lethaby Gallery, Central St. Martins of Art and Design, London, 2008

                New Prints 2008/Spring, International Print Center New York, New York, 2008

                BIMPE, The Society for Contemporary Works on Paper, Vancouver, 2008

Analogue & Digital, Fieldgate Gallery Contemporary Art and Project Space, London, UK, 2007

                Spring Faculty Exhibition, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2007

                If it didn't exist you'd have to invent it., The Showroom, London, UK, 2006

                15/1 (3), Overgaden, Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2006

                Frenzy, Metropole Galleries, Folkestone, UK, 2006

                Hearing Voices, The Brunei Gallery, University of London, UK, 2005

                Drawing Life; the art and act of drawing, Surrey Art Gallery, Canada, 2005

                What is the book, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY. Fisher Arts Centre, Bard College, NY., 2004

                The Book Show, The Nunnery, London, & 3W Gallery, Grasmere, England, 2004

                15/1 (2), 1,000 000mph, London, UK, 2003

                6th Annual Splice This Festival, Toronto, Canada 2003

                The Lux Open, Smartlab, Royal College of Art, London, 2003

                Space Men, MOT, London, UK, curated by Chris Hammond, 2003

                Snapshot, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, USA, 2002, (touring exhibition)

                X-mas, Outline, Amsterdam, Holland, 2001

                Denise Hawrysio and Mark Bell, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada, 1999

                Lapsus, Five Years, London, UK, curated by John Roberts, 1999

                Recent Acquisitions, Surrey Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 1998

                The Marketplace of Ideas, Wriston Art Galleries, Appleton, Wisconsin, 1998

                External Affairs, Canada House, London, 1998

                The Space of the Page, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 1997

                Answer Affirmative Or Negative, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada, 1997

                The Pleasure of Aesthetic Life, The Showroom, London, UK, 1996

                Disneyland After Dark, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, 1996

                For the Voice: Sound and Silence, Chelsea School of Art, London, UK, 1996

                Disneyland After Dark, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden, 1995

                Wall to Wall, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 1995

                Paper, Image & Base, Museum Oud-Hospitaal, Aalst, Belgium, 1994

               

 

 

COLLECTIONS:

                Simon Fraser University, Canada 2007

                MacDowell Colony, NH, USA, 2006

                University of Manchester, UK, 2001

                San Francisco Art Institute, SF, Cal, Artists book collection, 2000

                Joan Flash Artists’ Books Collection, Chicago Institute, Chicago, 1999

                The National Gallery, Ottawa, Canada, 1998

                Surrey Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 1998

                Morey Chaplick Private Collection, Toronto, Canada, 1998

                Hajduszoboszlo Museum of Modern Art, Gyor, Hungary, 1997

                Yale University, New Haven, USA, 1997

                Museum vh Boek, Den Hagg, Holland, 1997

                AA Bronson - General Idea, Toronto, Canada, 1996

                Exeter School of Art, Exeter, UK, 1996

                Guildhall University, London, UK, 1995

                John Janssen, (private), London, UK, 1995

                Rijksgevangenis Dendermonde, Belgium, 1994

                Artists’ Publication, Eins von Hundert, Köln, Germany, 1994

                Art/Start Archives, International Ko production, Middleburg, Netherlands, 1994

                Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, 1992/93

                Art Bank, Ottawa, Canada, 1992

                Tate Gallery, London, UK, 1990

                Chelsea Art Library, London, UK, 1990/94

 

AWARDS

                Project Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, 2007

                Artist’s Residency, Printmedia Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2007

                Tom and Babs Putnam Print Fellowship, MacDowell Colony, N.H., USA, 2007

                Artists Fellowship, The MacDowell Colony, N.H., USA, 2006

                Grants to Artists, British Council, London, 2006

                Research Grant, Wimbledon School of Art, London, 2006

                Artists’ Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada, 2006

                Artist’s Residency Exchange Program, Deptford/Berlin, 2004

                Artists’ residency, Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts, Toronto, 2004

                Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada, 2004          

                Grants to Artists, London Arts, London, 2002

                Creative Production Grant, Canada Council, 2001

                Awards to Artists, British Council, London, 2000

                Publication Grant, Canadian Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand, 2000

                Travel Grant, Canada Council, 2000

                British Council Grant, London, 1999

                Artist in Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada, 1997

                Travel Grant, Canada Council, 1997

                Circulation and Dissemination Grant, Canada Council, 1997

                Travel Grant, The British Council, 1994

                Travel Grant, London Arts Board, 1994

                Research Grant, University of Plymouth, Exeter, 1996

                Elephant Trust, London, 1991

 

RELATED ACTIVITIES

 

Curator/organiser, 15/1 (3), Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, 2005/6

Board of Directors, Five Years, London, artists collective gallery space, with Marc Hulson, Alex Schady, and Eddy Dorrian.  Exhibitions/events include A Promise of Happiness, What is Love?, Dark Pop and Self Service, 1999 to 2004

Curator/organiser, 15/1 (2), 1,000,000 MPH Gallery, London, 2003

Photographer and research assistant for “Hearing Voices”, BBC radio commission and sound installation by John Wynne at Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London, 2003 (project included travel to Africa)

Exhibition Assistant, Architectural Association, London, Either In or Out, 2002

Artists’ publication, The Lifelong Lesson, Control Magazine, by Stephen Willats, 1997

Co-organizer, Tapko , Academy of Fine Art Helsinki, site specific installation, w/ Whitehead,1997

Director/founder, Malania Basarab Gallery, London, three-year collective gallery project, 1990-93


SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

                Sarah Urwin Jones, Situational Prints, The Herald, Scotland, 2008

                Robin Laurence, Situational Prints, Georgia Straight, Vancouver, June 7, 2007

                Judith Wilkinson, Canadian Club, cmagazine93, Spring 2007

                Andrew Wilson, If it didn’t exist… The Showroom Annual, 2005/6

                Gary Michael Dault, Live or Die, Zsa Zsa Gallery, Toronto, The Globe and Mail, July 31, 2004

                Simon Morely, The Book Show, London, Utopia Press, 2004    

                Sally O’Reilly, 15/1(2), Art Monthly, London, 2003

                Emma Dexter, 15/1 (Malania Basarab Gallery) 100 Reviews Backwards, London, 2003

                Matthew Higgs, 15/1 (Malania Basarab Gallery), 100 Reviews Backwards, London, 2003

                Nicky Hamlyn, Film, Art, Phenomena, BFI Publications, London, UK, 2003

                Susan Johanknecht, The Symbolic Book: A Travelogue, 2003

                Bangkok Post, Grasping and Clinging, Project 304, Bangkok, Thailand, October 2000

                James Bettley, The Art of the Book; from Illuminated Manuscript to Graphic Novel, V&A Publication,

                Martin Hubbard, Denise Hawrysio, Time Out, London, 2000

                David Weaver, Escape from Photography, Mercer Union publication, Toronto, Canada, 1999

                Sara Kent, What is a photograph? Time Out, London, 1998

                Hugh Stoddart, The Space of the Page, Artist Newsletter, Dec 1997

                John Jassen, The Space of the Page, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 1997

                Valerie Reardon, The Pleasure of Aesthetic Life, Art Monthly, London, No. 202-Dec 96

                Kim Sweet, The Pleasure of Aesthetic Life, Showroom publication, London, Dec 96

                Mark Currah, The Pleasure of Aesthetic Life, Time Out, Nov 96, no.1369

                Brigitte Wernebury, Disneyland After Dark, Sonnenbluhen Auf, Taz, Berlin, 18.05.96

                Katrin Bettina Muller, Panische Flucht, Tagessfiegel, Germany, 21.05.96

                Montag Feiertagen, Lichtausim Vergnugungspark, BZ, Berlin, 29.05.96

                Contribution (2-page artist’s feature) Control Magazine, Stephen Willats, editor, 1996

                Stephen Bury, Artists Books, Scolar Press, UK, 1995

                Gunilla Grahn-Hinnfors, Disneyland After Dark, Kultur Paper, Sweden, Oct 1995

                Sara Arrhenius, Disneyland After Dark, Aftonbladet, Sweden, Oct. 1995

                Marten Castenfors, Debauchery in Disneyland, Konst News, Stockholm, Oct. 1995

                Martin Landahl, Disneyland After Dark, Uppsala Demokraten, Oct 1995

                Cathy Courtney, Cell Books and Zero Text, Art Monthly, London, March 1995

                John Janssen, workfortheeyetodo, Summer Catalogue, London, 1995

                W.D.G., Aalst’s Paper Biennale, De Standaard, Belgium, June 1994

                BAB, Paper Biennale, Het Laatste Niews, Belgium, 1994

                Peter-Paul Geubels, Paper as Environment, Nieuwsblad, Belgium, 1994

                Jan Braet, Growing Pains, Knack, Belgium, June 1993

                Eric Bracke, Paper Biennale, De Morgen, Aalst, Belgium 1994

                Cathy Courtney, Artists’ Books, Art Monthly, London, May 1994

                Rob Kesselek, Looking at Words:  Reading Pictures, Untitled, summer, London, 1994