DENISE HAWRYSIO
16 Pullens Buildings,
Penton Place, London SE17 3SJ, UK
dh@hawrysio.com
BORN Toronto, Canada, lives in London, UK
EDUCATION
MFA, San Francisco Art
Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA
BFA (Hons),
Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
An Etching Plate Feels No Pain, SNAP, Edmonton, Canada, 2011
Situational Prints, Martha Street Studios, Winnipeg, Canada, 2010
Situational Prints, Open Studio, Toronto, Canada, 2009
Etching Plate As Shield, Danske Grafikers Hus, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009
News in Briefs, 36 Bedford Row Galleries,
London, UK, 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 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 (sound by John Wynne)
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
Galérie Articule, Montréal, Canada, 1992
Clove Gallery,
London, UK, 1991
Art & Text, Inset 2, The Showroom, London, UK, 1990
Helen Pit
Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 1990
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Surface Tension, Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver, Canada, 2011
Accidental Literacy, The
Print Studio Gallery, Hamilton, Canada, 2011
Common Wealth, MKG127 Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 2009
Dumbwaiter, James Taylor Gallery,
London, UK, 2009
New Prints 2009/Spring, International Print Center New York, New York, USA,
2009
Transcentric, Lethaby Gallery,
Central St. Martins of Art and Design, London, UK, 2008
New Prints 2008/Spring, International Print Center New York, New York, USA, 2008
BIMPE, The Society
for Contemporary Works on Paper, Vancouver, 2008
Analogue & Digital, Fieldgate Gallery
Contemporary Art, London, UK, 2007
Spring Faculty Exhibition, University of
British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 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
Hearing Voices, The Brunei Gallery,
University of London, UK, 2005
Drawing Life; the art and act of drawing,
Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Canada, 2005
What is the book, Flux Factory, Long
Island City, and Fisher Arts Centre, Bard College, N.Y., 2004
The Book Show, The
Nunnery, London, UK and 3W Gallery, Grasmere, UK, 2004
15/1 (2), 1,000 000mph, London, UK, 2003
The Lux Open, Smartlab, Royal College of
Art, London, UK, 2003
Space Men, MOT, London, UK, 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, 1999
Recent Acquisitions, Surrey Art Gallery,
Vancouver, Canada, 1998
External Affairs, Canada House, London,
UK, 1998
The Space of the Page, Henry Moore
Institute, Leeds, UK, 1998
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, 1996
COLLECTIONS:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Simon Fraser
University, Canada
MacDowell
Colony, New Hampshire, USA,
University of
Manchester, UK,
San Francisco
Art Institute, Artists book collection, San Francisco Cal, USA
Joan Flash
Artists’ Books Collection, Chicago Institute, Chicago, USA
The National
Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Surrey Art
Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Morey
Chaplick Private Collection, Toronto, Canada
Hajduszoboszlo
Museum of Modern Art, Gyor, Hungary
Yale
University, New Haven, USA
Museum vh
Boek, Den Hagg, Holland
AA Bronson -
General Idea, Toronto, Canada
Exeter School
of Art, Exeter, UK
Guildhall
University, London, UK
John Janssen,
(private), London, UK
Rijksgevangenis Dendermonde, Belgium, Holland
Artists’ Publication, Eins von Hundert, Köln, Germany
Art/Start Archives, International Ko production,
Middleburg, Netherlands
Art Bank,
Ottawa, Canada
Tate Gallery,
Art Library, London, UK
Chelsea Art
Library, London, UK
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND RESIDENCIES
Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada, 2009
Grant, Canada
House Arts Trust, London, UK, 2008
Project
Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada, 2007
Artist’s
Residency, Printmedia Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2007
Tom and Babs
Putnam Print Fellowship, MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire, USA, 2007
Artists
Fellowship, The MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire, USA,
2006
Grants to
Artists, British Council, London, UK, 2006
Research
Grant, Wimbledon School of Art, London, UK, 2006
Thematic
Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada, 2006
Artists
Residency Exchange Program, Deptford, UK and Berlin, Germany, 2004
Artists residency, Gibraltar
Point Centre for the Arts, Toronto, Canada, 2004
Travel Grant,
Canada Council for the Arts, Canada, 2004
Grants to
Artists, London Arts, London, UK, 2002
Creative
Production Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada, 2001
Awards to
Artists, British Council, London, UK, 2000
Publication
Grant, Canadian Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand, 2000
Travel Grant,
Canada Council for the Arts, Canada 2000
British
Council Grant, London, UK 1999
Thematic
Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada, 1997
Travel Grant,
Canada Council for the Arts, Canada, 1997
Circulation
and Dissemination Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada, 1997
Travel Grant,
The British Council, UK, 1994
Travel Grant,
London Arts Board, UK, 1994
Research
Grant, University of Plymouth, Exeter, UK, 1996
Elephant
Trust, London, UK, 1991
SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
Carolyn Jervis, Behind the marks, Vueweekly,
issue 818, Edmonton, 2011
Brant Schuller, Proof:
Printmaking as Evidence, SGCI Panel, New York, and USA, 2011
Michael Petry, ‘Crafty: the art of not making’, by Thames and
Hudson in March 2011
Dean Kenning, An Etching Plate Feels
no Pain, Open Studio Publication, 2009
Gary Michael Dault, Situational Prints, The
Globe and Mail, Canada, July 18, 2009
Courtney Weida, The Art of
Books, Museums, and Digital Culture, Guild of Book Workers Journal, 2010
Robin
Laurence, Situational Prints, Georgia
Straight, Vancouver, June 7, 2007
Ian Wallace, Situational Prints, Simon
Fraser University Gallery Publication, 2007
Bill Jeffries,
Situational Prints, Simon Fraser
University Gallery Publication, 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 Morley,
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 Janssen,
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
Katrina 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
David Thorp, Staggered Systems, The
Showroom Publication, 1994
Rob Kesselek,
Looking at Words: Reading Pictures, Untitled, summer,
London, 1994
Kim Sawchuck,
"Denise Hawrysio: Galérie Articule," Parachute, 66, summer, 1992
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CURATING AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
2009 Curator, Common Wealth, MKG127 Gallery, Toronto,
Canada
Amanda Beech,
Giorgio Sadotti, Bob and Roberta Smith, and David Alker
2006 Curator and
organiser, 15/1 (3), Overgaden Institute of Contemporary
Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
1999-04 Member of the
Board of Directors, Five Years, London, UK, artist’s collective gallery space,
with Marc Hulson, Alex Shady, and Eddy
Dorrian. Exhibitions/events organiser
and curator A Promise of Happiness, What is Love?,
Dark Pop and Self Service Painting and Self Service Video.
2003
Curator/organiser, 15/1 (2),
1,000,000 MPH Gallery, London, UK
2009-10 Photographer and research assistant for sound and
photographic installation by John Wynne at Border
Zone, Anthropology Museum of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
2003 Photographer and
research assistant for “Hearing Voices”,
sound and photographic installation by John
Wynne at Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and Africa Studies, London, UK
(project included travel to Africa)
2002 Exhibition
Assistant, Architectural Association, London, UK Either In or Out
1997 Artists’
publication, The Lifelong Lesson,
Control Magazine, by Stephen Willats
1997 Co-organizer, Tapko, Academy of Fine Art Helsinki,
site-specific installation, Professor Whitehead
1990-93 Director/founder, Malania Basarab Gallery, London, UK,
Three-year gallery project
Exhibitions include; Mock with John Ferris, Echt,
with Claudia Terstappen and Michael Krause, Spit with Jarg Gesimar, and Peter Andersson, 15/1 with Amikam Toren, Graham Ramsey, Adam Chodzko, and Anya
Gallaccio, Strip with Bill Burns and
Patrick McBride.