CV
Nick Hornby
lives and works in London, UK
Education
2003 BA, Fine Art, Slade School of Art The Art Institute of Chicago
2007 MA, Chelsea College of Art
Exhibitions
2024
Geometry of Time, Vacheron Constantin, London, UK (SOLO)
10g Challenge, Royal Society of Sculptors, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
2023
Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Show, guest curated by Edward Bulmer, Dora House, South Kensington, London, UK
2022
Still and Still Moving, Wynn Fine Art, Palm Beach, USA (SOLO)
2020
Zygotes and Confessions, MOSTYN, Wales, UK (SOLO)
Inner Space, curated by Oliver Beer and Nick Hornby, 49-50 Poland street, London, UK
Sculpture Garden in the City, 250 City Road, London, UK
2019
Mostyn Open 21, Mostyn, Wales, UK
Parallel Lines: Drawing and Sculpture, The Lightbox, Woking
Sculpture, Selma Feriani Gallery, Tunisia
Abstract vs Figure 1952 – 2019, Pinsent Masons, London, UK
2018
Sculpture: Modern and Contemporary, Beaux Art, London, UK
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London, UK
Ornament and Crime, Pinsent Masons LLP, London, UK
Painting Now 2, Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan, Italy
Year One, Frestonian Gallery, London, UK
Hornby Tantra - Collaborative Works III: Proposals, Multiple sites, British Land, UK
Une seconde vie, Garden Musuem, London, UK
Magic & Method, Frestonian Gallery, London, UK
Judgement Critique Value, Pinsent Masons, London, UK
2017
Nick Hornby: Sculpture (1504 - 2017), Glyndebourne, UK (SOLO)
The Curators ’ Eggs, Paul Kasmin, New York, USA
Nick Hornby & Sinta Tantra - Collaborative Works II, Pinsent Masons LLP, London, UK
Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Fulmer Contemporary, UK
I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper, Griffin Gallery, London, UK
2016
Think Pieces, Cass Sculpture Foundation, UK
Reverse Engineering, Waterside Contemporary, London, UK
Young Bright Things, David Gill Gallery, London, UK
Attitudes Sculpture, Eduardo Secci Gallery, Florence, UK
2015
Nick Hornby & Sinta Tantra - Collaborative Works II, Choi Lager Gallery, Cologne, Germany (SOLO)
ALAC, Art Los Angeles Contemporary with Anat Ebgi Gallery
2014
The Last Picture Show, Churner and Churner Gallery, New York. USA
Slipped Gears, Eyebeam Centre, Bennington College Art Gallery, Vermont, USA
Eric Fertman and Nick Hornby, Time Equities Building, New York, USA
Bird God Drone, Public Commission, DUMBO, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2013
Nick Hornby: Sculpture (1504-2013), Churner and Churner, New York, USA
Nick Hornby & Sinta Tantra, One Canada Square, London, UK
Out of Hand: Materializing the Post-Digital, Museum of Art and Design, New York, USA
Ikono On Air Festival, Ikono, Berlin, Germany
Drawing Biennial 2013, Drawing Room, London, UK
2012
Polish Biennale: Meditations – The Unknown, Poznan, Poland
Sculptors Drawings, Pangolin, London, UK
2011
Aggregate: Nick Hornby, Clare Gasson, Connor Linskey, Churner and Churner, New York, USA
Open Prototyping, Eyebeam, New York, USA
Are Pictures Always Paintings? Alexia Goethe Gallery, London, UK
Matthew Burrows & Nick Hornby, The Solo Projects, Basel, Switzerland
2010
Atom vs Super Subject, Alexia Goethe Gallery, London, UK (SOLO)
Patrons, Muses and Professionals, Eyebeam, New York, USA
Volume One: Props, Events and Encounters. The Hub, Athens, Greece
Sculpture Promenade, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, USA
Olympiad, Leighton House, London, UK
2009
Walking in Our Mind, Royal Festival Hall / Southbank, London, UK
West London Studio Project - prologue, London 2012 Olympiad, UK
The Ghost in the Machine, Visual Dialogues, Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London, UK
The Voice and Nothing More, Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square, London, UK
2008
Tell Tale Heart, Camley Street Natural Park, London, UK (SOLO)
Clifford Chance Sculpture Award 2008, Clifford Chance, London, UK (SOLO)
Anticipation, Selfridges, London, UK
Tell Tale Heart, Camley Street Natural Park, London, UK
2007
Future Map 07, The Arts Gallery, University of Arts London, UK
MA Show Chelsea College of Art, London, UK
How We May Be, Late at Tate, August, Tate Britain, London, UK
I Am Your Worst Nightmare, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Late Nights, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Late at Tate, February, Tate Britain, London, UK
2006
Hayward Nights, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Framed, Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square, London, UK
BlindArt, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
Arctic Circle, ICA, London, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
NODE.London, Media Arts London, Slade Woburn Square, London, UK
2003
BA Show, Slade School of Art
Grants and Awards
2024 PSSA Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture Public Vote
2022 Awarded Public Commission: Power over others is Weakness disguised as Strength, 5 x 3 x 3m, Corten Steel, The Broadway, London
2022 Awarded Public Commission: Do it All, 5 x 3 x 3m, bronze, Royal Warwick Square, London
2022 Awarded Public Commission: Here and there, 3.5 x 2 x 2, bronze, One Kensington Gardens, London
2019 MOSTYN Open 21 'Audience Award'
2019 Awarded Outset Contemporary Art Fund Residency, Tel Aviv, Isreal
2018 Awarded Harlow Science Park Commission, Harlow, UK
2010 Awarded RBKC Artists ’Professional Development Bursary
2009 Awarded Deidre Hubbard Sculpture Award
2009 Shortlisted: Spitalfields Sculpture Prize
2009 Sculpture Bursary Award, RBS, Royal British Society of Sculptors
2009 Shortlisted: Mark Tanner Sculpture Award
2008 Awarded Clifford Chance Sculpture Award
2003 University College London Convocation Travel Award
Residencies
2018 Appointed Artist in Residence at Pinsent Masons LLP, London
2012 Residency at The Bowes Museum, UK
2012 Residency, Ceramics, Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London
2012 Residency at The IIFA (International Institute of Fine Arts), New Delhi, India
2011 Residency at Eyebeam, New York
2009 Residency, Institute of Contemporary Indian Art (ICIA House), Mumbai, India
Education
2003 BA, Fine Art, Slade School of Art The Art Institute of Chicago
2007 MA, Chelsea College of Art
Exhibitions
2024
Geometry of Time, Vacheron Constantin, London, UK (SOLO)
10g Challenge, Royal Society of Sculptors, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
2023
Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Show, guest curated by Edward Bulmer, Dora House, South Kensington, London, UK
2022
Still and Still Moving, Wynn Fine Art, Palm Beach, USA (SOLO)
2020
Zygotes and Confessions, MOSTYN, Wales, UK (SOLO)
Inner Space, curated by Oliver Beer and Nick Hornby, 49-50 Poland street, London, UK
Sculpture Garden in the City, 250 City Road, London, UK
2019
Mostyn Open 21, Mostyn, Wales, UK
Parallel Lines: Drawing and Sculpture, The Lightbox, Woking
Sculpture, Selma Feriani Gallery, Tunisia
Abstract vs Figure 1952 – 2019, Pinsent Masons, London, UK
2018
Sculpture: Modern and Contemporary, Beaux Art, London, UK
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London, UK
Ornament and Crime, Pinsent Masons LLP, London, UK
Painting Now 2, Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan, Italy
Year One, Frestonian Gallery, London, UK
Hornby Tantra - Collaborative Works III: Proposals, Multiple sites, British Land, UK
Une seconde vie, Garden Musuem, London, UK
Magic & Method, Frestonian Gallery, London, UK
Judgement Critique Value, Pinsent Masons, London, UK
2017
Nick Hornby: Sculpture (1504 - 2017), Glyndebourne, UK (SOLO)
The Curators ’ Eggs, Paul Kasmin, New York, USA
Nick Hornby & Sinta Tantra - Collaborative Works II, Pinsent Masons LLP, London, UK
Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Fulmer Contemporary, UK
I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper, Griffin Gallery, London, UK
2016
Think Pieces, Cass Sculpture Foundation, UK
Reverse Engineering, Waterside Contemporary, London, UK
Young Bright Things, David Gill Gallery, London, UK
Attitudes Sculpture, Eduardo Secci Gallery, Florence, UK
2015
Nick Hornby & Sinta Tantra - Collaborative Works II, Choi Lager Gallery, Cologne, Germany (SOLO)
ALAC, Art Los Angeles Contemporary with Anat Ebgi Gallery
2014
The Last Picture Show, Churner and Churner Gallery, New York. USA
Slipped Gears, Eyebeam Centre, Bennington College Art Gallery, Vermont, USA
Eric Fertman and Nick Hornby, Time Equities Building, New York, USA
Bird God Drone, Public Commission, DUMBO, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2013
Nick Hornby: Sculpture (1504-2013), Churner and Churner, New York, USA
Nick Hornby & Sinta Tantra, One Canada Square, London, UK
Out of Hand: Materializing the Post-Digital, Museum of Art and Design, New York, USA
Ikono On Air Festival, Ikono, Berlin, Germany
Drawing Biennial 2013, Drawing Room, London, UK
2012
Polish Biennale: Meditations – The Unknown, Poznan, Poland
Sculptors Drawings, Pangolin, London, UK
2011
Aggregate: Nick Hornby, Clare Gasson, Connor Linskey, Churner and Churner, New York, USA
Open Prototyping, Eyebeam, New York, USA
Are Pictures Always Paintings? Alexia Goethe Gallery, London, UK
Matthew Burrows & Nick Hornby, The Solo Projects, Basel, Switzerland
2010
Atom vs Super Subject, Alexia Goethe Gallery, London, UK (SOLO)
Patrons, Muses and Professionals, Eyebeam, New York, USA
Volume One: Props, Events and Encounters. The Hub, Athens, Greece
Sculpture Promenade, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, USA
Olympiad, Leighton House, London, UK
2009
Walking in Our Mind, Royal Festival Hall / Southbank, London, UK
West London Studio Project - prologue, London 2012 Olympiad, UK
The Ghost in the Machine, Visual Dialogues, Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London, UK
The Voice and Nothing More, Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square, London, UK
2008
Tell Tale Heart, Camley Street Natural Park, London, UK (SOLO)
Clifford Chance Sculpture Award 2008, Clifford Chance, London, UK (SOLO)
Anticipation, Selfridges, London, UK
Tell Tale Heart, Camley Street Natural Park, London, UK
2007
Future Map 07, The Arts Gallery, University of Arts London, UK
MA Show Chelsea College of Art, London, UK
How We May Be, Late at Tate, August, Tate Britain, London, UK
I Am Your Worst Nightmare, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Late Nights, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Late at Tate, February, Tate Britain, London, UK
2006
Hayward Nights, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Framed, Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square, London, UK
BlindArt, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
Arctic Circle, ICA, London, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
NODE.London, Media Arts London, Slade Woburn Square, London, UK
2003
BA Show, Slade School of Art
Grants and Awards
2024 PSSA Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture Public Vote
2022 Awarded Public Commission: Power over others is Weakness disguised as Strength, 5 x 3 x 3m, Corten Steel, The Broadway, London
2022 Awarded Public Commission: Do it All, 5 x 3 x 3m, bronze, Royal Warwick Square, London
2022 Awarded Public Commission: Here and there, 3.5 x 2 x 2, bronze, One Kensington Gardens, London
2019 MOSTYN Open 21 'Audience Award'
2019 Awarded Outset Contemporary Art Fund Residency, Tel Aviv, Isreal
2018 Awarded Harlow Science Park Commission, Harlow, UK
2010 Awarded RBKC Artists ’Professional Development Bursary
2009 Awarded Deidre Hubbard Sculpture Award
2009 Shortlisted: Spitalfields Sculpture Prize
2009 Sculpture Bursary Award, RBS, Royal British Society of Sculptors
2009 Shortlisted: Mark Tanner Sculpture Award
2008 Awarded Clifford Chance Sculpture Award
2003 University College London Convocation Travel Award
Residencies
2018 Appointed Artist in Residence at Pinsent Masons LLP, London
2012 Residency at The Bowes Museum, UK
2012 Residency, Ceramics, Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London
2012 Residency at The IIFA (International Institute of Fine Arts), New Delhi, India
2011 Residency at Eyebeam, New York
2009 Residency, Institute of Contemporary Indian Art (ICIA House), Mumbai, India
×