CV
Born: Nairobi, Kenya 1962​​
​
Southampton Art College, UK
Byam Shaw School of Art, UK
Group Shows & Exhibitions
George Adams Gallery - New York, USA
Houston Center for Photography - Texas, USA
The Design Museum - London, UK
The Contemporary Arts Museum (CAMH) - Houston, Texas, USA
Aurora Picture Show - Houston, Texas, USA
The Art Car Museum - Houston, Texas, USA
The Fort Russell Building - Marfa, Texas, USA
Arlington Museum of Art - Texas, USA
Museum of Natural Science - Houston, Texas, USA
Blaffer Gallery - University of Houston, Texas, USA
Diverse Works - Houston, Texas, USA
Station Museum - Houston, Texas, USA
Rudolph Blume Fine Art, Texas, USA
Gilbert & G Gallery - Arlington, Texas, USA
ArtHouse, Dallas, Texas, USA
Box 13, Artspace - Houston - Texas
Royal College of Art - London, UK
Apama Mackey Gallery - Houston, Texas, USA
Lawndale Art Center, Texas, USA
​
Detailed Info Shows etc - Year
2018 - 2024
​
Ongoing studio practice - Exhibition preparation
​
2017
​
Self Portraits - Studio practice. Ludlow, Shropshire, UK The Worm Farm.
Educational/Outdoors. Ludlow, Shropshire, UK
2016
​
'This is Just a Pencil Sharpener'. Collective Exhibition. Devonshire Collective,
Creative Cluster. Eastbourne. UK
Self Portraits - Studio practice (ongoing). Ludlow, Shropshire, UK
The Worm Farm. Educational/outdoors. Sussex, UK
​
2015
​
​The Worm Farm - Educational, Brighton + Hove, UK
Luck of the Draw - Diverse Works. Houston, Texas, USA
ARTBRIDGE Auction - Koelsch Gallery Curated by Sharon Engelstein - Front Gallery.
Houston, Texas, USA
Sumi Ink Club - Participatory Public Art Event. Houston Area arranged by Natasha Bowdoin.
Rice University Media Centre. Houston, Texas, USA
2014
Independent Art Studios with Dormalou Projects - Event. Houston, Texas, USA
Luck of The Draw - Diverse Works. Houston, Texas, USA
Panel Collaboration with Rachel Hecker. Houston, Texas, USA
2013
Houston It's So Hot - Aurora Picture Show - Screening of 'Cartwheels' - Video Shorts
Curated by Mary Magsamen, Aurora Picture Show. Houston, Texas, USA
Panel Collaboration with Rachel Hecker. Houston, Texas, USA
Ownership of Swans - Video Short. Houston, Texas, USA
Bull - Video Short. Houston, Texas, USA
2012
Texas Contemporary - Rudolph Projects. Houston, Texas, USA
Void - Video and Sound Collaboration with Liza Barley. Houston, Texas, USA
Void - Video and Sound Collaboration and Performance with Liza Barley, Guildhall
School of Music. London, UK
Void - Performance, Video, Sound + Performance with Liza
Barley - People Show Theatre, London, UK
Void - Video and Sound Collaboration + Performance with Liza Barley
Barbican Center for Performing Arts. London, UK
Panel Collaboration with Rachel Hecker. Houston, Texas, USA
Scoot-In Insight]Out Festival - Curated by Bart Weiss, Dallas VideoFest + Aurora
Picture Show, Houston, Texas, USA
On the Road 5 x 7 - ARThouse. Austin, Texas, USA
Medical Calendars for Lymes Disease Treatment. Houston, Texas, USA
2011
Last Will and Testimony Series - Rudolph Projects. Houston, Texas, USA
Panel Collaboration with Rachel Hecker. Houston, Texas, USA
On The Road 5 x 7 - Arthouse. Austin, Texas, USA
Medical Calendars for Lymes Disease Treatment. Houston, Texas, USA
Persistence of Vision - New York Academy of Art. New York, USA
2010
Medical Calendars for Lymes Disease Treatment. Houston, Texas, USA
Lion Furballs! Video Short. Houston, Texas, USA
Panel Collaboration with Rachel Hecker. Houston, Texas, USA
Group Exhibition - Rudolph Blume Fine Art. Houston, Texas, USA
On the Road 5 x 7 - Arthouse. Dallas, Texas, USA
OutLoud - A Word Based Exhibit. Matt Project, PG Contemporary, Houston, Texas, USA
Luck of the Draw 9 - Diverse Works. Houston, Texas, USA
On the Road 5 x 7 - Arthouse. Austin, Texas, USA
2009
GOAT - Video Short. Portland Community TV
Aurora Picture Show. Portland, USA
Evidence - Gallery Show, Rudolph Projects. Houston, Texas, USA
GOAT - Aurora Picture Show - 3 Minute Shorts. June
Curated by Bill Arning, Director Contemporary Arts Museum CAMH, Houston, Texas, USA
Luck of the Draw - When Art Attacks. Diverse Works. Houston, Texas, USA
Tibor & The Human Head - Video Installation - Apama Mackey Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
Burning of Hides - Video Installation with Sarah Sarhandi. Group Exhibition Disturbance of
Distance with Hana Hillerova, Leslie Mutchler, Jennifer Prichard, Skote: Jill Pangallo and Alex
White + Emily Sloan. Curated by Eleanor L Williams
Box 13 Artspace. Jan/Feb.Houston, Texas, USA
4 Scenarios - Dec/Feb. Rudolph Projects - Group Exhibition. Houston, Texas, USA
2008
Exquisite Corps Exhibition - Apama Mackey Gallery. Houston, Texas, USA
The Parlour Game - 1st Exquisite Corps Afternoon - Apama Mackey Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
Dia de los Muertos - 21st Annual Day of the Dead - Lawndale Art Centre. Houston, Texas, USA
Spin4: Lens Libs Edition - Houston Centre for Photography. Houston, Texas, USA
Artpace International Artists in Residence 2010 selection program. Houston, Texas, USA
Houston Area Exhibition - Gallery Talk. Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston. Texas, USA
Summer Auction - Diverse Works. Houston, Texas, USA
Houston Area Exhibition - Blaffer Museum, University of Houston, curated by Claudia
Schmuckli, Texas, USA
Artist’s Eye - Public Programs - Artist talk, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, USA
Slide Jam at the CAMH - Contemporary Arts Museum. Houston, Texas, USA
Artadia Fund for Art and Dialogue Awards - Shortlisted Finalist Houston Awards Programme
Artadia Final Round Jurors Christopher Eamon - Curator, Pamela and Richard
Kramlich Collection and Director New Art Trust, Jennifer Gross - Curator of
Modern and Contemporary Art, Yale University, Franklin Sirmons Curator Modern and
Contemporary Art, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, USA
Ulterior Motifs 12 - G Gallery, Wheeler Bros/Wayne Gilbert. Huntsville, Texas, USA
2007
​
Little Known Facts - Group Exhibition with David Aylsworth, Laura Lark, Robert Ruello,
Andrew Groocok curated by Mike Guidry, Lawndale Art Center. Houston, Texas, USA
Camp Marfa - G-Gallery. The Art Depot. Lubbock, Texas, USA
War - Art Car Museum. Houston, Texas, USA
Camp Marfa - G-Gallery with Wayne Gilbert, Old Fort Russell Building 98, Marfa, Texas, USA
FORM - Rebecca Hossack Gallery. London, UK
Ghana Conspiracy Fundraiser - Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, USA
Ulterior Motifs #10 - A Celebratory Exhibit of Texas Art. with The Wheeler Bros.
Wayne Gilbert and G Gallery, Arlington Museum of Art, Texas, USA
Spacetaker - Space Optiks - Gala Program. Houston, Texas, USA
World Malaria Day - Institute of Parasitology, University of New York. New York, USA
American Cancer Society - Fundraiser. Houston, Texas, USA
FLIES. Video Short. Houston, Texas, USA
The Art Show - ADAA - George Adams Gallery. New York, USA
20/21 International. Rebecca Hossack Gallery. London, UK
2006
Gallery Artists Show - Rebecca Hossack Gallery. London, UK
The Burning of Hides - Sound Sarah Sarhandi. Houston, Texas, USA
My Beautiful Violetta - Sound Sarah Sarhandi - Extremely Shorts #9 - 3 Minute
Shorts Juried by Kevin Jerome Everson. Aurora Picture Show. Houston, Texas, USA
New Paintings + The Matatu Project - George Adams Gallery. ADDAA. New York, USA
Inner Corridor Art Crawl - Houston, David Adicks Building, Houston, Texas, USA
Gallery Group Show - Body Language - George Adams Gallery. New York, USA
20/21 British Art Fair at The Royal College of Art. Rebecca Hossack, London, UK
Run for Your Lives - Group Exhibition, Diverse Works Curated by Diane
Barber. Houston, Texas, USA
2005
Body Language - Group Exhibition - George Adams Gallery. March/April. New York, USA
The Miracle Lioness - Animal Planet. Lion video footage for Saba and Dudu
Douglas - Hamilton, Samburu. Discovery Channel. UK and USA
Creative Relief - Fundraiser for Tsunami Relief. London, UK
2004
My Beautiful Violetta - Sound Sarah Sarhandi, Portobello Film Festival. London, UK
Biannual Open - Great Western Studios. London, UK
Koestler Award Trust - Art Projects for Prisons. Fundraiser and Group Exhibition.
Chapel of Wormwood Scrubs Prison. London, UK
Tonio’s End - Unpublished Video Short. London, UK
The Miracle Lioness - Screening Chelsea Arts Club. Lion/Antelope Adoption video footage from Samburu
Elephant Camp. Saba and Dudu Douglas-Hamilton. London, UK
The Miracle Lioness - Lion Video adoption footage from Samburu Elephant Camp. Saba and Dudu
Douglas-Hamilton. Animal Planet, Discovery Channel. USA. Ongoing 2004 - 2022
The Miracle Lioness - Awarded, Royal Geographical Society. Lion/Adoption video footage from
Samburu. Saba and Dudu Douglas-Hamilton, Samburu. London, UK
ART2004 Contemporary Art Fair - Rebecca Hossack Gallery. London, UK
2003
My beautiful Violetta, Screening Portobello Film Festival. Sound Sarah Sarhandi. London, UK
She Stepped - Video. Sound Sarah Sarhandi. London, UK
My Beautiful Violetta - Video. Sound Sarah Sarhandi
Ambient TV. Bethnal Green, London, UK
Jan Murphy Gallery - Exhibition of Recent Paintings. Brisbane, Australia.
2002
Mystery Artists for Tate Britain - Gainsborough Exhibition. Tate, London, UK
Exhibition for 21st Century - Rebecca Hossack Gallery. Commonwealth Centre. London, UK
Dangerous Corners - James Huntingdon–Whiteley Gallery. London, UK
13th Anniversary Group Exhibition - Rebecca Hossack Gallery. London, UK
Plan International - Auction for AIDS - Fundraiser. Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. London, UK
L’Art De Vivre Maison - French Cultural Centre. Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa
ART2002 Contemporary Art Fair - Rebecca Hossack Gallery. London, UK
artLONDON Contemporary Art Fair - Rebecca Hossack Gallery. London, UK
DAF - Group Auction Exhibition. London, UK
2001
The Enclosed Tree - Rebecca Hossack Gallery. London, UK
Art 2001 - Rebecca Hossack Gallery, 13th Annual London
Contemporary Art Fair, UK
The Art on Paper Fair - Royal College of Art. Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK
Jan Murphy Gallery - Exhibition. Brisbane, Australia
2000
The Art on Paper Fair - Royal College of Art. Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK
artLONDON Contemporary Art Fair - Rebecca Hossack Gallery. London, UK
Rebecca Hossack Gallery, Solo Exhibition
Jan Murphy Gallery - Exhibition. Brisbane, Australia
1999
Art for Youth Exhibition - In Aid of Youth Clubs UK, The Mall Galleries, London, UK
Biannual Open - Great Western Studios. Westbourne Park, London, UK
Map - Group Show, Rebecca Hossack Gallery. London, UK
artLONDON Contemporary Art Fair - Rebecca Hossack Gallery. London, UK
art2000 Contemporary ART Fair - Rebecca Hossack Gallery. London, UK
1997
Charlotte Perriand’s 90th Anniversary
Design Commission - The Design Museum, Canary Wharf, London, UK
1994
Africa Exhibition - Liberty, Regents Street London, UK
1989
Tribal Eye Gallery - Exhibition. San Francisco, USA
African Heritage Museum- Exhibition. Nairobi, Kenya
1987
Mimo Fazzeni Gallery - Exhibition. Malindi, Kenya​
TV, Press & Publication
​
Brisbane News - Australia
Animal Planet - TV
Aurora Picture Show - Houston, Texas, USA
Portland Community TV - USA
Fine Art Connoisseur - Vol 4, Issue 6. USA
Houston Area Exhibition - Blaffer Gallery.
Houston, Texas, USA
Houston Press - Texas, USA
Houston Press, Artopia - Texas, USA
Houston Chronicle - Here, There and Everywhere
OUTSmart - Houston, Texas, USA
Elle Magazine - UK
The Spectator Magazine - UK
The Peterson Collection - USA
The Footballer's Year - UK
Eastenders TV - UK
Habitat Prints - UK
The Guide Magazine - London, UK
Queensland Home - Australia
Doctors TV - UK
L’Art De Vivre La Maison, Alliance Francaise,
Nairobi, Kenya
Houston Chronicle - Texas, USA
ArtHouston - Nancy Wozny - Houston, Texas, USA
FPH - Houston, Texas, USA
Paper City - Houston, Texas, USA
Vogue - UK
Qantas Airlines Inflight Magazine - Australia
New York Gallery Guide - New York, USA
Going Out Entertainment Guide - Kenya
Coastweek - Kenya
Art Critical Collectors Eye - New York, USA
The Seer - UK
Fine Art Event Guide - New York, USA
ArtsHound - Houston, Texas, USA
Houston Press - The End of Days - Houston,
Texas, USA
Country Living, UK
Solos
George Adams Gallery - New York, USA 2006
Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane Australia 2003
The French Cultural Center, Nairobi, Kenya 2001
Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK 2000
African Heritage Gallery - Nairobi, Kenya 1989
Misc, USA & Kenya 1998
M. Fazzeni Gallery, Malindi, Kenya 1987
Collections
University of New York - Department of Parasitology, New York, USA
Mark Reid, Everard-Reid Gallery - Johannesburg, South Africa
Museum of Modern Art - Toronto, Canada
Elizabeth Chatwin Collection - London, UK
Hue Williams - London, UK
Peterson Collection - New York, USA
The Football Association - London, UK
James Huntingdon-Whiteley Gallery - London, UK
Ted Baker - UK
Richard Salmon Gallery - London, UK
IMAGE: *Bones + Ribbon
3 x Paintings. Canvas stretched x 2 + 1 x linen (loose). Oil. August - 2024