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James Hopkins    (British, 1976)

 James Hopkins - The Illusion in Magic (Sculptures) h: 220 x w: 150 x d: 190 cm / h: 86.6 x w: 59.1 x d: 74.8 in
James Hopkins
The Illusion in Magic 2008
 
  

Biography
1976 Born Stockport, Cheshire, UK
1995 - 1998 BA Fine Art Sculpture, University of Brighton, UK
2000 Future Memories Award, Guernsey Museum & Art Gallery, Channel Islands, UK (winner)
2000 - 2001 Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
2001 - 2002 Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
Lives and works in London, UK
Collections:
The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Salomon Foundation, Annecy, France
Van Haerents Foundation, Brussels
Zabludowicz Trust, London, UK
Cohen Collection, Manchester, UK
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany

Exhibitions
2010 Dawnbreakers, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK
2009 Eat Me-Drink Me, The Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, Texas, USA
2009 EastInternational, Norwich, UK
2009 The Beauty of the mistake, Lisbon, Portugal (forthcoming)
2008 James Hopkins / Conrad Ventur, Unosunove, Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2008 Inside Outside, The New Art Center, Roche Court, Salisbury sculpture park
2008 Le renouveau du temps, Maison Guerlain, Paris
2008 Gravity. Collection Ernesto Esposito, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo, Spain
2008 Mirrors and Secret Desires, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
2008 Artists Playground, Sudeley Castle, UK
2008 The Other Way Around, Cosmic Gallerie Paris, France
2008 Hiroshima Art Document 2008, The former Bank of Japan Hiroshima branch, Japan
2008 The Freak Show, Mint Museum, Paris, France
2008 Artists’ Playground, Sudeley Castle garden sculpture exhibition, UK
2007 Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2007 World Receiver – 10th Anniversary of the Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
2007 Freak Show, Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon, France
2007 Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
2007 Goss-Michael Collection, New Foundation, Texas, USA
2007 Bienal de Escultura de Valladolid, Hospederia Patio of the Monastery of San Benito, Spain
2007 Space Oddity, Cosmic Gallery, Paris, France
2006 Wasted Youth, Cosmic Gallery, Paris, France , (solo)
2006 Hole In My Eye, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK , (solo)
2006 Still Life, New Art Centre, Salisbury, UK
2006 Choosing my religion, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland
2006 A Brighter Day, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
2006 Eretica: L’Arte contemporanea dalla trandescenza al profano, Palazzo di Sant’ Anna, Palermo, Italy
2005 All Boys (curated by Gary Webb), rue du Chantier, Brussels, Belgium
2005 Collection 2, Solomon Foundation, D’Arenthon, France
2005 Heliotrope, Whitechapel Project Space, London, UK, (solo)
2005 From This End To That, Rivington Arms Gallery, New York, USA, (solo)
2004 Selected Sculpture, MWprojects, London, UK
2004 Fata Morgana, Centre d’Art d‘Ivry, France
2004 Abstract Expressionism in Contemporary Figurative Sculpture, Johann Koenig Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2003 Mat COLLISHAW, James HOPKINS, Richard WOODS, Cosmic Gallery, Paris, France
2003 Limbo of the Lost, MWprojects, London, UK, (solo)
2003 Boiler Room, The Saatchi Gallery at County Hall, London, UK
2003 Chockerfuckinblocked, Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London, UK
2003 Jerwood Sculpture Prize, The Jerwood Space, London, UK
2002 Kontakte Keep on Living, Neon Gallery, London, UK
2002 Plinth, The Trade Apartment, London, UK
2001 Foyer, 291 Gallery, London, UK
2001 Hoax, Lux Gallery, London, UK
2001 Multispace, Gallery Expo 3000, Berlin, Germany
2001 All Back to Mine, Deptford X, London, UK
2001 Art Market, 291 Gallery, London, UK
1999 Arts Club, Decima Gallery, London, UK
1999 Medway Open, Rochester Art Gallery, Rochester, UK
1999 Bad Sense of Humour, The Bond Gallery, Birmingham, UK
1999 Analystic, 1 Gallery Court, London, UK
1999 Pagemakers, Gracefield Arts Centre, Gracefield and UK touring
1998 T.N.R.G Art Trail, St. Mary in the Castle, Hastings, UK
1998 Visual Assault, Winters Gallery, London, UK
1998 New Contemporary Fine Art, Cupola Gallery, Sheffield, UK
1998 Small Works, Bridgewater Arts Centre, Bridgewater, UK
1998 Scratch, Crackle and Pop, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, UK

Literature
2008 The Great Deceiver, Dazed & Confused magazine, vol. 2 issue no.57, January 2008, pp. 135
2007 Claire Moulčne, “The Freak Show” (review), ARTFORUM, November, p. 379-380
2007 Time Out London listings, issue no. 1947 December 12-18 2007
2006 Ossian Ward, Off the wall, Wallpaper, December, p. 70 – 73
2006 Kristen Telfer Beith, Private Review–James Hopkins–Hole in My Eye–Max Wigram Gallery-Kristen Telfer Beith, Private Review–James Hopkins–Hole in My Eye–Max Wigram Gallery-Kristen Telfer Beith, Private Review–James Hopkins–Hole in My Eye–Max Wigram Gallery-Kristen Telfer Beith, Private Review–James Hopkins–Hole in My Eye–Max Wigram Gallery-Kristen Telfer Beith, Private Review–James Hopkins–Hole in My Eye–Max Wigram Gallery-Kristen Telfer Beith, Private Review–James Hopkins–Hole in My Eye–Max Wigram Gallery-Kristen Telfer Beith, Private Review–James Hopkins–Hole in My Eye–Max Wigram Gallery-London, Art Star Press, March 2006
2006 Sally O’Reilly, James Hopkins, Time Out, London, 1-8 March, p. 30
2006 Henri-Francois Debailleux, Hopkins, double vue, Liberation, Paris, 24 March, p.31
2005 Brian Sholis, James Hopkins, Artforum.com (New York Critics’ Picks), 3 October
2005 Mark Sanders, Another bonehead, Another Magazine, Issue 8, Spring/Summer, p. 108
2005 From This End To That, New Yorker, 2 October
2004 Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, Young at Art, The Evening Standard (ES Magazine supplement), London, June
2004 Charlotte Edwards, Studio Life, The Evening Standard, London, 24 September, pp. 46-47
2004 Colin Gleadell, Object of the week, The Daily Telegraph, London, 19 July
2003 Darian Leader, An Elastic Band Reality: James Hopkin’s Sculptures have the uncanny ability to make you see sound and lose time, Modern Painters, Issue 16, Summer, pp. 90-93
2003 Charlotte Mullins, James Hopkins, The Financial Times, London, July
2003 Sarah Harrison, James Hopkins, Time Out, London, 23-30 July, p. 51
2003 Hepzibah Anderson, Evening Standard (Metro Life supplement), London, 27 June – 3 July, p. 41
2003 Jessica Lack, James Hopkins, The Guardian (Guide supplement), London, 31 May – 6 June, p. 35
2003 Andrew Lambirth, Formidable power, The Spectator, London, 17 May, p. 71
2003 Philip Hensher, Saatchi moves, The Mail on Sunday, London, 13 April, p. 75
2003 Hepzibah Anderson, Jerwood Sculpture Prize, Evening Standard (Metro Life supplement), London, 7 – 13 March
2003 Colin Gleadell, Adventures in Saatchiland, Telegraph Magazine, London, 29 March, pp. 46 - 53
2003 Fisun Güner, Showing room for growth: Art Review Jerwood Sculpture Prize, Metro, London, 26 February, p. 22
2003 Shortlist announced: Jerwood Sculpture Prize, a-n magazine, March Issue, p. 23
2003 Demir Anaid, Retinal Stain, The Art Newspaper, December
2003 Demir Anaid, Persistence Retinienne, Le Journal Des Arts, December 5-8
2003 Simon Ford, ArtMonthly, June / No 267, p18-19.
2002 Dee O’Connell, Work In Progress, The Observer Magazine (supplement), London, 8 September, pp. 22 – 27
2001 Nathan Joseph, Distortion Peddler, P.U.R.E, Issue 1, p. 29
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