“We are all loaded with so much baggage. I know my own I identity which I inherited is damned with
frames and conditions. To some extent we spend our lives trying to free ourselves of that baggage.
Maybe if you come across a sculpture, you ask yourself. What’s behind it? Oh, I see. It’s a mixture of
multiple ideas. Oh maybe I’m a mixture of multiple ideas.” (Nick Hornby in an interview April 2012)
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Nick Hornby is a British artist living and working in London, England. He has exhibited in the UK, the US, Switzerland, Greece, and India, including Tate Britain, Southbank Centre, Fitzwilliam Museum, United Kingdom; Eyebeam, New York; and The Hub, Athens Greece. His most recent exhibition, with Sinta Tantra, was at One Canary Wharf in 2013. Hornby was a 2011 artist in residence at Eyebeam, New York. Other residencies include the ICIA (Mumbai), and the Fleischmann Foundation (Slovakia). He has been awarded several Prizes including the Clifford Chance Sculpture Prize, RBKC Artists’ Professional Development Bursary, the Deidre Hubbard Sculpture Award, and the BlindArt Prize; and he was shortlisted for the inaugural Spitalfields Sculpture Prize and the Mark Tanner Sculpture Prize. His work has been featured on Artforum.com, Wired, Conde Naste Traveler, and Time Out, among others. He has a special commission permanently sited at the Andaz 5th Avenue, New York, and the Poznan-Lawica Airport, Poland, as part of the 2012 Third Mediations Biennale.
In his sculptures, Hornby develops abstract forms by combining aspects of iconic sculptures and architecture from many periods in order to create a new and vital language through reshaping, moving, distorting existing forms. Rearticulated as single shifting structures, the source material is grasped from different vantages but never held in place. In the 8-ft marble-dusted sculpture I Never Wanted To Weigh More Heavily on a Man Than a Bird (Coco Chanel), for example, Brancusi’s Bird in Space is glimpsed from one perspective, and Rodin’s Striding Man is caught from another. This early work, on view at the Museum of Art and Design during Hornby’s gallery exhibition, is a nearly alabaster sculpture, created using 3D mapping and precision cutting.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2013 – Nick Hornby, Churner and Churner, New York
2013 – Nick Hornby & Sinta Tantra, One Canada Square, London
2011 – Matthew Burrows & Nick Hornby, The Solo projects, Basel
2010 – Atom vs Super Subject, Alexia Goethe Gallery, London [press release]
2008 – Tell Tale Heart, Camley Street Natural Park, London
2008 – Clifford Chance Sculpture Award
2008 – Clifford Chance, London
Selected Group Exhibitions & Events
2013 – Out of Hand, Materializing the Postdigital, Museum of Art and Design, NY
2013 – Ikono On Air Festival, Ikono, Berlin
2013 – Opinion Makers (group show concieved as paired juxtapositions of two artists),
Enclave Gallery, London
2013 – NADA New York 2013, Churner and Churner Gallery
2013 – The Fine Line, Identity Art Gallery, Hong Kong [press release]
2013 – Drawing Biennial 2013, Drawing Room, London
2012 – NADA Miami Beach Art Fair
2012 – Churner and Churner Gallery
2012 – Polish Bienalle: Meditations – The Unknown, Poznan, Poland
2012 – Sculptors Drawings, Pangolin, London
2012 – I HEART 3D, Christies, London
2012 – This is London, Shizaru, London
2012 – Detour, Wimbledon College of Art, London
2011 – Aggregate, Churner & Churner, New York
2011 – Multiplied 2011 Contemporary Editions Fair, Christies, London
2011 – House of the Nobleman: The Return, 2 Cornwall Terrace, London
2011 – Lights Are On But Nobody’s Home, Standpoint Gallery, London
2011 – Non-Objectif Sud 2011 Fundraiser and Silent Auction, Bortolami Gallery, New York
2011 – Open Prototyping, Eyebeam, New York
2011 – Trajector Art Fair, Brussels (with Union Gallery / Jari Lager)
2011 – Are Pictures Always Paintings?Alexia Goethe Gallery, London
2010 – Patrons, Muses and Professionals, Eyebeam, New York
2010 – Volume One: Props, Events and Encounters. The Hub, Athens, Greece.
2010 – Spitalfields Sculpture Prize Shortlist Exhibition, London
2010 – Sculpture Promenade, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
2010 – Flaming July, Leighton House, London
2009 – RPG Residency Exhibition, Mumbai, India
2009 – ArtBarter, Rag Factory, London
2009 – RBS Busary Award Exhibition, RBS London.
2009 – Walking in Our Mind, Royal Festival Hall / Southbank, London
2009 – West London Studio Project – prologue, London 2012 Olympiad
2009 – The Ghost in the Machine, Visual Dialogues, Tate Triennial, Tate Britain.
2009 – The Voice and Nothing More, Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square, London
2008 – Make Believe, Concrete & Glass, Cordy House, London, EC2
2008 – Gatti, London Canal Museum, Curated by Brooke Lynn McGowan
2008 – Anticipation, Selfridges, London
2008 – Clifford Chance Sculpure Award, Clifford Chance PLC, London
2007 – Future Map 07, The Arts Gallery, University of Arts London
2007 – MA Show Chelsea College of Art, London
2007 – How We May Be, Late at Tate, August, Tate Britain, London
2007 – Camberwell Arts Festival, Various Locations, London
2007 – I Am Your Worst Nightmare, Arnolfini, Bristol
2007 – Late Nights, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2007 – Late at Tate, February, Tate Britain, London
2006 – Digital Space, Showroom Cinema, Sheffield
2006 – Hayward Nights, Hayward Gallery, London
2006 – BlindArt, Bankside Gallery, London
2006 – Arctic Circle, ICA, London
2006 – Monstrous Tales, APT Gallery, London
2006 – Arctic Circle, Hayward Gallery, London
2006 – NODE.London, Media Arts London, Slade Woburn Square, London
2003 – BA Show, Slade School of Art
Prizes, Awards and Residencies
2012 – Residency, Stone Festival
2012 – The Bowes Museum
2012 – Shortlisted permanent commission V&A Cast Court, V&A, London
2012 – Residency, Ceramics, Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London.
2011 – Residency at, Eyebeam, New York
2010 – Awarded RBKC Artists’ Professional Development Bursary
2009 – Awarded Deidre Hubbard Sculpture Award
2009 – RPG Residency – Institute of Contemporary Indian Art (ICIA House), Mumbai, India
2009 – Selected for 2009 / 2010 AA2A Scheme
2009 – Shortlisted £45,000 pitalfields Sculpture Prize
2009 – Courvoisier The Future 500, in partnership with The Observer
2009 – RBS Sculpture Bursary Award
2009 – Shortlisted Mark Tanner Sculpture Award
2009 – Guest Selector: Cornelia Parker.
2008 – Clifford Chance Sculpture Award 2008
2006 – £5,000 BlindArt Prize
2003 – University College London Convocation Travel Award
Selected Bibliography, Articles & Media
2013 – Bouncing Ideas Off Artist Nick Hornby, Jack Philips, Hung and Drawn Magazine
2013 – Deja Vu, Nick Hornby’s eerily familiar art. Jason Farago, Out Magazine, April Issue
2013 – Interview: Nick Hornby and Sinta Tantra Activate One Canada Square in London,
Ashley McNelis, Whitewall magazine (download pdf)
2013 – RA Magazine’s Pick of the Week: Nick Hornby & Sinta Tantra, One Canada Square
2013 – Eyecandy, Nick Hornby & Sinta Tantra’s Colourful Sculptures, Fan Zhong, W Magazine
2013 – Monocle Culture Interview: Nick Hornby & Sinta Tantra by Jack Phillips. Broadcast
2012 – Whose Form Is It Anyway? A New Media Curators Notes on Nick Hornby, Omar
Kholeif is a writer, editor and Curator at FACT, Liverpool.
2012 – Brutality and beauty, hunger and hybridity. –Brooke Lynn McGowan, Art &
Architecture Journa, Nov 2012 (download pdf)
2012 – I HEART 3D, Phoebe Crompton, One Stop Arts, Aug 20122012 – Uniquely Referential:
Nick Hornby, Angelica Pursley, Huffington Post, Apr 2012
2012 – Men at work, Simon Chilvers, The Guardian, June 2012
2012 – Nick Hornby, Love Art London,Crane.tv. Video Interview
2012 – Aggregate (Clare Gasson, Nick Hornby, Connor Linskey), Kathy Battista, The
Brooklyn Rail Feb 2012 (download pdf)
2012 – Featuring Nick Hornby, Atelier Mayer, Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue, February 2012
2011 – Nick Hornby, Feature, Ampleforth Journal 2011.
2011 – Exhibition: The Return at The House of the Nobleman, London, Brooke McGowan,
2011 – Feature: Nick Hornby, Sculptor, Creative Life, August 2011
2011 – A New York hotel[…], Sara Staples, Globe and Mail Jun 24 2011
2010 – Start in ART, Jack Wakefiedl, The Spectator, A guide to Luxury and Style Autumn
2010 – Cultural Life: Nick Hornby, sculptor, Charlotte Cripps, The Independent, Friday, 8
2010 – Video: Lifo TV, The Hub, Athens.
2010 – Sculpture as Narrative, Simon Todd, Artnet
2010 – A Drink With: Artist Nick Hornby, Paul Brady, Conde Nast Traveler
2010 – Critic’s Picks, Kathleen Madden, Artforum.com
2010 – Nick Hornby, Atom vs Super Subject, Dazed Digital, May 2010
2010 – Nick Hornby, Atom vs Super Subject, FAD, May 2010
2010 – Atom vs Super Subject, Martin Herbert 2010
2010 – Nick Hornby, Atom vs Super Subject, Paul Carey Kent
2010 – Artfully Adaptable, The Secret Agent, Financial Times, 30.05.2010
2010 – Classic Treasure, Sculpture Promenade 2010, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Harry
Mount. The Spectator, May 2010
2010 – Who to watch in 2010, Evening Standard, 05.01.10
2009 – Walking in Our Mind, FAD, August 2009
2009 – Walking in Our Mind, SLAMXHYPE, August 2009
2009 – Courvoisier The Future 500, in partnership with The Observer
2009 – Beyond the pale, Essay by Brooke Lynn McGowan
2009 – Introducing… a new Gormley, Deborah Feldman, ES Magazine, 19.06.09
2008 – London’s Got Talent, Ossian Ward, Time Out2008 – Best of Britain’s Young Artists in
Saatchi Show, Louise Jury, Evening Standard
2008 – Anticipation, Whitehot Magazine
2008 – China: Innovation From London, Zhuangsh
2008 – Playing to the Gallery, Giles Morris, The Guardian
2008 – Untitled, after Nick Hornby, Brooke Lynn McGowan
2008 – Joining the Dots, Platform DVD, Live Art Development Agency, London
2008 – Bridging the Gap, Gaynor aaltonen, University of the Arts London Magazine 2007-
Future Reflections, Catalogue
2006 – In Touch, Interview with Gary O’Donaghue, BBC Radio 4
2006 – More than a Feeling, Peter White, The Times T2
2006 – BlindArt, Mark Drinkwater, The Guardian
2006 – Please Touch the Exhibits, Charlotte Cripps, The Independent
2006 – Critics Choice, Artic Circle ICA, John L Walters, The Guardian
2005 – Critics Choice, Herbert, Martin. Time Out
2005 – Sound-Track, Critics Choice. Independent on Sunday
2005 – Raggi, Valentina. On Sound Art, D magazine, La Repubblica, Italy
Collections
Andaz 5th Avenuce NY C Clifford Chance Richard Greer David Roberts Selfridges Sony BMG
Visiting Lecturer & Arts Educator
Slade School of Art, London
Chelsea College of Art, London
Wimbledon College of Art, London
Westminster Kingsway, London
Education
2007 – MA, Chelsea College of Art
2003 – BA, Fine Art, Slade School of Art
2003 – The Art Institute of Chicago
1999 – Foundation, Wimbledon College of Art
