FRANCIS UPRITCHARD
Selected Works
Press
- The Art Newspaper, 2018(pdf)
- CityAM 2018(pdf)
- APOLLO, 2018(pdf)
- OCULA, 2016(pdf)
- Sydney Morning Herald, 2016(pdf)
- Too Much, 2014(pdf)
- Art News New Zealand, 2013(pdf)
- ArtReview, 2018(pdf)
| Born 1976 in New Plymouth, New Zealand. Lives and works in London | |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2020 | Big Fish Eat Little Fish, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Belgium |
| 2019 | Centaurs and Sea Creatures, Ivan Anothony, Auckland, New Zealand |
| 2018 | Wetwang Slack, The Curve, Barbican Centre, London, UK |
| Francis Upritchard: Pots, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A | |
| Francis Upritchard, LUX Art Institute, Encinitas, CA, U.S.A | |
| 2017 | Jealous Saboteurs, Touring exhibition: Christchurch Art Gallery, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand |
| 2016 | Solo presentation at Frieze Art Fair, Kate MacGarry, London, UK |
| Jealous Saboteurs, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand | |
| Francis Upritchard: Dark Resters, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand | |
| Jealous Saboteurs, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne, Australia | |
| Francis Upritchard, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, U.S.A | |
| 2014 | Francis Upritchard, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, U.S.A |
| Whitechapel Gallery Children’s Art Commission: Francis Upritchard, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK | |
| Francis Upritchard, Kate MacGarry, London, UK | |
| 2013 | Mandrake, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland |
| War Dance, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, U.S.A | |
| Potato Poem, MIMOCA, Kagawa, Japan | |
| Francis Upritchard, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand | |
| 2012 | A Hand of Cards, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK |
| A Long Wait, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, U.S.A | |
| 2011 | Echo, Kate MacGarry, London, UK |
| Echo, Amersfoort Kunsthal, The Netherlands | |
| Methusalem, Ivan Anthony, Auckland, New Zealand | |
| 2010 | In die Höhle, Secession, Vienna, Italy |
| 2009 | Save Yourself, 53rd Venice Biennale – New Zealand national representation |
| 2008 | Rainwob II, Artspace Sydney and Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia |
| Rainwob I, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand | |
| 2007 | Bogagnome, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand |
| 2006 | Francis Upritchard, Kate MacGarry, London, UK |
| 2005 | Francis Upritchard, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, U.S.A |
| Solo project for Salon 94, New York, U.S.A | |
| Francis Upritchard, The Bakery, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| Doomed, Doomed, All Doomed, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand | |
| 2004 | Artist in Residence, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK |
| 2003 | Francis Upritchard, Kate MacGarry, London, UK |
| New Work, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, UK | |
| 2001 | Ich Dien, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, UK |
| Boxing Arms, Rear View, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand | |
| 2000 | Prince Charles, warehouse space, London, UK |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2018 | The Public Body, Art Space, Sydney, Australia |
| Objects Like Us, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, U.S.A | |
| 2017 | FIFTEEN, Kate MacGarry, London, UK |
| Marching to the Beat, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, USA | |
| Entangled: Threads & Making, curated by Karen Wright, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK | |
| pǝr-‘sō-nae, Klemm’s Gallery, Berlin, Germany | |
| Viva Arte Viva, 57th Venice Biennale, curated by Christine Macel, Venice, Italy | |
| Things that Soak you, Kate MacGarry, London, UK | |
| 2016 | Ulla von Brandenburg, Haris Epaminonda & Francis Upritchard, Galerie Art Concept, Paris, France |
| 2015 | Dead, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK |
| STATION TO STATION: A 30 Day Happening, Barbican Centre, London, UK | |
| 2014 | HOUSE PARTY with Dzek, Kate MacGarry, London, UK |
| Selected by…, curated by Michael Mariott and Jesse Wine, Limoncello, London | |
| 2013 | The Upritchard Family Collection, Small collections, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK |
| Freedom Farmers, Auckland City Gallery, New Zealand | |
| Mad Bad and Sad, Woman and the Mind Doctors, Freud Museum, London, UK | |
| Beasts of England, Beasts of Ireland, Visual: Center for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland | |
| O Chair O Flesh, Treignac Projet, Treignac, France | |
| Stereoscope, Christchurch City Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch, New Zealand | |
| 2012 | Lilliput, New York High Line, New York, U.S.A |
| Bush of Ghosts: Nathan Mabry, Djordie Ozbolt and Francis Upritchard, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, U.S.A | |
| Everybody knows this is nowhere?, Castillo/Corrales, Paris, France | |
| Contact, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany | |
| Day Dream Believers, Institute of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia | |
| Gesumptkunsthandwerk, with Martino Gamper and Karl Fritsch, Dowse, Wellington, Australia | |
| 2011 | Une légende en cache una autre/One caption hides another, Bétonsalon, Paris, France |
| H x W x D, Galerie Wentrup, Berlin, Germany | |
| The Royal Family, Hayward Gallery, London, UK | |
| Behind Closed Doors, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand | |
| Stealing The Senses, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand | |
| New Zealand at the Venice Biennale 2009, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand | |
| 2010 | Simon Starling: Never The Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts), Camden Arts Centre, London, UK |
| Out of Joint, Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany | |
| House of Voltaire, Upstairs at 9 Bruton Place, London, UK | |
| Bart Wells Boutique, 235 Brompton Road (co-organised with Luke Gottelier), London, UK | |
| Ashes to Ashes, AMP, Athens, Greece | |
| The Library of Babel/ In and Out of Place, 176 Project Space/Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK | |
| 2009 | Feierabend (with Martino Gamper and Karl Fritsch) Kate MacGarry, London, UK |
| 2008 | Free Radicals, Artnews Projects Berlin, Germany |
| Life is a Funny Old Dog, Tanja Pol Galerie, Munich, Germany | |
| The Big Chill Festival, Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire, UK | |
| Dadadandy Boutique, Artprojx Space, London, UK | |
| The Institute of Psychoplasmics, Pump House Gallery, London, UK | |
| Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK | |
| TarraWarra Biennial 2008: Lost & Found, An Archeology of the Present, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Australia | |
| 2007 | The Crown Jewels, Salon 94 Freemans, New York, U.S.A |
| Of Deities and Mortals, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch, New Zealand | |
| An Archaeology, 176 -Zabludovicz Collection, London, UK | |
| Reboot, The Jim and Mary Barr Collection, Christchurch Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu and City Gallery Wellington Re/ Trato, Travelling Gallery, Scotland, UK | |
| Metrosideros Robusta, Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Germany | |
| Tiere II, Overbeckgesellschaft Lübeck, Germany | |
| Effigies, Stuart Shave/ Modern Art | |
| 2006 | Six Feet Under – Autopsy of Our Relation to the Dead, Kunstmuseum Bern, Germany |
| Le Nouveau Siécle, Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| The Walters Prize 2006, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand | |
| Around The World In Eighty Days, South London Gallery, London, UK | |
| Pasifika Styles – Artists inside the museum, University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, UK | |
| HIGH TIDE: new currents in art from Australia and New Zealand, Zaçheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw & CAC – Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania | |
| 2005 | Hot Spots 05, The Essl Collection, Vienna, Austria |
| Brutal Ornamental, Galerie Kosak Hall, Vienna, Austria | |
| Schmuck, with Karl Fritsch, Luitpold Lounge, Munich, Germany | |
| The Way We Work Now, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK | |
| 2004 | The Secret History of Clay, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK |
| The Death of Romance, London, UK | |
| Ika and thanks for all the Ika, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand | |
| Albino, (with Rohan Whellans), Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand | |
| The Bart Wells Institute of London, Hamish McKay Gallery, New Zealand | |
| New Blood, The Saatchi Gallery, London | |
| Prospect, Wellington City Art Gallery & Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand | |
| 2003 | Beck’s Futures, ICA London, Southampton City Art Gallery, & CCA Glasgow, UK |
| Curiosity Kills the Gab, Artspace, Auckland, UK | |
| Peter Blake Sculpture, The London Institute, London, UK | |
| Lost Collection, Laing Gallery, Newcastle, UK | |
| Picture Room curated by Goshka Macuga, Gasworks, London, UK | |
| Rollout, curated by Ricky Swallow, Karen Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.A | |
| Bart Wells Institute, Kapinos Gallery, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2002 | +64, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany |
| Another Shitty Day in Paradise, Bart Wells Institute, London, UK | |
| Break, Govett-Brewster, New Plymouth, New Zealand | |
| The Only Way Forward, Neon Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2001 | The Bart Wells Gang, Bart Wells Institute, London, UK |
| Enough Or Too Much, Shop Tactics Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2000 | Outcome of Probability: Francis Upritchard and Saskia Leek, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand |
| 1999 | Hobby Core, Stripp Gallery, curated by Ricky Swallow, Melbourne, Australia |
| 1998 | Group show, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand |
| 1997 | Bland, George Fraser Gallery Auckland, New Zealand |
| An Attic and Two Rooms, Deans’ House, Historic Trust, Christchurch, New Zealand | |
| Accidents, Hungry Eyes Series, Fiat Lux Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand | |
| EDUCATION, RESIDENCIES, AND AWARDS | |
| 2008 | Residency at Artspace, Sydney |
| 2007-8 | Residency at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand |
| 2006 | The Walters Prize 2006, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand |
| 2004 | Residency at Camden Arts Centre, London |
| Residency at Belem Contemporary Art Flux, Belem, Brazil | |
| 1999 | Bickerton Widderson Memorial Trust Scholarship |
| 1994-7 | Ilam, Canterbury University of Fine Arts, New Zealand |
| MONOGRAPHS/ARTIST’S BOOKS | |
| 2013 | Hutchinson, John, Mandrake, Douglas Hyde Exhibition Catalogue, Dublin |
| Starling, Simon, David Mitchell and Katsura Kunieda, Francis Upritchard: Potato Poem, Exhibition Catalogue, MIMOCA, Foil, Japan | |
| 2012 | Smith, Ali, Francis Upritchard: A Hand of Cards, Exhibition Catalogue, Nottingham Contemporary |
| Francis Upritchard: Echo, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort | |
| 2010 | Palffy, Andras; David Mitchell and Jeannette Pacher, Francis Upritchard: In die Höhle, Wiener Secession, Walther König, Cologne/ Secession, Vienna |
| 2009 | Francis Upritchard: Save Yourself (exhibition catalogue, New Zealand national representation, 53rd Venice Biennale), Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand |
| Francis Upritchard: Every Colour by Itself, Dent-De-Leon, London | |
| Gottelier, Luke and Francis Upritchard, Bart Wells Institute, Dent-De-Leon, London | |
| 2006 | Kunzru, Hari, Francis Upritchard: Human Problems, published by Kate MacGarry/Veenman |
| 2005 | Doomed, Doomed, All Doomed, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand |
| Heads of Yesteryear, Francis Upritchard, ed. of 100, Neives | |
| 2004 | File Note #04 Francis Upritchard, Camden Arts Centre, January – April |
| PUBLICATIONS | |
| 2013 | Conland, Natasha, Freedom Farmers: New Zealand Artists Growing Ideas, exhibition newsprint, Auckland Art Gallery |
| 2012 | Bruderlin, Markus, Silvia Eiblmayr, Rainer Metzger, Andras Palffy, Annette Sudbeck, and Thomas D. Trummer, Ich Möchte Ein Teil Einer Judendstilbewegung Sein–Der Beethovenfries, Secession |
| Booth-Clibborn, Edward, and Jonathan Barnbrook, Fashion and Art Collusion, Booth-Clibborn Editions, London | |
| 2009 | Ellegood, Anne (introduction by), Vitamin 3D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation, Phaidon Editors, London |
| 2008 | Dunn, Michael, New Zealand Sculpture: A History (updated edition), Auckland University Press |
| Cranford Collection 1, Cranford Collection, London | |
| Raymond, Rosanna and Amiria Salmond (editors),Pasifika Styles – Artists inside the museum, University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology | |
| 2007 | Hall, Ken, Of Deities and Mortals, Catalogue for Christchurch Art Gallery, Te Puna o Waiwhetu |
| Manacorda, Francesco, Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Merrell | |
| Butler, Brian (editor), Speculation, NZ Venice Project 2007, Artspace | |
| An Archaeology, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London | |
| 2006 | Paton, Justin, Reboot, The Jim and Mary Barr Collection |
| 2005 | The Way We Work Now, Camden Arts Centre, London |
| 2004 | Centerfold (3), Artists’ book, ed. of 20 |
| 2003 | Centerfold (1), Artists’ book, ed. of 60 |
| Becks Futures exhibition catalogue, ICA, London | |
| SELECTED PRESS | |
| 2013 | “Francis Upritchard,” The New Yorker, August |
| Tipton, Gemma, “Francis Upritchard,” Vault Magazine, Issue 4, August | |
| Laster, Paul, Francis Upritchard “War Dance”, Time Out New York, August | |
| “Notions of Freedom in Question,” Art News New Zealand, Summer | |
| Lockhart, Katie, “Full Immersion,” Home New Zealand, The Art Issue, February | |
| Paton, Justin, “Francis Upritchard: Believer,” Christchurch Art Gallery Bulletin Magazine, Summer | |
| Margalejo, Isabel, “Yo Me Lo Creo,” Architectural Digest España, June | |
| 2012 | “Francis Upritchard,” Vogue, December |
| Biswas, Allie, “Culture Talks: Valeria Napoleone and her Catalogue of Exquisite Recipes,” Anothermag.com, 27 September | |
| Seda-Reeder, Maria, “Meditations on Emptiness: Francis Upritchard’s, ‘A Long Wait’ at the CAC,” AEQAI, 17 June | |
| Cashdan, Marina, “Project Space,” New York Times Style Magazine, 3 May | |
| “Francis Upritchard: Rising Star,” Phaidon, 11 May | |
| Rosen, Stephen, “Francis Upritchard: A Long Wait,” City Beat, 8 May | |
| “Francis Upritchard: A Long Wait and Jannis Verias,” Cincinatti Magazine, May | |
| Art Forum, May | |
| Pilger, Zoe, “Francis Upritchard,” Frieze, January | |
| Taguchi, Satoshi, “Martino Gamper and Francis Upritchard,” Huge Magazine, Issue 97, December | |
| 2011 | “A Conversation between Martino Gamper & Francis Upritchard,” It’s Nice That, Issue 6 |
| Milliard, Coline, “Hippie Happening,” Modern Painters, September, 54-56 | |
| “What is your favourite dystopia? Answers by Francis Upricthard,” Kaleidoscope, issue 09, winter 2010-11, 184-5 | |
| 2010 | “Francis Upritchard: IN DIE HOHLE,” Secession Magazine, April – June |
| Parade, Mariuccia Casadio, Vogue Italia, January, 254-9 | |
| 2009 | “Martino Gamper puts five questions to Francis Upritchard,” Modern Painters, October, 78-9 |
| Walsh, Claire, “Francis and Martino,” B Magazine, A/W, 18-21 | |
| Luke, Ben, Vicki MacDonald,and Amy Shaw, “The 53rd Venice biennale: A User’s Guide- City Pavilions,” Art World, August/September, 105 | |
| Croci, Roberto, “Venice Biennale- National Participations,” L’Uomo Vogue, May/June | |
| Moore, Marcus, “Expatriate Voyager: Concerning works by Francis Upritchard,” LANDFALL 217 (New Zealand), Autumn, Flung ‘ex-pat’ issue, 120-136 | |
| “Francis Upritchard: Save Yourself,” ArtWorld, Issue 12, August/September, 109 | |
| 2008 | Were, Virginia, “Dreaming in Colour,” Artnews New Zealand, Winter, 78-80 |
| Eggleton, David, “Raider of the Lost Ark: Francis Upritchard in Taranaki,” Art New Zealand, Winter, 34 – 37 | |
| Gardner, Anthony, “Francis Upritchard- Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces,” Artforum, December, 371-2 | |
| Conland, Natasha, “Francis Upritchard,” Art World (UK edition), August/September, 92-5 | |
| Paton, Justin, “Mixed Feelings, Francis Upritchard’s 1970s show,” Art & Australia, Vol.46, Spring, pp.96-103 | |
| Conland, Natasha, “Francis Upritchard,” Art World (Australian edition), April/May, 52-57 | |
| Booker, Paula, “Rainbow Connection,” NZ Listener, 10-16 May | |
| Phillips, Bruce, “Commune Creatures,” Taranaki Daily News, 8 March | |
| 2007 | Higgins, Charlotte, “Sitting comfortably? Frieze Art Fair begins,” The Guardian, Thursday 11 October, p.5 |
| Farquharson, Alex, ”Looking Back 2006:Emerging Artists,” Frieze, Jan-Feb, 136 | |
| 2006 | “Britart: The Next Generation,” The Independent, 1 December |
| Eggleston, David, “Are you Being Severed?,” NZ Listener, 11 November | |
| Feeney, Warren, “Seeing the Human Problem,” Christchurch Press, 8 November | |
| Dale, Richard, “In the Field, Mind in Tatters,” Sunday Star Times (NZ), 2 November | |
| Liard, Tessa, “Dr Deans, I Presume?,” NZ Listener, 4 November | |
| Liard, Tessa, “Swimsuit Issue,” NZ Listener, 30 September | |
| Wood, Andrew, “Works with Provocative Intent,” Christchurch Press, 25 October | |
| Hubbard, Sue, “A Global Tour Going Nowhere,” The Independent, 1 June, 20 | |
| 2005 | Smith, Nick, “Colony Strikes Back,” NZ Listener, 13 December |
| “Future Greats,” Art Review, December, 81 | |
| “5 hot artists,” Sunday Star Times Magazine, Sep 18 | |
| Kember, Olivia, “Art Throbs,” Sunday Star Times (NZ), 18 September | |
| Lack, Hannah, “Karl Fritsch Jewellery,” Another Magazine, Issue 8, Spring/Summer, 78 | |
| Henderson, Derek, “The Empire Strikes Back,” i-D Magazine, Issue 52 March, 88 | |
| 2004 | “Francis Upritchard, The New Clutter,” Vogue, October, 115-119 |
| Hill, Amelia, “Leading British Artists put their work on sale,” The Observer, 16 May, NEWS 17 | |
| Cumming, Laura, “He’s Gotta Have It,” The Observer, 21 March, 12 | |
| Henderson, Derek (photographer), “Francis Upritchard,” Dazed & Confused, April, 137 | |
| Searle, Adrian, “Same Again Saatchi,” The Guardian, 23 March, 12-13 | |
| Lubbock, Tom, “Is It All Your Own Work?,” The Independent, 23 March, 12-13 | |
| Hackworth, Nick, “Exorcising the Demons,” Evening Standard, 30 January | |
| Upritchard, Francis, “Some dreams and observations regarding the sloth creature and/or pootie,” Artist’s Story, AN, January | |
| Coomer, Martin, “Francis Upritchard,” Time Out, Jan | |
| 2003 | “Camden Arts Centre,” Vogue, December |
| Buck, Louisa, “Francis Upritchard,” The Art Newspaper, Aug | |
| Glover, Michael, “Francis Upritchard,” The Independent Review, July | |
| Herbert, Martin, “Francis Upritchard,” Time Out, June | |
| Gibbons, Fischra, “Bedtime for Saatchi, Good Art is DIY,” The Guardian, 2 April | |
| Leitch, Luke, “Saatchi’s new gallery is a Ninties museum,” Evening Standard, 1 April | |
| 2002 | Seymour, Ben, “The Bart Wells Gang,” Frieze Magazine #66, March |
| Hering, Tobias, “Inseln in der Schwarze,“ Die Tageszeitung, 23 April | |
| Currah, Mark, “The Bart Wells Gang,” Time Out Reviews, 16-23 January | |
| 2001 | Lack, Jessica, “The Bart Wells Gang,” Guardian Guide, 22-28 December |
| 2000 | Laird, Tessa, “The UnHeimlich Maneuver: Outcome of Probability: Saskia Leek and Francis Upritchard,” Eyeline Magazine, #42 Autumn/Winter |
| Bywater, Jonathan, “Auckland,” Art New Zealand #95, Winter | |
| O’Rorke, Imogen, “Art Start,” Strapt.co.uk, Winter | |
| 1999 | Bragge, Vanessa, “More Than a Hobby,” Melbourne Herald Sun, 25 July |
Exhibitions
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