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Biography
Denise Hawrysio was born in Toronto and currently lives in London, UK. She received her BFA from Queen’s University, Canada, and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is a conceptual artist who works in a variety of media and materials including site-specific installation, artists books, film, video and print media and has exhibited her work in Europe, the United States and Canada.
She has been an active member of London’s art scene for many years, founding her own project space in the early 90’s, working collectively with many of Britains’ leading artists. She recently received fellowships for residencies at NSCAD University, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the prestigious MacDowell Colony in the United States, the University of British Columbia and the University of Alberta. Her artists’ books are in collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Chelsea Art Library, Yale University, the Bruce Peel Collection and the National Gallery of Canada. Her work deals with issues of displacement, hybridism, transience and mutation, utopia and dystopia, memory and identity. She has taught at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and presently teaches at University of the Arts, London.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
I am @ Here Alive, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Canada, 2014
The Beaver Still Needs a Log, Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver, Canada, 2013
A Users Guide to Visual Direct Action, Galerie Circulaire, Montreal, Canada, 2012
An Etching Plate Feels No Pain, SNAP, Edmonton, Canada, 2011
Situational Prints, Martha Street Studios, Winnipeg, Canada, 2010
Situational Prints, Open Studio, Toronto, Canada, 2009
News in Briefs, 36 Bedford Row Galleries, London, UK, 2009
Situational Prints, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, 2008
Situational Prints, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 2007
Hello my name is Jenny, MOCA, London, UK, 2005
Live or Die, Zsa Zsa Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 2004
A place of contemplation, RACA, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2004
The Way Things Don’t, Five Years, London, UK, 2002
In the full light of reason, Dare-Dare Gallery, Montreal, Canada, 2001
A Catalogue of Errors, The Floating Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada, 2001
Grasping and Clinging, Project 304, Bangkok, Thailand, 2000 (sound by John Wynne)
Safe for all Surfaces, Five Years, London, UK, 2000
The Other Journey, The Other Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada, 1997
The Tannery Project Space, London, UK, 1995
Forum Bilker Stra, Düsseldorf, Germany, 1994
Galérie Articule, Montréal, Canada, 1992
Clove Gallery, London, UK, 1992
Art & Text, Inset 2, The Showroom, London, UK, 1992
Helen Pit Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 1992
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
A Lot of Things Have Happened, Malaspina, Vancouver, 2016
The Art of Not Making, Galleri Jonas Kleerup, Stockholm, Sweden, 2014
Film in Space, Camden Arts Centre, London, 2013
The Art of Not Making, Hå gamle prestegard, Håvegen, Norway, 2013
Repetition, Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 2013
Bookmare, Camberwell Space, University of the Arts, London, 2012
Surface Tension, Malaspina Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 2011
Accidental Literacy, The Print Studio Gallery, Hamilton, Canada, 2011
Modified Expressions, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland, 2011
Common Wealth, MKG127 Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 2009
Denise Hawrysio and Al Masson, Danske Grafikers Hus, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009
Dumbwaiter, James Taylor Gallery, London, UK, 2009
New Prints 2009/Spring, International Print Center New York, New York, USA, 2009
Transcentric, Lethaby Gallery, Central St. Martins of Art and Design, London, UK, 2008
New Prints 2008/Spring, International Print Centre New York, New York, USA, 2008
Analogue & Digital, Fieldgate Gallery Contemporary Art, London, UK, 2007
Spring Faculty Exhibition, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2007
If it didn’t exist you’d have to invent it, The Showroom, London, UK, 2006
15/1 (3), Overgaden, Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2006
Hearing Voices, The Brunei Gallery, University of London, UK, 2005
Drawing Life; the art and act of drawing, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Canada, 2005
What is the book, Flux Factory, Long Island City, and Fisher Arts Centre, Bard College, N.Y., 2004
The Book Show, The Nunnery, London, UK and 3W Gallery, Grasmere, UK, 2004
15/1 (2), 1,000 000mph, London, UK, 2003
The Lux Open, Smartlab, Royal College of Art, London, UK, 2003
Space Men, MOT, London, UK, 2003
Snapshot, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, USA, 2002, (touring exhibition)
X-mas, Outline, Amsterdam, Holland, 2001
Denise Hawrysio and Mark Bell, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada, 1999
Lapsus, Five Years, London, UK, 1999
Recent Acquisitions, Surrey Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 1998
External Affairs, Canada House, London, UK, 1998
The Space of the Page, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK, 1998
Disneyland After Dark, Wriston Art Centre, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA, 1998
Answer Affirmative Or Negative, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada, 1998
The Pleasure of Aesthetic Life, The Showroom, London, UK, 1999
Disneyland After Dark, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, 1999
Refuse, Galleriet Laderfabiken, Malmo, Sweden, 1996
Disneyland After Dark, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden, 1996
Immaterial Material, The Central Space, London, UK, 1993
Feed, London Filmmakers Coop, London, UK, 1993
15/1 Malania Basarab Gallery, London, UK, 1993
Staggered Systems, The Showroom Publication, Quicksilver Place, London, 1994
Papier Beeld and Basis, Papierbiennale, Aalst, Holland, 1994
Spit, Malania Basarab Gallery, London, UK, 1994
Echt, Malania Basarab Gallery, London, UK, 1992
Mock, Malania Basarab Gallery, London, UK, 1993
The 33rd London Film Festival, London Filmmakers Coop, London, UK, 1989
Canadian Avant Garde Benefit Series, The Funnel, Toronto, Canada, 1989
The Length of the Mean Free Path, San Francisco Cinematheque, SF, CA, USA, 1989
Words and Images, Surrey Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 1989
COLLECTIONS
Bruce Peel Special Collections, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Burnaby Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire, USA,
Manchester Metropolitan University Library, UK,
San Francisco Art Institute, Artists book collection, San Francisco Cal, USA
Joan Flash Artists’ Books Collection, Chicago Institute, Chicago, USA
The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Surrey Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Morey Chaplick Private Collection, Toronto, Canada
Hajduszoboszlo Museum of Modern Art, Gyor, Hungary
Yale University, New Haven, USA
Museum vh Boek, Den Hagg, Holland
AA Bronson – General Idea, Toronto, Canada
Exeter School of Art, Exeter, UK
Guildhall University, London, UK
John Janssen, (private), London, UK
University of the Arts, London, UK
Rijksgevangenis Dendermonde, Belgium, Holland
Artists’ Publication, Eins von Hundert, Köln, Germany
Art/Start Archives, International Ko production, Middleburg, Netherlands
Art Bank, Ottawa, Canada
Tate Gallery, Art Library, London, UK
Chelsea Art Library, London, UK
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND RESIDENCIES
Residency, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada, 2014
Project Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada, 2011
Artist’s Residency, Printmedia Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 2011
Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada, 2009
Grant, Canada House Arts Trust, London, UK, 2008
Project Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada, 2007
Artist’s Residency, Printmedia Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2007
Tom and Babs Putnam Print Fellowship, MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire, USA, 2007
Artists Fellowship, The MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire, USA, 2006
Grants to Artists, British Council, London, UK, 2006
Research Grant, Wimbledon School of Art, London, UK, 2006
Thematic Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada, 2006
Artists Residency Exchange Program, Deptford, UK and Berlin, Germany, 2004
Artists residency, Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts, Toronto, Canada, 2004
Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada, 2004
Grants to Artists, London Arts, London, UK, 2002
Creative Production Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada, 2001
Awards to Artists, British Council, London, UK, 2000
Publication Grant, Canadian Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand, 2000
Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada 2000
British Council Grant, London, UK 1999
Thematic Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada, 1997
Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada, 1997
Circulation and Dissemination Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada, 1997
Travel Grant, The British Council, UK, 1994
Travel Grant, London Arts Board, UK, 1994
Research Grant, University of Plymouth, Exeter, UK, 1996
Elephant Trust, London, UK, 1999
SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
A.L. Rees, Physical Optics: a return to the repressed, Millennium Film Journal, no. 58, 2013
Amaze, Denise Hawrysio and A User’s Guide to Direct Visual Action, Printeresting, March 2012
Gemma Tipton One for the Books, The Irish Times, August 2011
Carolyn Jervis, Behind the marks, Vueweekly, issue 818, Edmonton, 2011
Brant Schuller, Proof: Printmaking as Evidence, SGCI Panel, New York, and USA, 2011
Michael Petry, ‘Crafty: the art of not making’, by Thames and Hudson in March 2011
Dean Kenning, An Etching Plate Feels no Pain, Open Studio Publication, 2009
Gary Michael Dault, Situational Prints, The Globe and Mail, Canada, July 18, 2009
Courtney Weida, The Art of Books, Museums, and Digital Culture, Guild of Book Workers Journal, 2010
Robin Laurence, Situational Prints, Georgia Straight, Vancouver, June 7, 2007
Ian Wallace, Situational Prints, Simon Fraser University Gallery Publication, 2007
Bill Jeffries, Situational Prints, Simon Fraser University Gallery Publication, 2007
Judith Wilkinson, Canadian Club, cmagazine93, Spring 2007
Andrew Wilson, If it didn’t exist… The Showroom Annual, 2005/6
Gary Michael Dault, Live or Die, Zsa Zsa Gallery, Toronto, The Globe and Mail, July 31, 2004
Simon Morley, The Book Show, London, Utopia Press, 2004
Sally O’Reilly, 15/1(2), Art Monthly, London, 2003
Emma Dexter, 15/1 (Malania Basarab Gallery) 100 Reviews Backwards, London, 2003
Matthew Higgs, 15/1 (Malania Basarab Gallery), 100 Reviews Backwards, London, 2003
Nicky Hamlyn, Film, Art, Phenomena, BFI Publications, London, UK, 2003
Susan Johanknecht, The Symbolic Book: A Travelogue, 2003
Bangkok Post, Grasping and Clinging, Project 304, Bangkok, Thailand, October 2000
James Bettley, The Art of the Book; from Illuminated Manuscript to Graphic Novel, V&A Publication,
Martin Hubbard, Denise Hawrysio, Time Out, London, 2000
David Weaver, Escape from Photography, Mercer Union publication, Toronto, Canada, 1999
Sara Kent, What is a photograph? Time Out, London, 1998
Hugh Stoddart, The Space of the Page, Artist Newsletter, Dec 1997
John Janssen, The Space of the Page, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 1997
Valerie Reardon, The Pleasure of Aesthetic Life, Art Monthly, London, No. 202-Dec 96
Kim Sweet, The Pleasure of Aesthetic Life, Showroom publication, London, Dec 96
Mark Currah, The Pleasure of Aesthetic Life, Time Out, Nov 96, no.1369
Brigitte Wernebury, Disneyland After Dark, Sonnenbluhen Auf, Taz, Berlin, 18.05.96
Katrina Bettina Muller, Panische Flucht, Tagessfiegel, Germany, 21.05.96
Montag Feiertagen, Lichtausim Vergnugungspark, BZ, Berlin, 29.05.96
Contribution (2-page artist’s feature) Control Magazine, Stephen Willats, editor, 1996
Stephen Bury, Artists Books, Scolar Press, UK, 1995
Gunilla Grahn-Hinnfors, Disneyland After Dark, Kultur Paper, Sweden, Oct 1995
Sara Arrhenius, Disneyland After Dark, Aftonbladet, Sweden, Oct. 1995
Marten Castenfors, Debauchery in Disneyland, Konst News, Stockholm, Oct. 1995
Martin Landahl, Disneyland After Dark, Uppsala Demokraten, Oct 1995
Cathy Courtney, Cell Books and Zero Text, Art Monthly, London, March 1995
John Janssen, workfortheeyetodo, Summer Catalogue, London, 1995
W.D.G., Aalst’s Paper Biennale, De Standaard, Belgium, June 1994
BAB, Paper Biennale, Het Laatste Niews, Belgium, 1994
Peter-Paul Geubels, Paper as Environment, Nieuwsblad, Belgium, 1994
Jan Braet, Growing Pains, Knack, Belgium, June 1993
Eric Bracke, Paper Biennale, De Morgen, Aalst, Belgium 1994
Cathy Courtney, Artists’ Books, Art Monthly, London, May 1994
David Thorp, Staggered Systems, The Showroom Publication, 1994
Rob Kesselek, Looking at Words: Reading Pictures, Untitled, summer, London, 1994
Kim Sawchuck, “Denise Hawrysio: Galérie Articule,” Parachute, 66, summer, 1992
CURATING AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
2016, Curator, A lot of Things Have Happened, Malaspina Gallery Vancouver, Canada
2009, Curator, Common Wealth, MKG127 Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Amanda Beech, Giorgio Sadotti, Bob and Roberta Smith, and David Alker
2006, Curator and organiser, 15/1 (3), Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
1999-04, Member of the Board of Directors, Five Years, London, UK, artist’s collective gallery space, with Marc Hulson, Alex Shady, and Eddy Dorrian.
Exhibitions/events organiser and curator A Promise of Happiness, What is Love?, Dark Pop and Self Service Painting and Self Service Video.
2003, Curator/organiser, 15/1 (2), 1,000,000 MPH Gallery, London, UK
2009-10, Photographer and research assistant for sound and photographic installation by John Wynne at Border Zone, Anthropology Museum of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
2003, Photographer and research assistant for “Hearing Voices”, sound and photographic installation by John Wynne at Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and Africa Studies, London, UK (project included travel to Africa)
2002, Exhibition Assistant, Architectural Association, London, UK Either In or Out
1997, Artists’ publication, The Lifelong Lesson, Control Magazine, by Stephen Willats
1997, Co-organizer, Tapko, Academy of Fine Art Helsinki, site-specific installation, Professor Whitehead
1990-93, Director/founder, Malania Basarab Gallery, London, UK, Three-year gallery project
Exhibitions include; Mock with John Ferris, Echt, with Claudia Terstappen and Michael Krause, Spit with Jarg Gesimar, and Peter Andersson, 15/1 with Amikam Toren, Graham Ramsey, Adam Chodzko, and Anya Gallaccio, Strip with Bill Burns and Patrick McBride.