NICKY HOBERMAN
Lives and works in London, UK
Education
1994-95
MA, Painting, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK
1992
Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art, CT, USA, Battell Stoeckel Fellowship
1989-93
BA Fine Art, Parsons School of Design, Paris, France
1986-89
MA, Modern History, Worcester College, Oxford University, UK
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Unfinished Business, curated by Gianni Romano, Bonelli Gallery, Italy
2009
Shadow Play, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2008
Girl Power, Gallery Hof and Huyser, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2007
Far Side of the Moon, Mudimadrie Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2004
Feigen Contemporary, New York, USA
Playtime, Galerie 2021, Essen, Germany
2003
Mario Diacono at Ars Libri, Boston, USA
Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, USA
2002
Feigen Contemporary, New York, USA
Robert Gould Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2001
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1999
Feigen Contemporary, New York, USA
Bewitched, Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
1998
Nicky Hoberman, Entwistle, London, UK
Truly Scrumptious, Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
1997
Chrysalis, Studio d’Arte Cannaviello, Milan, Italy
1996
Sweet Nothings, Entwistle, London, UK
Group Exhibitions
2024
Five Figures, Gow Langsford, New Zealand
2023
Collett Prague Munich, Czech Republic
2022
Cubitt 30, Victoria Miro, London, UK
2021
The Childhood, Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japan
2018
Folktales, Churchgate Gallery, Somerset, UK
2015
‘Part II, Permanent Collection’, Museu de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal
2012
Painting As a Radical Form, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2011
Observers, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
World House Editions, Monotypes, New York, USA
2010
Agenda Mulheres Artistas na Colecção Berardo 2010, Lisbon, Portugal
She is a Femme Fatale – A Colecção Berardo em Campus, FTC na Costa da Caparica, Portugal
2008
Jerwood Drawing Prize, London, UK
Gallery Hof and Huyser, Amsterdam, Netherlands
‘…same as it ever was’ The Arts Gallery, University of the Arts, London, UK
2007
Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2006
Offspring: representations of children in contemporary visual culture, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, USA
2005
Life and Limb, curated by David Humphrey, Feigen Contemporary,New York, Fragile, Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland, curated by Gianni Romano
2004
Out of Place, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indiana, USA
Skin Deep, Cook Fine Art, New York, USA
Time Travel, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, USA
Innocence Found, DFN Gallery, New York, USA
2003
Moving Energies 2, Museum Folkwang Essen, Germany
Dead Bird Show, Whitechapel Project Space, London, UK
Prospect Drawing Prize, Truman Brewery, London, UK
Interview with Painting, Foundation Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy
The Berardo Collection: An Addiction to Freedom, Lisbon, Portugal
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo, Portugal
2002
Jerwood Painting Prize Exhibition, London, UK
Jerwood Drawing Prize, London, UK
2001
New Works, Feigen Contemporary, New York, USA
Unexpected: Stages of Regression, Biagiotti Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
2000
Kinder des 20 Jahrhunderts, Galerie der Stadt Aschaffenburg & Mittelrhein Museum, Koblenz, Germany
Der Abelenkte Blick Malerei ,Helmhaus Zürich, Switzerland
Girl, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917- 1999, Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal
1999
Now It’s My turn To Scream, San Francisco MoMA, USA
Fresh Paint Recent Acquisitions from the Frank Cohen Collection, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
Painting Lab, Entwistle, London, UK
1998
The Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Me and You, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
The NatWest Art Prize 1998, Lothbury Gallery, London, UK
Alice, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
Works From the Collection II, Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden
1997
My Little Pretty, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Pictura Britannica: Art from Britain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, (touring exhibition)
Strangely Familiar, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK, (touring exhibition)
1996
New Contemporaries 96, Tate, Liverpool and Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
The Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Remaking Reality, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK
Jason & Rhodes Gallery, London, UK
Vision Fest, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Christa Schubbe Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
Collections
Berardo Collection, Centro Cultrel de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal
Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
The Hunterdon Art Museum, New Jersey, USA
Magasin III, Stockholm, Sweden
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
The Nigel Moores Charitable Foundation, Liverpool, England
Ollbricht Collection, Essen, Germany
Scheringa Museum, Netherlands
The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Osaka, Japan
The Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall, England, UK
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