Celia Hempton
Born in 1981
Lives & works in Stroud
Celia Hempton lives and works in London. She graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Painting in 2007 and completed her BA in Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art.
Celia Hempton’s work explores concepts of voyeurism in the post-digital age. In her paintings, performances and installations, she investigates the blurred lines of comfort and consent; desire and subjugation, visibility and opacity; seeking to deconstruct the ways in which we engage with each other in a rapidly evolving age of hypermediation. Formally, Hempton’s paintings, which range in scale from intimate to lifesize, acknowledge the tropes of history painting and the often subj gated female body. Hempton’s richly layered paintings directly play with and confront this historical dynamism, producing tactile celebrations of the body, alongside multiple perspectives on how the bodily gaze is constructed.
Groupshow "Regards that stare back", Paris+ by Art Basel, Paris.
October 18 - October 22, 2023.
© Gregory Copitet
Exhibition "Celia Hempton by Celia Hempton", Sultana, Paris.
March 04 - April 08, 2023.
Groupshow, "Peinture : Obsolescence déprogrammée",
Musée de l’Hospice Saint-Roch, Issoudun, France 2022
Celia Hempton, Southard Reid, London, UK, 2020
Celia Hempton installation in " Kathy Acker: Who Wants to Be Human All the Time" (cur. Jenny Schlenzka and Bjarne Melgaard), Performance Space 122, New York, USA 8 March 8 April 2018
Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today, Cur. Eva Respini, ICA, Boston, USA, 2018
Tainted Love, Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France, 2017
Desire. An Exhibition about Sex, Love and Lust, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Medellín, Colombia, 2017
Installation view, 'The Female Gaze Part II: Women Look at Men', Cheim & Read, New York, USA, 2016.
Installation view, 'Art Night', ICA London, Curated by Kathy Noble. Photography: Mark Blower
Installation view, 'Electronic Superhighway 2016 – 1966', Curated by Omar Kholeif with Séamus McCormack, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Installation view: 'Prediction', curated by Milovan Farronato, Mendes Wood DM, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2016.
Lupa, installation view, Sultana, 2015
Forget Amnesia, installation view, Fiorucci Art Trust, Stromboli, July 2014
Installation view, "FLY ASH", 2015, White Cubicle, The George & Dragon, Hackney, London, UK.
Silica, Exhibition view, Sultana, Nov 2013
“Abstract Cabinet”, curated by Vincent Honoré, David Roberts Art Foundation, June July 2013
Installation view, VUG, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany, 2013
| GALLERY SHOWS: |
Soft Touch Celia Hempton |
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Frieze New York. New York, USA Independent Art Fair. New York, USA Paris+ by Art Basel. Paris, France |
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Select solo exhibitions : 'Celia Hempton', Southard Reid (London, UK 2020); 'Breach', Galleria Lorcan O’Neill (Rome, IT 2018); Material Art Fair with Galerie Sultana (Mexico City, MX 2017); 'Prem Sahib in collaboration with Celia Hempton', Southard Reid (London, UK 2017); 'Art Night', ICA London cur. by Kathy Noble (London, UK 2016); The Magazine Sessions in collaboration with Fiorucci Art Trust, Serpentine Gallery (London, UK 2016); 'Celia Hempton', Michael Lett, (Auckland, NZ 2016); 'Lupa', Galerie Sultana (Paris, FR 2015); 'FLY ASH', White Cubicle, The George & Dragon (London, UK 2015); 'Chat Random', Southard Reid (London, UK 2014); 'Paintings on Wall and Canvas', Galleria Lorcan O’Neill (Rome, IT 2014). Select group exhibitions : 'Peinture : Obsolescence déprogrammée', (Musée de l’Hospice Saint-Roch, 2022), Issoudun, France ; 'I See You', (Victoria Miro, 2022),Londres; UK'British Art Show 9', touring exhibition organised by the Hayward Gallery (London, UK 2020-22); 'London Bridge. Arte Contemporanea in Gran Bretagna', British Council exhibition cur. by Norman Rosenthal and Harry Woodlock, Ca’Pesaro (Venice, IT 2019); 'Futures of Love, Magasins Généraux (Pantin, FR 2019), 'No Patience for Monuments', Perrotin Seoul (Seoul, South Korea 2019); 'MADEMOISELLE', Crac Occitanie - le centre régional d’art contemporain Occitaine Pyrénées-Méditerranée (Sète, FR 2018); 'Cécile B. Evans, Celia Hempton & Emily Whitebread', her gallery (London, UK 2018); 'Kathy Acker: Who Wants to Be Human All the Time', cur. Jenny Schlenzka and Bjarne Melgaard, Performance Space 122 (New York, USA 2018); 'Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today', ICA, Boston, cur. Eva Respini (Boston, USA 2018); 'Gettin’ The Heart Ready', The Royal Standard (Liverpool, UK 2016); 'The Female Gaze, Part II: Women Look at Men', Cheim & Read (New York, US 2016); 'Electronic Superhighway 2016 – 1966 cur. Omar Kholeif, Whitechapel Gallery (London, UK 2016); 'Forget Amnesia' cur. Milovan Farronato and Haroon Mirza, Fiorucci Trust (Stromboli, IT 2014); and 'Abstract Cabinet', David Roberts Art Foundation (London, UK 2013). |
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