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Stuart Cumberland

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Born 1970
Lives and works in London

Education

1999-2000
Saatchi Royal College of Art Fellowship

1997-1999
MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London

1989-1992
BA Fine Art, Bath College of Art

Solo Exhibitions

2016
Handmade Colour Pictures, The Approach, London, UK

2011
Four Circle Paintings, The Approach, London

2009
Stuart Cumberland, Comma 10, Bloomberg Space, London, UK
Stuart Cumberland
, Maruani & Noirhomme Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
Fort/Da
, The Approach W1, London, UK

2007
Congratulations, The Approach E2, London

2006
Stuart Cumberland, Kate MacGarry, London

2003
Stuart Cumberland, Kate MacGarry, London

2002
5 New Paintings, Tablet at The Tabernacle, London

2001
New Paintings, Royal College of Art, London

1996-7
Habitat Tottenham Court Road, London

Group Exhibitions

2019
Fully Awake 4.6, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK

2017
20 Years Show, The Approach, London
Ex Roma IV | Abbey Awards, APT Gallery, London, UK

2016-17
The Painting Show, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania; Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland; Aram Art Gallery, Goyang AramNuri Arts Centre, Goyang, Korea.

2016
Is this living?, The Approach, London, UK

2014
July, The Approach, London, UK

2013
Synesthesium, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York, USA
Sitting with the qualities of a mountain, Imperial College, London, UK
British School in Rome, Fine Arts Mostra, Rome, Italy

2012
HALLOGALLO, Cass Gallery, London Metropolitan University, London, UK

2009
Silly Things, Fold Gallery, London, UK

2008
What Kind of Painting?, Sprüth Magers Projekte, München

2006-7
The Wonderful Fund – Collecting Art for the New Millenium, Pallant House Gallery, West Sussex

2006
The Way We Work Now: Some Attitudes to Materials and Making, Camden Arts Centre, London
60th Anniversary show, curated by Des Hughes, Gimpel Fils, London

2004
Stuart Cumberland & Keith Wilson, Gallery West, London

Works on Paper, Sprüth Magers Projekte, München

2003
Dirty Pictures, The approach, London
Bad Touch, Keith Talent Gallery, London

2001
Saatchi Gallery Bursaries 1999-2001, 30 Underwood Street, London

2000
Heart & Soul, Sandroni Rey, Venice, California
Whanki Prize, Seoul, Korea

1999
Heart & Soul, 60 Long Lane, London

1998
Home & Away, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York

1997
Gonzo, Bethnal Green Police Station, London
Still Things, The Approach, London

1996
East International, Norwich Art Gallery

1993-4
BT New Contemporaries, National Touring Exhibition

Selected Press and Publications

2017
Sheleg, Moran, Stuart Cumberland: Handmade Colour Pictures, Journal of Contemporary Painting, Volume 4 Number1

2009
Luke, Ben, Stuart Cumberland, Art World, June/July p80-83

2008
Intimate Strangers, Interview between Stuart Cumberland and Phillip Allen, Art &
Music: The Saatchi Gallery Magazine, Issue 04

2005
Kent, Sarah, Work Experience, Time Out, August
Searle, Adrian, What Does It All Mean?, The Guardian, July

2003
Buck, Louisa, Stuart Cumberland, The Art Newspaper, April
Royse, Julia, Stuart Cumberland, Elle, February

1997
Herbert, Martin, Gonzo, Time Out, October

1996
East International Catalogue
Tania Guha, Fritz & Betty, Time Out, September

1993
Clark, Robert, Shock of the New, The Guardian, June

    Stuart Cumberland

    Handmade Colour Pictures

    10th July 2016 - 7th August 2016

    Is this living?

    Curated by Jack Lavender and Hannah Lees

    Helene Appel
    Stuart Cumberland
    Jack Lavender
    Hannah Lees
    Charles Mayton
    Puppies Puppies
    Oliver Sutherland
    Hayley Tompkins
    Holly White

    9th January 2016 - 7th February 2016

    Stuart Cumberland

    Four Circle Paintings
    The Approach, London, UK

    24th June 2011 - 31st July 2011

    Stuart Cumberland

    COMMA 10
    Bloomberg Space, London, UK

    10th September 2009 - 26th September 2009

    Stuart Cumberland

    Fort/Da
    The Approach, W1

    2nd April 2009 - 2nd May 2009

    Stuart Cumberland

    Congratulations

    6th September 2007 - 14th October 2007

    Dirty Pictures

    Phillip Allen
    Mamma Andersson
    Nono Bandera
    Dirk Bell
    Manfredi Beninati
    Varda Caivano
    Nigel Cooke
    Dan Coombs
    Stuart Cumberland
    Leigh Curtis
    Verne Dawson
    Kaye Donachie
    Dubossarsky & Vinogradov
    Geraint Evans
    Tanya Fairey
    Dee Ferris
    Uwe Henneken
    Paul Housley
    Merlin James
    Sergej Jensen
    Rezi van Lankveld
    Dietmar Lutz
    Alan Miller
    J P Munro
    Paul Noble
    Michael Raedecker
    Daniel Sinsel
    Tim Stoner
    Mari Sunna
    Neal Tait
    Gary Webb & Mark Titchner
    Martin Westwood

    30th January 2003 - 23rd March 2003

    Painters Painting

    Stuart Cumberland
    Merlin James
    Kevin Knox

    23rd November 2000 - 4th February 2001