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Born 1980. Lives and works in London, England.
| 2007 | MA, Chelsea College of Art |
| 2003 | BA, Fine Art, Slade School of Art The Art Institute of Chicago |
| 2017 | Nick Hornby, Sculpture (1504 - 2017), Glyndebourne, UK |
| 2015 | Nick Hornby & Sinta Tantra - Collaborative Works II, Choi Lager Gallery, Cologne |
| 2013 | Sculpture (1504-2013), Churner and Churner, New York Nick Hornby & Sinta Tantra, One Canada Square, London |
| 2011 | Matthew Burrows & Nick Hornby, The Solo projects, Basel |
| 2010 | Atom vs Super Subject, Alexia Goethe Gallery, London [Press Release] |
| 2008 | Tell Tale Heart, Camley Street Natural Park, London Clifford Chance Sculpture Award 2008, Clifford Chance, London |
| 2019 | Mostyn Open 21, Mostyn, Wales Parallel Lines: Drawing and Sculpture, The Lightbox, Woking Sculpture, Selma Feriani Gallery, Tunisia Abstract vs Figure 1952 – 2019, Pinsent Masons LLP, London |
| 2018 | Scupture: Modern and Contemporary, Beaux Arts Gallery, London Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London Ornament and Crime, Pinsent Masons LLP, London Cure3, Bonhams, London Painting Now 2, Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan Year One, Frestonian Gallery, London Une seconde vie #1, 2017, Garden Museum, London Magic & Method, Nick Hornby, Eduardo Paolozzi & Douglas White, Frestonian Gallery, London. Hornby Tantra - Collaborative Works III: Proposals, Multiple sites, British Land, UK Artist in Residence, Pinsent Masons LLP, London |
| 2017 | The Curators’ Eggs, Paul Kasmin, New York, NY [Press Release] Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Fulmer Contemporary, UK [Press Release] Nick Hornby & Sinta Tantra - Collaborative Works II, Pinsent Masons LLP, London I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper, Griffin Gallery, London [Press Release] [Catalogue] |
| 2016 | Think Pieces, Cass Sculpture Foundation, UK Bright Young Things, David Gill Gallery, London Group Show, Waterside Contemporary, London Attitudes>Sculpture #1, Eduardo Secci Gallery, Florence |
| 2015 | ALAC, Los Angeles Contemporary with Anat Ebgi Gallery |
| 2014 | The Last Picture Show, Churner and Churner Gallery, NY
Slipped Gears, Usman Gallery, Bennington College, VT USA Eric Fertman and Nick Hornby, Time Equities Building, New York Bird God Drone, Commissioned by Two Trees for outdoor presentation in DUMBO, Brookyn, NY |
| 2013 | Out of Hand, Materializing the Postdigital, Museum of Art and Design, NY Ikono On Air Festival, Ikono, Berlin The Fine Line, Identity Art Gallery, Hong Kong [press release] Drawing Biennial 2013, Drawing Room, London |
| 2012 | Polish Bienalle: Meditations - The Unknown, Poznan, Poland Sculptors Drawings, Pangolin, London This is London, Shizaru, London |
| 2011 | Aggregate, curated by Kathleen Madden, Churner & Churner, New York House of the Nobleman: The Return, 2 Cornwall Terrace, London Lights Are On But Nobody’s Home, Standpoint Gallery, London Non-Objectif Sud, Bortolami Gallery, New York Open Prototyping, Eyebeam, New York |
| 2010 | Patrons, Muses and Professionals, Eyebeam, New York, New York Props, Events and Encounters. British Council, The Hub, Athens, Greece Spitalfields Sculpture Prize Exhibition, Allen & Overy, London Sculpture Promenade, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Flaming July, Leighton House Museum, London |
| 2009 | Walking in Our Mind, Royal Festival Hall / Southbank, London West London Studio Project - prologue, London 2012 Olympia The Ghost in the Machine, Visual Dialogues, Tate Triennial, Tate Britain The Voice and Nothing More, Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square, London RPG Residency Exhibition, Mumbai, India RBS Bursary Award Exhibition, RBS London |
| 2008 | Gatti, London Canal Museum, Curated by Brooke Lynn McGowan Anticipation, Selfridges, London Clifford Chance Sculpture Award, Clifford Chance PLC, London |
| 2007 | Future Map 07, The Arts Gallery, University of Arts London How We May Be, Late at Tate, August, Tate Britain, London I Am Your Worst Nightmare, Arnolfini, Bristol Late Nights, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London Late at Tate, February, Tate Britain, London MA Show, Chelsea College of Art, London |
| 2006 | Digital Space, Showroom Cinema, Sheffield Hayward Nights, Hayward Gallery, London Arctic Circle, ICA, London Arctic Circle, Hayward Gallery, London NODE.London, Media Arts London, Slade Woburn Square, London |
| 2003 | BA Show, Slade School of Art |
| 2019 | Outset Bialik Residency, Tel Aviv |
| 2018 | Appointed Artist in Residence at Pinsent Masons LLP, London
Awarded Harlow Science Park Commission |
| 2017 | Shortlisted public commission Ergon House, London, UK
Shortlisted for Lister House Health Centre Commission, Harlow, UK |
| 2014 | Appointed FRBS. Fellow of the RBS, Royal British Society of Sculptors |
| 2012 | Stone Residency, Stone Festival 2012, The Bowes Museum
Shortlisted permanent commission V&A Cast Court, V&A, London Residency, Ceramics, Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London |
| 2011 | Residency at, Eyebeam, New York |
| 2010 | Awarded RBKC Artists' Professional Development Bursary |
| 2009 | Awarded Deidre Hubbard Sculpture Award
RPG Residency - Institute of Contemporary Indian Art (ICIA House), Mumbai, India Selected for 2009 / 2010 AA2A Scheme Shortlisted Spitalfields Sculpture Prize Courvoisier The Future 500, in partnership with The Observer RBS Sculpture Bursary Award Shortlisted Mark Tanner Sculpture Award 2009, Guest Selector: Cornelia Parker |
| 2008 | Clifford Chance Sculpture Award 2008 |
| 2006 | BlindArt Prize |
| 2003 | University College London Convocation Travel Award |
| 2019 | Nick Hornby In His Studio, Emily Tobin, House and Garden July Business and pleasure, Louis Harnett O’Meara, Monocle Magazine Artists on the right side of the law, Edward Fennell, The Times Handy work, Edward Fennell, The Times Abstract vs Figure at Pinsent Masons Juxtaposes Contemporary Work Alongside Late Modern Icons, After NYNE Sculptor Nick Hornby is on the right side of the law at Pinsent Masons, The Art Newspaper |
| 2018 | Con la camicia, Giovanna Pisacane, L’Officiel Italia, Nov 2018 Virtual Vision, Rebecca Anne Proctor, Harpers Bazaar Arabia, Winter 2018 When ideas take shape, Norman Tan, Esquire Singapore, Nov 2018 MatchesFashion.com's London HQ Feels Like a Private Townhouse, Dan Thawley, Architectural Digest Magazine Land On Mayfair, David Megher, Wish Magazine, The Austrailian My Desk, Nick Hornby, Simon Chilvers, Matches Fashion In Perfect Form, Short Film, Matchesfashion.com Supper Clubs & Art: Luxury Retail Now Comes With A Side of Experience, Forbes. Could Matchesfashion.com's new destination be a blueprint for the future of shopping? Telegraph. Radio Interview: The Art Hour, Soho Radio: with Vassiliki Tzanakou Art in the Square Mile, Kate Gordon, Evening Standard. Nick Hornby on Magic and Method, Robert Shore, Elephant Magazine Nick Hornby shows work at the Frestonian Gallery alongside that of Eduardo Paolozzi and Douglas White, Artdaily.org |
| 2017 | This is how to do Collaboration, Dalra Nam, Privilege Magazine Korea, December 2017
Sculptor Nick Hornby in Conversation with Composer Nico Muhly, Whitewall Magazine Fall 2017 History Lessons with Nick Hornby, Maxwell Williams, Cultured Magazine Fall 2017 An Interview With The Sculptor Nick Hornby About Glyndebourne Festival, Harry Seymour, Candid Magazine Augt 2017 Nick Hornby: Accelerated Forms at the Paul Kasmin Gallery, Amanprit Sandhu, BlackBook Magazine, Augt 2017 Simplicity in Complex, Claire Meadows, After NYNE Magazine, August 2017 Nick Hornby’s Shape-Shifting Sculptures at Glyndebourne, Nicholas Forrest, Blouin Artinfo, Aug 2017 Sculptures By Nick Hornby Impress At Glyndebourne Festival 2017, Paul Carter Robinson, Artlyst, Aug 2017 Mark Sherin interviews artist Nick Hornby, Mark Sherin, FAD, Aug 2017 12 Artists in Summer Group Shows Who Deserve Solo Shows, Artsy, Aug 2017 11 things you should do this August, Tatler, Aug 2017 Nick Hornby: Grand Narratives and Little Anecdotes, Document Journal, July 2017 Stronger sales and supersize cigarettes, Melanie Gerlis, The Financial Times Hornby’s art historical smorgasbord at Glyndebourne, Gareth Harris, The Art Newspaper, July 2017 ‘The Curators’ Eggs’ at Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, Blouin Artinfo, July 2017 Nick Hornby, Sculpture (1504 - 2017), Joe Hewitt, PYLOT Magazine, Jul 2017 A Very English Affair: Vogue’s Hamish Bowles Attends a Summer Opera Festival in Glyndebourne, Hamish Bowles, Vogue, June 2017 Nick Hornby, Sculpture in 2017, Kat Kuch, FWORD Magazine, June 2017 In Time, The work of Nick Hornby, Michael Prokopow, Dean of OCAD University, Toronto May 2017 Looking Sharp, The Times, May 2017 Monumental sculptures by artist Nick Hornby at Glyndebourne Festival 2017, artdaily.org Five Sculptures Shows to see this Spring, Frances Hedges, Town & Country, May 2017 Eight exhibitions to see, Will Gore, Spectator Life, May 2017 |
| 2016 | I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper, The Art Newspaper, Jan 2017
I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper, Exhibition Catalogue 'Young Bright Things': ten rising stars showcase their skills at David Gill Gallery, Ali Morris, Wallpaper Magazine, Apr 2016 Larsson & Jennings x Nick Hornby, Film for Larsson & Jennings. Exclusive: Larsson & Jennings x Nick Hornby, So It Goes A Creative Youthquake in London, Fan Zhong, W Magazine Young Bright Things at David Gill Gallery, Fresh approaches to design/art by a hip creative crowd, Kasia Maciejowska, FT |
| 2015 | My Highlights from Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2015, Will Kopelman, artsy.net |
| 2014 | Nick Hornby: Sculpture (1504-2013), Ara H. Merjian, Frieze Magazine issue 162 April 2014 Nick Hornby Interview by Johnathan Openshaw, LiP Magazine |
| 2013 | Nick Hornby: Sculpture (1504-2013), Karen Rosenberg, The New York Times Nick Hornby: Sculpture (1504-2013), Dr Michael Petry, Huffington Post Nick Hornby: Sculpture (1504-2013), Margot Maxwell, Horst und Edeltraut Nick Hornby. Sculpture (1504-2013), Wall Street International Brancusi & Brain Waves: 3-D Printing Goes to the Museum, Stephanie Strasnick. ARTnews A Modern Take on Michelangelo's "David" Through the Eyes of a Drone, Lex Berko, VICE Motherboard This Pointy Remix of Michelangelo’s David in Brooklyn Was Designed to Be Seen by Drones, Benjamin Sutton, Artinfo Two Trees Management Co. announces new public art commission, Brooklyn Daily Eagle Deja Vu, Nick Hornby’s eerily familiar art. Jason Farago, Out Magazine, April Issue Interview: Nick Hornby and Sinta Tantra Activate One Canada Square in London, Ashley McNelis, Whitewall magazine RA Magazine's Pick of the Week: Nick Hornby & Sinta Tantra, One Canada Square Eyecandy, Nick Hornby & Sinta Tantra's Colourful Sculptures, Fan Zhong, W Magazine Monocle Culture Interview: Nick Hornby & Sinta Tantra, Jack Phillips. Broadcast Jan 28th. |
| 2012 | Whose Form Is It Anyway? A New Media Curators Notes on Nick Hornby, Omar Kholeif Brutality and beauty, hunger and hybridity, Brooke Lynn McGowan, Art & Architecture Journal I HEART 3D, Phoebe Crompton, One Stop Arts Uniquely Referential: Nick Hornby, Angelica Pursley, Huffington Post Men at work, Simon Chilvers, The Guardian Nick Hornby, Love Art London,Crane.tv. Video Interview Aggregate (Clare Gasson, Nick Hornby, Connor Linskey), Kathy Battista, The Brooklyn Rail Featuring Nick Hornby, Atelier Mayer, Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue |
| 2011 | Nick Hornby, Ampleforth Journal 2011 Brutality and beauty, hunger and hybridity. Brooke Lynn McGowan, Art & Architecture Journal, Nov 2012 (download pdf) Exhibition: The Return at The House of the Nobleman, London, Brooke McGowan, October 2011 Feature: Nick Hornby, Sculptor, Creative Life, August 2011 A New York hotel[...], Sara Staples, Globe and Mail Jun 24 2011 |
| 2010 | Start in ART, Jack Wakefield, The Spectator, A guide to Luxury and Style Autumn 2010 Cultural Life: Nick Hornby, sculptor, Charlotte Cripps, The Independent Video: Lifo TV, The Hub, Athens Sculpture as Narrative, Simon Todd, Artnet A Drink With: Artist Nick Hornby, Paul Brady, Conde Nast Traveler It's a Brancusi... and a Frink, Tom Cheshire, Wired Magazine, July 2010 Critic's Picks, Kathleen Madden, Artforum.com Nick Hornby, Atom vs Super Subject, Dazed Digital, May 2010 Nick Hornby, Atom vs Super Subject, FAD, May 2010 Notes and Queries on Quotes and Theories, Ossian Ward, 2010 Nick Hornby, Atom vs Super Subject, Paul Carey Kent Artfully Adaptable, The Secret Agent, Financial Times, 30.05.2010 Classic Treasure, Sculpture Promenade 2010, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Harry Mount. The Spectator, May 2010 Who to watch in 2010, Evening Standard, 05.01.10 |
| 2009 | Walking in Our Mind, FAD, August 2009
Walking in Our Mind, SLAMXHYPE, August 2009 Courvoisier The Future 500, The Observer Beyond the pale, Brooke Lynn McGowan Introducing... a new Gormley, Deborah Feldman, ES Magazine, 19.06.09 |
| 2008 | London’s Got Talent, Ossian Ward, Time Out
Best of Britain’s Young Artists in Saatchi Show, Louise Jury, Evening Standard Anticipation, Whitehot Magazine Lick It, Michael Petry, Catalogue Essay: Gatti, London Canal Museum China: Innovation From London, Zhuangshi Playing to the Gallery, Giles Morris, The Guardian Untitled, after Nick Hornby, Brooke Lynn McGowan Joining the Dots, Platform DVD, Live Art Development Agency, London Bridging the Gap, Gaynor aaltonen, University of the Arts London Magazine I Grew Up, Nick Hornby |
| 2007 | Future Reflections, Catalogue MA Statement |
| 2006 | In Touch, Interview with Gary O’Donaghue, BBC Radio 4
More than a Feeling, Peter White, The Times T2 BlindArt, Mark Drinkwater, The Guardian Please Touch the Exhibits, Charlotte Cripps, The Independent Critics Choice, Artic Circle ICA, John L Walters, The Guardian |
| 2005 | Critics Choice, Herbert, Martin. Time Out
Sound-Track, Critics Choice, Independent on Sunday |
| 2019 | Nick Hornby Artist Talk, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Tel Aviv. Part of Outset Bialik Residency in Tel Aviv by Outset Contemporary Art Fund |
| 2018 | The New Luxury, Elephant West, London, UK. Speakers: Emily Steer, Nick Hornby, Hettie Judah, Claudia Mahoney. In Conversation: Stacie McCormick and Nemo Nonnenmacher with Nick Hornby, Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop, London, UK. |
| 2017 | Modern Classicisms, Classical Art and Contemporary Artists in Dialogue, Courtauld / Kings
College London, UK. Speakers Christopher Le Brun, Ruth Allen, Nick Hornby,
Minna Moore Ede and Elizabeth Prettjohn. Tate Britain Presents Queer British Art and Identity, Wilderness Festival, Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire, UK. Speakers: Clare Barlow, Tim Redfern, Nick Hornby & Paris Lees Mimesis, Museums, and Markets, Griffin Gallery, London. Speakers: Luke Caulfield, Gordon Cheung, Nick Hornby, Henry Hudson and Wolfe von Lenkiewicz, Catherine Loewe. |
| 2016 | Guest Jury, Architectural Association: Diploma 1. Lily Jencks & Jessica Reynolds |
| 2015 | Public Sculpture: From Process to Place, Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre. Speakers: Sacha
Craddock, Ellen Mara De Watcher, Rachel Withers & Alys Williams. Judging panel, The Picton Art Prize, University of the Arts London |
| 2014 | Judging panel, The Soho Sculpture Prize, Morgan Lovell
The Truth About Artists, Art14, London, Speakers: Felicity Hogan, Program Officer, New York Foundation for the Arts Learning; Justin Hibbs, Artist; Russell Martin, Artquest Input-->output; the machine logic of labor, Eyebeam, New York. Speakers: Wyatt Niehaus, Artist; Zachary Kaplan, Curator at Rhizome |
| 2010 | Professional Practice, University of the Arts London And there was, Salon Vert, London. Speakers: Ingolv Helland; Nick Hornby (Chair); Steve Rosenthal; Sinta Tantra, Margarita Trushina Interpretation: Theory and Practice, Visual Dialogues & Tate Britain, Norwich Castle Museum The Benefits of Risk Symposia, Tate Britain, London |
| 2009 | RBS Bursary Winner’s Presentations, RBS, London Inside Out, Kettles Yard, Cambridge. Speakers: Charlie Danby, Brooke Lynn McGowan (Chair), Nick Hornby, Nathaniel Rackowe; Douglas White |
| 2008 | Nick Hornby in conversation with Nick Hornby, Clifford Chance, London |
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