Past
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10 Gram Challenge
Thomas Dane Gallery, St James's, SW1Y 6BN, London 21 - 22 Oct 2024 As part of the fundraising efforts to restore its headquarters- Dora House, The Royal Society Sculptors has invited notable artists with longstanding ties with the Society to participate in the 10gram Challenge 2024. Participating artists were asked to create a small scale sculpture from a 10 gram wax block that... Read more -
Vacheron Constantin | Club 1755
1 Jul - 31 Aug 2024 Vacheron Constantin is thrilled to announce its inaugural artist collaboration at Club 1755, featuring “Geometry of Time” by the award-winning British artist Nick Hornby. Hornby’s work explores the intersection of art and horology, where time itself takes shape and form in sculpture that delve into different epochs spanning classicism to... Read more -
Public Commission "Do It All, 2023"
Royal Warwick Square, Kensington, W14 8DX 28 Sep 2023 We are delighted to introduce a new artwork to Royal Warwick Square by sculptor Nick Hornby. Titled “Do It All,” it is formed by the profile of Nefertiti, perhaps the most powerful woman in ancient history, and the silhouette of the nearby Albert Memorial. They reflect two of the notable... Read more -
Public Commission "Here and there, 2023"
The juncture of Canning Passage and Victoria Road W8 5RF 6 Jul 2023 We are delighted to announce Nick Hornby’s new sculptural commission to be unveiled in Canning Passage in 2023. Known for sculptures which reveal their imagery from different perspectives, Hornby’s commission will bring the famous, isolated figure of Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer above the Sea of Fog into the heart of... Read more -
Public Commission: "Power over others is Weakness disguised as Strength, 2023"
Orchard Place, The Broadway, Westminster, SW1H 0BG 22 Jun 2023 Download the essay Essay by Alexander Massouras Power Over Others is Weakness Disguised as Strength, 2023 This sculpture brings together two unexpected images: a man on horseback and a curling line. These images can be seen from two axes perpendicular to one another, and from all other... Read more -
Still and Still Moving
Wynn Fine Art, Palm Beach 24 Mar - 1 Jun 2022 Wynn Fine Art is proud to present the work of acclaimed British sculptor Nick Hornby in dialogue with master works by Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, and Henri Matisse from the Steve Wynn collection. The exhibition, ‘Still and Still Moving’, features seven sculptures by Hornby from the last decade as well... Read more -
Zygotes and Confessions
MOSTYN, Wales 14 Nov 2020 - 18 Apr 2021 Hornby brings high-tech processes to figuration, pulling historical, material forms into the era of screen culture. His works defy conventional distinctions of form and media and exhibit instead what Hornby terms ‘meta-cubism.’ In this pluralistic approach to perception neither image nor form takes centre stage. The sculptures are produced using... Read more -
Twofold
Maypole Boulevard, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9TX 13 Nov 2019 - 31 Oct 2020 Nick Hornby’s largest sculpture to date titled Twofold was commissioned by Harlow Art Trust. It is the 100th piece in Harlow’s public sculpture collection which includes works by Auguste Rodin, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, and Elizabeth Frink, among many others, so is a fitting environment for an artist whose subject... Read more -
MOSTYN Open 21, Wales
13 Jul - 27 Oct 2019 Selected artists: David Birkin, Rudi J.L. Bogaerts, John Bourne, Alexandre Camarao, Javier Chozas, Martyn Cross, Eugenia Cuellar, Jessie Edwards-Thomas, Sarah Entwistle, Expanded Eye, Julia R. Gallego, David Garner, Thomas Goddard, Oona Grimes, Georgia Hayes, Nick Hornby, Sooim Jeong, Nancy Jones, Adam Knight, Piotr Krzymowski, James Lewis, Neil McNally, Irene Montemurro,... Read more -
Parallel Lines: Drawing and Sculpture
The Lightbox, Woking 22 Jun - 25 Aug 2019 This exhibition will explore how artists have used line in both drawing and sculpture. Guest Curator Caroline Worthington (Director, Royal Society of Sculptors) will use twentieth century sculptures from The Ingram Collection placed alongside contemporary drawings from the members of the Royal Society of Sculptors (RSS). The RSS is based... Read more -
Abstract vs Figure 1952 – 2019
Pinsent Masons, London 12 Jan - 22 Feb 2019 Oliver Beer Arthur Fleischmann (1896 - 1990) Nick Hornby Alex Massouras Zuza Mengham Henry Moore (1898 – 1986) Eduardo Paolozzi (1924 – 2005) Pinsent Masons is delighted to announce an exhibition of sculptural work curated by the fourth Artist in Residence, Nick Hornby. The exhibition features work by key Modernist... Read more -
Sculpture: Modern and Contemporary
Beaux Arts, London 5 Dec 2018 - 26 Jan 2019 Particular highlights of the exhibition include works by Nick Hornby (b 1980), a sculptor whose practice is an inquiry into the nature of art history. His sculptures are formed from the intersection of quotations from the art historical cannon. Each piece is a computational calculation which is transcribed intotraditional materials... Read more -
Ornament and Crime
Pinsent Masons, London 31 Oct - 30 Nov 2018 “As Artist in Residence at Pinsent Masons, I have been thinking about criminality in the art world – Artists stealing ideas, copying images. My research brought me to Adolf Loos - a key figure in modern architecture – who in 1908 famously wrote an essay criticising decoration. It was titled... Read more -
Cure3
Bonhams, London 26 - 28 Oct 2018 For 'The Cure Parkinson's Trust', curated by Susie Allen & Laura Culpan, Artwise, in Partnership with Bonhams, supported by Next PLC, with the kind support of Julia and Hans Rausing Our most successful year yet; cure3 raises half a million pounds The Cure Parkinson’s Trust, Artwise and Bonhams are delighted... Read more -
Painting Now 2
Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan 20 Sep - 10 Nov 2018 Riccardo Crespi presents Painting Now 2, a group show that continues the inquiry on contemporary painting, three years after the first episode in the gallery. Starting from the previous exhibition, without claiming to be exhaustive, the show aims to display some of the tendencies of contemporary art through painting, which... Read more -
Year One
Frestonian Gallery, London 21 Jun - 4 Aug 2018 Frestonian Gallery is delighted to present ‘Year One’ - a show featuring works by every artist exhibited at the gallery in its inaugural year. The show encompasses the work of 17 artists - from recent graduates such as Jessie Makinson and Laurence Owen, to established and acclaimed contemporary artists such... Read more -
Une Seconde Vie #1
Garden Museum, London 21 May 2018 - 21 May 2019 If you have visited the Museum in the last few weeks you will have noticed a sculpture in the Christopher Bradley-Hole garden. The sculpture is by British Sculptor Nick Hornby, entitled Une seconde vie #1. Its shape is derived from a Cutout of a leaf by Henri Matisse from 1951.... Read more -
Magic & Method
Frestonian Gallery, London 14 Mar - 21 Apr 2018 The exhibition ‘Magic & Method’ is something of a confluence of three artists’ practices that are intrinsically linked to both the artistic and technological contexts of their time. Artistic enquiry, much like any other vital human endeavour, does not exist in isolation – and in the development of each ‘new’... Read more -
Hornby Tantra | Collaborative Works III
British Land, London 12 Mar - 25 May 2018 Broadgate presents Hornby Tantra Collaborative Works III : Proposals, the third occasion Sculptor Nick Hornby has collaborated with Painter Sinta Tantra. The exhibition will be unfolding over different sites across the spring with a series of bright and bold sculptures made in 2013 and 2014, an exhibition of sketches and... Read more -
Small is Beautiful
Flowers Gallery, London 29 Nov 2017 - 5 Jan 2018 21 Cork Street, London W1S 3LZ 29 November, 2017 – 5 January, 2018 Flowers Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the 36th edition of the annual Small is Beautiful exhibition. On display will be works by more than 100 selected artists, each measuring no more than 7 x... Read more -
Sculpture (1504 - 2017)
Glyndebourne, Lewes 27 Aug 2017 Nick Hornby’s monumental pieces include fragments inspired by historic art, including works by Michelangelo, Rodin, Brancusi, and Matisse. They aim to create meeting points between digital technologies and the legacies of sculpture and are created through complex processes, involving both high-tech production methods and traditional handcrafted techniques. He works in... Read more -
The Curators' Eggs
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York 12 Jul - 18 Aug 2017 Works by Nick Hornby, Cheryl Pope, Matthew Hansel and Pieter Schoolwerth hone in on the rich lexicon of art history, appropriating diverse visual and contextual economies through their own distinct contemporary means. In a similar vein to Hansel, Mark Thomas Gibson adopts iconic cultural visual languages to realize compositions that... Read more -
1st Edition
Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Slough 20 May - 6 Aug 2017 Hornby's sculptures emerge from the convergence of a postmodern historical perspective and cutting-edge digital technology. Using computer software, Hornby combines silhouettes sourced from art history to create three-dimensional works that, as the viewer moves around them, seem to take the shape of different well-known sculptures of the past. Hornby's use... Read more -
I lost my heart to a starship trooper
Griffin Gallery, London 12 Jan - 24 Feb 2017 The exhibition title comes from the 1978 Hot Gossip song of the same name, and also refers to the artist Glenn Brown who used the title for one of his paintings; a meticulous rendition of a Rembrandt. This time collision of mass media, popular culture and venerated Old Masters encapsulates... Read more -
Reverse Engineering
Waterside Contemporary, London 23 Nov 2016 - 31 Jan 2017 Nick Hornby’s Masks point to a fabled meeting of 1907 between Matisse and Picasso in which a collection of African masks inspired the invention of Cubism only weeks later. This story encapsulates the familiar grand narratives of art history: the myth of genius, inspiration, otherness, but also reflects on the... Read more -
Think Pieces
Cass Sculpture Foundation, Sussex 18 Nov 2016 - 10 Feb 2017 This exhibition offers an exceptional insight into the archive of Cass Sculpture Foundation as a selection of maquettes are brought into the main gallery for public display. The maquettes, usually only accessible by appointment, illustrate a key stage in the process of commissioning large-scale sculpture, in which abstract ideas are... Read more -
Young Bright Things
David Gill Gallery, London 20 Apr - 13 May 2016 Digitally carved, then hand-cast in reconstituted marble dust, a console table by British sculptor Nick Hornby (tipped as the ’next Gormley’) has been made by stretching and twisting the famous silhouette of Michelangelo’s David. Read more -
Hornby Tantra | Collaborative Works II
Choi Lager Gallery, Cologne 18 Apr - 31 Jul 2015 Read more -
Slipped Gears
Eyebeam Centre, Bennington College Art Gallery, Vermount USA 16 Sep - 16 Oct 2014 Slipped Gears, a multimedia exhibition featuring the work of nine artists, opens in Bennington's Usdan Gallery on Tuesday, September 16, at 6:30 pm. The show offers challenging responses to a moment of tectonic cultural transition, when technology increasingly resides in and around us. The artists, many of whom have shown... Read more -
Bird God Drone
DUMBO, Brooklyn, New York 23 Oct 2013 - 13 Oct 2014 Read more -
Out of Hand: Materializing the Post-Digital
Museum of Art and Design, New York 13 Oct 2013 - 1 Jun 2014 Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital will explore the many areas of 21st-century creativity made possible by advanced methods of computer-assisted production known as digital fabrication. In today’s postdigital world, artists are using these means to achieve levels of expression never before possible – an explosive, unprecedented scope of artistic... Read more -
Sculpture (1504-2013)
Churner and Churner, New York 9 Sep - 2 Nov 2013 27 August 2013 Exhibition: Nick Hornby Sculpture (1504-2013) Dates: September 19 – November 2, 2013 Opening reception: Thursday, September 19, 6-8pm Churner and Churner is delighted to present the first solo U.S. exhibition of British sculptor Nick Hornby. “Sculpture (1504-2013)” brings together three new works by the artist, each of... Read more -
Hornby Tantra | Collaborative Works I
One Canada Square, London 14 Jan - 15 Mar 2013 In February 2013, Nick Hornby and Sinta Tantra launch a collaborative practise with a site specific exhibition at One Canada Square, Canary Wharf. The first exhibition of 2013 in Canary Wharf’s Sculpture at Work series in the Lobby of One Canada Square shows new collaborative sculptures and installation works by... Read more -
Meditations
Polish Bienalle, The Unknown, Poznan, Poland 14 Sep - 14 Oct 2012 Read more -
Sculptors Drawings
Pangolin, London 7 Sep - 27 Oct 2012 Sculptor's Drawings is a collaboration between the two galleries based here at Kings Place, Pangolin London and Kings Place Gallery in September of this year. The exhibition spans both galleries and the entire public space over three levels at Kings Place. It includes over 200 drawings by both established and... Read more -
This is London
Shizaru, London 25 Jul - 28 Sep 2012 Shizaru Gallery Presents: THIS IS LONDON 25 JULY - 28 SEPTEMBER 2012 As the international community flocks to London for the Olympic Games, Shizaru is delighted to host THIS IS LONDON , an exhibition featuring a cross section of contemporary art from London. Centered on some of London’s eccentric heritage,... Read more -
Aggregate
Churner & Churner, New York 11 Nov - 17 Dec 2011 Aggregate: Nick Hornby, Clare Gasson, Connor Linskey 10 November – 17 December 2011 opening reception: 10 November, 6–8 PM “ Aggregate ” brings together work by three artists who gather and combine components from a multitude of sources to create spatial juxtapositions within their specific mediums. Nick Hornby, Clare Gasson,... Read more -
Lights Are On But Nobody's Home
Standpoint Gallery, London 24 Jun - 23 Jul 2011 Exhibition: 24 June - 23 July 2011 Light's Are On But Nobody's Home celebrates a resurgence of portraiture in contemporary practice, but particularly a current fascination with the obscured, cheating or adulterated visage. Suggestive of the inability to locate a subject, which has both scientific and theoretical bases, the works... Read more -
Volume One: Props, Events and Encounters
The Hub, Athens, Greece 1 Oct - 1 Dec 2010 Volume One - Props, Events and Encounters is an international group exhibition that explores ‘the triumphant return to theatricality’ within contemporary sculptural practices. Fourteen international artists present existing and newly commissioned works within a specially conceived installation. In his seminal 1967 essay ‘Art and Objecthood’, Michael Fried criticized the overt... Read more -
Patrons, Muses and Professionals
Eyebeam, New York 24 Sep - 23 Oct 2010 Patrons, Muses and Professionals 24th Sept - 23rd October 16th 2010. Private View 6-9pm Thursday 23 rd Sept Curated by Joe Winter EYEBEAM 540 W. 21st Street, New York, NY 10011 Eyebeam is pleased to present Patrons, Muses and Professionals, a series of sculptures by London-based artist Nick Hornby installed... Read more -
Atom vs Super Subject
Alexia Goethe Gallery, London 21 May - 9 Jul 2010 Hornby practices sculpture as inquiry, challenging the icon with its own evocative, metonymic fragment: white abstract sculptures, ranging in size from the small bust to the public monument, from the intimate to the historic. For each piece, Hornby coerces unwitting sculptures to cohabit a single space: a portrait from the... Read more -
Walking in Our Mind
Royal Festival Hall / Southbank, London 5 - 25 Aug 2009 WALKING IN OUR MIND A new sculpture by Nick Hornby and six young people from SE1 United WALKING IN OUR MIND 5 – 25 August 2009 A sculpture by young people at SE1 United in collboration with Nick Hornby Level 2 Foyer at Royal Festival Hall Walking in Our Mind... Read more -
The Ghost in the Machine
Tate Britain, London 26 Feb - 26 Apr 2009 Experience new interpretations of art works in the Tate Triennial and Collection displays at Tate Britain, developed by young people aged 16–21, sculptor Nick Hornby and jazz musician and MC Soweto Kinch. Sound and sculpture tell new stories about works of art using the Altermodern to unravel history and reframe... Read more -
Tell Tale Heart
Camley Street Natural Park, London 3 Jul - 14 Sep 2008 “Tell Tale Heart” by Nick Hornby 3 July - 14 September 2008 Camley Street Natural Park - London Camley Street Projects launches its first ever exhibition by commissioning artist Nick Hornby to produce a piece of work for Camley Street Natural Park. The new faster Eurostar connection from St. Pancras... Read more -
Clifford Chance Sculpture Award
Clifford Chance, London 1 Feb - 27 Jul 2008 https://www.artrabbit.com/events/nick-hornby-the-clifford-chance-sculpture-award-2008 https://www.theguardian.com/money/2008/mar/10/2 Read more -
MA Show
Chelsea College of Art, London 19 - 23 Sep 2007 Untitled, after Nick Hornby A review of his MA final exhibition at the Chelsea School of Art 19th - 23rd of September 2007 Brooke Lynn McGowan In ‘Restitutions of the Truth in Pointing’, a text originally conceived for the Musée Louvre, Jacques Derrida queried, ‘Why always say of a painting... Read more -
I am your worst nightmare
Arnolfini, Bristol 16 - 17 Mar 2007 Be thrilled, enthused and slightly disturbed. We issued an open invitation for people to come and present their work on stage. I Am Your Worst Nightmare is the result: a platform event presenting new live art, experimental theatre, durational, installation and film work from brand new and established UK-based artists,... Read more -
Late at Tate
Tate Britain, London 2 - 4 Feb 2007 Read more -
NODE.London
Media Arts London, Slade Woburn Square, London 23 - 25 Mar 2006 Read more
