Chris Thompson
Chris Thompson (b, 1991, Teesside) is an artist and curator working in sculpture and Installation.
Chris is interested in making art that appropriates, reconfigures and antagonises a diverse cast of materials, objects and references to build speculative, anthropological enquiries into cultural memory and the contradictions embedded within contemporary existence.
He makes exhibitions through re-contextualization, classic modes of production and through the construction of fiction in which audiences circulate. His work typically takes the form of immersive sculptural installations with a site and contextual responsivity. Humour, audience interactivity and spectacle are recurring methods of exploring subjects.
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b. 1991 Teesside, UK
Lives and works in London, UK
Education
2010 - 2013 Camberwell College
2012 Purchase College, State University of New York
2019 - 2023 Goldsmiths University of London
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Kitbash, Xxijra Hii, London, UK
2023
The Vessel, St Chads, London, UK
2022
Old Bones, BBNR Gallery, London, UK
2020
Instrument, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London, UK
2019
‘👀’, Brockley Gardens, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
GBA Winners Show, Dora House, London, Touring to Art House Wakefield, Yorkshire
2024
North East Emerging Artists Award Show, Seaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland, UK
Dumping Ground, Regents Place, London, UK (upcoming)
Middlesbrough Art week, The Auxillary, Middlesbrough, UK (upcoming)
2023
Winter Sculpture Park 2023, Bexley, London, UK
Goldsmiths MFA Degee show, London, UK
Stable, BBNR Gallery, London, UK
2022
London Micro Sculpture Fair Goldsmiths, London, UK
Present Tense Goldsmiths, London, UK
Cosmoses Xxijra Hii, London, UK
Dinosaur Coast Eston Art Centre, North-East, UK
2021
The Sompsons CHEAP CHEAP Gallery, Birmingham, UK
FUNHOUSE Chris’ Studio, London, UK
2019
Mostyn Open 21, MOSTYN, Wales, UK
Creekside Open 2019, Selected by Brian Griffiths APT Gallery, London, UK
Creekside Open 2019,Selected by Sacha Craddock APT Gallery, London, UK
2018
Pleasure Garden, 21b Wykham Road, London, UK
Fatal Attraction, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London, UK
Group Show 41/42, Woolwich, London, UK
2017
Barbican Arts Group Trust Open 2017, London, UK, Selected by Florence Peake and Tai Shani
Changelings, The Flying Dutchman, London, UK
2016
Show Home, Safehouse 1, London, UK
Talks
2022
In conversation with Brian Griffiths, BBNR Gallery part of ‘Old Bones’
Prizes
2024
Gilbert Bayes Sculpture Award 2024
North East Emerging Artists Award 2024, Shortlisted Artist
2023
Wardens Prize, Goldsmiths College
South London Gallery Postgraduate Residency, Shortlisted Artist
2022
Developing Your Creative Practice Grant, Arts Council England
2021
Oppenheim John-Downes Memorial Trust
2020
Gilbert Bayes Trust Scholarship
Freelands Foundation Artists Support Grant
2019
Prize Winner, Creekside Open, selected by Brian Griffiths
2017
Recipient, Eaton Fund Grant, Shortlisted, Jerwood Visual Arts Bursary
2016
Longlisted, Marmite Prize for Painting
Publications
2023
Flints Catalogue, Feature
2021
Young Artists in Conversation, Interview by David McLeavy
Floorrr Magazine Issue 26, Interview by Rochelle Roberts
Flints Catalogue, Feature
2018
Ghost Scraps by Studio Novel