Grant Foster

b.1982, Worthing, UK

Currently lives and works in London

 

EDUCATION, 

MA Painting, Royal College of Art, 2012

BA Fine Art Painting, University of Brighton, 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2024 TBC, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter (upcoming)

2022 Open To You, Art Lacuna, London

2019 I’m Not Being Funny, Lychee One, London

2018 Grant Foster, Trade Gallery, Nottingham

2017 Ground, Figure, Sky, Tintype, London

2016 Popular Insignia, Galleria Acappella, Naples 

2015 Salad Days, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York

2014 Holy Island, Chandelier Projects, London

2009 Mute and Impotent Before the Boot, Post Box Gallery, London

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2023 ...freshly as if my eye was still growing, APT Gallery, London

2022

Gutug, Asylum Studios, Suffolk 

I can’t go on, I’ll go on, Safehouse One, London 

2021

Scared Back Into Y(our) Body, w/Jamie Fitzpatrick, ASC Gallery, London

Your Foot in My Face and other tectonic strategies, Kingsgate Gallery, London  

2020

When You Waked Up the Buffalo, Mihai Nicodim, Los Angeles 

Picture Palace, Transition Gallery, London

2019

Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter

1d For Abroad, Tintype Gallery, London

The Book of Dreams, Chapel on The Green, Wales

2018 Frivolous Convulsions, Turf Projects, London  

2016 Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome 

2014 The Threadneedle Prize, Curated by Sacha Craddock, Mall Galleries, London

2014 Rx for Viewing, w/Jesse Wine, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York

2013 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Spike Island, Bristol and ICA, London

2009 Royal Academy Summer Show, London

2008-09 John Moores 25, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

 

AWARDS, RESIDENCIES AND TEACHING 

2020-23 Turps Banana offsite mentor 

2021-22 Turps Banana Studio Programme onsite mentor 

2019 The International Randall Chair, Alfred University, NY

2016 Fellowship of Contemporary Art, British School at Rome

2010 Leverhulme Bursary

2008 John Moores 25 Prizewinner

 

PUBLICATIONS 

2018 (Difficult) Women, Garagleand Magazine, Issue 22

2017 Ground, Figure, Sky. Edition of 100 available through Tintype Gallery, London. Designed by Studio Eger 

2016 The Drawer, Issue 10 “Heroes”

2014 Neru Phuyt, Issue 1

2014 Holy Island, text written by Lorena Munoz Alonso

2013 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 

2009 Mute and Impotent Before the Boot, catalogue publication written by Sacha Craddock

2007 John Moores 25, catalogue publication