Working in painting and installation Nadia Hebson appropriates from a diversity of seemingly unrelated sources from Early Flemish portraiture to Czech Cubist furniture. Her low tone paintings and environments discount clear narrative readings suggesting instead an underlying psychological intent.
Solo Exhibitions
2011 From Flemish Portraiture to Czech Cubist Furniture, Volta, New York
2009 September, DLI Gallery, Durham Cathedral Artist in Residence
2007 Lusqvarna, Landguard Fort, off site project supported by Arts Council England, English Heritage and Landguard Trust
2007 Bergholzli, Vane, Newcastle
2005 Grand Mal, Transition, London
2003 Goria, Transition, London
2003 Phantasmagoria, Chapter, Cardiff
2001 Perfect Lux, Cassian De Vere Cole, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 400 Women, Shoreditch Town Hall, London
2010 Art Blitz, Transition, London
2010 Trajector, Error One, Brussels
2010 MTR, Sophie Macpherson, Alex Frost, Jim Skuldt, Paul Becker, AIR Antwerpen, Antwerp
2009 Disciples of Cranach, Utrophia, London
2009 Sing Sisters Sweetly, DLI Gallery, Durham joint project with Lindsay Wright
2009 Rotate, Contemporary Arts Society, London
2009 A room inside them, Vane, Newcastle
2008 Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Jerwood Space, London
2008 The Director's Apartment, British School at Rome, Rome
2008 Awapbapadoowap , Transition, London
2008 Zwei Raum Wohnung, Husemann, Berlin
2008 Sovereign Art Prize Exhibition, Somerset House, London
2008 The Painting Room, Transition, London
2007 Salon Nouveau, Englholm Engelhorn, Vienna
2007 The Whiteness of the Whale: Anna-Karin Jansson, Reece Jones, and Nadia Hebson, Transition, London, N Hebson curatorial project
2007 Mutineer: 10 British Painters, Kunsthaus Mengerzeile, Berlin
2007 Revolver, PZ Gallery, Cornwall
2006 The Portrait, Ashwin Street Gallery, V22, London
2006 Fable:Nadia Hebson, Zoe Mendelson, Joel Tomlin, Chapter, Cardiff
2005 Acid Drops and Sugar Candy, Fosterart and Transition, London
2005 Gothic Love - Glove, Lange Gasse, Augsburg, Germany
2005 Able Seaman, Durling Ward, London
2004 Painting and Lying, Archive project with Annabel Dover funded by Arts Council
2004 Snow, curated by Stella Vine and Alex Morrison, Transition, London
2003 ....Sympathy, Keith Talent Gallery, London and G39, Cardiff
2003 Sense and Sensibility, Artists take on Art History, Transition, London
Residencies, Fellowships and Scholarships
2010 Air Antwerpen, Artist in Residence
2008-09 Durham Cathedral Artist in Residence
2008 Derek Hill Foundation Scholar, The British School at Rome
2004-05 Lecturing Residency, L’École Des Beaux Arts Toulouse
2001 - 2 Painting Research Fellow, University of Wales Institute Cardiff
Awards and Research Grants
2009 Arts Council England Individual Award for Publication Nadia Hebson Paintings
2008-9 Winner Sovereign European Art Prize, selected by Philly Adams, Tim Marlow, Jarvis Cocker,
Alan Yentob, Sir Peter Blake, Rachel Campbell Johnson
2008 Arts Council England Individual Award
2008 Nominated by Humphrey Ocean RA for The Arts Foundation Fellowship Programme
2007 Arts Council England Individual Award
2006 Arts Council England Individual Award
2004 Duveen Woman Artist Award
2004 Casson Drawing Prize
2003 Arts Council Joint Project Award
2003 BOC Emerging Artist Award selected by Mathew Collings and Peter Blake RA
2002 Arts Council Of Wales Award
2008 Cardiff 2008 Project Award
2000 Andre De Segonzac Travel Award, Royal Academy
1999 British Institute Drawing Prize
1999 Vincent Harris Award, Royal Academy
1996 Arte Viva Painting Prize, Italy
1996 Cohn and Wolfe Painting Prize, selected by Andrew Graham Dixon
Reviews, critical texts and publications
2010 Newsnight Review, BBC 2, 26th November, 400 Women Project
2010 Womens Hour, BBC Radio 4, 15th Novemer, 400 Women Project
2009 Nadia Hebson Paintings, University of Sunderland, DLI Museum, St Chads College, Durham University,Arts Council England, Durham Cathedral, ISBN 978-1-906832-03-2
2009 The Day Before you came, Anthony Shapland, Garageland, The Nostalgia Issue,
2009 The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Standpoint Magazine (ONLINE), July Issue, Michael Prodger
2008 Review, The Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Charles Darwent,The Independent, 20th April
2008 Fine Arts Catalogue 2007-2008, The British School at Rome, ISBN 978-0-9041 904152-52-4
2007 Letting The Ghosts In: Nadia Hebson, Peter Suchin
2001 Lusqvarna, Artists Book, text by Duncan Ward
2007 Garageland, Painting and Translating , University of The Arts, London
2007 Bergholzli, Artists Book, Vane
2007 Fable, Exhibition Catalogue, Angela Kingston and Gordon Dalton, Chapter Publications, ISBN:1 900029 227
2007 Total Spec Magazine, N Hebson interviewed by Alex Michon
2006 Garageland, La Grande Mort, article by N Hebson on Moby Dick
2006 Home for Lost Ideas, Dan Rees and Catherine Griffiths, Published by Archive Books, Berlin
2005 New Fabulism Lecture, Tom Jorgensen, Kunstformildung Magazine,Denmark
2005 Arty, Interview, Alex Michon
2003 Time Out, Review, Goria, Rebecca Gerald,
2003 Time Out, Review, … Sympathy, Sally O’Reilly,
2003 The Spectator, Review, Sense and Sensibility, Mark Glazebrook,
2003 Phantasmagoria, Annabel Dover, Chapter Publications
Films:
1995 Career Girls, Mike Leigh
BA Fine Art Stages 1,2,3,4
MFA