Oliver Marsden /UK/

Born 1973 in Great Britain
Lives and works in London


education

1984 Wycliffe College, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire
1992 Foundation, Cheltenham College of Art
1994 Erasmus Exchange, École des Beaux Arts Montpellier, France
1995 BA Hons 1st Class Drawing & Painting,
Edinburgh College of Art
1996 ECA Exchange, Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio
1997 MFA Drawing & Painting, Edinburgh College of Art
2007 Science Ltd. UK

selected exhibitions

2008 La Llegada de los Bárbaros, Galeria Hilario Galguera,
Leipzig
2008 Chromatique, FAS, London (solo)
2008 Charis, Galerie Mourlot, New York (solo)
2007 Visual Harmonics, FAS, London (solo)
2007 Index: Esperando a los Bárbaros
2007 Galeria Hilario Galguera, Col. San Rafael, Mexico
2007 Multiple Occupancy, Meantime, Cheltenham, UK
2007 Unfinished Symphony, FAS, London
2007 Monochromed II: White Out, FAS, London
2007 Darbyshires Prize, Stroud Museum, UK
2007 Five by Severn, The Wool Barn, Frampton-on-Severn, UK
2007 Some Vacant Accommodation, Stroud Valley Art Space, UK
2005 Sequence, The Blue Gallery, London (solo)
2003 Re:action, The Blue Gallery, London (solo)
2002 New Works, The Hub, Edinburgh (solo)
2001 Suffuson, The Blue Gallery, London (solo)
2000 Code 000, The Blue Gallery, London (solo)
1999 Amorphean, The Letham Gallery, Auckland (solo)
1998 Amorpheus, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York (solo)
1998 Amorpheus, Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh (solo)
1998 Liquemorph, The Blue Gallery, London (solo)
1997 Liquiform, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York (solo)

awards

2000 Princes Trust Award
1998 Hope Scott Trust, Development Award
1998 Scottish Arts Council, Development Award
1996 Andrew Grant Scholarship, Edinburgh College of Art
1996 William Gillies Travel Scholarship, Royal Scottish Academy
1995 Arthur Andersen Prize, Best Young Artist, ‘
Royal Glasgow Institute
1995 George Jackson Hutchieson Award, ECA

works in collections

Murderme, Damien Hirst, UK
Kresge Art Museum, Michigan, USA
David Roberts Collection, UK
St. James Group, London

selected literature

2008 Chromatique, FAS London, foreword: Matthew Collings
2008 Charis, Galerie Mourlot New York, essay: Colin Glen
2007 Visual Harmonics, FAS London, foreword: Damien Hirst,
essay: Colin Glen
2001 Seemingly scientific: Oliver Marsden’s abstract paintings,
Martin Kemp, Nature, Vol. 414, November
2001 Alternative Realities, Blue Gallery London, essay: Roy Exley
2000 Oliver Marsden: ‘psychedelic minimalist’, Time Out London, #1568
1999 Surreal circles, TJ McNamara, Weekend Herald NZ, 7 November
1999 Oliver Marsden: Amorpheus, April Kingsley, dART International,
Vol 2., #1, Winter
1998 Short List, The New Yorker, 16 November
1998 Amorpheus, Claire Prentice, The List, Scotland, July
1996 Inside, outside, above and below, Coagula Art Journal,
NYLB review, December