Holly Hendry
Born in 1990
Lives and works in London, England
Education
2014–2016 MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London, England
2009–2013 BA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, London, England
2008–2009 Farnham Foundation in Art and Design, University of the Creative Arts, Canterbury, England
Solo Exhibitions and Commissions
2024
Watermarks, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, USA
Sottobosco, When Forms Come Alive, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, England (commission)
2023
Slackwater, The Artist’s Garden, Temple, London, England, commissioned by theCoLAB (commission)
Lip Sync, STEAMhouse, Belmont Works building, Birmingham, England, commissioned by Eastside Projects in partnership with Birmingham City University (permanent commission)
Muscle memory, Nike, On Air Studio, London, England
2022
Sump, Esch2022, European Capital of Culture, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg (commission)
Fatty Acids, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2021
Indifferent Deep, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, England
2020
Busy Bodies, 30 Old Burlington Street, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2019
The Dump is Full of Images, Weston Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, England
Cenotaph, The Tetley, Leeds, England, commissioned by Liverpool Biennial and Liverpool BID Company 2018, shown as part of the Liverpool Biennial touring programme (commission)
2018
GUM SOULS, Frutta, Rome, Italy
Cenotaph, Exchange Flags, Liverpool, England, commissioned by Liverpool Biennial and Liverpool BID Company (commission)
Phyllis, Selfridges Duke Street, London, England, commissioned by Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, England and Selfridges, London, England (commission)
2017
For a Skeleton to Hang Soft Tissue On, Arratia Beer, Berlin, Germany
The Box, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, England
Wrot, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
Holly Hendry, Victoria Gallery & Museum, Liverpool, part of the Liverpool Biennial 2018, Liverpool, England
2016
BACKWASH, Rice + Toye, London, England
2015
More and More, More is More, Bosse & Baum, London, England
Plastered, Secret Garden Party, Abbots Ripton, England (commission)
2014
VISITS, The Oval, Hackney, London, England
Hollow Bodies, Gallery North, Newcastle, England
Group Exhibitions and Projects (selected)
2024
Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles, Hayward Gallery Touring, Mead Gallery, Warwick, England (touring)
Works on Paper, Quench Gallery, Margate, England
Echoes, ripples, buzz’d whisper, Stephen Friedman Gallery, New York, USA
Baltic Open Submission 2024, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
2023
FLIP, Galerie Jahn und Jahn, Munich, Germany
The Place I Am, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Everything Broken Down, Solid Haus, Melton, Suffolk, England
2022
Subversive tenderness, FRAC Centre-Val de Loire, Orléans, France
Pigeon Park 2, Manor House Warehouse, London, England
Disrupting the Canon, The Arts Club, London, England
Testament, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London, England
2021
Beano: The Art of Breaking Rules, Somerset House, London, England
Female Objectivity: A Perspective of the Marval Collection, Castello di Villanterio, Pavia, Lombardy, Italy
Breaking the Mould, Sculpture by Women since 1945, Arts Council Touring Exhibition, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, England; The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, England; The Levinsky Gallery, The Arts Institute, University of Plymouth, England; Djanogly Gallery, Lakeside Arts, University of Nottingham, England; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, England (touring)
Las Palmas: Apofenia, Culturgest, Porto, Portugal (touring)
2020
Las Palmas: Apofenia, Fidelidade Arte, Lisbon, Portugal (touring)
25 Years, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (catalogue)
If You See Me, Weep, Åplus, Berlin, Germany
2019
Deep Soil Thrombosis, Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
Fault Lines, Freelands Foundation, London, England
Playful Aggressions, Greengrassi, London, England
Hyper Mesh, Assembly Point, London, England
2018
Homeostasis II, Experience #14: L’Esprit Souterrain, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France
December Mostra, British School at Rome, Italy
Mind the Gap, Rohkunstbau, Schloss Lieberose, Germany
Scar/ Face, Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
New Relics, Thames Side Studios, London, England
High Noon, Arratia Beer, Berlin, Germany
BERLÍNSKÝ MODEL, Hunt Kastner, Prague, Czechia, a collaboration with Arratia Beer, Berlin, Germany
I Had The Landscape In My Arms, Josh Lilley Gallery, London, England
40 40 40, Soho House 40 Greek Street, London, England
2017
Ho Ho Ho, Frutta, Rome, Italy
Nothing You Have To Understand, Galerie Mikeal Andersen, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Ned Art Collection, The Ned, London, England
Lightness, White Rainbow, London, England
EXTRACT VI, GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016
Short Term Storage, Holly Hendry and Kate Owens, Limoncello pop-up exhibition at Cork Street, London, England
Identify Your Limitations, Acknowledge the Periphery, VITRINE, London, England
Gettin’ the Heart Ready, The Royal Standard, Liverpool, England
Show 2016: The Royal College of Art Graduate Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London, England
Fruits of the Lum, Tžužjj, CBS Gallery, Liverpool, England
A Bad Policeman is Always Busy, Gallery North, Newcastle, England
2015
Tru Luv, Turf Projects, Croydon, England
2014
PUTTPUTT#2, Turf Projects, Croydon, England
Homeostasis, March Project, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Vernissage, The Royal Standard, Liverpool, England
Domming, Lewisham Art House, London, England
Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Art Prize, Gallery North, Northumbria, England
Awards and Residencies
2019 Arts Foundation Award in Experimental Architecture, Arts Foundation, Brighton, England
2018 Rome Fellowship in Contemporary Art, British School at Rome, Rome, Italy
2018 PEER Forum, Camden Arts Centre, London, England
2016 Kenneth Armitage Young Sculptor Prize, Kenneth Armitage Foundation, London, England
2015–2016 Student Bursary, Royal College of Art, London, England
2015 Gilbert Bayes Charitable Trust Grant
2014 March Project, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2013–2014 Woon Tai Jee Fellowship, BALTIC 39, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
2013 Woon Foundation Prize for Painting and Sculpture, BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
2013 The Julia Wood Prize for excellent use of space, Slade School of Art, London, England
2007 The People’s Prize, Guildford House Gallery, Guildford, Surrey; The Arc Caterham, Caterham, England; The Lighthouse, Woking, England
Publications
2024
Great Women Sculptors, Phaidon, London, England
2022
Prime - Art’s Next Generation, Phaidon, London, England
2020
25 Years, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Public Collections
Arts Council Collection, UK
British Council Collection, UK
FRAC Grand Large, Dunkirk, France
Government Art Collection, UK