TOM HALL
Selected CV
EDUCATION and QUALIFICATIONS
2007 PGCE UCCA
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
1996–98 Sculpture MA Royal College of Art, London
1991–94 BA (Hons) Sculpture First Class Wimbledon School of Art
1990–91 Arts Foundation Brighton Polytechnic
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 All Aboard National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, Hampshire
2019/20 The Sometimes Observed Life Of A Disco Gimp 621 Gallery, Tallahassee Florida
‘An ongoing exploration of adoptive fatherhood, its ups and downs and its consequences.’
2019 Stored MOFA, Florida State University
‘A show about curating the storeroom, Guest curator in a project to rehang the galleries whole stored collection.’
2018 Becoming Invisible Munster Williams and Proctor, Utica, NY
‘A performative interaction with the Museum collection drawing personal stories of adoption together with historic photographs of cloaked anonymous women with their children.
Sponsored through the New York State Council on the Arts.’
2018 The Accidental Immigrant Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY
‘An instillation through objects, drawing and film exploration of the immigrant, family and the odd experience of being the outsider in an attempt to gain empathy with a marginalized group. Sponsored through the New York State Council on the Arts.’
2018 Silent Disco Dowd Fine Art Center, SUNY Cortland, NY
‘…about the presentation of power and status, and its failure, representing an escapist ideal that can never deliver.’
2016 It Could Be Paradise But It’s Only California 914Works East Genesee St, Syracuse, NY
‘Tom Hall has taken on the role of frontiersman to immerse himself into a new wild world. He points to the false romantic past propagated by Roosevelt takes a fresh look at the American myth’
2015 The Fall of Disco Mickey Stone Quarry Art Park, Cazenovia, NY
‘A giant mirror-ball Mickey Mouse figure lies half buried and abandoned but still holds his concrete smile. The mirrored surface reflects the ever-changing cultural world around him; a last gasp byproduct of his edifying iconic status at the point of being forgotten.’
2015 In Transit Villa Favard – Florence, Italy
‘The building of In Transit a collaborative work between the designer and fashion thinker Tony Bednall and artist Tom Hall “The jacket, left discarded, a monument to the day to day, dressed up or dressed down, a victim or an agitator; a uniform or symbol of non-conformity. Who is the owner? Why is it here?”
2014 An Awkward Proposition Les Tombées de la Nuit, Rennes International Festival, France
‘This was an exploration of the difficulties of performance. It questioned performative states through political, social and historical indicators either directly or indirectly.’
2013 Midnight artSUOTH, commission, Isle of Wight, UK
‘The project re-imagines the British space program test site in the fifties in the grips of the cold war when the predictive ‘Doomsday Clock’ was set at its closest to midnight.’
2012 Boy Racer Art By The Sea Side – Bournemouth Arts Festival, UK
1998 At the Same Time Paul Smith, Covent Garden, London, UK
1998 Scissorjack/Plane Drawing Room, Wimbledon School of Art, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Awe and Wonder OXO Building, London South Bank Judges Prize Winner
An international competition with two works shortlisted. ‘Into the Dark Woods’ and ‘The Circle’
2023 Drawing in the Shadows spudGALLERY, New Forest
A collaboration with Artist Stephanie James drawing in shadows and exploring the darker corners of rooms, spaces and people.
2022 Into the Dark Woods spudGALLERY, New Forest
The woods have long held a significant place in our history and folk law as sites of caution, the unknown and danger. They have functioned as a transgressive place and housed immoral cultures in cautionary tales, literature, and shadowy corners of the human condition. The artists have reflected on the historic language of waving as an activation point, a once a universal skill now relegated to craft through technology. Currently longlisted for 2023 Chaiya Art Award
2022 Intersecting Circles spudGALLERY, New Forest
‘This exhibition has been born out of a chance studio visit. Conversations started in response to Bob’s circle of ordered pigments and their unintended relationship to the paintings around them. As we stood amongst a series of chanced interlocking circles in Bob’s studio we discussed psychedelics, colours, walking unknown paths, Quantum time, Hamish Fulton, infinitesimal space and mandalas and saw the potential in the circular forms.’ Currently longlisted for 2023 Chaiya Art Award
2021-20 A smoother Pebble An online series of exhibitions and events
‘An arts science collaboration with CERN in France, Switzerland and FSU in USA ‘
2020 ArtFields Awards Lake City, South Carolina USA
2018 Godforsaken The Cosmopolitan Building, Syracuse, NY
2017 Boîte-en-Valise 57th Venice Biennale, Italy
‘Boy On The Beach Selected artists from U.S. and U.K. exhibition in the Venice Biennale based on Duchamp’s idea of work from a suitcase. This work is born out of my feelings of inadequacy to understand the distance one person might chose or be forced to travel in the need to survive.'
2017 Platitudes Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse
‘Selected artists from U.S. and U.K. exhibition in the Venice Biennale based on Duchamp’s idea of work from a suitcase. Platitudes recalls polite political conversations over cocktails. The cocktail cabinet depicts the part of the Turkish coastline where a Syrian boy washed up dead.’
2017 Made In New York Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY
‘First-Prize winner – A selected survey show of contemporary art across New York State.’
2016 Hand Made Apostrophe’s Gallery, 1100 Oak St, Syracuse
‘Hand Made can refer to a connection between the artists in how the work is ‘materially constructed’ but also in their references of where works may have been made.’
2016 Mostly Manly Spark Contemporary Art Space, 1005 E. Fayette St. Syracuse.
2013 Chasing Sputnik Quay Arts, Isle of Wight, UK
‘My activity investigates the old space test site on the Isle of Wight. We are researching a visual language to discuss and engage the public in less glamorous ‘near history’ sites which don’t have the normal lexicon of romantic National Trust reconstruction. Engagement will be through exhibition and publication. Supported through Arts Council Grant for the Arts.’
2011 Lead Artist, Urban Fabric 2 Paradox, Crawford School of Art, Cork, Republic of Ireland.
Neon Bournemouth ‘By The Sea’ arts festival, UK
Beyond The Commission Arts University at Bournemouth in conjunction with ArtSway, UK
2010 I’m the Golden Gun Wayne Hemmingway beach pods, Boscombe, UK
2008-9 Borderlands Text+work, Arts University Bournemouth.
‘Texts from F. Brown – University of the Arts London Wimbledon and L. McKinnon – Solent University, UK’
2007 Meeting Place Russell Coates Museum, Bournemouth, UK
2000 Boiler Trinity Buoy Wharf, London
COMMISSIONS, TALKS and RESIDENCIES
2023 All Aboard commission - National Motor Museum, Beaulieu
2020 VCCA Artists Residency Sculpture Space Residency - Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
2018 Sculpture Space Residency - Sculpture Space, Utica, NY
2018 “I’m an Immigrant” - Artists Talk, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY SUNY Cortland, NY
2018 The Secrets Of Dosco - Dowd Fine Art Center, SUNY Cortland, NY
2017 Talent Agency - Artists Talk, Syracuse, NY
2017 Boîte-en-Valise - ‘Generator’ Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK
‘Artists talk and workshops developing ideas around Boite-en-Valise Venice Biennale projects
2016 Concrete Remains - The Fisher Center, NYC
‘Presenting talk on collaboration as historic research to Public Memory, Conference’
2015 The Fall Of Disco Mickey - Stone Quarry Art Park Residency
2013 Midnight - Commission + competition winner, artSUOTH, commission, Isle of Wight, UK
2012 Boy Racer - Commission, Art By The Sea Side – Bournemouth Arts Festival, UK
2005 Holt Forest Project - Holt Forest, Dorset, UK
2003–04 National Gallery educational artist in residencies London (Funded by Deutsche Bank)
1998 HERD - Marshall Roundabout commission, Eastbourne, UK
AWARDS and PUBLICATIONS
Essay ‘Living in an Immaterial World’ for ‘Mind and Materials’ curated by Michael Roberts at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, March 2023
Awe and Wonder 2023 OXO Building London South Bank - won Judges Prize.
2019-2020 Board member for 621 Gallery, Tallahassee
Artists contributor to The Recipe Book Project, Arts University Bournemouth, due out 2018/19
Made In New York 2017, juried show – 1st prize
Chasing Sputnik (book) by Tom Hall (Nov 2013)
Meeting Place: Contemporary Art and the Museum Collection (Text + Work) by Stephanie James and Les Buckingham (27 Sep 2007)
Research Fellowship Arts University Bournemouth 2012-13
Tom Hall Artist
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