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Locke was born in Edinburgh, UK, in 1959; lived from 1966 to 1980 in Georgetown, Guyana; and is currently based in London. He obtained a B.A. Fine Art in Falmouth (1988) and an M.A. Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London (1994). In 2000 he won both a Paul Hamlyn Award and an East International
Award. In 2022 he was elected a member of The Royal Academy of Arts, and was made an OBE in 2023. In 2024 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Edinburgh University.
His work is represented in many collections including those of the The Government Art Collection, The Pérez Art Museum Miami, The Tate Gallery, The Arts Council of England, The National Trust, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, 21c, The New Art Gallery Walsall, The Victoria & Albert Museum, The Imperial War Museum, The British Museum and The
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.
Online
Resources
| Links to films about individual artworks are to be found on their specific pages |
Click here to see Locke with Prof Tim Barringer, keynote of London, Asia, Art, Worlds conference, Paul Mellon Centre for British Art, 2021 (1.04.00, conversation starts at 0.18.00)
Click here to hear BBC Radio 4 panel discussion Race and the Public Space, 2020 (42.00) |
| Click here to hear What to do about Problematic Statues? and Hew Locke on Dancing Scene in the West Indies by Agostino Brunias, The Art Newspaper, 2020 (from 40 minutes) |
| Click here to see Locke in conversation with Prof Hammad Nasar, Ikon Gallery, 2019 (59.35) |
| Click here to see Locke talk about his practice, film by Studio International, 2019 (38.18) |
| Click here to see Locke talk about his practice and influences, film by DACS/Artimage, 2013 (15.38) |
| Click here to hear Locke talk about Charles Stanhope 3rd Earl of Harrington by Joshua Reynolds, Yale Centre of British Art, 2014 (20.09) |
| Click here to see Locke in conversation with Kobena Mercer, University of Miami, 2012 (1.27.25) |
| Click here to see Locke in conversation with Marcus Verhagen, Tate Britain, 2009 (1.18.17) |
| Click here to visit Hew Locke entry on Wikipedia |
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Monographs
Hew Locke : what have we here?
Texts by Hew Locke, Isabel Seligman and Indra Khanna. Published 2024 by the British Museum Press. ISBN 97807 14123509.
Hew Locke : Here's the Thing
Texts by Richard Drayton, Jonathan Watkins and Diana Tuite. Published 2019 by Ikon Gallery, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Colby College Museum of Art. ISBN 978-1-911155-21-8
Stranger in Paradise
Texts by Kobena Mercer, Indra Khanna and Jens Hoffman. Published 2011 by Black Dog Publications in association with the Arts University College at Bournemouth and ArtSway. ISBN 978-190731 7385
Hew Locke - How do you want me?
Text by the artist. Published 2009 by Editions Janninck. Limited Edition of 285 numbered copies includes an individual work of art by Hew Locke ISBN 978-2-916067-40-7. Unlimited edition, without work of art, ISBN 978-2-916067-41-4
Hew Locke
With texts by Kris Kuramitsu and a conversation between the artist and Prof. Sarat
Maharaj. Published 2005 by The
New Art Gallery, Walsall. ISBN 0 946652 77 5 |
Selected Solo Exhibitions and Presentations
| 2022 |
Gilt, Metropolitan Museum of Art Facade Commission, New York, USA |
| 2022 |
The Procession, Tate Britain Duveen Hall Commission, London, UK |
| 2019 |
Hew Locke; Here's the Thing, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Kemper Museum in Kansas City & Colby College Museum in Maine. |
| 2015 |
The Tourists, HMS Belfast, London |
| 2014 |
Give and Take, performance in the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London. Part of Up Hill Down Hall |
| 2011 |
For Those in Peril on the Sea, St. Mary & St. Eanswythe church, Folkestone Triennial |
| 2008 |
The Kingdom of the Blind, Rivington Place, London |
| 2006 |
Restoration, St Thomas the Martyr's
Church, Bristol |
| 2005 |
Hew Locke, The
New Art Gallery, Walsall |
| 2004 |
King Creole, installation on facade of Tate Britain & at BBC New Media Village, London |
| 2004 |
House of Cards Luckman Gallery, California State Uni & Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, USA |
| 2002 |
The Cardboard Palace, Chisenhale Gallery, London |
| 2000 |
Hemmed In Two, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2019 |
The Sea is History, Museum of Cultural History, Oslo, Norway |
| 2016-17 |
Artist and Empire, Tate Britain, touring to National Gallery Singapore |
| 2016 |
XIII Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador |
| 2016 |
Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, China |
| 2014-15 |
Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Fort Kochi, Kerala, India |
| 2014-15 |
Prospect.3: Notes for Now, Biennial, New Orleans |
| 2010-11 |
Global Caribbean, Little Haiti Cultural Center, Miami, USA; MIAM, Sète, France & Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Puerto Rico |
| 2010 |
Sikandar shortlisted maquette for the Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London |
| 2009 |
2nd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Greece |
| 2009 |
South South: Interruptions and Encounters, Justina M Barnicke Gallery, Toronto, Canada |
| 2008 |
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Arts and Design, New York |
| 2008 |
Guangzhou Triennial, China |
| 2007-08 |
Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art, Brooklyn Museum, USA |
| 2007 |
Encuentro Entre dos Mares- Bienal São Paulo,
Valencia Biennale, Spain |
| 2006-07 |
Alien Nation, ICA, London;
City Art Gallery, Manchester & Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art, Norwich |
| 2005-06 |
British Art Show 6, BALTIC Gateshead; Manchester
City Art Gallery; Nottingham Castle Museum & Bristol |
| 2005 |
Barrocos y Neobarrocos, Salamance, Spain |
| 2004-05 |
Hew Locke and Diana Cooper, The Drawing Room, London; Chapter Art Centre, Cardiff & The City Gallery, Leicester |
Selected Press
| 2022 |
New York Times, Bright Colors, Dark Subjects: Hew Locke's Unsettling Pageant
The Guardian, The Procession review
The Telegraph, The Procession review
The Observer, The Procession review
The Evening Standard, The Procession preview |
| 2022 |
Art Papers, A World Before the World We Know - Interview with Hew Locke |
| 2019 |
The Guardian, Here's the Thing review |
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Frieze, 30/5/19, Here's the Thing review |
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The Financial Times, 30/3/19, Here's the Thing review |
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The Art Newspaper, Here's the Thing preview |
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The Times, Here's the Thing review |
| 2018 |
Brooklyn Rail, Patriots review |
| 2018 |
Artnet, Patriots preview |
| 2017 |
The Art Newspaper, October issue - opinion piece responding to memorials of slave owners. |
| 2014 |
ARTnews, April issue - feature and interview |
| 2012 |
Beautiful/Decay, book 8 - feature and interview |
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ARC magazine , issue 5 - feature Momento Mori |
| 2011 |
Small Axe, March issue - cover and lead essay Hew Locke's Postcolonial Baroque |
| 2010 |
Art Forum, December issue - review of The Nameless |
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Don't Panic - profile and discussion of The Nameless and Sikandar |
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Kunstforum, February issue - cover and interview |
| 2008 |
Art World, April/May issue - How Do You Want Me? feature |
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The Evening Standard - Kingdom of the Blind review |
| 2007 |
Art News, October issue - profile |
| 2006 |
Sculpture Journal, volume 15.2 - Natives and Colonials feature and interview |
| 2005 |
Art
Papers, March/April issue - House of Cards review |
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Contemporary, issue 73 - profile |
| 2004 |
Los
Angeles Times p E19, 11/6/04, House of Cards review |
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Art Forum On-line Critic's Choice - House of Cards review |
| 2002 |
Art Forum Online Critic’s Picks - The Cardboard Palace review |
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Art
Monthly, June issue - The Cardboard Palace review |
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contemporary,
June July August issue - The Cardboard Palace review |
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Frieze,
issue 70 - The Cardboard Palace review |
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