Peres Projects

George ROUY (b. 1994 in Sittingbourne, UK)

• Lives and works in London, UK

Education

2015

• BFA, Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK

2012

• Diploma in Art and Design, UCA Rochester, Rochester, UK

Current Group Exhibition

• Real Corporeal, curated by Ben Broome, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022

• Gagged, Outpost Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
• Shit Mirror, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE

2020

• Clot, Hannah Barry Gallery, London, UK
• Rupture, Vortic London Collective, London, UK
• Maelstrom, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE
• Mask, Mine Projects, Hong Kong, HK

2019

• Cut Down A Tree To Build A Wooden Horse, To Ride You May Get Splinters, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, DK

2018

• Smothered Awake, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, US
• Leaking Visions of Red, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York City, US
• Squeeze Hard Enough It Might Just Pop!, Hannah Barry Gallery, London, UK

2017

• In Dirty Water, J Hammond Projects, London, UK

2016

• Cost of the Sun, Dot Project, London, UK

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022

• Pounding the Pavement, curated by Hector Campbell, Galeria Pelaires, part of Nit de l’Art, Palma, ES
• A Thing for the Mind, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
• Corpo e Mente, curated by Lawrence van Hagen, Palazzo Barbaro, Venice, IT
• SPRING, Peres Projects, Seoul, KR

2021

• Rested, Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York, US
• Les Citoyens. Guillermo Kuitca on the collection of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Triennale Milano, Milan, IT
• Reconfigured, curated by Rose Easton, Timothy Taylor Gallery, New York, US
• Salon de Peinture, Almine Rech Gallery, New York, US

2020

• Collection as Poem in the Age of Ephemerality - Works from X Museum Collection, curated by Poppy Dongxue Wu, X Museum, Beijing, CN
• No Man is an Island, Almine Rech Gallery, London
• Crowd, Hannah Barry Gallery, London, UK

2019

• Metamorphosis. Art in Europe Now, Fondation Cartier, Paris, FR
• Adrian, George, Peter, Sofia e Tamina, P420, Bologna, IT

2019

• Metamorphosis. Art in Europe Now, Fondation Cartier, Paris, FR
• Adrian, George, Peter, Sofia e Tamina, P420, Bologna, IT

2018

• Metamorphõseõn, Galerie Sultana, Paris, FR
• Rhapsodies, PingPong, Brussels, BE
• EXTRA, The Hole, New York City, US
• New Bad Painting, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
• The Clean Carcass of the Host (with Paloma Proudfoot), Galerie Sultana and sans titre (2016) for CONDO, Curatorial Initiative Marso, Mexico City, MX
• Form, Cob Gallery, London, UK

2017

• The Unlimited Dream Company, Hannah Barry Gallery, London, UK

2015

• Camberwell Degree Show, Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK

2014

• GOLD, Oxford Street Space, London, UK
• 2nd Year Show, Southwark Gallery, London, UK

2013

• PA, Elephant and Castle, London, UK

2012

• Parallel Intervention, Tate Modern, London, UK
• In To The Garden, Bishop of Rochester’s Garden, London, UK
• UCA, Chatham Dockyard, London, UK

Collections

• X Museum, Beijing
• Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris

Selected Publications

2021

• Kuitca, Guillermo, Les Citoyens: Uno sguardo di Guillermo Kuitca sulla collezione della Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris: Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, 2021

2019

• Elg, Jesper, Cut down a tree to build a wooden house, to ride you may get splinters, Copenhagen : V1 Gallery, 2019

2018

• Mills, Charlie, George Rouy: Squeeze Hard Enough it Might Just Pop!, London: Hannah Barry Gallery, 2018

Selected Bibliography

2022

• Nielsen, Roxanne, “I want it to be confrontational”: George Rouy on the homogenisation of art and leaving London, Hunger Magazine, August 30, 2022
• Conroy, Violet, Four Contemporary Artists on the Unsparing Legacy of Philip Guston, Another, July 8, 2022
• Zahm, Olivier, Interview with George Rouy, Purple Magazine, The Future Issue #37, Spring-Summer 2022
• Karg , Alexandra, Chaos has reigned lately: George Rouy’s “Shit Mirror” at Peres Projects (Neuerdings regiert das Chaos George Rouy mit “Shit Mirror” bei Peres Projects), Gallery Talk, April 4, 2022
• Body Worship, Metal Magazine, March 25, 2022
• Naufal, Sophie, Gaze into the Shit Mirror: George Rouy on Chaos, the Unconscious and Defacing Figures, Sleek Magazine, March 24, 2022

2021

• Hay, Holly, Reconfiguring the figure in contemporary art, Wallpaper*, May 11, 2021
• Lützow, Gunnar, Schillernde Untiefen (Shimmering Shallows), art Magazin, February 2021

2020

• George Rouy, émergent magazine, Issue 6, Fall Winter 2020
• Wolfe, Shira, George Rouy, ‘Maelstrom’ at Peres Projects, Artland, Februay 2020

2019

• Kane, Ashleigh, Harley Weir & George Rouyon the intimate details of their art collab, Dazed, October 30, 2019
• Strunck, Clara, The YBA class of 2019, Evening Standard, September 26, 2019
• O’Regan, Kathryn, George Rouy’s darkly sensual nudes are making painting cool again, Sleek Magazine, #61, April 2019

2018

• Kissick, Dean, George Rouy on his hazy nude paintings, British GQ Magazine, December 15, 2018
• Mizota, Sharon, Review: Impossibly twisted and intertwined bodies fill the paintings of George Rouy, Los Angeles Times, November 9, 2018
• Monro, Lara, The Seductive, Exstatic Bodies of Artist-to-Watch George Rouy, AnOther, October 26, 2018
• Cisi, Lorenzo, Raw Materials: George Rouy, NOWNESS, September 19, 2018
• Stansfield, Ted, Dazed 100: George Rouy, Dazed Digital, June 2018
• Murray Brown, Griselda, Paint the moment: why millennials are turning to oil and canvas, Financial Times, April 20, 2018

2017

• Marsh, Antonia, In Dirty Water is an Orgy of Erotic Form by Emerging Painter George Rouy, i-D, September 22, 2017
• Angelos, Ayla, George Rouy’s figures are inspired by “gormless faces” and “erotic fighters”, It’s Nice That, July 3, 2017