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 Exhibitions
- Reconfigured, curated by Rose Easton, Timothy Taylor Gallery, New York, US
- Salon de Peinture, Almine Rech Gallery, New York, US
- Les Citoyens. Guillermo Kuitca on the collection of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Triennale Milano, Milan, IT
Selected Solo Exhibitions
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
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
Selected Publications
2019
- Elg, Jesper, Cut down a tree to build a wooden house, to ride you may get splinters, Copenhagen : V1 Gallery, 2019
Selected Bibliography
2021
- Lützow, Gunnar, Schillernde Untiefen (Shimmering Shallows), art Magazin, February 2021
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
