Francis Upritchard

Francis Upritchard is an artist whose work draws from figurative sculpture, craft traditions and design, with references from literature and history. She lives and works in the United Kingdom, Italy, and New Zealand. She represented New Zealand at the 53rd Venice Biennale, and has made exhibitions at museums and institutions worldwide.

Lives and works in London, United Kingdom. Born in New Plymouth, New Zealand, 1976.

Solo Exhibitions

2024

Kunsthal Charlottenborg, ‘Any Noise Annoys An Oyster’, Copenhagen, Denmark

2023

Fine Arts, Sydney, ‘Sydney Scallop’, Australia

2022

Kunsthaus Pasquart, ‘A Loose Hold’, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
Ivan Anthony, ‘Paper, Creature, Stone’, Auckland, New Zealand
Kate MacGarry, ‘Surf ‘n’ Turf’, London, United Kingdom
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, ‘Paper, Creature, Stone’, Christchurch, New Zealand

2021

Anton Kern Gallery, ‘Wetwang Slack’, New York, United States

2020

Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, ‘Big Fish Eat Little Fish’, Sint Marterns-Latem, Belgium

2019

Ivan Anothony, ‘Centaurs and Sea Creatures’, Auckland, New Zealand

2018

The Curve, ‘Wetwang Slack’, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom

2017

Dunedin Public Art Gallery, ‘Jealous Saboteurs’, Dunedin, New Zealand
Christchurch Art Gallery, ‘Jealous Saboteurs’, Christchurch, New Zealand

2016

City Gallery Wellington, ‘Jealous Saboteurs’, Wellington New Zealand
Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘Francis Upritchard: Dark Resters’, Auckland, New Zealand
Monash University Museum of Art, ‘Jealous Saboteurs’, Melbourne, Australia
Anton Kern Gallery, ‘Francis Upritchard and Martino Gamper’, New York, United States

2014

The Hammer Museum, ‘Francis Upritchard’, Los Angeles, United States
Whitechapel Gallery, ‘Whitechapel Gallery Children’s Art Commission: Francis Upritchard’, London, United Kingdom

2013

The Douglas Hyde Gallery, ‘Mandrake’, Dublin, Ireland
Anton Kern Gallery, ‘War Dance’, New York, United States
Marugame Genichiro Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Potato Poem’, Kagawa, Japan
Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘Francis Upritchard’, Auckland, New Zeland

2012

Nottingham Contemporary, ‘A Hand of Cards’, Nottingham, United Kingdom

2010

Secession, 'In die Höhle', Vienna, Austria
Open Space, Art Cologne, Germany

2011

Kate MacGarry, ‘Francis Upritchard’, London, United Kingdom
Amersfoort Kunsthal, ‘Echo’, Amersfoort, Netherlands

2009

53rd Venice Biennale, ‘Save Yourself’, New Zealand Pavillion, Venice, Italy

2008

Artspace Sydney and Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, ‘Rainwob II’, Melbourne, Australia
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, ‘Rainwob I’, New Plymouth, New Zealand

2007

Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘Bogagnome’, Auckland, New Zealand

2006

Kate MacGarry, ‘Francis Upritchard’, London, United Kingdom

2005

Andrea Rosen Gallery, ‘Francis Upritchard’, New York, United States
New York, ‘Solo project for Salon 94’, United States
The Bakery, ‘Francis Upritchard’, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Artspace, ‘Doomed, Doomed, All Doomed’, Auckland, New Zealand

2004

Camden Arts Centre, ‘Artist in Residence’, London, United Kingdom

2003

Kate MacGarry, ‘Francis Upritchard’, London, United Kingdom
Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘New Work’, Auckland, New Zealand, United Kingdom

2001

Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘Ich Dien’, Auckland, New Zealand
Rear View, ‘Boxing Arms’, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand, United Kingdom

2000

warehouse space, ‘Prince Charles’, London, United Kingdom

Group Exhibitions

2024

Fine Arts, Sydney, ‘Francis Upritchard, Hany Armanious, Fiona Connor, Ricky Swallow’, Sydney, Australia
macLYON, ‘Friends in Love and War — L’Éloge des meilleur·es ennemi·es’, Lyon, France

2023

Villa Carmignac, ‘The Inner Island’, Porquerolles Island, Hyères, France

2022

Kate MacGarry at No. 9 Cork Street, ‘TWENTY’, London, United Kingdom
John Hansard Gallery, ‘Human Conditions of Clay’, Southampton, United Kingdom

2021

Arch Athens, ‘Lives of an Object’, Athens, Greece
Chapter Gallery, ‘Human Conditions of Clay’, Wales, United Kingdom
Anton Kern Gallery, ‘Tales of Manhattan’, New York, United States
Anton Kern Gallery, ‘The Shoo Sho’, curated by Julie Curtiss, WINDOW, New York, United States
Bemis Centre, ‘I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality’, Omaha, United States

2018

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, ‘Objects Like Us’, Ridgefield, United States

2017

Kate MacGarry, ‘Fifteen’, London, United Kingdom
57th Venice Biennale, ‘Viva Arte Viva’, Venice, Italy
Jessica Silverman Gallery, ‘Marching to the Beat’, San Francisco, United States
Turner Contemporary, ’Entangled: Threads & Making’, curated by Karen Wright, Margate, United Kingdom
Kate MacGarry, ‘Things that Soak you, London, United Kingdom

2016

Camden Arts Centre, ‘Making & Unmaking’, curated by Duro Olowu, London, United Kingdom
Galerie Art Concept, ‘Ulla von Brandenburg’, Haris Epaminonda & Francis Upritchard, Paris, France

2015

Saatchi Gallery, ‘Dead’, London, United Kingdom
Barbican Centre, ‘STATION TO STATION: A 30 Day Happening’, London, United Kingdom

2014

Kate MacGarry, ‘HOUSE PARTY’ with Dzek, London, United Kingdom
Limoncello, ‘Selected by...’, curated by Michael Mariott and Jesse Wine, London, United Kingdom

2013

Nottingham Contemporary, ‘The Upritchard Family Collection’, Small collections, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Auckland City Gallery, ‘Freedom Farmers’, Auckland, New Zealand
Freud Museum, ‘Mad Bad and Sad, Woman and the Mind Doctors’, London, United Kingdom
Visual: Center for Contemporary Art, ‘Beasts of England, Beasts of Ireland’, Carlow, Ireland
Treignac Projet, ‘O Chair O Flesh’, Treignac, France
Christchurch City Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, ‘Stereoscope’, Christchurch, New Zealand

2012

New York High Line, ‘Lilliput’, New York, United States
Cherry and Martin, ‘Bush of Ghosts: Nathan Mabry, Djordie Ozbolt and Francis Upritchard’, Los Angeles, United States
Castillo/Corrales, ‘Everybody knows this is nowhere?’, Paris, France
Frankfurter Kunstverein, ‘Contact’, Frankfurt, Germany
Institute of Modern Art, ‘Day Dream Believers’, Melbourne, Australia
Dowse Museum, ‘Gesumptkunsthandwerk’, with Martino Gamper and Karl Fritsch, Wellington, New Zealand

2011

Galerie Wentrup, ‘Une légende en cache una autre/One caption hides another’, Bétonsalon, Paris, France
H x W x D, Berlin, Germany
Hayward Gallery, ‘The Royal Family’, London, United Kingdom
Adam Art Gallery, ‘Behind Closed Doors’, Wellington, New Zealand
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, ‘Stealing The Senses’, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, ‘New Zealand at the Venice Biennale 2009’, Wellington, New Zealand

2010

Camden Arts Centre, ‘Simon Starling: Never The Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts)’, London, United Kingdom
Galerie Kamm, ‘Out of Joint’, Berlin, Germany
Upstairs at 9 Bruton Place, ‘House of Voltaire’, London, United Kingdom
235 Brompton Road ‘Bart Wells Boutique’ (co-organised with Luke Gottelier), London, United Kingdom
AMP, ‘Ashes to Ashes’, Athens, Greece

2009

Kate MacGarry, ‘Feierabend’ (with Martino Gamper and Karl Fritsch) London, United Kingdom
Galerie Jean Fournier, FIAC, Paris, France

2008

Artnews Projects Berlin, ‘Free Radicals’, Berlin, Germany
Tanja Pol Galerie, ‘Life is a Funny Old Dog’, Munich, Germany
Eastnor Castle, ‘The Big Chill Festival’, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Artprojx Space, ‘Dadadandy Boutique’, London, United Kingdom
Pump House Gallery, ‘The Institute of Psychoplasmics’, London, United Kingdom
Barbican Art Gallery, ‘Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art’, London, United Kingdom
TarraWarra Museum of Art, ‘TarraWarra Biennial 2008: Lost & Found’, An Archelogy of the Present, Tarrawarra, Australia

2007

Salon 94 Freemans, ‘The Crown Jewels’, New York, United States
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, ‘Of Deities and Mortals’, Christchurch, New Zealand
176 -Zabludovicz Collection, ‘An Archaeology’, London, United Kingdom
Christchurch Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu and City Gallery Wellington ‘Reboot, The Jim and Mary Barr Collection’, New Zealand
Travelling Gallery, ‘Re/ Trato’, Scotland, United Kingdom
Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, ‘Metrosideros Robusta’, Pforzheim, Germany
Overbeckgesellschaft Lübeck, ‘Tiere II’, Lübeck, Germany
Modern Art, ‘Effigies’, London, United Kingdom

2006

Kunstmuseum Bern, ‘Six Feet Under – Autopsy of Our Relation to the Dead’, Bern, Switzerland
Museum Van Loon, ‘Le Nouveau Siécle’, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Auckland Art Gallery, ‘The Walters Prize 2006’, Auckland, New Zealand
South London Gallery, ‘Around The World In Eighty Days’, London, United Kingdom
University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, ‘Pasifika Styles – Artists inside the museum’, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Zaçheta National Gallery of Art, ‘HIGH TIDE: new currents in art from Australia and New Zealand,’ Warsaw, Poland

2005

The Essl Collection, ‘Hot Spots 05’, Vienna, Austria
Galerie Kosak Hall, ‘Brutal Ornamental’, Vienna, Austria
Luitpold Lounge, ‘Schmuck, with Karl Fritsch’, Munich, Germany
Camden Arts Centre, The Way We Work Now’, London, United Kingdom

2004

Tate Liverpool, ‘The Secret History of Clay’, Liverpool, United Kingdom
‘The Death of Romance’, London, United Kingdom
Artspace, ‘Ika and thanks for all the Ika’, Auckland, New Zealand
Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘Albino, (with Rohan Whellans)’, Auckland, New Zealand
Hamish McKay Gallery, ‘The Bart Wells Institute of London’, New Zealand
Saatchi Gallery, ‘New Blood’, London, United Kingdom
Wellington City Art Gallery & Adam Art Gallery, ‘Prospect’, Wellington, New Zealand

2003

ICA London, Southampton City Art Gallery, & CCA Glasgow, ‘Beck’s Futures’, United Kingdom
Artspace, ‘Curiosity Kills the Gab’, Auckland, United Kingdom
The London Institute, ‘Peter Blake Sculpture’, London, United Kingdom
Laing Gallery, ‘Lost Collection’, Newcastle, United Kingdom
Gasworks, ‘Picture Room curated by Goshka Macuga’, London, United Kingdom
Karen Lovegrove Gallery, ‘Rollout’, curated by Ricky Swallow, Los Angeles, United States
Kapinos Gallery, ‘Bart Wells Institute’, Berlin, Germany

2002

Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, ‘+64’, Berlin, Germany
Bart Wells Institute, ‘Another Shitty Day in Paradise’, London, United Kingdom
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, ‘Break’, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Neon Gallery, ‘The Only Way Forward’, London, United Kingdom

2001

Bart Wells Institute, ‘The Bart Wells Gang’, London, United Kingdom
Shop Tactics Gallery, ‘Enough Or Too Much’, London, United Kingdom

2000

Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘Outcome of Probability: Francis Upritchard and Saskia Leek‘, Auckland, New Zealand

1999

Stripp Gallery, ‘Hobby Core’, curated by Ricky Swallow, Melbourne, Australia

1998

Ivan Anthony Gallery, ‘Group show’, Auckland, New Zealand

1997

George Fraser Gallery, ‘Bland’, Auckland, New Zealand
Deans’ House; Historic Trust, ‘An Attic and Two Rooms,, Christchurch, New Zealand
Fiat Lux Gallery, ‘Accidents, Hungry Eyes Series’, Auckland, New Zealand

Awards

The Walters Prize, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand (2006)

Residencies

Artspace, Sydney, Australia (2008)
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand (2007-2008)
Camden Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom (2004)
Belem Contemporary Art Flux, Belem, Brazil (2004)

Education

Ilam School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand (1997)