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)