(b. Kent, UK. Lives & works in Margate, UK)
hannah.j.lees@gmail.com
Education & Teaching:
2014-2021 Associate Lecturer, BA Fine Art Painting, Camberwell College of Art, UAL, UK
2016-17 Lecturer/Head of Year, BA Fine Art, The University of Kent, UK
2011 Postgraduate Diploma in Fine
Art, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK
2004-06 BA (Hons) Fine Art, UCA, Canterbury, UK
2003-04 BA (Hons) Fine Art & Visual Culture, UWE,
Bristol, UK
Solo & Two-person Exhibitions, Projects & Events:
2024
(tba) TACO! London, UK
(tba) Cafe CH'TI, Counter Editions, Margate, UK
Anna Ilsey & Hannah Lees, Britten Pears Arts, Suffolk, UK (two-person)
2023
DOOM XMAS, TACO! London, UK
Hannah Lees & Laurence Watchorn Sim Smith gallery, London, UK (two-person)
Not really now not anymore, Roland Ross/174 Hither Green Lane, London, UK
2022
The material substance of their origin May Hands & Hannah Lees, Collective Ending HQ, London, UK
The floor was where it fed, the oven was where it fruited, Well Projects, Margate, UK
[Index] Hannah Lees, Brockley Gardens, London, UK
2021
OOOO: Hannah Lees, Quench gallery, Margate, UK
The last of the doors can be heard closing in the distance Performance at Rectory Projects, London, UK
2020
Eternal (2014-ongoing) Kupfer Project Space, London, UK https://kupfer.co/weekly
End of Summer Show: Jack Lavender & Hannah Lees, A299 Bunker, A299, Kent, UK
Desktop Residency 81: Hannah Lees http://www.desktopresidency.com/
2019
Hannah Lees & Spencer Lewis, ltd los angeles, Sunday Art Fair, London, UK
The screen goes black, Walpole Bay, Margate, UK
Cranes in the sky, La Centrale, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, FR
The screen goes black, Walpole Bay, Margate, UK
Cranes in the sky, La Centrale, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, FR
2018
Nicholas Kirkwood Presents Hannah Lees, Nicholas Kirkwood,
London, UK
The Trees That Yield, Whitstable Biennale,
Kent, UK
Smoke, ReadingRoom, Melbourne, AUS
2017
When branches emerge undivided, Slugtown, Newcastle, UK
Dream Art Fair Miami, Barnie's gallery, London, UK
The Turning Of Existence Into Its Opposite, Kingsgate Project Space,
London, UK
2016
Turner Contemporary & the British Museum Commission:
Hannah Lees,
Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
The Oldest Thing You Can Hold In Your Hand, Workbench, Milan, IT
Floated On Foam [] Flew With Birds, Galerie Tatjana Pieters,
Ghent, BE
All That There Is, Is The Eternal Now, Tenderbooks, London, UK
Let us go then, you and I, Nomadic Vitrine, Grand Union, Birmingham,
UK. Curated by Recent Activity
2015
Hannah Lees: May I Have Ease of Being, Cairn, Fife, UK
Hannah Lees: Ever-New Oldness /|\ Ever-Old Newness, The Sunday Painter,
London, UK
As rust consumes the iron which breeds it, Cell Project Space,
London, UK
2013
Hannah Lees Friday Late:
If I won’t burn, where will the light come from? V22, London, UK
2012
The Fertile Crescent, Rod Barton gallery, London, UK. Curated by Alex Ross
Group Exhibitions, Projects & Events:
2024
The Garden of Delights on Earth, Gallery 46, London, UK
2023
Piccalilli Fundraiser Show, Piccalilli, London, UK
Slugtown Fundraiser Exhibition, Slugtown, Newcastle, UK
The Amber Room at Matt's Gallery, London, UK
To Be Here With You, Southwark Park Galleries, London, UK
2022
All the living friends, TACA, Palma de Mallorca, ES
Once upon a time... Flora Fairbairn & Co. London, UK
I have eaten it, Open Space Contemporary, London, UK
2021
Cruel Intentions, Arusha gallery, London, UK
Turner Contemporary Open, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
EQX 22. 20:20. 21 French Riviera 1988, London, UK
Lizard Point '99 launch curated by Luke Overin, Reference Point, 180 The Strand, London, UK
Hawks in her hair, Alice Black gallery, London, UK
21 Days: Slugtown, Arcade gallery, London, UK & Artsy https://www.artsy.net/
A Land of Incomparable Beauty, Collective Ending, London, UK
A Land of Incomparable Beauty, Collective Ending, London, UK
2019
These are the days my friends, Kupfer Projects, London, UK (curated)
How Small a Thought, Marine Drive, Margate, UK
Odds, TOMA Project Space, Southend-on-Sea, UK
Ghost Camp 3 - Remnants, The Mycological Twist x Chaos Magic, Nottingham, UK
EveryThing Must Go! Assembly Point, London, UK
Ghost Camp III - Robin Hood (Hosted by The Mycological Twist), Chaos Magic, Nottingham, UK
Generation Y, Platform Foundation, London, UK
Dust Sheet Embroidered Snow, Project gallery, Arundel, UK
Fynnon Genfaen, Studio Cybi, Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, UK
"and I'll have a pepper-shaker in my cave so laugh" ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, US
If it's not meant to last, then it's Performance, VITRINE, Basel, Ch
2018
drawings, 650mAh, Hove, Brighton, UK
Pivô 7th Annual Fundraising Auction & Exhibition, Pivô, São Paulo, BR
Hold tight to your silence and wait, ReadingRoom, Melbourne, AUS
Pivô 13th Open Studios, Pivô, São Paulo, BR
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Council, Sydney, AUS
The Annotated Reader, Cork St galleries, London, UK (curated by Ryan Gander & Jonathan P. Watts)
Rhapsodies, PingPong, Brussels, BE
How Small a Thought, Marine Drive, Margate, UK
Odds, TOMA Project Space, Southend-on-Sea, UK
Ghost Camp 3 - Remnants, The Mycological Twist x Chaos Magic, Nottingham, UK
EveryThing Must Go! Assembly Point, London, UK
Ghost Camp III - Robin Hood (Hosted by The Mycological Twist), Chaos Magic, Nottingham, UK
Generation Y, Platform Foundation, London, UK
Dust Sheet Embroidered Snow, Project gallery, Arundel, UK
Fynnon Genfaen, Studio Cybi, Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, UK
"and I'll have a pepper-shaker in my cave so laugh" ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, US
If it's not meant to last, then it's Performance, VITRINE, Basel, Ch
2018
drawings, 650mAh, Hove, Brighton, UK
Pivô 7th Annual Fundraising Auction & Exhibition, Pivô, São Paulo, BR
Hold tight to your silence and wait, ReadingRoom, Melbourne, AUS
Pivô 13th Open Studios, Pivô, São Paulo, BR
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Council, Sydney, AUS
The Annotated Reader, Cork St galleries, London, UK (curated by Ryan Gander & Jonathan P. Watts)
Rhapsodies, PingPong, Brussels, BE
Every Thing, Assembly Point, London, UK
Amaranthine, Kupfer, London, UK
The Kiss or Poison Boyfriend or Jesus' Blood, Kingsgate Project Space,
London, UK
Mantel, Copperfield gallery, London, UK (curated by
Doug Bowen)
Always The Real Thing, White
Crypt Gallery, London, UK
2017
The Sleeping Procession CASS Sculpture
Foundation, Goodwood, UK
The Gloaming, GLOAM Gallery, Sheffield, UK
You see me like a UFO, Marcelle
Joseph Projects, Ascot, Berks, UK
The Hive Mind, The Koppel Project Hive, London, UK
On Cold Spring Lane, Assembly Point, London, UK
INVASIVESPECIES, Newgate Gap, Margate, UK
Companion Planting, The LivingRoom, London, UK
Overview, SAMUEL Gallery, Chicago, IL, US. Curated by Lewis
Teague-Wright.
2016
Like Golden Petals Scattering, Tenderbooks, London, UK
Harvest, Kunstraumlangenlois, Langenlois, AT. Curated by
Peter Foolen
AFA 2.2, 63rd-77th STEPS Offsite, Mama Beach, Marseille, FR. Curated
by Fabio Santacroce
Overlay, White Rainbow, London, UK. Curated by Jeremy Millar
Uep Figures of Speech #4: Allegory, ADDAYA Centre d'Art
Contemporani, Majorca, ES. Curated by Cristina Ramos Gonzalez.
Europa and the Bull, Lambda Lambda Lambda,
Pristina, KS. Curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini
Пикник на обочине (Piknik na
obochine),
Exo Exo, Paris, FR. Curated by Florent Delval
Cuts, Shapes, Scrapes and Breaks, Seventeen gallery,
London, UK. Curated by Rhys Coren & Gabriel Hartley
Safety Deposit Box, Lock Up International, Frankfurt, DE
Uncommon Chemistry, Observer Bld, Hastings, UK
Jumanji, Soft Focus Institute, Ghent, BE
Is this living? The Approach, London, UK
2015
An Englishman's House is His Castle, Global Committee,
Brooklyn, New York, US
Local Object, IKEYAZHANG, Milan, IT
Act III: A Leap of Faith, The Living Room
Projects, St Laurence Church, London, UK
m-Health, Cell Project Space, London, UK
Hold, Sway, Generator Projects, Dundee, UK
Bitches Brew Daughter of Bastard Son of Hot Sauce, NEWD Art Show,
Brooklyn, New York, US curated by Law Office
ADVENTURES IN BRONZE, STONE & CLAY, Arezzo City of Arts Festival, Arezzo,
IT. Curated by Adam Carr.
Business as Usual, (Touring) Set The Controls For
The Heart Of The Sun, Leeds, UK; Turf Projects, Croydon, UK; Pyramid Art
Center, Warrington, UK. Curated by Perce Jerrom
John, The Sunday Painter, London, UK
Spring Exhibition, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
4 REAL DEAR, Open Source, London, UK. Curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini
2014
On the Devolution of Culture, Rob Tufnell, London, UK
Nicodim Collection, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest, RO
I Dunno Shit, Rogue Project Space, Manchester, UK. Curated by Calum Crawford
& Joe Fletcher Orr
Wearing Potentiality, Paradise Row Gallery, London, UK. Curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini
Conversation #5 Andrew Gillespie, Jack Lavender &
Hannah Lees, Weekends, Millington | Marriott, London, UK
Peachy, Salt + Powell, York, UK
Thin Air, SLOPES, Melbourne, AUS
Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, UK
2013
Apartment 4, Rue Jeanne d'Arc, Clermont-Ferrand, FR
The Fresh Air Collection, S P A C E, London, UK.
Curated by Paul Pieroni
Young London, V22, London, UK
The Unpainted Landscape, Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los
Angeles, US
2012
Transfert 2012, La Plate-Forme, Dunkerque, FR
System of Objects, Departure Foundation, London, UK
The Conch Part V, South London Gallery, London, UK
Awards and Residencies:
2023 Elephant Trust Award, UK
2022 Developing Your Creative Practice, Arts Council England, UK
2018 Gasworks’ International Fellowship Programme,
Pivô, São Paulo, BR
British Council UK/ID Exchange Residency, Bakudapan, Yogyakarta,
ID
2016 Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop Micro Residency, Edinburgh, UK
2014 Forest Studio Residency, Stour Valley Arts, Kings Wood, Kent, UK
2013 Artistes en Residence, Clermont Ferrand, FR
2012 Transfert 2012 Residency, La Plate-Forme, Dunkerque, FR
Foundry Residency, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Selected Press:
Talk Art Season 16 Episode 6 Hannah Lees (National Parks X BMW Special Episode) 29/03/23 https://shows.acast.com/talkart/episodes/hannah-lees-national-parks-x-bmw-special-episode
A Land of Incomparable Beauty, Collective Ending HQ, Review by Adam Heardman, Art Monthly Magazine (September 2020) https://www.artmonthly.co.uk/magazine/site/issue/september-2020
Hannah Lees: Cranes in the Sky, La Centralers, (2020) Catalogue available from Naima Editions https://www.naimaunlimited.com/biblio/hannah-lees-cranes-in-the-sky/
From the Archive: Hannah Lees, Art Licks Magazine (2020) http://artlicks.com/events/7557/from-the-archive-hannah-lees
Nicholas Kirkwood collaborates with Hannah Lees, www.fashionunited.uk (13/07/18) https://fashionunited.uk/news/fashion/nicholas-kirkwood-collaborates-with-hannah-lees/2018071330732
Nicholas Kirkwood NK Presents Hannah Lees (2018) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYloPpF9HI0
Hannah Lees at The Workbench International, Milan, Daily Lazy (10/16) http://www.daily-lazy.com/2016/10/hannah-lees-at-workbench-international.html
Turner Contemporary/British Museum commission (2016)
Mahon, Emily. Hannah
Lees Time Out (10/09/15) http://www.timeout.com/london/art/hannah-lees
Sterns, Jamie. 15 Artists to Watch: London Edition ArtNews 19/08/2015 http://www.artnews.com/2015/08/19/15-artists-to-watch-london-edition/
Public & Private Collections:
Fort Road Hotel, Margate, UK; Guesthouse Hotel Group, UK; Morrison Foerster, UK; V22 Collection, UK; AGI Verona, IT; SOHO House Collection, UK; Imago Mundi Collection, IT; Collection of Darryl de Prez & Victoria Thomas, UK; Collection of Russell Tovey, UK; Nicholas Kirkwood, UK; Marcelle Joseph Projects, UK; Atis London, UK; Philipp Zollinger, CH.
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