Tom Ellis
Unworkability starts at 5, 2011, oil on board, 60,5 x 46 cm
Unworkability starts at 6, 2011, oil on board, 50,5 x 40,7 cm
Elton Juan. 2011, oil on canvas, 76 x 50,5 cm
Feeler Thinker Burner No.1, 2011, oil on board, 31 x 24 cm
Feeler Thinker Burner No.2, 2011, oil on board, 29,2 x 21 cm
Feeler Thinker Burner No.3, 2011, oil on board, 32,3 x 21,9 cm
Laughing Man No.1, 2012, oil and marker on board, 24,1 x 17,1 cm
Laughing Man No.2, 2012, oil and marken on board, 14 x 10 cm
Sebastian de Morra, 2011, oil on board, 60,5 x 46 cm
Calabacillas, 2011, oil on board, 60,5 x 46 cm
El Primo, 2011, oil on board, 60,5 x 46 cm
Rachtwurst 10 (The Smokers), 2009, oil and marker pen on canvas, 40,5 x 30,5 cm
Rachtwurst 11 (Father and Son), 2009, oil and marker pen on canvas, 40,5 x 30,5 cm
The Lazy Puppies No.1, 2012, oil and marker on board, 14,1 x 10 cm
The Lazy Puppies No.2, 2012, oil on canvas, 50,6 x 40,5 cm
Dark Orphan, 2010, oil on board, 24 x 16,9 cm
Rearticulated Head, 2011, oil on board, 24,1 x 17,1 cm
Study on a woman's head, 2013, oil and marker on board, 16,6 x 10 cm
Flower Arrangement No. 3, 2013, oil and marker on board, 32,1 x 24,3 cm
Born 1973, in London, UK
Lives and works in London, UK
Education
1992-95 Wimbledon School of Art
Solo Exhibitions (selected)
2016
"The Middle", The Wallace Collection, London
2013
"Works Like People", Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
2012
"Tom Ellis", MOT International, London
"Tom Ellis", Bloomberg Space, London
2011
"Tom Ellis", MOT International, London
2010
"The Vacuum", Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
2009
"Get Me a Show In China", Space, London
2008
"Wszystko/ Everything", Czarna Gallery, Warsaw
"Some Things I Do For Money, Some Things I do For Free", Projector, Rotterdam
2007
"Der Landshafter", K3, Zurich
"Klever Strasse", MOT International, London
"
Sweet F.A.", Freight and Volume, New York
2006
"Virtual Fireworks", The Pirate Castle, London
2005
"Photographies", Kontainer, Los Angeles
"Inversion", Platform, London
2004
"Unsupported Images", T1+2 Artspace, London
2003
"Dead Hotel", Percy Miller Gallery, London
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2013
"Grand Magasin - A project with Nat Breitenstein", French Riviera, London
"RIFF", Baltic 39, Newcastle
"Group Show", Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
"Tierstücke - der Sammlung (Animal Parts) from the SOR Rusche Collection Oelde/Berlin", Museum Abtei Liesborn, Wadersloh, Germany
2012
"Eros and Thanatos", Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig
2011
"Multiple Takes", 68 Square Metres Art Space, Copenhagen
"Greg Wilken Torbjorn Vejvi Lynton Talbot Cauleen Smith SEACA (Southeast Asian Community Alliance) Mark Roeder Andrea Robbins and Max Becher D'Ette Nogle Dylan Marcus Brian Mann Tory Lowitz Fred Lonidier Amy Laughlin Lisa Lapinski William Jones Daniel Ingroff Katie Herzog Kevin Hanley Aaron GM Erik Frydenborg Rachel Foullon Travis Farmen Tom Ellis Lucy Dod Michele Di Menna Jesse Benson Will Benedict Merwin Belin", Las Cienegas Projects, Culver City, LA, designed by Jesse Benson and Brian Mann.
2010
"Newspeak: British Art Now", The Saatchi Gallery, London.
2009
"We Came Here To Get Laid, Not to Critique Dutch Culture", with Richard Parry and Clunie Reid, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam
2007
"Aggression", Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur
"
Propaganda Machine", (Local Operations), Serpentine Gallery, London
"Intelligent Muscle", The Café Gallery, London
2006
"Mixed Pickles", K3 Project Space, Zurich
"Mining", WestGermany, Berlin
2005
"Virtual Fireworks", Port Eliot Literary Festival, Cornwall
"Intelligent Design", Cumberland Wharf Gardens, London LORE, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow
"As If By Proxy", Redux, London
2004
"Minimal As Maximal", Kontainer, Los Angeles
"Totem", MOT, London
"Freedom Fries", Cumberland Wharf Gardens, London
"Sculpture Garden", Nr. Old Street Roundabout (Flaca), London
"Dead Hotel", Kontainer, Los Angeles
2003
"Side Track", Percy Miller Gallery, London
"East Wing Collection No.6 - Urban Networks", The Courtauld Institute, London
"Ergo Thus", Martinez Gallery, New York
"GEORG BASELITZ OR MIKE KELLEY", Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London
2002
"Chockerfuckingblocked", Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London
"In Your Time", Percy Miller Gallery, London
2001
"Mail Art", Institute for International Visual Arts (inIVA), London
Bibliography
2012
Doubal, R. Tom Elis at Bloomberg, Time Out, April
Patricia Ellis, Painting, correctly, Bloomberg essay,
2011
Sue Hubbard, London Calling, Artillery Magazine, January - February
Martin Coomer, Tom Ellis, Time Out, January
2008
London Focus, Flash Art, Vol. XLI, p. 91, October
Von Almuth Spiegler, Die osterreichische Kunst in der Krise, Die Presse, April
Oliver Kielmayer, ‘Aggression’ catalogue, Kunstalle Winterthur, p. 35-40,
2007
Lucia A. Cavegn, Agression in der Kunsthalle Winterthur, Kunstbulletin, December
Lucia A. Cavegn, Zwischen Rebellion und Obsession, Regioartline, November
Von Caspar Scharer, Wotsch Puff, Man, Zuritipp, October
Rebecca Geldard, Tom Ellis, Klever Strasse Saatchi Gallery Magazine, July
Conrad Ventur, Flop Art, Useless, No. 5,
Richard Dyer, News, Contemporary Magazine, no 76
2003
Roy Exley, Tom Ellis: Dead Hotel, a-n Magazine
Sotiris Kyriacou, Tom Ellis: Dead Hotel, Contemporary Magazine
Pamela Self, Dead Hotel, ARQ (Architectural Research Quarterly), vol 7 no 2
Kit Hammonds, Dead Hotel, Tema Celeste, Nov/Dec
Jen Ogilvie, Tom Ellis, Time Out London, Sep 24 -1 Oct
Ian Stewart, Tom Ellis, The Guardian Guide, Aug 30-Sep 5
Len Horsey, Georg Baselitz or Mike Kelley, a-n Magazine,
2002
Morgan Falconer, In Your Time, What’s On, August
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Group Show
Lina Bertucci, Christina Dimitriadis, Eirene Efstathiou, Tom Ellis, Helmut Middendorf, Eftihis Patsourakis, Lila Polenaki, Les Rogers
December 14 2013 - February 15 2014![]()
