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Born 1984, Leeds, UKLives and works in London, UK
EDUCATION
MA Fine Art, Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London, 2010 - 2011
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Cardiff School of Art and Design, University of Wales Institute in Cardiff, 2004 – 2007
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Leeds College of Art and Design, 2003 – 2004
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022-23 Illuminated from Within, Grundy Art Gallery Forecourt, Blackpool, UK
2022 Capturing Light, Foundry Gallery, London, UK
2021 Connection Points, The Art Station, Saxmundham, UK
2019 LUX, The Eye Sees, Arles, France
2019 Spectra Waves, North Gallery at University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
2018 Kaleidoscope, Broadgate, London, UK
2018 Cross Sections, Glass Cloud Gallery at Camden People’s Theatre, London, UK
2018 Shadow Play, Chapter Gallery Art in the Bar, Cardiff, UK
2017 Light Shifts, The Tin part of the Coventry Biennial Programme, Coventry, UK
2017 Fractured Visions, St Marys in the Castle, Hastings, UK
2017 The Movements, Adhoc, Bochum, Germany
2016 Rendered Invisible, The Art House, Wakefield, UK
2015 Tempered Deflections, Footfall Art, London, UK
2014 Fields of Light, Barbican Arts Trust, London, UK
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
2023 Sun-Kissed, Wembley Park Arts Trail; commissioned by Acrylicize and Wembley Park
2022 Radiant Auras, SUMMER, Lyon, France; commissioned by The Eye Sees More
2022 Triangulations, Guy’s Hospital Teenage and Young Adults Cancer Ward, London, UK; commissioned by Guy’s and St Thomas’ Arts NHS Foundation Trust
2022 Ripple Effect, St Charles Centre for Health and Well-Being, London UK; commissioned by Nightingale Projects with Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
2021-22 Pedestrian Crossing, Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery, London, UK
2021 Waves of Light, St Charles Hospital, London, UK; commissioned by Nightingale Projects with Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
2021 Kaleidoscopic Prisms, Canary Wharf Group PLC, London, UK
2021 Meeting Points, The Ridings Centre, Wakefield, UK; commissioned by Art Walk Wakefield
2020 Art Deco Paradise, High Street Windows; initiative commissioned by Kensington and Chelsea Council, Kensington High Street, London, UK
2020 London Style, Haru Showrooms, London, UK
2020 Shatterproof, Kensington and Chelsea Art Week, London, UK
2019 A Glimpse of the East, Watts Gallery Artists’ Village, Guildford, UK
2019 Encased Light, ITV Creates - Week 16, aired nationally on ITV Channel, UK
2019 Heal’s Tottenham Court Road as part of the ‘Designs that stick’ campaign, London, UK
2018 Twister for Haru Showroom, London, UK
2017 Natural Triangulations for Walthamstow Wetlands Visitor Centre, London, UK
2016 Count the Hours for Prison Drawing Project, Scarborough, UK
2015 Sunrise Shuffle for Jealous Gallery Rooftop Mural Project, London, UK
2014 Parallax for Beacons Festival, West Yorkshire, UK
2013 Illumination III for Leeds Town Hall, Leeds, UK; commissioned by Leeds Light Night
2012 A Field of Light for Deptford Rail Station, London, UK; commissioned by Deptford X Fringe Festival
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Equilibrium: Spring Arts Trail, Arena Square, Wembley Park, London, UK
2023 SIDE STEP, SET Gallery, London, UK
2023 Inside a Rainbow: Annual Schools Exhibition, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK (lead artist / curator)
2023 Cure3 Exhibition curated by Artwise Curators, Bonhams, London, UK
2022-23 An Exhibition of Small Things with Big Ideas, White Conduit Projects, London, UK
2022-23 Front Page, Long Sharp Gallery, Indianapolis, USA
2022 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, The Fireworks Factory, London, UK
2022 40 Years of South Square, South Square Gallery, Thornton, UK
2022 AORA VI: Light, AORA Gallery, online
2022 Rough or Smooth, Coles Gallery, Leeds, UK
2021 Close to Home, JGM Gallery, London, UK
2021 Cloud Nine, Grey Space Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2021 Recreational Grounds: Off-site, Thames-side Gallery, London, UK
2021 Drawing Biennial, Cromwell Place, London, UK
2021 Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London, UK
2021 The Waiting Place, The Art Station, Saxmundham, UK
2020 MERRY-GO-ROUND, JGM Gallery, London, UK
2020 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (Online Edition), UK
2020 Cure3 Exhibition curated by Artwise Curators, Bonhams, London, UK
2020 Abstract Colour, JGM Gallery, London, UK
2020 MK Calling, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
2020 London Art Fair, Eagle Gallery, London, UK
2019 Creekside Open, APT Gallery, London, UK selected by Brian Griffiths
2019 One of One, 163 Gallery, London, UK curated by After Projects
2019 Drawing Biennial 2019, Drawing Room, London, UK
2019 London Art Fair, Flowers Gallery Stand, London, UK
2018 Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London, UK
2018 Matérias Primas, PADA Gallery, Barriero, Lisbon, Portugal
2018 Defining Structure, Cello Factory, London, UK
2018 Dialogues: Fiona Grady, Tess Jaray, Bridget Riley and Carol Robertson, Flowers Gallery, London, UK
2018 Dentons Art Prize, Dentons, London, UK
2018 Shapes: Fiona Grady + Stephen Jaques, Cannon Place, London, UK curated by ArtMoorHouse
2018 Light in Plenty, Shadow in Plenty: Yukako Shibata + Fiona Grady, White Conduit Projects, London, UK
2018 Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti, Griffin Gallery Perimeter Space, London, UK
2018 The Pink Panther Show, Gallery 46, London, UK curated by Dateagleart and Evangeline Ling
2018 Expanding Systems, APT Gallery, London, UK
2017 Notes on Painting, Koppel Projects, London, UK
2017 A Many Sided Thing, Wimbledon Space, UK
2017 Mono, Flowers Gallery, London, UK
2017 Colour, Order, System, Sid Motion Gallery, London, UK
2017 Inside the Shadow, Art House1, London, UK
2017 Shaping the Void II, Tannery Arts Project Space, London, UK
2017 A5 x n, dalla Rosa Gallery, London, UK
2016 Exchange Rates - a Sluice Project hosted by Arte 3 (USA) / Saturation Point (UK), New York, USA
2016 Shaping the Void, Bankley Gallery, Manchester, UK
2016 STEAM: Ahead, South Square Gallery, Thornton, UK
2016 The Overview Effect, Lewisham Art House, London, UK
2016 Youth Uncovered, Gerald Moore Gallery, London, UK
2016 Prison Drawing Project, Scarborough Old Town Prison, Scarborough, UK
2015 Beyond Repetition, Bowery Gallery, Leeds, UK
2015 Schichtwechsel, APT Gallery, London, UK
2015 The Imaginary Museum: Monuments and Landmarks, Leeds City Museum and Leeds University, Leeds - selected by Louise Atkinson
2015 Spatial Centres, Projektraum, Am Flutgraben, Berlin, Germany
2014 Again, From Here, Harts Lane Studio, London, UK
2014 A Restless Geometry, Union 105 Gallery at East Street Arts, Leeds, UK - curated by The International 3
2014 Geometric Sequences, HUSK Gallery, London, UK
2014 neo:print prize 2014, neo:gallery 22, Bolton, UK – selected by Gordon Cheung, David Cleaton-Roberts, Professor Paul Coldwell and Eileen Cooper RA
2014 A5, Lubomirov-Easton, Platform Projects, Art Athina Art Fair, Athens, Greece – selected by Iavor Lubomirov and Bella Easton
2013 Leeds Light Night, Leeds Town Hall, Leeds, UK
2013 APT Open Studios collaborative project, APT Gallery and Studios, London, UK
2013 Bainbridge Open, Embassy Tea Gallery, London, UK – selected by Francis Tinsley RE and Oona Grimes
2013 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, ArtLacuna, London, UK
2013 Synesthesia, Darnley Gallery, London, UK – selected by Gabrielle Cooper, Leap Into the Void Arts
2012 Deptford X, Deptford Rail Station, London, UK – curated by Matthew Cooper
2011 Postgraduate Printmaking in London 2011, Clifford Chance Gallery, London, UK – selected by Nigel Frank and Jane Hindley
2011 Print & Design Now!, SW1 Gallery and BEARSPACE, London, UK – selected by Julia Alvarez, Owen Ward and Mary-Alice Stack
2011 MA Degree Show, Wimbledon School of Art - University of the Arts, London, UK
2011 Students, Patients, Paupers, St Philips (London School of Economics), London, UK
2011 Fly Tipping, The Centre for Drawing, London, UK – curated by Raf Zawistowski
2011 Unexpected/Unexplored, Acquire Arts, London, UK
2011 Futura Oblique, The Nunnery Gallery, London, UK – curated by Julia Alvarez
2010 Salad, Wimbledon College of Art, London, UK
2010 A Library of Mirrors, Bookartbookshop, London, UK
2008 Ex, Leeds College of Art & Design, Leeds, UK
2008 UWIC Printmakers, The Millennium Centre, Cardiff, UK
2008 UWIC Degree Show, Cardiff School of Art & Design, Cardiff, UK
2008 Contemporary Printmaking, The Old Library, Cardiff, UK
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2023 Developing Your Creative Practice Grant awarded by Arts Council England
2021 National Lottery Project Grant awarded by Arts Council England
2021 Being in Architecture, Artist in Residence at Passengers, London, UK
2020 Arts Council England Emergency Funding Grant
2019 Mark Rothko Memorial Trust, bursary and residency at the Mark Rothko Foundation, Daugavpils, Latvia
2018 Artist in Residence at PADA, Barreiro, Lisbon, Portugal
2018 Griffin Gallery collaborative studio residency with Charley Peters, London, UK
2017 Drawing Connections collaborative residency at Wimbledon School of Art, London, UK
2016 Artist in Residence at The Art House, Wakefield, UK
2014 Artist in Residence at Beacons Music and Arts Festival, Yorkshire Dales, UK
COLLECTIONS
Bagri Foundation
Canary Wharf Group PLC
Guerrini-Maraldi Collection
Linklaters Collection
Oakdale Centre Collection
Paul Smith Ltd
Tim Sayer Collection (bequethed to Hepworth Wakefield)
Various private collections in across Europe, North America and New Zealand
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