VICKEN PARSONS Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, 1957 Lives and works in London, United Kingdom
Vicken Parsons is a British artist who was born in 1957 and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. She is best known for her small-scale paintings that evoke architectural space and elemental landscape. Within a careful confusion of planes, lines and marks, Parsons’ paintings engage the eye of the viewer in continuous movement between an illusory deep space and the picture plane.
Vicken Parsons has had solo exhibitions at Tate St Ives, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; Christine König Galerie, Vienna; Alan Cristea Gallery, London; New Art Centre, Salisbury; and Kristof De Clercq Gallery, Ghent. She has taken part in group exhibitions at Whitechapel Gallery, London; Tate Modern, London; Tate Britain, London; the Royal Academy of Arts, London; the Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Southampton City Art Gallery, Kunsthalle Mannheim; Turner Contemporary, Margate; the Foundling Museum, London; and the Belvedere, Vienna.
Vicken Parsons’ work is included in a number of important public collections including Tate, London; the Belvedere, Vienna; the Arts Council Collection; the Jerwood Foundation; National Galleries Scotland; and was most recently acquired by the Government Art Collection. Her work is also included in the collection of museum Voorlinden (former Caldic Collection). Vicken Parsons lives and works in London.
EDUCATION
1975 Slade School of Fine Art, London, United Kingdom
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2017 Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain Kristof De Clercq Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
2016 Iris, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, United Kingdom Within, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria
2014 Fourth Wall, New Art Centre, Salisbury, United Kingdom Vicken Parsons: House Artist, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, United Kingdom
2013 Vicken Parsons, Kristof de Clercq Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
2012 Here, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2010 Gallery, Southampton, United Kingdom Alan Cristea Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Ivorypress C/ Comandante Zorita 48-46 28020 Madrid, Spain T +34 91 449 09 61 F +34 91 570 98 64 www.ivorypress.com 2008 Solid Air, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria
2007 New Paintings, New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury, United Kingdom
2006 Vicken Parsons, New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury, United Kingdom
2005 Vicken Parsons: Your Light, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria Direkte Malerei/Direct Painting, Die Neue Kunsthalle IV, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
2002 Other Places, Tate St Ives, St Ives, United Kingdom
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2016 A Question of Perspective, GRIMM, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Frequent Long Walks, Hannah Barry Gallery, London, United Kingdom Terrain: Land into Art, Hestercombe Gallery, Somerset, United Kingdom Seeing Round Corners, Turner Contemporary, Kent, United Kingdom Found, The Foundling Museum, London, United Kingdom
2015 Walk Through British Art, Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2014 Summertime, Kristof De Clercq Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
2013 Minimal Compact, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria Editions and Acquisitions, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, United Kingdom Thirteen, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2012 Awakening the Night. Art from Romanticism to the Present, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria Here, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, United Kingdom Sweathearts: Artist Couples, Pippy Houldsworth, London, United Kingdom
2011 Editions & Acquisitions 2010, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2010 Extra-Ordinary, artdepot, London, United Kingdom Sea Fever: from Turner to Today, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, United Kingdom
2007 ART Futures, Bloomberg Space, London, United Kingdom
Ivorypress C/ Comandante Zorita 48-46 28020 Madrid, Spain T +34 91 449 09 61 F +34 91 570 98 64 www.ivorypress.com 2006 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom Le blaireau et le roi, Carte Blanche a John Berger, Chartreuse de Melan, Taninges, France Carte Blanche à John Berger, Chartreuse de Melan, Taninges, France
2005 Raised Awareness, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
2004 Direct Painting, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany Edge of the Real, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2002 Other Places, Tate St Ives, St Ives, United Kingdom
1996 Tape / Slide Commission, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1983 Anne Berthoud Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1982 Art and the Sea, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom
1980 Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London, United Kingdom
COLLECTIONS
Government Art Collection, London, United Kingdom Arts Council Collection, London, United Kingdom Jerwood Foundation, East Sussex, United Kingdom Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland Tate, London, United Kingdom Caldic Collection, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Ivorypress C/ Comandante Zorita 48-46 28020 Madrid, Spain T +34 91 449 09 61 F +34 91 570 98 64 www.ivorypress.com