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TANK Shanghai_LOVERS

Thomas Houseago’s sculptural works in the exhibition “LOVERS” are presented in an intriguingly concentric configuration that is reminiscent of a stellar system inside the iconic cylindrical space of the T Hall of TANK Shanghai, with, in the center, the monumental immersive sculpture Lovers (Round Room) (2016), after which the exhibition is titled, surrounded by Houseago epic figurative sculptures.

“LOVERS” is Thomas Houseago’s first institutional solo exhibition in China. Born in Leeds, United Kingdom in 1972, Thomas Houseago studied at Jacob Kramer College, Leeds, England from 1990 to 1991, received a BA in 1994 from Saint Martin’s School of Art, London, and studied at De Ateliers, Amsterdam, from 1994 to 1996. Houseago moved to Los Angeles, United States in 2003 where he currently lives and works. In the past decade, his works have been subject of major institutional solo exhibitions, surveys and retrospectives in the US and in Europe, and this time, in Asia.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Thomas Houseago

Thomas Houseago was born in Leeds, United Kingdom in 1972. He studied at Jacob Kramer College, Leeds, England from 1990 to 1991, received a BA in 1994 from Saint Martin’s School of Art, London, and studied at De Ateliers, Amsterdam, from 1994 to 1996. Houseago moved to Los Angeles, United States in 2003 where he currently lives and works.

Houseago’s recent solo exhibitions include: Thomas Houseago: Sculptures for Lovers, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France (2022) ; WE, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland (2022) ; VISION PAINTINGS, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium; Thomas Houseago, Royal Academy, London, UK (2019); Almost Human, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (2019).

His work was included in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and resides in the permanent collections of public institutions internationally including: Centre Pompidou, Metz, France; Cranford Collection, London, UK; De La Cruz Collection, Miami, FL, USA; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France; Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada; Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium; Pinault Collection, Paris, France & Venice, Italy; S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium.