George Henry Longly (b. 1978) lives and works in Margate, UK. He has said that his work is more about making exhibitions than artworks. His approach to installation takes similar account of precise compositional and thematic balance, with each element always held in uneasy tension.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Decades, Galerie Vidal Cuglietta, Brussels
2001 Holler, Vitrine Gallery at The Hospital Club, London
2009 Mass Damper pt4, Generator Projects, Dundee
2009 Non-Building Structure, Luettgenmeijer, Berlin
2009 CHIP FOAM, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris
2008 Mass Damper pt3, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle
2008 It must be a garbled version of another explanation, Dicksmith Gallery, London
2008 Mass Damper pt2, IPS, Birmingham
2007 Mass Damper, S1 residency solo show, Sheffield
2006 Floor Games, Solo Show, Dicksmith Gallery, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Modern British Sculpture, Gimpel Fils, London
2011 Rocketing engine ou a mÈtamorphose des agrÈgats, Paris – Nantes
2010 Untitled, Four Boxes Gallery, Krabbesholm, Skive, Denmark
2010 House of Voltaire, London
2010 Fifteen: S1 Anniversary Project, S1 Artspace, Sheffield
2010 George Henry Longly & Anne NeuKamp, Galerie Chez Valentin, Art Nova, Art Basel Miami Beach
2010 Minimalism and Applied II, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
2010 The Allegory of the Cave, Art Container, Tallinn, Estonia
2010 Boom, Hotel, London
2010 Mulberry Tree Press, SE8, London
2010 Bold Tendencies, Peckham Rye multi-storey carpark, London
2010 Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree, Luettgenmeijer and Galerie Mickey Schubert, Berlin
2010 Meteor, Repton School, Repton
2009 Words: 7, Am Nuden Da, London
2009 The Object of the Attack, David Roberts Foundation, London
2009 Being and Nothingness, with Kate Atkin, Martin Boyce, Henry Commbes, George Henry Longly, Toby Paterson, and Clare Stephenson. Light&Sie Gallery, Dallas
2008 Open Folds, RCA Curating Contemporary Art, RCA, London
2008 Effondrement de l’onde de probabilitÈ, ZOO Galerie, Nantes
2008 Games & Theory, South London Gallery, London
2008 Bookish, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
2008 Counterpoint: British Sculpture Then and Now, Robin Katz Fine Art, London
2008 Beyond Measure: conversations across art and science, Kettles Yard, Cambridge
2008 Yes, no and other options, Art Sheffield 08, solo presentation BLOC space, Sheffield
2007 A Conference for the Glass Archive, SITE gallery, Sheffield
2007 Display, Inaugral exhibition, group show, Museum 52, NY, USA
2007 Past, Present, Future Perfect: Selections from the Ovitz Family Collection, Kansas City Arts Institute, MO, USA
2007 New signage for Museum 52, London
2007 La Pensee Sauvage, Galerie chez Valentin, Paris, France
2007 All my love for you, Contemporanea Festival 07, Galleria Enrico Fornello, Prato, Italy
2007 Days of the commune, Stockwell studios, London
2007 The Ice Trade, Chelsea Art Space, London
2007 George Henry Longly and Rupert Norfolk, Galerie Chez Valetin, Paris, France
2006 George Henry Longly, Melanie Counsell and Sarah McLaren, G39 Gallery, Cardiff
2006 The Title Taken From Reading That Book, Ryan Gander and George Henry Longly, Elisabeth Kaufmann Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2006 The Galleries Show, Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium
2006 The Social Ocean, Temporary Contemporary, London, George Henry Longly
2005 New Opportunities for Focused Listening, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France CSM MA Degree show, London
2005 On the Underbelly, The Upstairs Gallery, London
2005 Leviathan, Curated by JJ Charlesworth, Candid Arts Trust, London
2005 Rain and Tears, BORDERLINE, Nantes, France
2005 The Biggest Draw, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield
RESIDENCIES
2011 K¸nstlerhaus Schlofl Balmoral, Bad Ems, Germany
2007 S1 Residency, Sheffield
PRESS
2009 George Henry Longly, Generator Projects, Dundee, Colin Perry, Frieze / issue 124 / July/August
2009 Special Focus, Reviews Marathon, London, East End, Laura McLean-Ferris, Art Review, Issue 29, January/February
2008 Focus London, London Artists Dictionary, Flash Art, Vol XLI, OctoberExhibitionist: what to see this week By Laura McLean-Ferris, The Guardian, Friday 28 November
2008 London’s 40 best artists, By Ossian Ward and Helen Sumpter, Time Out London, 21/10/2008
2008 Games & Theory, South London Gallery, Jonathan Griffin, Frieze Issue 118 / October 2008
2008 Games & Theory, South London Gallery, David Barrett, Art Monthly issue 319 / September
2008 Art Sheffield 08: Yes, No, Other Options, Bart van der Heide, Camera Austria, 102 / 2008
2008 Say ‘yes’ to Art Sheffield 08, Jessica Lack, The Guardian Online, February 18, 2008
2008 That Armory Show Glare, Susannah Edelbaum, ArtCal Zine
2007 How To Get On In The Art World, Imagine, Alan Yentob, programme aired in November 2007, George Henry Longly at Dicksmith, Art in America, April, 2007 by David Coggins
2007 That Sanitation Truck Parked on the Pier? Its Part of the Show, Holland Cotter, New York Times
2007 Ice Trade Review, by David Shariatmadari, Frieze Issue 106, April
2007 George Henry Longly, Connaissance des Arts
2007 George Henry Longly et Rupert Norfolk, (http://www.paris-art.com/lieu-artexposition
2007 /exposition/3853/galerie-chez-valentin-george-henry-longly-et-rupert-norfolk.html)
2006 George Henry Longly, by Martin Coomer, Reviews, Time Out, July 16-26
2006 The view with Gordon Dalton, IcWales, Wester Mail, 3.11.06
PUBLICATIONS
2009 Yonger Than Jesus / Artists Directory, New Museum, New York
Being and Nothingness, 18.04.09 – 30.05.09, curated by James Cope, catalogue essay by James Cope Light&Sie, Dallas
2008 George Henry Longly, ‘Mass Damper’, 25.09.08 – 01.11.08, curated by Matt Williams, catalogue interview with Andrea Phillips, International Project Space, Birmingham
beyond measure – conversations across art and science, 05.04.08 – 01.06.08, catalogue essay by Barry Phipps, Kettle’s Yard
Art Sheffield 08, Yes NoOther Options*, 16.02.08 – 30.03.08, Citywide Contemporary Art Event, Text by Jan Verwoert, Sheffield
AWARDS
2007 Henry Moore Foundation
2005 Clifford Chance/University of the Arts London Sculpture Award 2006
2004 AHRB Postgraduate Funding
2003 Research and Development Award, The Arts Council of England
CURATING
2011 GLAZE, Bischoff/Weiss, London.
EDUCATION
2004 – 2005 MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London
1997 – 2000 BA Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield
