Nicholas Hatfull

b. 1984, Tokyo, Japan

Born in Tokyo in 1984. He graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in 2011 and now lives and works in London. He was the Sainsbury Scholar in Painting and Sculpture at the British School at Rome in 2011–12. His work has been included in group exhibitions with Hayward Touring, at Saatchi Gallery, MACRO, Rome and the Fondazione Giorgio e Isa De Chirico, and reviewed in Frieze, Mousse and the Financial Times Life & Arts, amongst others. He presented The True Italian Pop Art for the 2018 Felicity Powell Lecture at the British School at Rome, connecting reflections on artefacts ancient and recent with novelistic vignettes from his time in Italy. His writing has recently appeared in Mousse and Frieze. His works have been in museum collections such as Saatchi Gallery, The Hiscox, Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection as well as Hood Museum of Art.

Past Exhibition

Solo and Two-person Exhibitions

2019

  • Thermals of the Heart, The Club, Tokyo

2017

  • Tofu Dealer (to kill my hunger in daytime wander), Josh Lilley, London

2015

  • Through The Wall, Nicholas Hatfull and Victor Willing, Josh Lilley, London

2014

  • Tall Grass (Expert Pruning In Ethiopia), Josh Lilley, London

2012

  • Solo River Grave, Peles Empire, London

2011

  • Il Bagno, Peles Empire, London

2010

  • New Paintings, Karsten Schubert, London

2009

  • Ignorant with the Suncream (Seafroot Delivery), Karsten Schubert, London

2007

  • Supercafone's Autoberryblues, Wallis gallery, London

Group Exhibitions

2019

  • Preparing for What, Josh Lilley, London

2018

  • Fun House, Josh Lilley, London

2017

  • Parallax Scrolling, Breese Little, London

2016

  • First Utterance, Winterfeldtstr. 31, Berlin
  • Water Biscuit, Josh Lilley, London
  • FOLLY, Emalin, Stirling, Scotland

2015

  • Group Show, Studio_Leigh, London
  • An Argument for Difference, Curated by Yin Ho and Shama Khanna, TSA New York,USA
  • Group Show, The Workbench, Milan, Italy
  • Taverna, Curated by Ilaria Gianni, Icastica 2015, Coltivare Cultura, Arezzo, Italy
  • Through the Wall, Nicholas Hatfull and Victor Willing, Josh Lilley, London
  • Longing For Leisure, Open Space Gallery, Baltimore, USA

2014

  • Control Lapse, Josh Lilley Gallery, London
  • Pre-Pop to Post-Human: Collage in the Digital Age, Hayward Touring exhibition, UK

2013

  • Re-generation, MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome

2012

  • Something New, Josh Lilley Gallery, London
  • D'Après Giorgio, curated by Luca lo Pinto, Fondazione Giorgio eIsa de Chirico
  • Sprezzatura, OK gallery, Perth
  • Where you live now, The British School at Rome
  • The Call (FCO-CLJ-LTN), Peles Empire, Cluj
  • Egocentric Space Lines, curated by Shama Khanna, Event Gallery, London

2011

  • Royal Academy Schools Show, Royal Academy, London
  • Drawing 2011, The Drawing Room, London
  • Ready Meal, The Sunday Painter, London
  • Newspeak - British Art Now, Saatchi Gallery, London

2011

  • Premiums, Sackler galleries, Royal Academy, London

Public Collections

  • Saatchi Gallery
  • The Hiscox
  • Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection

Nicholas Hatfull

Counter Mirage (Vacanze Romane)

2019

Oil and acrylic on linen

170 x 130 cm

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Nicholas Hatfull

Beer, Whiskey, Sake (Yasujiro Giorgio)

2019

Oil and acrylic on linen

160 x 120 cm

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Nicholas Hatfull

A Towel Escaping

2019

Oil and acrylic on linen

100 x 80 cm

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