Kiera Bennett

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Born: Oldham
Lives: London

Education
The Royal College of Art MA Painting 2000-02

Oxford University, The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art
BA Hons Fine Art 1990-93

Mid Cheshire College of Art & Design, Northwich
Foundation Art Course 1989-90


Solo Exhibitions
Bad Moon Rising , Rockwell Gallery, London February 2007



Group Exhibitions
The Beard Charlie Smith Gallery London 2011
The Future Can Wait 10 – Ellis Rumley Projects 2010
New London School – Gallerie Schuster Berlin 09
The Future Can Wait 09 –Ellis-Rumley Projects, London 09
The Future Can Wait 08 –Ellis-Rumley Projects, London 08
The London Book of the Dead Show St.Pancras Church Crypt, London 08
Precious Things High Lanes Gallery Drogheda Ireland 08
The Past is History Changing Role Gallery, Naples and Rome 2008
Golden Record Collective gallery, Edinburgh 2008
Hung Drawn Quasi Stellar Object, Portman Gallery, London, 2007
Bad Moon Rising Rockwell Gallery, London 2007 SOLO SHOW
The Future Can Wait – Charlie Smith and NLK London 2007
Nature and Society - Dubrovacki Muzeji (Dubrovnik Museums)Croatia 2007
Fuckin’ Brilliant! Maji Yabai! Tokyo Wondersite, Shibuya, Tokyo Dec05/Jan06
Acid Drops and Sugar Candy Transition and Fosterart London 2005
Real Strange Lounge Gallery, London 2005
Art and Sausages Somerton Rd, London 2005
Heaven and Earth The Hackney Empire, London 2005
Into The White The Hat Factory, Luton 2005
Under the bridge The Castleford Project, Castleford 2005
Sixteen rb&hArts, London 2005
‘..if you go down to the woods today..’ Rockwell, London 2005
Zoo Art Fair – Rockwell Stand 2004
Cocheme Fellow Show at Byam Shaw School of Art, London 2004
John Moores 23 The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 2004
First Assembly The Ragged School, London 2004
Collage Bloomberg Space, March 2004
Model Village The old Shoe Factory, Northdown St, Kings Cross, London 2004
Cut Up James Colman, London 2004
One Night Stand Pearl Projects, El Montan Motor Hotel, San Antonio, Texas -2004
Snow Transition gallery, London 2003
Portrait of The Artist as an Exquisite Corpse 39, London 2003
Full English MOT, London 2003
Reel 83 Culford Rd, London 2003
Drawing Room The Union, Soho, London 2003
The New Topography Geoffrey Young Gallery, Massachusetts 2003
Into the Grey Cover Up, London, 2003
Rockwell Rockwell, London 2003
Reverse Engineering Pearl, London 2002
New Contemporaries Static, Liverpool and Barbican, London 2002
Full House FNR Projects, Camden London 2002
Gatsby The New Lansdowne Club, Hackney, London 2002
At Home Lennon, Weinberg Inc, New York 2001
Preface – International biennale for emerging artists – The Hatton Gallery Newcastle u Tyne 2000
The Big Warm Open Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge 1999
Vistas Wigmore Fine Art Gallery, London 1999
The Whitechapel Open The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 1998


Bibliography
Nature and Society, Catalogue, Text by Richard Dyer, Dubrovacki Muzeji (Dubrovnik Museums)Croatia 2007
Guardian Guide, Pick of the Week, ‘Bad Moon Rising’, Jessica Lack, March 2007
Fash n Riot magazine issue 4 2007
Heaven + Earth, book with exhibition 2005
John Moores 23
Fash n Riot magazine issue 3 2005
Frieze Jan issue MOT Full English, Andrew Hunt 2004
Fash n Riot magazine issue 2 2003
Friends in High Places – Jessica Lack, Art Review magazine July 2003
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2002
Art Review, ArtGraduate –The Best of The Graduate Shows 2002
Fash n Riot magazine issue 1 2002
Postcards on Photography – photorealism and reproduction
(Cambridge Darkroom publication).
The Evening Standard ‘Hot Tickets’ Jan ’99.
Flash Art - ‘Vistas’ May/June ’99

Collections-

Mario Testino
Arthur G Rosen
David and Serenella Ciclitiras
Amlin plc
Cornelia Parker and Jeff Mcmillan.
Frank Williams
Julian Opie
Other private Collections in New York and Greece


Grants/Awards
Cocheme Fellowship, Byam Shaw School of Art 2004
Parallel Prize, RCA final Show 2002
Amlin Prize, RCA interim Show 2001


Projects
Bennett was involved in creating Rockwell, an artist run gallery and studios in East London, with a group of 6 other artists (2002 - 2007)