Haroon Mirza

Page 1 | Biography

Born: London 1977
Lives: and works in London & Sheffield

Education
2007 MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design
2006 MA Critical Theory and Practice, Goldsmiths College
2002 BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting, Winchester School of Art
2001 BFA Fine Art (exchange programme) School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Solo Exhibitions
2011 Lisson Gallery, London
2010 The Last Tape, VIVID, Birmingham
Anthemoessa, Mother's Tankstation, Dublin
2009 A-Foundation, Liverpool

Group Exhibitions
Selected

2011 Sum Parts, ACME Project Space, London
Illuminations, 54th Venice Biennale, Vennice
The British Art Show 7, GOMA, Glasgow
The British Art Show 7, The Hayward Gallery, London
2010 Fifteen, S1 Artspace, Sheffield
The Northern Art Prize, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds
The British Art Show 7, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
For the Birds, Site Gallery, Sheffield
Systematic, Zabludowicz Collection, London
Reading a Wave The Woodmill, London
Art Unlimited, Art | 41 | Basel
relatively prime Galerie Stadtpark, Krems
Bidoun Video 2010 (Invisible Publics), Townhouse Gallery, Cairo
For the Birds, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam
The Marienbad Palace (Drogheda Festival) Highlane's Gallery, Drogheda
relatively prime, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems
Cloudy Head, Curated by Bidoun Projects, Art Dubai
Lichter Filmtage, Frankfurt
There is no solution because there is no problem, Art Sheffield Fringe
Art Sheffield 10, SCAF curated by Annie Fletcher & Frederique Bergholtz
2009 Cross-cutting (Sheffield Pavilion), Sierra Metro, Edinburgh
The Sheffield Pavilion SCAF at the 11th Istanbul Biennale
Boule to Braid, curated by Richard Wentworth, Lisson Gallery, London
Trade City, CHIPS Building, Contemporary Art Manchester, Manchester
Between Tracks, Salford Restoration Office, Salford
The Sculpture Show, V22 Presents, London
Sound Spill (curatorial project), S1 Artspace, Sheffield
Haroon Mirza / Eva-Maria Raschpichler, Backlit, Nottingham
Op�ration Tonnerre, Mains d'�uvres, Paris
Lisson Presents (3), Lisson Gallery, London
Stage Fright (with Laura Buckly & Dave Maclean), ROKEBY, London
Contested Ground, 176, London
2008 S1 Selected Memebers Show, S1 Artspace, Sheffield
Matter of Time, James Taylor Gallery, London (curated by Five Storey Proj)
2008 "New Contemporaries 2008" Liverpool Biennale and London
2008 "Cabaret Futura" Cell Projects, London
2008 "More Pricks than Kicks" Generator Projects, Dundee
2007 "Noise Reduction: off" DreizehnZwei, Vienna
2007 "Future Map 07" Arts Gallery, University of the Arts, London
2007 "Group show Curated by vvork.com" Galerie West, The Hague
2007 "MA Show" Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
2007 "How We May Be, Late at Tate" Tate Britain, London
2007 "Working Things Out" Spike Island, Bristol
2007 "A Church, A Courtroom, & then Good-bye" SooPlex, Nashville, US
2007 "Tearfully" Grey Area, Brighton
2007 "Sound:Space" South Hill Park, Bracknell
2007 "The Air is Wet with Sound" Rekord, Oslo
2006 "MA Design Critical Practice" Goldsmiths College, London
2006 "Pixelpops_06" C2C Gallery, Prague
2006 "REGELEI" Wuk, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
2005 "synthetic reality" Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Suffolk
2005 �accept all cookies�, Dreizehn Zwei (13/2), Vienna
2005 �never finished, always ready�, Spitalfields, London
2005 "Mercury Art and Music Prize" shortlist, Air Gallery, London
2005 "art auction east", Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Suffolk
2005 "redundancy" ASPEX gallery, Portsmouth
2003 �Synthetic Pleasures�, Dreizehn Zwei, Vienna
2003 �Show#1�, 4WEST5, London
2002 �A4 vs. Letter�, RK Burt, London and 1R Gallery, Chicago
2002 �Cocktail Party Effect�, Winchester School of art degree show
2002 �Who is John Galt� Fizz Gallery, Chicago
2001 �Two Blokes et le Minette� Art Institute of Chicago
2001 �unknown title�, University of Southampton


Bibliography
12/2004 �The Technoromantic Artist� Arts Professional, issue 88

Grants/Awards
2006 Lynda Brockbank Scholarship, Chelsea College of Art and Design
2005 Mercury Music and Art (shortlist)


Publications
09/2005 "synthetic reality" catalogue
06/2005 "accept all cookies" catalogue
11/2003 "synthetic pleasures" catalogue