Neal Rock

Born in Port Talbot, Wales 1976
Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA


Education

1999-2000
M.A. Fine Art Central St Martins School of Art and Design

1996-1999
B.A. (Hons) Fine Art, University of Gloucestershire

1998-1999
Foundation Tycoch Swansea College South Wales


Solo Exhibitions

2006
Torch Gallery, Amsterdam
Grand Arts, Kansas City, Missouri
f a projects, London

2005
Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles

2004
Henry Urbach Architecture, New York

2003
f a projects. London


Selected Group Exhibitions

2007
Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Jerwood Space, London

2005
Flourish. Moravia Gallery, Czech Republic (cat)
Extreme Abstraction, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (cat)
The Rudiments of Ornamental Composition, LOT, Bristol
Can Buildings Curate?, Architectural Association, London; Storefront Gallery, NY
Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
The Nature of Things. Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery. Birmingham (cat)
Landscape Confection, Wexner Centre, Columbus, Ohio, travelling to Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (cat)

2004
Expander, curated by Mustafa Halusi, Royal Academy of Arts, London (cat)
Paradisiac, DomoBaal, London
Magic Don’t Happen by Magic, The Empire, London
Cinderella, Tower Bridge business complex, London
‘… but not as we know it’ (co-curated with Deidre King) Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles
Eyeful, Millais Gallery, Southampton
Tonight, Studio Voltaire, London
One Day, Gallery Corridor, Reykjavik, Iceland
Collezione #1, curated by Stephen Hepworth, Isabella Brancolini Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
2003 ‘… but not as we know it’ (co-curated with Deidre King), APT, London
Campaigning, Unit 2 Gallery, London, curated by Dawn Shorton and Bob and Roberta Smith
Physical World. APT, London
Temporary Fiction, Transition, London
The Agreement, Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Painting Practices (curated) 77 Gallery, London

2002
Art Basel Miami Beach. F a projects
Painting Class, Lethaby Gallery, London
Island 77 Gallery, London
Paint f a projects, London
FreshArt 2002, Business Design Centre Islington
V.C.C.A. Open Studio Virginia U.S.A.

2001
Schism (Curated) Camberwell Artsweek Pelican House London
A.I.R. (Co-curated) Hortensia Gallery London

2000
Young Wales V. Royal Cambrian Academy. Conwy North Wales
Brain Storm Goldsmiths College Curating Space London


Awards and Residencies

2006
Grand Arts. Kansas City. Missouri

2004
British Council Award to Artists (with Deidre King, Kontainer Gallery, Los
Angeles)
Wales Arts International Grant

2001-2002
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Painting Fellowship, Virginia USA

2000-2001
Artist in Residence Kensington and Chelsea College, London

1998
Erasmus Travel Award Ecole Nationale de Beaux Arts de Lyon, France


Publications

2005
Landscape Confection, 2005, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University: Columbus, Ohio, USA

2004
Neal Rock: Paintings 2003 – 04, f a projects, London & Henry Urbach Architecture, New York


Selected Bibliography

2006
Payam Sharifi, ‘Architectural Splatter’, ArtReview, May

2005
Yvonne Hindle and Henry Rogers, ‘The Nature of Things: an exploration of beauty, utopia and decadence’, Birmingham Museum and Art Galleries
‘Neal Rock: Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles’, Los Angeles Times, 25 February

2004
‘Neal Rock’, Gulliver Magazine, May
‘Neal Rock & Erik Schmid at Henry Urbach Architecture’, The New York Times, 30 April
‘Rock Garden’, TANK, Volume 3 Issue 9, Spring
‘Work from the Polari Range’, a-n magazine, February
Sue Hubbard, ‘Neal Rock at f a projects’, The Independent, 13 January
Catherine Nixey, ‘Living Off the Wall’, The Independent Art and Design, January

2003
‘Neal Rock’, The Guardian, 29 November
‘Ebullient Decay Sculpted in Paint’, Modern Painters, Autumn


Collections
Private Collections in Europe & USA including:
Peter Norton Foundation
Anita Zabludowicz
Richard Salmon