Rhys Himsworth

Born 1981, Wales
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK

About

Rhys Himsworth is an artist working at the junction of analogue and digital media. His paintings, prints, sculptures, photographs and multimedia installations attempt to form a discourse around issues of surveillance, authorship, the post natural and geopolitical. His work often utilises redundant electronics and e-waste as a material and medium. For the last decade he has hacked, appropriated, and shredded and re-assembled various electronic and digital devices to create works and installations that blur the physical and discarnate; documenting a period in history that marks the transition from a temporal orientated experience of the world to an online one.

He has taken part in residencies such as The International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Takt Kunstraum Tapir, Berlin, Pada, Lisbon and The Arctic Circle Residency. Himsworth has lectured and presented his work at numerous institutions including The British Computer Society, London, Sungkyul University, Seoul, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, The Art Institute of Chicago, Sapienza University of Rome, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, and the University of São Paulo. His work has been featured in Art in Print, Printeresting, The Guardian and the Financial Times as well as books including Printmaking: a Guide to Tools and Techniques and Painting, Photography, and the Digital: Crossing the Borders of the Mediums.

Vitae

2007-2009
Royal College of Art- MA (RCA)- Printmaking
2000-2003
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design- BA Honors Fine Art
1999-2000
Carmarthenshire College of Technology and Art- Foundation Diploma in Arts and Design
2024
echoes of tomorrow. yes, today!, Group Show, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Noise: New Media Art, Kadikoy City Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
2023
On Water and Plants, Troy House, London, UK
Summer Special Show, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2022
Editions, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Renata Kudlacek and Rhys Himsworth, ART MUC, Munich, Germany
On Water and Plants, Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany
Hereafter, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany (solo show)
Renata Kudlacek and Rhys Himsworth, Contemporary Showroom, Berlin, Germany
2021
New Silk Roads, Pada Galerie, Lisbon, Portugal (solo show)
Topographies of Decline, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (solo show)
2019
Hosting: On Symbionts, Parasites and Other Relations, Interiors to Being, Berlin, Germany
What We Don't Have We Can Create, Galerie Pada, Lisbon, Portugal
2018
The Gnostic Autotroph, CICA Museum, Seoul, South Korea (solo show)
Everything Flows, Takt Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017
Form (Force), VCUQatar Gallery, Doha, Qatar
International Exhibition on Conceptual Art, CICA Museum, Seoul, Korea
2016
Independent Music Video and Sound Art, CICA Museum, Seoul, Korea
2015
Artist Inventor, Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S
India Art Fair, New Dehli, India
2014
‘dRAW’, Black Swan Arts Center, Frome, UK
Out Of/In Countenance. Stainless Gallery, New Delhi, India
2013
Standalone Tools, Katara Art Center, Doha, Qatar (solo show)
United Art Fair, Delhi, September 2013, group show
Tasmeem Doha: Hybrid Making, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar
2012
Entropy, VCUQatar, Doha, Qatar, (solo show)
2011
Up and Coming: New Printmaker Make Their Mark, Hunterdon Museum, New Jersey, U.S
Locws International, National Museum of Wales, Swansea,
2010
Royal Academy Summer Show, London, UK
Avatar, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA, U.S (two person show)
Enquire Within Upon Everything, Reference Gallery, Richmond, VA, U.S (solo show)
2009
Electronic Visualization and the Arts, Royal Computer Society, London, UK
Royal Academy Summer Show, London
Royal College of Art Degree Show, London
Man Group Drawing Prize, Royal College of Art, London
Bandstand, Café Gallery Projects, Bermondsey, London
Up, Down, Left, Left, Right, Right, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London
Originals, Mall Galleries, London
2008
Factory, James Taylor Gallery, London
Secrets 2008, Royal College of Art, London
Sorry, All Sold Out, New Cross, London
Systems and Patterns, Whitechapel Gallery Project Space, London, UK
Who’s Afraid of the Dark, Imperial Works, London
2023
Wales Arts International Award
2020
Wales Arts International Award
2018
VCU Presidential Research Quest Award
2014
Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP)- Qatar National Research Fund
2012
National Priorities Research Program (NPRP) Award- Qatar National Research Fund
2009
Conran Foundation Award
Land Securities Prize
R.K. Burt Prize
Deutsche Bank Award- Runner Up
2008
20:21 Prize- Runner Up
2021
Painting, Photography, and the Digital: Crossing the Borders of the Mediums
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2019
Fanoon: Center for Printmedia Research, Hi-Lights 2012-2018, VCUQatar Press
2018
CICA: Art Now, CICA Press
2016
Art and Medicine, VCUQatar Press
2015
Printmaking: A Complete Guide To Materials and Processes, Laurence King Publishing
2014
The Art Souq, VCUQatar Press
2021
Painting, Photography, and the Digital: Crossing the Borders of the Mediums University of Derby, UK
2019
Fanoon: Highlights- 2012-2019, Panel Chair VCU Qatar, Doha, Qatar
Hosting: On Symbionts, Parasites and Other Relations, Interiors to Being, Berlin, Germany
Art Teleported Symposium, Brooklyn, New York
2018
New Media Art and Public Art International Symposium, Korean Fine Arts Association, Sungkyul University Seoul, South Korea
Shifting Sands: Emerging Frontiers in the Globalized Landscape, Southern Graphics Council International Panel, Chair Las Vegas, Nevada, US
2017
⌘+Shift+N- Strategies of Resistance in Times of Global Flux, Southern Graphics Council International Panel, Chair Atlanta, Georgia, US
2016
An Examination of Artists Communities in an International Context, Part of the panel discussion ‘Art Happens’: New Models for DIY Initiatives’, Curated by Reni Gower, College Arts Association Conference, Washington DC
Contested Spaces of the Medical Body in the Islamic Art World, Poster Presentation, College Arts Association Conference, Washington DC
2014
Art in Doha, Past, Present, Future, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
A Comparative Look at Artists Communities Around the World, Presentation at the 9th International Conference on The Arts in Society: The Lives of Art, Rome, Italy
Error 404://, Visiting Artists Presentation at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago, U.S
The Art Souq, Presentation at the Specters of Evaluation: Rethinking Art/Community/Value Conference, Melbourne, Australia
Designing an Artists Studio Complex in Qatar, Presentation at the 8th International Conference on Design Principles and Practices: Design as Collective intelligence, Vancouver, Canada
2013
Visiting Artists Presentation at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
2010
Fast Media/ Slow Knowledge
Panel Discussion, Southern Graphics Council, Philadelphia, U.S
2009
Electronic Visualization and the Arts
Royal Computer Society, London, U.K
2023
Arctic Circle Residency
2020
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2019
Pada, Lisbon, Portugal
2018
Takt Kunstprojektraum, Berlin, Germany
2017
International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York, US
2016
Picture Berlin Kunst Academy, Berlin, Germany
2013
Virginia Center for Creative Arts, U.S
2009-2010
Plant Zero Fellowship, Virginia Commonwealth University, U.S
2015
Visiting Lecturer at Weill Cornell Medical College, Qatar campus
2014
Visiting Artist at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago, U.S
2013
Visiting Artist at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
2009
Visiting Artist at Virginia Commonwealth University
2008
Visiting Artist at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Visiting Artist at Hertfordshire University