Artists

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Laura Oldfield Ford

b. Halifax , West Yorkshire 1973

 

EDUCATION

 

Royal College of Art MA Painting 2005-2007

Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. BA painting   1997-2001

Hunter College, City University of New York BFA exchange programme 1999

Yorkshire Coast College, Scarborough.  National diploma foundation Art and Design.1996-7

 

SELECTED SHOWS AND EVENTS. 

 

'Britannia : States of Emergency' University of Hertfordshire Galleries November 2009, research project and exhibition on the 1981 riots in England, New Towns and the designing out of dissent.

 

'Weak Signals, Wild Cards' De Appel curatorial programme, Amsterdam June 2009

 

Drawing Exchanges, Arnolfini , Bristol April 2009

 

'London 2013: Drifting through the Ruins'. Solo show Hales Gallery London January 2009

 

'Slump City' Group show with Tessa Farmer and Karen Russo. Space June 2009

 

Hales Gallery/Pierogi  Miami Art Fair December 2008

 

Late at Tate: Savage Messiah takeover of Duveen galleries Tate Britain January 2009

 

Valerie Beston Award. Marlborough Fine Art, London September 2008

 

Freedom Centre: Hales Gallery, London  October 2008

 

Interior: Hales Gallery, London June 2008

 

Space Now: Space studios June 2008

 

The Golden Record: Collective Gallery Edinburgh August 2008

 

Publish and be Damned:Ludlow 38, Goethe Institut New York February 2008

 

The Painting Room Transition Gallery, London 2008

 

Fusion Now curated by JJ Charlesworth Rokeby Gallery, London November 2007

 

Spectre Versus Rector Residence Gallery, London October 2007

 

Savage messiah 'Night Drift through Kings Cross', Housman's Bookshop, London September 2007.

 

Publish and be Damned Rochelle school London July 2007

 

RCA Great Exhibition, London June 2007

 

'E8'The Heart of Hackney. Transition Gallery June 2007

 

'Spent' Group show RCA painters, Three Colts gallery Dec 2006

 

AAABAM Indexed London biennale Coningsby Gallery August 2006

 

AAABAM Indexed curated by Liam Gillick ICA December 2006

 

London Anarchitecture week, collaboration  with John Wild for Short and Sharp RCA show, June 2006

 

PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS

 

Valerie Beston Award 2007

Thames and Hudson/RCA Art Book Prize 2007

Duveen Travel scholarship Mexico and San Francisco 2001

University College London travel award Prado Madrid 1999

 

LECTURING/ WRITING

 

Paticipant 'Future Perfect' Conference Whitechapel Gallery November 2009

Participant  'Olympics:What Legacy?'conference, Space studios Jan 2009

Visiting lecturer Central School of Speech and Drama 2009

Participant Urban Artscapes Conference UCL May 2008

Reviews writer , Art Review Dec 2006-

Visiting tutor Camberwell College of Art 2009

Visiting tutor Chelsea College of Art 2007,2009

Visiting tutor Central St.Martins 2007

Visiting artist and lecturer to RCA Architecture department as part of 'Mapping London' Lecture series November 2006.

Westminster Adult Education Service Tutor in visual art, 2004-