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David Hancock

Place of birth Manchester
Country of residence United Kingdom

With an almost dispassionate sociological gaze, Hancock engages in the critical examination of contemporary subcultures, specifically Youth Culture and teenage rebellion. Influenced by gothic romanticism and pop culture he creates hyper-real paintings portraying his sitters’ personal spaces- at once a Bohemia and an everyday scene. Painting is used as a revolutionary alternative to mainstream video and television, giving voice to issues that have lost ground to contemporary global politics and organized terrorism.

He lives and works in Manchester and studied at Manchester Metropolitan University, and Hopwood Hall College, Rochdale. He is currently Residency Coordinator at the Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester.

Selected Solo Exhibitons
2007 Transit, Mechelen, Belgium
2006 The Agency, London
2005 Leicester City Gallery
2004 Cooper Gallery, Barnsley
2003 Comme Ca Gallery, New York, USA
Kirkby Gallery, Kirkby Liverpool
The Storey Gallery, Lancaster
2002 DDM Warehouse, Shanghai, China
Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax
View 2 Gallery, Liverpool
2001 Chorlton Mill Gallery, Manchester
2000 Cartwright Hall, Bradford
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1998 Pannett Art Gallery, Whitby
1997 Phillips Contemporary Art, Manchester

Selected Group Exhibitons

2008 ‘Kapellmeister pulls a Doozy’, Danielle Arnaud, London
2007 ‘Teenage Kicks’, Vegas Gallery, London
2006 ‘I-POD Killed the Video Star’, Showroomama, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ‘I Ain't No Yesterdays News’, Gallery Likovni Krug, ExitFest, Serbia & Tour, ‘Portreto Formate’, ARKA Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania & Tour
2006 ‘Jerusalem’, Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax 'i-POD Killed the Video Star', Showroomama, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2005 ‘Children of the Grave- Masters of Reality’, The Agency London ‘Young Masters’, Art Fortnight London ‘Hand in Hand we Walk Alone’, Clapham Art Gallery ‘We Didn’t Mean to be Bad Kids, TV Made Us Do It’, Hertfordshire University‘We Didn’t Mean to be Bad Kids, TV Made Us Do It’, Collins Gallery, Glasgow
2004 ‘Forever Beautiful’, Clapham Art Gallery, London ‘Le Petit Paysage’, Comme Ca, Manchester
2001 BP Portrait Prize
2000 John Moores 21

Exhibitions THAT'S NOT MY NAME, 04.Sep - 05.Oct.08, The Agency, The Future Can Wait, 10.Oct - 14.Oct.07, CHARLIE SMITH london, Teenage Kicks, 10.Oct - 11.Nov.07, Vegas Gallery, I'll Be Your Mirror, 18.Jan - 11.Mar.07, Gallery Primo Alonso, Winter Exhibition 2006, 26.Jan - 26.Feb.06, Contemporary Art Projects

Links The Agency


www.david-hancock.com

 

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