Thomas Houseago

Thomas Houseago (born 1972) is an artist based in Los Angeles.

Houseago was born in Leeds. He is a figurative sculptor who has used lo-fi materials such as plaster and plywood. His work references genres such as Cubism and Futurism and plays on the history and tradition of statues.

He graduated from Central Saint Martins, London in 1994.

Selected One-Person Exhibitions

2008 David Kordansky, Los Angeles, CA, USA When Earth Fucks With Space, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium Bastards, Herald Street, London, Great Britain

2007 A Million Miles Away, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Great Britain

2004 Art Brussels, solo presentation, with Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium

2003 Thomas Houseago, I Am Here, Selected Sculptures 1995-2003, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium

2002

Xavier Hufkens, with Amy Bessone, Brussels, Belgium

2000 Something to Be, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

1996 Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Mum’s tattoo, with Matthew Monahan, guest curator Luc Tuymans, Si en La, Antwerp, Belgium

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008 Black Swan, Michael Werner gallery, Projectspace, London, Great Britain Academia : Qui es-tu ?, la Chapelle de l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner, Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany KABUL 3000. Love among the Cabbagesi, Galleria Zero, Milan, Italy Sonsbeek 2008: Grandeur, Arnhem, the Netherlands

2007 Strange things permit themselves the luxury of occurring, Camden Arts Center, London, UK Sculptors’ Drawings: Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals, And More, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Personal Belongings – Contemporary Sculpture from Los Angeles, Sabine Knust Galerie Maximilian Verlag, Munich, Germany

2006 Red Eye: Los Angeles Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, USA

Making and Finding, The Foundation To-Life, Mount Kisco, NY, USA Transformers, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA The Glass Bead Game, Vilma Gold Project Space, Berlin, Germany

2005 Both Ends Burning, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA Six Outdoor Projects, L.I.U., Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA

2003 Passie in Beeld, Ruimtelijk werk uit de collectie van de Nederlandsche Bank, Maliebeeld, The Hague, the Netherlands Group show/artists of the gallery, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2002 Stedelijk Museum in De Nieuwe Kerk, Beelden/Sculpture 1947-2002, curated by Rudi Fuchs, Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2001 Rondom Jheronimous Bosch, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

1999 ''Glad IJs, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Werk boven de bank, Archipel, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands

1998 Morning Glory, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Summer Show, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium Acquisitions 1997, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

1997 New Acquisitions, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

External links

• Thomas Houseago at Galerie Xavier Hufkens
• Thomas Houseago at Galerie Fons Welters
• Thomas Houseago on ArtFacts.net
• Images, text and biography from the Saatchi Gallery
• Further information from David Kordansky