Renowned Artist Gary Hume Lectures at The Cooper Union

Internationally renowned British artist Gary Hume will deliver The Cooper Union School of Art’s Spring 2015 Alex Katz Chair in Painting lecture. He will discuss his latest works.

A graduate of Goldsmiths College, London in 1988, artist Gary Hume is known for large figurative and abstract paintings characterized by bright, flat colors and reductive forms. Part of the Young British Artists (or YBA) movement, which helped revitalize Britain’s contemporary art scene in the 1990s, Hume first gained critical acclaim for his Door paintings, inspired by modernist hospital doors and rendered in shiny layers of household gloss paint. Hume was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1996, represented Great Britain at the 1999 Venice Biennale with his Water series and elected to the Royal Academy in 2001. His work has been featured in many solo exhibitions, including Modern Art Oxford, UK (2008); Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev (2012); Tate Britain, London (2013). He was born in Kent, UK and currently lives and works in London and New York.











When: Wed., May. 13, 2015 at 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Where: The Cooper Union - The Frederick P. Rose Auditorium
41 Cooper Square

Price: Free
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Internationally renowned British artist Gary Hume will deliver The Cooper Union School of Art’s Spring 2015 Alex Katz Chair in Painting lecture. He will discuss his latest works.

A graduate of Goldsmiths College, London in 1988, artist Gary Hume is known for large figurative and abstract paintings characterized by bright, flat colors and reductive forms. Part of the Young British Artists (or YBA) movement, which helped revitalize Britain’s contemporary art scene in the 1990s, Hume first gained critical acclaim for his Door paintings, inspired by modernist hospital doors and rendered in shiny layers of household gloss paint. Hume was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1996, represented Great Britain at the 1999 Venice Biennale with his Water series and elected to the Royal Academy in 2001. His work has been featured in many solo exhibitions, including Modern Art Oxford, UK (2008); Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev (2012); Tate Britain, London (2013). He was born in Kent, UK and currently lives and works in London and New York.

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