Holly Hendry
Holly Hendry’s (b. 1990, London, England) sculptural practice toys with architectural scale and manipulates materiality. Her saccharine, often comic visual language explores permeability, concealment and abjection, where chalky slabs of Jesmonite, blown glass, steel and bronze give her sculptures an industrial gravitas belying their porosity and vulnerability. These structures collapse bodily and architectural anatomies into dreamt-up machines– that open and close to reveal fleshy insides, haloed by annotated motion lines and arcing arrows. They are caught in states of fluctuation: mechanical bodies producing, digesting and ailing.
Education
2016
MA, The Royal College of Art, London, England
2013
BA, The Slade School of Fine Art, London, England
Solo Exhibitions
2026
Conglomerates, Toile Blanche Contemporary, Nice, France
2022
Fatty Acids, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Holly Hendry/ Lucie Marchand, FRAC Grand Large, Hauts-de-France, Dunkerque, France
2021
Indifferent Deep, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill On Sea, England
2020
Busy Bodies, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2019
The Dump is Full of Images, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, England
GUM SOULS, Frutta, Rome, Italy
2017
For a Skeleton to Hang Soft Tissue On, Arratia Beer, Berlin, Germany
Wrot, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
2016
BACKWASH: Holly Hendry, Rice + Toye, London, England
Short Term Storage: Holly Hendry and Kate Owens, Limoncello, London, England
2015
More and More, More is More, Bosse & Baum, London, England
2014
Hollow Bodies, Gallery North, Newcastle, England
Public Commissions
2026
Wave Machine, public window commission, Hermés Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
2025
Slackwater, re-exhibited at NDSM, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2024
Watermarks, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, USA
Sottobosco, Hayward Gallery, London, England
2023
Slackwater, The Colab, Temple tube station, London, England
Lip-Sync, permanent public artwork, Birmingham, England, commissioned by BCU and curated by Eastside Projects
2022
Sump, Esch-sur-Alzette, Panta Rhei, Luxembourg
2021
Invertebrate, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill On Sea, England, as part of the Waterfronts Commission, England’s Creative Coast, in partnership with De La Warr Pavilion and Turner Contemporary
2020
Deep Soil Thrombosis, Le Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
2018
Cenotaph, Liverpool Biennial 2018, Liverpool, England
Phyllis, Selfridges Duke Street Commission, London, England, commissioned by Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Selfridges
2018
Homeostasis II, L’espiri Souterrain, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France
2016
Plastered, Secret Garden Party, Cambridgeshire, England
2014
Homeostasis, The March Project, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Group Exhibitions
2026
Chromatic Hands, Xxijra Hii, London, England
Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles, Hayward Gallery Touring, Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester, England (touring)
2025
Anatomy of Misuse, Royal Society of Sculptors, London, England
Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles, Hayward Gallery Touring, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham and The Wilson Gallery, Cheltenham, England (touring)
2024
formes, galeriepcp, Paris, France
When Forms Come Alive, Hayward Gallery, London, England
BALTIC Open 2024, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles, Hayward Touring, Mead Gallery, Warwick, England (touring)
2023
Everything Broken Down, Solid Haus, Ryan Gander Studio, Suffolk, England
Various Others, Jahn und Jahn, Munich, Germany
A display of British art from the UK Government Art Collection, The British Ambassador’s Residence, Paris, France
2022
Testament, Goldsmiths CCA, London, England
Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945, Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition, The Levinsky Gallery, University of Plymouth; The Box, Plymouth; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull and The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, England (touring)
Pigeon Park 2, Manor Place Warehouse, London, England
Shifting Balance, a dialogue with MMAT collection, 9 French Place, London, England
Beano: The Art of Breaking The Rules, Somerset House, London, England
2021
Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945, Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield and Djanogly Gallery, Lakeside Arts, University of Nottingham, England (touring)
Chain Reaction, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
Female Objectivity: A Perspective of Marval Collection, Castello di Villanterio, Pavia, Italy
2020
If You See Me Weep, Aplus, Berlin, Germany
Apofenia, Las Palmas Projects, Porto, Portugal
Stephen Friedman Gallery 25 Years, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2019
Fault Lines, Freelands Foundation, London, England
Playful Aggressions, Greengrassi, London, England
Hyper Mesh, Assembly Point, London, England
2018
December Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome, Italy
Mind the Gap, Rohkunstbau, Schloss Lieberose, Germany
Scar/ Face, Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
New Relics, Thames Side Studios, London, England
High Noon, Arratia Beer, Berlin, Germany
BERLÍNSKÝ MODEL, Hunt Kastner, Prague, Czech Republic
I Had The Landscape In My Arms, Josh Lilley Gallery, London, England
2017
Ho Ho Ho, Frutta, Rome, Italy
Nothing You Have To Understand, Galerie Mikeal Andersen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Lightness, White Rainbow, London, England
EXTRACT VI, GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016
Identify Your Limitations, Acknowledge the Periphery, VITRINE, London, England
Gettin’ the Heart Ready, The Royal Standard, Liverpool, England
Fruits of the Lum, Tžužjj, CBS Gallery, Liverpool, England
A Bad Policeman is Always Busy, University Gallery, Newcastle, England
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