Grant Foster

Faith, redemption and revenge lie at the forefront of my practice. Spanning painting, sculpture and collage I position myself between the dogmatic traditions of the past and the present infallibility of reason. Reconfiguring tabloid culture into the codes of British Romantic portrait painting, I suggest parallels between two incongruous worlds united by a potentially devious and questionable morality.

2010-2012 MA Painting
Royal College of Art

2001-2004 BA Fine Art Painting
University of Brighton

Solo Exhibitions

2015 Salad Days, Ana Cristea Gallery New York
2014 Holy Island, Chandelier Projects, London
2013 The Walnut Tree, Chinashop, Oxford
2009 Mute and Impotent Before the Boot, Post Box Gallery, London

Selected Group Exhibitions

2015 Figuratively Speaking, Marcelle Joseph Projects, Heike Moras Gallery, London
2014 The Theadneedle Prize, Curated by Sacha Craddock, Mall Galleries, London
2014 East London Painting Prize, Strand House, London
2014 Rx for Viewing (with Jesse Wine), Ana Cristea Gallery, New York
2014 London Art Fair, Ceri Hand Gallery
2013 Art Britannia, Miami
2013 Painting Show, Winter Projects, London
2013 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Spike Island, Bristol and ICA, London
2013 Implausible Imposters, Ceri Hand Gallery, London
2013 Creekside open selected by Paul Noble and Ceri Hand
2012 The Harboured Guest, 4 Windmill Street, London
2012 Show RCA, Royal College of Art, London
2012 Backwards Man, CGP London
2011 Memory of a Hope, Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool
2011 The Future Can Wait presents Polemically Small, Torrance Art Museum, CA
2011 Hello Paradise, Kinsgate Gallery, London
2010 Between a Hole and a Home, James Taylor Gallery, London
2009 Kunskog, 500 dollars, London
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