TOM HUNTER INFO:

Tom Hunter graduated from the London College of Printing with a BA First Class Honours [1994], Hunter took his MA at the Royal College of Art, London [1997]. In 1998, Hunter won the John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award. In 2006 Hunter was the first artist to have a photography show at the National Gallery, London.

Hunter currently lives and works in London. His work is often particular, but not exclusive, to the community of travellers he knows as neighbours and friends in East London. He has exhibited work both nationally and internationally, in solo and group shows.

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BIOGRAPHY, WORKS AND AWARDS:

1965 Born in Dorset

1980 Leaves school, aged 15 and works on a farm for a year, and then for the Forestry Commission in Dorset

1986 Moves to Hackney and works as a tree surgeon. Spends a year working for the USA Forestry Service in Puerto Rico.

1990 Attends A-level Photography evening classes at Kingsway College, London.

1991-94 London College of Printing, BA 1st Class Hons.

1995 The Tredou Arts and Culture Awards.
The Ghetto, museum of London.

1996 Royal College of Art First Year Award for Best Photography (Fuji Film UK Ltd).

1997 Royal College of Art, MA.
Wins Painter-Stainers Photography prize at The R.C.A.

1998 Wins John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award with Woman Reading a Possession Order.

1999 Neurotic Realism, The Saatchi Gallery, London.

2000 Life and Death in Hackney, White Cube, London; Green on Red Gallery, Dublin.

2002 Thoughts of Life and Death, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester.
Tom Hunter: Photographs, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius.

2003 Tom Hunter, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
Tom Hunter, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem.

2003 Wins John Kobal Book Award.

2004 1997-2004, Domus Artium 2002 Museum, Salamanca.

2005 Tom Hunter, Galeria Visor, Valencia.

2006 Living in Hell and Other Stories, The National Gallery, London.

2006 Living in Hell and Other Stories, The Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield.

2006 Artist in Residence, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.

2006 Living in Hell and Other Stories, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.

2007 Tom Hunter, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina.

2007 Art Project Commission from Rosetta Life.

2007 Working on Film Commission with Channel 4 and the I.C.A.

2007 Symbolismus Exhibition in Von der Heydt-Museum in Wuppertal.

2007 Tom Hunter, The Falckenberg, Collection at Phoenix Kulturstiftung in Hamburg.

2007 Art Project Commission by The Serpentine Gallery, London.