Andrew Graves studied at Kingston University (Ba Hons) and Middlesex University (MA), where he completed his PhD (examined by Iain Kiear and Sonia Boyce) in 2016. His Doctorate ‘A User’s Guide for Painters and Cyclists: Very Abstract Painting and Serious Cycling’ explores contemporary painterly abstraction specifically in the context of European and mid-century American painting and uses the racing cyclist as model for practice.

He has exhibited widely including Switzerland, Belgium, France, USA, South Korea and the UK. He has been included in a three person show at Ana Cristea Gallery, New York and is included in the Peacock Space (Aberdeen) Simply Painting exhibition - a group show focusing on the language of abstract painting.

In 2009 he was awarded the Jerwood’s Galleries New Contemporary painting prize and in 2005 selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries exhibition at The Curve, Barbican.

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Education and Qualification

2009                            

PhD Fine Art 2016

Doctor of Arts

Middlesex University, London

Internal Examiner: Sonia Boyce

External Examiner: Ian Kiaer

2005                            

MA Fine Art Distinction 

Middlesex University, London

2002                                 

PGCE Art and Design

Middlesex University, London

1990                            

BA (Hons) Fine Art First Class

Kingston University, Surrey

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Solo Exhibitions

2017                 Andrew Graves HSBC Collection, HSBC Tower, London

2012                 Andrew Graves Studio 1.1 Gallery, London

2008                 The Solo Project Art Basel, Switzerland

2007                 All Falls Down Galerie Kusseneers, Antwerp, Belgium

2006                 24 Hours  Galerie Gana-Beaubourg, Paris, France

2005                 Most Things Worked Out Galerie Kusseneers, Antwerp, Belgium

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