Matthew Higgs

Matthew Higgs

Matthew Higgs is a British artist, curator, writer and publisher. His contribution to UK contemporary art has included the creation of Imprint 93, a series of artists’ editions featuring the work of artists such as Martin Creed and Jeremy Deller. During the 1990s he promoted artists outside of the Young British Artists mainstream of the period.

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Early life and Imprint 93

Higgs was born in West Yorkshire in 1964, and studied Fine Art at Newcastle Polytechnic.(since renamed the University of Northumbria) In 1988, he moved to London and worked for the Grey advertising agency.[1] In 1993, he founded his own press, Imprint 93, publishing a series of artist’s editions and multiples.[1] Participating artists included: Billy Childish, Martin Creed, Chris Ofili, Elizabeth Peyton, Peter Doig and Jeremy Deller. In 1994, Higgs exhibited at EASTinternational which was selected by Jan Dibbets and Rudi Fuchs. The exhibition "Imprint 93/Cabinet Gallery", featuring the work of Martin Creed,[2] was held at Cabinet Gallery in 1994. "Imprint 93/City Racing" was held at City Racing in 1995.

"British Art Show 5" and "Protest and Survive"

In 2000, he curated the "British Art Show 5". This major touring exhibition sought to show that British art embraced a wider range of practices than was indicated by the label "Young British Artists"[3] His exhibition "Protest and Survive" (curated with Paul Noble) at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 2000 reflected a renewed interest in the art of the 1970s.[4]

In 2001, he described a new aesthetics emerging in British art, pointing to the work of Turner Prize nominees Mike Nelson and Martin Creed. He described these artists as part of a "parallel generation to the YBAs", and bemoaned that fact that younger artists were "still adhering to the YBA orthodoxy promoted by Charles Saatchi".[5]

Career after 2000

In 2001, he was appointed as a curator at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at the California College of Arts and Crafts.

He is currently director of White Columns in New York.[6] In 2006, he was one of the Turner Prize judges and in 2007 he selected EASTinternational with Marc Camille Chaimowicz. Higgs is a member of the New Art Dealers Alliance.[7]

As an artist Higgs has had one-person exhibitions, such as at the Wilkinson Gallery in London.[8] His work is held in the collection of the Tate.[9]

The Matthew Higgs Society

In 2006, Harlem art gallery Triple Candie initiated a "non-membership-based honor society" focused on the life and work of Higgs.[10] This society claims to be a "living archive" on his life and art career. The Higgs archive includes writings by and about Higgs, press clippings, reproductions of Higgs' artwork, documentation and ephemera related to exhibitions he has curated, zines, photographs, and other materials.

References

  1. ^ a b David Barrett, Art Monthly, September, 1995.
  2. ^ martincreed.com, accessed September 29, 2007.
  3. ^ Gillian Perry, Difference and Excess in Contemporary Art: The Visibility of Women's Practice, Blackwell Publishing, 2004, pp8-9. ISBN 1405112026
  4. ^ John Albert Walker, Left Shift: Radical Art in 1970s Britain, I.B.Tauris, 2002, p258. ISBN 1860647669
  5. ^ telegraph.co.uk, accessed September 29, 2007.
  6. ^ Holland Cotter, ‘’New York Times’’, April 28, 2006.
  7. ^ New Art Dealers Alliance
  8. ^ Andrew Hunt, Matthew Higgs, Frieze, April 2003.
  9. ^ tate.org.uk
  10. ^ Matthew Higgs Society

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