David Haines

David Haines

Born in the UK in 1969

Signal (2023) installed at group show Mixed Feelings Signal (2023) installed at group show Mixed Feelings 
Man Reading Messages (Pawel) (2019), oil on canvas. Place VII (2019/2020), oil on canvas. Overview of The Skin's Gaze (and other thoughts), solo exhibition at Upstream Gallery (2020). Man Reading Messages (Ramzan) (2019), oil on canvas. Place II (2019), oil on canvas. Man Reading Messages (Kurt) (2019), oil on canvas. Still Life with Screen, Cutout and Chicken legs, 2017. 50,5 x 56 cm. Photo by Gert Jan van Rooij. Your Fluffer, 2017. Pencil on paper. 205 x 184 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Still Life with Flyer (Habibi), 2017. Pencil on paper. 36 x 27,5 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Exhibition A Fragile Membrane, Upstream Gallery 2017. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Dylan's Reflection, 2017. Pencil on paper. 17,5 x 14 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Meatboy and Bob Starr, 2016. Pencil on paper. 140 x 201 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Exhibition A Fragile Membrane, Upstream Gallery 2017. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. 'Still Life with Heart, iPad and Party Drugs' 2015, graphite and nero pencil on paper, 33.3 x 29 cm. David Haines, Portrait of a Boy with Two Hearts, 2015. Graphite and nero pencil on paper, 113 x 140 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Dark Reflection I, 2015. Graphite on paper, 33,4 x 21 cm. Dark Reflection II, 2015. Graphite on paper, 36 x 26 cm. More Than Domes, 2014. Graphite and nero pencil on paper, 140 x 170 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. 'Untitled', 2015, (description - Boy bowing under stream from a bottle and alien hovering), 24 x 17 cm. Pencil drawing
Radiant Bodies and Unreal Aliens, 2013. Graphite on paper, 176 x 226. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. "Boy with laptop", 2013, pencil on paper. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Radiant Bodies, 2013. Graphite on paper, 140,50 x 202 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Boy Smoking, 2013. Pencil on paper, 19 x 20 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Dereviled, 2013. Single screen video, 8:52'. Screenshot. "Auroch Boy with Tennets Can and Adidas", 2012, pencil on paper, 17 x 20 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. 'Crane', 2012, watercolor on paper, 18 x 18 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Steam (Diptych), 2011. Pencil on paper, 17 x 15,5 cm and 20 x 15 cm. 'Toll', 2012, Watercolor on paper, 22 x 19 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. 'Baroque Semiotics' (triptych), 2012, pencil on paper, 3x 23 x 28 cm. "Against Entropy", 2011, pencil on paper, 140 x 205 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. 'Reebok Alchemist', 2011, pencil on paper, 140 x 104 cm. 
"Experiment with Flowers and Burgers", 2011, pencil on paper, 19 x 22.5 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. "Two Boys Kissing, Kerkstraat, Amsterdam", 2011, pencil on paper, 12 x 18 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. "Still life with Amyl Nitrate Bottles (Severe Eye Irritant)", 2011, pencil on paper. 15 x 17 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. 'Boy With A Burger', 2011, watercolor on paper, 16 x 22 cm 'Poison Pareidolia', 2011, watercolor on paper, 35 x 33cm. 'Experiment with Flowers and Burgers', 2011, pencil on paper, 19 x 25 cm. 'Aurochboy with Tennents and Adidas', 2011, pencil on paper, 17 x 22 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. 'No Nacis', 2011, pencil on paper, 13 x 17 cm 'Self-portrait with Adidas Veil', 2011, pencil on paper, 107 x 117 cm. "Steam" (part of diptych), 2011, pencil on paper. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. 'Adidas Chicken Convection', 2010, pencil on paper, 158 x 140 cm. 'Self Portrait with Flowers', 2010, watercolor, 40 x 45 cm. 'Boy with a veil', 2010, pencil on paper, 18 x 24 cm. 'Boy holding veil', 2010, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 cm. 'Boys with Slime I', 2010, watercolor on paper, 18 x 24 cm. 'Boys With Slime II', 2010, watercolor on paper, 19 x 45,5cm. Overview Hayward Touring Exhibition "The End of the Line" at Drawing Room London, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, The Bluecoat Liverpool, City Museum Bristol, The Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij Overview Hayward Touring Exhibition "The End of the Line" at Drawing Room London, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, The Bluecoat Liverpool, City Museum Bristol, The Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh. 'Untitled (3 Boys with Sneaker)', 2009, pencil and white chalk on paper, 35 x 25. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. "Sketch (Boys in a Field)", pencil and white chalk on found paper. 24 x 16 cm. 'Candle', 2010, watercolor on paper, 37 x 31 cm. 'Boy in the Woods', 2009, watercolor on paper, 12 x 17 cm. 'Skulls and Bones', 2009, watercolor on paper, 19 x 22 cm. 'Nike Air Boy', 2009, watercolor on paper, 18,5 x 22 cm. 'Ritual I' 2009, watercolor on paper, 19,5 x 24 cm. 'Man Eating Dirt', 2009, watercolor on paper, 12 x 17 cm. 'Adidas boys, investigation into digestible and indigestible substances', 2009, pencil on paper, 220 x 140 cm. 'Liquid Myth Nike Air', 2008, pencil on paper, 140 x 240 cm. 'New Balance Sneaker vs. KFC Bucket', 2008, pencil on paper, 140 x 216,5 cm. 'Dissolving Prophesies', 2007, pencil and chewing-gum on paper, 113,5 x 140 cm. 'Reebok Boy I', 2008, pencil and white chalk on paper, 23,5 x 30,5 cm. 'Venus with a gun and my Adidas sneakers', 2005, pencil and chewing gum on paper, 23,5 x 30,5 cm.
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David Haines
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Biography

Images sourced from the internet often form the basis of David Haines’s work, whose practice actively examines the artist’s own position as someone who makes pictorial and textual narratives in the wake of abstraction, conceptual art and photography, and whose themes include an exploration of digital identities, online communities, contemporary myths and the indexical nature of drawing itself. Haines is aware of the status of the labour-intensive medium of pencil drawing in the digital age, whose immersive results require ‘slow viewing’, inhabiting the often-overlooked space between looking and interpretation. In his videos, the artist explores the same issues as in his drawings, such as mass media, adolescence, cruelty and gay erotica. Like the drawings, his video work is frequently based on material found on YouTube or taken from newspaper articles.

David Haines studied at Camberwell School of Art, London and The Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. He works with a range of media, predominantly drawing, painting and video. Publications in which his work is featured include Vitamin D2, published by Phaidon; Drawing People by Roger Malbert, published by Thames and Hudson; and Interdisciplinary Encounters - Hidden and Visible Explorations of the work of Adrian Rifkin, published by I.B.Tauris. Recent group exhibitions include ‘A Slice Through the World’ at Modern Art Oxford and Drawing Room London and ‘Trouble in Paradise’ at the Kunsthal, Rotterdam. He has had solo exhibitions at Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, Luisa Strina Gallery, Saõ Paulo, Art Basel Hong Kong (with Upstream Gallery) and The Armory Show NY. He has shown in group exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Turner Contemporary Margate UK, Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh, De Appel Amsterdam, MIMA Middlesborough UK, The Eye- Film Museum Amsterdam, The Bluecoat Liverpool and the New Art Space, Amsterdam. In 2011 he exhibited as part of the 12th Istanbul Biennial. He was awarded the Irinox Disengi /Drawing Prize at Artissima Turin in 2017 and the Jeanne Oosting Prize in The Hague, N.L. in 2012.

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Publications:

Haines, David. Selected Works 2008-2014. Amsterdam: Upstream Gallery, 2014.

Exhibitions

Mixed Feelings

1 Jul - 5 Aug '23

British Museum: 'Drawing Attention: Emerging British Artists'

17 Mar - 28 Aug '22

Art Rotterdam 2022

19 May - 22 May '22

Drawing Biennial 2019

20 Feb - 26 Mar '19

A Slice Through the World

13 Jun - 9 Sep '18

Artissima

3 Nov - 5 Nov '17

Art at the Spaarne

18 Mar - 12 Jun '16

The Armory Show 2016

3 Mar - 6 Mar '16

TRANSFORMER

3 Oct - 14 Nov '15

Art Basel Hong Kong: Discoveries

13 Mar - 17 Mar '14

A Decade Upstream

30 Nov - 19 Dec '13

12th Istanbul Biennial

17 Sep - 13 Nov '11

Cinema

5 Jun - 16 Jul '10

The Myth is Everything

5 Sep - 24 Oct '09

Drawings, Song and Video

22 Apr - 30 Jun '06

Rob Voerman and David Haines

16 Apr - 16 May '05
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