Biography
David Haines' work exists at the intersection of the traditional and the contemporary technical image. Working across painting, drawing, ceramics, music and moving image, he addresses what it means to make and look at images in our digitally drenched society. Haines works from the premise that technique is a language, that the image is both an anthropological and a sociological object, and that the experience of looking at art is essentially spatial, formed by a symbiotic relationship between material and image.
Born in Nottingham in 1969, Haines lives and works in Amsterdam. He studied at Camberwell College of Arts in London and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. In 2011 he took part in the 12th Istanbul Biennial, and his work has been shown at institutions including Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the British Museum in London, Arter in Istanbul, the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) in Athens, Turner Contemporary in Margate, Modern Art Oxford, the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh and De Appel in Amsterdam. His work is held in collections including the British Museum in London, Teylers Museum and the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem, Museum MORE in Gorssel and the Zabludowicz Collection in London. He was awarded the Jeanne Oosting Prize in 2012, the Irinox Drawing Prize at Artissima in 2017 and the Trinity Buoy Drawing Prize in 2021.