Born: Adelaide Australia

Lives: London Uk
Education

1993 - 94
Tutor and Technician Printmaking Department, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland

1989
Diploma of Adult Education, Hawthorn Campus, University of Melbourne, Australia

1982
Diploma of Canberra School of Art, Canberra, Australlia

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008

Empty and Invisible Patrick Heide Contemporary Art April 30 - june 15 London

2007

In Space We Trust, T1+2 artspace May 18 - 19 June London

2005
If your head was closed off on all sides
, patrick heide art projects, London

2003
Please do not forget your surface
T1+2 Artspace, London

2001
Alex Hamilton - Recent Work
Succession Gallery, London

1996
New Works
(created during residency), Kunstverein Salzburg, Austria
The straight line Alpha Jetzt Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany

1995
Sixteen different landscapeds British Council, Prague, Czech Republic

Selected Group Exhibitions & Performances

2008

Dead City St Pancras Cript August 27 Curated by Hugh Mendes London

Deutsche Bank September London

/seconds. Magazine Issue 9 online publishing project

edited by Peter Lewis

The Free Art Fair London October London

2007

Aqua Miami Patrick Heide Contemporary Art

Zoo Art Fair T1+2artspace London

Avatar of Sacred Discontent, touring exhibition

Curated by Flora Fairbairn and Wolfe Lenkiewicz. London

Obsession durch Technik Berlin, artMbassy Gallery

curator Patrick Heide, mit Andy Harper, Thomas Kilper, Dirk Krecker. Berlin

/seconds. Magazine Issue 5 online publishing project

edited by Derek Horton and Peter Lewis

Salon 2007: New British Painting and Works on Paper.

curated by Flora Fairbairn and Sotiris Kyriacou. London

Ice Trumpet Tribute to Malcolm Lowry Performance,

at An Evening of Loss by The Last Tuesday Society.

London.

2006

Art Forum Berlin, Patrick Heide Art Projects, 30 September 4
October

Newspaper, a newspaper about artists who work with newspapers.
Fiona Banner, Angus Fairhurst, Mark McGowan, Hugh
Mendes, Jamie Reid. Published by Eleanor Brown, September. London and Los Angeles

Table Top Beth Campbell David Payton Raymond Pettibon Andy
Warhol Amy Wilson. July August, Josee Bienvenu Gallery New
York NY

The End of Civilization, With J & D Chapman, Paul Fryer, Margarita Gluzberg, Rut Blees Luxemberg, Curated by Nick Hackworth and Wolfe Lenkiewicz, ( Lisa Samoto). Port Eliot Lit Fest and Zoo Art Fair

Concrete, Sausage and other Team Ghosts, After The Butcher gallery Berlin May - July.

Ice Trumpet Performance, Loss; an evening of exquisite misery, London.

Drawing show curated by Patrick Heide Recent Drawing space
London

Water , Multimedia Sartorial Gallery West London

New Gothic (curated by Martin Sexton), Tate Britain, London

/seconds. Magazine Issue 2 online publishing project edited by
Derek Horton and Peter Lewis

Art Chicago T1+2artspace
Scope New York Patrick Heide Art Projects

2005
Zoo Art Fair “Ark” Wolfe Lenkiewicz t1+2artspace

Art News (incl. Martin Creed & Gillian Wearing), Raid Projects, Los Angeles

from our cold hands VTO Gallery London (curated by Thomas Kilpper)

2004
Artist’s Association of Autonomous Book Art and Magazines, Book Fair, Berlin

Art News (incl. Martin Creed & Gillian Wearing) Three Colts Gallery, London

The Patterns on the Plans and the Lack of Plan Plan T1+2 Artspace, London

Publish and be damned Artist’s Publication Show, The Crypt, London

2003
Mothers Oxford House, London, (curated by Harry Pye)

2002
Swiss light on the Tate Swiss Embassy, London (Performance)

2000
Stoke Newington Festival (Performance), UK
Pagemakers London Artist’s Book Fair, London
La llama International Artist’s Workshop, Venezuela

1994 - 99
Pagemakers Gracefield Arts Centre (Touring exhibition), UK
Braziers International Artist’s Workshop, Braziers, UK
Super Nature Studio A, London
Lady’s Smoking Room Installtion, Grand Midway Hotel, St. Pancras, London
Worth St. Pancras Station, London
A Matter of Making CSA Alumni, Canberra, Australia
Fragile Objects Embassy of Australia, Washington DC, USA
De la ville du Locle Winterthur, Switzerland & National Library of Australia, Canberra
Washington Art Book Fair, Corcoran Gallery, DC, USA
Ten Years of Graphic Investigation Canberra School of Art, Canberra, Australia

1991
Books and Boats State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
The City and Beyond La Trobe University Gallery, Melbourne (Touring Exhibition)
1989 Four Bodies Stuart Gertsmann Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1987 Scitture: Pagine e Immagini National Library, Milan, Italy (curated by Gino Gini)


Bibliography (selection)

2008

Book By Artists: Australian Artists Books By Alex Selenitsch Publisher Parkes, A.C.T. National Gallery of Australia,

2007

 Laura K Jones on Alex Hamilton at T1+2 London   Saatchi Website


2006             
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by Andrew Colard, Lulu publications
Tintin and the secret of Literature by Tom Mc Carthy, Gratna Books.
Celeste Art Prize short list catalogue.

2004
Contemporary Art Magazine, Review of „Art News“, Melissa Gronlund
Contemporary Art Magazine, Review of T1+2 Show, Andy Weir

2003
The Independent, 29th July 05, Review „Please do not forget your surface“
Sue Hubbard

1989
The Age, Review of „Four Bodies“ Exhibition, Elizabeth Cross
Grants & Residences

2000
VACB Travel Grant, Australia Council

1999
Braziers International Artist’s Workshop

1995
Artist in Residence, Künstlerhaus Salzburg, Austria

1993/94
Artist in Residence, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland

1992/93
VACB Project Grant, Australia Council

Extraordinary Fellow, Akademie Vytvarnych Umeni

Collections

Baltimore Museum of Modern Art USA
Denver Museum of Modern Art USA
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Tate Library, London
National Gallery of Australia
The Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
Gino Gigi Archives, Milan
Art Gallery of South Australia
Judith Hoffberg Archives, California, USA
Paragon Press, Charles Booth-Clibbon, London
Private Collections in Australia, Scotland, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, UK, US



Links

http://www.raidprojects.com/ArtNews.html

http://www.patrickheide.com/Patrick_Heide_Arts_Projects/Works/Hamilton_A/Hamilton_A2.htm

http://www.t12artspace.com/hamilton3.htm

http://www.t12artspace.com/

http://www.porteliotlitfest.com/pages/biogs/artytechs_biogs.htm#alex2

http://www.fortescueavenue.com

http://alex-hamilton.com/compelled_to_move

http://www.slashseconds.org

http://
www.sartorialart.com

http://www.joseebienvenugallery.com/
 
http://www.after-the-butcher.de/gb/exhibition.htm