Haroon Mirza

2008

Biography

b. 1977 London

2007 MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London
2004-2006 MA Design: Critical Theory and Practice, Goldsmiths College, University of London
1999-2002 BA (hons) Fine Art, Winchester School of Art
2001 Exchange, BFA Fine Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Previous Exhibitions:

2008 Cabaret Futura, Cell Project Space, London
2008 More Pricks Than Kicks, Generator Projects, Dundee
2007 Noise Reduction: Off, Dreizehnwei, Vienna
2007 Future Map, Arts Gallery, University of the Arts London
2007 Group show curated by VVORK, Galerie West, The Hague
2007 How We May Be, Late at Tate, Tate Britain, London
2007 Working Things Out, Spike Island, Bristol
2007 A Church, a Courtroom & then Goodbye, SooPlex, Nashville, Tennessee
2007 Tearfully, Grey Area, Brighton
2007 The Air is Wet with Sound, Rekord, Oslo
2007 Sound:Space, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell
2006 Pixelpops_06, C2C Gallery, Prague
2006 REGELEI, WUK, Kuntshalle Exnergasse, Vienna
2005 Synthetic Reality, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Suffolk
2005 Accept All Cookies, Dreizehnzwei, Vienna
2005 Never Finished Always Ready, Spitalfields, London
2005 Nationwide Mercury Art Prize, Air Gallery, London
2005 Redundancy, Aspex, Portsmouth
2003 Synthetic Pleasures, Dreizehnzwei, Vienna
2003 Show#1, 4west5, London
2003 A4 vs. Letter, RK Burt, London and 1R gallery, Chicago
2003 Who is John Galt, Fizz Gallery, Chicago
2001 Two Blokes et Le Minette, Art Institute of Chicago

Awards and Residencies:

2007 National College of Arts, Lahore
2006 Lynda Brockbank Scholarship, Chelsea College of Art and Design
2005 Nationwide Mercury Art Prize shortlist


In this podcast, Haroon Mirza discusses his experience of exhibiting as part of Bloomberg New Contemporaries, his selected work, 'Taka Tak' (2007-8) and current practice.

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