"Work happens when the research overflows or combusts and something has to come out of it; a bit like being sick!"
HOLLY HENDRY
Born in 1990
Lives and works in London (UK)
EDUCATION
BA Slade School of Fine Art, London
MA Royal College of Art, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Wave Machine, (commission), Hermès Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
2025 Slackwater, (public commission), on display at NDSM, Amsterdam.
2024 Sottobosco, Hayward Gallery group exhibition 'When Forms Come Alive: Sixty Years of Restless Sculpture', London, UK
Watermarks, SCAD Museum of Art public facade commission, Savannah, US.
2023 Lip-sync, permanent artwork commissioned by BCU, curated by Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
Slackwater, public artwork commissioned by the CoLAB for The Artist's Garden, Temple, London, UK.
Nike, On Air Studio, London, UK.
2022 Fatty Acids, Stephen Friedman Gallery London, UK
Sump, Esch-sur-Alzette, Panta Rhei, Esch, Luxembourg.
2021 Indifferent Deep, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK
Invertebrate, commissioned by Tamsin Dillon as part of the Waterfronts Commissions, England’s Creative Coast, in partnership with De La Warr Pavilion and Turner Contemporary, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK
2020 Busy Bodies, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
2019 The Dump is Full of Images, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
Deep Soil Thrombosis, Le Biennale de Lyon, France
2018 GUM SOULS, Frutta Rome, Italy
Cenotaph, Liverpool Biennial 2018, Liverpool, UK
Phyllis, Selfridges Duke Street Commission (Commissioned by Helen Pheby at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Selfridges), London, UK
Homeostasis II, L’espirit Souterrain, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France
2017 Wrot, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
For a Skeleton to Hang Soft Tissue On, Arratia Beer, Berlin, Germany
2016 BACKWASH: Holly Hendry, Rice + Toye, London, UK
Plastered, Secret Garden Party, UK
2015 More and More, More is More, Bosse & Baum, Peckham, London
2014 Homeostasis, The March Project, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Hollow Bodies, Gallery North, Newcastle, UK
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Chromatic Hands, A collaboration between Xxijra Hii and Pangaea Sculptors' Centre curated by Elizabeth Neilson and Candida Powell-Williams, January - February 2026
2025 Anatomy of Misuse, Royal Society of Sculptors, May - August 2025
Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles, Hayward Touring, Mead Gallery October – December 2024, Djangoly Gallery Nottingham May – August 2025, The Wilson Gallery Cheltenham September 2025 – Jan 2026
2024 BALTIC open, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. April - September 2024
Formes, Paris, France. October - December 2024
2023 [Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945](https://artscouncilcollection.org.uk/exhibition/breaking-mould-sculpture-women-1945), An Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition, opening at Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK, 29th May 2021 - 16th April 2023, touring to Djanogly Gallery, University of Nottingham; The Levinsky Gallery, University of Plymouth, and The Box, Plymouth; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; New Art Gallery Walsall, all UK
Various Others, Jahn und Jahn, Munich, Germany. September 2023
Everything Broken Down, Solid House, Suffolk, UK. August 2023
2022 [Testament](https://goldsmithscca.art/exhibition/testament/), Goldsmiths CCA, London
[Beano: The Art of Breaking The Rules](https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/beano-art-of-breaking-the-rules), Somerset House, London, UK
Pigeon Park, London, UK
[FRAC Grand Large](https://www.fracgrandlarge-hdf.fr/expositions/lucie-marchand-holly-hendry/), Holly Hendry/ Lucie Marchand, Hauts-de-France
Shifting Balance, a dialogue with MMAT collection, London
2021 Chain Reaction, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
Female Objectivity: A Perspective of Marval Collection, Castello di Villanterio, Pavia
2020 Apofenia, Las Palmas Projects, Porto
Stephen Friedman Gallery 25 Years, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
If You See Me, Weep, Aplus Gallerie, Berlin, Germany
2019 Fault Lines, Freelands Foundation, London, UK
Playful Aggressions, Greengrassi, London, UK
Hyper Mesh, Assembly Point, London, UK
2018 December Mostra, British School at Rome, Italy
Mind the Gap, Rohkunstbau, Schloss Lieberose, Germany
Scar/ Face, Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
New Relics, Thames Side Studios, London, UK
High Noon, Arratia Beer, Berlin, Germany
BERLÍNSKÝ MODEL, Hunt Kastner, Prague
I Had The Landscape In My Arms, Josh Lilley Gallery, London, UK
40 40 40, Soho House Greek Street, permanent collection, London, UK
2017 Ho Ho Ho, Frutta, Rome, Italy
FIAC Art Fair, Paris, France
Nothing You Have To Understand, Galerie Mikeal Andersen, Copenhagen
The Ned Art Collection, The Ned, London, UK
Lightness, White Rainbow, London, UK
EXTRACT VI, GL Strand, Copenhagen
2016 Short Term Storage, Holly Hendry and Kate Owens, Limoncello Cork Street, London, UK
Identify Your Limitations, Acknowledge the Periphery, VITRINE, London, UK
Gettin’ the Heart Ready, The Royal Standard, Liverpool, UK
Show 2016, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Fruits of the Lum, Tžužjj, CBS Gallery, Liverpool, UK
A Bad Policeman is Always Busy, University Gallery, Newcastle, UK
2015 + earlier Tru Luv, Turf Projects, Croydon, London
PUTTPUTT#2, Turf Projects, Croydon, London
Vernissage, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
Domming, Lewisham Art House, London
The Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Art Prize, Gallery North.