Leo Fitzmaurice
Born 1963, Newport, Shropshire, England Lives and works in Liverpool
Education
1989 BA First Class Honors, Liverpool Art School (Liverpool Polytechnic) 1992 MA Fine Art Manchester Metropolitan University
Selected Solo Shows
2018 The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK, 2018
2017 As Yet, Caustic Costal, Salford, UK, 2017
2016 OH V HO, The Sunday Painter, London, UK, 2016
2015 Frieze London Sculpture Park, London, UK, 2015
2014 /_\, The Sunday Painter, London, UK, 2014
2012 Blank Stir (with Paul Rooney), Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK, 2012
2011 You Try to Tell Me But I never Listen, New Art Gallery Walsall, UK, 2011
2007 Sometimes the Things You Touch Come True, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK, 2007
2005 Neat Stuff, Firstsite, Colchester, UK, 2005
Selected Group Shows
2018 Condo, The Sunday Painter, London, UK Market Forces, He.ro, Amsterdam, NL, 2018
2017 Assorted Paper, The Sunday Painter, London, UK, 2017
Public View (curated by Bryan Biggs), Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, online, 2017
2016 Reader, Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen, DN Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, UK, 2016
2015 Edit/Undo, Space In Between, London, UK, 2015
2014 Futbol: The Beautiful Game, LACMA, Los Angeles, US, 2014
2013 Balls Against the Wall, Dodge Gallery, New York, US, 2013
DATA(curated by Shiri Shalma), Contemprary Art Society, London, UK, 2013
FIXFIXFIX (curated by Glenn Adamson), Gallery So, London, UK, 2013
Easy Does It (Curated by Kevin Hunt), David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, UK, 2013
Magnum Opus, N/V_Projects, London, UK, 2013
2012 Cosmo's Levels (curated by Jamie Lobb), The Sunday Painter, London, UK, 2012
Things That Have Interested Me,Waterside Contemporary, London, UK, 2012
2011 Chain Chain Chain (curated by Glenn Adamson), Bischoff Weiss, London, UK, 2011
Northern Art Prize, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds (winner), UK, 2011
Comfort Tones, Project Number, (Curated by Vulpes Vulpes), London, UK, 2011
2010 Niet Normaal, De Beurs Van Berlag, Amsterdam, ND
The way we do art now (curated by Pavel Buchler), Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin, DE Undone Henry Moore Institute Leeds, UK
24th June- 31st July, Seventeen Gallery, London, UK
2009 AMUSE BOUCHE, The two Johnnys’, London, UK Flyersflagsheepself, Seventeen Gallery, London, UK
2007 Blickachsen 6, Bad Homberg, Berlin, DE
Good Riddance MOT international London, UK
Selected Bibliography
Critic’s guide, Condo London, by En Liang Khong, Frieze.com, Jan 18
Three to see: Condo London 2018, by José Da Silva, The Art Newspaper, Jan 18
Don’t Miss These Shows During Condo London’s Preview Weekend, by Naomi Rea & Javier Pes, Artnet, Jan 18
5 Questions with Leo Fitzmaurice, by Emily Steer, Elephant Magazine, June 2016
10 exhibitions to see this summer, I-D Vice, June 2016
Curator’s guided tour of Frieze Sculpture Park, by Anny Shaw, The Art Newspaper, Oct, 2015This is Tomorrow, Feb 2015
Cosmo’s Levels, Time Out, Dec 2012
Merseyside’s Leo Fitzmaurice wins 2011 Northern Art Prize, Alan Sykes, The Guardian, Jan 2012 Drawing Biennial 2013
Undone, The Henry Moroe Foundation
Post Match, Locus+
Remake It Thames and Hudson, Edited by Henrietta Thompson,
Art in a city revisited Liverpool University press, Edited by Bryan Biggs
Sometimes the Things You Touch Come True, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Leo Fitzmaurice: Neat Stuff , Firstsite Gallery (July 05)
Prizes
2011 Northern Art Prize winner