Solo Exhibitions
2026 Mary Ryan Gallery, New York
2024 Chini Gallery, Taipei
2020 Sunny Art Centre London
Saul Hay Gallery Manchester
2019 York Art Gallery
2018 Ryan Lee Gallery New York
Saatchi Gallery London
Shandong University, China
2016 Art First London
2015 Hubner and Hubner, Frankfurt, Germany
2014 Art First London
2013 Ryan Lee Gallery, New York
2011 Langgeng Foundation, Jogjakarta, Indonesia
2010 Mary Ryan Gallery, New York
2009 Fine Art Society, London
2007 Today Art Museum, Beijing
Mary Ryan Gallery, New York
2005 Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan
California State University Long Beach
Collections
British Museum
Cleveland Museum USA
Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Haugesund Billedgalleri, Norway
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Minneapolis Museum of Art
MIMA, Middlesbrough
Nicosia Municipal Art Centre, Cyprus
Today Art Museum Beijing
Victoria and Albert Museum
Yale Center for British Art, USA
Yokohama Museum of Art
York Art Gallery
Group Exhibitions 2026
Contemporary British Painting Prize, Sheffield and London Another World, Frestonian Gallery, London, 2025
John Moores Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, 2024
Paradise Lost The Underground Stream, South Devon, UK 2022 Paper after All, Royal Cambrian Academy Conwy 2020
Recent Acquisitions, York Art Gallery
New Light, Scarborough Art Gallery (and tour) 2019
Sunny Art Prize, London 2018
Layers of Visibility, NiMAC Nicosia
New Light, Tullie House Carlisle
Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, Mall Galleries, London 2017
New Light, Bowes Museum, Co Durham.
Langgeng Foundation Jogjakarta, Indonesia, 2016
Art First London (two people) 2014
John Moores Liverpool
Flow Szechuan Art Academy, Chongqing, China 2013
Graphite GVArt, London
MIMA Middlesbrough 2012
Amalgam, Mary Ryan New York 2011
Dust on the Mirror, ICA Singapore
Drawings for the New Century, Minneapolis Museum of Art, USA Grey, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 2010
Dust on the Mirror, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, UK 2008
Leaded, Salina Art Gallery, Kansas, USA
Tempo Reale, British School at Rome, Italy, 2006
Until it Makes Sense, Gallery Seventeen, London
Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Paris, 2005
Yale Centre for British Art USA
Christopher Cook was born in Yorkshire, England, and studied Literature at Exeter University and MA Painting at the Royal College of Art, London. He received an Italian Government scholarship for three years to work in Bologna, where his colour paintings from this period appeared in high-profile exhibitions such as From Bacon to Now at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Eros in Albion at the Casa Masaccio, and solo shows in London.
Two years in India changed his painting approach to a more haptic practice in which sand drawings inspired a switch to monochrome graphite. These works were soon exhibited internationally, especially in the USA through Mary Ryan Gallery, and entered major collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Minneapolis Museum of Art, and Yale Centre for British Art, and in the UK in the British Museum and Fitzwilliam Museum. The ‘graphites’ received major prizes in the UK, including at the prestigious John Moores Liverpool.
Notable solo shows include Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan; Today Art Museum, Beijing; Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany; and York Art Gallery, UK, in which meditations on Dutch 17th-century still life painting were exhibited alongside masterworks from York’s collection and loans from the National Gallery, London. This theme reemerged during a residency in Taiwan (2023), works from which were exhibited at Chini Gallery, Taipei in 2024. A retrospective of eight exhibitions with Mary Ryan Gallery was held in New York in 2026.
A Modest Show News
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Contemporary Art Academy invites leading artists, curators, art critics, gallerists and collectors to discuss their life in art, followed by a Q&A.
Mark Hinchliffe is an art collector, designer and owner of a self-renovated 19th century Italianate chapel in North Yorkshire. He has been collecting contemporary art, furniture and object d’arts for 40-years, and has amassed thousands of pieces that span a lifetime’s obsession with collecting. He has been regularly featured in TV shows and press nationally. Mark has recently established A Modest Show, a curatorial dealership that organises exhibitions and participates in selected art fairs including Artissima, Art Rotterdam, Art Brussels, Minor Attractions and SOLO Contemporary at British Art Fair.
Above: Matthew Collings (Solo Stand 2)
The British Art Fair, Saatchi, London
26 - 29 September 2024
Left + Right: John Robinson + Matthew Collings
Art Rotterdam, Netherlands
1 - 4 February 2024
Above: The Manchester Contemporary Art Fair
Friday 15 - Sunday 17 November 2024
With Matthew Collings, GL Brierley and
John Robinson
Minor Attractions, London 8-13 October 2024
'AHOY' Art Rotterdam March, 2025/2026
Artists: GL Brierley + John Robinson + Emmanuel Tete
The British Art Fair, 25 - 28 September 2025
Artist, GL Brierley
British Art Fair SOLO Contemporary Artist Award 2025 was presented to British painter GL Brierley was chosen by a panel of experts: VOLTA Art Fair, Artistic Director Lee Cavaliere, Co-founder of the Contemporary Art Academy, Matt Gibson, and Artist and Curator, Stephanie Nebbia
British Art Fair
Spotlight Contemporary
Best curated stand, 2026