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.
Rogue Studio
4 Barrass St, Openshaw, Manchester, M11 2LS
DRAWING-IN-BREATHING-OUT
A group show which explores the realms between the drawn and performed mark and each gesture through a variety of provocations and modes of practice. Artists in this exhibition utilise a number of active and traced drawing processes throughout their practices, from the animated to the bodily.
15/05/22
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03/09/22
Nibble Island
Claire Dorsett invites 8 artists to exhibit on her studio table, interrogating this piece of furniture, to challenge what an exhibition spaces artists can use to show their work. The exhibition acts like a buffet table at a family function: acknowledging the often awkwardness of Open Studio events for artists & the strength that can be found in numbers.
15/05/22
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03/09/22
Established in 1995, Rogue is an artist-run Community Interest Company providing accessible studio space close to Manchester city centre. Rogue is the largest independent studio group in the Northwest with more than 85 artists working in 57,000 square feet of space at the former Varna Street school buildings in Openshaw. Studio holders range from recent graduates to established practitioners working in a wide range of disciplines and media including drawing, film and video, illustration, installation, interactive art, painting, performance, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and textiles.
Once a year, Rogue opens its doors to the public for its Open Studios event, inviting fellow artists, curators, and the general public to access all areas of the studios while affording members an opportunity to exhibit and offer work for sale. The next Rogue Open Studios will be on May 14-15, 2022.
Rogue also runs a programme of events in the Project Space, which is used primarily for temporary exhibitions, residency and exchange projects and one-off events. For news of forthcoming exhibitions see the home page of this website or email rogueartistsstudios@yahoo.co.uk and sign up for our monthly e-newsletter.
Accessibility:
Wheelchair access to project space only
Rogue Studio
EVENTS
Co-Directors: David Gledhill / Martin Nash