



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.


SEESAW
86 Princess St, Manchester M1 6NG
AbKb Abstract Kab hosts Superposition removals & functions (on the road)
Abstract Kab is a new mobile gallery and performance space. Here the gallery is taken over by a fictional art installation and general odd job company. Superposition Remove & Deliver Co, under the helm of two sculptural artists, Luke Routledge and Robin Broadley.
26/05/22
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26/05/22
BREAST PRINT (mine not yours) / TINFOIL NO.2
Josephine Flynn re-evaluates and develops one of her renowned multi-disciplinary satirical works for A Modest Show, to examine how the viewer can ‘activate’ the work. Here the artist presents ‘art as fayre’ as part of two private view event food and beverage offers, with printed napkins ‘Mine Not Yours’ and an Abigail’s Party style cocktail cheese offering with a phallic twist.
12/05/22
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19/05/22
Ghostlines: Mads Floor Anderson & Cara Davies
We all make tracks - navigating our lives via trails and desire-lines, creating familiar routes as counter to life’s uncertainties. Artists Mads Floor Andersen and Cara Davies are hosted by PINK in a week-long residency, unpicking the complex meshwork created by our daily comings and goings, travel, memory, and the ghosts of the past.
03/06/22
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05/06/22
Soft Things
A newly commissioned set of twin ultra-short films by Sarah Boulter, with a sound piece by Manchester based Musician Merida Richards. Video works that centre on gorging for escapism, consumerism and the escapism that has sprouted from pandemic obsession and limitations, as we pour ourselves into repetitive entertainment.
06/06/22
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18/06/22
Deviant Diners
‘Deviant Diners’ is a newly commissioned video work that sets the table for bad manners, caters to the neuroqueer gaze, and serves an insight into autistic experiences of food. This work addresses the stigma autistic people face at the dinner table. This stigma, combined with sensory processing issues, can lead autistic people into withdrawing from social situations involving food and even develop avoidant, restrictive or disordered relationships with food.
06/06/22
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18/06/22
SUPERPOSITION REMOVALS & FUNCTIONS
A sculptural intervention bringing together the works of two artists in a fictional art installation and general odd job company. A dual perspective of artist and art technician, a position where lines are often blurred between production and creation.
13/05/22
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24/05/22
By curating this community we can make the most of the space and each other, develop our creative processes and change how we all work and live for the better. We're here to help you and your business prosper and to support and develop Manchester's creative talent. And have fun along the way, of course. Learning and growth is at the heart of SEESAW, as is giving back more than we receive. That's why things feel special here with a learning programme of workshops, classes and mentoring run by and for the community.
Accessibility:
SeeSaw has a pavement outside with a curb.
The building has a flat entrance, but has 3 steps at the foyer.
There is a disability lift next to the stairs.
There are 3 lifts in the building, 2 of which go down to the basement.
There are accessible toilets on every floor.
There are fire escapes at the front and back of the building.
Ground floor meeting room has 3 steps, with no ramp.
Key fobs are used throughout the building, but the door access controls get disabled once the fire system has been activated.
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