Bio



Stephen Hennessy is a London based Fine Artist. He has previously won awards in Ireland and New York and has exhibited and undertaken residencies worldwide. When not painting he can be found lurking the streets of Shoreditch wearing a trilby and drinking craft beer

Born 1981, Lives and works London
 

2015 Chelsea College of Art - MA Fine Art

2003 Norwich School of Art and Design - BA(hons) Fine Art Painting

2000 Camberwell College of Arts - Foundation in Art and Design

selected solo exhibitions

• 2017—Final Exhibition, AIRY Gallery, Kofu, Japan

• 2013—Poles Apart Galleria Freta, Warsaw, Poland

• 2012—New Paintings and Drawings, Lauderdale House, London

• 2009—The Twisted Mind in Foreign Lands: New Paintings and Drawings, Stables Gallery, Gladstone Park, London

• 2006—The Twisted Mind of a Broken Man, Stables Gallery, Gladstone Park, London

• 2005—Memoirs of a Hopeless Case, Sligo Art Gallery, Co.Sligo, Ireland

selected group exhibitions

• 2018—Studio 36, ASC Project Space, Streatham, London

• 2015–We All Draw, OXO Tower BargeHouse, South Bank, London

• 2015–MA Final Show, Chelsea College of Art, London

• 2015—Unreadable, Pangaea Sculpture Centre, Hackney, London

• 2015—No Matter Fail Better, Chelsea College of Arts, London

• 2014—United Society of Artists Annual Exhibition, The Gallery in Cork Street, London

• 2011—Mixed Media Exhibition, Candid Arts Trust, London

• 2007—Group Exhibition, Acoma, Barcelona, Spain

• 2004—Spring and Winter Salons, Candid Arts Trust, London

• 2003—BA Final Show, Norwich School of Art and Design, Norfolk

awards

• 2016—Ruth Katzmann Scholarship, the League Residency at Vyt, New York 

• 2005—First SOLO Exhibition Award, Sligo Art Gallery, Co. Sligo, Ireland

residencies

• 2017—AIRY, Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan

• 2016—The League Residency at Vyt, New York

• 2006—Cill Rialliag Artists Retreat, Ballinskelligs, Co.Kerry, Ireland