28th April – 27th May
Tremenheere Gallery
Gulval, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall
https://www.tremenheere.co.uk/exhibition/the-subversive-landscape/
Mendes & Co. (Deceased) SOLO Show
20th April – 13th May
James Freeman Gallery
354 Upper St, London N1 0PD
https://www.jamesfreemangallery.com/exhibitions/
Ares Group show
30 March – 9 April
Pavilion Gallery, Cromwell Place
https://www.cromwellplace.com/whats-on/art-in-conflict
London Art Fair
January 18 – 22
PLATFORM ‘Reframing the Muse’ Curated by Ruth Millington
https://www.londonartfair.co.uk/platform-2023/
Also at Charlie Smith London Gallery Stand
Business Design Centre, London
https://www.londonartfair.co.uk/galleries/charlie-smith-london/
Past Shows 2022
British Art Fair
SOLO SHOW Contemporary Section
Sept 29- Oct 2nd
Saatchi Gallery Duke of York’s HQ, King’s Rd, London SW3 4RY
https://www.britishartfair.co.uk/news/hugh-mendes
Mendes and his Mentors SOLO SHOW
THE TUB, Hackney
April 20-24 2022
Unit 2, Broadway Market Mews, London, E8
https://www.thetubhackney.com/
London Art Fair
April 21 – 24
(Charlie Smith London Gallery)
Business Design Centre, London
VOLTA NEW YORK
May 18-22 2022
(Charlie Smith London Gallery)
https://www.voltaartfairs.com/new-york
OPEN STUDIO
Saturday July 2nd 10am – 4pm
Space Studios, Studio 104
129 – 131 Mare St., London E8 3RH
Past Shows 2021
WHALE AND DOLPHIN CONSERVATION Benefit Exhibition
School Gallery, Delta House Studios
Riverside Road
London, SW17 0BA
Nov 16th – Dec 10th 2021
https://www.schoolgallery.co.uk/wdc-benefit-exhibition
It was 20 years ago today… Solo Retrospective
Charlie Smith London, 11 Dray Walk, London E1
September 6th – 12th
https://charliesmithlondon.com/hugh-mendes-a-retrospective/
Past Shows 2020
Emerging to Established Winter Group Show
Krause Gallery, 149 Orchard St South, New York, NY 10002
Jan 9th – Feb 28th
https://www.krausegallery.com/current-exhibition
London Art Fair
(Charlie Smith London Gallery)
Business Design Centre,
London
N1 9PP
22 -26 January 2020
https://www.londonartfair.co.uk/galleries/charlie-smith-london/
Autorretrato: The Female Gaze
Solo Show
Feb 14th -Mar 14th 2020
Charlie Smith, London
336 Old Street
London EC1V 9DR
http://www.charliesmithlondon.com
2019
Royal Academy Summer Show 2019
Burlington House, Piccadilly, Mayfair, London W1J 0BD
10th June – 12th August 2019
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/summer-exhibition-2019
Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Award
Piano Nobile Gallery
Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG
24th May – 31 Aug 2019
https://ruthborchard.org.uk/category/exhibition-2019/
London Art Fair
(Charlie Smith London Gallery)
Business Design Centre,
London
N1 9PP
16-20 January 2019
Autorretrato
Solo Show
Sept 14th – Oct 13th 2018
Charlie Smith, London
336 Old Street
London EC1V 9DR
http://www.charliesmithlondon.com
Hugh Mendes | Autorretrato
London Art Fair
Business Design Centre,
London
N1 9PP
17-21 January 2018
Volta New York
Solo Show: ‘The Art of Being Mortal’
CharlieSmith London
PIER 90, 12th Avenue, NY 10019
Two Person Show
with Alastair Gordon
Remains
June 23 – July 29 2017
Charlie Smith, London
336 Old Street
London EC1V 9DR
(Charlie Smith Gallery)
Jan 20 -24
Business Design Centre
52 Upper Street
London N1 0QH
Volta Basel
(Charlie Smith Gallery)
June 13 – 18
Markthalle, Basel
The Manchester Contemporary
(Charlie Smith Gallery)
Sept 22-25
Old Granada Studios, Manchester
http://www.themanchestercontemporary.co.uk/
Open Studio Evening
June 23rd 6-9pm
Space Studios
129 -131 Mare St.,
London E8 3RH
Solo Show
The Death of the Artist
Oct 14 – Nov 12
Charlie Smith, London
336 Old Street
London EC1V 9DR
http://www.charliesmithlondon.com
Plus @
GUSFORD los angeles
Date TBC
616 N La Brea Ave,
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Group Show
Press Art (and now the good news)
May 28th – Aug 15th 2016
Lugano Arte e Cultura Centre
Piazza Bernardino Luini 6, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland
Residency
July 31st – Aug 21st 2016
Wildlands, Healdsburg, California
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9th Oct – 14th Nov
Charlie Smith, London
336 Old Street
London EC1V 9DR
http://www.charliesmithlondon.com
Doppelgänger
March 5th – 29th
No Format Gallery
Harrington Way,
London SE 18
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Nachrufe
Sept 5 – Oct 4
Galerie Braubachfive Braubachstr. 5
D-60311 Frankfurt
Obituaries & Other Works
High House Gallery
Clanfield, OX18 2SH
7 – 29 June 2014
http://www.highhousegallery.com/exhibiions
Group Shows
The Future Can Wait
Oct 14 -18
Victoria House, Bloomesbury Sq., London WC1B 4DA
http://www.thefuturecanwait.com/
14 Feb – 22 March
Charlie Smith, London
336 Old Street
London EC1V 9DR
DOA: The Good The Bad and The Beautiful
APRIL 5 – MAY 25
GUSFORD | los angeles
7016 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA
90038
Group Shows
THE FUTURE CAN WAIT
Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4 New Sensations
OCT 12 – 17th
Victoria House, Bloomsbury Sq.,
London WC1
Art with a Heart
AUG 29th
GUSFORD | los angeles
7016 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA
90038
W-A-R
May 23 – June 20
Jacob’s Island Gallery
56 Butler’s & Colonial Wharf
10–11 Shad Thames
London SE1 2PY
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Hugh Mendes: Obituaries
23 Feb – 31 March
Charlie Smith, London
336 Old Street
London EC1V 9DR
http://www.charliesmithlondon.com
Group Shows:
‘The Id, The Ego & The Superego’ (Jackson, Mendes, Nolan)
Oct 10th – Nov 17th 2012
Charlie Smith, London
336 Old Street
London EC1V 9DR
http://www.charliesmithlondon.com
‘The Future Can Wait’
B1, Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1B 4DA
October 9th-14th 2012 11am-6.30pm
‘The Serpent’s Tail’
08 Sept – 06 Oct 2012
Witzenhausen Gallery, Amsterdam
Hazenstraat 60
1016 Sr, Amsterdam
http://www.witzenhausengallery.nl
‘The Perfect Nude’ (curated by Dan Coombs & Philip Allen)
05 June – 05 Aug
Charlie Smith, London
336 Old Street
London EC1V 9DR
http://www.charliesmithlondon.com
‘New Generation British Painters’
7 Apr – 12 May
Marine Contemporary Gallery
1733, Abbot Kinney Blvd.,
Venice, Los Angeles
CA. 90291
http://www.marinecontemporary.com
‘The Id, The Ego & The Superego’
4 May – 3 June
Galerie Braubachfive
Braubachstr. 5
D-60311 Frankfurt
www.braubachfive.eu
9 September – 1 October 2011
Location: Kenny Schachter/ROVE Gallery, Lincoln House, 33-34 Hoxton Square,
London N1 6NN
Opening hours: Monday – Saturday 10 – 6 and by appointment
Web: www.rovetv.net
8.46 EDT/13.46 GMT, September 11th 2001
‘Only love and then oblivion. Love was all they had to set against their murderers.’ Ian McEwan
‘The work of Hugh Mendes freezes the fleeting moments of Fleet Street by preserving the ephemeral nature of newspapers, and the historical content they inevitably contain, embalming them in paint and canvas forever. Rather than perusing headlines like junk food, we are left with a lasting taste of the social and political to ponder at will and at length.’ Kenny Schachter
Throughout human history there have been certain moments and events that have affected global consciousness in such a profound way that the world stands still. On September 11th 2001, we experienced one such moment as the twin towers came crashing down in New York. Now, on the 10th anniversary, Hugh Mendes looks back over his personal record of the 9/11 attacks and the aftermath presented through painting, drawing and original newspaper clippings.
Mendes has been painting images of newspaper clippings for the last ten years. They came to prominence in his work following 9/11, which was the day of his MA graduation. That day he showed a painting of Osama bin Laden pointing a gun at a triumphant George Bush. It had been painted about a month previously in response to Bush’s contested election victory. As the external examiners were marking the show, Mendes absentmindedly turned on the TV at home. The first thing he saw was the second plane flying into the twin towers and he started videotaping immediately. It was not until the next day that he realised the Arab with gun clipping that he had found blowing down Brick Lane, was of Osama bin Laden. It seemed a shockingly prophetic painting. He then collected all the papers for the next week, and made a series of paintings sourced from the coverage of the 9/11 attacks. It catapulted him into working exclusively with newspaper clippings as source material. He has explored the repercussions of the so called ‘ War on Terror’ and the subsequent devastation of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
With the rather timely killing of Osama bin Laden, this memorial exhibition represents a selective history of the last decade and how it has been described to us through the media. Transcribing newspaper articles, the paintings filter the information we receive on a daily basis to give us only hints at what is happening. While having a focus on the fall out of the 9/11 attacks, we also catch a glimpse of what else is considered newsworthy. Exercising his own journalistic integrity, Mendes presents his potted history of the last decade, showing the devastating alongside the more trivial. A painting of Farrah Fawcett’s obituary sits alongside a clip referencing the 9/11 trials. Nothing is too extreme or too banal. We are given facts but out of context. It is Mendes’ own personal newspaper.
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5 New St., Edinburgh, EH8 8BH
4 Aug – 4 September
11 Mare Street, London E8
Viktor Wynd Fine Art Inc
List of Artists:
Leonora Carrington, Natasha Chambers, Oliver Clegg, Angela Cockayne, Adam Dant, Jill Tegan Doherty, Annabel Elgar, Noel Fielding, Nancy Fouts, Jen Franklin, Maria Teresa Gavazzi, Bert Gilbert, Carolyn Gowdy, Marcelle Hanselaar, Andy Harper, Lynn Hatzius, Paul Hazelton, Aly Helyer, Dan Hillier, Jimp, Nicholas Jolly, Damien Meade, Hugh Mendes, Raul Pina, Max Reeves, Steph von Reiswitz, Paul Sakoilsky, Lindsay Sekulowicz, David Spero, Tatiana de Stempel, Samantha Sweeting, Raisa Veikkola, Jessica Voorsanger, Daryl Waller, Kate Walters, Simon Willems, EC Woodard.
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Museumstrasse 32,
CH-9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland
3 July – 24 Oct ’10
Museum der Moderne, Salzburg,
Monchsberg 32,
5020 Salzburg, Austria