Tom Hunter is an artist using photography and film, living and working in East London. He is Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and has an Honorary Doctorate from the University of East London. Tom has earned several awards during his career, including the Rose Award for Photography at the Royal Academy, London and the Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Tom graduated from the London College of Printing in 1994 with his work ‘The Ghetto’, which is now on permanent display at the Museum of London. He studied for his MA at the Royal College of Art, where, in 1996, he was awarded the Photography Prize by Fuji Film for his series ‘Travellers’. In 1998 ‘Woman Reading a Possession Order’ from his series ‘Persons Unknown’, won the Photographic Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery. In 2006 Tom became the only artist to have a solo photography show at the National Gallery, London with his series ‘Living in Hell and Other Stories’.
Tom Hunter’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in major solo and group shows including: Life and Death in Hackney, National Gallery Washington D.C. USA; Seduced by Art, National Gallery, UK; A Palace for Us, Serpentine Gallery, UK; Another Story, Photography from the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden. He has published eight books including, Down The Lane (Cafe Royal Books 2020), Where Have All The Flowers Gone (Hartman Projects 2019), Le Crowbar (Here Press 2013) The Way Home (Hatje Cantz, 2012).
Tom has been commissioned by the Serpentine Gallery London, The Victoria and Albert Museum, the Museum of London and The Royal Shakespeare Company. His works are in many collections around the world including; MOMA, New York, The V&A, London, Tate Modern, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Smithsonian, Washington, National Gallery, Washington, National Gallery, London and the Los Angles County Museum of Art.
email; tintinski23@yahoo.co.uk
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Tom Hunter is represented by:
Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
Biography, Selected Works and Awards:
- 1965 – Born in Dorset
- 1980 – Leaves school, aged 15 and works on a farm for a year, and then for the Forestry Commission in Dorset
- 1986 – Moves to Hackney and works as a tree surgeon. Spends a year working for the USA Forestry Service in Puerto Rico.
- 1990 – Attends A-level Photography evening classes at Kingsway College, London.
- 1991-94 London College of Printing, BA 1st Class Hons.
- 1995 – The Tredou Arts and Culture Awards.
- 1995 – The Ghetto, museum of London.
- 1996 – Royal College of Art First Year Award for Best Photography (Fuji Film UK Ltd).
- 1997 – Royal College of Art, MA.
- 1997 – Wins Painter-Stainers Photography prize at The R.C.A.
- 1998 – Wins John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award with Woman Reading a Possession Order.
- 1999 – Neurotic Realism, The Saatchi Gallery, London.
- 2000 – Life and Death in Hackney, White Cube, London; Green on Red Gallery, Dublin.
- 2002 – Thoughts of Life and Death, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester.
- 2002 -Tom Hunter: Photographs, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius.
- 2003 – Tom Hunter, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
- 2003 -Tom Hunter, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem.
- 2003 – Wins John Kobal Book Award.
- 2004 – 1997-2004, Domus Artium 2002 Museum, Salamanca.
- 2005 – Tom Hunter, Galeria Visor, Valencia.
- 2006 – Living in Hell and Other Stories, The National Gallery, London.
- 2006 – Living in Hell and Other Stories, The Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield.
- 2006 – Artist in Residence, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
- 2006 – Living in Hell and Other Stories, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.
- 2007 – Tom Hunter, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina.
- 2007 – Art Project Commission from Rosetta Life.
- 2007 – Working on Film Commission with Channel 4 and the I.C.A.
- 2007 – Symbolismus Exhibition in Von der Heydt-Museum in Wuppertal.
- 2007 – Tom Hunter, The Falckenberg, Collection at Phoenix Kulturstiftung in Hamburg.
- 2007 – Art Project Commission by The Serpentine Gallery, London.
- 2008 – Interior Lives, Geffrye Museum, London
- 2008 – Halloween Horror, Culture House, Skovde, Sweden
- 2008 – Shopkeepers, new commissioned work for the V&A Museum of Childhood, London
- 2008 – Life and Death in Hackney, Fotografins Hus, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2008 – New Photography, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
- 2009 – Flashback, new commissioned work for the Museum of London
- 2009 – Theatres of the Real, contemporary British photography, Fotomuseum Antwerp
- 2009 – Tom Hunter A Journey Back, The Arts Gallery, University of the Arts London
- 2010 – A Palace for Us, Serpentine Gallery, London
- 2010 – Unheralded Stories Purdy Hicks, London
- 2010 – Lust for Life & Dance of Death, Olbricht Collection, Austria
- 2010 – The Ghetto, The Galleries of Modern London, Museum of London
- 2010 – British Photography, Photomonth, Krakow, Poland
- 2010 – Tears of Eros, The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
- 2010 – Awarded Honorary Fellowship by Royal Photography Society September
- 2011 – Awarded Honorary Doctorate of the Arts from the University of East London
- 2011 – Unheralded Stories, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
- 2011 – Tom Hunter; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon
- 2011 – Another Story, Modern Museet, Stockholm
- 2011 – Unheralded Stories, Mead Gallery, Warwick
- 2011 – Please Write, Posted, London
- 2011 – Caldic Collection, Kunsthal, Rotterdam
- 2011 – A Palace for Us, East End Film Festival, London
- 2012 – Seduced by Art; Photography past and present, National Gallery London
- 2012 – Tom Hunter; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, RSC, The Roundhouse, London
- 2012 – Punch and Judy, V&A Museum of Childhood, London
- 2012 – Honorary Fellowship from the University College Falmouth
- 2012- The Way Home, Book Publication with Hatje Cantz
- 2013- Two, Tom Hunter works are acquired by MOMA New York
- 2013- Findings, Birmingham
- 2013- From madonna to Madonna. Deconstructions of the feminine in contemporary society, Da2 Salamanca, Spain
- 2013- UK Photography Now, Dong Gang International Photography Festival, South Korea
- 2013- Divine Bodies, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK
- 2013- Public Spaces, Public Stages, Print House Gallery, London
- 2013- Making It Up: Photographic Fictions, V&A Museum, London
- 2013- Memory & Imagination, The Mall Galleries, London
- 2013- How is the World, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
- 2013- Unheralded Stories, Mission Gallery, Swansea
- 2013- Seduced by Art, Photography Past & Present, Caixa Forum, Barcelona
- 2013- Axis Mudi, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
- 2013- Le Crowbar, Book Publication with Here Press
- 2014- On The Road, LCC, London
- 2014- The Portrait in Contemporary Photographic Practice, The Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, U.S.A.
- 2014- Songs From The Heart, Bredaphoto festival, Netherlands
- 2014- The Luxury of Simplicity, Stradtmuseum, Munich, Germany
- 2015- Unheralded Stories, Sundsvall Museum, Sweden
- 2015- Tech 4 Change, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway
- 2015- Axis Mundi, Green on Red, Dublin
- 2015- Holly Street Estate, Peer Gallery, London
- 2015- The Luxury of Simplicity, Innsbruck, Austria
- 2015- Facing History, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
- 2015- Work Rest and Play, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
- 2015- a sideshow of a sideshow, Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan
- 2016- Life and Death in Hackney, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. USA
- 2016- Shakespeare in Art, Compton Verney, U.K.
- 2017- Searching For Ghosts, V&A’s Museum of Childhood, London, U.K.
- 2017- E.U. Flaneur, Format Festival, Derby, U.K.
- 2017- From Selfie to Self Expression, Saatchi Gallery, London, U.K
- 2017- Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London, U.K.
- 2017- Warwick University collection, Mead Gallery, Warwick, U.K
- 2017- Invited Artist, Royal West of England Academy, , Bristol, U.K.
- 2017- Mission is 40, Mission Gallery, Swansea, Wales
- 2018- London Nights, Museum of London, London, U.K.
- 2018- London Calling, Museum of Civilisation, Quebec, Canada
- 2018- Figures in a Landscape, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, U.K.
- 2018- Figures in a Landscape, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
- 2019- Sweet Harmony, Saatchi Gallery, London, U.K.
- 2019- Home Sweet Home, Arles photo Festival, Arles, France
- 2019- Home Sweet Home, Institute of Photography, Lille, France
- 2019- Der Palast, Volksbühne theatre, Berlin, Germany
- 2019- A Journey Home, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Hastings, U.K.
- 2020- Squaring The Circles, RPS, Bristol, U.K.
- 2020- Inspiration- Contemporary Art & Classics, National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2020- Inspiration- Contemporary Art & Classics, Finish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
- 2020- Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London, U.K.
- 2021- Generations: Portraits of Holocaust Survivors, Imperial War Museum, London, U.K.
- 2021- The Vanished East End, Documentary Photography from the 70’s and 80′, Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archieve, London, U.K.
- 2021- Refuge, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
- 2021- Johannes Vermeer; On Reflection, Dresden, Germany
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