Biography

° Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Graduated from Goldsmith's College, Londin, in 1989.
Lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.

 

Roberts' artistic practice spans a variety of disciplines, including abstract drawing and painting, architectural interventions in public spaces, language-typographic murals, and furniture design. His work explores the interplay between abstraction, architecture, and language, resulting in a diverse and enigmatic body of work. Roberts' works have been on view in the M HKA Museum for Contemporary Art (Antwerp), Ikon Gallery (Birmingham), and he was nominated by the David and Yuko Juda Art Foundation. His work can be found in the collection of M HKA and the Vlaamse Gemeenschap.

www.perryroberts.com

 
 
Exhibitions
Works
Art Fairs
Bibliography

Solo exhibitions

2021

'Below / Beyond', Hverfisgallery, Reykjavik, IS

2020

'Dus toch geen toeval, Perry Roberts & Dirk Vander Eecken', Kasteelstraat 1 8978 Watou, BE

2019

‘The Seasons’ Selfridges ‘STATE OF THE ART’ commission, Birmingham, UK
Neon text work commissioned for Werkhuis MINN, Antwerp, BE

2018

'non finito', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE

2007

'Between Certainty and Doubt', Koraalberg Gallery Antwerpen, BE

2006

'Transition', Ikon Gallery Birmingham, UK

2004

'European City of Culture', Lille, BE
'Furniture', Argentaurum Gallery, Knokke, BE

2003

'HERE', Kasteel van Leeuwergem, BE

2002

'Between Here and There', Galerie Evelyne Canus, Basel, CH
'Between Here and There', Galerie Annie Gentils, Antwerp, BE

2001

Galerie Conrads Dusseldorf, DE

2000

Galerie Annie Gentils, Antwerp, BE
Espace D'Art Contemporain, Demigny, FR
Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Brussels, BE
'Virus', Galliart , Antwerp, BE
Studio A Otterndorf, Museum Gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Landkreis Cuxhaven, DE

1999

Vera Munro Gallery, Hamburg, DE

1997

Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
Galerie Evelyne Canus, Nice, France

1996

Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

1994

Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, DE
Gallerie Conrads, Dusseldorf, DE

1993

Gallerie Art -In, Nürenburg, DE

1992

Patrick De Brock Gallery, Antwerp, BE

1991

Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK
Vera Munro Gallery, Hamburg, DE

1989

Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK

1988

Goldsmiths4 M.A. Project Space, London, UK

Group exhibitions

 

2025

'Words are very Unnecessary', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE

2024

'It's all right, don't think twice', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE

2021

‘Lipstick and Gas Masks’, MHKA, Antwerp, BE
‘Over ritme, motief en ruimte’, Gallery Sofie Van De Velde, Antwerp, BE
‘Ticker Tape’ Botanicc, Antwerp, BE

2020

'L'heure bleue', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde & PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, BE
'Dus Toch Geen Toeval’, Contemporary Art, Watou, BE

2019

‘Looking at the World through Rose Coloured Glasses‘, Sofie van de Velde Gallery, Antwerp, BE
‘The Fight’ Figuration vs. Abstraction, Kunstgenerator, Geneva, CH

2018

‘Malevolent Eldritch Shrieking’ Attercliffe, Sheffield, UK
‘Soft’ Antwerp Fashion Museum, Sofie van de Velde Gallery, BE
‘Bristol@Brixton’ San Mei Gallery, London, UK
’20 Years NICC-Jubilee exhibition’, Antwerp, BE

2017

‘WordsWordsWords’, Sofie van de Velde Gallery, Antwerp, BE

2016

Art Brussels, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
‘More Canvas Please’, Sofie van de Velde Gallery, Antwerp, BE

2015

'Club Banger 1' UpDown Gallery, Ramsgate Kent, UK

2014

'30/30 Image Archive Project', MINUS SPACE, Brooklyn, USA
'Look & Listen', Ancien Poudrerie, Saint-Chamas, FR
'About Town', Hippodrome Theatre / Ikon Gallery , Birmingham, UK

2013

'Jo Delahaut-Hors Limites', Botanique, Brussels, BE
'Big Deal No.5', Cavendish square, London, UK

2011

'The what and the how', Galerie Zandt, Eindhoven, NL
Casa Argentaurum, Gent, BE
'If you’ve got nothing to say don’t say it here', Centre d’Art Contemporain, Antananarivo, Madagascar
'We are the Only Artists in the Village', Kultureel Transfusiecentrum Meerhout, BE
'If the Lion Could Talk, We wouldn’t Understand Him', Geukens en De Vil Gallery, Knokke, BE
'Future Memory', Archetype/Ampersand House, Brussels, BE
30/30 Image Archive Project, MOINS UN, Paris, FR

2010

'Miniscule', Oblong gallery, London, UK
'Ten years Koraalberg', Koraalberg Gallery, Antwerp, BE
Image Archive Project, PS Projectspace, Amsterdam, NL

2009

'Hypersurface FX', Margini Contemporary Art, Massa, IT
'Jeugdzonde. Over opus één en opus min één’, LLS 387 Ruimte voor actuele Kunst, Antwerp, BE
HEDAH, Kunstverein Maastricht, NL
'Timewarp', Centre Rhenan d`Art Contemporain Alsace (CRAC) Altkirch, Alsace, FR
'Paperview', John Jones gallery, London, UK
'Summer exhibition', Koraalberg Gallery, Antwerp, BE
'Something I Don’t Do', Flowers East Gallery, London, UK
'Setting the Pattern', Koraalberg Gallery, Antwerp, BE

2008

'1968 – Architecture in Movement', Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, GE
'Designed by Artists', Gallery Z33, Hasselt, BE
'Fantasy' curated by Koen van den Broek, Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, BE
'De Canvas Collectie', Musee de Beaux Arts, Brussels, BE
'Hypersurface Plus', Ovada, Oxford , UK
'Superstratum', Koraalberg Gallery, Antwerp
'Yo, Mo’ Modernism', Brussels Biennial Off Programme, CCNOA Brussels, BE
'Presque Rien 2', Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK

2007

'Retribution', Objectif exhibitions, Antwerp, BE
'A little bit o’white', CCNOA, Brussels, BE
'Drawing Cabinet', Koraalberg Gallery, Antwerp, BE
'Pop Up – 1', Wimmerplus, Munich, GE
'Abstract 2', Galerie Conrads, Berlin, GE
'Pas de Soucis', Non Objectif Sud, Tulette, Drome Provençale France, FR
'Pentimento', Koraalberg Gallery, Antwerp, BE
'To Be Political It Has To Look Nice', Annette De Keyser Gallery, Antwerp, BE
'Perry Roberts / Emilio Perez', Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf, GE
'Und Jetzt', IS project space, Leiden, NL

2006

'If it didn’t exist, you’d have to invent it', The Showroom Gallery, London, UK
'Outdoors', Daniel Arnaud Gallery, London, UK
'Seiben auf einen Streich', Museum fur Mobel, Kunst und Architektur, MARTa Herford, DE
'Wall paintings', Koraalberg Gallery, Antwerp, BE

2005

'Fiesta’, Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp, Be

2004

'De Tuin van Herman Teerlinckx', Herman Teerlinckx House, Beersel, Brussels, BE
'Over de Grens / Across the Border', Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens Deurle, BE
'Moltimultipli', CCNOa, Brussels, BE

2003

'Sugar and Spice', Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp, BE
'Sense and Nonsense', Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, UK

2002

'Painting as a Foreign Language', Edificio Cultura Inglesa/Centro Brasileiro Britanico Sao Paulo, BR
'Das Befreite Nichts', Vera Munro Gallery, Hamburg, DE

2001

'Veranderung', Neuerwerbungen der vergangenen 10 jahren Studio A Otterndorf, Museum Gegenstandsfreier Kunst Landkreis Cuxhaven, DE
'Ici et Maintenant / Hier & Nu', Espace 251 Nord entrepot Tour et Taxis, Brussel, BE

1999

'Selections Winter 99, Paul Morrison, Perry Roberts, Richard Wright', The Drawing Center, New York, USA
'Trouble Spot Painting' Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, BE

1998

'Circuit', Bruges, BE
'Everyday', XIth. Biennale of Sydney, AUS

1997

'Pia Fries, Olaf Christopher Jenssen, Perry Roberts', Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf, DE
'Geometric Abstraction XVI', Konstructive Tendens, Stockholm, SE

1996

'New Painting from the Arts Council Collection', Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, UK
'Summer Exhibition,' Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke, BE
'Projecten: Paul-Armand Gette, Cecile Bart, Jacques Vielle, Perry Roberts, Ghislaine Portalis, Filip Francis, Luc Deleu, David Claerbouts', Galerie Montevideo, Antwerpen, BE
'A Sculptors Choice, Works Selected by Anne Christopher R.A.', Royal Academy of Arts, Picadilly, London, UK

1995

'Fabre-Rationalitat und Emotion: Douglas Allsop, Heinrich Dunst, James Hyde, Perry Roberts, Winston Roeth, Marthe Wery', Gallerie Art-In, Nurenburg, DE

1994

'Landescapes', Ex Lanificio Bona, Carigiano, IT
'Paper Works', Vera Munro Gallery, Hamburg, DE
Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke, BE
'Auf Papier: Monika Brandmeier, Marcia Hafif, Perry Roberts,
Fred Sandback', Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf, DE
'Summer Exhibition', Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke, BE
Todd Gallery, London, UK

1993

Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, AT
Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
'Moving into View: Recent British Painting', South Bank Center, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK
Touring Exhibition - New Painting from the Arts Council Collection, Darlington Arts Center,
Chapter Arts Center Cardiff, Oriel Gallery, Clwyed Wales, Newlyn Orion Gallery Penzance,
University of Northumbria Newcastle upon Tyne, Norfolk Institute of Art and Design Norwich, The Drumcoon Wigan, UK

1992

'Abstract Painting, Between Analysis and Synthesis', Gallery Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, AT 'Brit Art', Kunsthaus Glarus, CH
'With Attitude', Galerie Etiennne Tilman, Brussels, BE
Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf, DE

1991

Bath Festival Exhibition, Bath, UK
'PAC Archive Project', Centre D'Art Contemporain, Nevers, FR
'Place For Art', The Showroom Gallery, London, UK
'Perry Roberts, Craig Wood', Third Eye Center, Glasgow, UK
'Present Continuous', Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK

1989

'Six British Artists', Rijksacademie Van Beelden Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
'Minimal Means', The Showroom Gallery, London, UK
John Hansard Gallery, Southhampton, UK
'Summer Exhibition', Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK

1988

'Homage to the Square', Flaxman Gallery, London, UK

1986

'Beyond Appearance', Hampshire County Museum Services, Touring Exhibition

1984

'London Group', Royal College of Art, London,UK
'100 Artists', The Showroom Gallery, London, UK

1983

'Whitechapel Open Exhibition', Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK

1982

'Works on Paper', Aspects Gallery, Portsmouth, UK

1981

'London Group', South London Art Gallery, London, UK

1978

'British Contemporary Drawing', Marlborough Gallery, Marlborough, Wiltshire, UK

1975

Royal West Of England Academy, Bristol, UK

 

Bibliography

1990

'Drawings', Laure Genillard Gallery, London.
'Reihung 2', Vera Munro Gallery, Hamburg.
Summer Show, Laure Genillard Gallery, London.
Philip van Isaaker; Willem Cole,Marlou van Brakel, Richard Venlet, Gladstone Thomson, David Tremlett, Perry Roberts.
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium