Perry Roberts b. 1954
° 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.
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Words are very Unnecessary
Group Exhibition 29 Mar - 4 May 2025 New South -
'It's all right, don't think twice'
Group exhibition 16 May - 16 Jun 2024 New South, South (former location)Titled after the Bob Dylan song, this double-exhibition which spans the two galleries of Sofie Van de Velde (South and New South), asks us to leave the matter behind us....Read more -
Over ritme, motief en ruimte
Group exhibition 10 Apr - 9 May 2021 New SouthDaniel Buren, Willy De Sauter, Guy Mees, Charlotte Posenenske & Perry Roberts. Art is a story about encounters, a combination of specific qualities: head and heart, thoughts and feelings. Although...Read more -
L'heure bleue Part I
Groupshow 9 Jun - 31 Jul 2020 New SouthL’Heure Bleue Gallery Sofie Van de Velde and PLUS - ONE Gallery present ‘L’Heure Bleue’. L’heure bleue is the moment when the sun has set, but the night has not...Read more -
Looking at the world through rose colored glasses
Group exhibition 19 Jan - 3 Mar 2019 New SouthGermaine Kruip Sara Sizer Guy Mees Bendt Eyckermans Pieter Jennes Max Pinckers Charline Tyberghein Willy De Sauter Jacques-Louis Nyst Gommaar Gilliams Perry Roberts Catharina Dhaen Rik De Boe Ives Maes...Read more -
Soft?
Group exhibition 28 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 Groen Kwartier (former location)In collaboration with Fashion Museum Antwerp and PLUS-ONE Gallery. Sara Sizer Gommaar Gilliams Pieter Jennes Perry Roberts Rik De Boe Bernd LohausRead more -
Perry Roberts
Non finito 18 Jan - 21 Feb 2018 Groen Kwartier (former location)Perry Roberts isn’t finished – especially with his own oeuvre. In his latest exhibition at Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, he confronts his own artistic past. Though he comes from...Read more -
More Canvas
Group show 13 May - 25 Jun 2016 Groen Kwartier (former location)“More canvas” is een groepstentoonstelling waarbij verschillende Belgische en Internationale kunstenaars de mogelijkheden en beperkingen van het medium ‘canvas’ verkennen. Een canvas is een middel en nooit een doel op...Read more
Solo exhibitions |
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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 |
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 |
2003 |
'HERE', Kasteel van Leeuwergem, BE |
2002 |
'Between Here and There', Galerie Evelyne Canus, Basel, CH |
2001 |
Galerie Conrads Dusseldorf, DE |
2000 |
Galerie Annie Gentils, Antwerp, BE |
1999 |
Vera Munro Gallery, Hamburg, DE |
1997 |
Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium |
1996 |
Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
1994 |
Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, DE |
1993 |
Gallerie Art -In, Nürenburg, DE |
1992 |
Patrick De Brock Gallery, Antwerp, BE |
1991 |
Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK |
1989 |
Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK |
1988 |
Goldsmiths4 M.A. Project Space, London, UK |
Group exhibitions |
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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 |
2020 |
'L'heure bleue', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde & PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, BE |
2019 |
‘Looking at the World through Rose Coloured Glasses‘, Sofie van de Velde Gallery, Antwerp, BE |
2018 |
‘Malevolent Eldritch Shrieking’ Attercliffe, Sheffield, UK |
2017 |
‘WordsWordsWords’, Sofie van de Velde Gallery, Antwerp, BE |
2016 |
Art Brussels, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE |
2015 |
'Club Banger 1' UpDown Gallery, Ramsgate Kent, UK |
2014 |
'30/30 Image Archive Project', MINUS SPACE, Brooklyn, USA |
2013 |
'Jo Delahaut-Hors Limites', Botanique, Brussels, BE |
2011 |
'The what and the how', Galerie Zandt, Eindhoven, NL |
2010 |
'Miniscule', Oblong gallery, London, UK |
2009 |
'Hypersurface FX', Margini Contemporary Art, Massa, IT |
2008 |
'1968 – Architecture in Movement', Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, GE |
2007 |
'Retribution', Objectif exhibitions, Antwerp, BE |
2006 |
'If it didn’t exist, you’d have to invent it', The Showroom Gallery, London, UK |
2005 |
'Fiesta’, Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp, Be |
2004 |
'De Tuin van Herman Teerlinckx', Herman Teerlinckx House, Beersel, Brussels, BE |
2003 |
'Sugar and Spice', Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp, BE |
2002 |
'Painting as a Foreign Language', Edificio Cultura Inglesa/Centro Brasileiro Britanico Sao Paulo, BR |
2001 |
'Veranderung', Neuerwerbungen der vergangenen 10 jahren Studio A Otterndorf, Museum Gegenstandsfreier Kunst Landkreis Cuxhaven, DE |
1999 |
'Selections Winter 99, Paul Morrison, Perry Roberts, Richard Wright', The Drawing Center, New York, USA |
1998 |
'Circuit', Bruges, BE |
1997 |
'Pia Fries, Olaf Christopher Jenssen, Perry Roberts', Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf, DE |
1996 |
'New Painting from the Arts Council Collection', Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, 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 |
1993 |
Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, AT |
1992 |
'Abstract Painting, Between Analysis and Synthesis', Gallery Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, AT 'Brit Art', Kunsthaus Glarus, CH |
1991 |
Bath Festival Exhibition, Bath, UK |
1989 |
'Six British Artists', Rijksacademie Van Beelden Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL |
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 |
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. |