Luke Willis Thompson
b. 1988, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Lives and works in London and Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Luke Willis Thompson
(a) breathing: collective noun, 2020
installation view: Oslo, Norway
Luke Willis Thompson graduated with an MFA Elam School of Fine Arts University of Auckland in 2010 and completed his Meisterschule at Städelschule, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt am Main in 2015. In 2018 he was nominated for the Turner Prize.
Luke Willis Thompson
Mouvement des Malades, 2024
three channel digital video, colour, sound
duration 6 hours
cinematography: Iain Frengley
production: Stephen Cleland
ed. 3 +1AP
installation view: Michael Lett Gallery, 3 East Street, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Luke Willis Thompson
Les anges, 2023
pencil on paper, custom frame 400 x 300 x 35mm
unique
Luke Willis Thompson
Adjacency (State v. Slager), 2019
hand-printed colour photograph on Kodak Endura Premier, diasec, aludibond
2220 x 1740mm
Recent Solo Exhibitions
- M o u v e m e n t d e s M a l a d e s , C o a s t a l S i g n s x M i c h a e l L e t t G a l l e r y , T ā m a k i M a k a u r a u A u c k l a n d ( 2 0 2 4 )
- Adjacency, Galerie Nagel Draxler Kabinett, Berlin (2019)
- Hysterical Strength, GAMeC, Bergamo (2019)
- _Human, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2018)
- Luke Willis Thompson, Adam Art Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington (2018)
- autoportrait, Chisenhale Gallery, London (2017)
Luke Willis Thompson
Adjacency, 2019
installation view: Nagel Draxler Kabinett, Berlin
Luke Willis Thompson
Two Bullets strike Castile Heart, 2019
hand-printed colour photograph on Kodak Endura Premier, Diasec, Aludibond
1470 x 1190mm
Recent Group Exhibitions
- The Mouth is for Speaking, Löwenbräukunst, Zurich, Switzerland (2022)
- Turner Prize, Tate, London (2018)
- Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2018, MMK 3, Frankfurt am Main (2018)
- We don’t need another hero, 10th Berlin Biennale, Berlin (2018)
- Field Guide, Remai Modern, Saskatoon (2017)
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Shout, Whisper, Wail: The Chartwell Show , Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Tāmaki
Makaurau Auckland (2017)
Luke Willis Thompson
_Human, 2018
35mm film, colour, silent
installation view: Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
Luke Willis Thompson
_Human (still), 2018
35mm film, colour, silent
9’ 30’’@ 24fps
Luke Willis Thompson (2018)
Installation view: Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington
Luke Willis Thompson
autoportrait, 2017
35mm film, B&W, silent
duration 9mins approx.
installation view: Chisenhale Gallery, London
Luke Willis Thompson
autoportrait, 2017
35mm film, B&W, silent
duration 9mins approx.
installation view: Chisenhale Gallery, London
Readings
- Tina Campt Adjacency: Luke Willis Thompson’s Poethics of Care, Flash Art, 2019
- En Liang Khong, The Moral Clarity of The Turner Prize 2018, Frieze, 2018
- Adrian Searle, Turner prize 2018 review – no painting or sculpture, but the best lineup for years, The Guardian, 2018
- Tavia Nyong'o, One Take: Luke Willis Thompson ‘_Human’, Frieze, 2018
- Dan Fox, Yes the Turner Prize 2018 is Political, and We Shouldn’t be Surprised, Frieze, 2018
- Tobi Haslett and Luke Willis Thompson, About Face, Mousse, 2017
- Hettie Judah, Diamond Reynolds: the woman who streamed a police shooting becomes a Renaissance Madonna, The Guardian, 2017
- K. Emma Ng, Hey, You There! Tactics of Refusal in the Work of Luke Willis Thompson, Pantograph Punch, 2017
Luke Willis Thompson
Untitled, 2015
bronze with ready-made steel components
600 x 600 x 200mm
Luke Willis Thompson
inthisholeonthisislandwhereiam, 2013