Piers Secunda CV
Education
1995-1998 BA Painting, Chelsea College of Arts, London
1994-1995 Foundation, Surrey Institute of Art, Farnham
Selected Exhibitions including Solo Projects
2027 Piers Secunda: 20 Years. The Atkinson Gallery, Southport. U.K
2024-2025 Alderney: The Holocaust on British Soil. Elizabeth Fort Museum, Jersey, British Channel Islands (Solo Exhibition ends October 2025)
2025 War For Breakfast, Bunker 1884, Hoek Van Holland
2023 Nobody’s Listening. United States Institute For Peace, Washington D.C.
2023 Orange River. SixtySix Gallery, London 2023 Alderney: The Holocaust on British Soil. Cromwell Place, London (Solo Exhibition)
2023 Nobody’s Listening. Thomas Fried Gallery, University of Nebraska, Omaha 2022 Gods of War. Ohsh Projects, London 2022 Good on Paper. Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York
2021-2022 And Yet We Rise: 20 Years of Remembrance and Reflection of September 11th. American Embassy, London.
2021 Nobody’s Listening, ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe, Germany
2021 Actonition WhyWhyArt, Shangahi at the Department of Culture and Education of the German Consulate General in Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2021 Pretty Ugly. Thames-Side Gallery. 2021 TriBeca Film Festival (Contributing Artist) 2021 The Middle East Room (Work on Permanent Display) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
2020 Owning History: Mespotamia to Iraq. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (half the exhibition occupied by Piers’ installation and drawings)
2020 Fall Breeze. Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York
2019 Road Through Kurdistan. P21 Gallery, London
2019 Piers Secunda: ISIS Destruction Paintings, University of Houston Art Gallery (Solo Exhibition)
2019 What Remains. Imperial War Museum, London
2018 Society of Petroleum Engineers. ATCE Exhibition, Dallas (Solo Exhibition)
2018 Piers Secunda: ISIS Bullet Hole Paintings. Longsharp Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana (Solo Exhibition, with Catalogue)
2018 - 2019 Cultural Destruction Paintings. Iraqi Ambassador’s Private Residence, London (Solo Exhibition. One year long)
2018 C4RD. Centre for Recent Drawing, London 2017 X Years After. Thomas Jaeckel Gallery “First Decade” exhibition, New York 2017 Incarnation I. W.Ming Gallery, New York
2017 ISIS Bullet Hole Paintings. Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York (Solo Exhibition)
2016 Perfectionism III. ColArt, London
2016 Pergamon Alterations. New York University, Faculty of Fine Arts, New York University (Solo Exhibition)
2016 Context New York Art Fair
2016 The Missing: Rebuilding the Past. Jessica Carlisle Gallery, London (Catalogue)
2016 The Circling Sky. Art Bermondsey Project Space, London. (Solo Exhibition+Catalogue)
2016 Winter Salon. 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York
2015 The Missing: Rebuilding the Past. Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, CUNY (City Unversity of New York), New York (Catalogue)
2015 Context Art Miami Fair
2015 Raw: Word And Image. Space 776, Brooklyn, New York
2015 Community Hospital. WhyWhyArt. Shanghai
2015 Tribeca Film Festival. Spring Studios, New York (work awarded for best documentary)
2015 Archived Oil. David Krut Projects, New York. (Solo Exhibition)
2014 The Rise Of Oil. Jessica Carlisle Gallery, London. (Solo Exhibition)
2014 The Social Bases of Abstraction. UpDown Gallery, Ramsgate. Curated by Ben Weidel Kaufmann
2014 Antiquity to Today. Guus Roell Fine Art, Maastricht.
2014 War Stories. William Holman Gallery, NYC. Curated by Anthony Haden-Guest
2014 Art14. UpDown Gallery, Olympia, London.
2013 One. UpDown Gallery, Ramsgate.
2013 Piers Secunda. Small Works Gallery, Brisbane, Australia. (Solo Exhibition)
2013 Piers Secunda: A Retrospective. UpDown Gallery, Ramsgate (Retrospective Exhibition+Catalogue)
2013 Taliban Paintings. Kuub Kulture Space, Utrecht, Holland. (Solo Exhibition)
2013 W-A-R. Jacob’s Island Gallery, London
2013 Let Me Introduce… UpDown Gallery, Ramsgate
2012 Black Gold. Vegas Gallery, London
2012 The Materiality of Paint. Fine Art Society, London
2012 Taliban Bullet Holes. Small Works Brisbane, Australia (Solo Exhibition)
2012 Piers Secunda. Kuub Kulture Space, Utrecht, Holland (Solo Exhibition)
2012 L&M Arts. Hong Kong Fair
2012 Taliban Bullet Holes. YK Art, Moganshan Rd, Shanghai (Solo Exhibition)
2012 Paradox : The Limit of Liberty. Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam
2012 No One To Hear You Scream. Saamlung Gallery, Hong Kong
2012 Immortal Nature. Edel Assanti, London. Curated by Gordon Cheung
2011 Reliefs and Crude Oil Silkscreens. Aubin Gallery, London (Solo Exhibition+Catalogue)
2011 Signal8. Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2011 The Great Alonso. Primo Alonso Gallery, London
2011 The Nature of change: Hybridity and Mutation. HRL Contemporary, London (Catalogue)
2011 Equisite Corpse. Zero Ten Gallery, London
2010 The City Folding Out. Yong Kang Lu Art, Shanghai
2010 Uber Collision: Epic Fail. Idea Generation, London
2010 The Earth Draws It. Zero Ten Gallery, London (Solo Exhibition)
2010 Mob Remedies. Gallery Primo Alonso, London
2010 Fakirs. Island6, Shanghai, China
2009 Tate The Biscuit. Shoreditch Town Hall, London
2009 Piers Secunda. Island 6, Shanghai, China
2009 Paperview. John Jones, London (curated by Danny Rolph)
2008 The Future Can Wait: New London School, (Catalogue) Truman Brewery, London
2008 Mashups. DACS, London
2008 Counterpoint, British Sculpture Now and Then. Robin Katz Fine Art, London. (with Anthony Caro. Eduardo Paolozzi, Conrad Shawcross, Barbara Hepworth etc.)
2008 Space Now. Space, London. (with Yinka Shonibare, Mark Wallinger, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Hew Locke etc.)
2008 Superscope. Lounge Gallery, London
2007 Piers Secunda, Paint Assemblages. Nettie Horn Gallery, London (Solo Exhibition)
2007 The Lucifer Effect. Gallery Primo Alonso, London (with Gordon Cheung, Boo Ritson, Anne Hardy etc)
2007 Noel Forster and Piers Secunda: Paintings and Constructions. The University Of The Arts (Catalogue)
2005 Secret. Royal College of Art, London
2005 The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (Catalogue)
2005 Salon Show. Hollow Gallery, London.
2005 Yabadabadoo. Cell Project Space, London.
2003 Paint In 2003. Century Gallery, London. (Catalogue)
2003 10 Selected Works. Vogue House, Conde Nast, London. (Solo Exhibition)
2002 Kiosk. The Kiosk Project, London.
2000 Paint! Tivoli Arts Co-Op, Tivoli, New York. (Solo Exhibition)
1998 The Temporary Museum. (with Chris Ofili, Gavin Turk, Peter Blake, Richard Long, Bob and Roberta Smith and Cornelia Parker, London). (Catalogue)
1996 Roll On-Roll Off. exhibition inside a Double Deck Bus, touring art museums, London.
1995 August Exhibition. Sotheby’s, London.
1994 Nicholas Thorp Gallery, London. (Solo Exhibition)
Collections
Victoria and Albert Museum, London Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University (work on permanent display) The British Museum, London 9/11 Memorial and Museum, New York Iraq National Museum, Baghdad Mosul Cultural Museum, Mosul, Iraq Texas Energy Museum, Beaumont, Texas U.K Government Art Collection UNESCO The Black Gold Museum, Darharran, Saudi Arabia The Al-Qassim Museum, Saudi Arabia The Museum of Photography, University of Southern California. The University of Houston The University For The Arts (Chelsea College Of Art)
Aquest International, New York
The Weston Collection
Findlay Asset Management, New York
Howard Corporation, New York
Noam Gottesman Collection, New York
Moore and Moore Arts
McWilliams Collection, Santa Barbara, California
Borsetti Architecture, New York
Katz Fine Art, London
Dr. Michael Jacobs, New York
Sid Bass Collection, Texas Guy Merison Collection, New York
Russel Toone, London Ping Ng Collection, London
Private Collections in the UK and US