Artist, teacher, writer and curator Henry Ward holds his PhD, Middlesex University, 2013, a PGCE Secondary, Art, Goldsmiths College, 1999, as well as a BA Honours, Fine Art, Winchester School of Art, 1993, and a Foundation Diploma, Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design, 1990.
Ward has served as an advisor for the Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, and is the Director of the Freelands Foundation. In early 2023 he was artist in residence at The Albers Foundation in Connecticut, USA.
HENRY WARD
Born 1971 London, UK
BA Fine Art (Painting) at Winchester School of Art (1990–93)
PGCE Art & Design at Goldsmiths University (1998-99)
PhD at University of Middlesex (2011–13)
Recent Solo exhibitions:
Dumb Ritual Vivienne Roberts Projects, London 2025
Engine Room m2 Gallery, London 2024
Medusa & Other Stories Kittoe Contemporary, London Art Fair, London 2024
From Woolwich Oasis, Frinton on Sea 2023
Baffle Aleph Contemporary, London 2021
Abracadabra AMP Gallery, London 2018
Recent group exhibitions:
Wrexham Painting Prize 2025
Shared Origins Winns Gallery, London 2025
Cubitt Invites Cubitt Gallery & Studios, London 2024
G.R.I.T Kunstpunkt Berlin and Drawing Projects UK, Dundee 2024
Wells Contemporary 2024 Wells Catherdral, Wells 2024
Concrete Abstract Terrace Gallery, London 2024
Knot – Rachael Causer & Henry Ward Stone Space, London 2024
Carnevale – Friendly Little Monsters Vivienne Roberts Projects, London 2023
Don’t Look Back Vivienne Roberts Projects, London 2023
Colour, Texture, Substance, No Name Warbling, Kingsgate Space, London 2023
A Little Closer Aleph Contemporary, London 2023
Shapeshifters Irving Contemporary, Oxford 2023
Small is Beautiful XL Flowers Gallery, London 2022
Swamp Legends Terrace Gallery, London 2022
The Aesthetics of Enchantment in Abstract Art Aleph Contemporary, London 2022
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize touring UK 2022-23
On Surface – Perspectives on Painting Messums, London 2022
Beep Painting Biannual 2022 Elysium Gallery, Swansea 2022
A Generous Space 2, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, 2022
Roam, Rebecca Gilpin & Henry Ward, Fitzrovia Gallery, London 2022
Binary II, Terrace Gallery, London 2022
The Football Art Prize, Touchstones, Rochdale, then touring UK 2022
In Awe of You, Liliya Gallery, London 2022
On Paper, The Paper Museum, Manchester 2022
Lido Stores Open, Lido Stores Gallery, Margate 2021
A Generous Space, Hastings Contemporary, Hastings 2021
Lost in Abstraction 1, 2, 3, Henry Ward & Mark Wright (curated by Alistair Hicks), Aleph Contemporary, London 2021
Oxlade Soup, Terrace Gallery, London 2021
Without Borders, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, then touring internationally 2021-2022
Drawing Room Biannual, Drawing Room, London 2021
Studio Confetti, Terrace Gallery, London 2021
My Foot in Your Face, curated by Dan Howard-Birt, Kingsgate Space, London 2021
Swimming Backwards, Sid Motion Gallery, London 2021
This Year’s Model Part III Studio 1.1, London 2020
Wells Contemporary 2020, Wells 2020
Hastings Open, Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, Hastings 2020
Way Out, La Grange Gallery, Cernay-Les-Reims, France 2020
Beep Painting Biannual 2020, Elysium Gallery, Swansea 2020
This Year’s Model Part II Studio 1.1, London 2020
6 Days in December, Thameside Gallery, London 2019
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize touring UK 2019-20
A Tapered Teardrop Terrace Gallery, London 2019
Fully Awake 4.6, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh 2019
Paint PS Mirabel Gallery, Manchester 2019
Bath Open 4ADD, Bath 2019
This Year’s Model Part II Studio 1.1, London 2019
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize touring UK 2018-19
This Year’s Model Part I Studio 1.1, London 2018
Publications
Bethany Anomie Publications Henry Ward 2025
Shed Paintings Hato Press Henry Ward 2021
Residencies
Stephen Swindells Studios, Morvan, France 2024
The Albers Foundation, Connecticut, USA 2023
Dirty Practice, Wolverhampton School of Art, Wolverhampton 2019
