Biography
David Haines’ work exists at the intersection between the traditional and contemporary (technical) image. Working with a variety of media - from painting and drawing through to music; ceramics and moving image, the work addresses ideas around what it means to make and look at images in our digitally drenched society. Haines works from out of the premise that technique is a language, that the image is both an anthropological and sociological object and that the experience of looking (at art) is essentially spatial, formed out of a symbiotic relationship between material and image.
David Haines studied at Camberwell School of Art, London and The Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. Publications in which his work is featured include Vitamin D2, published by Phaidon; Drawing People by Roger Malbert, published by Thames and Hudson; and Interdisciplinary Encounters - Hidden and Visible Explorations of the work of Adrian Rifkin, published by I.B.Tauris. Recent group exhibitions include ‘A Slice Through the World’ at Modern Art Oxford and Drawing Room London and ‘Trouble in Paradise’ at the Kunsthal, Rotterdam. He has had solo exhibitions at Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, Luisa Strina Gallery, Saõ Paulo, Art Basel Hong Kong (with Upstream Gallery) and The Armory Show NY. He has shown in group exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Turner Contemporary Margate UK, Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh, De Appel Amsterdam, MIMA Middlesborough UK, The Eye- Film Museum Amsterdam, The Bluecoat Liverpool and the New Art Space, Amsterdam. In 2011 he exhibited as part of the 12th Istanbul Biennial. He was awarded the Irinox Disengi /Drawing Prize at Artissima Turin in 2017 and the Jeanne Oosting Prize in The Hague, N.L. in 2012.
Publications:
Haines, David. Selected Works 2008-2014. Amsterdam: Upstream Gallery, 2014.