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The Hut Project is an artist collective formed in 2005 and based in London, UK

Chris Bird
Born 1971 in Birmingham, UK
2006 Middlesex University, London, UK, BA Fine Art

Ian Evans
Born 1982 in Glasgow
2007 Goldsmiths College, London, UK. PGDip Contemporary Art History
2005 Middlesex University, London, UK. BA Sonic Art

Alec Steadman
Born 1983 in Sidcup
2005 Middlesex University, London, UK. BA Fine Art

Solo Exhibitions

2010
‘How to Sea’ at Project Space 11, Plymouth, UK
‘Giles said…’, Limoncello, London, UK
‘Machine Gun Corridor’, The Corridor, BolteLang (project space) Zurich, CH

2008
‘Old Kunst, ICA, London, UK, as part of ‘Nought to Sixty’*
‘It’s Not You, It’s Me’, BolteLang, Zurich, CH
‘It’s Not Me, It’s You’, Limoncello, London, UK

Group Exhibitions

2010
‘Being is what it is’, 38 Elderfield Road, London, UK (curated by Matthew Richardson)
‘Gallery, Galerie, Galleria’, Norma Mangione Gallery, Turin, IT (curated by Adam Carr)

2009
‘à crise..’, Sopro Projecto de Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, PT
‘Hollywood Wonderland’, Seventeen, London, UK
‘Abstract Cabinet Show’, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
‘The Fair Show’, Limoncello, London, UK
Manchester Contemporary Art Fair, Manchester, UK
‘The Little Shop on Hoxton Street’, Limoncello, London, UK
‘It’s Not You, It’s Me’, GEISAI#12, Tokyo, JP

2008
‘100 Years, 100 Artists, 100 Works of Art’, A Foundation, London, UK. Art on the Underground Commission

2007
‘I Can’t Live Without…’ The Showroom, London, UK (curated by Shama Khanna)
‘Temporary Measures’, Associates, London, UK (curated by Andrew Bonacina & Rebecca May Marston)

2006
‘We’ve Lost The Hearts and Minds…’, E:vent Gallery, London, UK (curated by Reza Aramesh)
‘Constellations’, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US (curated by Francesco Manacorda and Erin Manns – within ‘Cabin Baggage’, curated by i-cabin)

Projects and Performances

2009
‘The Space of the Work and the Place of the Object (Bringing the Sexy Back)’, part of the ‘Piggy-Backing’ Series, Ewer Street, London, UK
‘REGIFT (and Emily Loved him)’, part of the ‘Piggy-Backing’ Series, The Mews Project Space, London, UK
‘Ventriloquist’, part of the ‘Piggy-Backing’ Series, B101/4 (Bourbon), The Biscuit Factory, London, UK

2008
‘Without You It’s Nothing’, The Albany, London, UK (curated by Paul Mart & Laura Eldret)
‘Bachelor Party’, ICA, London, UK (curated by Will Holder, as part of ‘Nought to Sixty’)
‘In-Betweens’, Limoncello, London, UK

2007-ongoing
‘New Contemporaries’, Anthology Film Archives, New York, US; The British Library Sound Archive, London, UK; Lux, London, UK; Centre Pour L’Image Contemporaine, Geneva, CH

2006
‘The Hut Project Escort Agency’, Zoo Art Fair commission, London, UK

Residencies

2006 Harrow Lodge, Havering College, Romford, UK

Awards

2005 a-n Networking Artists’ Networks ‘Go and See’ Bursary

Bibliography

Likeyou-theartnetwork, ‘The Hut Project – Machine Gun Corridor at The Corridor’, April 2010
Eastside Projects Newspaper 6 – Abstract Cabinet Show, Interview Between Gavin Wade and The Hut Project as El Lissitsky, Nov 2009
Nought to Sixty, ICA London, ‘Mapping Nought to Sixty’, Melissa Gronlund, May 2009
The Art Newspaper, ‘Bang! Another Sale’, October 2008
TimeOut, ‘In the Studio’, Helen Sumpter, July 2008
Art Review, ‘It’s Not Me, It’s You’, Charles Darwent, July/August 2008
Art Review, ‘Top 5’, Ryan Gander, January 2008, p.26
a-n Magazine, ‘The Hut Project’, Networking Artists’ Networks, Sept 2007 & Apr 2006

Writing & Other Publications

‘Muderous Mary’, Project Bienalle, SIAD Gallery, Sheffield and Venice Biennale (curated by Amanda Beech, Jaspar Joseph-Lester and Matthew Poole)
‘It’s Not Me, It’s You’, F.R. David, ed. Will Holder, de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam
‘Flo-Jo and Bess’, Centrefold 7, 2008 (curated by Reza Aramesh)

Talks/Lectures

2010
Roundtable discussion with Sophie Hope and Paul Pieroni in Goshka Macuga’s installation ‘The Nature of the Beast’, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (part of Miss B’s Salons)

2009
Gradual Fabrication 2, part of ‘What Do Artists Do’, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK

2008
Bourneville Centre for Visual Arts, Birmingham, UK
‘Team Spirit: The Art of Collaborative Practice’, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK
‘After Dan Graham’, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK

2007/8
‘The Hut Project: New Contemporaries’ Curating Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art, London, UK; Bristol School of Art, Bristol, UK; Middlesex University, London, UK; Kingston University, London, UK; Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham, UK; LifeWorkArt Conference, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, UK, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK; Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK; Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK

2006
Bourneville Centre for Visual Arts, Birmingham, UK

* With Catalogue