Mary Herbert
works exhibitions news about
b. 1988
Lives and works in London
Postgraduate Diploma in Drawing, The Royal Drawing School, London, 2018
BA with Honors, Fine Art and Contemporary Critical Studies, Goldsmiths University of London, 2010
Foundation Diploma (Distinction), Byam Shaw School of Art, London, 2007
one-person exhibitions
2023 Soft Logic, Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles
2021 Like Glaciers, Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles
To See Through It, Lychee One, London
2020 Lychee One, London
Union Gallery, London
group exhibitions
2024 Drawing Biennial 2024, Drawing Room, London (Forthcoming)
Leafmold paradise, Union Pacific, London
Ud Rocashaas, Hweg, Penzance, Cornwall, England
2023 Drawing attention: Emerging Artists in Dialogue, York Art Gallery, York, England
Lacuna, Coulisse Gallery, Stockholm
In the Shadow, White Cube, London
Afterglow, in lieu, Los Angeles
NADA New York, Moskowitz Bayse in collaboration with The Valley Taos, New York
Soulscapes, Meyer Riegger, Berlin
2022 Drawing attention: emerging British artists, The British Museum, London
New Mythologies II, Huxley Parlour, London
Works on Paper on fridges, Harkawik, New York
Land of the Lotus Eaters, Louise Alexander Gallery, Porto Cervo, Sardinia, Italy
Anonymous Was A Woman, Clint Roenisch, Toronto
Here Come The Suns, Bark Berlin Gallery, Berlin
After Dark, Mepaintsme
2021 Unfair Weather, Lychee One, London
Les Danses Nocturnes, curated by East Contemporary, Entrevaux, France
A Tiger In A Tropical Storm, Louise Alexander Gallery, Porto Cervo, Sardinia
Nine Lives, Fortnight Institute, New York
Bloodroot, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh
The Lonely Ones, Curated by Katelyn Eichwald, Fortnight Institute, New York
2020 Winter Solstice, Fortnight Institute, New York
Unmasked, Daniel Raphael, London
Dance First Think Later, General Practice, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Somewhere Else for a Little While, Eve Leibe Gallery, London
Hot Paper x Charlie Roberts, GIFC (Online)
2019 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Leeds Art Gallery and South London
A High Hang, Eccleston Project Space, London
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, London
2018 The Ingram Collection Young Contemporary Talent Purchase Prize, The Cello Factory, London
The Best of the Drawing Year 2018, Christie’s, London
articles & reviews
2021 “Drawing Conclusions: Artists Tell Us Why They Draw.” Elephant Magazine, 7 October 2021.
“Interview: Mary Herbert.” Brenda Magazine, Issue 7, May 2021.
2020 Irvin, Rebecca. “Mary Herbert’s Pastel Hazed Topology of the Unconscious Mind.” ArtMaze Magazine, Edition 19, 2020.
Bennett, Harry. “Illusion, Experience and Dream: The Soft Pastel Drawings of Mary Herbert.” It’s Nice That, November 2020.
Duguid, Rosalind. “Gaze into the Unconscious Mind with Mary Herbert’s Fantastical Drawings.” Elephant Magazine, May 2020.
Jaspan, Sara. “Mary Herbert: From Mesopotamia to the Cairngorm Mountains.” The Fourdrinier, January 2020.
awards & residencies
2019 The Royal Drawing School Dumfries House Residency, Scotland
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize–Finalist
Lynn Painter Stainers Prize–Finalist
2018 The Ingram Collection Young Contemporary Talent Purchase–Finalist
public collections
The British Museum
The Royal Collection