b. 1979, Brighton. Lives and works in London.
 
Kate Lyddon studied at Chelsea College of Art (MA Fine Art 2006), Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm (PGDip 2003-2005), and Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent (BA Fine Art 1998-2001). Recent exhibitions include Drawn Out, Drawing Room, London (2021), The Stand-Ins, Zabludowicz Collection, London (2022), and Throbwerk, Tallinn Kunsthalle, Estonia (2019). Selected solo/duo exhibitions include Primeval (duo with John Summers), studio1.1, London (2019); The Big Toe, Galerie d'YS, Brussels (2017); Zabludowicz Collection Invites: Kate Lyddon, Zabludowicz Collection, London (2015); The Mark Tanner Sculpture Award 2014-15, Standpoint Gallery, London (2015), amongst others across Europe and the UK. Lyddon is recipient of the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award 2014-15. She has been Artist in Residence at Camberwell College of Art in Painting and Ceramics (2011-2012) and at Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent, in Printmaking (2001-2003). Her work is held in public and private collections in Europe and the USA, including the Zabludowicz Collection, UK, and Saatchi Collection, UK. She was Associate Lecturer in Painting at Camberwell College of Art, London, 2017-2020.
 

EDUCATION

2006, MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK

2003 - 2005, Artist's Project/Postgraduate Diploma, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden

1998 - 2001, BA Fine Art, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Kent, UK

 

SOLO/DUO EXHIBITIONS 

2024 Sagger, Sinker, Wrinkler, Cob Gallery, London, UK

2024 AGBI, London, UK, forthcoming

2019 Throbwerk, duo with Angela Maasalu, Tallinn Kunsthalle, Tallinn, Estonia

2019 Primeval, duo with John Summers, studio1.1, London, UK

2017 The Big Toe, Galerie d'YS, Brussels, Belgium

2016 On Drool, Cabin Gallery, London, UK

2015 Zabludowicz Collection Invites: Kate Lyddon, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK

2015 Kate Lyddon - The Mark Tanner Sculpture Award

2014-15, Standpoint Gallery, London , UK

2015 Sad Autobiography with Happy Appendix, Galerie d'YS, Brussels, Belgium

2012 If You Should Die Unexpectedly, studio1.1, London,  UK

2012 Idolizer, Galerie d'YS, Brussels, Belgium

2011 Heroes and Villains, Gallery Daniela Da Prato, Paris, France

2011 Bread and Circuses, Galerie Charlot, Paris, France

2010 The Amazing Wall of Death, Galleri Villavägen 7, Uppsala

2010 The Feeling, Galleri Remi, Östersund

2010 The Letter, Galerie d'YS, Brussels, Belgium

2009 Happiness, Galerie Davide Di Maggio, Milan, Italy

2009 The Routine, Galleri Persson, Malmö

2009 Kate Lyddon, studio 1.1, London, UK

2009 Kate Lyddon, Galleri Anders Lundmark, Stockholm, Sweden

2008 Love At The Lido, Fold Gallery, London, UK

2008 Here's To You, Michelle And John, Contemporary Art Space, Bristol, UK

2007 Kate Lyddon, Galleri Anders Lundmark, Stockholm, Sweden

2007 Lennart Aschenbrenner and Kate Lyddon, Skellefteå Konsthall, Skellefteå (duo)

2007 Anders Engman and Kate Lyddon, Teaterhotellet Galleri, Malmö (duo)

2006 Kate Lyddon, Galleri Anders Lundmark, Stockholm, Sweden

2005 Untitled - Kate Lyddon, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm, Sweden

2004 Eugene's Party, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm, Sweden

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Drawing Biennale 2024, The Drawing Room, London, UK, (forthcoming)

2022 The Stand-Ins, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK

2021 Drawn Out, The Drawing Room, London, UK

2021 Drawing Biennale 2021, The Drawing Room, London, UK

2019 Drawing Biennale 2019, The Drawing Room, London, UK

2017 Figure it Out, Tannery Projects, London, UK

2017 Kate Lyddon and John Summers, studio1.1, Sluice Biennial, London, UK

2017 Street Semiotics, Charlie Smith, London, UK

2016 A Splinter in the Sun, Narrative Projects, London, UK, curated by Tim Stoner

2016 The Talking Lamp, The Kennington Residency, London, UK

2016 The Contemporary British Painting Prize, Richmond Museum and Huddersfield Museum, London, UK

2015 The Future Can Wait 2015, Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK

2015 Distorted Visions, The Dot Project, London, UK

2015 East London Painting Prize 2015, Shortlist Exhibition, The Rum Factory, London, UK

2015 Anti-Social Realism, Charlie Smith, London, UK

2014 Jerwood Encounters: Suspicion, Jerwood Space, London, UK, curated by Dan Coombs

2014 Chinese Whispers, Karin Janssen Project Space, London, UK, Eindhoeven

2014 Go Figure, Cob Gallery, London, UK

2014 Non-Sequitur, Beers Contemporary, London, UK

2014 Masques / Masks, touring show, Transition Gallery, London, UK

2013 Masques / Masks, touring show, Galerie d'YS, Brussels, Belgium

2013 Mingles Calypsus: Mungles Capitaltis, Neue Froth Kunsthalle, Brighton, UK

2013 Kate Lyddon and Jay Cloth, (duo), studio1.1, London, UK

2013 The Opinion Makers, collaborative work with Maria Bajt, curated by Lubomirov Easton at Enclave Gallery, London, UK

2013 Speak, Clown!, curated by Hotel Swirly-Whirly, Fold Gallery, London, UK

2013 HARTMANN. HELYER. LYDDON. BONILLA. & BAJT., Charlie Dutton Gallery, London, UK

2013 '****' Part 3, curated by Hotel Swirly-Whirly, Neue Froth Kunsthalle, Brighton, UK

2013 a house of many windows, curated by Day&Gluckman, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London , UK

2012 Post-War and Contemporary Art 1990 - Now, Christies, London, UK

2012 detours, Wimbledon Space, London, UK

2012 Degrading, curated by Herzog Dellafiore/studio1.4, hosted by studio1.1, London, UK

2012 The Saatchi Gallery [offsite]: One Giant Leap, Hyatt Regency, London, UK

2012 Translation-Change-Mutation: Susak EXPO(rt), studio 1.4, MUSEUM of MALI LOŠINJ, Mali Losinj, Croatia

2012 Untitled, studio 1.4, Art and Trade/Papierfabriken, Graz, and ExterrItorial, Vienna

2011 Face to Face, Transition Gallery, London, UK

2011 The Edge of Luxury: Form and Actuality, Fold Gallery, London, UK

2011 The Marmite Prize for Painting 2010, (Touring) Central Art Gallery, Tameside; Lanchester Gallery Projects, Coventry; The Nunnery, London

2010 No Soul for Sale; A Festival of Independants, studio 1.1, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London , UK

2010 Painting Over, studio 1.1, London, UK

2010 Pack of Fifteen, Lucky Strike, London, UK

2009 Close To Home, Galerie Davide Di Maggio, Milan, Italy

2009 Such Sweethearts, Studio 1.1, London, UK

2009 With or Without God, L-13 Light Industrial Workshop, London, UK

2008 The Damned and the Saved, Standpoint Gallery, London, UK

2008 The Marmite Prize for Painting 2008, Studio 1.1, London, UK

2008 Besame Mucho Mas, Reception Space, Chats Palace, London, UK

2007 He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, Melange Social Club, London, UK

2006 The Marmite Prize for Painting 2006, Residence Gallery, London, UK

2006 For Peel, No More Grey Gallery, London, UK

2006 Through the Large Glass, Three Colts Gallery, London, UK 

 

AWARDS

2015 The Mark Tanner Sculpture Award 2014-15, Standpoint Gallery, London, UK

2011 Emerging Artist Award 2011, for solo presentation with Galerie d'YS, Art on Paper, Brussels, Belgium

2006 Runner Up, The Marmite Prize for Painting 2006, London, UK

 

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2013 HARTMANN. HELYER. LYDDON. BONILLA & BAJT. we sell pornography here, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London, UK

2013 Speak, Clown! [Part 4], Fold Gallery London [co-curated with curatorial collective HOTEL SWIRLY-WHIRLY] 2013, **** [Part 1]/ ****[Part 2]/ ****[Part 3], Neue Froth Kunsthalle, Brighton , UK [co-curated with curatorial collective HOTEL SWIRLY-WHIRLY]

 

RESIDENCIES

2011-12 Ceramic Department, Camberwell College of Art, London, UK

2001-2003 Department of Fine Art, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK