Robert Powell (b 1985) graduated with an MA in Fine Art (2008) and an MFA in Art, Space and Nature (2011) from Edinburgh College of Art.
Powell is the recipient of the SSA Deloitte Award (2015), SSA Engramme exchange (2013), RSA Benno Schotz Award (2011), John Watson Award (2008) and has exhibited extensively in the UK, Europe, Japan and North America.
Education
2009 – 2011 Edinburgh College of Art: Art Space and Nature MFA (distinction)
2003 – 2008 Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art; MA Fine Art in Painting
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 Phantom Things, The Fine Art Society, Edinburgh
2019 Bound For Other Isolations, Kilmorack Gallery
2018 Between Lost Spaces, The Fine Art Society, Edinburgh
2016 Species of Space, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
2014 The Palace of Forgetting, Kaname Art Spot Korin, Kyoto, Japan
2014 The Palace of Forgetting, Warburton Gallery, Edinburgh
2014 Histoire Universelle de l'Infamie, Engramme Print Gallery, Quebec, Canada
2013 The Thinking Machine, Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Akiyoshidai, Japan
2012 Mapping the Burning Lands, Aichi Prefecture University of Fine Art and Music, Nagoya, Japan
2011 The Bone Library, Summerhall, Edinburgh
2011 Histories of the Perplexed, Stag Studios, Edinburgh
2010 Macpherson’s Cave: Shadow and Enlightenment, The Henderson Gallery, Edinburgh
2009 The Modern Agoge: The Edinburgh Academy, Edinburgh
2009 John Watson Prize 2008: Robert Powell, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
2008 Lecturing Upon a Shadow: The Art of Robert Powell, Henderson Gallery, Edinburgh
Awards
2015 SSA Deloitte Award
2013 SSA Engramme Exchange
2011 RSA Benno Schotz Award
2011 Nominated for the ECA Chairman’s Medal
2008 John Watson Award
2007 Andrew Grant Award
2006 Joint-winner of RMJM Architecture Award
Residencies
2015 Paradigm North, Timespan, Helmsdale, Scotland
2013 Yamaguchi Society for Contemporary Art Residency, Kimachi House, Yamaguchi, Japan
2013 Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Akiyoshidai, Japan
2011 Madness in Revolt, Edinburgh University
2010 Anti-Tales: The Uses of Disenchantment, Glasgow University
2008-2009 Edinburgh Academy