Roger Hiorns

Roger Hiorns ( born 1975 in Birmingham ) is a British artist who became nationally and internationally primarily through installations and objects known. Among his most famous works are works of art, where he uses optical fire or uses crystals as a material.

Life and work

Roger Hiorns studied from 1991 to 1993 Art at the Fine Art Foundation at Bourneville College in Birmingham and graduated in 1996 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Goldsmiths College in London from.

Hions exhibiting his works since 1997 regularly in group and solo exhibitions. His first major group exhibitions were here in 1997 from Goldsmiths College in London and at Transmission Gallery in Glasgow instead. In the following years he showed his works, especially in collaboration with the London gallery Corvi - Mora repeatedly in galleries in London and in Germany (Hamburg, Berlin, Dusseldorf ) and California. In 2002 he was part of the exhibition Still Life at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago de Chile, the same year he also presented at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Since then he has regularly represented internationally, including in Japan, China, South America, Spain, France and the USA. Since 2001, he also organizes regular solo exhibitions, the Art Now in 2003 with the fire sculpture at Tate Britain Vauxhall 's Sculpture Court

In 2008 his date medienwirksamste exhibition took place in a residential building in London. For the Artangel project Seizure he took advantage of a vacant apartment and filled it with 80,000 liters of copper sulphate solution. Within three weeks, all the walls, ceiling and the interior of blue crystals were covered. Visitors could enter the apartment and look at the rooms.

Hiorns lives in London.