DR. NARBI  PRICE
Born 1979 in Hartlepool, lives and works in Gateshead and Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
EDUCATION
PhD, Newcastle University in partnership with Woodhorn Museum 2015 - 2020
MFA, Newcastle University 2008 – 2010
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Northumbria University 1999 – 2002
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Trustee of Ashington Group Collection, Contemporary British Painting Committee member, Newcastle Arts Centre Trustee.
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(Portrait by Christopher Owens)
SOLOÂ EXHIBITIONS
2020
'The Ashington Paintings | Redux', XL Gallery, Newcastle University
2019
'All I Start Will End', Herrick Gallery, London
2018
‘The Ashington Paintings’, Woodhorn Museum, Ashington
2017
‘This Must Be the Place’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne
2016
‘Codeword’, PAPER, Manchester
2014
‘Narbi Price’, Galleria SIX, Milan, Italy
2013
‘Shan’t Quit’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne
2011
‘Narbi Price (site specific work)’, Galleria SIX, Milan, Italy
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Assembly, Rye Creative Centre, Rye
Beyond the Goldmine Standard, Gallagher & Turner, Newcastle upon Tyne
New Light Prize, touring Birkenhead, London, Keswick, Newcastle upon Tyne, Harrogate
2023
Darktown Beano, Atelier Brighton, Brighton 2023
Darker Than a Blackbird’s Retina, Calder Art Supplies, Huddersfield, 2023
Tarpey Open, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington, 2023
A Generous Space 3, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield, 2023
'The Discerning Eye', Mall Galleries, London
'Arcadia For All? Rethinking Landscape Painting Now', Attenborough Art Centre, Leicester
'Darker Than a Blackbird's Retina', Calder Art Supplies, Huddersfield
'X – Contemporary British Painting', Newcastle Contemporary Art, Newcastle upon Tyne
'Arcadia For All? Rethinking Landscape Painting Now', The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds
'Paradise Found: New Vision of the Blackdown Hills', The Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton
'Entwined - Plants in Contemporary Art', 20-21 Arts Centre, Scunthorpe
'Where We Live', Lakeside Arts, Nottingham
2022
'Entwined - Plants in Contemporary Art', Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield
'Gertrude Presents', Truman Brewery, London
Bankley Open, Bankley Studios & Gallery, Manchester
'This must be the place', The Art House, Wakefield
'Paint Edgy', The Ropewalk, Barton upon Humber
'Living with the Past', Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
'Beep Painting Biennale', Elysium, Swansea
'Surroundings', Old Parcels Office, Scarborough
'Vitalistic Fantasies', Elysium, Swansea
'A Generous Space 2 - #ArtistSupportPledge', New Art Gallery Walsall
'Paradoxes: 52 Painters', Quay Arts, Isle of Wight
'Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere', Newcastle Contemporary Art, Newcastle upon Tyne
'Still Life with Flowers, Rye Art Gallery, Rye
'Where We Live', Millennium Gallery, Sheffield
2021
'Small is Beautiful', Hansard Studio, London
'Open Exhibition', Gallagher & Turner, Newcastle upon Tyne
'Where We Live', Alan Baxter Gallery, London
'Infrastructure', Middlesbrough Art Weekender, Middlesbrough
'Where We Are Now', Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Sunderland
'Unlocked', Hartlepool Art Gallery, Hartlepool
'Unkempt - Shifting Aesthetics in Representations of Landscape', Messums Wiltshire, Tisbury
'Figurative Art Now', Mall Galleries, London (online)
'Bus Stop Gothic', Online
'Pretty Ugly', Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London
'The Lockdown Interviews Exhibition', The Cello Factory, London
2020
'Vitalistic Fantasies', The Cello Factory, London
'Paint the Town in Sound', Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Sunderland
ART STOPS, Various Locations in County Durham
'CENTURY', Hartlepool Art Gallery, Hartlepool
‘Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2020’, Royal Academy of Arts, London
'New Light Art Prize', Scarborough Art Gallery, Scarborough
'Dance First, Think Later, General Practice, Lincoln
'Relazioni Scomposte', Galleria SIX, Milan, Italy
'Picture Palace', Transition Gallery, London
'Beyond Other Horizons: Contemporary Paintings Made in Britain & Romania', Palace of Culture, Iași, Romania
2019
'neo:artprize', Bolton Museum & Art Gallery, Bolton
‘Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2019’, Royal Academy of Arts, London
'Made in Britain: 82 Painters of the 21st Century', Muzeum Narodowe w Gdańsk, Poland
2018
'New Painting', The Crypt, St Marylebone Parish Church, London
‘St Nowhere’, Lewisham Arthouse, London
‘Paint North’, Ladybeck Project Space, Leeds
2017
‘Testcard P’, The Crypt, St Marylebone Parish Church, London
‘Vicennial’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne
‘Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2017’, Royal Academy of Arts, London
‘The Contemporary British Painting Prize: Group Show 2017’, The Stables Gallery, London
‘Semiotic Guerrilla Warfare part IV’, CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London
‘Connections’, B&D Studios, Newcastle upon Tyne
2016
‘PAPER #33: The Cat Show’, PAPER, Manchester
‘Second Glances’, Michaela Helfrich Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2015
‘PAPER #25: Semiotic Guerrilla Warfare (part I)’, PAPER, Manchester
‘NORTH’, Newcastle Pavilion, Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival, Warrington
‘Ten’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne
‘The Haworth Prize’, Mall Galleries, London
‘Beyond the Goldmine Standard’, RPM, Newcastle upon Tyne (catalogue)
2014
‘(detail)’, H-Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand, touring to Transition Gallery, London, and Usher Gallery, Lincoln
‘Towards A New Socio-Painting’, Transition Gallery, London
‘HYDRA’, Unit 53, The Market Place, Bolton
‘another landscape’, dot to dot active arts, The Shed, Whistle Art Stop, Haltwhistle
‘Between fact and fiction’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne
2013
‘Small is Beautiful XXXI’, Flowers, London
‘PAPER #10: End of the Line’, Paper Gallery, Manchester
‘Painting, Past, Present: A Painter’s Craft’, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
‘Luminous Language’, Launch F18, New York, USA
2012
‘Paper #3’, Paper Gallery, Manchester
‘John Moores Painting Prize’, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
‘neo:artprize’, neo:gallery22, Bolton
‘6 X 4’, Motorcade/FlashParade, Bristol
‘Omnia Mea Mecum Porto: Works on Paper’, the Kotti-Shop, Berlin, Germany
‘Arte Fiera’, with Marc Bijl, Galleria SIX, Bologna, Italy
2011
‘Hole Editions: Ink on Paper’, Durham Art Gallery & DLI Museum, Durham
‘Nothing, Like Something, Happens Anywhere – New Work by Narbi Price and Neil Cammock’, Moving Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
‘9’, ACA Dovetail, Newcastle upon Tyne
2010
‘John Moores Painting Prize’, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
AWARDS
2023
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Curatorial Fellowship
2022
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary
2019
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award
GreatArt Award, neoartprize
2018
Visual Artist of the Year, Journal Culture Awards
2017
Winner, The Contemporary British Painting Prize
2015
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, Newcastle University & Woodhorn Museum
2012
Prize winner, John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
2011
Working Award, Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts
2010
Bartlett Travel Scholarship, Newcastle University
2008
AHRC Research Bursary, Newcastle University
2002
Graduate Fellowship in Painting, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne
Travel Award, British Airways
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020
'The Highest Form of Hope', interview with NE Times Magazine by Richard Dawson
Narbi Price: Lockdown, article, NARC. Beverley Knight
Painters Today Podcast, interview with Lucy Cox
2019
Against the Day, article for Culture Matters
Cultural Peeps Podcast, interview with Iain Wheeldon
2018
'Narbi Price - The Ashington Paintings' catalogue, featuring 'Striking Scenes' essay by Matthew Collings.
'Award-winning artist Narbi Price has followed in the footsteps of the Pitmen Painters', feature by David Whetstone, Chronicle Live, Newcastle upon Tyne, 25 May
'Unseen Pitmen Painters' art goes on display in Ashington', BBC website, May 26
2017
2017 According to... Narbi Price, interview with Jackson's Art by Lisa Takahasi
‘Narbi Price’, interview, David Whetstone, Chronicle Live (Newcastle upon Tyne), 2 June
‘Known (un)known’, essay, Matthew Hearn, Vane, May
‘This Must Be the Place’, review, Andrew Etherington, ArtMag, (Edinburgh), 17 May
‘Narbi Price’, article, Claire Dupree, NARC. (Newcastle upon Tyne), May
2016
‘Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting’, pub. Phaidon, London
‘Narbi Price reflects on painting and Manchester Bombing locations’, interview, Pocket Manchester(Manchester), 3 June
‘Space Explored’, article, Sara Jaspan, PAPER magazine (Manchester), 3 June
‘Narbi Price – Talking in Code’, video talk at PAPER, Manchester, Vimeo, part 1, part 2, part 3, June
2015
‘Drawing and Painting: Materials and Techniques for Contemporary Artists’, Kate Wilson, pub. Thames & Hudson, London
2014
‘The work of Narbi Price’, online video interview, for the Contemporary Visual Arts Network, and this is tomorrow (London), December
2013
‘Shan’t Quit’, review, Robert Meddes, The Crack (Newcastle upon Tyne), October
‘Shan’t Quit’, preview, NARC. (Newcastle upon Tyne), September
2012
‘John Moores Painting Prize shortlist’, article, BBC News website, 30 August
‘John Moores Painting Prize: Narbi Price’, interview, Chris Sharratt, Axisweb