Alex Hartley

Born in 1963, Alex Hartley graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1990 and lives and works in London and Devon.

Major projects have included The Clearing, a collaborative and participatory artwork, which occupied the grounds of Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park during 2017; also that year, the artist's work featured in the Yokohama Triennale while the monumental, site-specific installation Wall was on view as part of the 2017 Folkestone Triennial. This followed Hartley's participation in the 2014 iteration of the triennial with Vigil, a project in which together with volunteers he manned a specially constructed look-out point, maintaining a log book to document observations made from the vantage point of the sea-facing Grand Burstin Hotel.

Previously, the artist has undertaken a residency with the National Trust for Scotland (2013) and has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally at venues including the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery (RAMM), Exeter, UK (2024); Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK (2019); KØS Museum for art in public spaces, Koge, Denmark (2019); Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (2017); Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (2017); Contemporary Arts Centre, Ohio, US (2014); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark (2013, 2000); Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK (2012); Fundación Canal, Madrid, Spain (2008); Leeds Metropolitan Gallery, Leeds, UK (2008); Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (2007); Natural History Museum, Liverpool, UK (2006); Urbis, Manchester, UK (2006); Distrito Cuatro, Madrid, Spain (2003); and The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (2001). Since 1997 Hartley has been engaged in collaborative site-specific projects with architects including David Adjaye Associates and Alford, Hall, Monaghan and Morris.