Alexis Harding

Alexis Harding (born 1973) is a British artist. Harding was born in London. He studied fine art at Goldsmiths' College from 1992 to 1995. He was selected by a jury that included Jarvis Cocker, Gavin Turk and former John Moores prizewinner Callum Innes. The same year he had a solo exhibition at Andrew Mummery Gallery. In 2011, Harding exhibited a solo show at Rubicon Gallery, Dublin. Harding was himself a member of the jury for the John Moores Prize in 2023 alongside The White Pube, Chila Kumari Burman, Marlene Smith and Yu Hong. Harding exhibited a career retrospective at Palazzo Lombardia in 2024, entitled Alexis Harding: 20 years 20 seconds. . He is represented by Luca Tommasi Arte Contemporanea in Milan.

Slump/Fear (orange/black) was described by Laura Gascoigne in The Spectator as "a messy outburst against the pattern-making impulse, spoiling a surface of perfect checks with an ugly tear". His works were called simply "gloopy abstracts" by Rose Jennings in The Observer. Barry Schwabsky wrote for Artforum that the titles of Harding's paintings "give a pretty clear idea of the results", citing Slump/Fear, Ruinart, Collision and Collapsed Painting as examples.