Greg Rook

Greg Rook (born 1971 in London) is an English painter, known for contemporary figurative paintings capturing the hopes, dreams and successes as well as the disappointments, disillusionment and disasters that radical departures from home life and mainstream society can entail. He studied at Chelsea School of Art 1997–2000 and Goldsmiths College 2000–2002. In 2014 he was shortlisted for the East London Painting Prize. Since 2016 he teaches Fine Art at the London Southbank University.

Solo exhibitions 2019 - Honyocker, V&A Space, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan 2016 - Off-Grid, The Storeroom, London 2015 - Off-Grid, The Aldridge Gallery, Farnham 2013 - On the Prospect of Establishing a Pantisocracy, Fred London Ltd 2012 - Survivors, OMT Gallery, London 2009 - Clean Skins, Vegas Gallery, London 2007 - We Live Like This, Lounge Gallery, London 2005 - Myth II, Gallery Min Min, Tokyo 2005 - Myth, Gallery Min Min, Tokyo 2004 - Salvation is a Cowgirl, Adam Street, London 2004 - The Importance of Disappointment, Electric Palace, Hastings 2003 - Sirens, Gallery Min Min, Tokyo 2001 - Greg Rook, Gallery Min Min, Tokyo

Selected group exhibitions 2015 - Autocatalytic Future Games, No Format, London 2015 - The Office of Gravitational Documents, Galerie Laurent Mueller, Paris 2015 - Sunday in the Park with Ed, Display Gallery, London 2015 - Present Tense, Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, England 2014 - The Zeitgeist Open 2014, Zeitgeist Arts Projects, London 2014 - Paint Britain, Ipswich Art School Gallery, Colchester and Ipswich Museums, England 2014 - Priseman/Seabrook Collection, Huddersfield Art Gallery, England 2014 - East London Painting Prize, Bow Arts, London 2013 - The Things of Life, Flowers, London 2013 - Timeslip, Gallery Stock, Berlin 2012 - Marmite IV, UK 2012 - Passage, Blindarte Contemporanea, Naples 2012 - Augment, Catalyst Arts, Belfast 2012 - Past and Present, OMT Gallery, London 2012 - The Perfect Nude, The Charlie Smith Gallery, London 2011 - The Perfect Nude, Wimbledon Space, London 2011 - Crash Open, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London 2011 - Graceland, Trailer, London 2010 - Crash Open, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London 2009 - I am by birth a Genovese, Galerie Forde, Geneva 2009 - These Here United States, Master Piper, London 2009 - The Royal Republic, Master Piper, London 2009 - Giddee up!, University of the Arts, London 2007 - Wintry, Lounge Gallery, London 2006 - Sensuous Panorama, Lounge Gallery, London 2006 - Brownfield, Lounge Gallery, London and Mac, Birmingham 2005 - A Moment in Time, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin 2005 - The Lost Night, The Prenelle Gallery, London 2005 - Current Vision, Sartorial Contemporary Art, London 2005 - Urban Bodies, 127 Brick Lane, London 2004 - Caution - Uneven Surfaces, Temporary Contemporary, London 2004 - SV04, Studio Voltaire, London 2003 - Godzilla, Trailer, London 2002 - The Four Colleges, AT Kearney, London 2000 - Future Map 2000, The London Institute, London 2000 - Summer Contemporary, Blains Fine Art, London 1999 - The Last Show on Earth, Clerkenwell, London

Collections The Madison Museum of Fine Art, Georgia The Swindon Museum and Art Gallery The Priseman Seabrook Collection The Devereux Collection The Lesmes Collection The David Roberts Collection The University of the Arts Collection