HOPE RIVER

1. Hope River, b. 1994, is an emerging Black British painter and writer who explores race and identity through the lens of Black Horror. Her visual aesthetic blends silhouetted scenes with a hallucinatory colour palette, and her writing style is autobiographical. River studied Fine Art at Leeds Arts University (HND, 2014), The HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (Ba Hons, 2017). She is based in South London.

2. Awards

   Bundanon Artist in Residence. Bundanon Art Museum, Australia, 2024

   Solo exhibitions

   Black Enough. Solo show, Refinery ArtSpace, New Zealand, 2023

   Group exhibitions

   Zonta Ashburton Female Art Awards. Group show, Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum, New Zealand, 2024

   Art on Loop. Digital group show, The Holy Art Gallery, Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam, 2023

   Zonta Ashburton Female Art Awards. Group show, Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum, New Zealand, 2023

   4th Annual Black History Month Exhibition. Digital group show, Contemporary Art Gallery Online, United States of America, 2023

   Global Challenges: Hope and Local Action. FASS group show, The Open University, England, 2022 (third-prize winner)

   A Black Firefly Amidst a Violet Interlude. Degree group show, University of Dundee, Scotland, 2017

   House of the Black Sun. Erasmus+ group show, The HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, Netherlands, 2016

   What Didn’t You Do to Bury Me? Graduate group show, Leeds Arts University, England, 2014

   Ilford Photo Student Photographer of the Year. Group show, Ilford Photo, England, 2014

   Press

   Morbidly Beautiful, United States
   FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET. Artist Spotlight: Hope River, 2024

   Bundanon Art Museum, Australia
   FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET. Artists in Residence media release, 2024

   The Press: Christchurch and Canterbury news, New Zealand
   BLACK ENOUGH ACT II. 10 exhibitions to see in October, 2023

   Art Edit Magazine, Australia
   sis didn’t apologise once. Gallery, Issue #35, 2023