Lives and works in Wales, UK, and Berlin, Germany
EDUCATION
2007-2009- Royal College of Art- MA (RCA)- Printmaking
2000-2003- Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design- BA Honors Fine Art
1999-2000- Carmarthenshire College of Technology and Art- Foundation Diploma
EXHIBITIONS
2024
Noise: New Media Art, Kadikoy City Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
2023
On Water and Plants, Troy House, London, UK
Summer Special Show, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2022
Editions, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Renata Kudlacek and Rhys Himsworth, ART MUC, Munich, Germany
On Water and Plants, Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany
Hereafter, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany (solo show)
Renata Kudlacek and Rhys Himsworth, Contemporary Showroom, Berlin, Germany
2021
New Silk Roads, Pada Galerie, Lisbon, Portugal (solo show)
Topographies of Decline, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (solo show)
2019
Hosting: On Symbionts, Parasites, and Other Relations, Interiors to Being, Berlin, Germany
What We Don't Have We Can Create, Galerie Pada, Lisbon, Portugal
2018
Monoliths, CICA Museum, Seoul, South Korea (solo show)
Everything Flows, Takt Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017
Form (Force), VCUQatar Gallery, Doha, Qatar
International Exhibition on Conceptual Art, CICA Museum, Seoul, Korea
2016
Independent Music Video and Sound Art, CICA Museum, Seoul, Korea
2015
Artist Inventor, Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S
Avatar, India Art Fair, New Dehli, India
2014
dRAW, Black Swan Arts Center, Frome, UK
Out Of/In Countenance, Stainless Gallery, New Delhi, India
2013
Standalone Tools, Katara Art Center, Doha, Qatar (solo show)
Avatar, United Art Fair, Delhi, September 2013, group show
Hybrid Making, Tasmeem Doha, Faculty Exhibition
2012
Entropy, VCUQatar, Doha, Qatar, (solo show)
2011
Up and Coming: New Printmaker Make Their Mark, Hunterdon Museum, New Jersey, U.S
Entropy, National Museum of Wales (solo show), as part of Locws International, Swansea, UK
2010
Royal Academy Summer Show, London, UK
Avatar, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA, U.S (two-person show)
Enquire Within Upon Everything, Reference Gallery, Richmond, VA, U.S (solo show)
2009
Electronic Visualization and the Arts, Royal Computer Society, London, UK
Royal Academy Summer Show, London
Royal College of Art Degree Show, London
Man Group Drawing Prize, Royal College of Art, London
Bandstand, Café Gallery Projects, Bermondsey, London
Up, Down, Left, Left, Right, Right, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London
Originals, Mall Galleries, London
2008
Factory, James Taylor Gallery, London
Secrets 2008, Royal College of Art, London
Sorry, All Sold Out, New Cross, London
Systems and Patterns, Whitechapel Gallery Project Space, London, UK
Who’s Afraid of the Dark, Imperial Works, London
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2023
Wales Arts International Award
2020
Wales Arts International
2019
A New Silk Road
Faculty Research Grant- Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, Doha, Qatar
2018
Art Bot: Autonomy and Agency in the Age of The Internet of Everything
VCU Presidential Research Quest Fund
2017
Monoliths
Faculty Research Grant- Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, Doha, Qatar
2016
The Gnostic Autotroph
Faculty Research Grant- Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, Doha, Qatar
The Aura of The Web
Faculty Exploratory Grant, Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, Doha, Qatar
Investigating Artist's Communities in an International Context. Part II
Faculty Research Grant- Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, Doha, Qatar
2015
Investigating Artist's Communities in an International Context
Faculty Research Grant- Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, Doha, Qatar
2014
Art and Medicine Learning Laboratory
Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP)- Qatar National Research Fund, Doha, Qatar
Chimera- Reality and Simulacra Within Digital Media
Faculty Research Grant- Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, Doha, Qatar
2012
The Hybrid of Virtual and Physical
Faculty Research Grant, Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, Doha, Qatar
The Art Souq
National Priorities Research Program (NPRP)- Qatar National Research Fund, Doha, Qatar
2011
Entropy- An exhibition of work by Rhys Himsworth
Faculty Research Grant, Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, Doha, Qatar
Lost in Translation- The Integrating of Artistic Languages Within the Context of Globalization
Faculty Research Grant- Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, Doha, Qatar
2010
Information is Beautiful- An exhibition of work by Rhys Himsworth
Faculty Research Grant- Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, Doha, Qatar
2009
Conran Foundation Award
Land Securities Prize
R.K. Burt Prize
Deutsche Bank Award- Runner Up
2008
20:21 Prize- Runner Up
2007
Arts Council of Wales Grant
BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS
2021
Painting, Photography, and the Digital: Crossing the Borders of the Mediums
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2019
Fanoon: Center for Printmedia Research, Hi-Lights 2012-2018, VCUQatar Press
2018
CICA: Art Now, CICA Press
2016
Art and Medicine, VCUQatar Press
2015
Printmaking: A Complete Guide To Materials and Processes, Laurence King Publishing
2014
The Art Souq, VCUQatar Press
ARTISTS' TALKS AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS
2021
Painting, Photography, and the Digital: Crossing the Borders of the Mediums
University of Derby, UK
2019
Fanoon: Highlights- 2012-2019, Panel Chair
VCU Qatar, Doha, Qatar
Hosting: On Symbionts, Parasites and Other Relations,
Interiors to Being, Berlin, Germany
Art Teleported Symposium, Brooklyn, New York
2018
New Media Art and Public Art International Symposium,
Korean Fine Arts Association, Sungkyul University, Seoul, South Korea
Shifting Sands: Emerging Frontiers in the Globalized Landscape
Southern Graphics Council International Panel, Chair
Las Vegas, Nevada, US
2017
⌘+Shift+N- Strategies of Resistance in Times of Global Flux
Southern Graphics Council International Panel, Chair
Atlanta, Georgia, US
2016
An Examination of Artists' Communities in an International Context
Part of the panel discussion ‘Art Happens’: New Models for DIY Initiatives’,
Curated by Reni Gower, College Arts Association Conference, Washington DC
2014
Art in Doha, Past, Present, Future
Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
A Comparative Look at Artists' Communities Around the World
Presentation at the 9th International Conference on The Arts in Society: The Lives of Art, Rome, Italy
The Art Souq
Presentation at the Specters of Evaluation: Rethinking Art/Community/Value
Melbourne, Australia
Designing an Artists Studio Complex in Qatar
Presentation at the 8th International Conference on Design Principles and Practices:
Design as Collective Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada
2010
Fast Media/ Slow Knowledge
Southern Graphics Council, Philadelphia, U.S
2009
Electronic Visualization and the Arts
British Computer Society, London, U.K
RESIDENCIES
2023- Arctic Circle Residency
2020- Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2019- Pada, Lisbon, Portugal
2018- Takt Kunstprojektraum, Berlin, Germany
2017- International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York, US
2016- Picture Berlin Kunst Academy, Berlin, Germany
2013- Virginia Center for Creative Arts, U.S
2009-2010- Plant Zero Fellowship, Virginia Commonwealth University, U.S
VISITING ARTIST POSITIONS
2015- Weill Cornell Medical College, Qatar campus
2014- School of The Art Institute of Chicago, U.S
2013- University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
2009-2010- Virginia Commonwealth University, U.S
2008- Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, UK
University of Hertfordshire, UK