1946 born in London, GB
lives and works in Canterbury, GB

Hamish Fulton focuses on one major thematic complex in his art: nature and man’s experience of nature. Over the past 30 years the artist has been undertaking extended walking tours on the world’s five continents. Using drawings made during these tours, he later processes the respective experiences in his work. He aims to find a generally valid form for the primal and direct relationship between man and the earth in all its diversity.

Solo Exhibitions (Selection)

2024 «Salzweg. Hamish Fulton», Salzkammergut, Kulturhauptstadt Bad Ischl, AT
2023 «A Walking Artist», FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille, FR
2022 «A Journey Where the Destination is not a Place but a State of Mind», Oslo, NO
«Linking the invisible footsteps of 3 seven day walks on Southern Italy October 2019», Fondazione Morra Greco, Neapel, IT
«Walking East», Museo Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, ES
2021 «Walking East», CGAC, Centro Galego de Arte Contemp., Santiago De Comp., ES
«Insignificant Insect?», Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, DE
2020 «Walking in Relation To Everything», Galerie Tschudi Zuoz, CH
2019 «A Decision To Choose Only Walking», Parafin, London, GB
«A Walking Artist», Gomide & Co, Sao Paulo, BR
2018 «Walking on the Iberian Peninsula», Bombas Gens Centre d’Art, Valencia, ES
2017 «Walking without a Smartphone», Häusler Contemporary München, DE
«Walking on and off the Path», Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia, Cerezales del Condado, ES
2015 «Indoors Outside», Häusler Contemporary Zürich, CH
2014 «Walking Transformation», Villa Merkel Esslingen, DE
2013 «21 Pieces of Wood for a 21 Day Walk in Montana», Missoula Art Museum MAM, Missoula, US
2010 «Rispetta la Montagna», Museo Transfrontaliero del Monte Bianco, Courmayeur, IT
2009 «Chomolungma», Häusler Contemporary München, DE
2008 «El camino. Rutas cortas por la Península Ibérica. 1979.2008», Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo MEIAC, Badajoz, ES
2007 «Water from the Mountains», Häusler Contemporary Zürich, CH
2006 «Hamish Fulton – Old Tree», Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyshu, JP
2005 «Hamish Fulton – Keep moving», Museion Bolzano, Bolzano, IT
2004 «Hamish Fulton – Walking Cuts a Line Through 21st Century Life», Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, CH
2002 «Hamish Fulton - placing one foot in front of the other», Bawag Contemporary, BAWAG - Foundation, Wien, AT
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, GB
«Walking journey», Tate Britain, London, GB
2001 «Hamish Fulton - The way to the mountains starts here», Museu Serralves, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, PT
2000 «The Clouds are Moving», Häusler Contemporary München, DE
«Hamish Fulton: Two River Walk», The Southern Alberta Art Gallery Lethbridge, CA
1999 Anchorage Museum of Art and History, Anchorage, US Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, JP
1998 «Hamish Fulton und Peter Hutchinson», Kunstverein Düsseldorf, DE
«Hamish Fulton: Die Vechte entlang gehen – Vier Wanderungen 1997», Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, DE
«Hamish Fulton – drawings», The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, US
1995 «Thirty one horizons«, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München DE
1985 «Hamish Fulton«, Institute d’art contemporain Villeurbanne, FR
1982 «Hamish Fulton - MATRIX 51», Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, US
1981 «Hamish Fulton», Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR
1979 «Hamish Fulton», Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, GB
1978 «Projects: Hamish Fulton», MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
1975 Kunstmuseum Basel, CH 1973 Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL
1972 Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, GB

Group Exhibitions (Selection)

2024 «Walking Mountains Social Walks», Museo Nazionale della Montagna, Turin, IT
2023 «La Source», FRAC des Pays de la Noire, Nantes, FR
2022 «Walk!», SCHIRN Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, DE
«Land Art & Earthworks», MAMCO Geneve, Geneva, CH
«Wild Thoughts. Photos from the Museum Collection», Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, Rochechouart, FR
2021 «Walking», PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine, US
2020 «Staging Silence», Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, NL
«Crown Point Press in the ’80s», Crown Point Press Gallery, San Francisco, California, US
2019 «Sculptura», Häusler Contemporary Zürich, CH
«Tableau Zürich», Gasträume, Zürich, CH
2016 «NOT HERE YET», H2 Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst im Glaspalast Augsburg, DE
«Conceptual Art in Britain 1964-1979», Tate Britain, London, GB
«Confusion of Tongues: Arts and the Limits of Language», The Courtauld Gallery, London, GB
«Solo Walks - Eine Galerie des Gehens», Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, CH
2015 «A paisagem na arte: 1690-1998», Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, BR
«Can The Museum Be A Garden?», The Serralves Museum Of Contemporary Art, Porto, PT
2014 «Walk on», Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, GB
2012 «Ends of the Earth», MOCA, Los Angeles, US | Haus der Kunst, München, DE
2011 «Modern British Sculpture», Royal Academy of Arts, London, GB
2007 «Die Sammlung Marzona: Based on Paper: Revolution der Kunst», Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, DE
«Live/Work: Performance into Drawing», MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
2006 «Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples/1960 to Now», MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
1994 «Mapping», MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
1992 «o.T.», Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, DE

Collections (Selection)

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, AU
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, FR
British Council London, GB Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, CH
Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, MX
FRAC, Rennes, FR
Kode, Bergen, NO
Kunstmuseum Basel, CH
Los Angeles County Museum, US
Metropolitain Museum, Tokyo, JP
Musee de Grenoble, FR
Musee St. Pierre, Lyon, FR
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, JP
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, GB
National Museum Osaka, JP
Philadelphia Museum of Art, US
Princeton Art Gallery, Princeton, US
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Museum voor oude en moderne kunst, Enschede, NL Schaulager, Münchenstein, Basel, CH
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, DE
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL
The Brooklyn Museum, New York, US
The Tate Gallery, London, GB
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, GB