Born in Romsey, UK, 1974


Education:

1997-2000
Royal Academy Schools

1993-1996
Central St Martins College of Art

1992-1993
Harrogate College of Art


Solo Exhibitions:

2007
Lusqvarna, Landguard Fort, off-site project with Arts Council England, English Heritage and Landguard Trust Bergholzli, Vane, Newcastle

2005
Grand Mal, Transition, London

2003
Goria, Transition, London
Phantasmagoria, Chapter, Cardiff

2001
Perfect Lux, Cassian De Vere Cole, London


Selected Group Exhibitions: (excluding international art fairs)

2008
Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Jerwood Space, London
The Directors's Apartment, British School at Rome, Rome
Awapbapadoowap , Transition, London
Zwei Raum Wohnung, Husemann, Berlin
Sovereign Art Prize Exhibition, Somerset House, London
The Painting Room, Transition, London

2007
Salon Nouveau, Englholm Engelhorn, Vienna
The Whiteness of the Whale: Anna-Karin Jansson, Reece Jones, and Nadia Hebson
Transition, London, (curated by N Hebson)
Mutineer: 10 British Painters, Kunsthaus Mengerzeile, Berlin
Revolver, Penzance Gallery, Cornwall

2006
The Portrait, Ashwin Street Gallery, V22, London
Fable: Nadia Hebson, Zoe Mendelson, Joel Tomlin, Chapter, Cardiff with Chapter Publications Catalogue, critical text by Angela Kingston and Gordon Dalton

2005
Acid Drops and Sugar Candy, Fosterart and Transition, London
Gothic Love - Glove, Lange Gasse, Augsburg, Germany
Able Seaman, Durling Ward, London

2004
Painting and Lying, Archive project with Annabel Dover funded by Arts Council
Snow, curated by Stella Vine and Alex Morrison, Transition, London

2003
....Sympathy, Keith Talent Gallery, London and G39, Cardiff
Sense and Sensibility, Artists take on Art History, Transition, London

1998
BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London


Awards:

2008
Nominated by Humphrey Ocean RA for The Arts Foundation Fellowship programme
Shortlisted for Sovereign Art Prize by Jarvis Cocker, Tim Marlow, Alan Yentob

2007
Arts Council England Individual Award

2006
Arts Council England Individual Award

2004
Duveen Woman Artist Award
Casson Drawing Prize

2003
Arts Council Joint Project Award
BOC Emerging Artist Award selected by Mathew Collings and Peter Blake RA

2002
Arts Council Of Wales Award
Cardiff 2008 Project Award

2000
Andre De Segonzac Travel Award, Royal Academy
British Institute Drawing Prize

1999
Vincent Harris Award, Royal Academy

1996
Arte Viva Painting Prize, Italy
Cohn and Wolfe Painting Prize, selected by Andrew Graham Dixon


Residencies:

2008
Durham Cathedral Residency

2004 - 5
Lecturing Residency, L’École Des Beaux Arts Toulouse

1999
Cromwell Hospital Drawing Residency


Fellowships:

2008
Derek Hill Foundation Scholar, The British School at Rome

2001 - 2
Painting Research Fellow, University of Wales Institute Cardiff


Lecturing:

2008
Newcastle University
Sunderland University

2006
Royal Academy Schools
Royal College of Art
UWIA

2004 - 5
L’École Des Beaux Arts Toulouse, France

2003 - 4
Wimbledon School of Art

2001- 3
UWIC


Publications:

2008
Review of The Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Charles Darwent,
The Independent, 20th April 2008
Fine Arts Catalogue 2007-2008, The British School at Rome, ISBN 978-0-904152-52-4
Royal Academy Illustrated 2008, ISBN 978-1905711123
Axis Arts, Nominated artist, by artist and curator Cathy Lomax

2007
Letting In The Ghosts: Nadia Hebson, Peter Suchin, accompanying essay to Bergholzli Lusqvarna, Artists Book, text by Duncan Ward
Garageland, Painting and Translating , University of The Arts, London
Bergholzli, Artists Book to accompany Vane, solo show
Fable, Exhibition Catalogue, Angela Kingston and Gordon Dalton, Chapter Publications, ISBN: 1 900029 227
Total Spec Magazine, N Hebson interviewed by Alex Michon

2006
Garageland, La Grande Mort, article by N Hebson on Moby Dick
Home for Lost Ideas, Dan Rees and Catherine Griffiths

2005
New Fabulism Lecture, Tom Jorgensen editor of Kunstformildung Magazine, Denmark
Arty, Interview, Alex Michon

2003
Time Out, Reviews, Goria, Rebecca Gerald, Time Out, Reviews , … Sympathy, Sally O’Reilly,
The Spectator, Reviews, Sense and Sensibility, Mark Glazebrook,
Phantasmagoria Accompanying Paper, Chapter Publications , Annabel Dover

2000
World of Interiors, Review, Perfect Lux, Sarah Howell

1996
The Guardian, Review, Graduate Shows, Rachel Barnes


Films:

1995
Career Girls, Mike Leigh


Forthcoming in 2008:

400 Women, contributing portrait of Maria De Jesus Sandoval Gonzalez to Tamsyn Challenger’s Project to draw attention to the plight of the 400 women who have disappeared, presumed murdered, from Cuidad Juarez, Mexico, in the last five years.


2009 (dates to be confirmed)

Solo Exhibition, Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland and Durham Museum.