Shows
2026
'RWS Open', Bankside Gallery, London, UK
'Irving Gallery Open Call', Irving Gallery, London, UK
2025
'Soft Grip', General Assembly & Blackbird Rook, General Assembly, London, UK
'Drawn Together', The Royal Drawing School, London, UK
‘An Unbidden Quest’ Blackbird Rook & the Tom & Chai Hall Collection, Florence Trust, London, UK (solo)
2024
‘Resistance is Held in the Body’ Blackbird Rook, Tom & Chai Hall Collection, Hampshire, UK (solo)
2023
‘Weirder Science’, Blackbird Rook / Artsy online show curated Karen David
'To Be Seen’, Blackbird Rook / Artsy online show curated Greg Rook
2022
’Beep Painting Biennial’, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales, UK
’Waverton Art Prize’, Alice’s Oyster Bar & Gallery, London, UK
’Contemporary British Painting Prize’, Unit 1 Gallery / Workshop, London, UK
’London Paint Club Selects: Vol. 1’, London, UK
2021
’Contemporary British Painting Prize’, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield, UK
’Nature / Nurture’ Aora & Aspara Studios, virtual
’Dreamlands: Part 1 & 2’ OHSH Projects, London, UK
’From can see to can’t see’ NFT show, curated Greg Rook, SuperRare
’Your Foot in my Face & Other Tectonic Strategies’, Kingsgate Project Space, London, UK
’A Lot of What I’m About to tell You is Made Up,’ NFT show, curated Greg Rook, SuperRare
‘Hawks in her Hair’, Alice Black Gallery, London, UK
2020
‘Goose Summer’ an outdoor instagram show curated Hannah Murgatroyd and Martyn Cross, @goosesummer2020
’Monster/Beauty’: An Exploration of the Female / Femme Gaze’ curated Marcelle Joseph, Lychee One. London, UK
‘Paintings on, and with, Paper’, Cob Gallery, London, UK
2019
‘Draw Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, Von Goetz, London, UK
’Spike Island Open 2019’, Spike Island, Bristol, UK
2018
‘Residency Showcase’ as part of Von Goetz Frieze Week Residency, London, UK
’Clay Rendering’, Century Club, London, UK
’The Story of Zebedee’, Post Institute / Von Goetz, London, UK
’Our Souls to Keep’, Field Projects, NY, USA
‘Spike Island Open 2018’, Spike Island, Bristol, UK
’Women Can't Paint', Turps Gallery, London, UK
’Night Follows Night', Gallery 98, Ramsgate, UK
’Turps Cloud', Turps Gallery, London, UK
2017
’Paper Cuts', curated by Kristian Day, Tripp Gallery, London, UK
’Paper Cuts', curated by Kristian Day, Manchester Contemporary, Manchester, UK
’Landscape As A Peopled World', Exeter Phoenix, Exeter, UK
’Spike Island Open', Spike Island, Bristol, UK (solo)
2016
’Leisured Bodies', Roper Gallery, Bath, UK
2015
’Signal:Failure', Safe House Peckham, London, UK
'Drawn 2015', RWA, Bristol, UK
2014
'Exeter Contemporary Open 2014', Exeter Phoenix, Exeter, UK
2013
'Co-Work', Clockwork Gallery, Berlin, DE
2012
'The British Muesum', The Muesum, Berlin, DE
2010
'Show I', MMX, Berlin, DE
2009
'Kunskog', Five Hundred Dollars, London, UK
'Lumpenstadt' (solo), Appartement, Berlin, DE
'LIA Offene Ateliers', Spinnerei, Leipzig, DE
'Spring Rundgang', LIA, Spinnerei, Leipzig, DE
2008
'Jerwood Drawing Prize' Exhibition, London (and touring nationally), UK
'Group Drawing Show', Prince’s Drawing School, London, UK
2007
'Hidden', Royal College of Art, London, UK
'Appetite for Decoration', Group Show, Terrace, London, UK
2006
'Graduate Show', Prince’s Drawing School, London, UK
2005
'Like Nowhere Else', Graduate Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2004
'Welcome To Parallelville', with Laura Mousavi-Zadeh, Permanent Gallery, Brighton, UK
2003
'Watching the World with the Sound Turned Down', with Laura Mousavi-Zadeh, Permanent Gallery, Brighton, UK
Education
Postgraduate Drawing Year, Prince’s Drawing School, London 2005-2006
MA Communication Art & Design, Royal College of Art, London, 2003-2005
BA Illustration, (1st ), University of Brighton, Brighton, 1996-1999
Awards
Royal Watercolour Society Prize, RWS Open, UK, 2026 Highly Commended, Contemporary British Painting Prize, UK, 2021
Overall Award Winner, Exeter Contemporary Open, UK, 2014
Jerwood Drawing Prize exhibitor, London (and touring), UK, 2008
Drawing Prize, Graduate Show, Prince’s Drawing School, 2006
Prize for Drawing Excellence, Prince’s Drawing School, 2006
1st, Man Group Drawing Prize, Royal College of Art, 2005
3rd, Man Group Drawing Prize, Royal College of Art, 2004
Films
Interview with Scott McCracken for Turps Banana, 2025
https://youtu.be/vQUkaw6C0HM?si=D7kq557kmdCljVKz
Women Can't Paint panel discussion, 2017
https://youtu.be/G5VFODQycTQ?si=YjqIcP1g3K5LEuKf
Press
A-N online interview: 2021: How Was it For You?:
https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/2021-how-was-it-for-you-5-hannah-murgatroyd-writer-and-painter/
Salome Salmacis online interview, 2021:
https://www.salomesalmacis.com/hannah-murgatroyd.html
Publications
Turps Banana Magazine 23, 2021
The Drawer, Revue de Dessin, Volume 17, 2019
Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting, Anomie Publishing 2018
Residencies
Von Goetz Frieze Week Residency, Brixton, UK, 2018
Moritz-Heyman Residency, Pignano, Italy, 2016
Bath Artists' Studios, Bath, UK, 2016
Dumfries House Royal Drawing School Residency, Scotland, 2014
LIA (Leipzig International Artist Residency Programme), Spinnerei, Leipzig, DE, 2009
Writer in Residence, Permanent Gallery, Permanent Gallery, Brighton, UK, 2007