Tomas Harker's works addresses the nature of meaning in conditions of mediated experience and hyperreal saturation. Harker’s practice often draws from a variety of image production and distribution systems in an attempt to make sense of a cosmic order becoming increasingly disordered. His paintings reflect the increasing murkiness and confusion of contemporary life, whilst remaining mindful of the dynamics of power benefiting from uncertainty.
Tomas Harker (b. 1990, United Kingdom) received his MA in painting from the Royal College of art in 2020 and his BA in Fine Art from Leeds University in 2018. Selected exhibitions include: The Lightness of Being, Nicodim, Los Angeles, USA (2024); NADA Miami with The Sunday Painter, Miami, USA (2023); Multiple Choice Fairytale Ending, The Sunday Painter, London (2023); New Ancients, Guts Gallery, London (2023); The Artist is Present, Guts Gallery, London (2022); Apotrope, Cob Gallery, London (2022); I haven’t been Sleeping, Screw Gallery, Leeds (2021); Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London (2021); Third Nature, Copeland Gallery, London (2021); A Sea in Suspense, Bo.lee Gallery, London (2019); There’s something about Painting, Tatjana Pieters, Ghent (2019); Cite, Bo.lee gallery, London (2018); Syzygy, Leeds Arts University, Leeds (2018). In 2018 Harker was awarded the Ingram Collection Purchase Prize.
