Education
1964 – 1966
Hammersmith College of Art, London, UK
1966 – 1968
St. Martin's School of Art, London, UK
1958 – 1969
Royal College of Art, London, UK
Hamish Fulton
Hamish Fulton is a British walking artist, who has been making works based on the experience of individual walks since 1972. Arguing that “walking is an art form in its own right,” Fulton translates his walks into photographs, drawings and wall texts. Although only Fulton himself experiences the walk itself, his works allow the beholder to engage with his experience. In the past, his walks have had him travel extensively to more than 25 countries around the world, covering more than 12,000 miles.
Hamish Fulton (b. 1946, London, UK) lives and works in Canterbury. His work has been shown extensively around the world. Important solo exhibitions include Turner Contemporary (2012), Museion (2005), Tate Britain (2002), Museu Serralves (2001), Serpentine Gallery (1991), Stedelijk van Abbemuseum (1985), Centre Georges Pompidou (1981), Kunstmuseum Basel (1975) and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (1973). Major group exhibitions include Documenta (1977; 1982), the Bienal de Arte Paiz in Guatemala City (2016), Schaulager, Basel (2015), MOCA, Los Angeles (2012), Royal Academy of Arts, London (2011), CAPC – Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux (2002), Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney (2000) and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2000).
Hamish Fulton, Touching Boulders by Hand, 2018
A walk has a life of its own and does not need to be materialised into an artwork. An artwork may be purchased but a walk cannot be sold.
Biography
Walks
1969 – present
England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Lapland, Iceland, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, The United States, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Nepal, Bolivia, India, Australia, Japan, Argentina, Chile, Tibet
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Salzweg. Hamish Fulton, Salzkammergut, Kulturhauptstadt Bad Ischl, Austria
2023
A Walking Artist, FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille, France
2022
A Journey Where the Destination is not a Place but a State of Mind, Oslo, Norway
Linking the invisible footsteps of 3 seven day walks on Southern Italy October 2019, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy
Walking East, Museo Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
2021
Hamish Fulton, Centro Galego De Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Insignificant Insect ?, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
2020
Walking In Relation To Everything, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
2019
A Walking Artist, Galeria Bergamin & Gomide, Sao Paulo, Brazil
This Is Not Land Art, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria
Mountain Skyline, Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
A Decision To Choose Only Walking, Parafin, London, UK
A Walking Artist, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
2018
Hamish Fulton, Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway
Walking Between Walks, Kestle Barton, Cornwall, UK
Walking on the Iberian Peninsula, Bombas Gens Centre d'Art, Valencia, Spain
2017
Unlike A Drawn Line A Walked Line Can Never Be Erased, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice, Italy
Walking without a Smartphone, Häusler Contemporary München, Munich, Germany
2016
A Decision To Choose Only Walking, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Walking on and off the Path, The Cerezales Antonino y Cinia Foundation, Léon, Spain
2015
Wells Of Dee, Galleri Riis, Stockholm, Sweden
Inside Outside, espaivisor, Valencia, Spain
2014
Walking Transformation, Villa Merkel, Esslingen Am Neckar, Germany
2013
CRAC, Sète, France
Maureen Paley, London, UK
Nara Roesler, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2012
Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
2009
Chomolungma, Häusler Contemporary, Munich, Germany
2008
Kora, Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway
2007
Geronimo Homeland, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2005
Keep Moving, Museion – Museum for modern and contemporary art, Bolzano, Italy
2004
Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
2002
Tate Britain, London, UK
Placing one foot in front of the other, Bawag Foundation, Vienna, Austria
2001
Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
2000
Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada
Patrick De Brock, Knokke, Belgium
1999
Galerie Tschudi, Glarus, Switzerland
Palais Thurn Und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria
1998
Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Germany
Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
Annely Juda Fine Art, London, UK
1996
Second Floor, Reykjavik, Iceland
Musée de Valence, Valence, France
Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan (with Roger Ackling)
Galerie Artek, Helsinki, Finland
1995
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
1994
Galleria Luis Serpa, Lisbon, Portugal
1993
Annely Juda Fine Art, London, UK
Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
1992
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway
Ivam Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain
1991
Galeria Weber Alexander y Cobo, Madrid, Spain (with Richard Long)
Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Kanransha Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1990
Selected Walks 1969-1989, organized by the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
1988
Domaine de Kerguehennec, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Locminé, France
1986
Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy (with Ulay and Marina Abramovic)
1985
John Weber Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Hamish Fulton 1975-85, retrospective exhibition organised by the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
1982
Orchard Gallery, Londonderry, Northern Ireland, UK
1981
Massimo Valsecchi, Milan, Italy
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1980
Galerie Gillespie de Laage, Paris, France
Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
1979
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK (with Gerhard Richter)
Art & Project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1978
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany
1977
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1976
Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York, NY, USA
I.C.A., London, UK
Hester van Roijen Gallery, London, UK
Robert Self Gallery, Newcastle, UK
1975
Galerie Rolf Preisig, Basel, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
1974
Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
1973
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Galleria Sperone-Fischer, Rome, Italy
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Art & Project- M.T.L., Antwerp, Belgium
1972
Art & Project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
1971
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Galleria Sperone, Turin, Italy
Selected Public Collections
Australia
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Austria
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
Canada
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
France
Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble
Musée St. Pierre, Lyon
FRAC, Rennes
Iceland
National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík
Japan
Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo
National Museum, Osaka
Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama
Norway
KODE Art Museum, Bergen
Mexico
Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
Switzerland
Kunstmuseum, Basel
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva
The Netherlands
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
UK
Tate Gallery, London
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
British Council, London
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
US
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Princeton Art Gallery, Princeton, NJ
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Eastman House, Rochester, New York, NY