Christopher Hanlon

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(b.1978, Poole, UK) is a painter and lecturer based in Belfast. Hanlon works from ostensibly minor images, using painting to subtly displace and re-frame them. These sources function as a kind of ready-made, foregrounding the object quality of things while operating as an armature for considerations of composition, framing, and spatial ambiguity. What begins in a state of indifference becomes a site for sustained looking, where meaning is neither fixed nor imposed but allowed to emerge. Tensions between flatness and illusion, object-hood and abstraction, are held in deliberate suspension. Through the slow material process of painting, these images are reconstituted and displaced from their original context, shifting emphasis toward looking, duration, and encounter. Education 2006 – 2008 Master of Fine Art Royal College of Art, London 1999 – 2002 B.A Fine Art Painting University of Brighton, Brighton 1998 – 1999 Foundation Art & Design Exeter College of Art, Exeter Academic appointments 2018 - present Lecturer, BA Fine Art Painting Belfast School of Art, University of Ulster, Belfast 2012 - 2018 Visiting Lecturer, BA Fine Art Painting Belfast School of Art, University of Ulster, Belfast Solo exhibitions 2024 Christopher Hanlon and Charlotte Moth Galerie Joseph Tang, Paris 2020 London Art Fair, Dialogues Presented by Domobaal curated by Alistair Hicks 2019 A Stone In A Cloud Domobaal, London 2015 Christopher Hanlon Garden Room, The House of St Barnabas, London Christopher Hanlon Edel Assanti, London 2014 Chamber Domobaal, London 2012 Disseminatus Domobaal, London 2010 Christopher Hanlon Timothy Taylor Gallery, London 2009 Because You Stood Still Domobaal, London Group Exhibitions 2026 Come Closer Blyth Gallery, London curated by Emma Tod with Boo Saville, Gary Coldclough, Emma Tod and Haroun Hayward. Accompanying text by Mark Bowman. 2025 On Waking Limerick City Art Gallery curated by Jenny Eden and Gillian Lawler with Jenny Eden, Harminder Judge, Gillian Lawler, Damien Meade, Karen Roulstone, Rebecca Sitar 2024 The Shape of a Pocket Catalyst Arts Belfast with Tony Hill, Ciarraí MacCormac, Eiméar Harkin, Tim Patrick, Sophia Campbell, Dan Shipsides, Rachel Wharton, Dougal McKenzie, Chris Hanlon, Hannah Casey-Brogan, Claire Ritchie, David Haughey, Jan McCullough, Victoria Patterson and Marnie Glass 2023 John Moores Painting Prize Walker Art Museum, Liverpool 2022 London Art Fair (Domobaal Gallery) with Fiona Finnegan, Alice Wilson and Mitre and Mondays 2021 Superfice Coleman Project Space London curated by Rebecca Geldard with Chris Hanlon, Daniel Karrer, Selma Parlour 2020 How the images echoes University of Ulster, Belfast 2019 How the images echoes Ps2, Belfast 2016 John Moores Painting Prize 2016 Walker Art Museum, Liverpool 2014 Carousel, Slate Projects Pickle Factory, London with Tom Farthing, Martine Poppe, Ishai Rimmer, Sheila Wallis Screen Space, Slate Projects Pickle Factory, London Art In The Home #2 by invitation from the contemporary art society north 2013 Black Country Lion & Lamb, Hoxton, London with Rob Brown, Nancy Cogswell, Julia Hamilton, Richard Hoey, Reece Jones, Gillian Lawlor Long they look, and deeply Satis House, Belfast with Hannah Casey, Andrew Cranston, Jeffrey Dennis, Fiona Finnegan,Tim Millen, Dougal McKenzie, Flora Moscovici 2011 Polemically Small Torrance Art Museum, California 2010 Pokerface Koraalberg, Antwerp, Belgium Art Brussels Domobaal 2009 Glo(ball) The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Benefit 2009 FringeMK Milton Keynes, UK Time is a Sausage, (A Show of Shows) Domobaal, London Bankrobber Red Room, Rose & Crown, London Art Brussels STAND projects/Domobaal, De Expeditie, Amsterdam and OneTwenty, Ghent Form Follows Attitude Artrepco Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland Galerie Chez Valentin Paris with Eduard Archinard, Michael Bauer, Hans Bellmer, Jean Crotti, Marcel Duchamp, Aurélien Froment, Adrian Ghenie, Marcel Jean, Andrew Mania, Christopher Orr, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, Jacob Robichaux, Carl Van Vechten, Jacques Villon Art Rotterdam STAND projects/Domobaal, De Expeditie, Amsterdam and OneTwenty, Ghent 2008 Bloomberg New Contemporaries A Foundation, Liverpool, touring to Rochelle School, Arnold Circus, London selectors: Richard Billingham, Ceal Floyer and Ken Lum Anticipation Ultralounge, Selfridges selected by Kay Saatchi and Catriona Warren Pentimenti Permanent Gallery, Brighton Royal College of Art painting department graduates and tutors Art Rotterdam STAND project, De Expeditie, Amsterdam and OneTwenty, Ghent Final Show Royal College of Art, London 2007 Interim Show Royal College of Art, London The Ten they couldn't Hang Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London