Corvi-Mora is a contemporary art gallery based in
Kennington
Kennington is a district in south London, England. It is mainly within the London Borough of Lambeth, running along the boundary with the London Borough of Southwark, a boundary which can be discerned from the early medieval period between th ...
, South London. The gallery represents emerging and established international artists including
Turner Prize
The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist. Between 1991 and 2016, only artists under the age of 50 were eligible (this restriction was removed for the 2017 award). ...
nominees
Roger Hiorns
Roger Hiorns (born 1975) is a British artist based in London. His primary media is sculpture and installation, using a wide variety of materials, including metals, wood and plastics. He also works in the media of video and photography.
Educat ...
and
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977) is a British painter and writer of Ghanaian heritage. She is best known for her portraits of imaginary subjects, or ones derived from found objects, which are painted in muted colours. Her work has contributed to ...
.
History
Corvi-Mora was founded by
Tommaso Corvi-Mora in 2000 at premises in London's Warren Street after the closure of the gallery
Robert Prime which he founded in partnership with
Gregorio Magnani
Gregorio is a masculine given name and a surname. It may refer to:
Given name
* Gregorio Aglipay (1860–1940), Filipino revolutionary and first supreme bishop of the Philippine Independent Church
* Gregorio Conrado Álvarez (1925–2016), Uruguay ...
in 1995. Corvi-Mora moved to a space on Kempsford Road in 2004 with the contemporary art gallery
greengrassi.
Notable exhibitions include ''Sorrow for A Cipher'' by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye in 2016, Roger Hiorns in 2004 and 2015, ''The Commune Itself Becomes a Super State'' by
Liam Gillick
Liam Gillick (born 1964) is a British artist. In the 1990s he was one of the informal Young British Artists group; like many of them, he took a degree in fine art from Goldsmiths' College, in London. He was among the artists included in the ...
in 2007,
Rachel Feinstein in 2007, and
Richard Hawkins
Admiral Sir Richard Hawkins (or Hawkyns) (c. 1562 – 17 April 1622) was a 17th-century English seaman, explorer and privateer. He was the son of Admiral Sir John Hawkins.
Biography
He was from his earlier days familiar with ships and the ...
in 2009.
The gallery currently represents over 30 artists, including
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye,
Alvaro Barrington,
Jennifer Packer, Brian Calvin and Tomoaki Suzuki.
References
External links
* {{Official website, www.corvi-mora.com
Contemporary art galleries in London
Art museums and galleries established in 2000
2000 establishments in England
Italian art dealers