(1959 - )
Hew Locke was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He spent much of his childhood in Georgetown, Guyana, before returning to the UK to study, settling in London where he continues to live and work. His work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the world and in 2022, he was awarded Tate Britain’s Duveen Hall Commission where he presented The Procession and, later that year, unveiled Gilt, the Façade Commission at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He has recently been commissioned by the British Museum to explore how the Museum Collection reflects the legacies of the British Empire (2024-25). Locke’s work is in the permanent collections of the Tate and the British Museum, Brooklyn Museum (New York) and Pérez Art Museum (Miami), among many others. He was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 2022 and awarded an OBE for Services to Art in 2023.
