Rhys Himsworth

Born in Wales, UK

Lives and works in Wales, UK and Berlin, Germany

Rhys Himsworth

About

Rhys Himsworth is a Welsh mixed-media artist working in both Wales, UK and Berlin, Germany. With a BA Fine Art (2003) from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and an MA Printmaking (2009) from the Royal College of Art, Himsworth’s practice sits at the intersection of painting, print and digital media. His work has been exhibited across Europe, North America and Asia, and has been part of such as the International Studio and Curatorial Program New York.

Rhys Himsworth’s work attempts to form a discourse around issues of surveillance, mimesis, simulacrum, and authorship. Himsworth utilises redundant electronics as his material and medium to work at the junction of analogue and digital media. For the last decade he has hacked, appropriated, and re-assembled various electronic and digital devices to create works and installations that blur the physical and discarnate; documenting a period in history that marks the transition from a temporal orientated experience of the world to an online one.

Himsworth's work explores duality through bringing new life to obsolete machines. Through this, he endeavours to explore what Martin Heidegger refers to as ‘The Essence of Technology,’ with a particular emphasis on communicative and print technologies. Information from these sources is then often used to generate a physical outcome whereby the viewer is confronted with, and often part of, a complex informational experience. His work halts the global cycle of electronic waste by transmuting them into the base of his pieces. His romantic natural landscape vistas printed over an abrasive texture of electronic waste juxtapose the ethereal beauty of the environment with the damaging effects of a fast-paced consumerist society.

Education

2007-2009

Royal College of Art- MA (RCA)- Printmaking

2000-2003

Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design- BA Honors Fine Art

1999-2000

Carmarthenshire College of Technology and Art- Foundation Diploma in Arts and Design

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)

2022

Hereafter, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2021

New Silk Roads, Pada Galerie, Lisbon, Portugal
Topographies of Decline, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

2018

The Gnostic Autotroph, CICA Museum, Seoul, South Korea

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

2025

Art Karlsruhe, Art Fair, BBA Gallery, Messe Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

2024

echoes of tomorrow. yes, today!, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Noise: New Media Art, Art Fair, BBA Gallery, Kadikoy City Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

2023

On Water and Plants, Troy House, London, UK
Summer Special Show, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2022

Editions, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
ART MUC, Art Fair, BBA Gallery, Munich, Germany
On Water and Plants, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany
Renata Kudlacek and Rhys Himsworth, Joint Show, Contemporary Showroom, Berlin, Germany

2019

Hosting: On Symbionts, Parasites and Other Relations, Interiors to Being, Berlin, Germany
What We Don't Have We Can Create, Galerie Pada, Lisbon, Portugal