HAZEL FLOREZ B. 1984 London UK
AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2024 London College of Psychic Studies, Annual Art Competition- Shortlist/ Runner Up. (For my painting titled ‘Venusian Conduit’)
2024 Monica Sjoo Artist in Residence for the month of September
2022 London College of Psychic Studies, Annual Art Competition- Shortlist/ Runner Up. (For my painting titled ‘Projection’)
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
2023 ‘Mundus Imaginalis’ Blue on the Hill Gallery, London, 31st August - 10th September
2022 ‘Metamorphosis’ Lauderdale House, London - 18th January- 15th February
2022 Adam Mclean (Historian of Alchemy and Surrealism) Virtual online exhibition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZj3qVcwau0
2021 Alchemystic’ Hackney Downs Studios, 22nd November- 6th December
2020 ‘Of Earth and Aether’ Eagle House Pop Up Gallery
2020 ‘Of Earth and Aether’ 360 Virtual Exhibition tour online, a digital art collaboration made with ART Capture, https://www.hazelflorez.com/virtual-exhibition
2016 ‘Hazel Florez: Selected Drawings’ Hornsey Town Hall Arts Centre, Crouch End, London
GROUP SHOWS
2024 ‘Southwark Park Galleries Annual Exhibition” 2nd November - 14th December, London
2024 ‘Beyond the Folk' - Online Group show with The Artist’s Workspace x Dama Galeria, December 2023 - February 2024
2024 ‘Beyond the Folk’ physical exhibition - Crypt Gallery 13th - 15th March
2023 “As Above, So Below” Hypha Studios, Euston, London, 1st- 25th November
2023 “Semi-Conscious” Islington Arts Factory, London, curated by August Lamm, 17th-24th November
2023 Occulture Conference- exhibiting artist, Anomalie Art Club, Berlin, 19th -22nd October
2023 “Mother of All”, Blue on the Hill Gallery, London, 6th - 15th October
2023 ‘The Flesh and the Answer’ Art On A Postcard, 25th May- 8th June
2023 ‘Spirit Within’ curated by BWG Gallery, at Ben Oakley Gallery, London, 2nd -28th August
2023 ‘Alchemy!’ The Steamship Project Space, Docklands, London, curated by Dr Gillian McIver, May
2022 ‘Scarlet Women’ Group Show featuring Penny Slinger, 11th December- 8th March, Atelier De Melusine, Chateau Mareuil, 11th December- 8th March2021- 2022
2021 ‘Infinity’ Group exhibition with The Holy Art Gallery, London, May
2021 ‘Mnemosyne’ Group exhibition with Purslane Gallery, London, March
2021 ‘Life on Venus’ The Tub Gallery, Broadway Market, London, February
2020 ‘Imprints: Past & Present’ The Vacant Museum, December 2020
PUBLICATIONS
“Sacred Sites”- two artworks included in the publication of the 5th Volume of The Library of Esoterica, Taschen, 2024
“Signs and Sibyls”- the trailblazing work of spiritualists Hilma af Klint, Georgiana Houghton, Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn and Emma Kunz, October 2024, https://www.worldofinteriors.com/story/divine-feminine-the-mystic-women-that-seized-abstract-art-from-beyond-the-veil
“Hierophany Ha Ha”- the Reverent and the Irreverent in Art and Culture, The World of Interiors with Conde Nast publications, 3rd April 2024, https://www.worldofinteriors.com/story/comedy-in-art-history
“Surreal Deal”- the influence of the Tarot, in Art and Fashion, The World of Interiors with Conde Nast publications, 15th January 2024, https://www.worldofinteriors.com/story/the-tarot-influence-art-surrealism
PhD thesis- Re-envisioning Visionary Art: An Inquiry into Art Criticism and Analytical Psychology, Sponsored by The Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest, pp. 308-322, Dr Lisa Hester, 2023 Chapter looking at my Artwork included
Myth and Lore Zine, Issue 6: Graves, Growth & The Greenman, 2023 Painting included
Bella Bonner- Evans “Spirituality, Mysticism and Occulture in Art”, FAD Magazine, 22nd August 2022,
Featured article and interview in art journal- ‘The Debutante’, Third Edition, Alchemy & Surrealism, 2022
Lifted Lab Articles online, Spirit Within Exhibition Review, 2022
Art Daily Review- Exhibition review of ‘Mnemosyne’, a group show with Purslane Gallery, May 2021
Book article- on ‘Panama Papers’ in American Textbook page, 40 The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing, Rhetoric (3rd edition – 2018) Renee H. Shea, Bedford St Martin.
PODCASTS, TALKS & EVENTS
Online Lecture and slide show with the International Society of Surrealism, Online- “Surrealism and the Tarot”, May 18th 2024, 8-9pm
Concerning the Spiritual in Art- Podcast interview with Martin Benson, available on apple and spotify and youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqMdTDrma18
“The Tarot in Fashion and Art” with The Last Tuesday Society- online lecture, January 16th, 8-9:30pm 2024
“Painting the Suprarational”, Magickal Women’s Conference, salon lecture, 3rd November 7-9 pm 2022
“Alchemical Active Imagination”, artist’s talk, Steamships Project Space, Docklands, London, 29th May 2022
“12 Stages of Alchemical Transmutation”, artist’s talk with The C. G. Jung Club, 19th May, 2022
“The Myth of Hermaphroditus & The Unity of Opposites”, artist’s talk, Lauderdale House, London, 26th January 2022
IMAGE LICENSING
2017-2020 Bridgeman Images Studio Artist, artworks published in range of journals and magazines. For details contact Artist Manager Aretha Campbell at Aretha.campbell@bridgemanimages.com
QUALIFICATIONS
(2021) Introduction to Western Esotericism Masters level Module, University of Amsterdam
(2012-2015) PhD. Politics program, Queen Mary University, London.
(2008- 2011) BA Politics, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
(2008-2010) MA Philosophy, Open University, Online Course
(2002-2007) MA Fine Art & History of Art, University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of Art