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Andrew Litten, is an English artist born in 1970 in Aylesbury, UK. His paintings have been shown in the United Kingdom, including the Tate Modern in London, China,   , USA , Germany and Italy.

Litten attended Amersham College of Art (now Amersham & Wycombe College) in his teens and began higher art education but found it claustrophobic and restricting. Jane Boyer wrote of his work "'Litten was working in minute and small scale in the late 1980’s and early 90’s with the humblest of materials such as note paper, envelopes and biros, to surreptitiously placing works in galleries to combat art elitism (before the Stuckists did this)".

In 2007 Litten had his first major London exhibition with "Dog Breeder" created as an anti-art statement on the absurdity of the contemporary art world and its hierarchies.

Selected solo exhibitions
2014 - I Wish You Ill And Hope You Suffer As Much As I Have, Spike Island, Bristol, UK

2013 - ID Smear, Motorcade / FlashParade, Bristol, UK

2012 - Guest, L-13 Light Industrial Workshop, London

2012 - ID Smear, Millennium Gallery St. Ives, UK

2008 - Paintings, Goldfish Fine Art, Penzance, UK

2007 - Dog Breeder, Lime Wharf Space, London

Selected group exhibitions
2017/18 - Contemporary Masters from Britain: 80 British Painters of the 21st Century, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Museum, China, Jiangsu Art Gallery, Nanjing, China  , Jiangsu Museum of Arts and Crafts (Artall), Nanjing, China  , Yantai Art Museum, China

2016 - Sixty, Lubomirov / Angus Hughes Gallery, London

2013 - This Me Of Mine, Ipswich Art School Gallery, Suffolk Museums, Ipswich, UK

2012 - Kunstfaktor, Marzia Frozen, Berlin, Germany

2012 - Accidental Genius: Art from the Anthony Petullo Collection, Milwaukee Art Museum, USA

2011 - Afternoon Tea: Works On Paper, WW Gallery at the 54th Venice Biennale, Italy

2010 - No Soul For Sale, Tate Modern, London

Selected Publications
2008 - Paintings: Andrew LItten edited by Joseph Clarke

2006 - Free Range: Andrew Litten edited by Joseph Clarke

Collections
Milwaukee Art Museum, USA

The Priseman Seabrook Collection, UK