Gordon serves as a course leader for Professional Practice, Leith School of Art, Edinburgh. He holds his MA Fine Art, Wimbledon School of Art and his honours BA, Painting, Glasgow School of Art and undertook the Foundation Course at the Leith School of Art. Select residencies, awards and honours include the Artists Newsletter Travel Bursary 2019; City and Guilds of London Residency, 2019; Catalyst Residency, 2018; The Windsor and Newton Painting Prize, UK, 2015; Shoosmiths Art Prize, UK, 2014; Bow Arts Trust Residency, London, 2013; Residency, Leith School of Art, Edinburgh, 2011 and European Leadership Forum Residency, Eger, Hungary, 2011.
Gordon’s work is found in numerous prominent private and public collections including Beth Rudin de Woody, New York; Simmons and Simmons, London; Ahmanson Collection, Los Angeles; Landmark PLC, London; Bow Arts Trust, London; The Royal Bank of Scotland Collection, and The Glasgow School of Art Alumni Collection. Gordon has been shortlisted for the Denton Art Prize, 2020.
Solo exhibitions include:
The City and Guilds of London Art School, 2019
First Things Gallery, New York, 2017
Ahmanson Gallery, Irvine, California, 2017
Simmons and Simmons, London, 2016
Art Lacuna, London, 2015
Nunnery Gallery, London, 2014 and 2013
Bearspace, London, 2014
Departure, London, 2012
Select group shows include:
CCC Museum, Beijing, 2020
Collyer Bristow Gallery, London, 2019
Sluice, Berlin, 2018
JGM Gallery, London, 2018
Husk Gallery, 2018 and 2013, London
Deptford X, London, 2018
Charlie Smith Project Room, London, 2017
Bearspace Gallery, London, 2016
Christies, London, 2015 and 2014
MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, 2015
Griffin Gallery, London
Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, 2015
No Format Gallery, London, 2015
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park, London, 2015
Foyles Gallery, London, 2015
Threadneedle Painting Prize, Mall Galleries, London, 2014
The Open West, The Wilson, Cheltenham, 2014
Oriel Davies Open, Oriel, 2014
Davies Gallery, Powys, Wales, 2014
Dovecot Galleries, Edinburgh, 2014
Function Gallery, London, 2014
Durham University and The Holy Biscuit, Newcastle, 2013
