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Born Macclesfield, England
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Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London, England
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Ruskin School of Fine Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
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Honorary Fellow (ongoing), Exeter College
University of Oxford, Oxford, England
Solo Exhibitions
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Therefore, An Ogre, Greene Naftali, New York NY, USA
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Sparrows On the Stone, Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, London, England
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HOMEWORK #4: Card Palace, Sadie Coles HQ, online
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Orchids, or a hemispherical bottom, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany
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Parrot Problems, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
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Oreo St. James, Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, London, England
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All the single ladies, Coltorti, Miami FL, USA
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I like my heroes marble chested, Carl Kostyal, London, England, presented by Carl Kostyal and T293 for Frieze week
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Wicked patterns, T293, Naples, Italy
Selected Group Exhibitions
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The Painter’s New Tools, Nahmad Contemporary, New York NY, USA
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Drawing in the Continuous Present, The Drawing Centre, New York NY, USA
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100 Drawings from Now, The Drawing Center, New York NY, USA
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Drawing 2020, Gladstone Gallery, 21st Street, New York NY, USA
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Olga Balema, Aria Dean, Raque Ford, Helen Marten, Kelley Walker, Greene Naftali, New York NY, USA
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The Body Electric, YBCA Galleries Yerba Buena Center for The Arts, San Francisco CA, USA (touring)
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Objects of Wonder - From Pedestal to Interaction. Sculpture from the 1960s to today, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
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You, MAM Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
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Yorkshire Sculpture International, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, England
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The Body Electric, The Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis MN, USA (touring)
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Hybrid Sculpture: Contemporary Sculpture from the Collection of the Stedelijk Museum, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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The Trick Brain, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
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Good Grief, Charlie Brown!, Somerset House, London, England
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Painting Now & Forever, Part III, Matthew Marks and Greene Naftali, New York NY, USA
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A TIME CAPSULE: Works Made by Women for Parkett, 1984 – 2017, Parkett Exhibition Space, Zurich, Switzerland
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Faithless Pictures, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
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made on the table, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England
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Suspended Animation, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
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EuroVisions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection, NAS National Art School Gallery, Sydney, Australia (touring exhibition in Australia to 2019)
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Second Nature, K11 Art Foundation, Chi Art Space, Clearwater Bay, Hong Kong
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All These Beautiful Ladies, ArtVilnius and Lewben Art Foundation, Vilnius, Lithuania, curated by Francesca Ferrarini
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New Sculpture, The Whitworth, Manchester, England
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Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London, England
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China Overpop: Selection from the Yuz Collection, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
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WELT AM DRAHT, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin, Germany
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Hepworth Sculpture Prize, Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, England
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Life itself, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Invisible Adversaries, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson NY, USA
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Condo, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, England
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The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed, 20th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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From Minimalism into Algorithm, The Kitchen, New York NY, USA
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Suspended Animation, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. DC, USA
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The World is Made of Stories, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
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NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Museum, Miami FL, USA
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Chapter 2: Collecting Lines - Drawings from the Ringier Collection, Villa Flora, Winterthur, Switzerland
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The New Human: You and I in Global Wonderland, Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden
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This Sentence, China Art Objects Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA
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De Picture- Volume II, MAS Metropolitan Art Society, Beirut, Lebanon
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Flying over the Abyss, NEON and CCA Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Crete, Greece
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Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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All the World’s Futures, 56th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
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Screen Play, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo NY, USA
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Works on paper, Greene Naftali, New York NY, USA
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Turn on: Time-based art from the Julia Stoschek collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrum Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway
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Things, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, England
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Printmaking by ECAL, Musée Jenisch Vevey, Vevey, Switzerland
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New Generation, FRAC Grand Large, Dunkirk, France
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Theater Objects: A Stage for Architecture and Art, LUMA Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland
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On The Devolution of Culture, Rob Tufnell, London, England
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Mirrorcity: 23 London Artists, Hayward Gallery, London, England
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Europe, Europe, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
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Infinite Jest, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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Group show curated by Urs Fischer, Sadie Coles HQ, South Audley Street, London, England
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QUIZ, Galerie Poirel, Nancy, France, curated by Robert Stadler
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Superficial Hygiene, De Hallen Haarlem, Haarlem, The Netherlands
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Entropy of a City: Julia Stoschek Collection, Mucsarnok, Budapest, Hungary
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Abstract – Nature: Selected Parkett-Artists Editions, 1984–2013, Parkett Exhibition Space, Zurich, Switzerland
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Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace), 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
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do it, Manchester International Festival, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England
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Meanwhile … Suddenly, and Then, Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France
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Flatness: Cinema after the Internet, 59th Oberhausen International Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
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New Pictures of Common Objects, MoMA PS1, New York NY, USA
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Inside the Banana, Algus Greenspon, New York NY, USA
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CARA DOMANI: Opere dalla collezione Ernesto Esposito, MAMbo Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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The New Public: From a new public dimension to new users, FONDAZIONE MUSEION Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
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Standard Operating Procedures, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles CA, USA
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Struggle(s), Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium
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March, Sadie Coles HQ, South Audley Street, London, England
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POST DIGITAL - The Return of the Archaic, Samajimt, Kiev, Ukraine
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Beyond Gestaltung, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany
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Hasta Mañana, Greene Naftali, New York NY, USA
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Fruits, Flowers, and Clouds, MAK Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
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Mirages, Foutains & Dissociative Composition, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium, curated by Catherine Sullivan
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Zündkerze, Matthew Bown Gallery, Berlin, Germany, curated by David Thorp
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WUFF, COCO Contemporary Concerns, Vienna, Austria (travelling project through Austria, Ukraine and Lithuania)
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Untitled, Four Boxes Gallery, Krabbesholm, Denmark
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with Jost Munster and Mariah Robertson, Mexican Blanket, Museum 52, London, England
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Fake Modern, Camden Arts Centre, London, England
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Grotto, Museum 52, London, England
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BOX LADDER, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England
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Cosmic Rays, the Project Space, Oxford, England
Awards
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Turner Prize
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The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture
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The Boise Travel Scholarship
Commissions
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Luma Arles, Arles, France
Public Collections
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Arts Council Collection, London, England
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Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
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CCS Centre for Curatorial Studies Bard, Annandale-On-Hudson NY, USA
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Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, England
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Guggenheim Museums and Foundation, New York NY, USA / Venice, Italy / Bilbao, Spain / Abu Dhabi, UAE
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The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, England
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. DC, USA
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Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany
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KAF K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong
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Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England
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Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
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FONDAZIONE MUSEION Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
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MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA
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Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Tate Collection, London, England
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Victoria Gallery & Museum, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England
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Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN, USA
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Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England
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Whitworth, The University of Manchester, Manchester, England
Publications
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Helen Marten, The Boiled in Between (London: Prototype)
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Staffan Ahrenberg and Miquel Barcelo, Joan Miro (Paris: Cahiers d’Art)
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Travis Jeppesen, Eileen Myles and Brian Dillon, Helen Marten: Drunk Brown House (Koln: Walther Koenig)
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Susanne Pfeffer (ed.), Diedrich Diederichsen and Johanna Burton, Helen Marten: Parrot Problems (Cologne: Koenig Books)
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Tom Eccles and Lauren Cornell, Invisible Adversaries (Annandale-on-Hudson NY: CCS Bard Hessel Museum)
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Ringier Annual Report (Zurich: JRP Ringier)
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Tom Eccles, Beatrix Ruf and Polly Staple, Helen Marten: Olive (Zurich: JRP Ringier)
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Helen Marten, Helen Marten: Plank Salad (London: Chisenhale Gallery)