1985
Born Macclesfield, England
2005
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London, England
2008
Ruskin School of Fine Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
2017
Honorary Fellow (ongoing), Exeter College University of Oxford, Oxford, England
Solo Exhibitions
2021
Therefore, An Ogre , Greene Naftali, New York NY, USA
Sparrows On the Stone, Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, London, England
HOMEWORK #4: Card Palace , Sadie Coles HQ, online
2014
Orchids, or a hemispherical bottom, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Parrot Problems, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Oreo St. James, Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, London, England
2010
All the single ladies, Coltorti, Miami FL, USA
I like my heroes marble chested, Carl Kostyal, London, England, presented by Carl Kostyal and T293 for Frieze week
Wicked patterns, T293, Naples, Italy
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
News From the Near Future. 30 Years of Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudengo , Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, IT
GMT , Hot Wheels Athens, Greece
2023
Horizons: is there anybody out there? , Antenna Space, Shanghai, China
When Dreams Confront Reality: Surrealism in Britain , Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, England
2022
Hervé Télémaque: A Hopscotch of the Mind , Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Co-curated by Joseph Constable, Helen Marten and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Exhibition Design by Helen Marten
Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945 , New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, England
The Painter’s New Tools, Nahmad Contemporary, New York NY, USA
Drawing in the Continuous Present , The Drawing Centre, New York NY, USA
2020
100 Drawings from Now , The Drawing Center, New York NY, USA
Drawing 2020 , Gladstone Gallery, 21st Street, New York NY, USA
Olga Balema, Aria Dean, Raque Ford, Helen Marten, Kelley Walker , Greene Naftali, New York NY, USA
2019
The Body Electric , YBCA Galleries Yerba Buena Center for The Arts, San Francisco CA, USA (touring)
Objects of Wonder - From Pedestal to Interaction. Sculpture from the 1960s to today , ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
You , MAM Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Yorkshire Sculpture International , The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, England
The Body Electric , The Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis MN, USA (touring)
Hybrid Sculpture: Contemporary Sculpture from the Collection of the Stedelijk Museum , Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2018
The Trick Brain , Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
Good Grief, Charlie Brown! , Somerset House, London, England
Painting Now & Forever, Part III , Matthew Marks and Greene Naftali, New York NY, USA
A TIME CAPSULE: Works Made by Women for Parkett, 1984 – 2017 , Parkett Exhibition Space, Zurich, Switzerland
Faithless Pictures , The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
2017
made on the table , Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England
Suspended Animation , Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
EuroVisions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection , NAS National Art School Gallery, Sydney, Australia (touring exhibition in Australia to 2019)
Second Nature , K11 Art Foundation, Chi Art Space, Clearwater Bay, Hong Kong
All These Beautiful Ladies , ArtVilnius and Lewben Art Foundation, Vilnius, Lithuania, curated by Francesca Ferrarini
2016
New Sculpture , The Whitworth, Manchester, England
Turner Prize , Tate Britain, London, England
China Overpop: Selection from the Yuz Collection , Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
WELT AM DRAHT , Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin, Germany
Hepworth Sculpture Prize , Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, England
Life itself , Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Invisible Adversaries , CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson NY, USA
Condo , Carlos/Ishikawa, London, England
The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed , 20th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
From Minimalism into Algorithm , The Kitchen, New York NY, USA
Suspended Animation , Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. DC, USA
2015
The World is Made of Stories , Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection , Rubell Museum, Miami FL, USA
Chapter 2: Collecting Lines - Drawings from the Ringier Collection , Villa Flora, Winterthur, Switzerland
The New Human: You and I in Global Wonderland , Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden
This Sentence , China Art Objects Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA
De Picture- Volume II , MAS Metropolitan Art Society, Beirut, Lebanon
Flying over the Abyss , NEON and CCA Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Crete, Greece
Unlimited , Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
All the World’s Futures , 56th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Screen Play , Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo NY, USA
Works on paper , Greene Naftali, New York NY, USA
Turn on: Time-based art from the Julia Stoschek collection , Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection , Astrum Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway
Things , Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, England
Printmaking by ECAL , Musée Jenisch Vevey, Vevey, Switzerland
2014
New Generation , FRAC Grand Large, Dunkirk, France
Theater Objects: A Stage for Architecture and Art , LUMA Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland
On The Devolution of Culture , Rob Tufnell, London, England
Mirrorcity: 23 London Artists , Hayward Gallery, London, England
Europe, Europe , Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
Infinite Jest , Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Group show curated by Urs Fischer , Sadie Coles HQ, South Audley Street, London, England
QUIZ , Galerie Poirel, Nancy, France, curated by Robert Stadler
Superficial Hygiene , De Hallen Haarlem, Haarlem, The Netherlands
2013
Entropy of a City: Julia Stoschek Collection , Mucsarnok, Budapest, Hungary
Abstract – Nature: Selected Parkett-Artists Editions, 1984–2013 , Parkett Exhibition Space, Zurich, Switzerland
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace) , 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
do it , Manchester International Festival, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England
Meanwhile … Suddenly, and Then , Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France
Flatness: Cinema after the Internet , 59th Oberhausen International Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
2012
New Pictures of Common Objects , MoMA PS1, New York NY, USA
Inside the Banana , Algus Greenspon, New York NY, USA
CARA DOMANI: Opere dalla collezione Ernesto Esposito , MAMbo Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
The New Public: From a new public dimension to new users , FONDAZIONE MUSEION Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
Standard Operating Procedures , Blum and Poe, Los Angeles CA, USA
Struggle(s) , Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium
March , Sadie Coles HQ, South Audley Street, London, England
2011
POST DIGITAL - The Return of the Archaic , Samajimt, Kiev, Ukraine
Beyond Gestaltung , Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany
Hasta Mañana , Greene Naftali, New York NY, USA
Fruits, Flowers, and Clouds , MAK Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
Mirages, Foutains & Dissociative Composition , Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium, curated by Catherine Sullivan
2010
Zündkerze , Matthew Bown Gallery, Berlin, Germany, curated by David Thorp
WUFF , COCO Contemporary Concerns, Vienna, Austria (travelling project through Austria, Ukraine and Lithuania)
Untitled , Four Boxes Gallery, Krabbesholm, Denmark
with Jost Munster and Mariah Robertson, Mexican Blanket , Museum 52, London, England
Fake Modern , Camden Arts Centre, London, England
2008
Grotto , Museum 52, London, England
BOX LADDER , Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England
Cosmic Rays , the Project Space, Oxford, England
Awards
2016
Turner Prize
The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture
2009
The Boise Travel Scholarship
Commissions
2021
Luma Arles, Arles, France
Public Collections
Arts Council Collection, London, England
Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
CCS Centre for Curatorial Studies Bard, Annandale-On-Hudson NY, USA
Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, England
Guggenheim Museums and Foundation, New York NY, USA / Venice, Italy / Bilbao, Spain / Abu Dhabi, UAE
The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, England
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. DC, USA
Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany
KAF K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
FONDAZIONE MUSEION Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tate Collection, London, England
Victoria Gallery & Museum, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN, USA
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England
Whitworth, The University of Manchester, Manchester, England
Publications
2020
Helen Marten, The Boiled in Between (London: Prototype)
2018
Staffan Ahrenberg and Miquel Barcelo, Joan Miro (Paris: Cahiers d’Art)
2016
Travis Jeppesen, Eileen Myles and Brian Dillon, Helen Marten: Drunk Brown House (Koln: Walther Koenig)
Susanne Pfeffer (ed.), Diedrich Diederichsen and Johanna Burton, Helen Marten: Parrot Problems (Cologne: Koenig Books)
Tom Eccles and Lauren Cornell, Invisible Adversaries (Annandale-on-Hudson NY: CCS Bard Hessel Museum)
2015
Ringier Annual Report (Zurich: JRP Ringier)
2013
Tom Eccles, Beatrix Ruf and Polly Staple, Helen Marten: Olive (Zurich: JRP Ringier)
2012
Helen Marten, Helen Marten: Plank Salad (London: Chisenhale Gallery)