Ed Atkins
British b. 1982
Born 1982 Oxford, United Kingdom
Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark
EDUCATION
+2009 Slade School of Fine Art, University of London
+2005–02 BA (hons) Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London
SELECT SOLO SHOWS
+2025 Tate Britain, London, UK (upcoming, spring)
+2023 “Ed Atkins”, Gladstone 64, NY
+2023 “Ed Atkins with Steven Zultanski”, Gladstone 21, NY
+2023 “Copenhagen”, Cabinet, London
+2023 “Ed Atkins”, Dépendance, Brussels
+2022 Ed Atkins, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany
+2022 “Refuse,” TANK Shanghai, Shanghai, China
+2022 “Two Burlesques,” Espace Louis Vuitton München, Munich, Germany
+2021 “The Worm,” Sant’Andrea de Scaphis, Rome, Italy
+2021 “Get Life/Love’s Work,” New Museum, New York Tank Qiao Space, Shanghai
+2020 Refuse, Cabinet Gallery, London, UK
+2020 Entropy of a biased coin, Cabinet Gallery, London, UK
+2020 Live White Slime, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
+2023 Home Is Where You’re Happy (curated by Gesine Borcherdt), Haus Mödrath, Kerpen, Germany
+2023 Baroque, Champ Lacombe, Biarritz, France
+2023 Counterimagerinaries, Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø, Norway
+2022 Nature humaine – Humaine nature, Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles, France
+2022 MIRROR MIRROR – Fashion & the Psyche, MoMu, Antwerp, Belgium
+2022 Angels on Horseback, Lobe Block, Berlin, Germany
+2022 LIVES: Life, Survival, Living, Jut Art Museum, Taipei City, Taiwan
+2022 Mona Foma, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia
+2021 Bodies at Stake, Artworks from Sandretto Re Rebaudengo collection, MOCO Hôtel des collections, Montpellier, France
+2021 The Sun Machine is Coming Down, Berliner Festpiele. International Congress Centre, Berlin, Germany
+2020 The Body Electric, Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College, Miami, USA
+2020 Ice and Fire: A Benefit Exhibition in Three Parts, The Kitchen, New York, USA
+2020 Risquons-Tout, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium
+2020 J U N E, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
AWARDS
+2015-16 Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD, Berlin, Germany
+2012 Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award
+2012 The Jerwood / Film and Video Umbrella Award
+2008 The Chelsea Arts Club Trust Special Project Award
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
+Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
+Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
+Tate Gallery, London, UK
+Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
+Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA
+Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh Scotland
+Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
+Kiasma Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, Finland
+Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
+Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
+Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
+Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
+2009 Slade School of Fine Art, University of London
+2005–02 BA (hons) Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London
SELECT SOLO SHOWS
+2025 Tate Britain, London, UK (upcoming, spring)
+2023 “Ed Atkins”, Gladstone 64, NY
+2023 “Ed Atkins with Steven Zultanski”, Gladstone 21, NY
+2023 “Copenhagen”, Cabinet, London
+2023 “Ed Atkins”, Dépendance, Brussels
+2022 Ed Atkins, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany
+2022 “Refuse,” TANK Shanghai, Shanghai, China
+2022 “Two Burlesques,” Espace Louis Vuitton München, Munich, Germany
+2021 “The Worm,” Sant’Andrea de Scaphis, Rome, Italy
+2021 “Get Life/Love’s Work,” New Museum, New York Tank Qiao Space, Shanghai
+2020 Refuse, Cabinet Gallery, London, UK
+2020 Entropy of a biased coin, Cabinet Gallery, London, UK
+2020 Live White Slime, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
+2023 Home Is Where You’re Happy (curated by Gesine Borcherdt), Haus Mödrath, Kerpen, Germany
+2023 Baroque, Champ Lacombe, Biarritz, France
+2023 Counterimagerinaries, Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø, Norway
+2022 Nature humaine – Humaine nature, Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles, France
+2022 MIRROR MIRROR – Fashion & the Psyche, MoMu, Antwerp, Belgium
+2022 Angels on Horseback, Lobe Block, Berlin, Germany
+2022 LIVES: Life, Survival, Living, Jut Art Museum, Taipei City, Taiwan
+2022 Mona Foma, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia
+2021 Bodies at Stake, Artworks from Sandretto Re Rebaudengo collection, MOCO Hôtel des collections, Montpellier, France
+2021 The Sun Machine is Coming Down, Berliner Festpiele. International Congress Centre, Berlin, Germany
+2020 The Body Electric, Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College, Miami, USA
+2020 Ice and Fire: A Benefit Exhibition in Three Parts, The Kitchen, New York, USA
+2020 Risquons-Tout, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium
+2020 J U N E, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
AWARDS
+2015-16 Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD, Berlin, Germany
+2012 Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award
+2012 The Jerwood / Film and Video Umbrella Award
+2008 The Chelsea Arts Club Trust Special Project Award
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
+Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
+Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
+Tate Gallery, London, UK
+Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
+Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA
+Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh Scotland
+Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
+Kiasma Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, Finland
+Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
+Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
+Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
+Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Exhibitions
Gallery Exhibition
Ubiquitous nº14
26.09.23 - 10.12.23
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