HELEN MARTEN

Helen Marten (born 1985, Macclesfield) lives and works in London. Recent solo exhibitions include No borders in a wok that can’t be crossed, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson (NY), USA, 2013; Plank Salad, Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2012; Evian Disease, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2012; Almost the Exact Shape of Florida, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland; Dust and Piranhas, ‘Park Nights’, Serpentine Gallery, 2011;Take a stick and make it sharp, Johann König, Berlin, 2011, and Wicked Patterns, T293, Naples, 2010. Major group exhibitions include Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace), 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2013); 12th Lyon Biennale, Lyon (2013); New pictures of common objects, MoMA PS1, New York, 2012; and The New Public, Museion, Bolzano, 2012. Marten received the Lafayette Prize in 2011 and the LUMA Award in 2012. In 2013, a monograph on the artist was published by JRP|Ringier in conjunction with her exhibitions at CCS Bard Hessel Museum, the Chisenhale Gallery and Kunsthalle Zürich.