Born 1982 in the UK
Lives and works in London

Upcoming

• 2025 —Ed Atkins, Tate Britain, London, UK

Selected Solo Shows

• 2023 —Ed Atkins, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
• —Ed Atkins and Steven Zultanski, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
• —Copenhagen, Cabinet, London, UK
• —The worm, Holland Festival, presented by Hartwig Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• 2022 —Ed Atkins, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany
• —Ed Atkins and Steven Zultanski, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi/Eden Eden, Berlin, Germany
• —Refuse, TANK Shanghai, China
• —Two Burlesques, Espace Louis Vuitton München, Munich, Germany
• 2021 —Get Life / Loves Work, New Museum, New York, USA
• —The worm, Sant’ Andrea de Scaphis, Rome, Italy
• 2020 —Live White Slime, KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland
• 2019 —I like spit now, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, USA
• —Ed Atkins, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
• —Ye Olde Food, Kunstsammlung NRW K21, Düsseldorf, Germany
• 2018 —Bloom, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany
• —Olde Food, Cabinet, London, UK
• 2017 —Old Food, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
• —Modern Piano Music, DHC/ART, Montreal, Canada
• —Corpsing, MMK, Frankfurt, Germany
• 2016 —Ed Atkins, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy
• —Ed Atkins, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, US
• —Performance Capture, The Kitchen, New York, US
• —Safe Conduct, Statens Museum for Kunst National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2015 —Recent Ouija, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• 2014 —RIBBONS, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany
• —Ed Atkins, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, UK
• —Bastards, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
• —Ed Atkins, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
• —Ed Atkins & Bruce Nauman, Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany
• 2013 —Number Seven: Ed Atkins / Frances Stark, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
• —Warm, Warm, Warm Spring Mouths, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany
• —Ed Atkins, MoMA PS1, New York, US
• —Or tears, of course, Temple bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
• 2012 —Us Dead Talk Love, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
• —Solo presentation, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
• 2011 —Art Now: Ed Atkins, Tate Britain, London, UK
• —Death Mask, Cabinet, London, UK

Selected Group Shows

• 2024 —L’opera al nero (curated by Marta Papini, Leonardo Pietropaolo, Giulia Cenci), Centro Civico e Culturale di Rittana, Rittana, Cuneo, Italy
• 2023 —Home is Where You’re Happy, Haus Mödrath, Kerpen, Germany
• —Shifted Realities, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
• —Counterimagerinaries, Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø, Norway
• 2022 —MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland
• —Uncanny Encounters, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan, South Korea
• —What a Wonderful World, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
• —LIVES: Life, Survival, Living, JUT Art Museum of Taipei
• —World out of Joint, Kunst Museum Winterthur
• —Mirror mirror, MoMu, Antwerp, Belgium
• —Mona Foma, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia
• —Espressioni, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
• 2021 —The Sun Machine is Coming Down, Berliner Festspiele, International Congress Centre, Berlin
• —The Body Electric, Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College, Miami
• —Espressioni, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
• —Ora et Lege, Broumovs Benedictine monastery, Broumov
• —Body Snatchers (The Church), Polignano a mare, Bari, Italy
• —Bodies at Stake, MOCO Hôtel des collections, Montpellier
• 2020 —The Body Electric, Miami Dade College Museum, Miami, USA
• —Terminal, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, UK
• —Risquons-Tous, Wiels, Brussels, Belgium
• —100 Drawings From Now, The Drawing Center, New York, USA
• —AGAINandAGAINandAGAINand, curated by Lorenzo Balbi, MAMbo, Bologna, Italy
• 2019 —May you Live in Interesting Times, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
• 2018 —Blind Faith, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
• —Generation Loss (10 year anniversary exhibition, curated by Ed Atkins), Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
• —How It's Made, Kostyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
• —Being There, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
• —Lodgers, Haus Mödrath, Cologne, Germany
• —Being There, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
• 2017 —The Trick Brain, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut
• —Hello World! Art After the Internet, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
• —What Absence Is Made Of, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, US
• —The Policeman’s Beard is Half Constructed - Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
• —JEUX, rituels et récréations, Gare Saint Sauveur / Centre Pompidou, Lille, France
• —A thousand Roaring Beasts: Display Devices for a Critical Modernity, CAAC, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain
• —Suspended Animation, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
• 2016 —The Keeper, New Museum, New York, US
• —Pure Fiction, Marian Goodman, Paris, France
• —Welt am Draht, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin, Germany
• —The New Human, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
• —The New Human. Knock Knock, Is Anyone Home?, Moderna Museet Malmö, Malmo, Sweden
• —Fire Under Snow, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
• 2015 —Rum, Sodomy & the Lash, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Eden Eden, Berlin, Germany
• —CO-WORKERS Network as artist, Musee D'Art Moderne De Ville, Paris, France
• —14th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
• —Surround Audience, 2015 Triennial, New Museum, New York, US
• —The Collection, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, France
• 2014 —Europe, Europe, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway
• —Biennale of Moving Images, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Genève, Switzerland
• —Private Settings. Art after the internet, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
• —14 Rooms, Foundation Beyeler, Art Basel and Theatre, Basel, Switzerland
• —Real Emotions: Thinking in Film, KW Insititute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
• 2013 —Speculations on Anonymous Materials, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
• —The Encyclopedic Palace, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
• —Meanwhile...Sunddenly And Then, Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France
• —Relative Absolute, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire, UK
• —Tomorrow Never Knows, Jerwood project Space, London, UK
• —Black Cake, Team Gallery, New York, US
• —Frozen Lakes, Artist's Space, New York, US
• 2012 —The Big Inexplicable Paravent Illusion, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany
• —Weighted Words, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
• —Tomorrow Never Knows, commission for Film and Video Umbrella, JVA at Jerwood Space, London, UK
• —The Language of the Flowers and the Stars, Cubitt, London, UK
• 2011 —Still Life with Phrenology Head, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany
• —Time Again, Sculpture Centre, New York, US
• 2010 —The Plurality of One, Monitor, Rome, Italy
• —New Contemporaries 2010, New Contemporaries Gallery, Liverpool & London, UK
• —Something Blue: A Curiosa of Contemporary Erotica, Economy Projects, London, UK
• —American Mountains, Auto Italia, London, UK
• —Our TV, Moot Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
• 2009 —Kunskog, Five Hundred Dollars,London, UK
• —RIP 19 April 2009, Peacock Projects, London, UK
• —American Mountains, Stone Squid, Hastings, UK
• —Set Off Set, Artscomplex, Edinburgh, UK
• 2008 —The Dark Show / And The Dark Show Returns as a Ghost, Wallis Gallery, FormContent, Paradise Row, London, UK
• 2005 —Les Yeux de la Ville, Rue de l'ecole de-rue-medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
• —Minutes to Go, Space Gallery, London, UK
• —Sounding Out, Universtiy of East London, London, UK

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