HELEN MARTEN helenmarten.com BIOGRAPHY Born Macclesfield, UK, 1985 Lives/works in London EDUCATION 2005 – 2008 Ruskin School of Fine Art, University of Oxford 2004 – 2005 Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London UPCOMING 2013 Venice Biennale, Giardini and Arsenale, Venice (group) No borders in a wok that can't be crossed, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (solo) SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2012 Almost the Exact Shape of Florida, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich Evian Disease, Palais de Tokyo, Paris Plank Salad, Chisenhale Gallery, London 2011 Dust and Piranhas, Park Night Project, Serpentine Gallery, London Take a stick and make it sharp, Johann König, Berlin 2010 All the single ladies, Coltorti, Miami, FL I like my heroes marble chested, presented by Carl Kostyal and T293 for Frieze week, London Wicked patterns, T293, Naples GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection) 2012 New pictures of common objects, MoMa PS1, New York Inside the banana, Algus Greenspon, New York March, Sadie Coles HQ, London Struggles, Maison Particulière, Brussels New Public, curated by rein Wolfs, Museion Bolzano, Italy Standard Operating Procedures, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles 2011 POST DIGITAL - The Return of the Archaic, Samajimt, Kiev Beyond Gestaltung, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Germany Hasta Mañana, Greene Naftali, New York Mirages, Foutains & Dissociative Composition, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels Fruits/Flowers/Clouds, Museum of Contemporary Art (MAK), Vienna 2010 WUFF, COCO Kunstverein, Vienna, (travelling project through Austria, Ukraine + Lithuania) Untitled, Four Boxes Gallery, Krabbesholm Denmark Mexican Blanket (with Jost Munster + Mariah Robertson), Museum 52, London Fake Modern, Camden Arts Centre, London 2009 Session_7_WORDS, Am Nuden Da, London Boule to Braid, Lisson Gallery, London 2008 Grotto, Museum 52, London BOX LADDER, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford Cosmic Rays, The Project Space, Oxford SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS 2012 LUMA Prize, winner 2011 Prix Lafayette 2008 - 2009 The Boise Travel Scholarship