JESSE DARLING

MFA Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, 2014
BA Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, 2010

Installation view, WALK! Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, DE (2022)
Installation view, No Medals No Ribbons, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK (2022)

Installation view, No Medals No Ribbons, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK (2022)
Installation view, No Medals No Ribbons, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK (2022)
Installation view, No Medals No Ribbons, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK (2022)
Installation view, No Medals No Ribbons, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK (2022)
Installation view, No Medals No Ribbons, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK (2022)
Jesse Darling, Gun, 2022, Broom, litter picker, crutch, plastic bottle, pigeon spikes, pencil, car air freshener, wire, plastic flower, 27 × 90 × 8 cm 
Jesse Darling, Gravity Road, 2020, Steel, sandbags, soil, flowers, elastic bandage, metal coating, 470 × 580 × 1,620 cm
Jesse Darling, Gravity Road, 2020, Steel, sandbags, soil, flowers, elastic bandage, metal coating, 470 × 580 × 1,620 cm
Jesse Darling, Gravity Road, 2020, Steel, sandbags, soil, flowers, elastic bandage, metal coating, 470 × 580 × 1,620 cm
Jesse Darling, Gravity Road, 2020, Steel, sandbags, soil, flowers, elastic bandage, metal coating, 470 × 580 × 1,620 cm
Installation view, More, More More, TANK, Shanghai, CN (2020)
Installation view, More, More More, TANK, Shanghai, CN (2020)
Jesse Darling, A Fine Line, 2018, Steel core washing line, barbed wire, fly strips, flags, baby clothes, used shoes, tea towels, fans, fairy lights, lanyards, love objects, artificial greenery, assorted commodities, Dimensions variable
Jesse Darling, A Fine Line, 2018, Steel core washing line, barbed wire, fly strips, flags, baby clothes, used shoes, tea towels, fans, fairy lights, lanyards, love objects, artificial greenery, assorted commodities, Dimensions variable
Jesse Darling, A Fine Line, 2018, Steel core washing line, barbed wire, fly strips, flags, baby clothes, used shoes, tea towels, fans, fairy lights, lanyards, love objects, artificial greenery, assorted commodities, Dimensions variable
 Installation view, The same room : Julie Becker in dialogue, Galerie Neu, Berlin, DE (2020)
 Installation view, The same room : Julie Becker in dialogue, Galerie Neu, Berlin, DE (2020)
 Installation view, The same room : Julie Becker in dialogue, Galerie Neu, Berlin, DE (2020)
 Installation view, The same room : Julie Becker in dialogue, Galerie Neu, Berlin, DE (2020)
Installation view, Transcorporealities, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE (2019)
Installation view, May You Live in Interesting Times, Venice Biennale, Venice, IT (2019)
Jesse Darling, March of the Valedictorians, 2016, Plastic Seat, Welded Steel, Etch Primer, Grosgrain Ribbon, Dimensions variable
Jesse Darling, March of the Valedictorians, 2016, Plastic Seat, Welded Steel, Etch Primer, Grosgrain Ribbon, Dimensions variable
Installation view, Crevé, Triangle France, Marseille, FR (2019)
Installation view, Crevé, Triangle France-Astérides, Marseille, FR (2019)
Installation view, Crevé, Triangle France-Astérides, Marseille, FR (2019)
Installation view, Crevé, Triangle France-Astérides, Marseille, FR (2018)
Jesse Darling, Brazen Serpent 2, Bowl of Hygieia, 2018, Two sculptures: both Steel, aluminium mobility cane, rubber ferrule, lacquer, white plinth with hand, Dimensions variable
Jesse Darling, A Correspondence, 2018, Pen and ink on white diffusion filter, frame, 136 × 262 cm 
Installation view, The Ballad of Saint Jerome, Tate Britain, London, UK (2018)
Installation view, The Ballad of Saint Jerome, Tate Britain, London, UK (2018)
Jesse Darling, Icarus drives it in (temporary relief), 2018, Ink on paper, ink on aluminium, model plane, hole punch, foam chips, wood, perspex, 90 × 42 × 13 cm
 Jesse Darling, Epistemologies (shamed cabinet), 2018, Mahogany, glass, steel, linen, archival binders, concrete, 125 × 110 × 50 cm
Jesse Darling, Comfort Station, 2017, Steel, aluminum, rubber and lacquer, 78 × 140 × 85 cm
Installation view, Support Level, Chapter, New York, US (2018)
Jesse Darling, Ass Priest, 2017, Welded steel, foam, cast silicon, silk ribbon, jesmonite, 195 × 55 × 53 cm
Jesse Darling, Liberty Poles, 2016, Flour bags, foam, ribbon, steel, aluminum, Dimensions variable

Jesse Darling, The 1st Lady, 2017, Foam, cast silicon, paper, pvc, velvet ribbon, steel, used work glove, 73 × 30 × 33 cm
Jesse Darling, Border Sphinx 1 (boundary boy) and Border Sphinx 2 (boundary boy), 2016, Polystyrene, plaster, silicon, plastic, cotton, tape, steel, barbed wire, 144.78 × 33.02 × 55.88 cm and 157.48 × 236.22 × 73.66 cm
Jesse Darling, Votive, 2016, Steel, wax, gauze, electric candle, 101.60 × 30.48 × 25.40 cm
Installation view, The Great Near, Arcadia Missa, London, UK (2016)
Installation view, The Great Near, Arcadia Missa, London, UK (2016)
Installation view, The Great Near, Arcadia Missa, London, UK (2016)
Jesse Darling, Cavalry (sugar n stone), 2016, fondant sugar, steel, clay, 105 × 102 × 37 cm
Jesse Darling, Saint Batman, 2016, Welded steel, sugar, antivirus mask, expanding foam, plastic, 159 × 61 × 27 cm 

SELECTED SOLO/DUO EXHIBITIONS

2024
VANITAS, Petit Palais, Paris, FR
On Our Knees, Arcadia Missa, London, UK

2023
Gravity Road, Mining History Centre, Lewarde, FR
Turner Prize 2023 Winner, Towner Eastbourne, Eastbourne, UK

2022
Miserere, St James’s Piccadilly, London, UK
Enclosures, Camden Art Centre, London, UK
No Medals No Ribbons, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK

2021
Beth Collar & Jesse Darling, Doppel, A plus A Gallery, Venice, IT

2020
Gravity Road, Kunsteverein Freiburg, Freiburg, DE
Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße Prize, Bremen, DE

2019
Selva Oscura, Galerie Sultana, Paris, FR
Crevé, La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, FR

2018
The Ballad of Saint Jerome, ART NOW, Tate Britain, London, UK
Support Level, Chapter Gallery, New York, US

2017
Armes Blanches, Galerie Sultana, Paris, FR

2016
ATROPHILIA (w Phoebe Collings James), Company, New York, US
The Great Near, Arcadia Missa, London, UK

2015
Spirit Level, (w Takeshi Shiomitsu), AND/OR, London, UK

2014
Same, Same, CAC 41N/41E, (w Takeshi Shiomitsu), Batumi, GE
Not Long Now, Lima Zulu, London, UK

2012
Stockholm Syndrome and Other System Failures, Arcadia Missa, London, UK

2009
Hypotopia?Population: You, AiRBase, quartier21, Vienna, AT

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024
Amour Systémique, CAPC Musée d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, FR

2023
Found Cities, Lost Objects, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
Contested Bodies, The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds, UK
Bruno Pélassy and the Order of the Starfish, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, DE
Interdependencies: Perspectives on Care and Resilience, Migros Museum, Zürich, CH
Phantom Sculpture, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK
Auditions for An Unwritten Opera, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, DE
Violins/Violence, Gathering, London, UK
Exposed, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR

2022
Barbe à Papa, CAPC Bordeaux, Bordeaux, FR
Trickster Figures: Sculpture and the Body, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
Drawing in the Continuous Present, The Drawing Center, New York, US
WALK!, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, DE

2021
Crip Time, Museum MMK für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, DE
PUT A SOCK IN IT!, Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna, AT
Tense Conditions, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, DE
GTFO, Always Fresh, New York, US
My Kid Could’ve Done That!, The Edge Art Centre, Bath, UK
Revolting Spines and Shivering Chains, Galerie im Turm, Berlin, DE
3.0, Chapter NY, New York, US
Gravity, Blitz Valletta, MT
House Share, Firstsite, Colchester, UK
Soil.Sickness.Society, Rønnebæksholm, Næstved, DK
Ora e lege, Broumov Monastery, Broumov, CZ
Wild Frictions, CAC Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Life Constantly Escapes, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, AT
Training Fantasia, Typography Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, RU

2020
Haunted Haus, Swiss Institute, New York, US
Notes on Entropy, Arcadia Missa, London, UK
More, More, More, TANK Shanghai, Shanghai, CN
Studio Berlin, Boros Foundation, Berghain, Berlin, DE
When the Sick Rule the World, ALTE FABRIK, Rappersvil, CH
The Same Room: Julie Becker in dialogue, Galerie Neu, Berlin, DE

2019
Transcorporealities, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE
May You Live In Interesting Times, Venice Biennale, Venice, IT
Body Splits, SALTS, Basel, CH
Running Room, Horse and Pony, Berlin, DE.

2018
À Cris Ouverts, Les Ateliers de Rennes Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Rennes, FR
Give Up the Ghost, Baltic Triennial 13, Tallinn Art Hall, EST
Post-Institutional Stress Disorder, Kunsthal Aarhus, DK
Cellular World, GoMA @ Glasgow International, Glasgow, UK
more of an avalanche, Wysing Art Centre, UK

2017
Beacons: Pharos, Caustic Coastal, Salford, UK
An unpredictable expression of human potential, Beirut Art Center for Sharjah Biennale, Beirut, LB
Occasional Geometries, Longside Gallery/ Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK
Command-Alternative-Escape @ Venice Biennale, Arsenale, Venice, IT

2016
No Ordinary Love/ Pas d’Amours Ordinaires, Sultana, Paris, FR
Ways of Living, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
Bread and Roses, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL

2015
You think the only people who are people, are the people who look like you, Two Queens, Leicester, UK
They/Them, Drei, Cologne, DE
The Fifth Artist, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK

2014
EXTINCT.LY Marathon, Serpentine Gallery/Online, London, UK
Late Capitalism, it’s like, almost over, The Luminary Arts Center, St. Louis, US
Private Settings, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Warsaw, PL
It’s been four years since 2010, Preteen Gallery, Arcadia Missa, London, UK
Snow Crash, Banner Repeater, London, UK
The Angry Show, 55 Sydenham Road, Sydney, AU

2013
Different Domain, The Royal Standard, Liverpool, UK
Dry Wipe, sleepingupright.com/Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK/ONLINE

2012
Business Innovations for Ubiquitous Authorship, Higher Pictures, New York, US
A Shot to The Arse, Michaelis Gallery, Cape Town, ZA

2011
Artisit, Basic Space, Dublin, IE
Ghetto Biennale, Grand Rue, Port-au-Prince, HT

SELECTED TALKS/EVENTS/PROJECTS

2020
Poetry: Five Bodies, Nottingham Contemporary, online

2019
Close Reading and conversation, Tate Britain, London, UK
Poetry Night, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK

2018
Bardo, commission for Volksbuhne Fullscreen, Berlin, DE

2017
Mene Mene Tekel Parsin, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK

2016
The Corporate Alternative, symposium co-organized by Pablo Larios (Frieze d/e), Mumok, Wien, AT

2015
NTGNE, Serpentine Pavilion, London, UK
Visiting artist, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, NL
Intimacies: The Personal in Creative and Practice-Led Research (keynote), Goldsmiths, University of London,
London, UK
Lunch Bytes Conference, European Edition, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE

2014
Lunch Bytes: Life- Feminism, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, SE
Habeas Corpus Ad Subjiciendum, MoMa Warsaw, PL
Yolamus, Extinction Marathon, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK
You Are Here: Art After the Internet, ICA, London, UK
FUTURECAMP: The Way We Act Now, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK
In [re]search of the real[ness]: The Work Labour of Art in the Age of Digital [Re]production, special invitation by Hito Steyerl, UDK, Berlin, DE
Artist Talk, Kiasma, Helsinki, FI
Self-administered EMDR, binaural beats for anxiety & depression, cartesian vocal effect, text, David Roberts Art
Foundation, London, UK
Artist Residency, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK

2013
Our Bodies, Our Selfies: Reclaiming Overshare for its Revolutionary Potential, AND Festival, Liverpool, UK
What It Is, The Showroom, Berlin, DE

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Tate, London (UK); Arts Council, London (UK); Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (FR); FRAC des Pays de la Loire (FR); UK Government Art Collection, London (UK); Glasgow Museums, Glasgow (UK); CNAP (FR); X Museum, Beijing (CN); Aïshti Foundation, Beirut (LB)