Alice Channer
1977
born in Oxford, UK
lives and works in London
2008
MA in Sculpture at Royal College of Art, London, UK
2006
BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London, UK
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Heavy Metals / Silk Cut across Kunstmuseum and Kunsthalle Appenzell, Switzerland
2022
Worms, Quartz Studio, Torino
2021
Nanowires, a permanent public sculpture for the new Engineering Department building at the University of the West of England
Fossil (Tonna Galea), Quartz Studio, Torino
Megaflora, Large Glass, London
Weaponized Glamour, Case Study Project Space, London
2019
Birthing Pool, Turf Projects, London
Man-made, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
2018
A Coin In Nine Hands’ Part 5 (Carapaces), Large Glass, London
2016
Early Man, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
2015
Half-life, Lisa Cooley, New York, US
R o c k f a l l, Pied-á-terre, San Francisco, US
R o c k f a l l, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, US
2014
Synthetic Fibres, The Approach, London, UK
2013
Soft Shell, Kunstverein Freiburg
Invertebrates, The Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK
2012
Cold Blood, Lisa Cooley, New York, US
Out of Body, South London Gallery, London, UK
2011
Body Conscious, The Approach, London, UK
Other-Directed, BolteLang, Zurich, CH
2010
Inhale, Exhale, Charles Rennie Mackintosh Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, UK (as part of the Glasgow International, UK)
2009
Worn-work, The Approach, London, UK
Every Separation Is A Link, showreelproject.com, Milan, italy
I Cannot Tell The Difference Between One Thing And Another, Pied-á-terre, Portland, US
Works Folded Out Of And In To The Collection Of, World Class Boxing, Miami, US
I have been unable to borrow the template of Big Ben, Punctuation Programme, Limoncello, London, UK
2007
That Make Up Some Things, Associates Gallery, London, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Phantoms and Other Illusions, KAI10 | Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf
Trickster Figures: Sculpture and the Body, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
Sculpture In The City, City Of London, UK
Breaking the Mould, Sculpture by Women since 1945, An Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition, Longside Gallery; Yorkshire Sculpture Park,Wakefield; Djanogly Gallery; University of Nottingham; The Levinsky Gallery; University of Plymouth; The Box, Plymouth; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; New Art Gallery Walsall, UK
2022
Die Wirklichkeit ist sowieso da, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf
Climate: RA Summer Show 2022, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Lethality and Vulnerability, Artangel, Orford Ness, Suffolk
Cloudpoint, Paradise Row, London
The Searchers, HDTS, Wonder Valley, California
Look! Exposing Art and Fashion, Marta Herford, Marta
High Desert Test Sites 2022, curated by Iwona Blazwick, Joshua Tree
2021
Liverpool Biennial 2021: The Stomach and The Port, curated by Manuela Moscoso, Liverpool
Afterness, a series of major new commissions by Artangel at Orford Ness
Sculpture In The City, City Of London
Breaking the Mould, Sculpture by Women since 1945, An Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK, Spring 2021, then touring to New Art Gallery, Walsall; Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
2020
Lines, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
Into The Labyrinth, curated by Charlotte Schepke, Dalby Forest, Low Dalby, Thornton-Le-Dale, Pickering
60 Years, Tate Britain, London
OUR FUMING LIPS MAKE A NEW MIRAGE, www.shell-like.com
The Technological Hand, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
Psychotropics, curated by Iwona Blazwick, The New Art Centre, Salisbury
Breathless. London Art Now, a British Council exhibition curated by Norman Rosenthal and Harry Woodlock, Ca'Pesaro, Venice
2019
Pairings: Sculpture in the Nasher and Rachofsky Collections, Nasher Sculpture Centre, Dallas
The Weather Garden: Anne Hardy curates the Arts Council Collection, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Fault Lines, curated by Edward Ball, Freelands Foundation, London
In The Labyrinth, Large Glass, London
Der Flexible Plan, Das Rokoko in der Gegenwartskunst, Museum Morsbroich
2018
This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things X, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
The Axial Line, PS120, Berlin
The Shape Left By The Body, The Sunday Painter, London
Crash Test, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, La Panacée, Montpellier
ISelf Collection: The Upset Bucket, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Actions: 'The Image of the World Can Be Different', Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK
Shifting Landscapes, Nottingham Castle Museum
2017
DOUBLES, DOBROS, PLIEGUES, PARES, TWINS, MITADES, The Warehouse, Dallas, USA
Rest in the Furrows of My Skin, Kunsthaus Hamburg
Production Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
Gravity and Grace, Aspen Art Museum
In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive And You Were Full Of Joy, a Hayward Gallery Touring show curated by Elizabeth Price; The Whitworth Manchester; De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
2016
Production Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
Now for Tomorrow II, Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Nottingham
The Cable Guys 2, Future Gallery, Berlin
In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive And You Were Full Of Joy, The Whitworth, Manchester; (a Hayward Gallery touring show, curated by Elizabeth Price)
Wer nicht denken will, fliegt raus, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve
2015
Don’t Shoot the Painter, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan
An Intervention, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
Image Objects, Public Art Fund at City Hall Park, New York
New Skin, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut
2014
Chat Jet (Part 2) – Sculpture in Reflection, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz
Nature after Nature, Fridericianum, Kassel
Cable Guys, Future Gallery, Berlin
Pool, Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover
Hi-Tide, Art Unlimited, Art Basel
Return Journey, Mostyn, Llandudno
2013
You Are Here, Worcester Art Museum, Massachuesetts
Skinz, Frieze Sculpture Park, Frieze London
COOKBOOK: l’art et le processus culinaire, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Slip, The Approach, London
Antibody, Lisa Cooley, New York
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico / The Encyclopedic Palace, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice
O the sleeping bag contains the body but not the dreaming head, Altman Siegel, San Francisco
Detouched, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
Drawing Sculpture, Drawing Room London / Leeds Art Gallery, touring exhibition
2012
Hard Metal Body, Art on the Underground, Central Line Series commission for Notting Hill Gate Tube Station, London, UK
Ultra Low/No Whiffs NO Butts, Hobbs Mclaughlin, London, UK
The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Contemporary Collection Display: The Space Between, Tate Britain, London, UK
Caroline Achaintre, Sara Barker, Alice Channer, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
Look here, upon this picture, Cherry & Martin, Los Angeles, US
2011
The Cat Is On The Table, Spazio A, Pistoia, IT
The Hole, London, UK Young London, V22 Workspace, London, UK
Alice Channer, Jamie Isenstein, J. Parker Valentine, Lisa Cooley, New York, US
Independent Art Fair, New York, US
Americans and Apricots, Crisp, London, UK
2010
Every night, I go to sleep, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK
Unto This Last, Raven Row, London, UK
Alice Channer, Dagmar Heppner, Alicja Kwade, Maria Zahle, Bolte Lang, Zurich, CH
2009
Boule to Braid, Lisson Gallery, London, UK (curated by Richard Wentworth)
The Quiet Revolution, Milton Keynes Gallery / Harris Museum & Art Gallery Preston /
Djanogly Art Gallery Nottingham, a Hayward Gallery touring exhibition, UK (curated by Chris Fite-Wassilak)
Because I Say So, Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, US
December 1952, Chelsea Space, London, UK
Little Shop On Hoxton Street, Limoncello, London, UK
2008
Dogtooth and Tessellate, The Approach, London, UK
Strange Solution, Art Now, Tate Britain, London, UK
Associates, Phillips De Pury, New York, US
M25 Around London, CCA Andtrax, Mallorca, ES (curated by Barry Schwabsky)
Please Don’t Make Me Be Misunderstood, World Class Boxing, Miami, US
V22, The Wharf Road Project, The Wenlock, London, UK (selected by Martin Westwood) 3 Building, Wharf Road, London, UK
100 Years, 100 Artists, 100 Works of Art, Art On The Underground, Rochelle School, London, UK
Multi-Focal, MA show, Royal College of Art Sculpture School, London, UK
2007
Took My Hands Off Your Eyes Too Soon, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US
Two Halves A Show In, Interim Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2006
Explorers From Overseas, Galleri Specta, Copenhagen, DK
A Collection of Various Parts Including, Degree show, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
2004
Dividing Lines, Numbers Gallery, London, UK
SELECTED BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
2023
Alice Channer, Heavy Metals/ Silk Cut, DISTANZ
2021
Alice Channer "Megaflora" Large Glass / London by Alex Bennet - Flash Art
2019
Freelands Foundation, Fault Lines, Edward Ball
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Alienated Bodies and Exilic Beings: Alice Channer's Man-made Exhibition
Turf Projects, Contaminated, Implicated
2017
Writings on Pied-à-terre, Pied-à-terre, edition of 701
2015
“Don’t Shoot The Painter”, Paintings from the UBS Art Collection,Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan, IT (cat.)
Aspen Art Museum Exhibition Essay, Fast but Slow, Courtenay Finn
2014
Dietz, Heinrich and Lotz, Antonia, “Pool | Art from London”, Exhibition Magazine
Fridericianum, nature after nature, Susanne Pfeffe, (cat.)
Future Gallery, The Cable Guys, Ory Dessau, (cat.)
2013
Bourriaud, Nicolas, Cookbook: L’art et le processus culinaire, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts
Invertebrates, prose poem, commissioned by Alice Channer and Hepworth Wakefield, Kari Rittenbach
2012
Lovatt, Anna, Drawing: Sculpture, Drawing Room, Leeds Art Gallery (cat.)
Breathing, South London Gallery (cat.)
The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, (cat.)
2023
2023
Kunstbulletin, Alice Channer - Tauchgang in tiefsinnige Oberflächen, Julia Schmidt, Sep
Artforum, CRITICS’ PICKS, Alice Channer, Phoebe Cripps, Sep
2022
Art In America, The Work of Worms, A conversation on the inspiring work of an underappreciated underground creature, Alice Channer with Amy Stewart, moderated by Emily Watlington, Jun/Jul
The Guardian, 'There was only one possible theme': Alison Wilding on her climate crisis Summer Exhibition, Jonathan Jones, Jun
Large Glass, A conversation between Alice Channer, Nicolas Deshayes and Alison Wilding, chaired by Penelope Curtis, on the occasion of the first Artist-edited feature in Sculpture Journal, Jun
Sculpture Journal, Artist-edited feature; Sand in the Vaseline: On Twenty-First-Century Process Art, Alice Channer with Alisa Baremboym, Nicolas Deshayes, K.R.M. Mooney, Tania Pérez Córdova and Alison Wilding, Jun
Hyperallergic, A Desert Biennial, Somewhere Between Settlers and Searchers, Renée Reizman, May
The Art Newspaper, An outdoor exhibition returns to Joshua Tree, the California desert's art boom town, Scarlet Cheng, Apr
Art Monthly, Roundtable - Virtual Studio Visits: Four London-based artists discuss the rise of the online studio visit, Alice Channer, Anne Hardy, Karin Ruggaber and Carey Young, Jan
2021
Flash Art, Alice Channer 'Megaflora" Large Glass / London, Alex Bennett, May
Art Monthly, Alice Channer : Megaflora, Chloe Carroll, Jun
The Art Newspaper, Slavery, stray dogs and our shared stomach: Liverpool Biennial questions port city's imperial legacy, Louisa Buck, Jun
The Art Newspaper, Interview: 'I weaponise glamour... I see clothes as a kind of armour that can change and mutate', Louisa Buck, Apr
Financial Times, Sculpture in the City - lending new life to London, Jackie Wullschläger, Jun
The Times, Spooked at the seaside, Waldemar Januszczak, Jul
London Review of Books, On Orford Ness, Sam Kinchin-Smith, Sep
Art Monthly, Afterness, Matthew Bowman, Oct
The i, Afterness, Orford Ness, review: An island exhibition of secrets, lies, and nuclear catastrophe, Florence Hallett, Jul
The Guardian, Orford Ness: the apocalyptic art zone at war with nature, Claire Armitstead, Aug
The Observer, Artangel: Afterness review - an island of secrets that's its own work of art, Laura Cumming, Jun
The Art Newspaper, 'Island of secrets' : exhibition fills former nuclear research site on Suffolk coast with art, Louisa Buck, Jun
Liverpool Biennial, Alice Channer - Studio Visit video, Mar
Henry Moore Institute and Pangaea Sculptors' Centre, Roundtable Discussion: Engaging Technologies / Emerging Technologies, discussion with artists Alice Channer, Daniel Steegman Mangrané and Zachary Eastwood-Bloom, May
Liverpool Biennial, LB x a-n Artist Talk with Alice Channer & SHELL LIKE, Apr
Case Study Project Space, Weaponized Glamour Podcast, Alice Channer, Madeleine Pledge and Lauren Williamson, Oct
Large Glass, Ripple and Void, Exhibition text, Rosanna McLaughlin, Apr
Contemporary Art Society, Friday Dispatch, Alice Channer: Megaflora, Ilaria Puri Purini, Apr
The University of the West of England Engineering Department, Video interview with Professor Ioannis Ieropoulos, whose research alongside the bodies of electricity generating bacteria inspired Nanowires, Nov
The University of the West of England Engineering Department, Video interview with Alice Channer, Nov
Quartz Studio, Worms, Exhibition text by Eva Brioschi, Nov
2020
Flash Art, Exilic Glamour, Feature essay, Noam Segal, Mar
Studio Voltaire, Alice Channer on Nnena Kalu, in response to Kalu's offsite commission as part of Studio Voltaire elsewhere, Jul
Kettle's Yard, Three Questions for Alice Channer, Jun
Fermynwoods, Podcast 2 - Amy Lay-Pettifer with Alice Channer and Bethan Lloyd Worthington, Jun
Contemporary Art Society, Conversation with Anne Hardy, Carey Young and Alice Channer, moderated by Caroline Douglas, Apr
CONVERSATION #3: BEAT, with Marie Lund and Alice Channer, published and edited by Melissa Gordon, Feb
2019
Turf Projects, Contaminated, Implicated, Exhibition text, Jes Fernie, Jul
The Guardian, Sixty Years review - Tate's all-female rehang pulls its punches, Adrain Searle, Apr
Artforum.com, Critics Pick: "In the Labyrinth" at Large Glass, Emily LaBarge, Feb
The Guardian,We gotta get out of this place! The artists snared by the lure of the labyrinth, Charlotte Higgins, Feb
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Alienated Bodies and Exilic Beings: Alice Channer's Man-made Exhibition, Exhibition essay, Noam Segal, Jan
Freelands Foundation, Fault Lines, Exhibition publication, Edward Ball, Feb
Freelands Foundation, Alice Channer and Holly Hendry in Conversation with Edward Ball, Mar
Ca'Pesaro, Breathless/London Art Now, Catalogue text, Eleonora Drago, Oct
2018
Yorkshire Sculpture International, Sculpture Talk: Alice Channer, Leeds Art Gallery, Dec
Artforum.com, Critics Pick: "The shape left by the body" at The Sunday Painter, Philomena Epps, Jul
The Sunday Painter, The Shape Left By The Body, Exhibition text, Ilaria Puri Purini, Jul
Tate, 'Soft Sediment Deformation, Upper Body (quilted gray)', Alice Channer, 2018, Hattie Spires, Jun
this is tomorrow, Alice Channer: A Coin in Nine Hands - Part 5, Fiorella Lanni, April
The Telegraph, Alice Channer celebrates the intricate shape of the shell at Large Glass, Louisa Buck, Apr
this is tomorrow, Actions. The image of the world can be different, Review by Ryan Hughes, Mar
Frieze, ‘The Molecular Turn’: While Social Media Flourishes Ecological Systems are Collapsing, Max Andrews, Feb
Kettles Yard, Actions. The image of the world can be different, Catalogue text, Jennifer Powell, Feb
La Panacée, Crash Test, Catalogue text, Nicolas Bourriaud, Noam Segal and Stefanie Hessler, Feb
Whitechapel Gallery, Introducing ISelf Collection: The Upset Bucket, Exhibition video, Feb
ArtInfo, ‘Barbara Hepworth: A Matter of Form’ at Pace Gallery, New York, Feb
2016
The Art Newspaper, Large Glass Celebrates Its Fifth Birthday With A Duchamp Fest, Louisa Buck, Dec
Tate Etc., From the Surreal to the Decorative, by Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Inga Fraser, Michael Bracewell and Alice Channer, Autumn
Studio International, Interview with Rosanna McLaughlin, Aug
BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Contemporary Art Debate at Nottingham Contemporary, with Elizabeth Price, Sam Thorne and Ann Gallagher, chaired by Anne McElvoy, Jun
Early Man Exhibition Essay, Unfolding The Fold, Mara-Johanna Kölmel, Apr
Art Agenda, Gallery Weekend Berlin, Karen Archey, May
Monopol, Alte Meister, Von Neuen Geliebt, Alice Channer, Jun
2015
Art in America, The Form-Giver; A Picasso Symposium, Alice Channer, Sep
The New York Times, 'Image Object' Looks at the Relationship Between the Virtual and the Physical, Ken Johnson, Jul
ArtinAmerica.com, The Lookout, Alice Channer at Lisa Cooley, May
Half-life Press Release poem,There's Something Deep Beneath You, Karen Archey, May
Artforum, 500 Words: Alice Channer, Barry Schwabsky, Feb
Aspen Art Museum Exhibition Essay, Fast but Slow, Courtenay Finn, Feb
Grassroots TV Aspen, Art Matters: Alice Channer in conversation with Heidi Zuckermann, Feb
2014
Art Basel Unlimited Catalogue, Hi-Tide, Morgan Quaintance, Jun
This is Tomorrow, Alice Channer: Synthetic Fibres, Alex Borkowski, Jun
Art Monthly, New Realism, Mark Prince, Issue 376, May
Synthetic Fibres, Press Release Text, Kari Rittenbach, May
Fridericianum Exhibition Publication, nature after nature, Susanne Pfeffer, May
Future Gallery Exhibition Publication, The Cable Guys, Ory Dessau, May
Kestnergeschellshaft Exhibition Publication, Pool, Henri Dietz and Antonia Lotz, April
San Fransisco Art Institute, Lecture Series Spring/Summer 2014 - Alice Channer, Feb
2013
Soft Shell Exhibition Essay, Caroline Käding, Oct
Kaleidoscope, Meta-Materiality, Rebecca Geldard, Issue 18, pp. 48-55, Summer
Kaleidoscope, Post-Materiality, Karen Archey, Issue 18, pp. 36-41, Summer
Invertebrates, prose poem, commissioned by Alice Channer and Hepworth Wakefield, Kari Rittenbach, Feb
Frieze, Alice Channer, Jessica Jackson Hutchins & Linder: Hepworth Wakefield, Amy Sherlock, Issue 156
Artforum, Critic's Pick: Alice Channer, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Linder, Agnieszka Gratza, Apr
Art Monthly, Alice Channer: Invertebrates, Morgan Quaintance, Apr
The Independent, In The Studio: Alice Channer, Artist, Karen Wright, Mar
Artforum.com, Detouched: Project Arts Centre, Gemma Tipton, Mar
Art in America, Alice Channer, Lisa Cooley, Brienne Walsh, Mar
ArtinAmerica.com, Alice Channer, Lisa Cooley, Ruba Katrib, Jan
Artforum, Alice Channer, Lisa Cooley, Lloyd Wise, Jan
2012
ARTINFO UK, 17 Questions for Perception-Bending British Artist Alice Channer, Allison Meier, Dec
The Brooklyn Rail, Alice Channer in conversation with Barry Schwabsky, Dec
The New York Times, Alice Channer:Cold Blood, Karen Rosenberg, Nov
The Observer Magazine, Why We're Watching: Alice Channer, Shahesta Shaitly, Nov
South London Gallery, Another Body, Barry Schwabsky, Catalogue Essay, May
Frieze, Sculptors Discuss Sculpture, Issue 147, May
Mousse Magazine, Full Frontal: Because We Can't Think In Three Dimensions, Alice Channer and Anthea Hamilton in Conversation, Issue 33, Apr
Artforum.com, Critic's Pick: Alice Channer, Kari Rittenbach, Mar
Time Out London, Alice Channer: Out of Body, Rosalie Doubal, Mar
London Evening Standard, Alice Channer: Out of Body, Ben Luke, Mar
ARTINFO UK, It Was Like Making a Weapon, Coline Milliard, Mar
Afterall, Artists at Work: Alice Channer, Line Ellegaard, Jan
2011
Artforum, Body Conscious, Gilda Williams, Summer
Art Review, Body Conscious, Rebecca Geldard, Issue 51, Summer
Guardian Unlimite, Artist of the Week, Skye Sherwin
London Evening Standard, Alice Channer Has Found a Refreshing Voice, Ben Luke, Mar
Modern Painters, Studio Check, Coline Milliard, Mar
ARTINFO UK, New Comets - Five London Artists To Watch, Coline Milliard, Feb
2010
Frieze, Alice Channer, Sam Thorne, Mar
Mackintosh Gallery at The Glasgow School of Art, His hOles, Alice Channer, Apr
Artforum, Critic's Pick: Unto This Last, Ben Luke, Jun
Time Out London, In The Studio, Helen Sumpter, Jun
Frieze, Glasgow International, Jonathan Griffin, Jun
ARTINFO UK, Unto This Last, Coline Milliard, Jul
The Independent, Exhibitions of the Year, Unto This Last, Laura McLean Ferris, Dec
2009
Artforum, Worn-work, Barry Schwabsky, Oct
The Brooklyn Rail, Quiet Revolution, and Worn-work, Sherman Sam, Sep
Artreview, Close Encounters, Laura McLean Ferris, Aug
The Coelacanth Journal, No.3 The Moderns: Inside Out, Alice Channer
Mousse Magazine, Every Separation Is A Link, Caterina Riva, Mar
2007
Associates Gallery, A conversation between Alice Channer, Ryan Gander & Rebecca May Marston, June
