Lives and works in UK.
B. 1981 Oxford, UK
Lives and works in UK

EDUCATION
2014
MFA, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, London, UK

2010
BA, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, London, UK

SELECTED SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025
Chapter NY, New York, NY
Molitor, Berlin, DE

2024
On Our Knees, Arcadia Missa, London, UK
Galerie Sultana, Paris, FR

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

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

2021
Doppel (w Beth Collar), A Plus A Gallery, Venice, IT

2020
Gravity Road, Kunstverein, Freibourg, DE
Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße Prize, Bremen, DE

2019
Selva Oscura, Galerie Sultana, Paris FR
Crevé, Triangle France, Marseille, FR

2018
Art Now: Jesse Darling, The Ballad of Saint Jerome, Tate Britain, London, UK
Room e-10 27 (w Anna Solal), Center, Berlin, DE
Support Level, Chapter NY, New York, NY

2017
Armes Blanches, Galerie Sultana, Paris, FR

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

2015
Absolute Bearing, LD50, London, UK
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

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Cruella De-vil, curated by Noam Alon, Galerie Sultana, Paris, FR

2023
Found Cities, Lost Objects, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
Contested Bodies, The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds, UK
After Laughter Comes Tears: A performative exhibition in four acts, MUDAM, Luxembourg, LU
Interdependencies: Perspectives on Care and Resilience, curated by Dr. Michael Birchall, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, CH
Phantom Sculpture, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK
Nous Buvons le Soleil, Sultana Summer Set, Arles, FR
Auditions for An Unwritten Opera, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, DE
After Laughter Comes Tears, MUDAM, Luxembourg, LU
Soft Touch, Sultana, Paris, FR
Violins/Violence, Gathering, London, UK
Exposed, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
Behind Abstract Forms, Fragment Gallery, New York, NY

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, NY
WALK!, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, DE

2021
3.0, Chapter NY, New York
Crip Time, Museum MMK für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, DE
PUT A SOCK IN IT!, Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna, AT
GTFO, Always Fresh, New York, NY
Tense Conditions, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, DE
My Kid Could’ve Done That!, The Edge Art Centre, Bath, UK
Revolting Spines and Shivering Chains, Galerie im Turm, Berlin, DE
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, Cincinnati, OH
Life Constantly Escapes, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, AT
Training Fantasia, Typography Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, RU

2020-21
Haunted Haus, Swiss Institute, New York, NY
Collection as Poem in the Age of Ephemerality, X Museum, Beijing, CN

2020
Three, Four Trees, E.A. Sharedspace, Tbilisi, GE
Notes on Entropy, Arcadia Missa, London, UK
A Fine Line, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, DE
More, More, More, TANK Shanghai, Shanghai, CN
The Same Room: Julie Becker in dialogue, with works by Julie Becker, Jesse Darling, Win McCarthy and Ima-Abasi Okon, Galerie Neu, Berlin, DE
When the Sick Rule the World, curated by Fanny Hauser and Viktor Neumann, ALTEFABRIK, Rapperswil, CH
to Thomas, curated by Lucas Morin & Sasha Pevak, ENSA Bourges, FR

2019
Transcorporealities, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE
POSTCENTRAL, NOME, Berlin, DE
Body Splits, SALTS, Basel, CH
May You Live in Interesting Times, 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT
Entering a Song, Koenig & Clinton, Brooklyn, NY
Running Room, Horse and Pony, Berlin, DE

2018
Docile Bodies, VITRINE, London, UK
Les Ateliers de Rennes, Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Rennes, FR
Baltic Triennial, Tallinn Art Hall (Kunstihoone), Tallinn, EE
Cellular World: Cyborg-Human-Avatar-Horror, Glasgow International, Glasgow, UK
Post Institutional Stress Disorder (PISD), Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, DK
more of an avalanche, Wysing Art Centre, Cambridge, UK
District 17, Kraupa Tuskany Zeidler Gallery, Berlin, DE

2017
You See Me Like a UFO, Marcelle Joseph Projects, Ascot, UK
An unpredictable expression of human potential, Beirut Art Center, LB
Occasional Geometries, Longside Gallery/ Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK
Command Alternative Space, Spazio Thetis Gardens, Arsenale, Venice, IT
Turn the Tide, RCA, London, UK
La Movida, HOME, Manchester, UK
Salon Vogue, New Bretagne Bel Air, Essen, DE

2016
A new job to unwork at, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Ways of Living, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
No Ordinary Love, Sultana, Paris, FR
Abstract Sex, Hessel Museum @ CCS Bard, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
Grey, Brand New Gallery, Milan, IT
Bread and Roses, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL

2015
Alive for an Instant, Stereo Galleria, Warsaw, PL
They/Them, Drei, Cologne, DE
The Fifth Artist, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK
The Shadow of the Dome of Pleasure, Artspace, NZ
Devotions, MOT International, London, UK
Wilderness, New Shelter Plan, Carlsberg, Copenhagen, DNK
Uberschonheit, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, AT

2014
Material Girls and their Muses, Marcelle Joseph Projects, London, UK
Ends Again, Supplement Gallery, London, UK
It’s been four years since 2010, Preteen Gallery @ Arcadia Missa, London, UK
Private Settings, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Warsaw, PL
Snow Crash, Banner Repeater, London, UK
Surplus Group Living Exhibition, KM Temporaer, Berlin, DE

2013
Different Domain, The Royal Standard, Liverpool, UK
The Eternal Internet Brotherhood, (angeloplessas.com), online

2012
Business Innovations for Ubiquitous Authorship, Higher Pictures, New York, NY
The Bastard Children of Pop, Angus-Hughes Gallery, London, UK

SELECTED TALKS/EVENTS/PROJECTS
2024
Jesse Darling: Material Histories, Towner Eastbourne, UK

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

2016
MFA Fine Arts Presents: Jesse Darling, SVA, New York, NY - On living together (with Sarah Boulton), Islington Mill, Salford, UK
Thing Don’t Need a Name, Studium Generale, KABK, Den Haag, NL
The Corporate Alternative, symposium co-organized by Pablo Larios (Frieze d/e), Mumok, Wien, AT

2015
Keynote Speech @ Intimacies symposium, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
ARE YOU ALIVE OR NOT? De Brakke Grond/Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
Lunch Bytes Conference, Haus der Kulteren der Welt, Berlin, DE

2014
Lunch Bytes: Life- Feminism, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, SE
Yolamus, Extinction Marathon, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK

2012
Ikea, Facebook & the Frame, Lucky PDF School of Global Art, Fierce Festival, Birmingham, UK

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2023
Darling, Jesse, Oscar Oldershaw, Joseph Campbell, SHOWGIRLS. London: Arcadia Missa

2022
Darling, Jesse, Heinrich Dietz, Joe Highton, and Sabrina Tarasoff, Gravity Road: A Rollercoaster Reader. London: Arcadia Missa

2017
Work in Progress: Jesse Darling, Frieze, February 13, 2017

2015
The Best British Poetry 2015, ed. Emily Berry and Roddy Lumsden

Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the 21st Century, ed. Lauren Cornell and Ed Halter, MIT Press.
The Animated Reader: Poetry in the Surround Audience, ed. Brian Droitcour for the New Museum Triennial
Kitson Road No.6, Camberwell Press, London

2014
Eleven Dreams, Tender Journal #5, online

Post Whatever: on Ethics, Historicity, & the #usermilitia, Rhizome.org
Art After the Internet, Cornerhouse Books (ed. Omar Kholeif)

2013
Manning the Empire, DiS Magazine

Precarious Architectures, Queer Materiality, and the Fall of the Phallic Modern Subject, HTSF4
Delinquent Bodies: on Performance Gifs, Art Papers

2012
Arcades, Mallrats and Tumblr Thugs, The New Inquiry

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
Sarah Belmont. “The Must-Visit Venues of Art Basel Paris’s Public Program,” ARTnews, October 16, 2024.
Durón, Maximilíano. “What the World’s Top Collectors Bought in 2024, From Contemporary Still Lifes to 16th-Century Sculptures of Saints,” ARTnews, October 3, 2024.
Rogers, Thomas. “An Artist’s Waning Love for His Craft,” The New York Times, July 7, 2024.
Lebovici, Élisabeth. “Jesse Darling,” Numéro Art, April 2024.
Ballantyne-Way, Duncan. “Turner Prize-winning artist Jesse Darling: ‘Art is over in its current form’,”The Berliner, March 25, 2024.
Masharani, Vijay. “Interview: Jesse Darling by Vijay Masharani. Sculptural entropy as an unveiling,” BOMB, March 11, 2024.
Fox, Killian. “’I love the dog, the sandals, everything!’: eight artists on their favorite paintings in the National Gallery,” The Guardian, February 18, 2024.
Lacey, Hester. “Turner Prize winner Jesse Darling: ‘I’m 43, and I’m just now ready to get some mentors’,” Financial Times, January 13, 2024.

2023
Steer, Emily. “Meet 8 Artists Who Broke Big in 2023 – From Sculptor Mire Lee to Abstract Painter Rachel Jones,” artnet, December 22, 2023.
Marshall, Alex. “Turner Prize Goes to Jesse Darling, a Sculptor of Mangled Objects,” The New York Times, December 5, 2023.
Velie, Elaine. “Artist Jesse Darling Wins Tate Britain’s Turner Prize,” Hyperallergic, December 5, 2023.
Lawson-Tancred, Jo. “Multidisciplinary Artist Jesse Darling Has Won the 2023 Turner Prize,” artnet news, December 5, 2023.
Youngs, Ian. “Turner Prize: Jesse Darling wins for ‘delirious’ art using tattered flags and barbed wire,” BBC, December 5, 2023.
Seymour, Tom. “Jesse Darling wins the 2023 Turner Prize for work reflecting a dystopian Britain,” The Art Newspaper, December 5, 2023.
Palumbo, Jacqui. “Artist Jesse Darling wins the prestigious 2023 Turner Prize,” CNN, December 5, 2023.
“Jesse Darling Wins 2023 Turner Prize,” Artforum, December 5, 2023.
Bakare, Lanre. “Jesse Darling wins the 2023 Turner Prize,” The Guardian, December 5, 2023.
“Jesse Darling’s Site Visit – A Road Trip Movie,” Tate Britain, September 29, 2023.
Perry, Francesca. “When the Turner Prize Came to ‘God’s Waiting Room,’” The New York Times, October 12, 2023.
Barry, Salena. “Turner Prize 2023 Review: Coming Out the Other End,” ArtReview, September 29, 2023.
Steer, Emily. “The Turner Prize 2023: Artists Respond to a World in Flux,” AnOther, September 29, 2023.
Lawson-Tancred, Jo. “The Turner Prize Exhibition Promises to Tell Us Something About the Art of Our Time. In 2023, It’s Complicated,” Artnet News, September 28, 2023.
Judah, Hettie. “Turner Prize 2023: Jesse Darling is my pick to win – but we need to rethink this award altogether,” iNews, September 27, 2023.
Searle, Adrian. “Turner prize 2023 review: bring on the contenders – and the zombie apocalypse,” The Guardian, September 27, 2023.
Sooke, Alastair. “Turner Prize 2023: anarchic, dynamic Jesse Darling is this year’s only true contender,” The Telegraph, September 27, 2023.
Wroe, Nicholas. “Toys, twisted rollercoasters, rooftop fountains: meet this year’s Turner Prize nominees,” The Guardian, September 23, 2023.
Schrader, Adam. “What Can We Expect From the Turner Prize Show This Fall? The Four Finalists Discuss the Works That Earned Them the Nod for the Top Award,” Artnet News, July 5, 2023.

2022
Ni Fheorais, Iarlaith. “Jesse Darling’s Malleable Bodies.” Frieze, May 26, 2022.
Judah, Hettie. “Jesse Darling: Enclosures.” The Gaurdian, May 19, 2022.
Connor, Michael. “Jesse Darling: No Medals No Ribbons.” 4Columns, April 29, 2022.

2020
Homersham, Lizzie. “Interviews: Jesse Darling.” Artforum, September 30, 2020.
Gleeson, Sinéad. “A Different Kind of Healing.” Frieze, September 2020.
“Daily Drawings: Week Five.” Artforum, May 22, 2020.

2019
Batycka, Dorian. “Jesse Darling Teaches an Injured Society How to Practice Empathy.” Frieze, November 19, 2019.
Luquet-Gad, Ingrid. “Essay: Jesse Darling.” Cura Magazine, no. 32, October 2019.
Watlington, Emily. “Artists Studio Visit: Jesse Darling.” Berlin Art Link, May 14, 2019.
Jones, Eliel. “Are You Tired Yet? Jesse Darling and the Personal, Political Condition of Exhaustion.” Freize, April 3, 2019.
Sherma-Patal, Kashif. “A correspondence on an impossible space with Jesse Darling’s ‘unsovereign’ form of social thought in The Ballad of Saint Jerome.” AQNB,
February 4, 2019.
Zamboni, Isabella. “Conversations: On Broken and Glorious Things: Jesse Darling.” Mousse Magazine, 2019.

2018
Conquer, Rey. “Jesse Darling and The Ballad of St. Jerome.” Burlington Contemporary, November 28, 2018.
Elderton, Louisana. “Jesse Darling Tate Britain/London.” Flash Art, November 14, 2018.
Kherbeck, William. “Blaze On, Picture,” MAP, 2018.
Dziautaite, Modesta. “Artist Jesse Darling is looking for redemption by refusing it altogether,” Interview Magazine, October 23, 2018.
Holmes, Heather. “Vacant Presence.” Art Papers, Winter 2018/2019.
Petukhova, Vera. “ No Tears for the Sovereign.” On Curating, no. 40, September 2018.
Edmonson, Tess. “Jesse Darling: Support Level,” Flash Art, March/April 2018.
Hettie, Judah. “Jesse Darling, Tai Shani, et E. Jane prennent d’assaut Glasgow.” Numéro Art 2 (2018): 116-118.
Herbert, Martin. “Project: Jesse Darling.” Artforum 56, no. 7 (2018): 174-181 and cover.
Zion, Amy. “Critics Guide: New York.” Frieze, February 2018.
Markbreiter, Charlie. “Critics’ Picks: Jesse Darling.” Artforum, February 23, 2018.
Heinrich, Will. “Goings on About Town: Jesse Darling.” The New Yorker, February 21, 2018.
Saelan, Twerdy. “Speaking from a Wound: Jesse Darling on Faith, Crisis, and Refusal.” Momus, January 9, 2018.
Saelan, Twerdy. “Living with Crisis.” Canadian Art, Winter 2018.

2017
“Artists of the Year: 2017.” Elephant, December 18, 2017.
Gregory, Hannah. “Mene Mene Tekel Parsin review.” Art Monthly, no. 408, July-August 2017.
Boutet de Monvel, Violaine. “Jesse Darling: Armes Blanches, Galerie Sulatana, Paris.” ArtReview, May 2017, p. 104.
Luquet-Gad, Ingrid. “Corps sans accord.” Les Inrockuptibles, March 15, 2017, p.90.
McClean-Ferris, Laura. “Phoebe Collings-James and Jesse Darling at Company.” Artforum, February 2017.

2016
Searle, Adrian. ”Frieze art fair 2016 review: everyone’s a performer in the boozy, fruity house of fun.” The Guardian, October 5, 2016.
Ugelvig, Jeppe. “Jesse Darling: Arcadia Missa, London.” Flash Art International, May 2016, p. 99.
Kirshner, Sarai. “Jesse Darling at Arcadia Missa.” AQNB, April 1, 2016.
Morse, Eric. “The Art and Literature of the Social Media Banal.” Artreview, March 2016, p. 74-78.
McLean, Matthew. “Stage Craft.” Frieze, no. 177, March 2016.

2015
Malik, Zayn. “Jesse Darling at Serpentine Galleries.” AQNB, October 8, 2015.
Wong, Binghao. “Queerating.” Auto Italia South East, September 9, 2015.
Singh Soin, Himali. “Jesse Darling and Brace Brace.” Artforum, June 2015.
De Wachter, Ellen Mara. “In Focus: Jesse Darling.” Frieze, no. 171, May 2015.
Barry, Robert. “Jesse Darling & Takeshi Shiomitsu.” Frieze, April 2015.

2014
Durbin, Andrew. “Talking About: Selfie Poetics.” Mousse Magazine, no. 44, Summer 2014.

SELECTED GRANTS & AWARDS
2023
The Turner Prize

RESIDENCIES
2016
Nuove Residency, LaPrima Plastics/ Fonazione Bonotto. Nove/Bassano, ITA

2014
The Future Residency, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK
EmbarrassmentParty.biz, online/Five College Consortium, Amherst, MA

2013
WE ARE HERE Residency, The White Building, SPACE, London, UK

TEACHING & WORKSHOPS
2017-18
Program lead (with Harold O eh), Syllabus III, UK

2017
Visiting tutor, Critical Studies. Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, NL

2016
Study Week on practice and ritual, Wysing Arts Centre, UK
Visiting tutor, Graphic Design & Critical Studies. Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, NL
Visiting lecturer, UWE at Spike Island, Bristol, UK 2015 Visiting artist, Malmö Art Academy, Malmö, SW
Visiting artist, Chelsea School of Art, London, UK
Guest artist, “Practicing in Public” seminar, Syracuse, NY, US

2014
“In [re]search of the real[ness]: The Labour of Art in the Age of Digital [Re]Production” seminar, UDK, BLN
Visiting Artist, University of the Arts, HKI, FI

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

2013
Performance for Gif series, Rhizome.com

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Tate Modern, 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, LBN