About Helen Marten
Born in Macclesfield, UK, in 1985, Helen Marten is an artist and writer who works across sculpture, painting, drawing, video, and writing to create work that questions the stability of the material world and our place within it. From 2004 to 2005 she studied at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London, and in 2008 she graduated from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford. She is an honorary fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.
Alluding to ideas, systems, and experiences, Marten’s work investigates how we exist and understand the world around us. What at first glance appear to be found objects are actually sculptural entities handcrafted by the artist. Marten is the author of a novel, The Boiled in Between (2020). She is currently working on a second novel, A Polite History of Vandalism, and a book of unruly essays on containers, Broken Villas.
In 2016, Marten was awarded the Turner Prize and was the inaugural recipient of the Hepworth Prize for Sculpture. She participated in the 55th and 56th Venice Biennales and the 20th Biennale of Sydney. She has had numerous solo exhibitions throughout the world. Her work is in the collections of the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Tate, London; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, among others. She lives and works in London.
Artists in Conversation
Join us for lively and inspiring conversations with some of today’s most notable artists. “Artists in Conversation” brings together curators and artist to discuss artistic practices and insights into their work.
This program is presented through the generosity of the Terry F. Green 1969 Fund for British Art and Culture.
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Helen Marten, photo by Benedict Brink
