Biography
Born in Dublin, Ireland, 1971
Lives and works in London
Since 2014, elected RA, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Born in Dublin, Ireland, 1971
Lives and works in London
Since 2014, elected RA, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1997-1999 | MA Fine Art, Goldsmith’s College, London |
1990-1993 | BA Hons Fine Art, University of Ulster, Belfast |
1989-1990 | Foundation studies, National College of Art and Design, Dublin |
1988-1989 | Diploma Art and Design, College of Marketing and Design, Dublin |
Arms Folded and Unfolded, 303 Gallery, New York, USA |
Our Life, Our Sweetness and Our Hope, Modern Art, London, UK |
Peak Times, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland |
The Shrinking Universe, Void, Derry, NI |
The Shrinking Universe, Visual, Carlow, Ireland |
The Shrinking Universe, curated by Mary Cremin, Ireland Pavilion, 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy |
Kosmos, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand |
A Material Enlightenment, 303 Gallery, New York |
Eva Rothschild, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, Italy |
Alternative To Power, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, England |
A Gated Community, Sonnaveld House, Rotterdam, NL |
A Setup, Block Universe and Fig-2 at ICA, London (with choreographer Joe Moran) |
Middle Temple, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, Italy |
Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland |
What the Eye Wants, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London |
This and This and This, Art Parcours, Art 45 Basel, Basel, Switzerland |
Narcissus, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland |
New Sculpture, New Art Centre, Wiltshire |
Douglas Hyde, Dublin, Ireland |
Sightings, The Nasher Sculpture Centre, Dallas, TX, USA |
Boys and Sculpture, Childrens Art Commission: The Whitechapel Gallery, London |
The Modern Institute, Glasgow |
Cold Corners, Tate Britain Annual Duveens’ Commission, Tate Britain, London |
Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London |
Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy |
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland |
La Conservera: Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Murcia, Spain |
The Modern Institute, Glasgow |
South London Gallery, London |
303 Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland |
Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London |
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland |
Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland |
Artspace, Sydney, NSW, Australia |
Heavy Cloud, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland |
Sit-In, Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy |
Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London |
Project Art Centre, Dublin, Ireland |
Peacegarden, The Showroom, London |
Peacegarden, Cornerhouse, Manchester |
Eva Rothschild, Francesca Kauffman Gallery, Milan, Italy |
Els Hannape Underground, Athens, Greece |
Eva Rothschild, Camden Arts Centre, London |
Eva Rothschild, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland |
Eva Rothschild, Titanik Galerie, Turku, Finland |
Great Wall / Black Hole, Iain Irving Projects, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
Eva Rothschild, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland |
Eva Rothschild, Bercsenyi Galleria, Budapest, Hungary |
The Milton and Sheila Fine Collection, Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
In Plain Sight, Wellcome Collection, London, UK |
Keep On Moving, Fondazione Morrangreco, Napoli, IT |
Pigeon Park 2, 33 Manor Place, London, UK |
STATUS need a world interlude, The Modern Institute, Glasgow |
On Jupiter, Olin Hall Galleries, Roanoke College, Salem, VA, USA |
Spirit of Kindergarten, Kasteel Wijlre estate, Wijlre, The Netherlands |
Sculpture in the City 10th Edition, London |
Sculptors at Work, F.E. McWilliam Gallery & Studio, Banbridge |
The Line, Bow Creek, London |
Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945, An Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (forthcoming) |
vent’anni – twenty years, kaufmann repetto, Milan, Italy |
Robert Jacobson prize, Kunsthalle Würth, Künzelsau, Germany |
Objects of Wonder - from Pedestal to Interaction, ARoS, Aarhus, Denmark |
Play Well, Wellcome Collection, London |
Never the Same River, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
Estuary, Fingal County Council Municipal Art Collection 25th Anniversary, Blanchardstown, Dublin |
The Sensation of Space, The Warehouse, Dallas, USA |
303 Gallery: 35 Years, New York, USA |
60 Years, curated by Sofia Karamani, Tate Britain, London |
Less is More, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands |
Liquid Crystal Display, curated by Laura Sillars with Angelica Sule, Site Gallery, Sheffield: travelling to: MIMA – Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough (2019) |
The Most Real Thing: Contemporary Textiles and Sculpture, New Art Centre, Salisbury, Wiltshire |
The Anthropologist in Me, curated by Duarte Sequeira and Guilherme Braga da Cruz, Forum Arte Braga, Braga, Portugal |
Shadowed Forms, curated by Kevin Francis Gray, Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark |
Nacré Fraternité, FLAT:TWO, Digbyland Studios, London |
The Oslo Museum of Contemporary Art, Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo |
City Room (with Gary Webb), Galeria Mário Sequeira, Parada de Tibães, Portugal |
An Eyeful of Wry, Brynmor Jones Library gallery, University of Hull, Hull |
31 Women, Breeselittle, London |
Against Landscape, Reid Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland |
Sculpture Garden, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, USA |
The Playground Project, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Ireland |
FK:K, FRANZ KAfkA, Kunstraum Kesselhaus, Bamberg |
IMMA Collection: A Decade, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland |
Theories of Modern Art, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London |
Surface and Beyond, curated by Heinz Peter Schwerfel, Dirimart Dolapdere, Istanbul |
Periodical Review #5, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, Ireland |
Then for Now, The Delfina Foundation, London |
Rapture & Pain, Lustwarande ’15, Fundament Foundation, Tilburg, Netherlands |
Sculpture in the Close, Jesus College Cambridge, Cambridge, UK |
Vibrant Matter, KIOSK, Ghent, Belgium |
Art as a Verb, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia, traveling to Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia and Artspace, Sydney, NSW, Australia |
You Imagine What You Desire, 19th Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia |
We are living on a star, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway |
Out of the House, Cranford Collection, Sala de Arte, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain |
Drawing:Sculpture, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds |
BITUME ET ASTRE DANSENT, PARFOIS, DANS LA PURE PEUR, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Paris, France |
Drawing:Sculpture, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds |
Other Voices, Other Rooms, Wentrup, Copenhagen, Denmark |
Making is Thinking,Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
Breitseite - Im Fokus: Raum, Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany |
DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture, Conversation Pieces, curated by Philip Treacy, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool |
Sculpture Now,Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland |
Big New Field,Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA |
Highlights from the Collection, The Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, TX, USA |
Undone: making and un-making in contemporary sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds |
The Dark Monarch, Towner Contemporary Art Museum, Eastbourne |
The Dark Monarch, Tate St Ives, St. Ives |
Geoplay (Part II), Pilar Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain |
Group Show, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
Drawing 2009 Biennal Fundraiser, The Drawing Room, London |
Sphinxx, curated by Alexis Vaillant, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London |
Rita McBride, Cornelia Parker, Eva Rothschild, Jessica Stockholder, Galeria Carreras Mugica, Bilbao, Spain |
Blasted Allegories – Werke aus der Sammlung Ringler, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland |
A Life of Their Own, curated by Richard Cork, Lismore Castle, Lismore, Ireland |
Un-monumental: Falling to Pieces in the 21st Century, curated by Richard Flood, Laura Hoptman and Massimiliano |
Gioni, The New Museum, New York, NY, USA |
Looking Up, Galeria Mario Sequeira, Braga, Portugal |
Dump, Postmodern Sculpture in the Dissolved Field, The Art Hall of Tullinlokka, Oslo, Norway |
The Echo Room, Alcala 31 Madrid traveling exhibition catalogue, published by British Council, Spain |
All Hawaii Entrées / Lunar Reggae, , Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland |
How to Build a Universe That Doesn, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA |
This is Not For You, Diskurse der Skulptur, T – B A21, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria |
Defining the Contemporary, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London |
British Art Show 6, Spike Island, Bristol |
60. Sixty Years of Sculpture in the Arts Council Collection, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield |
How to Improve the World: 60 Years of British Art, Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London |
The Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London |
If it didn’t exist you’d have to invent it: a partial Showroom history, The Showroom, London |
Strange Powers, curated by Laura Hoptman and Peter Eleey, Creative Time, New York, NY, USA |
The British Art Show 6, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead; Castlefied Art Gallery, Manchester; Nottingham Castle, Nottingham; Arnolfini, Bristol |
Extreme Abstraction, Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York, NY, USA |
Le Voyage Interieur, Paris – London, Escape Foundation EDF, Paris, France |
The Carnegie International, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
Strange Weather, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London |
Selections from the collection of Heather Hubbs, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA |
Four – Ply - , Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
ATOMKRIEG, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, Germany |
Plunder – Culture as material, Dundeed Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland |
Splendor Geometrik, Galerie Gisela Captain. Cologne, Germany |
The Walls Have Eyes, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London |
Primary Colours, The City Gallery, Leicester |
OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany |
This Was Tomorrow, New Art Centre Sculpture Park & Gallery, Salisbury |
3D Frederich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
Permaculture, Gallery Christima Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark |
Breathing the Water, Galerie Hauser & Wirth and Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland |
Playschool, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark |
Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Electric Dreams, Barbican Gallery, London |
Tailsliding, Young and Upcoming British Art, Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland |
Early one Morning, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Tate Britain, London |
My Head is on Fire But My Heart is Full of Love, Charlottenberg, Copenhagen, Denmark |
Prodigal Prodigy, White Box, New York, NY, USA |
Tattoo Show, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London |
Brown, The Approach, London |
Tailsliding, British Council (Touring) |
All That Is Solid…, London Print Studio, London |
Troubleshooting, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol |
Kalam to Computer‚ Crafts Museum, New Delhi, India |
Swenglish, IASPIS, London |
Silhouettes and Cut-outs, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany |
The seat with the clearest view..., Grey Matter, Sydney, NSW, Australia |
Circles ° 4, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany |
Schattenrisse, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus & Kunstbau, Munich, Germany |
Perfidy, Kettles Yard, Cambridge / Convent of La Tourette, Eveux, France |
Zig-Zag, Thomas Cohn Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
Hard Candy, Galerie Wieland, Berlin, Germany |
Pavilion, Mark Mueller Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland |
Tonight, The Modern Institute, Glasgow |
Comes the Spirit, Jerwood Space, London |
Proper, Centre for Contemporary Art, Vilnius, Lithuania |
Dream Machines, National Touring Exhibitions (UK) |
Palace, Glassbox, Paris, France |
Utopias, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland |
Luftfarer, Riksutstillinger, Oslo, Norway |
High Red Centre, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow |
Habitat, Melbourne Glasgow Edinburgh Cultural Exchange |
Cluster Bomb, Morrisson / Judd, London |
Crystal State, 3 Month Gallery / Artranspennine, Liverpool |
Seeing Hozomeen, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh |
How to build a Universe, Fly Gallery, Glasgow |
Excellent Dynamite, Pallas Studios, Dublin, Ireland |
Bed and Workshop, Square Doyen, Milou Rennes, France |
Habitat, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, VIC, Australia |
Superstore, Norwich gallery & The Tannery, London |
Tutor with an Idea, 3 Month Gallery, Liverpool |
Let’s Rock, Alexandra Mansions, Norwich |
European Couples, Transmisson Gallery, Glasgow |
If it wasn’t for the mist…, Grays School of Art, Aberdeen |
Performance Festival, Galleri Tommy Lund, Odense, Denmark |
Dialogue, W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
World of Ponce, South Park, Glasgow |
Singled Out, Catalyst Arts, Belfast |
City Limits, Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent |
Into the Void, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham |
Deep Signal, Gasworks, London |
Sick Building, Globescope, Copenhagen, Denmark |
Art for People, Transmission Gallery, London |
EV + A, Limerick, Ireland |
Sadler’s Wells East Bank, Stratford, London (forthcoming) |
Double Rainbow, Central Bank of Ireland, Dublin, 2022 |
Becontree Pyramids, Parsloes Park, Dagenham, 2021 |
The King's Cross Project, Cubitt Park, London, 2020 |
13th Robert Jacobsen Prize, 2019 |
Jack Goldhill Award, Royal Academy, London, 2017 |
Oslo Gardemoen Airport, Oslo, Norway, 2016 |
The Whitechapel Gallery Children’s Commission, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2012 |
Public Art Fund, Central Park, New York , 2011 |
Tate Britain Annual Duveens’ Commission, Tate Britain, London, 2009 |
Delfina Trust, London, studio residency, 2000-2002 |
Camden Arts Centre, London, Artist in residence, 2000 |
PADT / BAA Heathrow Arts Programme, Belfast Lounge commission, 1997 |
Independent Public Arts / Stirling Council, ‘National Flags’ project, 1997 |
Scottish Arts Council, Amsterdam, Studio residency, 1996 |
2019 | Eva Rothschild. 13th Robert-Jacobsen-Preis, Swiridoff, DE der Stiftung Würth |
2019 | The Shrinking Universe, Ireland Pavilion, 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia |
2018 | Kosmos, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne, Australia |
2016 | Alternative to Power, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, England |
2014 | Eva Rothschild, Dublin City Gallery, Dublin |
2011 | Eva Rothschild: Hot Touch, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, West Yorkshire |
2010 | Eva Rothschild, Koenig Books, London |
Eva Rothschild, La Conservera, Murcia, Spain | |
2009 | Cold Corners, Tate Publishing, London |
2005 | EVA ROTHSCHILD, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin |
2004 | Eva Rothschild, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich |
Eva Rothschild, JRP|Ringier, Zurich | |
2001 | Peacegarden, The Showroom, London |
1999 | No Title, in Bent Aura, STOPSTOP, Glasgow |
Seven Wonders of the World, Book Works, London |
2018 | Liquid Crystal Display, Site Gallery, Sheffield |
2015 | Then For Now, exhibition catalogue, published by Delfina Foundation, London |
2014 | Art as a Verb, Monash University Museum of Modern Art, Monash University Press |
We are living on a star, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, HOK | |
You Imagine What You Desire, 19th Biennale of Sydney, Australia | |
2013 | Changing States, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin City Art Gallery the Hugh Lane |
2011 | Made in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
Making is Thinking, Witte de With, Rotterdam (Digital Publication) | |
Breitseite - Im Fokus: Raum, exhibition catalogue, published by Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany | |
2009 | Ruf, Beatrix. Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation, Phaidon Press, London |
The Dark Monarch, Tate Publishing, St Ives | |
2007 | Echo Room - Art from Great Britain, The British Council, London |
Unmonumental: Falling to Pieces in the 21st Century, New Museum and Phaidon | |
2006 | All Hawaii Entrées/ Lunar Reggae, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin |
Tate Triennial, exhibition catalogue, Tate Publishing, London | |
2005 | British Art Show 6, Hayward Publishing, London |
Art at 30 St Mary Axe, London, Swiss Reinsurance Company, London | |
2004 | 54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
Atomkrieg, Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany and Lukas & Sternberg, USA | |
2003 | Eva Rothschild, in Sculpture in 20th-century Britain, Volume II, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds |
OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR: Remy Jungerman, Jim Lambie, Eva Rothschild, Badischer Kunstverein, Germany | |
2002 | Early One Morning, Whitechapel Gallery, London |
My Head is on Fire but my Heart is Full of Love, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen | |
Room for Improvement, Crafts Museum, India and Liverpool School of Art and Design, Liverpool | |
2001 | Prodigal Prodigy, White Box, New York |
Tailsliding, British Council, London | |
Vito Acconci/ Troubleshooting, Arnolfini, Bristol | |
2000 | Dream Machines, Hayward Publishing, London |
LUFTFARER, Riksustsillinger, Oslo | |
1999 | Utopias, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin |
British Art Show 6, exhibition catalogue, Published by Hayward Gallery, London |