Biography
Born in Dublin, Ireland, 1971
Lives and works in London
Since 2014, elected RA, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Education
| 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 |
Solo Exhibitions
2022
| Our Life, Our Sweetness and Our Hope Modern Art, London, UK |
2021
| Peak Times, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland |
| The Shrinking Universe, Void, Derry, NI |
2020
| The Shrinking Universe, Visual, Carlow, Ireland |
2019
| 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 |
2018
2017
| A Material Enlightenment, 303 Gallery, New York |
| Eva Rothschild, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, Italy |
2016
| Alternative To Power, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, England |
| A Gated Community, Sonnaveld House, Rotterdam, NL |
2015
| A Setup, Block Universe and Fig-2 at ICA, London (with choreographer Joe Moran) |
| Middle Temple, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, Italy |
2014
| 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 |
2013
| Narcissus, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland |
| New Sculpture, New Art Centre, Wiltshire |
2012
| 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 |
2011
2009
| 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 |
2008
| The Modern Institute, Glasgow |
2007
| South London Gallery, London |
| 303 Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
2006
| Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland |
2005
| Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London |
| Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland |
2004
| Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland |
| Artspace, Sydney, NSW, Australia |
2003
| Heavy Cloud, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland |
| Sit-In, Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy |
2002
| Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London |
| Project Art Centre, Dublin, Ireland |
2001
| Peacegarden, The Showroom, London |
| Peacegarden, Cornerhouse, Manchester |
| Eva Rothschild, Francesca Kauffman Gallery, Milan, Italy |
| Els Hannape Underground, Athens, Greece |
2000
| Eva Rothschild, Camden Arts Centre, London |
1999
| Eva Rothschild, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland |
1998
| Eva Rothschild, Titanik Galerie, Turku, Finland |
1996
| Great Wall / Black Hole, Iain Irving Projects, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
| Eva Rothschild, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland |
1995
| Eva Rothschild, Bercsenyi Galleria, Budapest, Hungary |
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
| 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, US |
2021
| 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 |
2020
| 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 |
2019
| 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 |
2018
| 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 |
2017
| 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 |
2016
| 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 |
2015
| 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 |
2014
| 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 |
2013
| Out of the House, Cranford Collection, Sala de Arte, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain |
| Drawing:Sculpture, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds |
2012
| 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 |
2011
| 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 |
2010
| 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 |
2009
| 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 |
2008
| 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 |
2007
| 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 |
2006
| 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 |
2005
| Extreme Abstraction, Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York, NY, USA |
| Le Voyage Interieur, Paris – London, Escape Foundation EDF, Paris, France |
2004
| 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 |
2003
| 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 |
2002
| 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 |
2001
| 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 |
2000
| 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) |
1999
| 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 |
1998
| 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 |
1997
| 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 |
1996
| 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 |
Awards / Commissions
| 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 |
Monographs and Solo Exhibition Catalogues
| 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 |
Selected Group Catalogues and Publications
| 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 |