Jesse Darling (b. Oxford, UK) is an interdisciplinary artist, poet, theorist, curator, mentor and teacher. One of the most influential British artists working today, he is best known for his disruptive, humorous and empathetic sculptural installations which repurpose familiar objects, creating strange and uncanny encounters.

Recent works stand as the ruined relics of crumbling empires, picking up on how the (aesthetic and symbolic) pillars of (what understands itself as) western civilization converge around ideologies of the border and exclusion.

Selected solo exhibitions include Petit Palais, Art Basel Paris (2024); Turner Prize, The Towner, UK (2023); Camden Arts Centre, London (2022), Modern Art Oxford, UK (2022), Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany (2022), Triangle France Astérides (2019), and Tate Britain (2018—2019). Recent group exhibitions include Palais de Tokyo (2023), CAPC Bordeaux (2022), Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2022), and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (2021). Darling also participated in the 58th Venice Biennale (2019), and was the winner of the Turner Prize 2023.

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Photo by J Campbell