exploring relationships between sex, gender, technology and systems of power.
Selected Shows 2019: MMCA , Seoul | MAK, Vienna | V&A , London
New Commission 2020: coLAB public sculpture, UCL, London [01.2020]
Shows, Talks, Awards 2020
UPDATE: All upcoming talks and shows have been postponed due to COVID-19 Virus. The public sculpture "Dissent Module" which is controlled by AI and installed in central London may not be physically accessible but as she is sentient you can interact with her via cyberspace.
UPDATE: All upcoming talks and shows have been postponed due to COVID-19 Virus. The public sculpture "Dissent Module" which is controlled by AI and installed in central London may not be physically accessible but as she is sentient you can interact with her via cyberspace.
- colLAB public sculpture commission , "Dissent Module (Escape from Semiramis)", Slade &UCL, London, UK [2020]
- Working Drawings & related Screenprints acquired by the V&A London [01.2020]
- TBWDP (Jerwood) Drawing Prize (Panel Talk@ Working Drawings) , Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, UK [25.01.2020] - BOOK HERE
Shows, Talks, Awards 2019
- Contains Art (Talk), Watchet, Somerset, UK [11.12.2019]
- Oxford Brookes Fine Art Lecture Series (Talk), Oxford Brookes, Oxford, UK [19.11.2019]
- Future of the Art Market Unconference (Talk), Somerset House, London , UK [13.11.2019]
- Modern Panic (Talk), Truman Brewery, London, UK [13.11.2019]
- "This Much I'm Worth (Korean Version)", V&A, London, UK [23.09.19 - 14.10.19]
- "Transubstantiation of Knowledge" shortlisted for Experimentation and Innovation Lovie Award [10.2019]
- TWB Drawing Prize (formally Jerwood Drawing Prize) , London and UK Venues [From 09.2019]
- Encode (Keynote Speaker), Data Conference as part of LDF, Microsoft Reactor, London [18.9.19]
- London Design Festival, V&A, London [14.09.19 - 22.09.19]
- Art Technicians Conference (Keynote Speaker)l, UAL, London [13.09.19]
- AI & Art Futures (Showing in Prototype Lab) , UCL, Barbican Centre, London [12.09.19]
- Vienna Biennial 2019, Uncanny Values - Artificial Intelligence and You, The Mak, Vienna, Austria [29.5.19 - 6.10.19]
- OK Corral, Copenhagen, Denmark [01.09.19 - 31.09.29]
- MMCA (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art), Vertiginous Data, Seoul, Korea [23.3.19 - 28.7.19]
- Event TWO, RCA, London [12.7.19 - 17.7.19]
- The Annotated Reader, curated and published by Ryan Gander and Jonathan P. Watts, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK [20.6.19 - 14.7.19]
- Invasive Media at the RCA (Speaker), London [15.07.19] - (Sold Out)
- EVA (Electronic Visualisation in the Arts) Symposium (Speaker), London [08.07.19]
- Artquest ASSIST Award, Award for Assistant [07.2019]
- National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design (Speaker), Oslo, Norway [2.05.19 - 3.05.19]
- RES | FEST 19 (Speaker), The Courtauld Institute of Art, London [26.04]
- Artists Talk @ Syracuse University [10.04.19], London, UK
- Artists Talk @ MMCA Seoul, Korea [22.03.19] - (Sold Out)
- Awarded grant from Arts Council of England [28.02.19]
- Artists Talk @ Leeds Art University [29.02.19], Leeds, UK
- Awarded a-n bursary [28.02.19]
- Winner of the inaugural coLAB commission for Sculpture: Women Make Sculpture, London due November 19 [13.02.19]
- London Art Fair (Panellist), Re-imagining Residencies: Catalysing creativity to disrupt cultural spaces forms [16.1.19]
- London Art Fair (Panellist), Performing the Digital: Approaches to collecting and acquiring new art forms [17.1.19]
Great Install shots from the V&A Install 2019 by RCA student Pang Nanyan
IMAGE ABOVE "This Much I'm Worth" [Korean Version], MMCA Korea, May - July 2019
IMAGE: Photograph by MMCA
IMAGE ABOVE "This Much I'm Worth" [European Version], Vienna Biennial 2019, May - Oct 2019
IMAGE: Photograph by Anise Gallery
Publications Feature in 2019
- 100 Sculptors of Tomorrow, Thames and Hudson - [To be released September 2019]
- Museums and Digital Culture , Springer, [17.05.19]
- Eva Conference Publication, [07.2019]
- Vertiginous Data Catalogue (HARDBACK) , MMCA [03.2019]
- Aesthetica Magazine, Article on 100 Sculptors of Tomorrow, August 2019
- Lots more but need to update e.g South Korean National Newspapers, Wallpaper Magazine, FT etc....
Enter your email below to subscribe to studio and event updates.
Get Updates from the Studio of Rachel Ara
Powered By
Constant Contact