Helen Marten
b. 1985 in Macclesfield, UK
Lives and works in London, UK
Helen Marten’s work regularly features juxtapositions of diverse materials, including found objects and screen-printed paintings, to explore language and its inherent ambiguity. “I’m really interested in the point at which things become husked down to geometric memories of themselves,” the artist has said, “where a house, for instance, a pair of legs, or a cat could be communicated with huge economy and speed via just a few lines.”
Helen Marten is a contemporary British artist working in an interdisciplinary conceptual practice. Attracting international attention in 2016 with her winning of both the Turner Prize and the Hepworth Prize for Sculpture, Marten’s signature sculptural installations garnered her early acclaim with their incisive use of everyday objects and cutting-edge technologies.
She went on to attend Central Saint Martins in London and the Ruskin School of Fine Art at the University of Oxford. Her 2002 solo show at Kunsthalle Zürich helped launch her career, and Marten has since held solo exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Bard Hessel Museum in Annandale-on-Hudson, and Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London, among others.
