1977 Born in London. Lives and works in London.
Education
2001 MFA, Slade School of Art, University College, London
1999 BA, Fine Art, Honours, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University
1996 Foundation, Chelsea School of Art, London
Commissions
2022 Manifold 5:4, Crossrail Art Programme permanent commission, Moorgate entrance of Liverpool Street Elizabeth line station, London, UK
2021 Pioneering Places, Ramsgate, UK
2020 Schism Pavillion, Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France
2019 Bicameral, permanent commission for Chelsea Barracks, curated by Futurecity, London, UK
2018 Exploded Paradigm, permanent commission, Comcast Technology Centre, Philadelphia, USA
2017 The Interpretation of Movement (a 9:8 in blue), HS1 Terrace Wires temporary commission in conjunction with The Royal Academy, St. Pancras International station, London, UK
Beijing Canopy, permanent commission for Guo Rui Square, Beijing, China
2016 The Optic Cloak, permanent commission for The Energy Centre Greenwich Peninsula, curated by Futurecity, London, UK
Paradigm, permanent commission for the Francis Crick Institute, curated and managed by Artwise, London,
2015 The Dappled Light of the Sun, temporary commission for the Royal Academy of Arts Annenberg Courtyard, Summer Show London, UK
Three Perpetual Chords, permanent commission for Dulwich Park, London, curated and managed by the Contemporary Art Society for Southwark Council, UK
2013 Timepiece, temporary commission for the Roundhouse, London, UK
2012 Canopy Study, permanent commission for private building, Victoria Street, London, UK
2010 Fraction (9:8), permanent commission for the Sadler Building, Oxford Science Park, curated and managed by Modus Operandi, Oxford, UK
2009 Axiom (Tower), permanent commission for the Ministry of Justice, London, UK
Chord, temporary commission in Kingsway Tram Tunnel, London, UK
2007 Space Trumpet, permanent commission at Unilever House, London, UK
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Escalations, Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France
2019 Wilton Crescent, Belgravia, London
2019 Chord, The Jute Shed, Dean Clough Mills, Halifax, UK
2018 After the Explosion, Before the Collapse, Victoria Miro Mayfair, London
2018 Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut, USA
2016 Inverted Spires and Descendent Folds, Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain
2016 Stacks, Folds and Interference, Tucci Russo, Torre Pellice, Italy
2016 Paradigm, The Francis Crick Institute, London
2015 The ADA Project, The Peninsula, Hong Kong
2015 Inverted Spires and Descendent Folds, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
2015 Manifold, New Art Centre, Wiltshire, UK
2015 Counterpoint, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
2015 Three Perpetual Chords, Dulwich Park, London
2014 Three Harmonic Projections, Careyes Foundation, Mexico
2014 The ADA Project, The Vinyl Factory at Brewer Street Car Park, London
2014 Timepiece, Berwaldhallen, Stockholm
2014 Geometry of Mind, ARTMIA Foundation, Beijing
2013 Timepiece, Roundhouse, London
2013 ADA, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2013 New Blind Aesthetics, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
2013 From That Which It Came, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam
2012 Metamorphosis – Modern Responses to Titian (Titian, Chris Ofili, Conrad Shawcross, Mark Wallinger), National Gallery, London – Cultural Olympiad
2012 Set Design for Royal Opera House / Wayne McGregor, Royal Opera House, London – Cultural Olympiad
2012 The Nervous Systems (Inverted), MUDAM, Luxembourg
2011 Sequential, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
2011-12 Protomodel: Five Interventions, Science Museum, London
2011 Projections of the Perfect Third, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
2010 Fraction (9:8), Oxford Science Park, Oxford
2010 The Nervous System (Inverted), The Pace Gallery, The Sculpture Garden at 590 Madison Avenue, New York
2010 The Limit of Everything, Parra & Romero, Madrid
2009 Conrad Shawcross, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY
2009 Control, Location One, New York, NY
2009 The Collection, Siobhan Davies Dance Studio, London
2008 Dumbbell, Galleria Tucci Russo, Torino, Italy
2008 Axiom, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami
2008 Light Perpetual, Jenaer Kunstverein, Germany
2008 Inverse of a Shadow, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
2008 Tetrahelix Tower, Ministry of Justice Commission, Ministry of Constitutional Affairs, London
2007 Space Trumpet, Unilever Commission, Unilever House, London
2007 Lattice, Selfridges Commission, London
2006 No Such Thing As One, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
2005 The Steady States, The New Art Gallery, Walsall and Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
2004-2005 Continuum, The Queen’s House, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
2004 Manifesta 5, San Sebastian, Spain
2004 The End of the Particular, Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich, Germany
2003 The Nervous Systems, Entwistle Gallery, London
Group Exhibitions
2019 Sweet Harmony, Saatchi Gallery, London
2019 Stains on a Decade, Josh Lilley Gallery, London
2019 Sculpture in Pilane 2018, Pilane Sculpture Park, Sweden
2019 Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
2019 Negative Space, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2019 Science Fiction: A Journey into the Unknown, Kunsthalle Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2018 Harbour Arts Sculpture Park, Hong Kong, China
2018 Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth line, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2017 Into The Unknown A Journey Through Science Fiction, The Barbican, London
2017 Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
2017 Herning Socle Du Monde Biennale, 2017, HEART, Denmark
2017 The Universe and Art, ArtScience Museum, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
2016 The Universe and Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2016 Laboratoires de l’art, Musée des arts et metiers, Paris, France
2016 Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
2016 Laboratories de l’art, Musée des arts des métiers, Paris
2016 Light Show, CorpArtes, Santiago, Chile
2015 GLOBALE: Exo-Evolution, ZKM, Karlsruhe
2015 Frieze Sculpture Park, London
2015 Sensory Systems, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool
2015 The Chatsworth Festival – Art Out Loud, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire
2015 Eppur si Muove, MUDAM, Luxembourg
2015 Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
2015 Proportio, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
2015 Light Show, MCA Sydney and Sharjah Art Foundation
2014 Da Vinci: Shaping the Future, ArtScience Museum, Singapore
2014 Primal Architecture, IMMA, Dublin
2014 Light Show, Aukland Art Gallery, New Zealand
2014 What Marcel Duchamp Taught Me, The Fine Art Society, London
2014 Victoria Miro at Schloss Sihlberg, Zurich
2014 Epicentre: conversations and discussions between artists, Parra &; Romero, Ibiza
2014 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
2014 MOFO, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia
2013 Glasstress, the 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2013 Dynamo, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2013 Light Show, Hayward Gallery, London
2012 ARTE Video Night, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2012 Intersections: Science in Contemporary Art, David Lopatie Conference Centre, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
2012 Lines of Thought, Parasol Unit, London
2012 Out of Britain, British Council, London; touring to Bucharest National Museum Of Art, Romania (2013 – 2014); Muscat Bait Al Zubair Museum, Oman (2012); Kuwait City Contemporary Art Platform, Kuwait (2012); Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Science & Technology Center, Al Kohbar Saudi Arabia (2012); Riyadh National Museum, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (2012)
2011-12 Mondes Inventés, Mondes Habités, MUDAM, Luxembourg
2011 T.O.E (Synergies en résonance), Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble, France
2011 Journeys: Conrad Shawcross and Tavares Strachan, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA
2011 LUSTWARANDE ’11 – RAW, Park De Oude Warande, Tilburg, The Netherlands
2011 The Knowledge, Gervasuti Foundation, Venice
2011 TRA – Edge of Becoming, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
2011 The Knowledge, (curated by James Putnam), Gervasuti Foundation, Venice, Italy
2011 Light – Part II, (curated by Nick Hackworth and Gabriel Rolt), Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam
2011 Experimental Station, Resaerch and Artistic Phenomena, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid
2011 Phantasmagolia, (curated by James Putnam), FaMa Gallery, Verona, Italy
2011 MONANISM, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia
2011 Light – Part I, Paradise Row, London
2010 ShadowDance, KAdE, Kunsthal in Amersfoort, Amersfoort, Netherlands
2010 Actors and agents – Props, Events and Encounters, The Hub, Athens
2010 Systema Magicum Universi, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
2009 Third Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art, Russia
2009 A Duck for Mr. Darwin, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, and Mead Art Gallery, Warwick
2009 British Contemporary Art Show, Art Issue Projects, China
2009 Kaleidoscopic Revolver, Hanjiyun Contemporary Space, Beijing, China
2009 Natural Wonders (curated by Nick Hackworth), Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow
2009 Geoplay (part 1), Pilar Parra & Romero, Madrid
2008 Rendez-vous 2008, Musee d’art Contemporain, Lyon
2008 Reflections on Light – 30 years Galerie Bernd Klueser, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
2008 Academia: Qui es-tu, La Chapelle de L’Ecole National Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris
2008 Lattice III, Art | 39 | Basel Public Art Projects, Basel
2008 Beyond Measure: across art and science, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
2008 A Life of Their Own, curated by Richard Cork, Lismore Castle, Ireland
2008 Counterpoint, Robin Katz Fine Art, London 2008 Art L’Plage, St. Tropez, France
2007 Say It Isn’t So – Naturwissenschaften im Visier der Kunst, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
2007 Reconstruction 2, Sudeley Castle, England
2007 Unfinished Symphony, The Fine Art Society, London
2007 Artissima 14 – Constellations (selected during Artissima Art Fair), curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler and Daniel Birnbaum, Torino, Italy
2007 Counterpoint, Dubai Art Fair, Dubai 2007 All Tomorrow’s Parties, ICA, London
2006 Sudeley Castle 2006: Reconstruction 1, Sudeley Castle, England
2005 S.N.O.W Sculpture in Non-Objective Way, Galleria Tucci Russo, Torre Pellice, Turin
2004 New Blood, The Saatchi Gallery, London
2004 After Life, Death, Remembrance. Redundancy. Reanimation, curated by Simon Morrissey, Bowes Museum, County Durham
2004 Manifesta 5, San Sebastian, Spain
2003 Dead Game, Museum 52, London 2002 Fame and Promise, 14 Wharf Road, London
2002 It was bigger than all of us, Prenelle Gallery, Canary Wharf, London
2001 Engine II (Communicating at an Unknown Rate), The Old Armory, Harrow Road, London
2001 New Contemporaries 2001, Camden Arts Centre, London; Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
2000 Engine I, Dollard Street Studios, Vauxhall, London
Prizes, Awards, Residencies
2014 Jack Goldhill Award for Sculpture