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Helen Marten
Born 1985 in Macclesfield, UK. Lives and works in London.
Winner of this edition of the LUMA Award, Helen Marten studied at Central Saint Martins—University of the Arts London from 2004 to 2005, then at the Ruskin School of Fine Arts, Oxford University, from 2005 to 2008. In 2012, she will have solo shows at the Kunsthalle Zürich, the Chisenhale gallery in London, and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. In 2012 she will also take part in group exhibitions at Museion Bolzano and at the CCA Wattis, San Francisco. Recent solo exhibitions include: Dust and Piranhas, Park Night Project, Serpentine gallery (London); Take a stick and make it sharp, Johann König (Berlin); I like my heroes marble chested, with Carl Kostyal (London); Wicked Patterns, T293 (Naples). Her work has also been included in the following group exhibitions: MARCH, Sadie Coles HQ (London); Beyond Gestaltung, Bielefelder Kunstverein (Bielefeld); Hasta Mañana, Greene Naftali (New York); Fruits/Flowers/ Clouds, Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna; WUFF, COCO Kunstverein, Vienna. She is represented by Johann König in Berlin and T293 in Naples. She was the winner of the Lafayette Award in 2011.