Darren Almond English, 1971

Darren Almond (Wigan, United Kingdom, 1971)

Darren Almond was born in Wigan, UK, in 1971 and graduated from Winchester School of Art, UK, in 1993.

Through his work, which includes several mediums such as films, sculptures, photographs and installations, he evocatively addresses the topic of time and duration, of personal and historical memory. He explores geographical limits and the means to reach them, especially addressing the notions of arrival and departure.

In 1996 Almond won the Art & Innovation Prize from the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. Then he took part in the Berlin Biennale (2001), the Venice Biennale (2003), and in 2005 he was among the finalists for the Turner award at Tate Britain in London.

His solo exhibitions include those at Jesus College in Cambridge in 2019; Villa Pignatelli – House of Photography in Naples in 2019; Mudam in Luxembourg in 2017; the Museum Sinclair Haus in Bad Homberg, Germany in 2016.

He has also exhibited in numerous group shows: the Parasol Unit in Venice, and the Whitechapel Gallery, in London in 2022; the Getty Center in Los Angeles in 2021; the Fondation Van Gogh, in Arles, France, in 2020; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2019.

Today the artist lives and works in London.

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