BARLO68475 2017 Art Basel

Phyllida Barlow

Biography

Born

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 1944

Education

Studied at Chelsea College of Art, London, UK, 1960 – 1963

Studied at Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK, 1963 – 1966

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025

The Gund at Kenyon College, 'Phyllida Barlow. untitled: eleven columns; standing, fallen, broken', Gambier OH (Travelling Exhibition)

2024

Hauser & Wirth Somerset, 'Phyllida Barlow. unscripted', Bruton, UK

EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, 'Phyllida Barlow. RIG: untitled; blocks. What If Women Ruled the World? Part 4', Athens, Greece

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025

Sheffield Museums, Millennium Gallery, 'These Mad Hybrids. John Hoyland and Contemporary Sculpture', Sheffield, UK (Travelling Exhibition)

The Fitzrovia Chapel, The Roberts Institute of Art, 'In Attendance. Paying Attention in a Fragile World at the Fitzrovia Chapel', London, UK

The Hepworth Wakefield, 'A Living Collection', Wakefield, UK

The KinderKunstLabor for contemporary art in St. Pölten, 'Paper, Stone, Scissors, the Materials and Tools of Art', St. Pölten, Austria

Kampa Museum, 'Visions of the World. The Wigam Collection', Prague, Czech Republic

Kunstmuseum Basel, 'Medardo Rosso. The Invention of Modern Sculpture', Basel, Switzerland (Travelling Exhibition)

Djanogly Gallery, 'Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles', Nottingham, UK (Travelling Exhibition)

The Wilson Gallery, 'Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles', Cheltenham, UK (Travelling Exhibition)

2024

Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles, Coventry, UK (Travelling Exhibition)

Mumok Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 'Medardo Rosso. Inventing Modern Sculpture', Vienna, Austria (Travelling Exhibition)

Museo Nivola, 'Pratza ‘e domo. A Semiotic House That Was Never Built. Guests: Phyllida Barlow, Janette Laverrière, Julie Mehretu, Oscar Murillo, Paulina Olowska and others', Orani, Italy

Hauser & Wirth, 'Surreal Legacies', Monaco

Hayward Gallery, 'When Forms Come Alive', London, UK

RWA Royal West of England Academy, 'These Mad Hybrids. John Hoyland and Contemporary Sculpture', Bristol, UK (Travelling Exhibition)

Warwick Arts Centre, Mead Gallery, 'Phantom Sculpture', Coventry, UK

ZHdK Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, 'Phyllida Barlow Monika Sosnowska Franz West', Zurich, Switzerland

Awards

2022

Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung’s 2022 Kurt Schwitters Prize, Hannover, Germany

2021

DBE for services to the arts in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours

Bibliography

Monographs

2025

Morris, Frances, 'In the Studio. Phyllida Barlow', Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2025, ill.

2024

Morris, Frances, 'Phyllida Barlow. Sculpture 1963-2023', Edinburgh: Fruitmarket Gallery, Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2024, ill.

Harrison, Sara (ed.), 'Phyllida Barlow. Fifty Years of Drawings', Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2nd reprint, 2024, ill.