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
2023
Museum of Contemporary Art, 'Phyllida Barlow. Eleven Columns', Toronto, Canada (Travelling Exhibition)
Public Art Fund, City Hall Park, 'Phyllida Barlow. PRANK', New York NY
Chillida Leku, 'Phyllida Barlow', Hernani, Spain
2022
Sprengel Museum, 'BREACH', Hannover, Germany
LWL Museum für Kunst und Kultur, 'Phyllida Barlow. STREET', Münster, Germany
Hauser & Wirth, 'Phyllida Barlow. glimpse', Los Angeles CA
2021
Tate Modern, Artist Rooms, 'Phyllida Barlow', London, UK
Hauser & Wirth, 'Phyllida Barlow', London, UK
Studio Voltaire elsewhere commission, Highgate Cemetery, 'Phyllida Barlow. act', London, UK
Hauser & Wirth, 'Phyllida Barlow. small worlds', Zurich, Switzerland
Haus der Kunst, 'Phyllida Barlow. frontier', Munich, Germany
Bayerische Staatsoper, set design for 'Idomeneo', Summer Season, Munich, Germany
2020
Firstsite, 'Phyllida Barlow', Colchester, UK
2019
Royal Academy of Arts, 'cul-de-sac', London, UK
Henry Moore Institute, 'Phyllida Barlow. Sculpture and Drawings from the Leeds Collection', Leeds, UK
2018
Hauser & Wirth, 'tilt', New York NY
High Line Art, 'prop', New York NY
Jupiter Artland, 'Phyllida Barlow: quarry', Edinburgh, UK
2017
La Biennale di Venezia, 'Phyllida Barlow. folly, British Pavilion at the 57th International Art Exhibition', Venice, Italy
Turner Contemporary, 'ARTIST ROOMS: Phyllida Barlow', Margate, UK
2016
Kunsthalle Zürich, 'demo', Zurich, Switzerland
2015
Nasher Sculpture Center, 'tryst', Dallas TX
Fruitmarket Gallery, 'set', Edinburgh, UK
Lokremise, 'mix', St. Gallen, Switzerland
2014
Tate Britain, Duveen Gallery Commission, 'Phyllida Barlow. dock', London, UK
Hauser & Wirth, 'Fifty Years of Drawings', London, UK
Hauser & Wirth, 'GIG', Bruton, Somerset, UK
2013
Des Moines Art Center, 'scree', Des Moines IA Norton Museum of Art, 'HOARD', West Palm Beach FL
Contemporary Art Society, London, UK
2012
New Museum, 'siege', New York NY
Henry Moore Institute, 'Phyllida Barlow. Bad Copies', Leeds, UK
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, 'BRINK', Aachen, Germany
Hauser & Wirth, '…later', New York NY
2011
Hauser & Wirth, 'RIG', London, UK
Kunstverein Nürnberg, 'Cast', Nuremberg, Germany
2010
Studio Voltaire, 'BLUFF', London, UK
V22, 'SWAMP', London, UK
BAWAG Contemporary, 'STREET', Vienna, Austria
2009
One in the Other Gallery, 'BRAKE', London, UK
2008
Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, 'STINT', Warwick, UK
Southbank Centre, 'STACK, FENCE', London, UK
2007
Canary Wharf, 'Under Over', London, UK
Galería Jesús Gallardo, 'Ramp Tower Flags', León, Mexico
New Art Centre, Roche Court, 'New Sculpture: in the Gallery and Grounds', Salisbury, UK
2005
Studio 1.1, 'untitled: demo', London, UK
Spacex, 'SCAPE', Exeter, UK
Bloomberg Space, 'Skit', London, UK
Beacon Art Project, 'sense of place: place of sense', Sleaford, UK
The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, 'Remnants, Dallas, 2003', Dallas TX
2004
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, 'Peninsula', Gateshead, UK
Tannery Arts Exhibitions, 'Barrier', London, UK
2003
Dallas Visual Art Gallery, 'untitled: Dallas', Dallas TX
The Magnet School/Angstrom Gallery, 'Remnants', Dallas TX
2002
Richard Salmon Gallery, 'New Sculpture', London, UK
Phoenix Wharf, 'Fête', Bristol, UK
2001
Wimbledon Theatre, 'Knives in Hens', London, UK
1996
Marshall’s Mill, 'Recall', Halifax, UK
1995
Museum of Installation, 'Depot', London, UK
Henry Moore Institute, 'Sculptures for the Library', Leeds, UK
1994
Private Commission, 'In Place. Objects for Objects', Privately owned locations Installation for a Country House Hallway, 'Out of Place', Hertfordshire, UK
Installation for a Garage, 'Out of Place', London, UK
1991
Business Design Centre, 'Plantation', London, UK
Museum of Installation, 'Deep', London, UK
RIBA Sculpture Court, 'Closed (Vigil II)', London, UK
1990
DEGW Offices, 'Fall', London, UK
1989
Hermitage Road Industrial Estate, 'Crowd', London, UK
Smith Jarawala Gallery, 'Wallworks', London, UK
Windsor Festival, 'Vigil I', Windsor, UK
1988
The Gallery, 'Slope', Halifax, UK
1987
St. Peter's Churchyard, 'Oracle', Cambridge, UK
Unit 7, 'Expanse', London, UK
1985
'Wrecks', Bayfield, UK
Old Stocking Factory Mare Street, 'Ghosts', London, UK
Finsbury Park school playground, 'Strangers', London, UK
1984
Archway Road (abandoned house, attic), 'Scar', London, UK
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
2023
Hauser & Wirth, 'Fabric Works', St. Moritz, Switzerland
Hauser & Wirth Somerset, 'Gruppenausstellung', Bruton, UK
Kunsthalle Emdem, 'Kunst-stoff. Textil als Künstlerisches Material', Emdem, Germany
Gathering, 'Support Structures', London, UK
The National Museum, 'Louise Bourgeois: Imaginary Conversations', Oslo, Norway
Saatchi Gallery, 'If Not Now, When? Generations of Women in Sculpture in Britain, 1960–2022', London, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
The Hepworth Wakefield, 'If Not Now, When? Generations of Women in Sculpture in Britain, 1960–2022', Wakefield, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
Royal Academy of Arts, 'Summer Exhibition', London, UK
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 'Acts of Friendship', Zurich, Switzerland
City of London Corporation, 'Sculpture in the City. 12th Edition', London, UK
Gagosian, 'Hurly-Burly. Phyllida Barlow, Allison Wilding, Rachel Whiteread', Paris, France
2022
Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Dreamhome. Stories of Art and Shelter', Sydney, Australia
Busan Biennale, 'Busan Biennale 2022. We, on the Rising Wave', Busan, South Korea
Rønnebæksholm, 'No Stranger or Lover to Me ', Naestved, Denmark
Royal Academy of Arts, 'Summer Exhibition', London, UK
BY ART MATTERS, 'Building and Dreaming', Hangzhou, China
Roberts Institute of Art, 'Untitled, 1956 at Flat Time House', London, UK
Goldsmiths CCA, 'Testament', London, UK
Whitechapel Gallery, 'A Century of the Artist's Studio 1920-2020', London, UK
Hauser & Wirth, 'Chromophilia', Zurich, Switzerland
The Levinsky Gallery, University of Plymouth and The Box, Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition, 'Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945', Plymouth, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
Ferens Art Gallery, Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition, 'Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945', Hull, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
The New Art Gallery Walsall, Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition, 'Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945', Walsall, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
2021
Somerset House, 'Beano. The Art of Breaking the Rules', London, UK
Royal Academy of Arts, 'Summer Exhibition', London, UK
Hauser & Wirth, 'Drawing on the Mind', cur. Zhang Enli, Central, Hong Kong
The Roberts Institute of Art / Sheffield Museums, Millennium Gallery, 'Earthbound. Contemporary Landscape from the Roberts Institute of Art', Sheffield, UK
Fundación Bancaja, 'London Calling. British Art Today. From David Hockney to Idris Khan', Valencia, Spain
Kunst Museum Winterthur, 'Moment.Monument. Aspects of Contemporary Sculpture', Winterthur, Switzerland
Mori Art Museum, 'Another Energy. Power to Continue Challenging', Tokyo, Japan
Staatsgalerie, 'Tense Conditions. A Presentation of the Contemporary Art Collection', Stuttgart, Germany
K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 'Everyone Is an Artist. Cosmopolitical Exercises with Joseph Beuys', Düsseldorf, Germany
Djanogly Gallery, Lakeside Arts, University of Nottingham, Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition, 'Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945', Nottingham, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition, 'Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945', Barnsley, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
2020
Hauser & Wirth, 'Seeing Touch', St. Moritz, Switzerland
Roche Court New Art Centre, 'the other side of the coin', Salisbury, UK
2019
ARoS, 'Objects of Wonder. From Pedestal to Interaction', Aarhus, Denmark
Somerset House, 'Beyond Boundaries. An Interaction between the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing and the Slade School of Fine UCL', London, UK
Southwark Park Galleries, 'From the Kitchen Table. Drew Gallery Projects 1984-90', London, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
Pangolin, 'Carl Plackman and His Circle', London, UK
PalaisPopulaire, 'Objects of Wonders. British Sculpture from the Tate Collection, 1950s - Present', Berlin, Germany
2018
Herbert Read Gallery, University for the Creative Arts, 'From the Kitchen Table - Drew Gallery Projects 1984-90', Canterbury, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
Carnegie Museum of Art, 'Crossroads. Carnegie Museum of Art’s Collection, 1945 to Now', Pittsburgh PA
MOSTYN, 'She sees the shadows', Llandudno, UK
Royal Academy of Arts, 'Summer Exhibition', London, UK
Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Spacemakers and roomshakers. Installations from the collection', Sydney, Australia
Foundation Villa Datris, 'Tissage, Tressage', L’Isle sur la Sorgue, France
Schirn Kunsthalle, 'Power to the People. Political Art Now', Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Firstsite, 'Bronze Age c. 3500 BC – AD 2018', Colchester, UK
Camberwell Space, 'A History of Drawing', London, UK
2017
Hauser & Wirth, 'Portable Art. A Project by Celia Forner', New York NY
Jesus College, 'Sculpture in the Close', Cambridge, UK
Art Gallery of South Australia, 'Versus Rodin. Bodies Across Space and Time', Adelaide, Australia
Turner Contemporary, 'Entangled. Threads and Making', Margate, UK
Griffin Gallery, 'Architecture as Metaphor', London, UK
Royal Academy of Arts, 'Summer Exhibition', London, UK
Tate Liverpool, 'Constellations: Highlights from the Nation’s Collection of Modern Art', Liverpool, UK
2016
Hepworth Wakefield, 'The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture', Wakefield, UK
Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, 'Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947-2016', Los Angeles CA
Arter, 'Not All That Falls Has Wings', Istanbul, Turkey
Fondazione Prada, 'To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll', Milan, Italy
Royal Academy of Arts, 'Summer Exhibition', London, UK
Edinburgh Art Centre, 'Making It: Sculpture in Britain 1977-1986', Edinburgh, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
CCS Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College, Hessel Museum of Art, , 'Invisible Adversaries', Annandale-on-Hudson NY
2015
Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, 'Making It. Sculpture in Britain 1977-1986', Coventry, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 'Making It. Sculpture in Britain 1977-1986', West Bretton, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
Kettle's Yard, 'New Rhythms', Cambridge, UK
Royal Academy of Arts, Keeper’s House, 'Works on Paper by Sculptors', London, UK
Royal Academy of Arts, 'Summer Exhibition', London, UK
Kettle's Yard, 'Contemporary Drawings', Cambridge, UK
Auf AEG, 'Gute Kunst? Wollen!', Nuremberg, Germany
me Collectors Room Berlin, 'A Book of Burning Matches. Collecting Installation Art Documents', Berlin, Germany
2014
Whitechapel Gallery, 'Contemporary Art Society. The Best is Not Too Good for You', London, UK
Royal Academy of Arts, 'Summer Exhibition', London, UK
2013
Carnegie Museum of Art, 'Carnegie International', Pittsburgh PA
La Biennale di Venezia, '55th International Art Exhibition. The Encyclopedic Palace', Venice, Italy
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, ‘Yes, Naturally. How Art Saves the World’, The Hague, The Netherlands
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, 'Peekskill Project V', Peekskill NY
Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, 'Gifted. From the Royal Academy to The Queen', London, UK
Royal Academy of Arts, 'Summer Exhibition', London, UK
Spoorzone, 'Slow Burn. An Index of Possibilities', Tilburg, The Netherlands
Karsten Schubert, 'Here We Go. A Changing Group Show', London, UK
Royal Academy of Arts, 'Summer Exhibition', London, UK
2012
David Roberts Art Foundation, 'A House of Leaves', London, UK
Institute of Contemporary Arts of Lasalle College of the Arts, 'Encounter. The Royal Academy in Asia', Singapore (Travelling Exhibition)
Katara Cultural Village Foundation, 'Encounter. The Royal Academy in the Middle East',
Doha, Qatar (Travelling Exhibition)
Korean Cultural Centre, 'Twin Town. An Exhibition of New Artworks by Korean and European Artists', London, UK
Lokremise, 'Human Capsules. Eight Female Artists from the Ursula Hauser Collection', St. Gallen, Switzerland
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 'Collection on Display. Phyllida Barlow, Jimmie Durham, Daniel Knorr, Mark Leckey', Zurich, Switzerland
Mystetskyi Arsenal, 'First International Biennale of Contemporary Art. The Best of Times, The Worst of Times. Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art', Kiev, Ukraine
Royal Academy of Arts, 'Summer Exhibition', London, UK
2011
Art Cologne, 'Open Space', Cologne, Germany
Haus der Kunst, 'Sculptural Acts', Munich, Germany
Museum Ludwig, 'Before the Law', Cologne, Germany
Kettle's Yard, 'Artists for Kettle's Yard', Cambridge, UK
Limoncello Gallery, 'Young British Art', London, UK
Johann König, 'Sculpture is Three-Dimensional Artwork Created by Shaping or Combining Hard Materials ... ', Berlin, Germany
Henry Moore Institute, 'United Enemies. The Problem of Sculpture in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s', Leeds, UK
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 'Displaced Fractures. On the Break Lines of Architecture and its Bodies', Zurich, Switzerland
2010
Serpentine Gallery, 'Nairy Baghramian and Phyllida Barlow', London, UK
Kunstmuseum Basel, 'Old Ideas', Basel, Switzerland
Bergen Kunsthall, 'Silberkuppe Under One Umbrella', Bergen, Norway
CoExist Galleries, 'Phyllida Barlow & Fiona MacDonald', Southend-on-Sea, UK
Modern Art, 'Every night, I Go to Sleep', London, UK
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 'Displaced Fractures – Über die Bruchlinien von Architekturen und ihren Körpern', Zurich, Switzerland
2009
V22, The Almond Building, 'Sculpture Exhibition', London, UK
ROOM Gallery, 'Collaborators', London, UK
Warwick Arts Centre, 'Hijack Reality, Bob and Roberta Smith solo exhibition, invited artist Phyllida Barlow', Warwick, UK
Russian Club Gallery, 'Phyllida Barlow/Jess Flood-Paddock', London, UK
DOMOBAAL, 'Time is a Sausage', London, UK
2008
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 'Old Ideas', Basel, Switzerland
V22, The Wharf Road Project, 'Stuff. Alison Wilding, Phyllida Barlow, Laura White, Bettina Buck', London, UK
Henry Moore Institute, 'Prospects and Interiors Sculptors. Drawings of Inner Space', Leeds, UK
Art Space Gallery, Michael Richardson Contemporary Art, 'STEW', London, UK
CAS Gallery, 'Entre Muros / Between Walls', Miami FL (Travelling Exhibition)
Kilkenny Art Festival, 'Untitled', Kilkenny, Ireland
2007
Amagerfaelledvej Art Project, 'etc…', Copenhagen, Denmark
Flowers East, 'Says the Junk in the Yard', London, UK
Studio 1.1, 'An Exploration into Abstract Painting', London, UK
RUN Gallery, Chelsea Space, '3Things', London, UK
The Swiss Exhibition Centre, 'Art 38 Basel', Basel, Switzerland
The Winchester Gallery, 'Art Rummage Sculptors' Drawings', Winchester, UK
Woburn Slade Research Centre, 'Jumbo Shrimp', London, UK
Galeria Casa de los Manos, 'Entre Muros / Between Walls', León, Mexico (Travelling Exhibition)
2006
RAID Projects, 'Ebb and Flow', Los Angeles CA (Travelling Exhibition)
The Tomas Chavez Morado Gallery and Atrium, 'Entre Muros (Between Walls) ', Dallas TX (Travelling Exhibition)
Fieldgate Gallery, 'Beauty and the Beast', London, UK
GANA Art Centre, 'Wandering Star', Seoul, South Korea
Royal Academy of Arts, 'Please Close the Gate. Painted sculpture at Roche Court', London, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
New Art Centre, 'Please close the gate. Painted Sculpture at Roche Court', cur. Penelope Curtis, Salisbury, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
Royal Academy of Arts, 'Summer Exhibition', London, UK
2005
Arts & Business, 'Sleigh', London, UK
Henry Moore Institute, 'New Acquisitions: Works on Paper, Phyllida Barlow, Cecile Johnson-Soliz, Sarah Staton', Leeds, UK
Program, 'Rough Diamond', London, UK
Tannery Arts, Biennial Fundraiser, 'Drawing Two Hundred', London, UK
Musée d’Art Contemporain, 'Merveilles du Monde', Dunkirk, France
Fiera Internazionale d'Arte contemporanea/International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, 'Arte Fiera Bologna', Bologna, Italy
Three Colts Gallery, 'Ebb and Flow', London, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
2004
Danielle Arnaud Gallery, 'Love Story', London, UK
Fieldgate Gallery, 'Bird House', London, UK
2003
Studio 1.1, 'Shelf Life, 60 Minutes', London, UK
Albury Arts, 'Location, Location, Location', Guildford, UK
Metropole Gallery, 'The Greatest Show on Earth', Folkestone, UK
2002
Metropole Gallery, 'Harvey's Bodies', Folkestone, UK
Royal Academy of Arts, 'Summer Exhibition', cur. Alison Wilding, London, UK
Royal Academy of Arts, 'Neck. Invited Artists', London, UK
2001
Exeter Maritime Museum, 'Station to Station, Spacex 2', Exeter, UK
Mile End Park, 'Mile End Park Sculpture Exhibition', London, UK
2000
Dean Gallery, 'British Art Show 5, after dark into black', Edinburgh, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
Southampton City Gallery, 'British Art Show 5, after dark into black', Southampton, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
CVA Creative Arts Academy, 'British Art Show 5, after dark into black', Cardiff, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
The Gas Hall, 'British Art Show 5, after dark into black', Birmingham, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
1999
Royal West of England Academy, 'Triennial Sculpture Exhibition. six sculptors selected by Alison Wilding and John Maine ', Bristol, UK
Lieu D'Art Contemporain, 'O Pas La-Surprising Places, Far Away', Narbonne, France
Richard Salmon Gallery, 'Furniture', London, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
John Hansard Gallery, 'Furniture', Southampton, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
Bluecoat Gallery, 'Furniture', Liverpool, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
Battersea Arts Centre, 'Dumbfounded', London, UK
Kettle's Yard, 'Kettle's Yard Open: 16 East Anglian Artists', Cambridge, UK
1998
The Master Shipwright’s House, 'Not Nothing Nowhere, After Dark', London, UK
Chapter Arts Centre, 'Out of Place. Nilofar Akmut, Reiko Aoyaki, Phyllida Barlow, Renate Koch', Cardiff, UK
The Gallery, Swiss Cottage Library, 'Touching Matters', London, UK
Henry Moore Institute Gallery, 'The Ugly Edge, (Ugly Mugs)', Leeds, UK
1997
Museum of Installation, 'Musée Imaginaire', London, UK
Norwich Art Gallery, 'Barely Made', cur. Jacqueline Poncelet, Norwich, UK
Norwich School of Art, 'EAST International', Norwich, UK
1996
Manhattan Lofts, '9 Months 2 Seconds', London, UK
Gulbenkian Gallery, Royal College of Art, 'TRY', London, UK
1995
Royal Festival Hall, 'Contemporary Arts Society Fair', London, UK
The Ruskin School of Drawing, University of Oxford, 'The Gas Station', Oxford, UK
1993
Bradford City Art Gallery, 'Shopping sensations', Bradford, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
Sydenham Hill Wood, 'Acer pseudoplatanus', London, UK
1992
Rothschild Centre, 'Shopping Sensation', London, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
The Diorama, Regent’s Park, 'Three Sculptors', cur. Phyllida Barlow, London, UK
1990
National Garden Festival, Gateshead, UK
Kettle’s Yard, 'MAAD Festival Cambridge', collaboration with dancer Louise Tonkin, Cambridge, UK
1988
13 Clarynge Road, 'Houseworks', cur. Mark Dunhill, Bristol, UK
1987
Kettle's Yard, 'The Shelf Show', Cambridge, UK
Cornerhouse, 'Casting an Eye', Manchester, UK
1986
Canterbury Festival, 'Third Generation', Canterbury, UK
1983
Tout Quarry, 'Tout Quarry Sculpture', Portland, UK
1979
South Hill Park, 'Sculpture in Action', Bracknell, UK
1978
West Surrey School of Art, 'Twelve Sculptors at West Surrey', Surrey, UK
1977
Gloucester Cathedral, 'Three Sculptors in the Close', Gloucester, UK
1975
Gallery 21, 'Drawings', London, UK
Camden Arts Centre, 'Contemporary Painting and Sculpture', London, UK
1974
Sunderland Arts Centre, 'British Sculptors, Attitudes to Drawing', Sunderland, UK
1972
University of Surrey, 'Sculpture at the University of Surrey. All and Everything', Surrey, UK
1971
Camden Arts Centre, 'Sculpture and Drawings', London, UK
Alexandra Palace, 'Spectrum London', London, UK
1965
ICA Galleries, 'Young Contemporaries', London, UK
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
2019
Maria Anto & Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Art Prize for Women Artists, Warsaw, Poland
2015
CBE for services to the arts in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours
2014
William Townsend Lecture, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
2012
Aachen Art Prize, Aachen, Germany
Award for the Most Significant Contribution to the Development of Contemporary Art, Arsenale Awards, Kiev Biennale, Kiev, Ukraine
2011
Royal Academician, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2007
Award to an Individual Artist, Arts Council England, UK
Award to an Individual Artist, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, London, UK
2006
The Sunny Dupree Family Award to a Woman Artist, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2003
Dean's Award, University College London, UK
Henry Moore Foundation Award for Black Dog Publishing Monograph
1996
Dean's Fund Award, University College London, for travel to International Art Education Workshop in Lahore, Pakistan
1995
Elephant Trust Award, Museum of Installation, London, UK
1987
Artist in Residence, kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK
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.
2023
Chillida, Ignacio, Massagué, Mireia, Luke, Ben, 'Phyllida Barlow', Madrid: La Fábrica, 2023, ill. (exh. cat.)
2021
Lentini, Damian (ed.), 'Phyllida Barlow. frontier', Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2021, ill. (exh. cat.)
2019
Dinesen, Pernille Taagaard, Langvold, Ellen Drude Skeel (eds.), 'Object of Wonder - from Pedestal to Interaction', Aarhus/DK: ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, p. 99, ill. in colour
Morrill, Rebecca (ed.), 'Great Women Artists', Phaidon Press, p.46, ill. in colour
Devaney, Edith, Sooke, Edith, 'Phyllida Barlow cul-de-sac', London/UK: The Royal Academy of Arts, (exh. cat.)
Crippa, Elena (ed.), 'Objects of Wonder. British Sculpture from the Tate Collection 1950s-Present', Frankfurt am Main/DE: Deutsche Bank AG
Pangolin London (ed.), 'Carl Plackman & His Circle', London/UK: Pangolin London, pp. 40-41, ill. in colour (exh. cat.)
2018
Drew, Sandra, Scott, Georgie (eds.), 'From the Kitchen Table. Drew Gallery Projects 1984-90', London/UK: CGP London, ill. in colour pp. 120-121
Le Feuvre, Lisa (ed.), 'The Generous Landscape: Ten Years of Jupiter Artland' , Edinburgh/UK: Jupiter Artland Foundation, ill. in colour pp. 2, 34-37
Wilson, Nicky, Eragona, Helen (eds.), 'Phyllida Barlow: quarry', Edinburgh/UK: Jupiter Artland Foundation, ill. (exh. cat.)
2017
Crosland, Maggie, Smithen, Patricia and Stolyarov, Denis, 'Artist Interview: Phyllida Barlow', Crosland, Maggie (ed.), immediations, Vol. 4, No. 2, ill. pp. 81-94
Sheffield, Graham, Dexter, Emma, 'Phyllida Barlow: folly, London: Black Dog Publishing, ill. (exh. cat.)
Karen Wright, Frances Morris, Stina Högkvist (et al.), 'Entangled: Threads & Making', Margate/UK: Turner Contemporary, ill. in colour, cover (exh. cat.)
Ackermann, Jeremy, Daly, Eileen, 'Architecture as Metaphor', London: Griffin Gallery, ill. (exh. cat.)
Robb, Leigh, 'Versus Rodin: bodies across space and time', Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, (exh. cat.)
2016
Gale, Matthew (ed.), 'Tate Modern: The Handbook', London: Tate Publishing, McLean, Matthew, Morrill, Rebecca (eds.), 'Frieze A to Z of Contemporary Art', London: Phaidon Press
Cornell, Lauren, Eccles, Tom, 'Invisible Adversaries', Annandale-on-Hudson NY: CSS Bard College, (exh. cat.)
Evren, Süreyyya (ed.), 'Not All That Falls Has Wings', Istanbul: ARTER, (exh. cat.)
Wilson, Richard, ‘Summer Exhibition Illustrated 2016’, London: Royal Academy of Arts
Macuga, Goshka, Mainetti, Mario, 'Goshka Macuga Before the Beginning and After the End', Milan: Fondazione Prada
Schimmel, Paul, Sorkin, Jenni, 'Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women 1947 – 2016', Milan: Skira Editore, (exh. cat.)
2015
Bitterli, Konrad (ed.), 'Phyllida Barlow. Mix', Vienna: Verlag Für Moderne Kunst, 2015 (exh. cat.)
Bradley, Fiona (ed.), 'Phyllida Barlow: Sculpture 1963 – 2015', Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2015 (exh. cat.)
'Between the Lines: A Coloring Book of Drawings by Contemporary Artists, Vol. 5', New York: RxART, 2015
A. Pergam, Elizabeth, 'Drawing in the Twenty-First Century: The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary Practice', Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2015
2014
Griffin, Jonathan, Harper, Paul + [et al.], 'The Twenty-First Century Art Book', London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2014, p.30, ill.
Harrison, Sara (ed.), 'Phyllida Barlow: Fifty Years of Drawings', Zurich: JRP | Ringier, Hauser & Wirth, 2014
Contemporary Art Society, Whitechapel Gallery (ed.), 'The Best is Not Too Good for You', London: Contemporary Art Society; Whitechapel Gallery, 2014
Le Feuvre, Lisa (ed.), 'Artists’ Lives. Henry Moore Institute Essays on Sculpture journal 69', Leeds: Henry Moore Institute, 2014, pp. 12, 29, ill.
Vicario, Gilbert (ed.), 'Phyllida Barlow: Scree', Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center, 2014
O’Donoghue, Hughie (ed.), 'Summer Exhibition Illustrated 2014', London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2014
2013
Brutvan, Cheryl and Clover Peake. 'Phyllida Barlow: HOARD', West Palm Beach: Norton Museum of Art, 2013
Gioni, Massimiliano, Bell, Natalie (eds.), 'Il Palazzo Enciclopedico. Biennale Arte 2013, la Biennale di Venezia 55. Vol. 1, Exhibition', Venice: Marsilio Editori, 2014
Fisher, Elizabeth, Fortnum, Rebecca (eds.), 'On Not Knowing How Artists Think', London: Black Dog Publishing, 2013
Franzen, Brigitte (ed.), 'Phyllida Barlow: Brink', Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2013
Gevers, Ine. Haraway, Donna (et al.), 'Yes Naturally. How Art Saves the World', Rotterdam: Niet Normaal Foundation, 2013
Hammonds, Kit (ed.), 'Ways of Working. A Mock Up', Cambridge: Wysing Arts Centre Escalator Visual Arts/Publish And Be Damned Unrealised Projects, 2013
Herbert, Martin, Strang, Mathilda [et al.], ‘Thinking is Making. Presence and Absence in Contemporary Sculpture’, London: Black Dog Publishing, 2013
Moszynska, Anna, 'Sculpture Now', London: Thames & Hudson, 2013
Piranio, Michelle, Reilly, Katie (eds.), '2013 Carnegie International', Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Art, 2013
Unterdörfer, Michaela (ed.), 'Hauser & Wirth.20 Years', Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2013
2012
Amirsadeghi, Hossein, Eisler, Maryam Homayoun (eds.), 'Sanctuary: Britian's Artists and their Studios', London: Thames & Hudson, 2012
Hauser, Ursula (ed.), 'Menschenzellen. Acht Künstlerinnen aus der Sammlung Ursula Hauser / Human Capsules. Eight Female Artists from the Ursula Hauser Collection', Nuremberg: Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2012, pp. 46-51, ill. (exh. cat.)
König, Kaspar, Trummer, Thomas D. (eds.), 'Before the Law: Post-War Sculptures and Spaces of Contemporary Art', Cologne: Museum Ludwig/ Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2012
Le Feuvre, Lisa (ed.), 'Essays on Sculpture: Bad Copies: the drawings of Phyllida Barlow', Leeds: Henry Moore Institute, 2012
Phillips, Lisa, Carrion-Murayari, Gary [et al.], 'Siege', New York: New Museum, 2012
2011
Dhillon, Kim (ed.), 'Transfer: Angela de la Cruz', London: Lisson Gallery, 2011
Barlow, Phyllida, Macdonald, Fiona, 'Phyllida Barlow and Fiona Macdonald', London: Coexist Publications, 500th Edition, 2011
Dander, Patrizia, Lorz, Julienne (eds.), 'Skulptural Handeln/Sculptural Acts' Münich/Ostfildern: Haus der Kunst/Hatje Cantz, 2011
Kettle’s Yard (ed.), 'Artists for Kettle’s Yard', Cambridge: Kettle’s Yard, 2011 (exh. cat.)
Munder, Heike, Trummer, Thomas D. (eds.), 'Displaced Fractures. On the Break Lines of Architecture and its Bodies', Zurich: Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 2011
2010
Braathen, Melinda, Manley, James (eds.), 'Silberkuppe Under One Umbrella', Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2010
Kintisch, Christine (ed.), 'Phyllida Barlow: STREET', Vienna: BAWAG Contemporary, 2010
Rattee, Kathryn, Larner, Melissa (eds.), 'Nairy Bagramian & Phyllida Barlow', London/Cologne: Serpentine Gallery/ Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2010
Rugg, Judith, 'Exploring Site-Specific Art. Issues of Space and Internationalism', London: I.B Tauris & Co., 2010, pp.115-133, ill.
2008
Simpson, Ronnie, Barlow, Phyllida, 'Phyllida Barlow: STINT', Warwick: Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, 2008
2007
Britton Newell, Laurie (ed.), 'Out of the Ordinary: Spectacular Craft', London: V&A Publications, 2007
Chatterton Dickson, Sam, Morton, Tom, 'Says the Junk in the Yard', London: Flowers East, 2007
2005
Brettell, Richard, Weiner, Karen (eds.), 'UT Dallas Southside: The first two years', Dallas: University of Texas, 2005
Coles, Pippa, Fabrizi, Elisabetta (eds.), 'Phyllida Barlow: Peninsula', Gateshead: BALTIC, 2005
Plowman, John, O'Reilly, Sally, 'sense of place: place of sense', Beacon: Beacon Art Project, 2005
2004
Fabrizi, Elisabetta, Coles, Pippa (eds.), 'Phyllida Barlow: Peninsula', Gateshead: BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, 2004
Godfrey, Mark, Barlow, Phyllida [et al.], 'Objects For... And Other Things: Phyllida Barlow', London: Black Dog Publishing, 2004
2000
Furlong, William, Miro, Victoria [et al.] (eds.), 'Issues in art education: the dynamics of now', London: Wimbledon School of Art/Tate Publishing, 2000
Higgs, Matthew, Godfrey, Tony [et al.] (eds.), 'The British Art Show 5', London: Hayward Gallery Publishing, 2000
1999
Baker, Catherine, Baraitser, Alexandra [et al.] (eds.), 'Kettle's Yard open: 16 East Anglian artists', Cambridge: Kettle's Yard, 1999
Green, Alison, 'Dumbfounded', London: Alison Green Publishing, 1999
Key, Joan, Herber-Percy, Paul (eds.), 'Furniture', London: Richard Salmon Gallery, 1999
Kool-Want, Christopher, 'O Pas La, Surprising Spaces', London: Aude Herail Jaeger, 1999
Maine, John, 'Triennial Sculpture Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy', Bristol: Royal West of England Academy,1999
1998
Gupta, Sunil, 'Out of Place', London: Chapter, 1998
1997
Morris, Linda, 'EAST International', Norwich: Norwich Art Gallery, 1997
1994
D'Olivera, Nico, Oxley, Nocola [et al.] (eds.), 'Installation Art', London: Thames and Hudson, 1994
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