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He Won the Turner Prize. But does he still want to be an artist?
The New York Times, 2024
Turner Prize-winning artist Jesse Darling: Art is over in its current form
The Berliner, 2024
Jesse Darling wins the 2023 Turner Prize
The Guardian, 2023
Turner Prize Goes to Jesse Darling, a Sculptor of Mangled Objects
The New York Times, 2023
Jesse Darling Wins Turner Prize, UK’s Top Art Award
ARTnews, 2023
Turner Prize 2023 review: bring on the contenders – and the zombie apocalypse
The Guardian, 2023
Turner Prize 2023: anarchic, dynamic Jesse Darling is this year’s only true contender
The Telegraph, 2023
The Turner Prize Exhibition Promises to Tell Us Something About the Art of Our Time. In 2023, It’s Complicated - Each of the installations deals with a different aspect of contemporary society, but Jesse Darling's work was the clear standout.
Artnet News, 2023
Turner Prize 2023: Jesse Darling is my pick to win – but we need to rethink this award altogether
iNews, 2023
Jesse Darling's Unruly Bodies
Interview in Ocula Magazine, 2022
Jesse Darling's Malleable Bodies
Review in Frieze, 2022
Jesse Darling on Gravity Road and the Construction of Leisure
Interview in Artforum, 2020
Jesse Darling
Essay in Cura, 2019
Jesse Darling (*1981, Oxford) is an artist and poet based in Oxford. In sculpture, installation, drawing and text, Darling destabilizes dominant narratives propped up by the likes of ideology, religion, mythology and politics, exposing a fundamental precarity in any claim to coherence. Recent works stand as the ruined relics of crumbling empires, picking up on how the (aesthetic and symbolic) pillars of (what understands itself as) western civilization converge around ideologies of the border and exclusion. Undergirded with a sharp sense of humor, his work remains committed to the messy and unfinished labor of coalition-building and collectivity.
Jesse Darling's first exhibition at Galerie Molitor will open in 2025. Selected solo exhibitions include Petit Palais, Art Basel Paris (2024), Turner Prize, The Towner (2023), Camden Arts Center (2022), Modern Art Oxford (2022), Kunstverein Freiburg (2022), Triangle France Astérides (2019), and Tate Britain (2018—2019). Recent selected group exhibitions include Palais de Tokyo (2023), CAPC Bordeaux (2022), Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2022), and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (2021). Darling also participated in the 58th Venice Biennale, and was the winner of the Turner Prize 2023.
