Alex Margo Arden

Alex Margo Arden
Born1994 (age 31–32)
Croydon, Greater London, England
Education
OccupationArtist
Years active2016–present

Alex Margo Arden (born 1994) is an English contemporary artist. She won the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation Prize at Frieze London among other accolades. In 2024, the Evening Standard named her one of London's most exciting young artists.[1] In 2025, she was nominated for The Times Breakthrough at the Sky Arts Awards.[2] She featured on the 2026 Attitude 101 list.[3]

Early life

Arden was born in Croydon, South London.[4] Arden completed a foundation course at Central Saint Martins and went on to graduate from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2016.[5] She later completed postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy Schools in 2025.[6]

Career

Upon graduating from Goldsmiths in 2016, Arden had an installation in the display window of VFDalston for World AIDS Day. The following year, she took part in her first group exhibition at Serf in Leeds.[7] Arden also gained prominence on Instagram, where she shared her vintage-inspired personal aesthetic.[8]

At Cell Project Space in 2019 and 2020, Arden collaborated with Caspar Heinemann on the exhibition and corresponding performance play THE FARMYARD IS NOT A VIOLENT PLACE AND I LOOK EXACTLY LIKE JUDY GARLAND.[9] This was followed by Arden and Heinemann's second play Among My Souvenirs which was performed in 2021 at Barnens Scen in the Folkets park, Malmö, Sweden. [10]

With Ginny on Frederick, Arden held her solo exhibition All Clear in 2022[11] and took part in Marseille's Art-o-rama 2023.[12] Arden's first Royal Academy of Arts exhibition in 2023 featured collages made from books by Kenneth Halliwell and Joe Orton.[5] Attention Restoration followed later that year at Quench Gallery in Margate.[5]

Early 2025 Arden had a solo exhibition at London's Auto Italia South East titled Safety Curtain, which recreates artwork targeted by climate protestors behind a protective glaze.[13][14] She was nominated for the Breakthrough Award at the 2025 Sky Arts Awards.[15]

That October, Arden returned to Ginny on Frederick with her presentation By All Accounts for Frieze London 2025. The installation Accounts repurposes decommissioned male mannequins from the National Motor Museum; it sat in front of Daily Departmental Accident Record on the wall.[16] Arden won the fair's inaugural Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation Prize,[17] and Accounts was one of five acquired by the Arts Council Collection.[18] Sofia Hallström of Wallpaper named Arden a standout artist of Frieze 2025.[19]

Arden's work is held in the permanent collection of the Royal Academy of Arts and Arts Council Collection[20]

Work

Solo exhibitions

  • Nothing Personal (2026) at Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation (London) [21]
  • True as Good (2026) at diez (Amsterdam) [22]
  • By All Accounts (2025) at Frieze London [23]
  • Safety Curtain (2025) at Auto Italia South East (London) [24]
  • Rock Paper Scissors (2023) at the Royal Academy of Art (London) [25]
  • Attention Restoration (2023) at Quench Gallery (Margate) [26]
  • Responsibility, Responsibility, Responsibility (2023) at Art-o-rama (Marseille) [27]
  • All Clear (2022) at Ginny on Frederick (London) [28]
  • THE FARMYARD IS NOT A VIOLENT PLACE AND I LOOK EXACTLY LIKE JUDY GARLAND (2019) at Cell Project Space (London) with Caspar Heinemann [29]

Group exhibitions

  • British Art Show 10: A Chorus of Strangers (2026–) curated by Ekow Eshun (multiple locations) [30]
  • Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait (2026) at the National Portrait Gallery (London) [31]
  • Case History (2026) at Vardaxoglou (London) [32]
  • Re/Enactments (2026) at Coulisse (Stockholm) [33]
  • The Syzygy (2025) at Champ Lacombe (Biarritz) [34]
  • Recital (2024) at Arcadia Missa (London) [35]
  • On Feeling (2024) at The Approach Gallery (London) [36]
  • Color of Pomegranates (2024) at Gallery Artbeat (Tbilisi) [37]
  • Channel (2024) at Centre d'Art Contemporain de Nîmes (France)[38]
  • Vampire Problem? (2024) at N/A Gallery (Seoul)[39]
  • Rouge Ravager (2024) at Bio Skandia (Stockholm) [40]
  • How to Destroy Angels (2024) at the Horse Hospital (London) [41]

References

  1. ↑ Durrnt, Nancy (15 October 2024). "Meet the most exciting young artists in London right now". Evening Standard. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
  2. ↑ Awards, Sky Arts. "The Times Breakthrough Nominees at the Sky Arts Awards". Retrieved 16 August 2026.
  3. ↑ Staff, Attitude (13 February 2026). "Attitude 101 2026: Here are the 101 influential figures who made our list". Attitude. Retrieved 31 May 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ↑ Matić, Maggie (30 October 2025). "Spotlight: Alex Margo Arden". The Wick. Retrieved 12 June 2026.
  5. 1 2 3 Alon, Noam (October 2023). "Conversation with Alex Margo Arden" (PDF). Figure Figure. Retrieved 12 June 2026.
  6. ↑ "30 Artists Defining Queer Art Now". Artsy. 1 June 2025. Retrieved 12 June 2026.
  7. ↑ "alex margo arden and jenkin van zyl are unconventional, fabulous and fantastic". i-D. 25 June 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2026.
  8. ↑ Satenstein, Liana (5 September 2018). "Meet @Olddrag, the Instagrammer Dressing Up In All Things, Well, Old". Vogue. Retrieved 12 June 2026.
  9. ↑ Larne Abse Gogarty (2020). "Alex Margo Arden and Caspar Heinemann: The farmyard …". Art Monthly. Retrieved 12 June 2026.
  10. ↑ "Among My Souvenirs – Alex Margo Arden & Caspar Heinemann". Billetto. 22 August 2021. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
  11. ↑ Marcus Duke, Donna (23 June 2022). "Alex Margo Arden's Theatre of the Absurd". Frieze. Retrieved 12 June 2026.
  12. ↑ Downes, Annabel (1 September 2023). "Art-o-rama 2023: Four Artists to Scout Out". Ocula. Retrieved 12 June 2026.
  13. ↑ Bakare, Lanre (14 January 2025). "Climate activists who target artworks 'using Suffragette tactics', says artist". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 June 2026.
  14. ↑ Bucklow, Isabelle (18 March 2025). "Alex Margo Arden "Safety Curtain" Auto Italia / London". Flash Art. Retrieved 12 June 2026.
  15. ↑ Various (2 September 2025). "Future stars! Meet the breakthrough artists at the Sky Arts Awards 2025". The Times. Retrieved 12 June 2026.
  16. ↑ "Meet Me in London: Alex Margo Arden". Frieze. 6 October 2025. Retrieved 12 June 2026.
  17. ↑ Buck, Louisa (15 October 2025). "Everyone's a winner, baby: prizes abound during Frieze London". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 12 June 2026.
  18. ↑ "The Arts Council Collection Acquires Works by Five Artists at Frieze London". Frieze. 16 October 2025. Retrieved 12 June 2026.
  19. ↑ Hallström, Sofia (23 October 2025). "Who are the nine standout artists that shaped Frieze London 2025?". Wallpaper*. Retrieved 12 June 2026.
  20. ↑ "Accounts". Arts Council Collection. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
  21. ↑ "Nothing Personal". Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
  22. ↑ "True as Good". Diez Gallery. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
  23. ↑ Luke, Ben (17 October 2025). "Young at art: inside Frieze London's Focus section". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
  24. ↑ "Safety Curtain". Auto Italia. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
  25. ↑ "Rock Paper Scissors". Royal Academy of Arts. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
  26. ↑ "Attention Restoration". Quench. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
  27. ↑ "Scenes from the 2021 fatal shooting incident on Alec Baldwin's film set reimagined at Marseille fair". The Art Newspaper. 1 September 2023. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
  28. ↑ "Alex Margo Arden at Ginny on Frederick, London". Contemporary Art Library. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
  29. ↑ "THE FARMYARD IS NOT A VIOLENT PLACE AND I LOOK EXACTLY LIKE JUDY GARLAND". Cell Project Space. 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
  30. ↑ "British Art Show 10: A Chorus of Strangers". Southbank Centre. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
  31. ↑ "Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
  32. ↑ "Case History". Vardaxoglou. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
  33. ↑ "Re-Enactments". Coulisse Gallery. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
  34. ↑ "The Syzygy". Galerie Champ Lacombe. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
  35. ↑ "Recital". Arcadia Missa. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
  36. ↑ "On feeling". The Approach. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
  37. ↑ "Color of Pomegranates". Contemporary Art Library. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
  38. ↑ "Channel". Contemporaine de Nîmes. 2024. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
  39. ↑ "Vampire Problem? at N/A". Emergent. 2024. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
  40. ↑ "September Sessions—A Contemporary Art Festival in Stockholm". e-flux. 25 June 2024. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
  41. ↑ "How To Destroy Angels". The Horse Hospital. 2024. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
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