(b. Singapore) lives and works in London
Education:
2014-2016: MFA Sculpture, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
2007-2010: BA (Hons) Fine Art, Byam Shaw School of Art, London
2006-2007: Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, Wimbledon College of Art, London
Solo Exhibitions:
2024: RIBOT arte contemporanea, Milan (upcoming)
2024: Handrailing, New Arts Centre, Roche Court in collaboration with Sid Motion Gallery, Salisbury
2024: Floss, Holtermann Fine Art, London
2024: Cavalcade, BoLee and Workman, Bruton
2023: Monkey Cups at Southbank Centre, London
2022: Home Range, Holtermann Fine Art, London
2022: Spill, L21, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2021: Pah-d'-Bah, HS Projects, London
2020/21: Off Grid, Mark Tanner Sculpture Award Exhibition, Standpoint Gallery, London / Cross Lane Projects, Kendal / Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Penzance
2019/20: Chute, RIBOT arte contemporanea, Milan
2018: Roost, Lily Brooke, London
2018: at large, VO Curations at 93 Baker Street, London
2016/17: ZEST, FOLD Gallery, London
2012: Unfurled, The Foundry Gallery at David Le Lay Architects, London
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2024-25: Mary Mary, The Artist's Garden, theCOLAB, London
2024: Passages, Encounter, Lisbon
2024: Material Thinking, with University of Gloucestershire and the Ingram Collection, The Lightbox, Woking
2024-25: These Mad Hybrids: John Hoyland and Contemporary Sculpture, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol touring to Sheffield Museums (curated and exhibited)
2023-24: Phantom Sculpture, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre
2023: Confab Window: Olivia Bax & Veronika Hilger, Hatch, Paris
2023: Eartheaters, Lustwarande, Platform for Contemporary Sculpture, Tilburg, Netherlands
2023-24: Thinking is Making, Standpoint Gallery, London and Cross Lane Projects, Kendal
2023: Splash! The Haiku Show, White Conduit Projects, London
2023: Double Knowledge, Alice Black Gallery, London
2023: Khemeia, Niso Projects, London
2023: Search Party, Tatjana Pieters, Ghent
2022-23: Material Impressions: Artists & Paper, Larsen Warner, Stockholm
2022-23: The Ingram Collection: Revisiting Modern British Art, The Lightbox, Woking, UK
2022-23: The World We Live In: Art and the Urban Environment, Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition: Leicester Museum & Art Gallery; Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
2022: Monochrome, Coleman Projects, London
2022: Studio Response [#3], Saatchi Gallery, London
2022: Pigeon Park 2, 33 Manor Place, London
2022: Flock, BoLee and Workman, Bruton, Somerset UK
2022: Weeds won't wither, Jari Lager Gallery, Cologne
2022: Reflections: Part 3: Sculpture by Women Artists, Workplace, London
2021: Right About Now, Arts Council Collection at no.9 Cork St, London
2021: Superbloom: Olivia Bax, Emma Cousin and Ross Taylor, Brooke Benington off-site, Milan
2021: On the Other Hand, curated by Brooke Benington at Canary Wharf, London
2021: Both Sides of Here: Artistic Encounters at the Threshold, work from the Courtauld and the Arts Council Collections (digital exhibition, view here)
2021: Where Things Land Down, Fels, London
2021: Drawing Room Biennial 2021, Drawing Room, London
2021: Holding Hands, Union Gallery, London
2020-21: Gleaners: Olivia Bax & Hannah Hughes, Sid Motion Gallery, London
2020: Super Group, Superhouse, Brooklyn, New York
2020: La Totale 2020, Studio Orta - Les Moulins, Boissy-le-Châtel, France
2019-20: Adieu to Old England, The Kids are Alright, Choi & Lager, Cologne
2019: Habitat: Artists making furniture or things that might be confused as furniture, JGM Gallery, London
2019: The Size of Thoughts, White Conduit Projects, London
2019: Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Brooke Benington, Fulmer, Buckinghamshire
2019: PUNCH: Olivia Bax & Dominic Beattie, Linden Hall Studio, Deal, UK
2018: Harder Edge, Saatchi Gallery, London
2018: Undercurrents, curated by Hot Desque, The Artesian Well, London
2018: In Other Gardens, Exhibit, London
2018: Olivia Bax | Milly Peck | Rafal Zajko, Three Works, Scarborough, UK
2018: New Relics, Thames-Side Studios, London
2018: Surface Matters: Olivia Bax & Ellen Hyllemose, FOLD Gallery, London
2018: The Ground is Good, Modern Painters, New Decorators, Loughborough
2017: A Motley Crew: Caroline Achaintre | Melinda Gibson & Thomas Sauvain | Olivia Bax | Ross Taylor, Larsen Warner, Stockholm
2017: Flat Image, Exhibit, London
2017: Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter
2017: Apposite, Barbabette, Berlin
2017: Concrete & Clay, Roaming ROOM, London
2017: Hands On: Olivia Bax & Devlin Shea, Academy of Visual Arts HKBU, Hong Kong
2016: Pool at The Cut, The Cut, Halesworth (in association with Artist Boss)
2015: UK/RAINE, Saatchi Gallery, London
2014: Ellipse: a partial inventory from the West, a3 gallery, Moscow, Russia
2014: A Given Structure, Fringe Arts Bath Festival, Bath
2013: Signs of the City, The Drawing Room in association with UBM, London
2011: Claire Baily | Olivia Bax | Sarah Dornner (Part 3 of 3 projects by IFF for U8 Projects), Komaki, Japan
2011: Connection Point, The Nunnery Gallery, London
Residencies/Awards/Prizes:
2023: Artist Research Fellow, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
2019/2020: Mark Tanner Sculpture Award Winner
2018: Artist in Residence, Lockbund Sculpture Foundry, Oxfordshire
2017: Additional Award, Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix
2016-17: Artist in Residence, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University
2016: Kenneth Armitage Young Sculptor Prize
2016: Dean's List, Slade School of Fine Art, Arts & Humanities, University College London
2015: Public Choice Winner, UK/Raine, Saatchi Gallery, London
2015: British Council INSPIRE exchange, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2013: President's Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA
2012: Triangle Workshop, Triangle Arts Association, New York, USA
Publications/Press:
2024: These Mad Hybrids: John Hoyland and Contemporary Sculpture. Published by Ridinghouse and Slimvolume.
2023: Thinking is Making: Objects in Space The Mark Tanner Sculpture Award. Published by Black Dog Press.
2022: Revisiting Modern British Art. Edited by Jo Baring. Features sculpture Kingpin. Published by Lund Humphries.
2022: The Book of Ladders: 100 Contemporary Artworks. Edited by Adeline de Monseignat and Paul Carey-Kent.
2022: William Turnbull. Edited by Jon Wood. 'Hook Torso' by Olivia Bax. Published by Lund Humphries.
2022: 'Butcher Bike Banana: Olivia Bax’s Solo Exhibition ‘Home Range’ at Holtermann' by Camille Moreno, Made In Bed
2021: Made Worlds: A conversation with Olivia Bax by Elizabeth Fullerton, Sculpture Magazine, Sep/Oct 2021.Vol40/no.5
2021: Review by Martin Holman of Olivia Bax, Off Grid at Tremenheere, Art Monthly, June 2021.no.447
2020: Intuitive Geometries: Women Making Contemporary Sculpture, Yellowfields, volume 3
2020: Publication, Off Grid, for Mark Tanner Sculpture Award exhibition. Includes interview with Emma Cousin and short story by Mike Smith. Published by Cross Lane Projects, Kendal
2020: Review by Laura Biddle in Corridor 8 of Off Grid at Cross Lane Projects
2020: Review by Tom Hackett of Mark Tanner Sculpture Award exhibition in a-n news
2019: Publication, Chute, text by Maria Villa, Ribot Gallery, Milan
2018: Limited edition risograph publication Roost: text by Hywel Livingtone, images by Olivia Bax.
2018: Interview with Vanessa Murrell in DATEAGLE ART
2018: Review by Cara Bray in Boundary of Roost at Lily Brooke Gallery
2018: Interview in Wall Street International with Jillian Knipe and Lily Brooke at Lily Brooke Gallery
2018: Review by Jillian Billard in Revelin Magazine of Roost at Lily Brooke Gallery
2018: Interview in DE:FORMAL
2018: Interview in Art Maze Mag, Autumn Issue 9, ISSN no. 2399-892X
2018: Review by Sam Cornish in Instantloveland of at large, 93 Baker Street
2018: Interview with Ann Kim for The Plurist, Royal College of Art Student Paper
2017: Review by Laurence Noga in Saturation Point of ZEST at Fold Gallery, London
2017: Interview with Traction Magazine about ZEST at Fold Gallery, London
2016: Artist Boss by Jenny Dunseath and Mark Wilsher. Published by Wunderkammer Press, ISBN-13: 978-0993551109
2015: impressions by Olivia Bax and Sam Llewellyn-Jones. Limited edition artists' box set. Supported by the British Council, Slade School of Fine Art and University of Dhaka
2014: CARO published by Phaidon, ISBN-13: 978-0714867359. Writing by Olivia Bax discussing working as a studio assistant for Caro
2014: Collaborating with Caro, Symposium at Central Saint Martins, London. Writing by Olivia Bax titled Caro & Collaboration
2012: POOL (edition 1): Featuring Neil Ayling, Anthony Caro, Claire Baily, Olivia Bax, Jean-Philippe Dordolo, Charles Hewlings, Sophie Hoyle and John Wallbank. Edited by Olivia Bax and Sophie Hoyle. (Limited edition - contact artist for details)
2011: IFF at U8. Project - IFF and U8 Projects. Text - Gavin Morrison; Edit & Photo - Eiji Wantanabe; Translation - Yuku Wantanabe, Wataru Nakamura and Eiji Wantanabe
Collections:
UCL Special Collections
Private Collections