CV
b.1987, London. Lives and works in London
Upcoming / Ongoing solo exhibitions and projects:
Strange Clay, Hayward gallery, October 2022 - Feb 2023
‘Troy Town Art Pottery’. 2014-ongoing, a radical and psychedelic ceramic studio for artists, London
Solo:
2022
Hornet, hailstone, crab eye, aerodrome, nuisance caller, gerontocrat, strange request, to scale, jail, impossible image,
tramp town, caryatid, bricabrac, Bricabaric, big Barbarossa, Community spirit, filter sweep, Game off, sober dancer,
airmail, houdiniesque, elephant woman, Il ritorno dell’Enola Gay, fuze, fête culture, crisis coiffeur, struggling
restaurant, bombarzine, stop shouting, virgin prophet, ameliorate, Ancient Croydon, purse, Saturn in Cancer, try
looking, forbidden feeling, executrix, channel ferry, mirror monster, planning permission, priest class, conedown,
plastic conscience, roundelay, ring a roses, monkey puzzle, psychic postman, copper oxide, Mr. Fun, slow cooker,
lutumivorous, field agent, hedgehogiform, polar opposite, oarfish, young man, floralozone, garum, barbary oranges,
fat flour, astringer, snail oil, rusk, potato seeds, turd doctor, Cunomaglus, cannonball customer, djinn, antipope,
antihistamine, earthworm, analysand, diet, goodbye velveteen tower goodbye, Compliments, cable-car, elephantus,
sugar cells, tapestry rat, loaded dice, mr comeuppance, faded acre, voided, pre-ballistic, Caldera etc, putty island,
Q.P.O, doglegged, ginger vitae, so solitaire, Cape Horns, food complex, deft-deft-deft, who’s collaboration?, gimp
siblings, ottercraft, silo mill, the orangery, tang-deficient, Wayne Shakespeare, short Solent, manfrotto, asleep at the
meal, gable-end disgrace, able bodied seamen, thirty years yard, combustible consumables, eight ape deck, always
singing, zero rated, leisure culture, toffee torque, gangrene on green, England en repose, fortified whine, celibate
carrion, nihil est, silver-spec hurdle, done to dust, incorporated, propinquity, invitation to the cursed, made in
Ireland, spitting distance, thorn in my side, mouth and mind agape, Custer mind, sore point, M. Louis (?) David, it’s
curtains, unfortunately seamless, hope against hope, Mars repelled, why is it all so beautiful this fake dream this
craziness why, snatching action, Thumbelina baulks, red, red, red rose, anthracite fires, sable artist, flaccus, cone
too, glass bottom, massive oink, Gabriel Dante 🌹 (sic), tooth and nail, cupboard love, tooth and claw, Spanish
castrato, boing, boing, boing, four stockinged legs behind black mesh, epithet bank, Sebastianesque, dream dropper,
local hero..., egg glow, thunder pat, mostly Mosel, comfortably OFF, thanks a lot, camp follower, damming the
damaged, broken tool, hot gossamer, Yale proof, east grinstead, hard boiled century, evanescence, bold stroke to
master stroke, the third program, Tony’s decision, fostering animalia, flavour of louse, level headed cool head,
seafoam cinema, bus conducted, Rigamortlake, typhoonery, Ambleside jet lag, blasted heath-[•_•]-abject bog, cope
if you can, stone clarinet, sympathy vote, the scrape, wholeness and order, masterly tongue, khazi, squeamish, fox-
glove, the Roman scene in Kent, repetitive stain, the serfs remember suffrage, old silver Juno, trading tastes,
juvenile effervescence, gorse lover, very plane, tummy trouble, ruinous and full of owls, pellet guns, mildewed,
York minster computers, applied argon oil, tame in comparison, think big, butlers mask, the yob in U, catering party,
samizdat, psychotherapy & the ancient world, copper alloy, copra ore, dozy on the job, big ideas, ufologists in tree-
line, small island earthling, timidity tempered by experience, oxen blood, love island, always anxious, hanging
loosely, tapered square leg, got to run, morlock, what chance a beggar, life on ship
Holburne Museum, Bath, Somerset, UK, With Steven Claydon. September 2021.
2018
Shoes, Rob Tufnell, Cologne, October 2018
Heat-Haze Theatre/Hitzeflimmern-Theater, Kunstverein Freiburg, March 2018
More sculpture about dogs and shadows, Koppe Astner, Glasgow, Jan 2018
Early Monodies, Rodeo, July 2018 (with Ian Law)
Plumb Poltergeist, Art Exchange, University of Essex, March 2018 (With Ian Law)
2017
GOMA, Glasgow
Why I built the Cloaca Maxima, Rob Tufnell
2016
Variations on the Chaldon Doom, Markus Lüttgen, Cologne
The Death of Robin Hood, Kelvingrove Art gallery and Museum & Glasgow Botanic Gardens, For Glasgow International
2015
Grotwork, Studio Voltaire, London 2013 ‘Woman expecting triplets returning home from the cinema’,
Woman expecting triplets returning home from the cinema, Aaron Angell and Jack Bilbo, SWG3, Glasgow
Raga for Fishwife, World Class Boxing, Miami
2012
Bumpkin, Rob Tufnell, London
Put John Barleycorn in the old brown jug, Croy Nielsen, Berlin
2011
The Devil's Arse, SPACE, London
The year of the left-hand, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea
Selected Group:
2020
Artifices Instabiles, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Poteries Artistiques de Monaco (1871-1918) and
Aaron Angell, Eugène Baudin, Chiara Camoni, Johan Creten, Albert Diato, Simone Fattal, Ron Nagle, George Ohr, Pablo Picasso, Brian Rochefort, Magdalena Suarez Frimkess
2018
The land we live in, the land we left behind, Hauser & Wirth, Somerset
2017
That continuous thing: artists and the ceramic studio 1920-today, Tate St Ives, St Ives, Cornwall. Also co-curator.
2016
The British Art Show 8, Leeds City Art Gallery Koppe Astner, Glasgow Linn Lühn, Dusseldorf 2015
Potteries Thinkbelt, Rob Tufnell, London Studio Leigh, London 2014 ‘Pool’, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover
A merman I should turn to be, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London ‘Die Marmory Show’, Deborah Schamoni, Munich
You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, Hollybush Gardens, London
2013
British, British, Polish, Polish; British and Polish Art Since 1990, CCA, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Apparatus Criticus, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, May 18
A History of Inspiration, Palais de Tokyo, Paris ‘Hides on All Sides’, Torrance Shipman Gallery, Brooklyn
Hook, Line and Sinker: Contemporary Drawings from the Collection of Debra and Dennis Scholl, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
2011
Outrageous Fortune: Artists remake the Tarot, Focal Point Gallery and the Hayward Gallery
As Curator:
That continuous thing: artists and the ceramic studio 1920-today, Tate St Ives, St Ives, Cornwall. March-October 2017
Collections:
Arts Council Collection, 2 works, 2016
Glasgow Museums Collection, 3 works, 2017
Victoria & Albert Museum, 2 works, 2018
Tate Collection, 2 works, 2019
Residencies:
Japan & Korea, With Grizedale Arts, 2018
Tate Artist in Residence 2017, Tate St Ives and The Leach Pottery
Hospitalfield, 2014
Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, 2013
As Judge:
Outset Studiomakers Prize 2018
Education
Education 2007 - 2011 BA (Hons) Fine Art Slade School of Fine Art
Selected Bibliography:
Reviews and articles about artist:
ArtReview, 2018, Review of GoMA exhibition
Artforum July 2016, exhibition review of solo exhibition at Markus Luttgen
Causing trouble with clay, Tanya Harrod, Tate etc. 2017
Top Ten Sculpture 2012: Picks of the year - Aaron Angell at Rob Tufnell, review by Ruba Katrib, Art in America, Jan/Feb 2013
A conversation with Aaron Angell, Lucy Mercer, Universe Magazine #1, June 2012
'Nearly Abstract': Aaron Angell interviewed by Adnan Yildiz, Mousse #32, February/March 2012, pp. 138 – 141
Articles and reviews by Artist:
Craft Reader, Essay about Troy Town, Published by Whitechapel Editions, 2018
The Plant: Troy Town Art Pottery, Essay for That continuous thing, exhibition catalogue and reader
Art Review June 2018, feature, ‘The Fatberg’
Frieze website December 2017, Portfolio feature
Frieze December 2016 review by artist of Ken Price exhibition at Hauser and Wirth
Frieze Jan 2014, article by artist about ‘Beaverworld’
Frieze may 2016, roundtable feature about ceramics Frieze June 2015, feature
Aaron Angell: The Devil's Arse, review by Helen Sumpter, Time Out London, No. 2154, December 1 - 7 2011
Artist's commision: 'Shitten flower clock', with a text by Paul Pieroni, Art Licks, Issue 5, Autumn 2011
'Future Greats: Aaron Angell by Ryan Gander', ArtReview, issue 48, March 2011, p. 89
'Roster', Art Licks, issue 2, spring 2011, p. 36-37 '
Four film titles', The Book of the Film, Short Run Press, 2009, Curated by Jennifer Bailey