| Education | |
| 1996 | BA (Hons) Fine Art, Sculpture – Chelsea College of Art and Design |
| 1993 | Foundation in Fine Art – Wimbledon School of Art |
| Awards / Residencies | |
| 2017 | Winner of First@108 Public Art Award, Royal Society of Sculptors, London, UK |
| 2013 | Convention-T, Maker-in-Residence, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK |
| 2013 | Escalator Retreat 14, How We Make And How We Might Make, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK |
| 2011 | Artist-in-Residence, CCA Foundation, Andratx, Mallorca, ES |
| Selected Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2018 | Playground & National Libraries, Royal Society of Sculptors, London, UK |
| 2014 | Beach, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK |
| 2008 | Stella Lohaus, Antwerp, BE |
| 2007 | Dicksmith Gallery, London, UK |
| 2005 | Dicksmith Gallery, London, UK |
| Selected Group Exhibitions (*Catalogue / Publication) | |
| 2018 | New Relics, Thameside Gallery, London, UK A History of Drawing, Camberwell Space, London, UK* |
| 2017 | The Duchamp Effect. Readymade, Kunsthalle Göppingen, DE First@108 Public Art Award, Shortlisted artists, Royal Society of Sculptors, London, UK |
| 2015 | Museum of Stones, Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, US* Drawing Biennial 2015, The Drawing Room, London, UK |
| 2014 | The Crime Was Almost Perfect, curated by Cristina Ricupero, Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, NL* Annals of the 29th Century, curated by Gareth Bell-Jones, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge UK The Drawing Show, AIR, Pittsburgh, US |
| 2013 | systems, curated by das programm, Walter Knoll, London, UK Novecento mai visto, Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia, IT IMAGE/OBJECT, Furini Contemporary, Rome, IT Andratx on Paper, curated by Patricia Asbaek, CCA Kunsthalle, Andratx, Mallorca, ES Drawing Biennial 2013, The Drawing Room, London, UK |
| 2012 | The Curator’s Egg, Altera Pars, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK Landscapes Cities People, Netwerk/Center for Contemporary Art, Aalst, BE |
| 2011 | Painting Show, curated by Sophie von Hellermann & Gavin Wade, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK Secret Societies, curated by Cristina Ricupero and Alexis Vaillant, CAPC – Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, FR* Lustwarande 2011, curated by Chris Driessen, Fundament Foundation, Park de Oude Warande, Tilburg, NL* Secret Societies, curated by Cristina Ricupero and Alexis Vaillant, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, DE Space Oddity, curated by Friederike Nymphius, CCA Kunsthalle, Andratx, Mallorca, ES In – and Outside – Writing, Voorkamer, Lier, BE* Drawing Biennial 2011, The Drawing Room, London, UK |
| 2010 | Big Minis, curated by Alexis Vaillant, CAPC – Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, FR* Minimalism and Applied II, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, DE* Boom, Hotel, London, UK Newspeak: British Art Now – Part 1, Saatchi Gallery London, UK* Altogether Elsewhere, curated by Rob Tufnell, Rodeo Gallery, Istanbul, TR Library of Babel / In and Out of Place,176 / Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK* |
| 2009 | May/June, Stella Lohaus, Antwerp, BEDrawing Sculpture, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, DE Drawing Biennial 2009, The Drawing Room, London, UK |
| 2008 | M25 Around London, curated by Barry Schwabsky, CCA Kunsthalle, Andratx, Mallorca, ES Novel, Anne-Catharina Gebbers Bibliothekswonhning, Berlin, DE Featuring, Chez Valentin, Paris, FR Henry Coleman & Rupert Norfolk, curated by Charlotte Moth, Balice Hertling, Paris, FR Los Vinilos, Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington Gardens, London, UK |
| 2007 | Abstraction: Extracting from the World, curated by David Thorp, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, UK* Counterfacture: William Daniels, David Musgrave, Rupert Norfolk, Alex Pollard, curated by Marc Foxx, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, US* George Longly, Rupert Norfolk, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, FR |
| 2006 | Rockridge, The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, UK Crivelli’s Nail, Chapter Gallery, Cardiff, UK |
| 2005 | Les Merveilles du Monde, curated by Peter Fillingham, Musee des Beaux Arts de Dunkerque, France, FR* Waste Material, curated by David Musgrave, The Drawing Room, London, UK* Doubtful Works and Copies: Alasdair Gray, Rupert Norfolk, Jane Topping, Transmission, Glasgow, UK |
| 2004 | Living Dust, curated by David Musgrave, Norwich Gallery, Norwich School of Art and Design, UK* |
| 2002 | Exchange, Richard Salmon Gallery, London UK Like Beads on an Abacus Designed to Calculate Infinity, curated by Andrew Hunt, Rockwell, London, UK |
| 2001 | Animations, PS1, New York, US, touring to Kunstwerke, Berlin, DE |
| 2000 | Light Industrial Magic, Platform, London, UK Medium-Sized Objects, curated by David Musgrave, One in the Other, London, UK |
| 1999 | Father Apollinaris Said…, Vilma Gold, London, UK Heart and Soul, Long Lane Studios, London, UK |
| Curatorial Projects | |
| 2016 | The Mobility of Facts: Giuseppe Gabellone / Siobhán Hapaska / Charlotte Posenenske, PHYSICAL INFORMATION, Bloomberg SPACE, London, UK* |
| 2007 | ‘13’, International Project Space, Birmingham Institute of Art and design, Birmingham, UK* |
| 2002 | Exchange, Richard Salmon Gallery, London UK |
| 2000 | Light Industrial Magic, Platform, London UK |
| 1999 | Heart and Soul, Long Lane Studios, London UK |
| Selected Press | |
| 2015 | How to See Eternity in a Pile of Rocks, Daniel McDermon, The New York Times, Dec 18 An Exhibition Where Rocks Get Respect, Andy Battaglia, The Wall Street Journal, Oct 5 |
| 2014 | Annnals of the 29th Century, Tom Morton, Frieze, May |
| 2010 | Newspeak, Charles Darwent, The Independent, June 6 Newspeak, Adrian Searle, The Guardian, June 6 Charles Saatchi’s ‘Newspeak’, Jackie Wullschlager, The Financial Times, June 4 Newspeak, Martin Herbert, Time Out, June |
| 2007 | Rupert Norfolk, Gabriel Coxhead, Time Out, November 17, No.1939 Art in Review, Roberta Smith, The New York Times, February 9, |
| 2005 | Rupert Norfolk, Barry Schwabsky, Art Forum, Summer Rupert Norfolk, Andrew Hunt, Untitled, Spring Waste Material, Rosalind Furness, Modern Painters, Summer |
| 2004 | Like Beads on an Abacus Designed to Calculate Infinity, David Barrett, Art Monthly, no.277, June |
| 2002 | Exchange, Sally O’Reilly. Frieze, April Exchange, JJ Charlesworth, Contemporary, April Exchange, Mark Beasley, Art Monthly, no. 255, April Exchange, Andrew Hunt, Untitled , no. 27, Spring |
| 2000 | Light Industrial Magic, David Musgrave. Art Monthly, no. 242, Dec/Jan |