BiographyImages
Born in 1979, Copenhagen, Denmark. Lives and works in London and Copenhagen.
Education
2009
Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art, Royal Academy Schools, London, UK
2005
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
2004
Fine Art summer programme in Norfolk, Yale University, US
2001
Fine Art Photography Foundation, KUBA, Copenhagen, Denmark
Selected Solo Exhibitions/Two-person exhibitions
2016
Maria Zahle, CentroCentro, Madrid, ES
2015
My Favourite Phone Number, Arcade, London
2012
And Annika, Arcade, London, UK
Zippy, Zippy with Peggy Franck, Dorethea Schlüter Galeri, Hamburg, DE
2010
A Figure, A Rectangle with Ib Braase, Arcade, London, UK
2008
Hotdog, Jumping Frog, Albuquerque with John Walter, Tisvildeleje Pakhus, DK
2007
a2+b2=c2, The Hex, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016
Baldock Pope Zahle, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK
2015
PAW, Arcade, London
2013
Squares & Triangles, Arcade, London, UK
Politics, Arcade, London, UK (curated by Maria Zahle)
The Double, Illums Bolighus, Copenhagen, DK
2010
Amer Abbas Gallery, curated by The Hex and Bell Street Project, Vienna, AT
Alice Channer, Dagmar Heppner, Alicja Kwade, Maria Zahle, BolteLang, Zurich, CH
2009
Double Object, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
Autonomy Together, Trottoir, Hamburg and Subvision Festival, Hamburg, DE
Middlemarch, Auto-Italia South East, London, UK
2008
Double Object, Occasionals, London, curated by Leigh Robb, UK
Production Still – Mike Cooter & The Hex, Moot, Nottingham, UK
The Hex Retrospective, Limoncello Gallery, London, UK
Selected Residencies, Prizes and Awards
2016
Commissioned artist for the Department of Energy at Aalborg University, Copenhagen, DK
Commissioned artist for Art Across the City, LOCWS International, Swansea, UK
2014
Commissioned artist for the Department of Energy at Aalborg University, Copenhagen, DK
2013
Alexandra Reinhardt Memorial Award (ARMA) Artist Residency at New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, UK
Artist in residence, CAC, Andratx, Majorca, ES
2009
British School in Rome Prize, Royal Academy Schools, London, UK
2007
The Landseer Award, Royal Academy Schools, London, UK
2005
Artist in Residence, Bangkok University, TH
Terence Cuneo Memorial Prize
Duveen Travel Scholarship, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
2004
Ellen Stoeckel Battell Fellowship, Yale University, US
Projects
2008-9
Participant in the project What Do Artists Do?, organised by Phyllida Barlow, supported by the Arts Council, England
2007
Member of music group ‘Squares & Triangles’
The Hex Colony, summer artist colony, SE
2006
Co-director (with Jason Dungan) of The Hex, London.
Bibliography
2012
‘And Annika’ Time Out, London, review by Rebecca Geldard, June 11th
2010
Artforum, Critic’s Picks: Alice Channer, Dagmar Heppner, Alicja Kwade, Maria Zahle. Review by Quinn Latimer
http://artforum.com/new.php?pn=archive&id=24859
Subvision Festival, exhibition catalogue, Hamburg
2009
Double Object, exhibition catalogue, Thomas Dane Gallery, London
ArtSlant, Round 2, Double Object review by Sarah McNulty,
http://www.artslant.com/lon/articles/show/8795
Frieze Magazine, Mike Cooter and The Hex. Moot.
Review by Sam Thorne, Issue 121, March
Manipulations, by Maria Zahle, self published book
2008
A Calzone, self published collaborative book
Production Still, exhibition catalogue, Moot, Nottingham
2007
‘Aquarium’, Time Out, London review by Martin Herbert, Nov 23rd