Carl Gent is an artist from Bexhill-on-sea, UK.
They also blog about clothes with Rachel Alice Ray at Fashion Vacuum and perform as part of drum and amplified sitar duo Perple Celotape with Andrew Ferguson.
Email: carl@carlgent.com
Education
2015 MFA Fine Art. Goldsmiths, London, UK
2009 BA (Hons) Fine Art. UCA, Farnham, UK
Solo / Duo etc Exhibitions
2022 Over the fallow flood. Flatland Projects, Bexhill-on-sea, UK
2021 and then, a harrowing. (with Kelechi Anucha and Linda Stupart). Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn, UK
This way is very hard, but not insoluble (with Linda Stupart). KELDER, London, UK
Over the fallow flood. Jupiter Woods, London, UK
2019 The Balls of Alban. Seager Gallery, London, UK
2018 Smear (for Cynethryth). Bexhill Carnival, Bexhill-on-sea, UK
Technically Illiterate, Actually Still Pagan ( 1 ). Ilderton Road Project Space, London, UK
2017 Multiplex. KELDER, London, UK
2016 Wiðercwedolu þá Glésincga. The Residence Gallery, London, UK
Selected Exhibitions + Performances
2023 A Whistling Woman, a Crowing Hen. Deptford X, Lewisham Arthouse, London, UK
'Feature'. Cafe Oto, London, UK
The Celsius Commons: Reenchanting Malmo. (with Kelechi Anucha) Celsius Projects, Malmo, Sweden
They Take It Seriously, I Think It's Interesting. Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
An Evening of Readings: Time. The Waiting Room, Peckham Rye Station, London, UK
Dropping the Canons / Drooping the Cannons. Istituto Svizzero, Rome, Italy
Live Fast, Die Young, Leave and Exquisite Corpse. Montez Press Radio, London, UK
The Masturbatory Reader launch. The Glory, London, UK
2022 The Balls of Alban. De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-sea, UK
FDBNHLLLTTFPARODY. The Glory, London, UK
Queers Read This: The Return. ICA, London, UK
The Horror Show! (with Linda Stupart) Somerset House, London, UK
An extra 10 or 15% with heartbeat. (with Clémentine Bedos). Waiting With (Sonic Support) by Abbas Zahedi, Frieze Art Fair, London
Klar Zur Wende - Ree. Wasserhalle der Schiffswerft Otto Eberhardt, Arnis, Germany
Riddle 82 (or 78). HOAX, online
Testament. Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK
2021 The Commons: Reenchanting the World (with Kelechi Anucha). The Museum of English Rural Life, Reading, UK
Canon, Choir, Chant (leaking of words and fish). Primary, Nottingham, UK
2020 All Us Girls Have Been Dead for So Long (with Linda Stupart) @ TALOS IV. Cockpit Theatre, London, UK
SlipStream. twitch.tv/slipstreamtv
TRANSMISSIONS: episode 2. twitch.tv/transmissions2020
Pre-Ramble III. David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2019 In praise of scratching (a detail). Bexhill Museum, Bexhill-on-sea, UK
I, I, I, I, I, I, I, Kathy Acker. ICA, London, UK
Gestures: Writing That Moves Between. Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance, Act II. De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-sea, UK
The Shitty Art Show. Darnley Street, Glasgow, UK
2018 MYCO-TV. 7 Rue de Juvisy, Paris, France
FRAGMENTA retrospective and publication launch. The Scout Association of Malta, Floriana, Malta
Get out of my office. AM Studios, London, UK
Our House of Common Weeds. The Newbridge Project, Gateshead, UK
Paperwork: iilwimi lipsing. Serf, Leeds, UK
Young London 2018. Silvertown Studios, London, UK
Echo (with Linda Stupart). No Matter #2, The Castle Hotel, Manchester, UK
hmn14. Bennet's Hill, London, UK
Jupiter Woods Party. Jupiter Woods, London, UK
Test Body Burden. FHL TEXT & VIDEO, Forest Hill Library, London, UK
Technically Illiterate, Actually Still Pagan ( 2 ). Louise House, London, UK
The Snake Show. ECOTRACO, Valletta, Malta
2017 Our House of Common Weeds. Res., London, UK
Andrew Sunderland: Infinite Diagesis. Gossamer Fog, London, UK
Housework/Artwork. Number 13, London, UK
The Political Animal. The Showroom, London, UK
I'd Do This All Day If I Could. PEER, London, UK
Zero Gravity. MC3, nr. Alfriston, UK
Ting Ting Cheng: On the Desert Island. Stuart Hall Library, INIVA, London, UK
2016 L'Heure Verte: 2nd Tasting. Goldsmiths Allotment, London, UK
Off to Mahoganny. Rye Lane, London, UK
Chalton Live! Chalton Gallery, London, UK
De Regreso a la Isla. Casal Solleric, Palma, Mallorca, Spain
L'Heure Verte: 1st Tasting. Green Ray, London, UK
Minor Delay. Lumen Studios, London, UK
Green Ray, Green Hour. Green Ray, London, UK
2015 Polyphonie X . 331 Green Lanes, London, UK
Questions for Meliza. cosmoscarl.co.uk
Goldsmiths MFA Show 2015. Goldsmiths College, London, UK
2014 The Space of No Exception. Sokol, Moscow, Russia
Ground Ground. Cafe Oto Project Space, London, UK
IV Moscow Biennale for Young Art. Muzeon, Moscow, Russia
All Silent But For the Broadcast. Royal College of Art Galleries, London, UK
Facing Extinction. University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
Publications + Writing
2023 Gestures: Writing that moves between. (with Alison Ballance and Jessa Mockridge) Manchester University Press, Manchester
The Masturbatory Reader. Sticky Fingers Publishing, London
Happy Birthday? #1. ed. Nell Osborne, London
2022 How to Sleep Faster #13. Arcadia Missa, London
The Balls of Alban. Monitor Books, London
FDBNHLLLTTFPARODY. ed. Evelyn Wh-ell, Sticky Fingers Publishing, London
The Commons: Reenchanting the World. The Museum of English Rural Life, Reading
Felon Herb. Kelder Press, London
2021 All Us Girls Have Been Dead for So Long (with Linda Stupart), Arcadia Missa, London
Happy Hypocrite #12: Without Reduction. ed. Maria Fusco, Book Works, London
At Practice issue 1. ed. Jude Browning, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow
2019 FRAGMENTA Malta 2013-2018. ed. Bettina Hutschek, Valetta
2018 A Return to the Island. ed. Helena Lugo, Mexico City
Paperwork #3: iilwimi lipsing. ed. Jessa Mockridge and Catherine Smiles, London
Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance. ed. Irene Aristizábel, Rosie Cooper and Cédric Fauq, Nottingham
No Matter sampler #2. ed. Nell Osborne, Jazmine Linklater, Natasha Stallard and Hilary White, Manchester
2017 Our House of Common Weeds. ed. Nathalie Boobis, London
Reader's Digestion.ed. Caspar Heinneman and Holly Reiliffe, Berlin
Archipelago #4. ed. Christina Harles, Rowan Powell and Ioli Tzanetaki, London
De Regreso a la Isla. ed. Helena Lugo, Palma, Spain
2016 The 3D Additivist Cookbook. ed. Moreshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke, Amsterdam
2015 Their Wedding Book. ed. Garrett Nelson, Peter Burleigh and Sophie Jung, Germany
As If . ed. Daria Kalugina, Frankfurt, Germany
2010 Residence. ed. Copernicium @ The Toilet Gallery, Kingston-upon-Thames, UK
Residencies
2024 SET x ArtHub Print Residency. Woolwich, London, UK
2023 Future Plan Artist Residency. Hospitalfield, Arbroath, UK
Rupert. Vilnius, Lithuania
2022 Arnis Residency 2022. Arnis, Germany
New Queers on the Block. Home Live Art, St. Leonards-on-sea, UK
2020 Over the fallow flood. Jupiter Woods, London, UK
Broadcast residency w. Kelechi Anucha. Wysing Arts Centre, Bourne, UK
2017 City Under the Sea. w/ Louise Hervé and Chloé Maillet, The Institute of Things to Come, Turin, Italy
Worldly affairs such as warfare or sexual relations. Residence Gallery Instagram
Demonio! Demonio! w/ Bedwyr Williams and Tai Shani, The Institute of Things to Come, Turin, Italy
2016 Study Week Devised by Jesse Darling. Wysing Poly, Wysing Arts Centre, Bourne, UK
2014 ICA (Moscow) Summer School. Academic Dacha, Vishny Volochok, Russia
2013 North Light. The Beach Hut, Dunbar Harbour, UK
2010 Conjunction. AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
Awards + Grants
2023 Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award
2020 Thinking Time, Artangel
2018 a-n Biennale Bursary: Manifesta 2018
2015 Goldsmiths MFA Junior Fellowship
2014 ICA Moscow / Goldsmiths Exchange Programme
Press
Chloe Carroll reviews Testament for Art Monthly
Sophie Paul reviews This way is very hard, but not insoluble for Sticky Fingers newsletter
Frances Whorrall-Campbell reviews and then, a harrowing for Art Monthly
Isabel Waidner reviews All Us Girls Have Been Dead for So Long for aqnb
All Us Girls Have Been Dead for So Long feature in TANK magazine
Nathalie Boobis and Lucy Sames talk about Our House of Common Weeds in Art Licks issue 22