Alex Margo Arden is an artist who lives and works in London. She uses theatrical methodologies to interrogate the production, interpretation, restoration, and restaging of histories. Through her conceptual research projects she often employs remaking and reperformance to question authority, authenticity, and labour.
Recent solo exhibitions include, ‘Attention Restoration’ (2023) at Quench, Margate; ‘Rock Paper Scissors’ (2023) at Royal Academy of Arts, London; ‘Responsibility, Responsibility, Responsibility’ (2023) at Art-O-Rama, Marseille; ‘All Clear’ (2022) at Ginny on Frederick, London; THE FARMYARD IS NOT A VIOLENT PLACE…’ (2020) at Cell Project Space, London. Recent group exhibitions include, ‘Recital’ (2024) at Arcadia Missa, London; ‘On Feeling’ (2024) at The Approach, London.
Her work has been written about in Frieze, Art Monthly, The Art Newspaper, Flash Art, Another Magazine, and Vogue. She is currently studying at the Royal Academy Schools and she previously graduated from Goldsmiths where she was awarded the Hamad Butt Memorial Prize.
Current RA Schools student
Born: 1994 in Croydon
RA Schools student from 2022 to 2025
2022–25 Postgraduate Diploma, Royal Academy Schools
2013–16 BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths
2012–13 Fine Art Foundation, Central Saint Martins
2023 Attention Restoration, Quench, Margate, UK
2023 Rock Paper Scissors, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2023 Responsibility, Responsibility, Responsibility, ART-O-RAMA, Marsaille, FR
2022 All Clear, Ginny on Frederick, London, UK
2019 THE FARMYARD IS NOT A VIOLENT PLACE AND I LOOK EXACTLY LIKE JUDY GARLAND, Cell Project Space, London, UK
2024 On Feeling, The Approach, London, UK
2024 Recital, Arcadia Missa, London, UK
2024 Three Years, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2024 Channel, Centre d‘Art Contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes, FR
2024 Felix Art Fair (with Ginny on Frederick), Los Angeles, USA
2024 Premiums, Royal Academy Schools, London, UK
2023 Tenfold, St James Piccadilly, London, UK
2019 Light Blue, The Royal Standard, Liverpool, UK
2017 A Vanitas Painting, Serf, Leeds, UK
2023 SURRENDER DOROTHY, FACT Liverpool, UK
2022 Cleaning Up!, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2022 Living History Display, Ginny on Frederick, London, UK
2021 Among My Souvenirs, Barnens Scen, World Pride 2021, Malmo, SE
2019 Nowadays, Montez Radio, London, UK
2016 Trailing Off, ICA, London, UK
2016 Gathering Place, AND/OR, London, UK
2021 I Am Still Learning, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, ES
2020 Queer Correspondence, Cell Project Space, London, UK
2017 Window By The Museum Entrance, VFD, London, UK
2016 You Can’t Smell When You’re Sleeping – Montez at Mathew, Mathew Gallery, NYC, USA