Zoë Marden is an artist, curator and writer. She grew up in Hong Kong and is currently based in London. She works with performance, video, text, sound, sculpture and installation to create alternate worlds and speculative futures. Her work is research based and is concerned with where intersectional feminism overlaps with the post colonial. Her intimate performances play with the voice, activating soundscapes of desire and vulnerability.
Zoë is part of the CAMPerVAN collective with Samuel Doeuk and Fiontán Moran, in which we investigate the queering of spaces through performance. The CAMPerVAN is a transportable queer performance, and LGBTQ community event space that can be deployed anywhere in the world to bring performance art, film screening, panel discussion & workshop into the public realm.
Royal College of Art, Fine Art: Moving Image MFA, London, 2016 - 2018
Goldsmiths University, Curating MFA, London, 2012 - 2014
The American University of Paris, History of Art BFA, Paris, 2005 - 2008
Selected Exhibitions and Performances
2020
Myths for Survival (sci-fi speculations, Mythic beings/bodies, folklore for the future), Project curated by Zoë Marden for Twin Magazine Issue 23
FUTURELESS, Curated by Oliver Dougherty, Somos Gallery, Berlin
Stay Live at Home, Perform/Istanbul, live instagram performance
in.oscillation, curated by Cairo Clark
Low Theory publication, Curated by Kate Wong
Performance Art From Isolation: 10 artists share a microcosm of their immediate world, curated by James Emmerman, Document Journal
So Remember the Liquid Ground, Curated by Royal college of Art MA Curating with Gasworks, London
2019
Gaze to the UNKNOWN, curated by A—Z, Mimosa House, London
Between Aeaea and the Rocks of Scylla, Curated by Alix Marie & A—Z, Horse Hospital, London
And a door opened, Jupiter Woods, London
AMY/YMA, Curated by James Massiah, Serpentine Gallery, London
Unbothered + Moisturised, Curated by Zoë Marden & SAGG Napoli with Eaton Workshop, Hong Kong
Equinox Light Cure, Curated by Sasha Burkhanova-Khabadze, Exposed Arts, London
2018
Her Stories, Protein Studios, London
all in bodied, curated by Bryony Stone, Mellissa Gallery, London
Royal College of Art Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London
Queertopia, Curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley for Daata Editions & If so What?, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco/ London
Gesture, curated by Irruptive Chora, The Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London
2017
The New Dark room, Curated by The RCA Queer Society, The Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London
CAMPerVAN Presents: The Trio, q|Lab, Milan
Il break your heart and you’ll break mine, Curated by Sasha Galitzine, Vout-o reenees, London
Growing Gills performance finissage, Mimosa House, Curated by Daria Khan, London
Hot Retaliations (and other acts of revenge), Clearview Ldt, London
CAMPerVAN Presents: The Sci-FI Powerverse, Artlicks Weekend, London
CAMPerVAN European Tour, District Berlin, Berlin
Robyn Beech Selected Works, 1979-1987, Curated by Vittoria Bonifati, Princes Gate Mews, London
The Shaved Witches Rave vol. 1, Curated by Commune East, Hoi Polloi, London
2016
Rhythmic Osmosis, Curated by Inventory Platform, Limehouse, London
POMPE, a dionysian canal procession, Curated by Sasha Galitzine, Regents Canal, London
Layer to Luna, Manifesta 11, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland
closer to the veg, Curated by Sasha Galitzine, Fitzroy park Allotments, London
Recommended for Everybody, Curated by Leonardo Lucchini for Artlicks weekend, Alibaba, London