Cerith Wyn Evans

Cerith Wyn Evans was born in 1958 in Wales. He lives and works in London.

His conceptual practice incorporates a wide range of media, often exploring the relation
between light and text, between thought and meaning; creating scenes conscious of a
viewers’ presence.
Wyn Evans’ early works employed film and video, creating ‘expanded cinema’ environments
frequently collaborating with performers.
Since the 1990s his work has explored the relationship between language and space,
temporality and the phenomenology of perception characterised by a formal precision and
clarity developed in relation to the context of a particular exhibition site. Chains of references
to texts, scores and gestures are evoked and interwoven in a 'mise en scene'. Situations
are constructed…occasions are staged.
For Wyn Evans, installations work as a catalyst: a reservoir of potential meanings that
unravel in multiple discursive journeys. Moreover, his work has a highly refined aesthetic that
is informed by his abiding interest in architecture and music, by fields as seemingly disparate
as fountain design and traditional Japanese theatre, translation, astronomy, psychoanalysis
and Morse Code… His works harness the potential of an encounter " to occasion reverie ".
Objects and experiences are juxtaposed - and arranged ‘in concert’, inviting reflection and
interrogation. Exhibitions are calculated to occupy and promote an "arena of contradictions in
which desire and reality embrace”.

Selected recent solo exhibitions include: MAAT, Lisbon (2025/26); MCA, Sydney (2025);
Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz (2024); Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo; Sogetsu Kaikan, Tokyo;
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo ; Marian Goodman, Paris; Marian Goodman, New York (all 2023);
Mostyn, Llandudno (2022); Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2021), POLA Art Museum, Hakone;
Galerie Buchholz, Cologne; White Cube Bermondsey, London (all 2020); LondonPirelli
HangarBicocca, Milan (2019); Sogetsu Kaikan, Tokyo; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (both
2018);Tate Britain Commission, London (2017); Marian Goodman, Paris (2017) White Cube
Bermondsey, London; Museion, Bolzano (both 2015); Serpentine North Gallery, London
(2014); TBA-21 Augarten, Vienna (2013); De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill-on-Sea (2012);
Kunsthall Bergen, Bergen (2011); Tramway, Glasgow (2009); Inverleith House, Edinburgh
(2009); MUSAC, Leon (2008); Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris (2006) and
Kunsthaus Graz, Graz (2005). He has also participated in the Venice Biennial (2017, 2010,
2003), ‘Skulptur Projekte Münster’ (2017), ‘Moscow Biennial’ (2011); ‘Aichi Triennale’ (2010);
‘Yokohama Triennale’ (2008); ‘Istanbul Biennial’ (2005)