Alexander Costello (b.London 1976) is a sculptor, performance and video artist.
Ideas and work are generated through an interest in challenging and exposing the everyday absurdity of perceived normality; the simultaneous pursuit of the infinite and finite; the origin and location of idea; and the exploration of processes that are in themselves the truth in the work, often undermined by a resulting outcome. Misinterpretation and miscommunication of action and language, and an impulse to consistently re-consider form and composition, support and bring balance to endeavours.
Costello is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors and has a Masters in Fine Art from The Slade School of Art and a First Class Honours degree in Fine Art from Middlesex University.
He lives, works and teaches Suffolk.
HIGHER EDUCATION
MFA Slade School of Art, University College London
BA Honours Fine Art Middlesex University (First Class)
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2019 Body & Place, Co-Lab, British Museum and Royal Collection, Windsor Castle. 2014 Sculpture Shock (Ambulatory) Royal Society of Sculptors, London 2004 Physics Room Contemporary Art, Christchurch NZ 2003 Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio, USA
EXHIBITIONS (recent and selected)
2020 Radical Ventriloquism KELDER, London 2019 BYOP Space Studios, London Other Suns, Other Shadows St Augustine’s Tower, Hackney, London 2018 There is No End Sluice HQ London // One Minute London Art Fair, London 2017 All For Show V22 Louise House, London // You Don’t Need Eyes to See, You Need Vision Open Lab, Brady Centre, London 2016 Tactics of Interruption Toynbee Studios, London // A Priori Royal Society of Sculptors, London 2015 perFORMa, Fold Gallery, London // Call For Drawings, University of the Arts, Utrecht // Moving Not Moving Galerie Laurence Bernard, Genève 2014 Making Progress Royal British Society of Sculptors, London 2013 Art Angel Open 100, Art Angel 2012 Jerwood Drawing Prize Jerwood Space 2010 Field Broadcast Wysing Contemporary Art Centre, Cambs 2009 Light Exhibition Design Comune di Milano, Milan 2007 Austerlitz Galleria Ciocca, Milan 2006 Get It Right IMT gallery, London Arcade Westbourne Studios, London; 2005 Men Like That Don’t Die Goethe-Institute, Dublin 2004 All You Need To Know Right Now T1+2 Artspace, London Drivin, FRAC Aquitaine, France // All You Need To Know Right Now Lobby Box & Video Bar project, Swiss Institute, New York // Perseverance Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh 2003 Wish You Were Here Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio, USA 2002 CLUB Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers; MOSTYN 12 Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno 2001 Looking With In/Out Courtauld Institute of Art
ARTIST TALKS
2017 Toynbee Studios London // Brady Arts Centre Barbican Open Lab Programme London // V22 Louise House, London 2016 Freelands Foundation, London 2014 Royal Society of Sculptors, London 2013 Centre for Contemporary Collaboration, Royal Holloway University, London // Bermondsey Project, London // Arbeit Gallery, London 2006 IMT Gallery, London 2004 Physics Room Contemporary Art, Christchurch NZ 2003 Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio, USA
AWARDS
2014 Sculpture Shock Award, Royal Society of Sculptors, London 2009 L.E.D. Decoro Urbano e Verde, Comune di Milano, Milan (shortlisted) 2001 Pocock Award, Slade School of Art, London