Alex Margo Arden

Alex Margo Arden (born 1994) is an English contemporary artist. She won the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation Prize at Frieze London among other accolades. In 2024, the Evening Standard named her one of London's most exciting young artists. In 2025, she was nominated for The Times Breakthrough at the Sky Arts Awards. She featured on the 2026 Attitude 101 list.

Early life Arden was born in Croydon, South London. Arden completed a foundation course at Central Saint Martins and went on to graduate from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2016. She later completed postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy Schools in 2025.

Career Upon graduating from Goldsmiths in 2016, Arden had an installation in the display window of VFDalston for World AIDS Day. The following year, she took part in her first group exhibition at Serf in Leeds. Arden also gained prominence on Instagram, where she shared her vintage-inspired personal aesthetic.

At Cell Project Space in 2019 and 2020, Arden collaborated with Caspar Heinemann on the exhibition and corresponding performance play THE FARMYARD IS NOT A VIOLENT PLACE AND I LOOK EXACTLY LIKE JUDY GARLAND. This was followed by Arden and Heinemann's second play Among My Souvenirs which was performed in 2021 at Barnens Scen in the Folkets park, Malmö, Sweden.

With Ginny on Frederick, Arden held her solo exhibition All Clear in 2022 and took part in Marseille's Art-o-rama 2023. Arden's first Royal Academy of Arts exhibition in 2023 featured collages made from books by Kenneth Halliwell and Joe Orton. She was nominated for the Breakthrough Award at the 2025 Sky Arts Awards.

That October, Arden returned to Ginny on Frederick with her presentation By All Accounts for Frieze London 2025. The installation Accounts repurposes decommissioned male mannequins from the National Motor Museum; it sat in front of Daily Departmental Accident Record on the wall. Arden won the fair's inaugural Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation Prize, and Accounts was one of five acquired by the Arts Council Collection. Sofia Hallström of Wallpaper named Arden a standout artist of Frieze 2025.

Arden's work is held in the permanent collection of the Royal Academy of Arts and Arts Council Collection

Work

Solo exhibitions Nothing Personal (2026) at Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation (London) True as Good (2026) at diez (Amsterdam) By All Accounts (2025) at Frieze London Safety Curtain (2025) at Auto Italia South East (London) Rock Paper Scissors (2023) at the Royal Academy of Art (London) Attention Restoration (2023) at Quench Gallery (Margate) Responsibility, Responsibility, Responsibility (2023) at Art-o-rama (Marseille) All Clear (2022) at Ginny on Frederick (London) THE FARMYARD IS NOT A VIOLENT PLACE AND I LOOK EXACTLY LIKE JUDY GARLAND (2019) at Cell Project Space (London) with Caspar Heinemann

Group exhibitions British Art Show 10: A Chorus of Strangers (2026–) curated by Ekow Eshun (multiple locations) Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait (2026) at the National Portrait Gallery (London) Case History (2026) at Vardaxoglou (London) Re/Enactments (2026) at Coulisse (Stockholm) The Syzygy (2025) at Champ Lacombe (Biarritz) Recital (2024) at Arcadia Missa (London) On Feeling (2024) at The Approach Gallery (London) Color of Pomegranates (2024) at Gallery Artbeat (Tbilisi) Channel (2024) at Centre d'Art Contemporain de Nîmes (France) Vampire Problem? (2024) at N/A Gallery (Seoul) Rouge Ravager (2024) at Bio Skandia (Stockholm) How to Destroy Angels (2024) at the Horse Hospital (London)