Eva Rothschild

Eva Rothschild RA (born 1971) is an Irish artist based in London.

Eva Rothschild was born in Dublin, Ireland. She received a BA in Fine Art from the University of Ulster, Belfast (1990–93), and an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London (1997–99). Her work is predominantly sculptural and she works across a range of materials including aluminium, jesmonite, leather, fabric and perspex. She has a materials based studio practice but also works on major public and outdoor commissions. Her work references the art movements of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Minimalism and is also informed by the contemporary aesthetics of protest and spirituality. In 2014 she was elected Royal Academician.

Rothschild's work has been the subject of institutional solo exhibitions including Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (2018), Dublin City Gallery, the Hugh Lane (2014), Nasher Sculpture Center (2012), The Hepworth Wakefield (2011), South London Gallery (2007), and Kunsthalle Zürich (2004). In 2009 she was awarded the Tate Britain annual Duveens' Commission, for which she produced Cold Corners, a vast rambling geometric sculpture that occupied the length of the neo-classical galleries.

Rothschild's works are held by major public collections including MoMA, New York, Arts Council of England, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Tate, and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

In 2019, she represented Ireland at the 58th Venice Biennale.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions 2020 The Shrinking Universe, Ireland Pavilion, 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia Touring Show, VISUAL Carlow, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. 2019 Furniture, Tapestry and Ceramics, Blue Mountain School, London The Shrinking Universe, curated by Mary Cremin, Ireland Pavilion, 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy Kosmos, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand 2018 Kosmos, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne, Australia "Iceberg Hits", Modern Art, London 2017 Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, Italy A Material Enlightenment, 303 Gallery, New York, NY, USA City Room (with Gary Webb), Galeria Mário Sequeira, Parada de Tibães, Portugal 2016 Alternative to Power, New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall A Gated Community, Sonneveld House, Rotterdam, Netherlands 2015 Middle Temple, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, Italy 2014 Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland, 2014 "What the Eye Wants", Modern Art, London This and This and This, Art Parcours, Art 45 Basel, Basel, Switzerland 2013 Narcissus, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland "New Sculpture", New Art Centre, Wiltshire, 2014 2012 The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 2012 Sightings, Nasher Sculpture Centre, Dallas, TX, USA Childrens Art Commission: Eva Rothschild: Boys and Sculpture, The Whitechapel Gallery, London The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland 2011 Hot Touch, Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, Germany 303 Gallery, New York, NY, USA, 2011 Hot Touch, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield Empire Public Art Fund, New York, NY, USA 2009 Cold Corners, Tate Britain Annual Duveens’ Commission, Tate Britain, London Modern Art, London, 2009 Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy, 2009 Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland, 2009 La Conservera: Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Murcia, Spain, 2009 2008 The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland Tate Britain, London 2007 South London Gallery, London, 2007 303 Gallery, New York, NY, USA, 2007 2006 Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland 2005 Modern Art, London, 2005 Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 2004 Kunsthalle, Zürich, Switzerland Artspace, Sydney, Australia, 2004 2003 Heavy Cloud, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland, 2003 "Sit-In", Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy, 2003 2002 Modern Art, London, 2002 Project Art Centre, Dublin, Ireland, 2002 2001 Peacegarden, The Showroom, London Peacegarden, Cornerhouse, Manchester Francesca Kauffman Gallery, Milan, Italy Els Hanappe Underground, Athens, Greece 2000 Camden Arts Centre, London 1999 The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland 1998 Titanik Galerie, Turku, Finland 1996 Great Wall / Black Hole, Iain Irving Projects, Aberdeenshire Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow 1995 Bercsenyi Galleria, Budapest, Hungary

Selected collections

Aïshti Foundation, Antelias, Lebanon Arts Council Collection, London Berezdivin Collection, Santurce, Puerto Rico British Council, London Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood Cloud Art Space, Seoul, South Korea Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland The Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, TX, USA The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Leeds City Council, Leeds The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA Museum Voorlinden, Waasenaar, Netherlands New Art Centre, Salisbury, Wiltshire Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich, Norfolk Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney Pilane Heritage Museum, Klövedal, Sweden Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, USA Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton Swiss Re Art Collection, Zürich, Switzerland Tate, London TBA21 – Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA Würth Collection, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany Zabludowicz Collection, London