Dr Rupert Norfolk

Biography

Rupert Norfolk is an artist and curator based in London. His multidisciplinary practice investigates the perceptual and conceptual possibilities of concrete and depicted things.

Norfolk’s work has been exhibited widely, including: Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin (2025), La Maison de la Culture d’Amiens (2025), Galeria Cadaqués - Huc Malla, Girona (2019), Kunsthalle Göppingen (2017), Noguchi Museum, New York (2015), Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2014), Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (2014), Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia (2013), Netwerk / Center for Contemporary Art, Aalst (2012), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2011), Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2011), Lustwarande, Tilburg (2011), CAPC - Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux (2010), Daimler Contemporary, Berlin (2010), Saatchi Gallery, London (2010), Millenium Galleries, Shefield (2007), El Basilisco, Buenos Aires (2007), Chapter Gallery, Cardiff (2006), Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh (2006), Transmission, Glasgow (2005), The Drawing Room, London (2005), Musee des Beaux Arts de Dunkerque (2005), Norwich Gallery (2004), MoMA PS1, New York (2001), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2001).

In 2017, Norfolk was winner of the First Plinth: Public Art Award, the Royal Society of Sculptors, London. From 2016-2017, he co-curated a programme of five sculpture exhibitions, Physical Information, at Bloomberg SPACE, London, including, The Mobility of Facts: Giuseppe Gabellone, Siobhán Hapaska and Charlotte Posenenske (2016). In 2013, he was selected as the inaugural maker-in-residence at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge.