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Alberta Whittle, Installation view of How Flexible Can We Make the Mouth at Dundee Contemporary Arts, 2019

Alberta Whittle, Between a Whisper and a Cry, 2019, Single-channel video, 37'16''

Alberta Whittle, Celestial Meditations II, 2017, C-Type print, Dia-sec mounted on aluminium, 61 x 91.4 cm

Alberta Whittle, Installation view of How Flexible Can We Make the Mouth at Dundee Contemporary Arts, 2019

Alberta Whittle, Mammmmmmmmywata Presents Life Solutions International, 2016 HD video, 3'57''

Alberta Whittle, Secreting Myths, Woodblock print, 2019

Alberta Whittle is an artist, researcher and curator that works and lives in Glasgow and Barbados. She was chosen for the Margaret Tait Award for 2018/9, the Turner Prize 2020 bursary, the Henry Moore Foundation artist award 2020 and the Frieze Artist Award 2020.

Her creative practice is motivated by the desire to manifest self-compassion and collective care as key methods in battling anti-blackness. Oscillating between cutting humour and sensitive poetics her work ranges across media and across continents.

Over 2021, Whittle will be sharing new work as part of Art Night London, British Art Show 9, Liverpool Biennial, Glasgow International and Right of Admission at the University of Johannesburg. She will also have a solo exhibition at Copperfield and will participate in exhibitions at Lisson Gallery, London; Viborg Kunstal, Denmark; AGO, Toronto; Tate Modern, London; and Kunstal Trondheim, Norway.
In 2022 she will represent Scotland at the 59th Biennale di Venezia.

Solo and duo exhibitions include No Mudder Country Here, Grand Union, Birmingham (2020); Business as Usual, Tyburn Gallery, London (2019); How flexible can we make the mouth, Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) (2019); Useless (with Emilio Bianchi), Pig Rock Bothy, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh (2019); The Polity of  Φ (with Deniz Uster), Glasgow Project Room and Intermedia, the CCA, Glasgow (2016); The Cradle (with Dean Hutton), Goethe On Main, Johannesburg, South Africa (2015); Right of Admission (with Farieda Nazier), ROOM Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa (2014); badmanabadman, Bridgetown Gallery, Barbados (2010). 

Group exhibitions include Here be Dragons, Copperfield, London, UK (2020): In the Castle of My Skin, Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2020); Kaleidoskop, Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria (2020); Glasgow Short Film Festival, Glasgow, Scotland (2020); LUX, London (2019); The Imagined New, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa (2019); Without Tides, an invitation, Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop (2019); 13th Havana Biennial, Wilfredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba (2019); Stalking the Image: Margaret Tait and Her Legacy, GoMA, Glasgow (2019); Another Country, The City Arts Centre, Edinburgh (2018); Displaced, Travelling Gallery, Scotland (2018); There’s something in the conversation that’s more interesting than the finality of (a title), The Showroom, London (2018); Inner city, GOMA, Glasgow, UK (2018); REGURGITATE, [SPACE], London (2018); TRANS, University of Johannesburg Gallery and The Bag Factory, Johannesburg, South Africa (2018); Another Country,  Alice R Rogers & Target Galleries, St. John’s University, Minnesota, USA (2018); Self Service, CCA Glasgow, UK (2017); You never stand in the same water twice, ROOM 113, Newcastle, UK (2017); WOMXN, De Balie, Amsterdam (2018); ANTE, Suede Gallery, Edinburgh (2017); Between democracies 1989-2014: Memory and commemoration, Dom umenia and Kunsthalle Bratislava, Bratislavia, Slovakia (2016); Rum Retort, The Tobacco Warehouse, Greenock, UK (2016); Hidden Door Festival, Hidden Door, Electric City, Edinburgh (2016);  Between Democracies 1989-2014: Memory and Commemoration, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, South Africa (2015); Johannesburg Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice (2015); Embodied Spaces, FRAMER FRAMED, Amsterdam (2015); Finite Project Altered When Open, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow (2015); Residencies 14, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (2014); Where We’re At! Other Voices on Gender, BOZAR, Brussels (2014); International Artist Initiated, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow (2014); Transforming Spaces, National Art Gallery, Bahamas (2014); Stop Making Sense, The Bag Factory, Johannesburg, South Africa (2014); Woman, Object, Corpse, Centre for African Studies, UCT, Cape Town, South Africa (2013); CARIFESTA XI, Paramaribo, Suriname (2013); Streets of Gold, Museum of London, London (2012); Loopings, Greatmore Studios, South Africa (2012); Split, Arratia Beer and Sommer und Kohl, Berlin (2011); Pop Up Cocktail Bar and Love Club, The Motorcycle Showroom, Bristol (2011); The Secret Confession, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland (2010); NWSP 10 years, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (2010).

Her work is part of The Scottish National Gallery Collections, Glasgow Museums Collections, The UK Arts Council Collection, St Andrew's University and The Contemporary Art Research Collection at Edinburgh College of Art.

Whittle is currently a Research Associate at The University of Johannesburg. She was a RAW Academie Fellow at RAW Material in Dakar in 2018 and her writing has been published in MAP magazine, Visual Culture in Britain, Visual Studies, Art South Africa and Critical Arts Academic Journal.



To view the most recent group show with the gallery including work by Alberta Whittle click here



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