Eva Rothschild


Eva Rothschild RA 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, and an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London. 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, Dublin City Gallery, the Hugh Lane, Nasher Sculpture Center, The Hepworth Wakefield, South London Gallery, and Kunsthalle Zürich. 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
2019Furniture, Tapestry and Ceramics, Blue Mountain School, LondonThe Shrinking Universe, curated by Mary Cremin, Ireland Pavilion, 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, ItalyKosmos, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
2018Kosmos, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
2017Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, ItalyA Material Enlightenment, 303 Gallery, New York, NY, USACity Room, Galeria Mário Sequeira, Parada de Tibães, Portugal
2016Alternative to Power, New Art Gallery Walsall, WalsallA Gated Community, Sonneveld House, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2015Middle Temple, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, Italy
2014
  • Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland, 2014This and This and This, Art Parcours, Art 45 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2013Narcissus, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland
2012
  • The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 2012Sightings, Nasher Sculpture Centre, Dallas, TX, USAChildrens Art Commission: Eva Rothschild: Boys and Sculpture, The Whitechapel Gallery, London
  • The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
2011Hot Touch, Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, Germany
2009
  • Cold Corners, Tate Britain Annual Duveens’ Commission, Tate Britain, London
  • 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
2006
  • Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland
2005
  • Modern Art, London, 2005
  • Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2004
  • Kunsthalle, Zürich, Switzerland Artspace, Sydney, Australia, 2004
2003Heavy 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
2001Peacegarden, The Showroom, London Peacegarden, Cornerhouse, ManchesterFrancesca Kauffman Gallery, Milan, Italy Els Hanappe Underground, Athens, Greece
2000
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