Selected Press

The Guardian, Cave paintings, a galleon and a wild Frenchman: London Gallery Weekend’s 10 must-see shows, 3 June 2026

Art Plugged, Five Exhibitions To See In London June In 2026, 1 June 2026

Born 1965, Worthing, West Sussex, UK
Lives and works in Worthing.

Education

1986

St Martins School Of Art, M.A., London, UK

1980

West Sussex College Of Art & Design, West Sussex, UK

Selected Solo Exhibition

2026

Leap, Maureen Paley, London, UK
Un-Fair-Ground, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK

2025

Hi Tides, RCA Battersea, London, UK
+Fabricating My Own Myth – Red Threads & Silver Needles, Newcastle Contemporary Art, Newcastle, UK
Stranger in Silver Walking on Air, Create London at The White House, Dagenham, UK
Rags of Evidence, Quench, Margate, UK

2024

The Death of the Pythia, Quarts Studio, Turin, Italy
L'Archipelago on Fire, Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London, UK
Turner Prize 2024, Tate Britain, London, UK
Rags of Evidence, John Marchant Gallery, Brighton
Delainia: 17071965 Unfolding, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
L'Archipel en Feu, Paradise, Nantes, France

2023

Incipit Vita Nova. Here Begins The New Life/A New Life Is Beginning, Secession, Vienna, Austria
House of Le Bas, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (duo show with Damian Le Bas)

2022

Beware of Linguistic Engineering, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin, Germany

2021

St Sara Kali George, Worthing Museum and Art Gallery, Worthing, UK
Zigeuner Sauce, Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London, UK

2019

Tutis A Rinkeni Moola, Abri, Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London, UK

2018

Untouchable Gypsy Witch, Transmission, Glasgow, Scotland

2015

Say No to Identity Theft, Gallery8, Budapest, Hungary
Kushti Atchin Tan?, Galerie Kai Dikhas, Berlin, Germany

2014

Local Name: Unknown Gypsies?, Phoenix, Brighton, UK
To Gypsyland, Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, Bolton, UK

2013

To Gypsyland, A Studio Practice and Archive Project, Metal, Peterborough, UK
To Gypsyland, A Studio Practice and Archive Project, 198, London, UK

2012

O Brishindeskeriatar, The Cardiff Story, Cardiff, Wales

2011

Witch Hunt, Campbell Works, London, UK
Witch Hunt, Kai Dikhas, Aufbaus Haus, Berlin, Germany

2010

Witch Hunt, Context, Derry, Ireland
Witch Hunt, Chapter, Cardiff, Wales

2009

Witch Hunt, ASPEX, Portsmouth, UK

Selected Group Exhibition

2026

7. Berliner Herbst Salon, Gorki Theater, Berlin, Germany
Fringe! Queer Film and Arts Fest, Rich Mix, London, UK
Lost Farm Festival, Sjællands Odde, Denmark
Essex Modernism, Towner, Eastbourne, UK
You're Not Alone: Women in Art 2025, Muzeum Ślaskie, Katowicach, Poland and Boscombe Art Depot, Bournemouth, UK
Romani Embassy, Eriac, Berlin, Germany

2024

New Aberdeen Bestiary, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
Friends in Love and War, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham and in MacLYON, Lyon, France

2023

Popular, IVAM, Art Modern Institute Museum of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Light Years Ahead, John Marchant Gallery, Brighton, UK
Barvalo, Mucem -Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations, Marseille, France

2022

From Other Side of the Image, Svilara Cultural Station and Serbian National Theatre, Novi Sad, Serbia
All That We Have in Common, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, North Macedonia
Beyond Homogeneity, Syker Vorwerk, Syke, Germany

2020

the crack begins within, 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany

2019

DE HEMATIZE IT! 4.Berliner Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin, Germany
FUTUROMA, Roma Pavilion, the 58th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2018

ANTI Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece
Orlando at the Present Time, Charleston, Firle, West Sussex, UK
Roma Spring: Art As Resistance, ERIAC, Berlin, Germany
Come Out Now!, The First Roma Biennale, Gorki & Studio R, Berlin, Germany
The Right To Look, Gallery Szara Kamienica, Krakow, Poland

2017

3. Berliner Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin, Germany
Scharfstellen_1, <rotor> Association For Contemporary Art, Graz, Austria
Romani History X, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin, Germany
NSK State-in-Time Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Hysterical Oracle, BasementArtsProject, Leeds, UK
On The Reservation, East Street Arts, Leeds, UK
Still Unresolved and Very Much Ongoing, Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London, UK
Creating The Countryside: Thomas Gainsborough To Today, Compton Verney, UK

2016

Akathe Te Beshen, CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain
Kali Berga, Galerie Księgarnia, Wystawa, Kraków, Poland
Akathe Te Beshen, Rivoli 59, Paris, France
Frontier de Luxe Stretch, Outsider Art Festival Chrisp Street, London, UK
Frei Sein!, Heidelberg Castle Ottheinrichsbau, Heidelberg, Germany
(Re)conceptualising Roma Resistance, Goethe Institute, Prague, Czech
Republic
Universal Hospitality (Into The City), Alte Poste, Vienna, Austria
(Re)conceptualizing Roma Resistance, Hellerau, Dresden, Germany
Safe European Home?, Art Exchange Essex University, Colchester, UK
Blake's Outsiders, Worthing Museum & Art Gallery, Worthing, UK

2015

Stopping Places, Galerie Kai Dikhas, Berlin, Germany
The Invisible Faces Of Europe, Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden
Safe European Home? For Diasporas Babylonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
The Feast Wagon, The Tetley, Leeds, UK
Under Erasure - Aspects of Roma/Gipsy/Traveller Life In Europe, The Gerlesborg School of Fine Arts, Sweden
Gerlesborgsskolan Göteborg Biennial for Contemporary Art Gerlesborg, Hamburg, Germany
Gerlesborgsskolan Göteborg Biennial for Contemporary Art Gerlesborg, Stockholm, Sweden
Safe European Home? Past Present Future, Hellerau Centre for The Arts, Dresden, Germany
She's Not Pop, Art collaboration with George Mihai Vesilescu Muzeul Culturii, Romilor Bucharest, Romania
Transmitting Trauma, Galerie Kai Dikahs, Berlin, Germany
Inter Nation Art A Group Show Of Contemporary Art, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
Whose Nation? Re-imagined National Identities, Gallery8, Budapest, Hungary
Embodied Spaces, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, Netherlands
From Artificial Curiosities? To Art with Scott Benesiinaabandan, Tom Thomson, Gallery Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada
Have A Look Into My Life!, Duplex 100m2, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Third Edition Of The Project Biennial Of Contemporary Art D-0 Ark Underground, Tito's Atomic War Command
Bunker, Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Have A Look Into My Life!, HALIML, Bucharest, Romania
Love & Loss, LENTOS Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria
Portrait Of The Artist with Tara Darby, Huntergather, London, UK
Basket Case II, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
PH1 Artists, The New School House Gallery, York, UK

2014

Stopping Places, Galerie Kai Dikhas, Berlin, Germany
Grace In Thy Sight, PH1 Artists Residency, Eye of York, York, UK
Jaw Dikh!, JCC Galerie, Krakow, Poland
Akathe Te Beshen, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Basket Case II, National Gallery Of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
Have A Look Into My Life!, Mediatheque Mateo Maximoff, Paris, France
Sites Of Collective Memory, Phoenix, Leicester, UK
Navigations, Urban Dialogues, Red Gallery, London, UK
Sites Of Collective Memory, CGP, London, UK
Portrait Of The Artist, Delaine Le Bas and Tara Darby, Transition, London, UK
To Gypsyland, 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning, London, UK
Akathe Te Beshen - Heir Um Zu Bleiben, Kunststaion, Kleinassen, Germany
Have A Look Into My Life!, Stadtmuseumgraz, Graz, Austria
Safe European Home? MART, Dublin, Ireland
Tajsa, BMW, Tarnow, Poland
Have A Look Into my Life!, Aubette, Strasbourg, France
Houses as Silver as Tents, MWW, Wroclaw, Poland

2013

Safe European Home? No:5, 1. Berliner Herbstsalon, Gorki Theater, Berlin, Germany
Safe European Home? No:4 Past, Present, Future., Galerie Kai Dikhas, Berlin, Germany
Other Sisters, Dialogue with Iwona Zajac, Gdanska Galeria Miejska, Poland
Houses as Silver as Tents, Zacheta National Gallery Of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Me, You and The Others, Savoy-teatteri, Helsinki, Finland
Safe European Home? No:3, The Dandelion Project, Trane Udstillingen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Art As Action and Outside, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK
Safe European Home? No:2, CHB, Berlin, Germany
Video.Art.Activsm, Galerie Kai Dikhas, Berlin, Germany
Me, You and The Others, The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas, Tampere, Finland
Black Butterflies, The New School House Gallery, York, UK
Stopping Places II, Galerie Kai Dikhas, Berlin, Germany

2012

Roma Issue. A Project With Majority, CCA, Konin, Poland
Reclaiming Identity, Akademie Graz, Graz, Austria
Europe, Pays de Mon Enfance, Le Carreau, Cergy, France
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
Gypsy Revolution U.K, Museum of East Anglian Life, Suffolk, UK
Gypsy Revolution, Cable Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Gypsy Revolution, Kalio Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland

2011

Reconsidering Roma - Aspects of Roma and Sinti Life in Contemporary Art, Kunstquartier, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Stopping Places, Kai Dikhas, Aufbaus Haus, Berlin, Germany
Face To Face, Galerie DY's, Brussels, Germany
Safe European Home?, Into The City, Wiener Festwochen, Austria
The World Turned Upside Down In The Cathedral Of Erotic Misery (After Kurt Schwitters), Latitude Contemporary Art, Lattitude, Suffolk, UK
Wir sind Bettler, Stadtmuseum Graz, Graz, France
Ministry of Education Warning: Segregation harms you and others around you,
Ministry of Culture, Prague, Czech Republic

2010

BigMinis - Fetishes of Crisis, CAPC, Bordeaux, France
Artblitz, Transition Gallery, London, UK
The World In A Few Steps, <ROTOR>, Association For Contemporary Art, Graz, France
Whose Map Is It? New Mapping By Artists, INIVA, London, UK
Foreigners Everywhere, T293, Naples, Italy (with Claire Fontaine, Karl Holmqvist, Stephan Dillemuth and Damian Le Bas)
If Not Now, Trafo Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Prognostic Bridewell, A.P.T, London, UK

2009

Foreigners Everywhere, D’vir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (with Claire Fontaine, Karl Holmquist and Damian Le Bas)
Living Together, Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

Solo Publications

2024

Delaine Le Bas: In the forest of grief I grew into a shrub of gold, Archivist Addendum, London, UK, 2024

2023

Delaine Le Bas, Secession, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln, 2023

2011

Delaine Le Bas – Which Hunt, Chapter, Cardiff, 2011

2005

Room: Delaine le Bas, Transition Editions, London, UK, 2005

Selected Bibliography

2026

Frankel, Eddy, Cave paintings, a galleon and a wild Frenchman: London Gallery Weekend’s 10 must-see shows, theguardian.com, 3 June 2026
Five Exhibitions To See In London June In 2026, artplugged.co.uk, 1 June 2026
Linklater, Jazmine, Delaine Le Bas: Un-Fair-Ground, corridor8.co.uk, 25 February 2026
James, Johnny, Delaine Le Bas: Un-Fair-Ground at The Whitworth, creativetourist.com, 21 February 2026
Clugston, Hannah, Delaine Le Bas review – former Turner nominee delivers witches, warm welcomes – and wallpaper, theguardian.com, 16 February 2026
Bullen, Desmond, Un-Fair-Ground, Delaine Le Bas, The Whitworth, Manchester, northensoul.me.uk, 16 February 2026
Jansen, Charlotte, “We Will Not Let Them Steal Our Joy”: Inside The Beautifully Uncompromising World Of Artist Delaine Le Bas, vogue.co.uk, 9 March 2026
Silver, Hannah, Meet Delaine Le Bas, the former Turner Prize nominee with a major retrospective in Manchester, wallpaper.com, March 2026
Talbot, Lynton, Delaine Le Bas: Un-Fair-Ground, Art Monthly, No. 495, April 2026, pp. 30 -31



2024

Hallström, Sofia, Stitching Stories: Inside Delaine Le Bas World, ocula.com, 5 July 2024
Waugh, Rosemary, Unfolding: an interview with Delaine Le Bas, artuk.org, 23 August 2024
Warner, Marigold, ‘Language is a massive exclusionary tool’: Delaine Le Bas, the Turner prize nominee battling Romany discrimination, theguardian.com, 6 June 2024
Newton, Hannah, Art and Soul, metropolitan-eurostar.com, September 2024
Haworth, Lara, The World of Interiors : Double Stitch, worldofinteriors.com, 6 September 2024

Public Collections

The British Council, UK
Mucem-Musée des civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France