Born 1977 in London, United Kingdom.
Lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.

Selected Press

Glean, The Artist’s Library: Olivia Plender, Els Roelandt, 12 December 2023
FriezeWhat to See in Europe this Autumn, 3 October 2022
Art Monthly
, Rethinking History, Laura Guy, No. 460, October 2022
(interview and front cover)
Frieze
, Olivia Plender Returns to Socialism’s Feminist Past, Hettie Judah, 26 September 2022
Artforum
, “Must See”, Olivia Plender, 10 August 2022
Elephant Magazine
, 2016
this is tomorrow, September 2016
Mousse Magazine, September 2016
Time Out, August 2016

Solo Exhibitions

2023

Hag Nag Harpy Hen, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden

2022

Our Bodies are Not the Problem, Maureen Paley, London, UK
Neither Strivers Nor Skivers, They Will Not Define Us, Amant Foundation, Brooklyn, New York, USA

2021

Neither Strivers Nor Skivers, They Will Not Define Us, The Bower, London, UK (C)
Social Construction, Portal, Södertälje Konsthall, Sweden

2019

Practicing Politics: The Fogelstad Women’s Citizenship School 1922–1954, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

2016

Maureen Paley, London, UK

2015

Many Maids Make Much Noise, ar/ge kunst, Bolzano, Italy

2012

Rise Early, Be Industrious, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
Rise Early, Be Industrious, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
Rise Early, Be Industrious, CCA, Glasgow

2009

Aadieu, Adieu Apa (Goodbye, Goodbye Father), Gasworks, London
Olivia Plender, Kiosk, Ghent

2008

Monitor, Art in General, New York

2007

Information, Education, Entertainment, Marabou Parken Annex, Stockholm

2006

The Folly of Man Exposed or the World Turned Upside Down, Frankfurter Kunstverein Frankfurt

2005

The Medium and Daybreak Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK

Public Art Commissions

2024

Public Art Agency Sweden, Statens Konstråd, Stockholm, Sweden
Memorial for Sylvia Pankhurst, (Presented as part of You Belong Here), Southbank Centre, London, UK

2020

Public Art Agency Sweden, Statens Konstråd, Falkenbergs Kommun, Stockholm, Sweden

2017

Bristol City Council/ Foreground, permanent artwork for Easton CE primary School. Bristol, UK
Gävle Kommun/ Gävle Konstcentrum, permanent artwork for Vallbacksskolan, Gävle, Sweden

Group Exhibitions

2025

Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry, Sharjah, UAE

2024

Lokal Flora, Södertälje Konsthall, Södertälje, Sweden
Chronos: health, access and intimacy, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden (Participating Artist & Curator)

2023

Primary Forms, an exhibition in primary schools curated by the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
The Living House, Van Gogh House, London, UK
The TV Trampoline: From Children’s Television to Contemporary Art and Literature, Norrtälje konsthall, Sweden, travelling to: Konstmuseet i Norr, Kiruna, Sweden
Spring Never Comes Again: Art and Education in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland

2022

Dissolution to Evolution, Glastonbury Abbey, Glastonbury, UK
First Person, Third Person, Same Person, Amant Foundation, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Not Without My Ghosts, Hayward Gallery Touring, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales, UK
The Art of Teaching and Learning. A School of Creators, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
The TV Trampoline: From Children's Television to Contemporary Art and Literature, Kalmar Konstmuseum; Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
59th October Salon, Belgrade Biennale, Belgrade, Serbia

2021

Though it’s dark, still I sing, 34th Bienal de São Paulo 2021, São Paulo, Brazil (C)
Life Support, Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow (C)
(in) visible, Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, Sweden
The TV Trampoline: From Children's Television to Contemporary Art and Literature, Fabrika CCI, Moscow, Russia

2020

Artissima, Fondazione Torino Musei, Torino, Italy
Not Without My Ghosts, Drawing Room, London, touring: The Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK; Sheffield Museum, Sheffield, UK; Glynn Vivian Swansea, Swansea, UK

2019

At the Gates, La Criée Contemporary Art Center, Rennes, France, Toured from Talbot Rice Gallery
Idiorhythmias: A programme of performances, music, poetry, laboratory and text, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain

2018

The Expanded Field, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Ireland
At the Gates, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, UK, touring to La Criée Centre d’Art Contemporain, Rennes, France
Under Pressure – On Forms of Authority and Decision-Making Power, frei_raum Q21 exhibition space, Vienna, Austria
Hope is Strong, Millenium Gallery, Sheffield, UK

2017

Where do I end and you begin – On Secularity, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art 2017, Gothenburg, Sweden
BAHAR, The Istanbul Off-Site Project for Sharjah Biennial 13, 13.Sharjah Bienali Istanbul Ayaĝi, Istanbul, Turkey

2016

Meaning Making Meaning, Valand Academy, Gothenburg, Sweden

2015

Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, curated by Lars Bang Larsen and Marco Pasi, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
6th Nouveau festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Many Maids Make Much Noise, Mercer Union, Toronto (public art commission)
Nascent States, Waterside Contemporary, London

2014

El Teatro Del Mundo, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
L’Heure des sorcières, Le Quartier: Centre D’art Contemporain De Quimper, France
Une machine désire de l’instruction comme un jardin desire de la discipline, FRAC, Lorraine, Metz, France
The Crime was Almost Perfect, Witte de With, Netherlands
Escapes: Fiction as Rigour, Fabra i Coats Centre d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona
DEAR READER, an exhibition curated by Book Works at Idea Store Whitechapel, London
The Nuisance of Landscape, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria, UK

2013

Spotlight: Sylvia Pankhurst, Tate Britain, London, UK (curatorial project)
The Nordic Model, Malmö Art Museum, Sweden
Arbeidstid, Henie Onstad, Oslo, Norway
E as in Invisible, E as in Invincible, E as in Disappear, Signal, Malmö, Sweden
Momentous Times, CCA Derry/ London Derry, Northern Ireland
Points of Departure, Al Mahatta, Ramallah and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
The Mental Furniture Industry, Flat Time House, London (with Patrick Staff)
Une machine désire de l’instruction comme un jardin desire de la discipline, MARCO, Vigo, Spain
Berlin Senat Arbeitsstipendium Austellung, NGBK, Berlin, Germany
Critique and Crises / Spectres of the Future, Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin, Germany
Bodies that Matter, Galeri Mana, Istanbul, Turkey
Oracular / Vernacular, Mamo centre d’art de la Cité Radieuse, Marseille, France
Show Off, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden and Point Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus
Plus ou moins sorcières 2/3 : Épreuves ritualisées, Maison Populaire, Paris, France
Shaped by Time/ Skabt af tiden, Danish National Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Reflexion und Einfühlung, KAI10,/ Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany
Summerland, CCS Bard, New York, US

2011

Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone, curated by Andrea Schlieker
British Art Show 7, Hayward Gallery, London and CCA, Glasgow, UK
El Grito, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), Leon, Spain
Terms of Belonging, Overgaden, Copenhagen, Denmark
No Man’s Land?/ Tierra de Nadie, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria, Spain
Nordic Art Today: conceptual debts, broken dreams, new horizons, St Petersburg, Russia (with Unnar Örn)
Rehearsing Collectivity: Choreography Beyond Dance, Tanzfabrik, Berlin
Folk Variations, Radar, Loughborough University, UK
Nothing in the World but Youth, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
Acts of Refusal, ART IST KUKU NU UT Arts Festival, Tartu, Estonia

2010

Taipei Biennial, Taipei curated by Tirdad Zolghadr and Hongjohn Lin
Bucharest Biennial,curated by Felix Vogel, Bucharest, Romania
British Art Show 7, Nottingham Contemporary, UK (Hayward Touring Show)
Manifesta 8, Murcea, Spain (catalogue project)
Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon – 4th Auckland Triennial, Auckland, New Zealand
Newspeak: British Art Now Part II, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Perform a Lecture, The Office, Berlin,Germany
Neither From Nor Towards, Art Pavilion, Zagreb, Croatia
Fall Out, Kunsthalle Gl. Holtegaard in Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
There is No Alternative, Konsthalle C and Romanian Cultural Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (as curator)
Out of the Archives, The Womens Library, London, UK
Fourteen Interventions, Swedenborg Society, London
Whitstable Biennial, Whitstable, UK
Fall Studie, HFBK, Dresden, Germany

2009

Altermodern: Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London, UK
The Malady of Writing, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
Critical Applause, CCA Glasgow, UK
Notes from the Living Dead Museum, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Island
Desiring Necessities, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK
Practical Truths, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK
Poetry Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

2008

The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art, Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard, New York, USA
Algulhas Negras, Centro Cultural, Sao Paolo, Brazil
The Great Transformation, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; touring to MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain
Not Quite How I Remember It, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Bending the Word, Matrix Gallery, UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, USA
Moot Points, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Disclosures II: The Middles Ages; Nottingham Castle Museum/ Laxton Village, UK
TINA, The Drawing Room, London, touring to Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, UK (as curator)
I Desired What You Were, I Need What You Are, Maze, Turin, Italy
Legend, curated by Alexis Vaillant, Domaine Departemental de Chamarande, Paris, France

2007

Art Now Live, Tate Britain, London, UK
Athens Biennial: How to Endure, Athens, Greece
Moscow Biennial: Left Pop, Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Le Truc, The Project, Dublin, Ireland
Mystic Truths, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Cult Fiction, New Art Gallery Walsall, UK (Hayward Touring Show)

2006

Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London, UK
Busan Biennial, Busan, South Korea
2nd International Biennial of Young Artists, Bucharest, Romania
Becks Futures, ICA, London; touring to Arnolfini, Bristol and CCA, Glasgow, UK
Slowly Learning to Survive the Desire to Simplify, Iaspis, Stockholm, Sweden (commission)
In Search of the New Republic (or the Tables Turned), Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Radio Gallery, curated by Anna Colin, Resonance FM, London, UK
Transcommunication Lab, curated by Electra/ Carl Michael Von Hauswolf, London, UK
Le Retour de la Colonne Durutti, Isabella Bortolozzi Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Shaking Smooth Spaces, La Generale, Paris, France

2005

BMW: 1X Baltic Triennial of International Art, CAC, Vilnius
Paris-Londres: Le Voyage Interieur, curated by Alex Farquharson and Alexis Vaillant, Espace Electra, Paris, France
A Press Conference with Ken Russell, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
A Public Meeting to Address the Phenomenon of Materialization, Man in the Holocene, London, UK
Publish and be Damned, The Crypt, London, UK
On the Way to the Peak of Normal, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Coniston Water Festival, Grizedale Arts, Cumbria,UK
Dance of the Seven Veils, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, UK

2004

Romantic Detachment, PS1/ MoMA, New York, USA
East End Academy, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
For Example, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Publish and Be Damned, Cubitt Gallery/ The Crypt, London, UK
Trailer, Man in the Holocene, London, UK

2001

Department, The Changing Room Gallery, Stirling, Scotland, UK

Awards / Residencies / Academic

2024

Artist in Residence – Van Gogh House, London, UK

2022

Konstnärsnämnden – International Cultural Exchange and Travel Grant

2021

Konstnärsnämnden – arbets stipendium

Konstnärsnämnden – International Cultural Exchange and Travel Grant

2018

Konstnärsnämnden – Arbetsstipendium, Working Grant

2017

Konstnärsnämnden/ IASPIS - International Cultural Exchange and Travel Grant

2013

Lead Faculty/ artist in residence – Society is a Workshop: Banff Centre, Canada

2012

Arbeitsstipendium Bildende Kunst des Landes Berlin
Arts Council England – Research and Development Grant
Doctoral position – Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden
Points of Departure residency, Art School Palestine/ Delfina Foundation, Ramallah

2010

Roberto Cimetta Fund – travel grant
Lead Faculty/ artist in residence – Beyond Former Heaven: Banff Centre, Canada

2009

Arts Council England – Research and Development Grant
Shatana International Workshop, Jordan

2008

Algulhas Negras – Goethe-Institut, Centro Cultural, FAAP, São Paulo, Brazil
Artist in Residence – Cove Park, UK
Artist in Residence – Art in General, New York, USA

2007

British Council – Award for Artist Exhibiting Abroad
Artist in Residence – Iaspis international studio programme, Stockholm, Sweden
Artist in Residence – University of Oxford, St. John’s College, UK
ELAM Artist in Residence – University of Auckland, New Zealand

2006

Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Arts
Arts Council London – Research and Development Grant
British Council – Award for Artist Exhibiting Abroad

2005

Artist in Residence – El Basilisco, Buenos Aires, Argentina/ Triangle Arts Trust

2004

Arts Council London – Research and Development Grant
Visual Research Fellow – Dundee Contemporary Arts/ University of Dundee, UK
Artist in Residence – Grizedale Arts, Cumbria, UK

2001

London Arts – Individual Artist Award
British Council – Award for Artist Exhibiting Abroad

Selected Events, Talks, Screenings and Interviews

2022

Talk: Olivia Plender and Ciprian Mureşan in conversation at Drawing Room, London, 15 November 2022
Learnshop: Reading Sylvia Pankhurst, First Person, Third Person, Same Person, Amant Foundation, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Screening: “Hold Hold Fire” (2019),  First Person, Third Person, Same Person, Amant Foundation, Brooklyn, New York, USA

2019

Interview: Sound excerpts taken from Olivia Plender’s work “Learning to speak sense” (2016), Radio Web MACBA, Barcelona, Spain, 30 July 2019
Screening and Discussion: Olivia Plender in Conversation with Hannah Zafiropoulos, Tensta Konsthall, Spanga, Stockholm, Sweden
Talk: Olivia Plender and Ed Webb-Ingall, ICA, London, 11 January 2019.
Performance: Idiorhythmias: A programme of performances, music, poetry, laboratory, and text. MACBA, Barcelona, 4 May 2019.

2016

Index 19: Olivia Plender, RISE EARLY, BE INDUSTRIOUS, Index, The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden, 12 October 2016.

Solo Publications

2023

The Falkenberg Encyclopaedia, published by Rian konst, Falkenberg

2021

Neither Strivers Nor Skivers, published by The Bower and Design Print Bind, London

2016

Rise Early, Be Industrious, published by Sternberg Press

2013

Green Lines, published by Pork Salad Press

2011

Are Dreams Hallucinations During Sleep or Hallucinations Waking Dreams? Creative Foundation

2008

Bring Back Robin Hood: Notes on an Imagined Community, Transmission Gallery
Spirit Swindlers, Matrix Gallery, UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive

2007

A Stellar Key to the Summerland, published by Bookworks

2006

The Masterpiece, Part 5: The Road to Ruin, published by Institute of Contemporary Arts

2005

The Masterpiece, Part 4: Evil Genius, published by Castlefield Gallery

2004

The Masterpiece, Part 3: Evil Genius, published by Grizedale Arts
The Masterpiece, Part 2: Birth of a Genius, published by Millimetre.org/ Whitechapel Gallery

2003

The Masterpiece, Part 1: Strange Adventures, published by Millimetre.org

Selected Bibliography

2023

Roelandt, Els, The Artist’s Library: Olivia Plender, archief.glean.art, 12 December 2023; in print: GLEAN ENG, Issue 2, Winter 2023, pp. 122-129
Judah, Hettie, Olivia Plender: Maureen Paley, London, UK, Frieze, Issue 232, January / February 2023, p. 130
Plender, Olivia, Monica Sjöö, The Great Cosmic Mother (contributing author), eds. Widoff, Jo; Budd, Amy, Exhibition Catalogue: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2023

2022

Jeffreys, Tom, Olivia Plender’s “Our Bodies are Not the Problem”, art-agenda.com, 4 November 2022
Plender, Olivia, Animal Kingdom, Old&Bild Magazine, Sweden, Issue 2-3, 2022
–––, Olivia Plender “Our Bodies are Not the Problem” at Maureen Paley, London, moussemagazine.it, 15 October 2022
Roberts-Komireddi, Cleo, What to see in London this week, artbasel.com, 10 October 2022
Durrant, Nancy, Frieze for free? The best art fair exhibitions to see at London’s galleries, standard.co.uk, 7 October 2022
–––, What to see in Europe this Autumn, frieze.com, 3 October 2022
Guy, Laura; Plender, Olivia, Rethinking History, Art Monthly, No. 460, October 2022, pp. 1-4 (interview and front cover)
Judah, Hettie, Olivia Plender Returns to Socialism’s Feminist Past, frieze.com, 26 September 2022
–––, Must See, Olivia Plender, artforum.com, 10 August 2022
Featherstone, Liza, The Working-Class Suffragettes Must Not Be Forgotten, jacobin.com, 14 June 2022
Plender, Olivia, The History of the Animal Kingdom, Ord & Bild Magazine, Issue 2-3 2022

2021

–––, São Paulo Bienal Announces Artist List, artforum.com, 27 May 2021

2020

Glen, Colin, Not Without My Ghosts, Art Monthly, No. 440, October
Jones, Jonathan, Not Without My Ghosts, The Guardian, 10 Sept
Ruigrok, Sophie, When the medium is the messenger – the art of communicating with spirits, apollo-magazine.com, 20 April 2020
Spicer, Emily, Not Without My Ghosts, Studio International, 22 October 2020
Vertua, Simone, Artissima XYZ: The New Digital Platform of Artissima Intl. Fair of Contemporary Art, lofficielusa.com, 19 October 2020
Walsh, Maria, Brunswick Park Film Festival, Art Monthly, No. 440, October

2019

Ryan Hughes, The Lie of the Land, thisistomorrow.info, 9 May 2019
Harriet Thorpe, Architects 6a reveal new MK Gallery design in Milton Keynes, wallpaper.com, 7 March 2019

2018

Dunne, Aidan, Five of the best art shows to see this week, irishtimes.com, 14 July 2018
Stephen, Phyllis, At Talbot Rice – Tremble Tremble, Jesse Jones and At the Gates, theedinburghreporter.co.uk, 26 October 2018

2016

Fattori Franchini, Attilia, Reviews: Olivia Plender, Flash Art, November / December 2016, pp.110-111.
Artrabbit.com, 2 September, “Exhibition – Olivia Plender”
Artnet.com, 8 September, “Olivia Plender”
Artupdate, 25 August “Olivia Plender at Maureen Paley”
Don’t Panic, 9 September, “Olivia Plender – Maureen Paley”
Elephantmag.com, 12 September “5 Questions with Olivia Plender”, Emily Steer
GalleriesNow.net, 9 September,“Olivia Plender”
The Guardian Guide, 10 September,“Exhibitions Olivia Plender”, p.27.
MousseMagazine.it, 17 September,“Olivia Plender at Maureen Paley”(installation imges)
re-title.com, 9 September, “Maureen Paley Presents Olivia Plender”
The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, Annabella Pollen, published by Donlon Books atpdiary.com, Elena Bordignon, interview
Time Out, 30 August “Olivia Plender”, Amanda Pellerin

2015

–––, edited by Matt Keegan, ‘Building Blocks as Tall as Buildings: Artists working with Early Child Pedagogy’, Anna Craycroft, published by Capricious
Learning and Playing: Re-eacting Feminist Histories, text by Catherine Grant, in Feminist Art Histories: Renewing Radical Critiques of Theory and Practice, published by IB Tauris, and edited by Victoria Horne and Lara Perry

2014

Institutional Dissonance: Tate Britain, BP and socialist feminist history, Victoria Horne, Radical Philosophy 186, Jul/ Aug 2014

2013

Art Forum, Sept, ‘Review: Arbeidstid’, Johanne Nordby Werno
Art Forum, May, ‘Preview: Arbeidstid’, Ina Blom
KunstKritikk.no, May, ‘Arbeidstid’, Maria Horvei
Vitamin D2, ‘Olivia Plender’, David Trigg, published by Phaidon
Mousse Magazine, No 38 April, Alternative Systems: Olivia Plender and Patrick Staff
Frieze, Issue 155, May 2013, ‘Studio Spaces’, Maeve Connoly
Some Instructions, artists project, The Believer, Nov/ Dec

2012

Art Forum Critics Picks, Aug, ‘Olivia Plender’, Natasha Degen
Art Monthly, Sept, ‘Olivia Plender: Rise Early Be Industrious’, Laura Allsop
The Art of Camping, Matthew De Abaitua, p.117 – 118, Published by Penguin

2011

Art Forum, Sept, ‘Olivia Plender’, Brian Dillon
Frieze, Issue 143 Nov – Dec, ‘Folkestone Triennial’, Colin Perry
Tate Etc, Issue 23, Autumn, ‘A Graphic Wake Up Call’, Vincent Katz
Art Monthly, Sept, ‘Folkestone Triennial’, David Trigg
Art Forum Critics Picks, ‘Terms of Belonging’, Stephen Squibb
Time Out, Mar 3 – 9, ‘British Art Show’, Ossian Ward
KunstKritikk.no, ‘Terms of Belonging’, Jacob Lillemose

2010

Creamier, Tirdad Zolghadr, published by Phaidon
Histories of the Present, published by Nottingham Contemporary
Frieze, Issue 137 Jan – Feb, ‘7th Taipei Biennial’, Christy Lange and Simon Rees
Frieze, Issue 137 Jan – Feb, ‘British Art Show 7’, Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith
Time Out, Nov 5, British Art Now’, Helen Sumpter
Telegraph, 26/10 ‘British Art Show/ Newspeak 2’, Richard Dorment
Observer, 31/10, ‘British Art Now’, Laura Cumming
C Magazine, Issue 108 Winter, ‘Economies of Faith’, Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens
Art Monthly, April. ‘Swedenborg House: 14 interventions’, Peter Suchin
Frieze.com, June, ‘Bucharest Biennial’, Richard Unwin
Paletten, November, ‘Olivia Plender’ by Johan Deurell

2009

A Prior Magazine, Belgium, special issue on Olivia Plender
Grizedale Arts: Adding Complexity to Confusion, Jonathan Griffin and Adam Sutherland, published by Grizedale Arts
Art and Text, Black dog publishing
Shedhalle Newspaper, Commentary: personal Translations, Olivia Plender
Frieze Magazine, Issue 128 January – Feb 2010, ‘Auckland and Sydney 2010’, Nicola Harvey
Art Forum online, 13 October, ‘Olivia Plender’, critics picks, Steven Cairns
Time Out, 22 – 28 October, ‘Olivia Plender’, Sally O’Reilly
Metropolis M, ‘Games’, No.5 2009
Guardian Guide, ‘Practical Truths’, 22-28 Sept, Robert Clark
Flash Art, July – Sept, ‘Olivia Plender: I’ll give you television’, interview, Robert Stasinski
Frieze, Issue 124 June, ‘Olivia Plender’, Melissa Gronlund
Frieze, Issue 121 March, commissioned artists project
Frieze, Jan-Feb, ‘TINA’, Chris Fite-Wassilak
Art Monthly, March, ‘Tate Triennial’, Colin Perry
The Independent, 6 Feb, ‘No Sharks Here…’, Tom Lubbock
Time Out, Feb 12 – 18, ‘Tate Triennial’, Ossian Ward
The Telegraph, 2 Feb ‘Altermodern- Tate Triennial’, Richard Dorment
The Observer, 8 Feb ‘Altermodern- Tate Triennial’, Laura Cumming
The Guardian, 3 Feb ‘Altermodern- Tate Triennial, Adrian Searle

2008

Flash Art, October, Focus London – artists dictionary
Art Review, December
Time Out, Oct 30 – Nov 5, In The Studio, Helen Sumpter
TimeOut, 23-29 Oct, ‘Artists Under 40’
Map Magazine, Issue 16 Winter, TINA, Isla Leaver-Yap
The Guardian Guide, Oct 4- 10, ‘TINA’, Jessica Lack
The Guardian, Artist of the Week’, Jessica Lack
After Image 36 3, Not Quite How I Remember It, William V. Ganis
Canadian Art, July 10, Not Quite How I Remember It, Bryan Mclaughlin
Toronto Life, June, Not Quite How I Remember It, David Balzer
Eye (Canada), June 19, Not Quite How I Remember It, David Balzer
Modern Painters, July/ August, Preview: Not Quite How I Remember It
Hjarnstorm Magazine (Sweden), artists project
Pazmaker no. 5 (mexico), Enfant terrible/ Ken Russell in conversation with Olivia Plender
Map Magazine 15, The Great Transformation, Michael Krajewski
Der Volkskrant, The Great Transformation, 17 July, Domeniek Ruyters
Kultur magazine, The Great Transformation, June
Art Forum, Preview: The Great Transformation, May, Brigitte Weingart
Exit Express (Spain), The Great Transformation, Nov, Pedro de Llano

2007

Our Comic Book, edited by Mel Brimfield, published by Revolver
Frieze.com, “Olivia Plender”, December, Stellar d’Ailly,
24 hour interview Marathon, Serpentine Gallery publication, Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Time Out, “A Stellar Key to the Summerland”, Dec 19, Gabriel Coxhead
The Observer, 25 November, “Heading for the Top”
Svenska Dagbladet, “Olivia Plender”, 27 October, Thomas Olsson
Stockholm City, “Olivia Plender”, 19 October, Lina Wennersten
Pavilion Magazine/ What Was Socialism and What Comes Next? October, Published by Bucharest Biennale (artists Project)
Art Monthly, October, “Art Now Live”, Rikke Hansen
Art Monthly, July-August, “Cult Fiction: Art and Comics”, Matt Price
New Zealand Herald – Time Out, 28 June “My Big Week: Olivia Plender”
Art Monthly Australia, November, Mystic Truths, John Hurrell

2006

Map Magazine, Winter 2006, “Bucharest Absent Without Leave”, Duncan Mclaren
The Independent, 10 Nov 2006, “Award…”, Arifa Akbar
Teme Celeste Sept/ Oct, “Olivia Plender – interview”, Aura Satz
Flash Art October, “Focus London”, Eliza Williams
Time Out Magazine August 16-23, “Harold Offeh: Mothership Collective”, Helen Sumpter
The Guardian Guide, 29 July, “Publish and Be Damned” Jessica Lack LA weekly, “Art Pick: Flip”, 19 July, Melissa Lo
Time Out Magazine August 2-9, “Serpentine Interview Marathon”, Helen Sumpter
Time Out Magazine August 2-9, “Anna Colin: Radio Gallery”, Helen Sumpter
Frieze, Issue 100, June-Aug, “Periodical Table (Part 3)”, survey
Frieze, Issue 100, June-Aug, “Goshka Macuga”, Jonathan Griffin
Particules No 14, April/ May, Anna Colin
Art Forum, April, “Olivia Plender: Top Ten”
Evening Standard, 28 March, “Becks Futures”, Tom Teodorczuk
The Independent, 31 March, “Becks Futures”, Sue Hubbard
The Sunday Times, 2 April, “Becks Futures” Waldemar Januszczak
The Daily Telegraph, 4 April, “Becks Futures” Serena Davies
The Guardian, 4 April, “Becks Futures”, Adrian Searle
The Herald, 10 April, “Becks Futures”, Moira Jeffrey
Financial Times, “Drawing, Crossing the Line” Gabriel Coxhead
Dazed and Confused, April, “Olivia Plender”, Iphgenia Baal
Art Monthly, February, “Le Voyage Interieur”, Mark Wilsher
Frieze, Issue 96, Jan, “Olivia Plender” Romilly Eveleigh

2005

Art Review, November 2005, Lupe Nunez-Fernandez
Frieze, Issue 95, Nov 2005, “Coniston Water Festival”, Sally O’Reilly
Frieze, Issue 94, Oct 2005, “Publish and Be Damned”, Jennifer Higgie
Flash Art online, September 2005, Coniston Water Festival, Aaron Moulton
The Guardian, 1 Oct, “Old Devil”, Stephen Armstrong
The Guardian Guide, 8 Oct, Robert Clark
The Guardian Guide, 30 July, Jessica Lack
The Guardian G2, Pick of the Week, 23 May, Jessica Lack
Arena Magazine, March, ‘I wanna buy some art’, Tom Morton

2004

Put About: a Critical Anthology on Independent Publishing, a Bookworks publication, edited by
Maria Fusco with Ian Hunt
The Guardian G2, 4 Oct, ‘Pick of the Week’, Craig Burnett
Art Monthly, July/ August “East End Academy”, Jennifer Thatcher
Arena, August “The Big Draw”, Tom Morton
The Guardian, 14 June “East End Academy”, Jessica Lack
Time Out, 9-16 June “East End Academy”, Martin Coomer
The Guardian Weekend, 5 June “E is for Art”, Caroline Roux
The Observer Review, 20 June “East End Academy”, Oliver Bennet
The Times, 16 June “A Little of What You’ll Fancy”, Rachel Campbell Johnston
The Guardian Guide, 17-23 April “Like Beads on An Abacus…”, Jessica Lack
The Guardian, 26 April “Like Beads on An Abacus…”, Jessica Lack
Art Monthly, May “Anyway”, Bruce Haines
Arena, January, “Portrait of the Artist…”, Tom Morton
Slim Volume, edited and published by Andrew Hunt

2003

Anyway published by Alberta Press
Happy Pappy published by Milch Gallery

2002

Aleksandra Mir’s Daily News, published by Gavin Brown’s Enterprise and Greengrassi

2001

The Wire, May, “Department”
Art Review, May, “Department”, Elizabeth Mahoney

Collections

Arts Council Collection, London, UK
Tate Collection, London, UK
Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden