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CURRENT​​​​​​

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Remote Control, solo exhibition, MATTA, Milan (IT)

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Participating artist in the Wysing Arts Centre 2026-27 residency programme

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UPCOMING​

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December 2026: Art Now solo exhibition, Tate Britain, London (UK)

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EDUCATION

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2017- 2021            Royal Academy Schools, Postgraduate Diploma Fine Art, London

2013-2016             The Glasgow School of Art, Bachelor (hons) Fine Art - Painting and Printmaking, Glasgow 

2012-2013             Kunstskolen Spektrum, with Ingela Skytte and Thomas Skytte, Copenhagen

2008                       UCLA Photography Summer Session with Whitney Hubbs, Michael Dopp, Matt Lipps, Los Angeles​​​​​​​​

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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2026

Polyrhythms and Multigrain Vibrations, Mark Tanner Sculpture Award Exhibition, Standpoint Gallery, London (UK)

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2024

Everything Reacts, Strange Cargo, Folkestone (UK)

Fishphonics: Accelerando, MATTA, Milan (IT)

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2023

Organic Behaviour, LAMB Gallery, London (UK)

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2022

Fool me, fool me, Incubator22, London (UK)

Tomato Potato, Quench Gallery, Margate (UK)

Prickly Tunes, UK Mexican Art Society, London (UK)

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2019

Lapdog Tabernam, URBANEK, London (UK)

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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2025

Moby Dick – The Whale. The Story of a Myth from Antiquity to Contemporary Art, Palazzo Ducale, Genova (IT)

Sculptural Dreams of a Summer Night, Guanajata Museum of Art and History, León (MEX)

Bergen Assembly: across, with, nearby, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (NO)

The Pastry Show, Dagnino, Rome (IT)

RISSA, MATTA, Milan (IT)

Vulcana, Stromboli (IT)

Basel Social Club with MATTA, Basel (CH)

Mecánicas Vegetal Vol. 7: Aproximaciones Matericas dentro de una Fábrica, guadalajara90210 & Espacio Báltico,

Mexico City (MEX)​​

Relish, BOTH Gallery, London (UK)

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2024

Mind to Hand, Incubator, London (UK)

Cycles, Van Gogh House, London (UK)

Dispatches, Sans Titre, Paris (FR)

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2023

ACS Studio Prize 2023, Gurr Johns, London (UK)

Still Life / Still Living, Palma, LAMB Gallery and Olhão, São Paulo (BR)

Just Like That, Coleman Projects, London (UK)

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2022

Summer Exhibition (invited artist), Royal Academy of Art, London (UK)

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2021

Ingram Prize 2021, Unit1 Gallery, London (UK)

Sorry it's a mess - We've just moved in, LAMB Gallery, London (UK)                               

Tomorrow: London, White Cube, online viewing rooms

RA Schools Show 2020x1, Royal Academy of Art, London (UK)

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2020, South London Gallery (UK)

 

2020                             

The Weight of Delusions, New Contemporaries Digital Residency online 

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2019

Making a Mark, The Store, Dulwich College, London (UK)

Between Eyes and Sunrise, PuntWG, Amsterdam (NL)

Premiums: Interim Projects 2019, Royal Academy of Art, London (UK)                           

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2018

Fully Awake, Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London (UK)

Hidden Door 18, The Orchestra Room, Leith Theatre, Edinburgh (UK)

Honeymoon, Weston Studio, Royal Academy of Art, London (UK)                                   

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2017

Junk Ecology, Leithlate17, Trinity House underground vaults, Edinburgh (UK)

Fleming Wyfold Art Foundation presents: New Scottish Artists, DRAF - David Roberts Art Foundation, London (UK)                       

RSA: New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (UK)

Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (DK)

 

2016                   

Glasgow School of Art BA Degree Show, Tontine Building, Glasgow (UK)

 Somos(p)here, Old Hairdressers,  Glasgow (collaborative exhibition with Rodrigo Red Sandoval) (UK)          

 

2015                        

Safe and Healthy, The Mclellan Galleries, Glasgow (UK)

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GRANTS AND AWARDS

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2025 

The Mark Tanner Sculpture Award

Statens Kunstfonds Arbejdslegat / The Danish Arts Foundation Work Grant

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2024 

Statens Kunstfond / The Danish Arts Foundation 

Winner of Artissima New Entries Fund with MATTA

Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant

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2023       

Artists' Collecting Society Studio Prize 

Statens Kunstfond / The Danish Arts Foundation

Grosserer L. F. Foghts Fond

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2022

The Elephant Trust

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2021

Statens Kunstfond / The Danish Arts Foundation

Knud Højgaards Fond

Almacantar Award

Patricia Turner Prize for Sculpture

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2020

Gilbert Bayes Charitable Trust Grant for Sculptors

Erik & Susanna Olesens Almenvelgørende Fond

Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Stiftelse

Knud Hoejgaards Fond

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2019

E. Vincent Harris Award

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2017

Erik & Susanna Olesens Almenvelgørende Fond 

Augustinus Fonden

Beckett-Fonden

Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Stiftelse

Frimodt Heineke Fonden

Leithlate Award

Royal Scottish Academy Art Prize

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2016

Statens Kunstfond / The Danish Arts Foundation

Knud Højgaards Fond

Royal Scottish Academy: New Contemporaries –  Selected Artist      

Jock Macfie Prize

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SELECTED TEXTS AND ARTICLES

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Polyrhythms and Multigrain Vibrations, essay by Tim Dixon, May 2026

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Clara Hastrup: the artist wiring living systems into kinetic sculptures, by Joshua Beutum, Lampoon, April 2026

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Ipersegno altrosuono: l’estetica della collaborazione, by Mariuccia Casadio, Harper's Bazaar Italy, February 2025

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Coeval: Clara Hastrup, by Matilde Crucitti, May 2024

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Clara Hastrup “Fishphonics: Accelerando” Matta / Milano, by Tommaso Pagani, Flash Art Italy, May 2024

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