ISOBEL ATACUS

Lives & works in London

Studio Holder at ACME Walthamstow

PhD King’s College London and Slade School of Fine Art, UCL

isobel.atacus@gmail.com

CURRENT AND UPCOMING

So Where Do We Go From Here? | Bell House, Dulwich

Call Incoming | Hypha HQ, 286 Euston Road

Show Garden | Rowditch Lane, Battersea

Casino Avenue | Wrong Wrong #27: Avenidas | Lisbon, PT

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

There but for the | Zaratan-Arte Contemporânea | Lisbon, PT | 2025

Undercover reach | The Argo Annex | Athens, GR | 2025

only if | Zaratan-Arte Contemporânea | Lisbon, PT | 2019


AWARDS/ RESIDENCIES/GRANTS

PADA 60 | Barreiro, PT | 2026

The Argo Annex | Invited Artist Residency | Athens, GR | 2025


Bow Arts × ha.lf | 125 Shaftesbury Ave, UK | 2024


AHRI Research Grant | King’s College London, UK | 2019

AZAN | Mira-Sintra de Meleças, PT | 2022


Gulbenkian Award | Lisbon, PT | 2020

Longlisted for Ivan Juritz Award | King’s College London, UK | 2017


Zaratan-Arte Contemporânea | AIR | Lisbon, PT | 2016

TEXT/PUBLICATIONS/TALKS

Figs and Figments | Forthcoming Publication, Edition of 30 | Printed by Good Press Glasgow

Expanded Expansive: A Fluctuation of Parts | PhD thesis | 2026

Hi Vis | Artist Talk | Finch Gallery, UK | 2025

Artist Talk | Chaired by Paul Carey-Kent | ACME Studios, UK | 2025

Sometimes when | Exhibition and performance | Curated by Anna Choutova | St. Margaret’s House, UK | 2025

Eva Hesse: Imagining the Unruly | Feminist Lecture Programme, UK | 2024


Stuffness and Nothings: Reading Eva Hesse through Julia Kristeva | French Studies Bulletin, Oxford University Press, UK | 2024

Folding and Layering and Stacking then starting again | DLLRC World making conference | King’s College London, UK | 2023

Smoked Paprika | COPY II | Berlin, DE | 2023

Concatenation | Performance Lecture | King’s College London, UK | 2022

Moon | Nottingham Poetry Exchange, UK | 2021

Conscious Isolation Project | Royal College of Art, UK | 2021

No wonder, you sense mysteriousness | Interview and online exhibition | Goldmali Gallery | Amsterdam, NL | 2021

The summer I refused to shower | Sunday Story | Vol. 1 Brooklyn, US | 2020

Sunburn on the moon | Visual Essay | Wrong Wrong #17: Vertigo, Lisbon, PT | 2019

Foi, começou, foi | Visual Essay | Wrong Wrong #15: Année érotique | Lisbon, PT | 2019

Trespass: Etant donnés | Writing Modernism Conference | Nottingham University, UK | 2019

Love letter, or Glass | Publication & Performance | INLAND at The Poetry Society, UK | 2018

I like where your head is at | In conversation with Eloisa Ejarque | Lisbon, PT | 2016

Writing has also appeared in The Beano, Good Press, INLAND, MadSwirl, Revista Decadente, The Big Other, Water-Sound-City

I am a regular performer at Nose Blind and Humming, organised by Benjamin Arthur Brown

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Cheapside | Curated by Rachel Mortlock and India Stanbra | Gallery 1 Poultry, Cheapside, UK | 2025

CARPOOL | the icing room | Sainsbury’s Car Park, New Cross Gate, UK | 2025

Fandom | Bad Art Presents | London Art Services, UK | 2025

The Wicker Arms | Curated by the icing room and ha.lf | Staffordshire Street, UK | 2025

Nose Blind and Humming: A Dire Tribe | San Mei Gallery, UK | 2025

All Mouth No Trousers | the icing room | Three Rooms, UK | 2025

Clinging On | Curated by Poppy Whatmore and Erika Trotzig | twoplustwo gallery, UK | 2025

The Floor is Lava | Curated by Rachel Mortlock. Janek Nixon & India Stanbra | 125 Shaftesbury Avenue, Bow Arts, UK | 2024

Take a Seat | Curated by ha.lf | 125 Shaftesbury Avenue, Bow Arts, UK | 2024

A Personal Treasure | Bow Open x Lindsey Mendick | Nunnery Gallery, UK | 2024


Wind Drift | Filet Space, UK | 2024

Artworks Open | Selected by Louise Ashcroft & Jasleen Kaur | Barbican Arts Group Trust, UK | 2023

Undercover Open | Three person Exhibition | Solar dos Zagallos, Almada, PT | 2023

Amethyst Deceiver | Atelier Concorde, Lisbon, PT | 2023

ant. | Muddy Yard | Billboard in Clapham, UK | 2020

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TEACHING/MENTORING

Sculptor Tutor | City Lit London, UK | 2025 - present

Tutor | Laboratorio Em Obras | Zaratan-Arte Contemporânea, PT | 2020-2023

Creative workshops and community focused events | HYPHA Studios, UK | 2023

Mentor | AIR programme | Zaratan-Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, PT | 2020 - 2022   

Mentor for Residency Programme | MOONGAZING | run by the icing room, UK | 2021

Mentor | GROUNDWORK | Invited by Marion Tu (AltMFA) | Paris, FR | 2017 -2018   

CURATORIAL

the icing room @the_icing_room

COLLECTIONS

Zaratan-Arte Contemporânea | Lisbon, PT