ISOBEL ATACUS
Lives & works in London
Studio Holder at ACME Walthamstow
PhD King’s College London and Slade School of Fine Art, UCL
Associate Editor, JAWS
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
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