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