Eva Rothschild is an Irish sculptor now living and working in London. She is interested in the transformative power of looking.
Recent solo exhibitions and public commissions have included the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, 2014, a large-scale sculpture Why Don’t You? at The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas, 2012, the film Boys and Sculpture made for The Whitechapel Gallery Children’s Commission, 2012, Hot Touch, the inaugural exhibition at The Hepworth, Wakefield which travelled to Kunstverein Hannover, Germany, in 2011, Empire, 2011, a Public Art Fund Commission in Central Park, New York and Cold Corners made in 2009 for Tate Britain’s Duveen gallery commission. Group exhibitions have included You Imagine What You Desire, Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia, 2014, We are living on a star, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway, 2014, Changing States, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2013, Making is Thinking, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2011, The Dark Monarch, Tate St Ives, St. Ives, 2009, and Un-monumental: Falling to Pieces in the 21st Century, at the New Museum, New York in 2007. Her work is included in public and private collections including Tate Britain, MoMA, New York and the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Born: 1971 in Dublin
Nationality: Irish
Elected RA: 10 December 2014
Professor of Sculpture: 2024 -
Gender: Female
Preferred media: Sculpture
2018 Iceberg Hits, Modern Art, London
2016 Alternative to Power, New Art Gallery, Walsall
A Gated Community, Sonneveld House, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2014 Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
2012 Nasher Sculpture Center, Texas, USA
2012 Boys and Sculpture, The Whitechapel Gallery Children’s Commission
2011 The Hepworth, Wakefield
Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
2011 Empire, Public Art Fund Commission, New York, USA
2009 Tate Britain
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