About
Celyn Bricker (b.1989) is a British visual artist whose work explores technology and our relationship to nature. He explores these themes across a range of media, working with AI technology as well as painting, printmaking and installation.
Celyn has shown his work widely in Europe, North America and Asia, including at Documenta 15 in Kassel. He has had his work covered in Forbes and was recently invited as a speaker to the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. Celyn is co-founder of CELU Studio, an interdisciplinary art studio that uses art to both communicate and address environmental issues. In his current work, Celyn is developing a kind of glass that can be used to prevent bird collisions with buildings; paintings that are able to remove pollution from the air, and interactive AI artworks that explore our connection with the natural world.
Education:
Ma (Hons) Fine Art, The University of Edinburgh: 1st Class Degree 2007-2012
Accademia Di Belle Arti Di Brera, Drawing and Painting; Italian Language, Milan 2009
Additional Education:
London School of Economics, Public Policy Analysis 2023
Mandarin Chinese, Peking University 2014
Mandarin Chinese, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 2009
Awards:
2012 John Kinross Scholarship to Florence
Public/National Collections:
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland
National Collection of Mexico, Mexico
Jiaotong University Collection, Shanghai, China
Residencies
2023 Art Diagonale, Austria
2023 Towards the Common Sea We Have, Taiwan
2022 Istanbul Artist Residency, Istanbul, Turkiye
2021 Blanche De Chine, Dehua, China (Postponed until 2024)
2021 Swatch Art Peace Hotel Residency, Shanghai, China
2020 ICCI Art Valley Residency, Shanghai, China
2020 Quarantine Residency (Founder/Curator)
2017 Social Sensibility at Bernard Controls Factory, Beijing, China
2012 John Kinross Scholarship, Florence, Italy
Selected Exhibitions
2023 (Dual Solo) Rays of Light, Jiushi Art Gallery, Shanghai
2022 Shared Wisdom, Palais Des Congres De Montreal, COP15, Montreal, Canada
2022 Home, Akaretler 29, Istanbul, Turkiye
2022 Asia Now, Monnaie De Paris, France
2022 DOCUMENTA 15, Hubner Areal, Kassel, Germany
2022 (Solo) The Fifth Season, SoArt, Shanghai
2021 Either/Or, Suning Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2021 (Solo) The Fifth Season, Carte Blanche, Beijing, China
2021 (Solo) Algorithmic Park, Shunluck Space, Guangzhou, China
2021 Infinite Exchange, Cubism, Shanghai
2021 Disembedding: From Digital Native to Metaverse, HOW Museum, China
2021 Unearth, Nook Gallery, Beijing, China
2021 Bioceno, El Museo De La Cancilleria, Mexico City, Mexico
2020 Enigma Between World and Me, Shunluck Space, Guangzhou, China
2020 Crossover, Xuhui Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2020 Immaterial/Rematerial: A Brief History of Computing Art, UCCA, Beijing, China
2020 Depictions of Living, The Art Pavilion, London, UK
2019 Walking in the Rhythm, RedBase Foundation, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2019 (Dual Solo) All the World Is Green, Clerkenwell Space, Beijing, China
2017 Legal Aliens, Yan Huang Museum, Beijing, China
2017 Silver, Liverpool Art Academy, Liverpool, UK
2016 Shanghai Biennale, Intra-curatorial project, Powerstation of Art, Shanghai
2016 The British Society of Self-Deprecation, Cheng Art, Beijing, China
2016 Shi Cha, Garage Art Museum, Beijing, China
2016 Vengo/Sono Tornato Dall’Italia, Zero Space, Beijing, China
2015 Reverse the Perspective, Xiangsi Art Museum, Tianjin, China
2014 Paper Manifestos, Beijing Design week, Beijing, China
2013 (Solo) La Quarta Porta, Gli Anelli Mancanti, Florence, Italy
2013 Resident 13, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK
2012 New Directions, Compass Gallery, Glasgow,
2012 Ten Thousand, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK
2011 Inside Out Edinburgh (collaboration with artist JR), Edinburgh, UK
Curated Exhibtions
2022 Sim-biotic, Venice Arsenale Capannone 106, Venice, Italy
2021 Either/Or, Suning Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2020 Another Time, VR exhibtion
2019, Slice, Nook Gallery, Beijing
2019 We are (Not) Amused, Nook Gallery, Beijing
2019 Dual Lens, Nook Gallery, Beijing
2018 Work in Progress, Nook Gallery, Beijing
Conferences
2022 AII International Conference on AI and Art, Shanghai
2021, Art Machines 2, ‘AIMADE’, Hong kong
2021 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, ‘AI as a new silk road’, Shanghai
Press
2023 ‘Rays of Light’ CGTN coverage (Spanish language)
2022 ‘Home’ Exhibition Istanbul
2022 Artnet Documenta artist list
2022 Artwave review of Documenta 15 (中文)
2022 Der Spiegel Documenta 15 review
2021 Google Arts and Culture (COP26)
2021 ‘Time Well Spent: The Revitalisation of a Bund Icon’
2021 Virtual Niche (Art Emperor)
2021 Sixth Tone, ‘How NFTs are transforming China’s Art Market’
2020 Forbes, ‘Year End Collection’
2020 Eflux, Immaterial/Rematerial: A Brief History of Computing Art
2020 Hyperallergic, ‘Artists, Designers and activists address Climate Breakdown’
2017 Zaker, Farniyaz Place, Dwelling, and Art Practice | Oxford Artistic and Practice-Based Research Platform (OAR), Issue 1, pp. 111-118.
Talks