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IVAN SEAL

Born 1973, Stockport, UK
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany 

EDUCATION

1995Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK                           
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026        Your Guests Never Mentioned Me, Blackpool (UK) 
Mondee Oobe Boathe, Passage Art, Berlin, Germany2025Grottoesque, Alma Pearl, London, UK 2024against the day after before, The Hole, New York, USA 2022Today Rots Through Tomorrow, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
I wake up fresh and rested most mornings, Allouche Benias, Athens, Greece 2021Three Rooms, Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, UK2020GENERATIONGAME, James Fuentes, New York, USA 2019   Holds No Warranties About the Completeness, Reliability and Accuracy, Kennedy van der Lanan, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
Ivan Seal and the Caretaker: Cukuwruums, Unsound, Kraków, Poland 
IVAN SEAL + THE CARETAKER: everywhere, an empty bliss, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France 
Ivan Seal, Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy2018Ivan Seal feat The Caretaker, Spazio Cabinet, Milan, Italy  2017The Caretaker feat Ivan Seal, The Barbican, London2016Some of These One of Those and That, Åplus, Berlin 
Chevette in dub, RaebervonStenglin, Zürich,  Switzerland 2015Ivan Seal, Carl Freedman Gallery, London  
Ivan Seal: Showroom, RaebervonStenglin, Zürich, Switzerland2013Ivan Seal, RaebervonStenglin, Zurich, Switzerland 
Ivan Seal, Contemporary Art Society, London 
Ivan Seal, Carl Freedman Gallery, London 2012Ivan Seal: In Here Stands It, Spike Island, Bristol, UK2011The Object Hurts The Space, RaebervonStenglin, Zurich, Switzerland 
Ivan Seal, Carl Freedman Gallery, London 
True As Applied To You, False As Applied To You, Krome Gallery, Berlin 2010I Learn By Osmosis, CEAAC, Strasbourg, France2009You Talk Too Much, Visite Ma Tente, Berlin, Germany 
Proximity, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany 2008Crack In Space, Julius Werner Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Confusion Is A Song By New Order, Kochstr 60, Berlin, Germany2007Acidorigami: A lecture using sound, Jet Gallery, Berlin, Germany
The visitor called and I was a roach, Forever And A Day Büro, Berlin, Germany
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2026     The Human Stain, Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy
Luce, Villa Arconati, Milan, Italy / In collaboration with Fondazione Augusto Rancilio / Curated by Diana Segantini 
Frictional Geography, Alma Pearl hosted by A+B Gallery, Brescia, Italy  2025Polyphonic Views, Funkhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany 
2024    Perhaps Sunny Days, PODO Museum, Seogwipo, South Korea 2023Polireality, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China / curated by Saša Bogojev 
Positions, Alma Pearl, London / curated by John Slyce
30 Years, Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy 2022    MANSCAPING, The Hole, Los Angeles and New York, USA 2016    Lucio Fontana, Caroline Achaintre, Ivan Seal: A conversation about Ceramics, Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy 
Background/Foreground, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden 
Kollision, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin, Germany 2015Magnetic Leakage Fluxes, The Brno House of Arts, Brno, Czech Republic 
The Painter of Modern Life, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA 
Blue Pink Black, Carl Freedman Gallery, London, UK
Five Years, RaebervonStenglin, Zurich, Switzerland 2014Jahresgaben 2014/15, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany 
Mean What You See, Daniel Marzona, Berlin, Germany  
Poster 6&6, Option Gallery, Luzern, Switzerland  
Associations New, Salts, Biersfelden, Switzerland 
A Tale of Two Cities, Gallery Huit, Hong Kong 2013Kilomètres/Heure: Utopies automobiles et ferroviaires (1913-2013), Tour 46, Belfort & Musée du château des ducs de Wurtemberg , Montbéliard, France 
Anyone For Cricket, Kunstverein Horn, Horn, Austria 2012Changing States of Matter, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy 
Komplexraum #1, Henrik Strömberg und Ivan Seal, General Public, Berlin, Germany  
Frauge, Carl Freedman Gallery, London 2011Thrill: Exposition Internationale d’Art Contemporain, Ancienne Douane, Strasbourg, France 
Editionen #4: Präsentation der Jahresgaben, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Germany 
Splendid Isolation, Ivan Seal, Susanne Kohler, Lars monrad Vaage, Nationalmuseum, Berlin, Germany 2010Postface, Essays and Observations, Berlin, Germany
On Her Majestys Secret Service, Neues Problem, Berlin, Germany 
Dunce, Krome Gallery, Berlin, Germany 
Dropout, Neues Problem, Berlin, Germany 
Drunk Tank, Forgotten Bar - Galerie Im Regierungsviertel, Berlin, Germany 
Hauntology, University of Berkeley Museum, Berkeley, USA2009Novembro Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo, Brazil 
Narcotica, Galerie Im Regierungsviertel, Basel 
Wohnungsausstellung IV, Wedding, Berlin, Germany 2008Drawings To Counterfeit Drawings For A Group Show, Julius Werner Galerie, Berlin, Germany 
Just Because We Have Similarities Doesn’t Make Me One Of You, The Gemini Show, Pampero Apartment, Berlin, Germany 2007The visitor called and I was a roach, Forever And A Day Büro, Berlin, Germany 2006Standing still in the room for downworld, Anonymous Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

David Roberts Art Foundation, UK
FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Government Art Collection, London, UK
Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway 
Musées de Montbéliard, France
Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich, UK
PODO Museum, Seogwipo, South Korea
UBS Art Collection, London, UK 
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK