Based in London, Neal White is an artist whose experiments, fieldwork and practice use a range of digital/traditional visual media. In work that has explored subjects ranging from self-experimentation to secrecy, creating epistemic things and experimental institutions, he has undertaken inquiries that explore our contemporary relationship to converging landscapes of nature, science and technology.
After co-founding one of the UKs first art & technology collectives; Soda in 1997 (to 2002), White focused on projects that engaged science, its moral and ethical dimensions, supported by Arts Catalyst, London (2001-). The site includes selected projects from this period, as well as links to a series of works developed with Office of Experiments that was established by White in 2004. The Office of Experiments is an independent platfrom for projects that now aims to provide new perspectives on contested landscapes, environments and ecologies.
Neal White is a Professor of Art / Science at University of Westminster. He is a Director of the research centre CREAM with Professor May Adadol Ingawanij, where both are founding members of Ecological Futurisms collective. He was a curator of the Soil Assembly at Kochi Muziris Biennale 2023, with Meena Vari of Srishti Manipal Institute of Art & Design (IN) Ewen Chardronnet, Makery (FR) and Maya Minder, Hacketeria (CH). He is also currently a visiting research at Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.
Selected exhibition history includes; Glazen Huis, Amstelpark, Amsterdam (2022), Central Pavillion of Venice Biennale of Architecture, Italy (Collaboration with Monsoon Assembages 2021), Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway (Collaboration with Deep Field Project 2020), Fargfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden (Collaboration with Tina O’Connell 2017), Henry Moore Institute, UK (2005, 2016), Royal College of Art, UK (Collaboration with Tina O’Connell 2016), Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium (2015), Portikus, Stadehlschule, Frankfurt, Germany (2014-15), Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2014), TULCA, Galway, Ireland (Collaboration with Tina O’Connell 2013), Chelsea Space, London, UK (2010), John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK (2008-9), Camden Roundhouse, London, UK (2006), Natural History Museum, London, UK (2003), Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (With Soda 1999) Lux Galllery, London, UK (With Soda 1998), Gasworks, London, UK (With Soda 1998).
Work has been funded by amongst others; Biennale de Venezia (IT), Mondriaan Fund (NL), Arts Council of England, Henry Moore Institute and Henry Moore Foundation, The Wellcome Trust (all UK) and Center for Land Use Interpretation (USA), amongst many others in Europe. Selected works are in the collection of the The Henry Moore Insitute and Leeds Gallery Sculpture Collection.
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Links to academic publications, talks etc. are accessible via Neal White’s profile at CREAM.
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Website front image: Asymmetic Power Protest (Unauthorised access). Dugway Proving Grounds / UTT- a documented protest on the edges of the largest US Military Bombing Range. (UTT) - Utah. 2007. The custom made mobile structure (F-Utility Vehicle) and placards with equations (machine decipherable) used in war games, and military planning that address zero-sum scenarios are elements of a work that address the asymmeties of power in democracies. Undertaken whilst in residence; Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, Utah, funded by Henry Moore Foundation.