Garth Evans
Garth Evans is one of Britain’s most prolific sculptors whose practice has largely been defined by the use of geometric, asymmetrical forms and a commitment to simple, everyday materials. Working in the generation between Anthony Caro and New British Sculpture, Evans is renowned for a practice that offers a bridge between 1960s modernism and the lyrical experimentation and material concerns that followed in the late 1970s. A hallmark of Evans’ long and deeply experimental career is his rejection of a singular aesthetic, continuously reviewing his practice through a sustained inquiry into new materials and processes.
Evans studied at the Slade School of Art (1957–60) and during the 1960s taught in the Sculpture Department at St Martin’s School of Art, where Richard Deacon studied under his direction. In 1979, Evans moved to the US, marking a radical break with the UK art scene. Evans lives in North East Connecticut and teaches in New York, where he is on the faculty of the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.
Evans has exhibited widely across the UK and USA, including in the influential group exhibition British Sculptors '72, Royal Academy of Arts, London (1972) and The Condition of Sculpture, Hayward Gallery, London (1975). In 2013, Richard Deacon curated the survey exhibition Garth Evans at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. His work is represented in numerous collections, including Tate, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Victoria & Albert Museum and The British Museum. Evans is the recipient of 18 awards, including the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award and the British Council Exhibitions Abroad Grant.
b. 1934, Stockport, UK
Lives and works in Connecticut, USA
Solo and Group Exhibitions
2026
Resting Matter, Gathering, Ibiza, Spain
Garth Evans: The Anti-Virus Sculptures, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
2025
A Través de la Forma, Galeria Tiro Al Blanco, Guadalajara, Mexico
2024
A Place In The World: Sculpture and Work on Paper, Fundación CALOS, Irapuato, Mexico
2020
Garth Evans: Sculpture & Works on Paper, Galeria Tiro Al Blanco, Guadalajara, Mexico
2019
But, Hands Have Eyes – Sculpture from Six Decades, Chapter Arts, Cardiff, UK
Names are Misleading Things, Johannes Vogt Art Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2016
Three Shifts (with Mernet Larson& Rebecca Ward), Johannes Vogt Art Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Transparency, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
2015
Sculpture Photographs, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
2014
Abstract Drawing, Drawing Room, London, UK
2013
Garth Evans, Sculpture, 1960-1979, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
Frames, Johannes Vogt Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Little Dancers, New York Studio School, New York, NY, USA
Garth Evans, APT and British Steel Fellowship, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2012
The Individual and Organization: Artist Placement Group 1966-1979, Raven Row, London, UK
Untitled Enemies, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
Evolving Constructions, 159-80, Poussin Gallery, London, UK
2006
Sculpture, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
2003
New Art Centre Sculpture Park and Gallery, Roche Court, Wiltshire, UK
Sculpture at Goodwood, Goodwood, West Sussex, UK
1996
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, USA
1993
French Ideals: French Idylls, The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, New York, NY, USA
1991
Wrexham Museum and Art Center, Rhyl, Wales
Sheffield Polytechnic Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Mayor Gallery, London, UK
1988
Garth Evans Sculptures and Drawings, 1979–1987, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, USA
1986
British Sculpture 1950 1965, New Art Centre, London, UK
1984
Attitudes, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
1983
The Sculpture Show: Sculpture in Britain 1983, Arts Council of Great Britain Exhibition, Hayward and Serpentine Galleries, London, UK
1981
Artists in Camden, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
1979
Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Six Large Sculptures in the Museum Gardens, Portsmouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Portsmouth, UK
Garth Sings, Barry Dances (with Barry Kahn), Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, USA
1978
Scale for Sculpture, Arts Council of Great Britain Exhibition, Serpentine, London; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Liverpool Academy, Liverpool; City Art Gallery, Southampton; City Art Gallery, Swansea
Recent Acquisitions for the Print Collection. Works by R.B. Kitaj, David Leverett, Garth Evans and Dieter Rot, Tate Gallery, London, UK
1977
Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Contemporary British Sculpture, Battersea Park, London, UK
Documenta Vl, Kassel, Germany
Drawings by Leading British Sculptors, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK
Works On Paper: The Contemporary Art Societies Gifts to Public Galleries 1952 77, Royal Academy, London, UK
1976
Oriel, Gallery of the Welsh Arts Council, Cardiff, UK
1975
The Condition of Sculpture, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
1972
British Sculpture ‘72, Royal Academy, London, UK
Peter Stuyvesant City Sculpture Project, Cardiff, UK
1971
Inno 70, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
1970
Some Art in Britain, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
1969
Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
10th Biennial for Sculpture, Open Air Museum for Sculpture, Middleheim, Antwerp, Holland
1968
New British Sculpture, Bristol, UK
Leicestershire Education Authority Collection, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
1967
Reliefs, Collages and Drawings, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK (touring)
British Drawing, The New Generation, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
1966
New Dimensions, Camden Arts Center, London, UK
White On White, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
1963
Construction England, Arts Council of Great Britain Touring Exhibition, UK