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EXHIBITIONS
Solo exhibitions
2021 Justice, Freedom & Bread, Rydals Museum, Sweden
2020 Pandemic Spring, PontArte Gallery, Maastricht
2018 / ongoing:The Work of Salts, site specific commission, Salts Mill, Saltaire
2017 /2018: Wonder and Dread, Bradford Industrial Museum, Bradford
2017 Tangled Yarns, People's History Museum, Manchester
2016 Tangled Yarns, Saltaire Arts Trail, Saltaire Village, Yorkshire
2015 Tangled Yarns, Cromford Mills, Derbyshire
2014 Tangled Yarns, William Morris Gallery, London
2012 Alke Schmidt - New Paintings, Penny Fielding Gallery, London
2010 Feeding the Monster, Signal Gallery, London
2009 Witness, Quaker Meeting House Walthamstow, London
2005 Interesting Times, Salon des Arts, London
2004 What's going on, Salon des Arts, London
Curating
2019 SWARM: Artists respond to the pollinator crisis, Vestry House Museum, London
Two/three artists shows/collaborations
2012 SPILL (with Della Rees), The Stone Space, London
2006 Notes in the Margin (with Liz Ellis & Cinzia Cremona), Vestry House Museum & William Morris Gallery, London
2002 CRISIS (with Jess Hurd), The Foundry, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Seed Planting Art, Svalbard Global Seed Vault and Svalbard Museum, Norway
Paisley - A Princely Pattern, Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem
2021 HYDRACITY, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London
2019 SWARM: Artists respond to the pollinator crisis, Vestry House Museum, London
2018 Reading Between the Limes, WVWG and Winns Gallery, London
Inspired by 1968 - Art & Protest, Winns Gallery, London
2017 Threads, Espacio Gallery, London
Touring exhibition: Selected works from "Second Time Around: The Hubcap as Art", various venues, USA (until 2018)
2016 The Art of Conflict, Gnome House and Inky Cuttlefish, London
100 x Madonna, Crypt Gallery, London
2015 Misbehaviour, Art Pavillion, London
2014 Second Time Around: The Hubcap as Art, Museum of the Shenndoah Valley, Virginia, USA
Why War? Freud Museum, London
Misbehaviour, CMR, Redruth, Cornwall
2013 Summer Show, Penny Fielding Gallery, London
F.A.M.E., Mulitdisciplinary Art Festival, MS Stubnitz, Canary Wharf docks
Word on the Street, Part of Waltham Forest Literary Festival, Pictorem Gallery, London
2012 Five Years of Signaling, Signal Gallery, London
Lady of the Forest, University of KwaZulu Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
It Is Green, Cultivate, London
2011 Dreams, Freud Museum, London
Natural Histories, Eagle Gallery, London
The Fishwick Papers, Smokehouse Gallery, London
2010 Inspired by Morris, William Morris Gallery, London
Arts After Dark, ArtEgg Studios, New Orleans
Fringe MK Painting Prize, catalogue artist, Milton Keynes
2009 Mixed Signals, Signal Galley, London
Cut to the Chase! Bargate Monument Gallery, Southampton
Signature - Works on Paper, artSpace Berlin
The Art of Politics, Changing Room Gallery, London
2008 Urban Jungle, exhibition & auction in aid of Trees For Cities, City Hall, London
Artists Reflect on Climate Change, Friends of the Earth @ Changing Room Gallery, London
Mixed Blessings, Signal Gallery, London
2007 Climate of Change, Reclaimed venue, London
No Artist is an Island, Changing Room Gallery, London
T(emporary) A(utonomous) A(rt) London, Reclaimed venue, London
2005 The Art of Love, Gallery @ Oxo Tower, London
2004 The Sex Show - Penetrating the Sex Industry through a Group Show, Lotus Gallery, Bath
Religion, Art and War, Salon des Arts, London
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2019 John Ruskin Prize: Longlisted artist
2017 Arts Council England: Grant for development of Wonder and Dread solo exhibition and related engagement events
2016 Culture and Climate Change: Shortlisted artist for: Climate Change in Residence: Future Scenarios
2014 Arts Council England: Grant for development of Tangled Yarns exhibition and related engagement activities
2010 Fringe MK Painting Prize: Shortlisted /catalogue artist
MEDIA / PUBLICATIONS
2020 Maternal Art Magazine, Issue 1- Stay At Home
2019 Uthra Rajgopal, Wonder and Dread: Artist Alke Schmidt Tells Tales from the Global Textile Industry, in: Selvedge Magazine, issue 86, 1/ 2019, p.14
2016 Alke Schmidt, The Politics of the Textile Industry through Time - an Artist's Perpective, in: Industrialisation and Society in Britain: Cromford
and Beyond in the Era of the Industrial Revolution (Editor: Chris Wrigley)
Video: Saltaire Arts Trail 2016: Artists
2015 Rear Window - The Price of Fashion. Documentary filmmaker Leah Borromeo discusses the ethics of the fashion industry with artist
Alke Schmidt on The World Today with Tariq Ali (video)
EDUCATION
2008 The Body Politic: Social & Ecological Justice, Art & Activism, Platform/Birkbeck University
2000 - 2002 MA Fine Art, John Cass School of Art, London
1998 - 2000 City Lit Fine Art Course, City Lit, London
1990 - 1991 LLM international & environmental law, London School of Economics