DR ALBERTA WHITTLE
MFA, The Glasgow School of Art (GSA), Glasgow, Scotland. PhD, Edinburgh College of Art (ECA), University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Alberta Whittle is a Barbadian/Scottish multidisciplinary artist who works across various media including film, print and performance. Whittle’s research focuses on activating ways of rethinking relationships to the past, present and future. Key to this process is the artist’s approach of working collectively in diaspora conversations that question the authority of postcolonial power, its implications, and its legacy.
Whittle has exhibited widely with other artists at, inter alia, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (2024); Fragments of Epic Memory, The Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio (2024); Flow States, El Museo del Barrio, NYC (2024); Conversations, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (2024); Keeping Time, Gallery 1957, Ghana (2024); Sunlight on the SeaFloor, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, MAC SAN JUAN (2024); Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (2024); Soulscapes, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London (2024); Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (2023); Soft and weak like water, 14th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2023); British Art Show 9 (2021–2022); Moving Bodies, Moving Images, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2022); Black Melancholia, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson (2022); Sex Ecologies, Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway (2021); and Life between islands: Caribbean British Art 1950s – Now, Tate Britain, London (2021).
Solo exhibitions include Nicola Vassel, New York (2025), Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute (2024), Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2024, with Dominique White); Temporary Gallery, Cologne (2024); Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2023); Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2023); Holburne Museum, Bath (2023); Deep Dive (Pause) Uncoiling Memory at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022); University of Johannesburg (2021); Jupiter Artland Sculpture Park, Edinburgh, Scotland (2021); Glasgow International (2021); Grand Union, Birmingham (2020); Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland (2019).
Whittle has been a Committee Member of Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland and a Board Member at Scottish Contemporary Art Network (SCAN). The artist’s critical writing has been published in Visual Culture in Britain, Visual Studies, Art South Africa and Critical Arts. Whittle has been the recipient of several awards, including a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award (2022); Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award (2020); a recipient, with nine other artists, of a Turner Prize bursary (2020); and the sole winner, in 2018, of the Margaret Tait Award for Scotland-based artists.
Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow; Arts Council Collection; Art Gallery of Ontario; The Contemporary Art Research Collection, Edinburgh College of Art; Glasgow Museums Collection; Government Art Collection; The McManus, Dundee; National Galleries of Scotland; and the University of St Andrews.
Dr Alberta Whittle joined VIAD in 2018.
