Darren Bader

Darren Bader works from the premise that everything — a word, a whale, a pile of trash — can be sculpture if the relationship between things is strange enough. His practice spans word works, impossible pairings, collaborative installations, and arrangements that force unlikely objects into conversation.

The work resists category by design. A performance becomes a sculpture becomes a text becomes a collaboration, often within the same exhibition. The juxtapositions are deliberate but never didactic — absurd in the service of attention.

He has exhibited at the Whitney Museum, MACRO Rome, and institutions internationally, and maintains an active relationship with Sadie Coles HQ in London.