Designer
British contemporary artist Es Devlin’s practice is documented in An Atlas of Es Devlin at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum (2023), the Design Museum London (September 2026) and in a landmark, sculptural Thames & Hudson monograph.
She has been honoured by the Emmy and Ivor Novello awards, London Design Medal, three Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, doctorates in arts and letters from the universities of Bristol, Kent and UAL, and a CBE. She’s a fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Oxford University.
Current theatre work includes the RSC’s national tour of Hamlet.
Theatre includes: The Motive and the Cue, The Crucible (National Theatre and West End); Dear England (National Theatre, West End, UK Tour); Coriolanus (National Theatre); The Lehman Trilogy (West End, Broadway, International Tour), The Hunt (Almeida, Broadway), A Number (Old Vic); Hamlet (Barbican); Chimerica (Almeida, Harold Pinter Theatre); The Nether (Royal Court, Duke of York Theatre).
Opera work includes: Boris Godunov (La Scala); Carmen (Bregenz); Otello (The Met); Don Giovanni (Royal Opera House).
Her solo sculptural work explores machine-learning and collective poetry. Recent art installations and architecture includes: Library of Us (Miami); Congregation (St Mary le Strand/ The Courtauld); Come Home Again (Tate Modern); Library of Light (Milan); I Saw the World End (Imperial War Museum); Forest for Change (Somerset House); The Poem Pavillion (Expo 2020); Mask (Somerset House); Memory Palace (Pitzhanger); Please Feed the Lions (Trafalgar Square); PoemPortraits (Serpentine Gallery); The Singing Tree (the V&A Museum). Large-scale explorations of labyrinth and map geometries include Room 2022 (Miami Art Basel, 2017) and EGG (the XI Gallery in New York).
Concerts include: Formation, Renaissance (Beyoncé), U2:UV, the Sphere (U2).
Ceremonies include: Super bowl Half-time shows with Dr Dre, Kendrick Lamar and The Weeknd. Olympic Ceremonies in London and Rio.
Her practice was the subject of the Netflix documentary series Abstract: The Art of Design.
