David Blandy (1976, Lives & works in Brighton) is an artist examining global structures of control and networks of resistance, in areas that range from ecology, history and science to arenas of play. He makes videos, games, sound and ephemera, deconstructing forms to put them back together again. He searches for meaning in cultural life, an expanded form for auto-anthropology, sifting through multiple forms of archive, from historic texts to academic archives, archaeology and ecological theory, twitch streams and film archives; Blandy weaves poetic works that explore the complexities of the contemporary subject. He builds complex stories that sketch out a future of interdependence, through visual poetry and immersive play.  

Blandy’s projects involve complex installations, performance, writing, gaming and sound.

Blandy’s film, Sunspot, had it’s international premiere at CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Festival in March 2024. Sunspot is a poetic archive film about light, time, forest fires and quantum physics. Building upon his interest in history, the legacy of empire and the climate crisis, commissioned by John Hansard Gallery, Southampton.

Nominated for the Film London Jarman award with Larry Achiampong in 2018. He has exhibited & performed at venues nationally and worldwide, with solo shows at John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; Towner Gallery, Eastbourne; Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea; The Baltic, Gateshead; Turner Contemporary, Margate; Spike Island, Bristol; The Exchange, Newlyn; Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany. Blandy has also exhibited in museums internationally including at Art Tower Mito, Tokyo; Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum, Helsinki; Tate Modern, London; & MoMA PS1, New York.

Whilst on a residency at Delfina Foundation, London, as part of The Politics of Food programme, Blandy explored his familial link to colonial food production and its legacy of agriculture as a tool to consolidate authority through the creation of a new collaborative worlding game, Gathering Storm. This research has developed into a new project, Alien Pastoral: The Strain.

Blandy also has a collaborative joint practice with artist Larry Achiampong. Genetic Automata, at Wellcome Collection was their first museum exhibition as a duo. Their first permanent public art commission, Trēow of Time, opened at University College London’s new campus in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, UCL East in December 2023. 

In March 2024 with Jamie Sutcliffe, (Strange Attractor Press), Blandy ran a symposium at Artbyte London: Areas Of Effect: Planar Systems, Critical Roles, and Gaming Imaginaries. A day-long event that included presentations, tabletop game-play sessions and talks.

David Blandy is represented by Seventeen Gallery, London. His films are distributed by LUX, London.

Artist residencies include Delfina Foundation, London, as part of The Politics of Food Programme; Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge; Art Exchange, University of Essex, Colchester; Wysing Arts, Cambridgeshire; Praksis, Oslo, Norway; Iaspis, Stockholm, Sweden; El Levante, Rosario, Argentina; Grizedale Arts, Cumbria & PS1, New York, USA.

Current Solo exhibitions & Events

2024
”Alien Pastoral: The Strain”, Part of the Infinite Ecologies Marathon, Serpentine Gallery- The Magazine, London
”The Couch - Het Hem / Future Artefacts FM” Podcast episode & Online exhibition
”Trēow of Time, A UCL East Public Art Commission”, Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, UCL East Marshgate, London
”Genetic Automata”, Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Wellcome Collection, London
”Challenging the Narrative: Black Resistance to Scientific Bias”, Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Black Cultural Archives, London

Current & forthcoming group exhibitions

2025
”Experimentations: Imag(in)ing Knowledge in Film”, LA Film Forum / PST ART: Art & Science Collide presented by Getty.
2024
”Gloss: A Measured Response to Recent Video Art”, Vanderbilt University’s Museum of Art. Curated by Rachel P. Kreiter.
”Seeds” - Part of Serpentine Gallery, the Infinite Ecologies Marathon- The Magazine, London, UK. Curated by Lucia Pietroiusti, Head of Ecologies, and Daisy Gould, Assistant Curator, Live Programmes.
”Constellations: Racial Myths, Land, and Labour”, Esker Foundation, Canada. Curated by Su-Ying Lee
”2024 Film Series”, A film programme, curated by Astria Suparek, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
”Silbersalz Festival”, Science & Media festival, Halle (Saale), Germany.
”Critical Acts: Performance Lectures exploring how power operates in the digital age”, Abandon Normal Devices, Manchester, UK
”Dokumentale” Documentary and Media Festival, Berlin, Germany
”CPH:DOX - Copenhagen International Documentary Festival”, Danish FiIm Institute Cinemateket & Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
”‘Weird Hope Engines, or; A Choking Dust… Red, Clotted and Awful”, David Blandy and Jamie Sutcliffe, solo journaling game in March edition of Art Review
”How to How to”, Sluice [Vernacular] Colchester, Curated by Off Site Project
”ShrineShare”, Phoenix Art Space, Brighton & Leicester Gallery, Leicester, UK
”Areas Of Effect: Planar Systems, Critical Roles, and Gaming Imaginaries”, Symposium and live play sessions, Artbyte London, Curated by David Blandy & Jamie Sutcliffe, Strange Attractor Press
”DXP (Digital Transformation Planet): Towards the Next Interface”, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; Curators: Yuko Hasegawa, Yuu Takagi, Mio Harada, Yishu Hang, Jin Motohashi; Advisor: Hans Ulrich Obrist
”A-Real Engine” 18th Digital Arts Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
”Murmuration”, The Bowes Museum, UK
”Worldbuilding Gaming & Art in the Digital Age”, Centre Pompidou Metz, France & JSC Dusseldorf, Germany; Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist

Past solo exhibitions

2023-24
”Genetic Automata”, Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Wellcome Collection, London
”Challenging the Narrative: Black Resistance to Scientific Bias”, Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Black Cultural Archives, London
”Alternate Presence - Petra Szemán, David Blandy”, Seventeen, London
”Atomic Light”, Solo exhibition, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
2022
”Edge of Forever”, Residency & Exhibition, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
”Gathering Storm”, for “The Politics of Food Programme”, Delfina Foundation Residency , London
”A Lament for Power”, Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Tolbooth Gallery, Stirling
2021
”Lost Eons”, Residency & Exhibition, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge
”A Lament For Power”, Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Focal Point Gallery Online & The Big Screen, Southend-on-Sea & Wysing Arts, Cambridgeshire
”Lost Eons: Land of Iron”, NN Contemporary, Northhampton, UK
2020
”A Lament For Power”, Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Residency & Exhibition, Art Exchange, Colchester
”Art Review & David Blandy 8,000 Years in the Future”, with Gabrielle de la Puente, Sarah Shin & Oliver Basciano, Online RPG event
”Enter The Grid”, Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Studio-LAB
”How to Fly/How to Live”, John Hansard Gallery Website, Southampton & e-flux film & video
”Visions of the Deep Past”, Brent 2020 Commission, London
”Cthuluscene”, Claire Barrett & David Blandy, ONCA, Brighton
”Soliloquy For The Mother”, Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Brunswick Estate, Camden Alive Commission
2019
"The World After”, David Blandy, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea
”Genetic Automata”, Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Site Gallery, Sheffield
"The Grid”, Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Copperfield & Seventeen, London
"Genetic Automata", Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Arts Catalyst, London
”The End of the World”, Swiss Cottage Gallery, London
2018
"FF Gaiden: Delete", Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Bury Art Museum, Moving Image Gallery, Bury
2017
"David Blandy", Seventeen Gallery, London
"Child of the Atom", David Blandy, Vdrome
"Finding Fanon Trilogy", Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Forth Worth Contemporary Arts, Texas, USA
"The Finding Fanon Sequence", Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Plymouth Arts Centre
"Finding Fanon Trilogy", Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium, London
2016
"Citadel: David Blandy", The Exchange, Cornwall
"Finding Fanon Part Three: Prologue", Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Tate Modern, Switch House, London
"FF Gaiden: Delete", Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, The Gallery, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle
2015
"Hercules Rough Cut", Bloomberg Space, London
"A-Z presents David Blandy", Four Quarters, London
"Media Minerals", Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Dolph Projects, London
2014
"Helix", a collaboration with biologist Adam Rutherford & illustrator Daniel Locke, A Wellcome Trust Arts Award, with support from Lighthouse
"Biters: Larry Achiampong & David Blandy", Iniva & 198 Gallery, London
2013
"Anjin 1600: Edo Wonderpark", Rose Lipman Building, CREATE London
"Backgrounds", Seventeen Gallery, London & Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
"Mobile Suit Academy", Peckham Space, London
2012
"Odysseys", Phoenix Gallery, Brighton; in association with Lighthouse as part of the Brighton Digital Festival
"David Blandy - Passage Of The Soul", Exeter Phoenix
2011
Artistic Dialogues II, David Blandy & Nilbar Güreş, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany
"Run a Mile in My Shoes", Great North Run Moving Image Commission 2011, Newbridge Space, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
2010               
“Child of the Atom”, Seventeen Gallery, London
Solo presentation at TankTV project space
2009                       
“Crossroads”, Spike Island, Bristol, 176, & Turner Contemporary, Margate
“The Fortress of Solitude“, 176
"The Barefoot Lone Pilgrim", Solo screening, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
2008            
“Artprojx Dojo: Duels and Dualities”, Artprojx Space, London
2007        
“Fortress of Solitude”, Jerwood Platform for Artists, Cell Project Space, London
“The Way of the Barefoot Lone Pilgrim”, Platform China Project Space, Beijing, China, curated by David Thorp

Past group exhibitions & screenings
2023
”Entangled”, Screening, Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival, Korea; Curated by Ji Yoon Yang
”All the Birds Sing Bass”, Nottingham Contemporary; Curated by Canan Batur, assisted by Philippa Douglas
”Radiant Objects: encounters in the nuclear age”, Newark Works, Bath Fringe Festival
”The Art of Machinima”, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
”The Advantages Of Being Boneless And Incomplete”, Banner Repeater, London, Curated by Jamie Sutcliffe & Petra Szemán
”Eyes on the Horizon”, The Fifth Floor, Tokyo, Japan
”Against Gravity. The Art of Machinima”, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany
”Liminal People”, Screening, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
”Game On: Larry Achiampong & David Blandy”, FACT, Liverpool
”Like everything alive that we try to hold forever”, Esker Foundation, Canada
”The Seashore of Endless Worlds”, Le Commun, Geneva, Switzerland, Curated by FTW - Christian Bili & Samuel Wagen-Magnon
”All Watched Over By Machines of Tight Embrace”, Lewisham Art House, London
2022
“The Politics of Food Programme”, Delfina Foundation Residency , London
”Worldbuilding Gaming & Art in the Digital Age”,JSC Düsseldorf, Germany; Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist
”Je(u) augmenté”, Centre D’Art Contemporain Meymac, France; Curated by Wei-Yang Lee
”Divination from a Night Sky Partially Obscured by Clouds”, GHMP Prague City Gallery, Curated by Hana Janečková & Jitka Hlaváčková
”Drawing Together”, Museum im Bellpark, Switzerland; Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist
”Future Ages Will Wonder”, FACT, Liverpool; Curated by Annie Jael Kwan
”One song is very much like another, and the boat is always from afar”, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
”Milan Machinima MMXXII”, Milan, Italy
”Haven of Ava”, Output, Liverpool
”Black Rock and the Sea Kale: Friends with Benefits”, Brighton
”PAF Olomouc 2022, PASSION AND FEELINGS”, Czech Republic

2021
”Sentient Matter”, D21, Leipzig, Germany
”this has travelled through the night to you”, Regency Town House, Brighton, UK
”Frantz Fanon: Black Skin White Mask”, BFI Screening, London, UK
”The Algorithmic Tales”, BDF festival, Brighton, UK
”BDF Sessions: So near future, from now on”, Group panel, Ironworks, Brighton
”Imagining Disaster: Science Fiction X Contemporary Art”, Group conversation, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
”18th Experimental Film & Video Festival”, (EXiS), Seoul, South Korea
”Sentient Matter”, D21, Leipzig, Germany
”Yesterday, Thinking of Tomorrow”, 20th Pop Montreal, Canada
”Programmed Lives / Coded Real”, Screening, West Bund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
”Future Art Ecosystems Live: Art x Metaverse”, Larry Achiampong & David Blandy talk, Serpentine R&D Platform
”Back to Black”, Concorto Film Festival, Palazzo XNL, Italy
”MONOCULTURE – A Recent History”, Muhka, Antwerp, Belgium
”Black Spatial Imaginaries”, Glasgow Short Film Festival
”Love Camden Outdoor Cinema”, Waterlow Park, London
”Raised on song and story”, Maria Editions, Printed Matter online, Orchestrated by John Ryaner
”Untitled: Art on the conditions of our time”, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
”True Fake: Troubling the Real in Artists’ Films, e-flux online
”Networked Visions”, Online exhibition, curated by Bob Bicknell-Knight

2020
”Digital Cultures Festival 2020”, Warsaw, Poland
”Frieze London 2020”, Viewing Room: Seventeen Gallery, London
”Human Worlds Festival 2020”, Online
”Tracing the East: New Geographies” Symposium, New Geographies Online
”Stay Home: Art in Uncertain Times”, Arts Council Collection Online
”Merged Futures”, Digital Northampton
”In Pursuit of Images”, AA Gallery, London
”Milan Machinima Festival”, Milan, Italy
”The World After”, Screening & Q&A, LSBU’s Sustainability & Climate Action, London
”Real Time”, Seventeen Gallery, London, Online
”So On Being So”, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance
”Recursive Colonialism Symposium”, Online
”Human Worlds Festival”, Online
2019
”Frieze Art Fair London”, Seventeen Gallery, London
”An Unxpected View”, National Gallery, London
”555-5555”, Film Screening, Corsica Studios, London
”Buffer Zones”, Paradise Works, Manchester
”African Art in Venice Forum”, AAVF, Venice, Italy
”Emergence”: Artists’ Film Screening, Lewisham Arthouse, London
”Finding Fanon Screening”, Strangelove Timebased Media Festival, Folkestone
”A Walk Through Canvey Wick”, Essex Book Festival, Canvey Island
”Digital Imaginaries”, ZKM: Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany
”Essex Road 5”, Tintype, London
2018
"Rivers of Emotion, Bodies of Ore", Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway
”Film London Jarman Award”, touring to The Mac, Belfast; Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne; Spike Island, Bristol; Glasgow Film Theatre; Dundee Contemporary Arts; Turner Contemporary, Margate; Exeter Phoenix; FACT, Liverpool; Nottingham Contemporary; Firstsite, Colchester; G39, Cardiff; HOME, Manchester; & Whitechapel Gallery, London
”Digital Imaginaries”, ZKM: Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany
”Throwing Gestures”, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
”Essex Road 5”, Tintype, London
"Offline Browser", Taiwan International Video Art 2018, Taiwan
”Nature as Data“, Jing’an Sculpture Park, Shanghai
”I want God, I want poetry…”, Moca Tapei
”Africa in Motion Film Festival”, Scotland
"Random Acts Series 6", Channel Four, UK
”Five Trillion Times”, Art Museum of CCA, Hangzhou, China
”Frantz Fanon Symposium”, ICA Miami, USA
”Visible Justice Symposia: Collective Imaging and Imagining”, London College of Communication
”We suffer to remain: Finding Fanon”, National Art Gallery of the Bahamas
"The Fantastical Multimedia Pop-up Project", The Edge, Bath
"Idea of North", BALTIC, Tyneside
"Finding Fanon", Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, National Gallery of the Bahamas, Nassau, The Bahamas
"Alternate Realities", Sheffield Doc|Fest, Sheffield
"Finding Fanon" Screening, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
"Vector Festival", Toronto, Canada
"Sunshine Socialist Cinema", Höja, Sweden
"Revolt and Revolutions", Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
"Hello World", Art Tower Mito, Tokyo, Japan
"Experiments in Art & Science", Kettle's Yard & The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge
"States of Play: Roleplay Reality", FACT, Liverpool
"In/Di/Visible", Bethlem Gallery, London
"Paysage(s) choisi(s) – Chosen landscape(s)", Nouveau Musée National de Monaco NMNM
"Frame, Play, Pause", SASK Sint-Niklaas Akademie, Belgium
"Finding Fanon Sequence", Corsica Studios, London
"Transmediale/Festival", Berlin, Germany
"A Utopian Stage", Curated by Archaeology of the Final Decade, Dhakaa Art Summit, Bangladesh
"Polymorph Other", IMT Gallery, London
"Club Conscious", Observatorium, Antwerp, Belgium
2017
"Unmaking the Mask", Screening, BAMcinématek, Brooklyn, USA
"Afrotech and the Future of Re-invention", Screening, Hartware Medienkunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
"Trauma & Revival", Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland
"There past the borders of nowhere", John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
"Artist Film Weekend", HOME, Manchester
"Out of Nothing", A graphic novel with Daniel Locke & Adam Rutherford, Nobrow Press
"Picnic at Tornado Sands", Arcade East, London
"Screen City Biennial 2017", Online & at Stravanger, Norway
Longlisted for the inaugural Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowships
"L’Autre… De l’image à la réalité", Maison Populaire, Paris, France
"Wilderness Way",Mima, Middlesbrough
"Posthuman Complexities Film Program", mumok Kino, Vienna, Austria
"Dialogue de l’ombre double", Videobox, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris, France
"ARS17 - Hello World", Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
"Zuecca Projects presents: Daata in Venice", Venice
"Medieval-City One", Two Queens, Leicester
"Finding Fanon Sequence LP Launch", Lighthouse, Brighton
"Untitled: Art on the conditions of our time", New Art Exchange, Nottingham
"Yours Sincerely", RCA Film Night, London
"All Channels Open", Wysing Arts Centre
"Public View", Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
"Finding Fanon Trilogy", Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium, London
"Parallax Scrolling", Breese Little, London
"Film Cologne", Art Cologne, Germany
"Cast Film Club", Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Cast, Cornwall
"Trust Me, I’m an Artist: DNA Ancestry Testing",
Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Arts Catalyst, London
2016
"'That Time", Gerðarsafn Kópavogur Art Museum,Cycle Music & Arts Festival, Kopavogur, Iceland
"Here come a new challenger", Cubitt, London
"Wysing Poly Residency", Wysing Arts Centre
"FF Gaiden: Delete", Praksis Premier Screening, Cinemateket, Oslo, Norway
"Finding Fanon Screening", Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago, USA
"Getting the Heart Ready", The Royal Standard, Liverpool
"Supernova Festival", Denver, USA
"Mount Florida Screenings", Mount Florida, Glasgow
"Bedlam Fringe Film Festival", Edinburgh
"Spill Festival", Ipswich
"Our Machines II", Brighton Digital Festival 2016
"Experimental Motion", Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
"The Long Progress Bar", Brighton Dome Studio Theatre
"Lavish Big Screen", Latitude Festival, Suffolk
"Random Acts", Channel 4, UK
"Eva International 2016: Still (The) Barbarians", Limerick City, Curated by Koyo Kouoh
"Histories of a Vanishing Present: A Prologue", The Mistake Room, Curated by Cesar Garcia & Kris Kuramitsu, Los Angles, USA
"Emotional Supply Chains", 176, London
"Game Video / Art. A Survey", part of the "XXI Triennale International Exhibition. 21st Century. Design after Design", Contemporary Hall Gallery, Milan, Italy
"Media Minerals", Larry Achiampong & David Blandy as part of "Imitation of Life", HOME, Manchester
"Focus on the Funk- Journeys", Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Birkbeck Cinema & Serpentine Gallery
"Wysing Polyphonic", Wysing Arts Centre
"Out of Nothing", Graphic novel with Daniel Locke & Adam Rutherford, supported by The Wellcome Trust & Lighthouse
2015
"The 59th BFI London Film Festival", BFI Southbank,London
"Both Sides Now", screening & exhibition various venues in China and The Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester
'Ghosts', Hangar, Lisbon, Portugal
"Turtle Salon", Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden
"The Long Progress Bar", Brighton Digital Festival
"Art Pop Montreal Festival 2015", Montreal, Canada
"The Vanishing Point of History: L’Été photographique de Lectoure", Centre d'art et photographie de Lectoure, France. Curated by Catsou Roberts
"The Curves of the Needle", Baltic 39, Newcastle
"Open Souce Contemporary Arts Festival", London
"Daata Editions", New York, USA
"Room of Requirement", Horseandpony Fine Arts Project Space, Berlin
"Drawing Biennial 2015", The Drawing Room Gallery, London
"Collaborate", Oriel Sycharth Gallery, Wales
"Pigdogmonkeyfestos", Phoenix Gallery, Exeter
"Wir Sind Alle Berliner:1884-2014", ICI, Berlin
"ReMix", Bury Sculpture Centre, curated by David Thorp
"Alternative 23", IMT Gallery, London
"Land Engines", Queens Hall Arts Centre, Northumberland
2014
"NADA Miami 2014', Miami, USA
"Extinction Marathon: Visions of the Future", Serpentine Gallery, London
"The Nuisance of Landscape: Grizedale - The Sequel", Abbot Hall Gallery, Cumbria
"Collections of Collections", V&A Friday Late, London
"Fierce Festival", The Edge, Birmingham
"3rd Bienale of Bahia", Modern Art Museum of Bahia, Brazil
"Digital Africa", performance as part of 'Africa Utopias', Southbank Centre, London
"Turtle Salon in the Forest", Sweden
"Foam", Attic, Nottingham
"Animamix Biennial", Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
"Biters: Larry Achiampong & David Blandy" as part of Test Run", Modern Art Oxford
"Pigdodandmonkeyfestos", Airspace Gallery, Stoke-On-Trent
"Artprojx Cinema presents Teen and Keen", Voice and the Lens, London
"27 Stuttgarter Filmwinter 2014, Festival for Expanded Media", Stuttgart, Germany
"After/Hours/Drop/Box **LIVE**", Spike Island, Bristol, Curated by John Lawrence
"Why Did You Stop", exhibition curated by Expograph, Berlin, Germany
2013
"After/Hours/Drop/Box", Modern Art Oxford, Curated by John Lawrence
"Is that all there is?", Film Screening, Import Projects, Berlin, Germany
"Totally Devoted", Screening event, Outcasting at Temporary Art Projects, Southend on Sea
"Daata Editions", New York, USA
"The Artsadmin Jerwood Commission", Premiere screening, Whitechapel Gallery, London
"V22 Collection Show", V22 Workspace, London
"Totem and Taboo", Freud Museum, London
2012
"Thank You For The Music", Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
"In the Woods", The Big Screen & Film Gallery, Latitude Festival, Suffolk
"25th Stuttgarter Filmwinter 2012, Festival for Expanded Media", Stuttgart, Germany
"Let the Rythym Hit 'Em", Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
"RE-RUN", Banner Repeater, London
2011
"I will talk with anyone who will talk with me", The City Gallery, Leicester
"SUNDAY" Art Fair,  The Zabludowicz Collection presents David Blandy limited edition action figures
"David Blandy, Riley Harmon and Graham Hudson", Seventeen, London
“Amen Brother”, Grand Union, Birmingham
The Drawing Room Gallery Fundraiser 2011, London
"Journey Men" Two person show with Antti Laitinen, AirSpace, Stoke-on-Trent
2010
“Choose your character” solo event at the ICA, London, as part of Live Weekends
“Be Glad For the Song Has No End: A Festival of Artists' Music”, Wysing Art Centre, Cambridge
“Contort Yourself”, three person show at ACME, London
“Mixtapes: Popular Music in Contemporary Art”, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
“The Crossroads Shack”, installation and screening at Latitude Festival, Suffolk
“Royale with Cheese”, AICON Gallery, London, curated by Niru Ratnam
“Psychic Geography”, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead
2009
“Stranger Things Are Happening”, Aspex, Portsmouth  
“Personal Affects”, Exhibition and Residency, A.I.R. Hotel MariaKapel, Hoorn, The Netherlands
"Hesperides II", Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne (MCBA), Switzerland"
The 6th Bremen Art Spring", GAK, Bremen, Germany
"The Underground Soul", Solo exhibition, Brighton Art Festival, Grey Area, Brighton
"My Philosophy", Solo screening, Artprojx Matinee Presentations, Prince Charles Cinema, London
2008
“Far West”, Arnolfini, Bristol; touring to A Foundation, Liverpool and Turner Contemporary, Margate
“Museumnight 2008: Tomorrow is Humourless”, screening event, Stedelijk Museum Bureau (SMBA), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“I/Legitimate”, Museu da Imagem e do Som de São Paulo, Brazil
“Made Up”, the Bluecoat, as part of the Liverpool Biennial
“Tatton Park Biennial”, Tatton Park, Cheshire
“Sonic Youth”, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland & touring to Wallace Gallery, New York, USA“Phenomena”, Pori Art Museum, Finland
“Jerwood Moving Image Awards”, Jerwood Gallery, London, Finalist
“Artprojx Hi Fi” at Anthology Film Archives, The Armory Show, New York
2007                                   
Art Review’s invited comic contribition, December Issue
“Persona Non Grata”, curated by Ben Judd, One in the Other, London
“Artprojx Hi Fi presents”, Art in Marrakech, Théâtre Royal de Marrakech
"Encore Pacifca", Video screening, Kunsthall Bergen, Norway
“Microwave International New Media Arts Festival”, Hong Kong, as part of “À la Chinoise” curated by Marcelo Rezende and Fernando Oliva
"My Still Life as a Personal Object," Alma Enterprises, London
“The Great Escape- New Art from London”, White Flag Projects, St Louis,
USA, curated by Katrina Hallowell
“Live Screen”, Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadler’s Wells, London
“Artprojx Hi Fi presents” at Late at Tate Britain
“Konst på Bio" (Art at the Movies), Biografen Sture, Stockholm, Sweden
"A Second Life”, Stadtgalerie, Bern, Switzerland, curated by Barnaby Drabble
“Big Family Business” The IMÇ Buildings, Istanbul, curated by Esther Lu and Adnan Yildiz
“Artradio”, exhibition and residency, Cornerhouse, Manchester
“About Turn”, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany
tank.tv DVD of selected video artists, distributed by Thames & Hudson
“Artprojx at Greenland Street presents”, Screening Event, Greenlands Street, Liverpool
“Inter-Faces”, Soros Center for Contemporary Art - Almaty, Kazakstan
Artsadmin Screening Programme, Artsadmin Studios, London
“The Communism of Form: Sound + Image + Time”, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil
“Extend Your Neck”, Cafe Gallery, London
“100 Tage=100 Videos”, Kunstvereine Gl Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Role Model”, The John Institute, Zurich, Switzerland
“KolnShow2”, Galerie Vera Gliem, Cologne, Germany curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen and Florian Waldvogel
“16 Hour Museum”, AIT, Tokyo, Japan
“Air Video”, Air Space, Stoke on Trent
“Media Attention”, G39, Cardiff
2006-07                        
IASPIS residency in Stockholm, Sweden, culminating in “Open House”
2006                                       
“Street: behind the cliché”, Witte de With Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
“Because the Night”, Artangel Interaction, Bethnal Green Town Hall, London
“I don’t know what else to do with myself!” Video Screening & discussion,
AK28 Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
“100 Tage=100 Videos”, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Germany
“[Incorporaciones+Polesello] Recientes”, Macro-Museo de arte contemporáneo de Rosario, Argentina
“The Mothership Collective”, South London Gallery, curated by Harold Offeh
“Kaleidoscope”, screening, Whitechapel Gallery, London
“Turtle”, Chelsea Space, curated by Michael H. Shamberg
“Represent”, two person show with Saskia Holmkvist, Gasworks Gallery, London
“FILMPERFORMANCE”, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
“Kill your Timid Notion”, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
“Culture Bound”, VII East Wing Collection, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
2005                                     
“Monitor”, LOT, Bristol, curated by Sally Shaw
“Adding Up”, screening, Sous-Station Lebon, Nice, France
Thirteenth Raindance Film Festival, tank.tv showcase, London
Gasworks Gallery/Triangle Arts Trust residency at El Levante, Rosario, Argentina
“About Time”, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Denmark, curated by Nikolaj Larsen
“Cumbriana Proof” Grizedale Arts, Cumbria
“Projekt Migration”, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
“The Mind is a Horse (Part 2)”, Bloomberg Space, London
“Astigmatic 2005 festival”, Tank.tv, Gdynia, Poland“It is hard to touch the real”,
touring video archive, curated by Maria Lind, to Kunstverein Munich, Germany,
Bildmuseet Umeå, Sweden; Yeans, Gothenburg, Sweden; Unge Kunstnerers
Samfund UK, Oslo, Norway; Tallinn Kunsthalle, Tallinn, Estonia
“Faltering Flame: Aspects of the Human Condition in Contemporary Art”,
Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, curated by David Thorp
“Biennale! Artist Film & Video”, Temporarycontemporary Gallery, London,
selected by Jananne Al-Ani, touring to Dashanzi International Arts Festival,
Beijing, China, and Raum 3, Berlin
2004-5                   
“Romantic Detachment”, residency & exhibition, curated by Grizedale Arts & The Henry Moore Foundation, PS1 Gallery, New York,
USA & touring to Chapter, Cardiff, Wales; Q Gallery, Derby; Folly, Lancaster
“New Contemporaries 2004”, Liverpool Biennale & The Barbican, London
2004                   
“Ethnic Marketing”, Centre d’art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland,
curated by Tirdad Zolghadr
“I almost feel like doing it again ¼”, K3 Project Space, Zurich,
Switzerland, curated by Barnaby Drabble
“Agora”, Transition Gallery, London
“Tempered Ground”, Museum of Garden History, London, curated by Danielle Arnaud & Parabola
“Body-Con: conscious bodies”, A touring exhibition, various venues, Japan, curated by Roger McDonald, AIT Tokyo
“Itchy Park”, art event, Limehouse Town Hall, London, curated by Emily Wardill
“Art, Identity and the Unconscious in the Age of Transnationalism”,
Conference & film screening, Tate Modern, London, organised by the Freud Museum & The Slade, UCL
“Tape291 Video Open”, 291 Gallery, London              “Volume”, film programme, part of“Commotion”, organised by Picture This, Arnolfini and St. George’s, Bristol
“Artist’s Films on Music Culture”, National Film Theatre, in collaboration with the Hayward Gallery, London      
"Artist’s Residency at Grizedale Arts", the Lake District, Cumbria
“Emergency”, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
“Nothing If Not Satirical”, The Nunnery, London, curated by Pryle Behrman
2003-4                
“Domestico 03”, Central Gallery, Madrid, Spain
“Nothing Special”, FACT, Liverpool, curated by Claire Doherty
2003                                     
“Family Business”, Pitzhanger Manor Gallery, London, curated by Matthew Poole & Danielle Arnaud
“Lux Open 2003”, Royal College of Art, London
“Beck’s Student Prize for film & video”, selected by Sam Taylor Wood & Peter Saville, ICA, London; CCA, Glasgow; Edinburgh Festival & ArtSway, Sway        “New Video”, Galleria Morcilla, Barcelona, Spain
2002                                     
“Someone must have been telling lies”, Forde Espace, Geneva,
Switzerland, curated by Ceri Hand
“Deliberate Regression”, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, curated by Vita Zamen
2000                
“The Big Torino” Arts Festival, Turin, Italy
“Wooden Heart”, AVCO Gallery, London
1999-00                
“New Contemporaries 1999”, part of the Liverpool Biennale, & Milch, London
“River Deep, Mountain High”, Gallery Westland Place, London and Duncan of Jordanstone Gallery, Dundee, curated byKelly Taylor & David Risley
1999                
“Temptation/Boredom”, Outline Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands        
1998
“Originals#2”, Kapil Jariwala Gallery, London

Selected commissions & prizes

2016
"FF Gaiden: Delete", Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, 2016. Commissioned by Praksis Oslo, Norway. In collaboration with Mennisker i Limbo (People in Limbo), in partnership with PNEK, Atelier Nord, and Notam.
"FF Gaiden: Alternative", Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, 2016. Commissioned by Tyneside Cinema, Supported by Arts Council England. In Collaboration with the Factory.
"FF Gaiden: Control", Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, 2016. Commissioned and produced by FACT. Supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation. With thanks HMP Altcourse, Keith McDonnell, Tony Connolly and the HMP Altcourse gym team, HMP Liverpool and Partners of Prisoners.
"FF Gaiden: Escape", Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, 2016-17. Commissioned By New Art Exchange, Nottingham. In collaboration with members of Nottingham’s Women’s Cultural Exchange.
2015
"Finding Fanon Part Two", Brighton Digital Festival Commission, Supported by Arts Council England, Produced by Artsadmin, London
"Workweek Prize", David Blandy and A---Z for the installation 16-Bit at Four Quarters, London
2014
Arts Council England Award for "Biters: Larry Achiampong & David Blandy'
"Outcasting Fourth Wall Festival V2:0" Commission, Cardiff
2013
Royal College of Psychiatrists, Film & Video Art Commission 2013, 21 Prescott Street, London, Curated by David Gryn
2012
"Art Across the City", A Locws International Public Art Programme across the City of Swansea, Wales, UK   
2011
Great North Run Moving Image Commission 2011
2010
Winner of “The Times/The South Bank Show Breakthrough Award”, Nominated as the representative for the Visual Arts
2009
Daiwa Award for travel to research “Child of the Atom” in Hiroshima, Japan
2008
“The Search for Mingering Mike Museum”, commission by the Bluecoat, Liverpool for the Liverpool Biennial
Video work “Samurai Story parts I & II” and comic “The Gateless Barrier”, commissioned by Tatton Park Biennial, Cheshire
2007
“Spike in the City”, commission by Spike Island, Bristol
2006
“The Man who Fell to Earth”, commission by Heron Mill, Cumbria
2005
“Soul of the Lakes” Grizedale Arts commission for “Cumbriana Proof”, Coniston, Cumbria
Artsadmin Live Arts Bursary 2005-2006
“Radio Nights” Artangel Interaction commission, a film made in collaboration with The Avenues in North London, The Gate Cinema, London
2004
“Mostyn Open”, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales, winner of the £6000 award
“Enter the Barefoot Lone Pilgrim”, performance as a hermit, Painshill Park, Surrey, commissioned by Danielle Arnaud & Parabola for “Tempered Ground”
2003       
“Ya get me?”, Artangel Interaction commission, a film made in collaboration with The Avenues in North London, that centres on the use of language inside subcultures        
2002      
“Beck’s Student Prize for film & video”, runner up prize winner, ICA, London
1999      
“Medway Open”, Gillingham, Kent, winner of £5000 award selected by David Thorp & Permindaur K