Education
2019-2023
Slade School of Art, University College London, MFA Sculpture 

2015-2018
University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury, BA (Hons) Fine Art: First Class Degree


Solo Exhibitions
2025
Ty Locke: Under the Table, Commune, Vienna, Austria (upcoming)

2023
Kitchen Sink Drama, Copperfield, London, UK

2021
Domestic Bliss, My Flat, Margate, UK

2019
23p Beans, Margate, UK
38 Code, The Brewery Tap Project Space, Folkestone, UK

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Group Exhibitions
2025
The Pleasure of Misuse, Royal Society of Sculptors, curated by Indira Dyussebayeva-Ziyabek and Maria Hinel (including Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Holly Hendry, Andy Holden, Jean-Luc Moulène, Amalia Pica), London, UK (upcoming)
​Matching Seats, MAD Museum, Brussels, Belgium
Material, Copperfield, Mexico City, 2025 (duo booth with Tommy Smiths)


2024 
Take a Seat, Bow Arts, London, UK
Intension (the concept ‘dog’ encapsulates its ‘dogness’), Copperfield, London, UK
​The Physical Trace of Memory, London, UK, curated by Nico Brocchin and Isabella Tang
Fragment I, Commune, Vienna, Austria
Wonderland, FILET, London, UK
Annual Sadness, The Organ Factory, London, UK

2023
Annual Sadness, The Organ Factory, London, UK
​Let Them Eat Fake, Bad Art, BWG Gallery, London, UK
Minor Attractions, Cornershop, London, UK
​Amber Room, Matt's Gallery, London, UK
Unfurnished, Bomb Factory, London, UK
Max Redford, Max Redford Gallery, London, UK

2022
Adult By Nature, Quench, Margate, UK
MOCA WE (Digital exhibition) MOCA London, UK
Deconstructing, National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, USA

2021
Hung On A Minute, Platform Southwark, London, UK
Dysfunctional Pleasures, DODO, Brighton, UK
Turner Contemporary Open, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK

2020
Burger Van, London, UK
Stage, RCA, London, UK

2019
House Meeting, Crate, Margate, UK
LOVE-IN, Limbo, Margate, UK
Platform Graduate Show, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK

2018
Anxiety of Time, UCA, Canterbury, UK
Mr Sandman, Crate, Margate, UK
Domino, Crate, Margate UK
[Insert Title Here] Fine Art Degree Show, UCA, Canterbury, UK
There are no Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy, UCA, Canterbury, UK

2017
Meze, Cyprus College of Art, Lemba, Paphos, Cyprus
Found object, Cyprus College of Art, Lemba, Paphos, Cyprus
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Residencies
2025
Studio Block M74, Mexico City, supported by Knotenpunkt 


Selected collections
Cloud Seven, Brussels
POC collection, Brussels
LAM Museum, Lisse
Crab Museum, Margate
Ingar Dragset, Norway
Maarten Baas, Netherlands
S. Davíðsdóttir, UK
Thomas/de Prez collection, UK
Mauro Mattei Art Trust, UK
​Isabel and Agustín Coppel collection, Mexico
 

Press
2025
Patrycja Poznańska, Artist in Focus: Ty Locke. Sculpting identity, memory, and humour, Contemporary Lynx, 13 March 2025
​Connecting the Dots, Ty Locke in conversation with George Mingozzi-Marsh, Amici.Art, podcast, 7 March 2025

2024
Londra ora e al centro della scena per recuperare tereno, Il Sole 24 Ore (print), October 2024
Melanie Gerlis, Economic and political challenges threaten London’s art market​, Financial Times, 5 October 2024
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2023
Chibundu Onuzo, Art stars of tomorrow? Four of my favourite artists from the Slade School degree show in London, The Art Newspaper, 23 June 2023

2022
Next Gen, radio podcast, Ramsgate Radio
http://www.ramsgateradio.com/nextgen/episode/4faf7e2a/ty-locke
 
2021
Art of Tomorrow, Artist talk
https://www.artoftmrw.com/ty-locke
 

Awards
2018
Platform Graduate Award:
Turner Contemporary, Margate                           
UCA & Crate Graduate Award
Crate, Margate   
Shortlisted - DAD, New Graduate Award/ Art in the Park: 
Kearsney Abbey, Dover
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Funded Projects
2019
Margate NOW Festival: '23p Beans', Margate, UK

2018
Margate NOW Festival: 'Main Sands', Margate, UK