Rory Pilgrim

Working across music, film, text, drawing and performance, Rory Pilgrim redefines how we come together and strive for social change. Influenced by activist, feminist and social practices, Pilgrim works with others, through long-term dialogue and collaboration, to share and voice personal experiences. Pilgrim rethinks the emotional and ecological impact of law. Following long-term engagement with communities based on The Isle of Portland – a small island in the English Channel, home to two architecturally dominating prisons, and a diminishing natural ecosystem – Pilgrim’s commission unfolds with others through screenplay, live performance and music.

Rory Pilgrim lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and the Isle of Portland, UK. Selected exhibitions include: Turner Prize 2023, Towner Eastbourne, Eastbourne (2023), Rafts: Live, Cadogan Hall, Serpentine Galleries, London (2022); Radio Ballads, Serpentine Gallery, London (2022); HOP to Hope, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art (WAM), Turku (2022); Where the Tide Takes Us, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig (2021); The Undercurrent, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (2020). Selected screenings and performances include: Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul (2023); Screening Rights Film Festival, Coventry (2023); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2023); MoMA, New York (2022); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2021); Glasgow Film Festival (2020); Images Festival, Toronto (2019); and Transmediale Festival, HKW, Berlin (2019). Pilgrim was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2023, and was the winner of the Prix de Rome in 2019.

Pink & Green is commissioned and produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London, developed as part of a feature film commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London, and Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Middelburg. The long-term project is produced by Elizabeth Graham, and the feature film produced by Smarthouse, supported by De Verbeelding – a collaboration between the Mondriaan Fund and the Netherlands Film Fund.