PERRY-JAMES SUGDEN
ARTIST, TECHNOLOGIST & RESEARCHER
CO-FOUNDER @ STUDIO ABOVE&BELOW
Perry-James Sugden is an artist, technologist and researcher exploring the intersection of art, technology, science and immersive experiences. His work spans interactive installations, XR, and collaborations with academic and cultural institutions worldwide, focusing on creative approaches to data, environment, and perception.
Exhibitions
EXHIBITION2026
The Cafesjian Center for the Arts, Կասկադ, Yerevan, ARM
EXHIBITION2026
Shenzhen Art and Technology Biennale, Shenzhen, CHN
EXHIBITION2026
Science Gallery Bengaluru, Bengaluru, IND
EXHIBITION2026
Oberhausen Theatre, GER
EXHIBITION2026
Theater an der Ruhr (upcoming), Germany
EXHIBITION2026
Artemis Gallery, Lisbon, POR
EXHIBITION2026
LoftofART, Düsseldorf, GER
EXHIBITION2026
Foundation Telefónica, Madrid, SPA
EXHIBITION2026
Science Gallery London, London, UK
EXHIBITION2026
Artemis Gallery, Vienna, Austria
EXHIBITION2026
Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia
EXHIBITION2026
Quantum Lens, Science Museum London, UK
EXHIBITION2026
UCL, London, UK
EXHIBITION2025
Quantum Visions, Haus der Elektronischen Künste, HEK, Switzerland
EXHIBITION2025
‘In the Blink of an Eye’, Noor Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
EXHIBITION2025
Antonia Pittore Museo, Malnisio, Italy
EXHIBITION2025
MAD Arts, Miami, USA
EXHIBITION2025
V&A South Kensington, John Lyon’s Community Gallery, Learning Centre, UK
EXHIBITION2025
Inspace Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
EXHIBITION2025
SXSW, UK House, London
EXHIBITION2025
Digital Art Week, OUTERNET, London, UK
EXHIBITION2025
The Lowry, Manchester, UK
EXHIBITION2025
Imperial College, Great Exhibition Road Festival
EXHIBITION2025
Cairotronica | \u200Eكايروترونيكا ٢٠٢٥, Cairo, Egypt
EXHIBITION2025
Expo Sunderland, Keel Square Pavilion, UK
EXHIBITION2025
Art Otel London Hoxton, London, UK
EXHIBITION2025
Sainsbury’s Centre, Norwich, UK
EXHIBITION2025
Djanogly Gallery, Lakeside Arts, Nottingham
EXHIBITION2025
Artemis Gallery, Lisbon, POR
EXHIBITION2025
Silent Green Kulturquartier, Berlin, GER
EXHIBITION2024
iMAL, Brussels, BEL
EXHIBITION2024
UK National Quantum Technologies Showcase, London, UK
EXHIBITION2024
Onassis Stegi, Athens, GR
EXHIBITION2024
RIXC, Center for Media Culture, Riga, Latvia
EXHIBITION2024
Cultvr, Cardiff, UK
EXHIBITION2024
ZiMMT, Leipzig, GER
EXHIBITION2024
LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial, Gijón, SPA
EXHIBITION2024
Turbo Gallery, Rainbow Victoria, AUS
EXHIBITION2024
Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, GR
EXHIBITION2024
MEET, Milan, ITA
EXHIBITION2024
CultVR, Cardiff, UK
EXHIBITION2024
Sonar+D, Barcelona, SPA
EXHIBITION2024
Photo London, London, UK
EXHIBITION2024
IMPAKT – Centre for Media Culture, Utrecht, NET
EXHIBITION2024
Gnration, Braga, POR
EXHIBITION2024
ART SG, Singapore, SIN
EXHIBITION2024
Noise Media Art Fair + Festival, Istanbul, TUR
EXHIBITION2023
Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, SLO
EXHIBITION2023
TODA DUBAI, Dubai, UAE
EXHIBITION2023
Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, CRO
EXHIBITION2023
Intropias, Alicante, SPA
EXHIBITION2023
Museu da Cidade, POR
EXHIBITION2023
Artemis Gallery, Lisbon, POR
EXHIBITION2023
Goethe Institute, Montreal, CAN
EXHIBITION2023
Contemporary Istanbul Foundation, Istanbul, TUR
EXHIBITION2023
Evolving Kinetics, Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen, GER
EXHIBITION2023
Meditative Cohabitation at iMAL, Brussels, BEL
EXHIBITION2023
DG Connect, Brussels, BEL
EXHIBITION2022
S+T+ARTS Repairing the present, MEET Milan, ITA
EXHIBITION2022
HeK ARTour, Basel, SWI
EXHIBITION2022
Epoch gallery, Online, Los Angeles, USA
EXHIBITION2022
SparkArtFair, Vienna, AUS
EXHIBITION2022
Artemis Gallery, Lisbon, POR
EXHIBITION2022
Windermere Jetty Museum, Windermere, UK
EXHIBITION2022
International Shortfilm Festival, Oberhausen, GER
EXHIBITION2022
ARTour, Basel, SWI
EXHIBITION2022
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
EXHIBITION2022
Broadway Gallery, Nottingham, UK
EXHIBITION2021
New Now, UNESCO Zeche Zollverein, Essen, GER
EXHIBITION2021
London Digital Design Weekend, V&A, London, UK
EXHIBITION2021
London Design Festival, V&A, London, UK
EXHIBITION2021
Frequency Festival: Digital Democracies, Lincoln, UK
EXHIBITION2021
Tieranatomisches Museum, Berlin, GER
EXHIBITION2021
CIK Knivsta, Multuhuset Möbeln, Uppsala, SWE
EXHIBITION2021
LACA Shard, London, UK
EXHIBITION2021
AR Biennale, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, GER
EXHIBITION2021
Shaping the Invisible World, HEK, Basel, SWI
EXHIBITION2021
Freedom Festival, Hull, UK
EXHIBITION2021
FeralFile: The Long Cut, Online, worldwide
EXHIBITION2021
OGR Nesta Italia + STARTS, Turin, ITA
EXHIBITION2021
ECCE, Ruhrarea, GER
EXHIBITION2021
Space Gallery, London, UK
EXHIBITION2021
Arebyte Gallery, AR Workshop, London, UK
EXHIBITION2020.2021
Shenzhen Bay STarts Festival (previously Shenzhen Media Art Festival), Shenzhen, CHI
EXHIBITION2020.2021
Factory Berlin x Sonar +D x by Beats by Dr. Dre, Berlin, GER
EXHIBITION2020
Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts, Gdańsk, POL
EXHIBITION2020
NODE Festival, Frankfurt, GER
EXHIBITION2020
Fiber Festival, Amsterdam, NL
EXHIBITION2020
Broadway Gallery, Nottingham, UK
EXHIBITION2020
AR Workshop, Arebyte Gallery, London, UK
EXHIBITION2020
Deep Play, SPACE Gallery, London, UK
EXHIBITION2020
Festival Zero1, La Rochelle, France
EXHIBITION2020
EXIT, UGLY DUCK, London - CANCELLED
EXHIBITION2020
The Landscapists: AD Launch, TATE Modern Terrace Bar – Postponed
EXHIBITION2020
Sensing Systems, Nottingham Contemporary, UK
EXHIBITION2019
SPACE Gallery, London
EXHIBITION2019
AR Workshop, V&A, London, UK
EXHIBITION2019
HERE < / > THERE x Today Art Museum at SIA, Beijing, CHI
EXHIBITION2019
Augmented Landscape Workshop with Above&Below Gallery, London
EXHIBITION2019
Plexus Projects Gallery, New York, US
EXHIBITION2019
NKF – Nordic Art Association, Stockholm, SWE
EXHIBITION2019
WRO Biennale, WRO Art Center, Wrocław, POL
EXHIBITION2019
Scuola Grande della Misericordia, Zuecca Projects & the PhotoPhore, Venice, ITA
EXHIBITION2019
Tate Exchange in collaboration with Her-vision, TATE Modern, London, GB
EXHIBITION2019
Collusion Art Commission Exhibition, Cambridge, UK
EXHIBITION2019
We Are Ugly Duck, London, UK
EXHIBITION2019
Aesthetica Art Prize, York, UK
EXHIBITION2018
GAMMA Award Exhibition, Seoul, KOR
EXHIBITION2018
London Design Festival, London, UK
EXHIBITION2018
Retune Festival, Berlin, GER
EXHIBITION2018
Electrofringe, Sydney, AUS
EXHIBITION2018
Artburst, Berlin, GER
EXHIBITION2018
Is This It? Residency, London, UK
EXHIBITION2018
SET Studio Bermondsey, London, UK
EXHIBITION2018
Altered States – St. John‘s Church Waterloo, London, UK
EXHIBITION2018
Sónar Festival, Barcelona, ES
EXHIBITION2018
International Shortfilm Festival, Oberhausen, GER
EXHIBITION2018
202 Gallery (Central Saint Martins), London, UK
EXHIBITION2017
The Arch Window, GP Studios Arch, London, UK
EXHIBITION2017
Royal College of Art, London, UK
EXHIBITION2017
ICA Student Forum, London, UK
Education
EDUCATION2015-2017
MA: Information Experience Design, Royal College of Art, London, UK
EDUCATION2012-2015
BA: Fine Arts and History of Art, Kingston University, London, UK
EDUCATION2014-2014
BA: Exchange, Salzburg International Summer Academy of Arts, Salzburg, AUS
Talks
TALK2026
Science Museum London, UK
TALK2026
Creative Swansea talk, Swansea, UK
TALK2025
Lakeside Arts, Nottingham University, Nottingham, UK
TALK2025
Antonia Pittore Museo, Malnisio, Italy
TALK2025
UCL London UK
TALK2025
art'otel, London, UK
TALK2024
Mediale XR Masterclass, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
TALK2024
ART +COM Studios, Berlin, GER
TALK2024
MEET, Milan, IT
TALK2024
GAD, UAL, London, UK
TALK2024
University of London, London, UK
TALK2024
MEET Digital Culture Centre, Milan, ITA
TALK2023
KONTEJNER, Zagred, CRO
TALK2023
Fiber Festival, Amsterdam, NET
TALK2023
MEET, Repairing The Present, Milan, IT
TALK2023
Umanesimo Artificiale, Fano, IT
TALK2023
Kultur Digital Kongress, PACT, Essen, GER
TALK2023
PECKHAM DIGITAL, Festival of creative computing, London, UK
TALK2023
Swansea College, Swansea, UK
TALK2023
GAD, UAL, London, UK
TALK2022
Professional Practice, Royal College of Art, London, UK
TALK2022
VR Lab Summer School, GLUON Brüssel, BEL
TALK2022
CultVR Lab: working with immersive technology, Cardiff, UK
TALK2022
STARTS Repairing the present Artist Talk, Snowball, Kortjik, BEL
TALK2021
Grey Matter, Royal College of Art London, UK
TALK2021
Air Pollution & Data, Digital Democracies, Lincoln, UK
TALK2021
AR Workshop: Inspired by Nature, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, GER
TALK2021
Digital Material Ecology, NEW NOW Festival, Zeche Zollverein, Essen, GER
TALK2021
Art & Science Collaboration: States of Growth Talk at STARTS Urban Fest, OGR, Turin, ITA
TALK2021
Art & Science Collaboration: States of Growth Artist Talk, Viadellafucina, Turin, ITA
TALK2021
AR Workshop, Digital Northampton, Northampton, UK
TALK2021
The Future of Screens, Royal College of Art, London, UK
TALK2021
AR Workshop: Intermediate, Arebyte Gallery, London, UK
TALK2021
AR Workshop: Beginners, Arebyte Gallery, London, UK
TALK2021
Data, Art, Technology, DRIVA Arts DRIVA, Brighton, UK
TALK2020
London Creative Coding, London, UK
TALK2020
Retune Studio Visit, Berlin, DE
TALK2020
Canterbury School of Architecture, Canterbury, UK
TALK2020
Broadway, Nottingham, UK
TALK2020
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
TALK2020
Broadway Cinema, Nottingham, UK
TALK2019
Backlit Gallery, Nottingham, UK
TALK2019
AR Workshop with Above&Below + Exhibition at Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
TALK2019
HERE < / > THERE x Today Art Museum at SIA, Beijing, CHI
TALK2019
Augmented Landscape Workshop with Above&Below + Exhibition at Arbyte Gallery, London, UK
TALK2018
Sustainable AR at London Design Festival, London, UK
TALK2018
Sustainable AR at Retune Festival, Berlin, GER
TALK2018
Artist Talk at Collusion, Cambridge, UK
TALK2017
A Million A Minute at WIRED Creative Hack Award, Tokyo, JAP
TALK2016
Exhibiting in VR Spaces at ICA, London, UK
Funding
FUNDING2025
BRAID - Responsible AI Grant
FUNDING2025
Imperial College: Quantum Technology, Grant
FUNDING2024
Cosmic Titans, Immersive Art&Science Commission at University of Nottingham
FUNDING2024
STARTS in the City Grant
FUNDING2023
EMAP European Media Platform Residency and Grant Recipient
FUNDING2023
STARTS in the City Grant
FUNDING2023
4 NATIONS Arts Council England and Creative Scotland International Grant
FUNDING2022
EMAP European Media Platform Residency and Grant Recipient
FUNDING2022
S+T+ARTS Repairing The Present
FUNDING2022
Lumen Prize (longlisted)
FUNDING2021
Lumen Prize (longlisted)
FUNDING2021
Arts Council Project Grant
FUNDING2021
Digital Democracies Grant
FUNDING2021
NEW NOW Artist Residency grant
FUNDING2021
NESTA Italia x STARTS: Future of the City Winners
FUNDING2021
ECCE Arts Grant
FUNDING2021
DRIVA Arts DRIVA Research & Development Grant
FUNDING2021
Aesthetica Art Prize (shortlisted)
FUNDING2020
Factory Berlin x Sonar+D x Beats by Dr Dre Residency
FUNDING2020
BOM Fellowship
FUNDING2020
Space Gallery Artist Residency grant
FUNDING2020
Near Now Fellowship
FUNDING2019
Zealous Sculpture Prize
FUNDING2019
Aesthetica Art Prize (longlist)
FUNDING2019
Collusion Immersive Art Commission (winner)
FUNDING2017
WIRED Creative Hack Award (finalist)
FUNDING2017
Bloomberg Bursary (finalist)
Teaching
TEACHING2023
Umanesimo.Artificiale Summer School, Bits & Atoms, Fano, Italy
TEACHING2023
Summer School, GLUON Brüssel, BEL
TEACHING2022
VR Lab Summer School, GLUON Brüssel, BEL
TEACHING2022
中国美术学院创新设计学院, China Academy of Art, School of Design & Innovation
TEACHING2021
中国美术学院创新设计学院, China Academy of Art, School of Design & Innovation
Permanent Works
PERMANENT2025
Appenzeller Huus Quell, Switzerland