Helen Marten's work has been included in the 56th Venice Biennale and the 20th Biennale of Sydney.
11 Facts About Helen Marten
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Helen Marten has won the 2012 LUMA Award, the Prix Lafayette in 2011, the inaugural Hepworth Prize and the Turner Prize, both in 2016.
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Helen Marten is represented by Greene Naftali Gallery in New York, and Sadie Coles HQ.
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Helen Marten is one of three children, and the only one in her family to be artistically driven.
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Helen Marten's twin sister is an accountant, her father a pharmacist, and her mother a biologist with a Phd in semiotics of racism.
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Helen Marten has used handmade and found objects within her work, including cotton buds, coins, shoe soles, limes, marbles, eggs and snooker chalk.
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Helen Marten added: "Here's to a furthering of communality and a platform for everyone".
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Helen Marten was included in BBC Radio 4's Front Row round-up of 2016's major arts and entertainment award winners.
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Helen Marten knows this; thinking differently is the way to go.
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Helen Marten's work is in the collections of Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway, and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy.
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Helen Marten's work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.