Zak Ové was born in London in 1966, and now lives and works between London and Trinidad. He graduated in 1987 with a BA in Film as Fine Art from St. Martin’s School of Art, London.
Solo exhibitions include Arms Around The Child, No1 Mayfair, London (2014); Speaker, Vigo Gallery, London (2013–14); Twice Is Too Much, The Freies Museum, Berlin?(2010); Past Future, Fine Art Society, London (2010); Blue Devils, Real Art Ways Museum, Connecticut (2009); and Black & White Nudes, Carte Blanche Gallery, London (2008). Recent group exhibitions include the 1:54 African Art Fair, London (2016); d’Assemblages, Dapper Museum, Paris (2015); ART14, London (2014); House of Barnabas, London (2014); Chaos Into Clarity: Re-Possessing a Funktioning Utopia, Sharjah Art Foundation, Dubai (2013); Glasstress: White Light / White Heat, Venice Biennale, Venice (2013); and London Twelve, City of Prague Museum. Czech Republic (2012). In 2015, Ové became the first Caribbean artist to be commissioned by the British Museum, with his pair of seven-metre-high Moko Jumbie sculptures exhibited in the Great Court as part of the Celebrating Africa exhibition. These two works entered the Museum’s permanent collection in March 2017.