Cerith Wyn Evans (b. 1958) is a Welsh conceptual artist, sculptor and film-maker. He graduated from Saint Martin’s School of Art in 1980 and then the Royal College of Art in 1984, earning an MA in Film and Television. He began his artistic career with experimental films and videos with rock bands, shooting the short film Degrees of Blindness in 1988. In the early 1990s he began working in different media, including sculpture, bringing new forms to his creative practice. In 2003, Evans represented Wales in the first Wales Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and in 2018 he won the Hepworth Prize for Sculpture.
