2011
MFA, Edinburgh College of Art (ECA), Edinburgh, Scotland.
2002
BA Fine Arts, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019
Business as Usual, Tyburn Gallery, London, UK. (forthcoming)
How flexible can we make the mouth, Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) (forthcoming)
2010
badmanabadman, Bridgetown Gallery, Barbados.
2020
Right of Admission Retrospective (with Farieda Nazier), University of Johannesburg Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa. (forthcoming)
2019
Useless (with Emilio Bianchi), Pig Rock Bothy, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK.
2016
The Polity of Φ (with Deniz Uster), Glasgow Project Room and Intermedia, the CCA, Glasgow, UK.
2015
The Cradle (with Dean Hutton), Goethe On Main, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2014
Right of Admission (with Farieda Nazier), ROOM Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
LUX, London, UK. (forthcoming)
Group exhibition, The Reid Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK. (forthcoming)
The Imagined New, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa. (forthcoming)
Without Tides, an invitation, Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop, UK. (forthcoming)
13th Havana Biennial, Wilfredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba.
Stalking the Image: Margaret Tait and Her Legacy, GoMA, Glasgow, UK.
2018
Another Country, The City Arts Centre, Edinburgh, UK.
Displaced, Travelling Gallery, Scotland, UK.
There’s something in the conversation that’s more interesting than the finality of (a title), The Showroom, London, UK.
Inner city, GOMA, Glasgow, UK.
REGURGITATE, [SPACE], London, UK.
TRANS, University of Johannesburg Gallery and The Bag Factory, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Another Country, Alice R Rogers & Target Galleries, St. John’s University, Minnesota, USA.
Self Service, CCA Glasgow, UK.
2017
You never stand in the same water twice, ROOM 113, Newcastle, UK.
WOMXN , De Balie, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
ANTE, Suede Gallery, Edinburgh, UK.
2016
Between democracies 1989-2014: Memory and commemoration, Dom umenia and Kunsthalle Bratislava, Bratislavia, Slovakia.
Rum Retort, The Tobacco Warehouse, Greenock, UK.
Hidden Door Festival, Hidden Door, Electric City, Edinburgh, UK.
2015
Between Democracies 1989-2014: Memory and Commemoration, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Johannesburg Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
Embodied Spaces, FRAMER FRAMED, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Finite Project Altered When Open, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, UK.
2014
Residencies 14, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Where We’re At! Other Voices on Gender, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium.
International Artist Initiated, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow.
Transforming Spaces, National Art Gallery, Bahamas.
Stop Making Sense, The Bag Factory, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2013
Woman, Object, Corpse, Centre for African Studies, UCT, Cape Town, South Africa.
CARIFESTA XI, Paramaribo, Suriname.
2012
Streets of Gold, Museum of London, London, UK.
Loopings, Greatmore Studios, South Africa.
2011
Split, Arratia Beer and Sommer und Kohl, Berlin, Germany.
Pop Up Cocktail Bar and Love Club, The Motorcycle Showroom, Bristol, UK.
2010
The Secret Confession, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, UK.
NWSP 10 years, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK.
2018
Curatorial Care: Humanising Practice, FADA Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
SQUIFF 2018, Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, UK.
We Suffer to Remain, (sponsored by the British Council and LUX), National Art Gallery of the Bahamas
Transoceanic Visual Exchange, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia; Third Horizon Media and Miami Book Fair, Miami, USA.
Glare, GFT, Glasgow, UK.
LUX Screenings, Eden Court, Aberdeen and Belmost Filmhouse, Aberdeen, UK.
AfroScots – A Screening Programme of Artist Film and Video, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK; Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK.
2017
AfroScots – A Screening Programme of Artist Film and Video, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
2016
Bedlam Fringe Film Festival, Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh, UK.
2015
Transoceanic Visual Exchange, VAN Lagos, Nigeria and Punch Gallery, Barbados.
Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, Medulla Gallery, Port of Spain, Trinidad.
2019
The Imagined New (or what happens when history is a catastrophe): Working through Alternative Archives: Art, History and the African Diaspora, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. (forthcoming)
Between a whisper and a cry: accumulating gestures, Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Glasgow, Scotland) (forthcoming)
Recipe for Planters Punch, UNFIX Festival, CCA, Glasgow, UK. (forthcoming)
2018
Corpus Callosum, RAW Material, Dakar, Senegal.
2017
Right of Admission, The Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa.
You never stand in the same water twice, ROOM 113, Newcastle, UK.
2016
Temple of Radical Self Love, Chale Wote, Jamestown, Accra, Ghana.
Rum Retort, The Tobacco Warehouse, Greenock, UK.
2015
Johannesburg Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale, Italy.
Right of Admission II, Shepstone Gardens, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2013
Women Object Corpse, Centre for African Studies, UCT, Cape Town, South Africa.
2012
Hustle De Money, Fresh Milk, Barbados.
2018
Whittle, Alberta, Out of Office Auto Reply, MAP magazine, Issue #45, June 2018.
2016
Whittle, Alberta, Review: “Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman” by Michelle Wallace, Visual Culture in Britain, Volume 17, Issue 3, pp. 362-364.
2014
Reviewer, Art South Africa magazine, Volume 12, Issue 4, June 2014; and Volume 13, Issue 1, September 2014.
2012
Gibson, N. Jade, Visual Ethnographies of Displacement and Violence: Land(e)scapes in artists’ works at Thupelo Artists’ Workshop, Wellington, South Africa 2012, collaboration between Dr N Jade Gibson (South Africa/UK), Alberta Whittle (Barbados/Scotland), Jarrett Erasmus (South Africa), Farooq Mustafa (Japan/Pakistan) and Mthabisi Phili (Zimbabwe), Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, Volume 27, Issue 5.
2019
Associate Art Residency, GOMA, Glasgow, UK.
2018
Creative Lab, CCA, Glasgow, UK.
2014
Visiting Artist Programme, The Bag Factory, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2013
Royal Scottish Academy Residencies for Scotland, UK.
Hospitalfield House and Scottish Sculpture Workshop, UK.
2012
Fresh Milk, Barbados.
Visiting Artist Programme, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town, South Africa.
Thupelo, Wellington, South Africa.
2019
Preece, John, ‘Travelling Gallery’ Announces Spring 2019 Exhibition, theedinburghreporter.co.uk, 6 March 2019.
2018
----, Alberta Whittle receives Margaret Tait Award, artreview.com, 27 February 2018.
Sharratt, Chris, Alberta Whittle's Decolonizing Impulse, Frieze.com, 28 February 2018.
Hutchinson, Jack, Alberta Whittle wins ninth edition of Margaret Tait Award, a-n.co.uk, 28 February 2018.
----, New exhibition at Glasgow's GoMA celebrates life and work of visionary Scots filmmaker Margaret Tait, glasgowlife.org.uk, 7 November 2018.
Bethell-Bennett, Ian, Sorry for What?, thenassauguardian.com, 19 May 2018.
2019
Nominee, Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award
2018
Margaret Tait Award
2016
Glasgow Visual Arts & Crafts Award
2019
Nominee, Drawing Room Bursary
2017
University of Edinburgh Principals Go Abroad Fund
2015
Creative Scotland Open Project Funding
2014
Creative Scotland International Research Grant
Hope Scott Trust
2012
Arts Trust Grant
2010
DWT Cargill Fund Travel Bursary
University of Edinburgh Contemporary Art Research Collection (CARC), UK.
Barbados National Art Gallery Collection, Barbados.