Colin Self was born in 1987 in Portland, United States of America. They studied puppetry and experimental writing at Evergreen State College in Washington before completing a BFA at the School of Art Institute of Chicago in 2010. Self received an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts in 2017. Self’s work has been presented at the Whitney Museum of Art, USA (2023); Cleveland Museum of Art, USA (2022); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2022); KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin (2022); Gropius Bau, Berlin (2021); HAU, Berlin (2017); MoMA PS1, New York (2013). Self lives and works in Berlin.