Solo Exhibitions
2011 Backwater , Fishmarket gallery, Northampton
2010 Soothsayers, Sierra Metro, Edinburgh
2009 Fantasmagora ,Better Place Portraiture, Auto Italia South East, London
2009 Prussian Projekte, Nottingham
2007 Goddess,British & European Legs, CAN07, Norwich
2006 Sci-fi looking thing, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012
The shape, generator projects, Dundee
Storage room, curated by Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Haifa Museum of Art, Israeli
Storage room, curated by Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Xero, kline & coma project , London
Omnia Mea Mecum Porto, Kotti Shop, Berlin
2011
NADA Art Fair, Miami, (workplace gallery) USA
Seeing In The Dark , Circa site , Newcastle Upon Tyne
Translate/Transcribe, Central House of Artists, Moscow
Outpost Summer Fayre, Embassy gallery, Norwich
ROTATE, Workplace Gallery , The Contemporary Art Society, London
Drawing 2011, The Drawing Room, London
Defective Science, Sala Dogana, Palazzo Ducale , Genova , Italy
Rummage Sale and Floor of the Forest ,Barbican Art Gallery , London
Mural Newspaper Organized by Hugo Canoilas, Abrons Art center , New York
2010
NADA Art Fair, Miami (Workplace Gallery) USA
Hello World , Embassy gallery, Edinburgh
FIAC Art Fair with Workplace Gallery, Paris, France
Palace Bandwagon , FIAC , tuileries's garden , Paris, France
Paris Correspondence School, Paris,London,Birmingham
2010 Remake Remodel, NGC,Sunderland
The Dictionary of Received Ideas, project with Caryn Coleman , Q London
Better Place Portraiture: Surreal House, Barbican Art Gallery London
No Soul for Sale (presented by Auto Italia, London) Tate Modern, London
No Soul for Sale (presented by Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh), Tate Modern, London
2009
Better place Portraiture, Summer Group Show, the Old Police Station. London
Panda Malin-Head, Auto-Italia southeast, London
The Intimate, The Infinite & The Impossible at Magacin, Belgrade
Drawing 2009 The Drawing Room, London
Yes way, Auto-Italia & UTR, London
The Golden Record, g39 Cardiff
BCN Exhibition, Cooper's Building, Newcastle
2008
Tomorrow the future curated by workplace gallery fishmarket gallery
Lost and found, zoo art fair, Royal Academy, London
All my favourite singers couldn’t sing… Workplace gallery, Gateshead
The Golden Record, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
Epic, Auto-Italia southeast, London
Kingfisher Tales, Union Gallery, London
Art Futures, Bloomberg Space, London
2007
Beacon Of Hope, Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria
Metteurs en Scène, The Embassy, Edinburgh
Drawing 2007, The Drawing Room, London
DC Workplace Gallery stand, Düsseldorf, Germany
Comfort Zones, National touring exhibition with the Oriel Davies Gallery, Wales
Art Futures, Bloomberg Space, London
The Opposite of Vertigo, The Drawing Room, London
2006
Better place Portraiture, Mima, Middlesbrough
Electrical Activity, Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle
The opposite of vertigo, Burren College of art, Ireland
Formal Dining, Hales gallery, curated by Workplace gallery London
Blue Star Red Wedge, WASPS, Glasgow International, Glasgow
Pulse Art Fair, Workplace Gallery stand, New York, USA
The space in-between the sole and the heel, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
Film screenings
2012
In production ,Nottingham contemporary, Nottingham
2011
The Art of Fear, Nighthawk Cinema, Brooklyn, New York
Pale Fire,Generator Projects,Dundee
Throw The Switches , trove , Birmingham
2010
Cinéphémère , The Louvre Museum in collaboration with the Ricard Foundation,Paris, France
Selected Video Works, Scratch Nights at Milton Keynes Gallery
The City and the Stars (film lounge), Stills, Edinburgh
Yes way, Auto-Italia & UTR, Auto-Italia southeast, London
Bibliography
2012
"Gods and Monsters" Incognitum Hactenus, online journal co-edited by Caryn Coleman and Tom Trevatt
'Endless Lonely Planet' , yearly periodical edited by Christopher L G Hill
2011
Uncle Chop Chop Magazine , Edited by J.Beagles and G.Ramsay , launch C.C.A glasgow
NADA 2011 , maimi , artisabout.com
Hyperdrawing: Beyond the Lines of Contemporary Art . I. B. Tauris ISBN 13: 9781780762548
Darren Banks: Backwater , AN interface , Annabelle Shelton
Voyeur Of Utter Destruction (As Beauty) essay by Alexander Hetherington
How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare a collaboration with Caryn Coleman
2010
Yes Way Auto-Italia & UTR, Auto-Italia southeast, London
Dialogues , a publication by the graduating class of goldsmiths MFA Curating
Get on the band wangon by Caryn Coleman , Tuileries 2010, Paris
archive les 80’s dans une sombre Cadillac, ARTINFO france - Grégory Picard
Cadillac Noire Cinema Couleurs Papilon, ARTINFO france
Lux Blog , Caryn Coleman interviews artist Darren Banks
Soothsayers, Map magazine - John Beagles
Soothsayers, the Edinburgh Journal - Joao Abbot-Gribben
Soothsayers, the List - Neil Cooper
Soothsayers, the skinny - Adeline Amar
2009
It’s not the end of the world ,NVA - Jennie Syson
Untitled, axis artist database - Neil Mulholland
Unpublished ‘Stop, Rewind, Eject’ - Benjamin Newell
2007
Comfort Zones, exhibition catalogue, Oriel Davies gallery ISBN 978-1-870-79720-5
The Opposite of Vertigo, Flash Art magazine - Courtney j. Martain
British & European Legs, Artist Newsletter – Stephanie Douet
Domestic Virtues: Art, Interiority and Domesticity - Chris Townsend
2006
Untitled, axis artist database - Alessandro Vincentelli,
Sci-fi looking thing, the crack Margazine - Chloe Corkhill
Unpublished ‘Blue Star, Red Wedge - Matt Hearn
Glasgow International 06, Martin Vincent, Art Monthly
Northern Lights, Dazed & Confused
Collections
Private Collections, USA / UK
The Guangdong Museum of Art ,China