Born in Llanelli (Wales, UK) in 1958. After obtaining a BFA at Central Saint Martin’s in 1980, Evans received his MA in Film and Television at the Royal College of Art in 1984. He began his career in video and experimental film, working as an assistant to video artist Derek Jarman, then transitioned to working with sculpture and installation art from the 90s. Evans is especially known for his artworks using neon signs. His rhetorical approach is likely connected to growing up in a region where Welsh and English coexist, and learning firsthand the non-identity between the different languages. This attitude is strongly evident in his allusions to past literary texts and artworks. He adds layers of meaning by directly drawing from images and texts to a certain extent while transferring them to different formats. Evans has held numerous solo exhibitions at museums around the world. He participated in documenta 11 in 2002, as well as the 50th (2003) and 57th (2017) editions of La Biennale di Venezia, of which the 2003 edition became a monumental event when Wales officially selected him as an artist to represent its region for the first time. In 2018, he was awarded the Hepworth Prize for Sculpture. His works are included in MoMA (New York) and the Centre Pompidou (Paris), as well as other major contemporary art museums, institutions, and prominent private collections.