JOSEPHINE WOOD
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Biog
Josephine lives and works in London, UK. She studied at Goldsmiths College and Chelsea College of Art & Design. Exhibitions include The Horse Hospital, London, Kunst Raum Riehen, Basel, Glasgow Centre of Contemporary Art, Vitrine Gallery, London, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Global Art Container, Tallinn, Estonia and The Royal Academy of Art, Ghent.
In 2019 she was nominated for The Arts Foundation Futures Award and in 2024 she was awarded the Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant.
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CONTACT:
josephinewoodcontact@gmail.com
@josephinewoodart
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b. London, UK. Lives, works London UK
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Education
2006 Postgraduate Diploma Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, UAL, London
1998 BA Hons Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Hard Cell, Classwaroom, London
2022 My Bloody Finger, 16.9 Billboard, Kingsgate Gallery, London
2015 Self Serve, 25 Cheriton (empty shop unit), London, supported by The London Borough of Camden
2014 Josephine Wood at Punk&Sheep, Punk&Sheep, curated by Cedar Lewisohn & Patricia Ellis, London.
Selected Group Exhibitions
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2025 Forthcoming - Syzygy, Cross lane Projects, London
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2024 Turps Residency Exhibition, Turps Gallery, London
2024 Redcar Summer Exhibition, Redcar Contemporary Art Gallery, North Yorkshire, invited by Michael Archer
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2021 The Commission, University Women's Club, London
2021 The Art of Painting, Copeland Gallery, London
2019 Freeze-frame Fast-forward, Koppel Project Central, London
2019 Sick Monday, The Horse Hospital, London
2019 If I was a Rich girl, Kunstraum Riehen, Basel, curated by Clare Kenny with Louise Bourgeois, Helen Chadwick, Valie Export
2019 Total Eclipse of The Heart - Paintings about Women, Coombs Contemporary, Watson, Farley and Williams, London
2018 Women Can't Paint, Turps Gallery, London, curated by Marcus Harvey
2018 Sick Monday, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
2017 NOI, PSW, Rum Factory, Bow Arts Trust, London
2016 ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, invited by Dan Coombs
2015 Exeter Contemporary Open, Phoenix Gallery, Exeter, UK, finalist exhibition
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2015 The East London Painting Prize, Rum Factory, London, finalist exhibition
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2015 Revolutionary Britain; Art, Power & Politics, Harts Lane Studio, London
2012 Natural Language, Vitrine Gallery, London, curated by Natasha Rees
2012 Dead Darlings, Royal Academy of Art, Ghent
2011 All that glitters, Whitechapel Gallery, London, curated by Julika Gitner & Jon Purnel
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2011 Press​, RED Gallery, London
2010 Savage Cuts, Donlon Books, London, curated by Dean Kenning
2010 Supermarket Art Fair, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
2009 Mouthing Off, Vitrine Gallery, London
2009 New Age, Y Gallery, Tartu, Estonia
2009 Scare in the Community, Core Arts, London
2008 35 London Books, Salon Fur Kuntsbuch, Vienna
2008 CO-Lab'08, Global Art Container, Tallin, Estonia
2008 Subb Urbe of Sound, The Elevator Gallery, London
2008 The Coma Lounge, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
2007 Hung Drawn Quasi Stellar Object, Portman Gallery, London
2007 Journey to the Foul Side of the Sun, Wittenplatz, Amsterdam
2007 House, 211 Richmond Road, Hackney, London
2006 Growbag, Mile End Arts Pavilion, London
2002 DRATER part 2, Galerie Mischenmode (Guido W. Baudach), Berlin
2001 DRATER part 1, Dragon Gallery, London
Awards/Residencies
Turps Residency, Turps Banana, London, 2024
Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant, 2024
Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Grant, 2023
The Arts Foundation Futures Award, nominated by Marcus Harvey, 2019
The East London Painting Prize, finalist, 2015
Exeter Contemporary Open, finalist, 2015
CO-Lab'08, residency, Global Art Container, Tallinn, Estonia, 2008
The Elephant Trust Grant, 2008
Press/publications
Catalogue, Redcar Summer Exhibition, RCCAG, Michael Archer, 2024
Sight & Sound, Sick Monday, Lindsay Hallam, 2020
Catalogue, Sick Monday, Lindsay Hallam, 2019
Garageland Reviews, Alex Michon, 2019
Wall Street International, Woman Can't Paint, Jillian Knipe, 2019
Exeter Express and Echo, newspaper, 2015
Catalogue, Exeter Contemporary Open, 2015
Wall Street International, The East London Painting Prize, 2015
Catalogue, The East London Painting Prize, Oliver Basciano, 2015
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Art & Music - The Saatchi Gallery Magazine, 2013
Talks
Artist talk, Reading School of Art
Artist talk, University Centre St Helens, Liverpool
Artist talk & panel, Liverpool Independent Biennial, Time, Space, Paint: A Conversation
Panel, Women Can't Paint, Turps Gallery, 2018
Artist talk, School of Arts, University of Westminster
Artist talk, Liverpool Independent Biennial, Time, Space, Paint: A Conversation