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Josephine lives and works in London, UK. She graduated in 1998 from BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London and Postgraduate Diploma, Chelsea College of Art & Design in 2006. Exhibitions include The Horse Hospital, London, Kunst Raum Riehen, Basel, Glasgow Centre of Contemporary Art, Turps Gallery, London, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Global Art Container, Tallinn, Estonia and The Royal Academy of Art, Ghent, Belgium. In 2022, she was commissioned by Kingsgate Gallery, London to produce a painting for the public Billboard 16:9. In 2019 she was nominated for The Arts Foundation Futures Award and was shortlisted for The East London Painting Prize and Exeter Contemporary Prize in 2015.
Wood's recent paintings explore the female body, urban nature and our fractious relations as consumers to commodities.
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CONTACT:
josephinewoodcontact@gmail.com
@josephinewoodart
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Lives, works London, UK
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Education
2006 Postgraduate Diploma Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts, 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, commissioned by Kingsgate Gallery, London
2015 Self Serve, self initiated Solo show in a disused shop on a housing estate, London. Supported by The London Borough of Camden
2014 Josephine Wood at Punk&Sheep, solo show, Punk&Sheep, curated by Cedar Lewisohn & Patricia Ellis, London.
Selected Group Exhibitions
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, curated by Clare Kenny with Louise Bourgeois, Helen Chadwick, Valie Export , Basel, Switzerland
2019 Total Eclipse of The Heart - Paintings about Women, curated by Dan Coombs, Watson, Farley and Williams, London
2018 Women Can't Paint, curated by Marcus Harvey, Turps Gallery, London
2018 Sick Monday, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland
2017 NOI, artist-curator, PSW, Rum Factory, Bow Arts Trust, London
2015 Exeter Contemporary Open, finalists exhibition, Phoenix Gallery, Exeter
2015 The East London Painting Prize, finalists exhibition, Rum Factory, London
2015 Revolutionary Britain; Art, Power & Politics, Harts Lane Studio, London
2012 Natural Language, curated by Natasha Rees, Vitrine Gallery, London
2012 Dead Darlings, Royal Academy of Art, Ghent, Belgium
2011 All that glitters is not Institution, as Wood+Rees, curated by Julika Gitner & Jon Purnel, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2011 Press​, live performance, RED Gallery, London
2010 Savage Cuts, as Wood+Rees, ​curated by Dean Kenning, Donlon Books, London
2010 Supermarket Art Fair, curated by Natasha Rees & Linda Perrson, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
2009 Mouthing Off, curated by Alys Williams, Vitrine Gallery, London
2009 New Age, Y Gallery, Tartu, Estonia
2009 Scare in the Community, Core Arts, London
2008 CO-Lab'08, 6 live performances over one week, Global Art Container, Tallin, Estonia
2008 Subb Urbe of Sound, artist-curator, The Elevator Gallery, London
2008 The Coma Lounge, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2007 Hung Drawn Quasi Stellar Object, Portman Gallery, London
2007 Journey to the Foul Side of the Sun, Wittenplatz, Amsterdam
2007 Illuminated Chains of Maser Freedom, The Griffin, London
2006 I'll Show You Mine, PGDip show, Chelsea Space, UAL, London
2002 Drater collective, Tales of Folly, Cardboard Gallery, London
2001 Drater collective, Sausage Man, Michemode Gallery, Berlin
2000 Drater collective, Dragon Gallery, London
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Awards/Residencies
2023 - 24 Artist Residency, Classwaroom, London
2022 Kingsgate Gallery 16.9 Billboard commission
2019 The Arts Foundation Futures Award, nominated by Marcus Harvey
2015 The East London Painting Prize, finalist
2015 Exeter Contemporary Open, finalist
2008 CO-Lab'08 live art residency, Global Art Container, Tallinn, Estonia
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Press/publications
2020 Sight & Sound, ‘Atrocity Exhibition’, Sick Monday by Linday Hallam
2019 Sick Monday catalogue, Lindsay Hallam
2019 Garageland Reviews, interview, Alex Michon
2019 Wall Street International, Woman Can't Paint, by Jillian Knipe
2015 Exeter Express and Echo, featured painting
2015 Catalogue, Exeter Contemporary Open
2015 Wall Street International, featured painting for The East London Painting Prize
2015 Catalogue, The East London Painting Prize by Oliver Basciano
2013 Art & Music - The Saatchi Gallery Magazine, interview
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Talks
2023 The Essential School of Painting, Artist Talk, London
2022 A Brush with Power - Painting & Politics, course writer & lecturer, The Essential School of Painting, London UK
2022 University Centre St Helens, Artist Talk, Liverpool, UK
2021 Reading School of Art, Artist Talk, Reading UK
2021 Liverpool Independents Biennial - Time, Space, Paint: A Conversation, Artist Talk hosted by Fiona Sterling
2018 Turps Gallery, Woman Can't Paint, panel discussion, London
2009 School of Arts, University of Westminster, Artist Talk, London