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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.

Forms explode in the guttural mark making of Josephine Wood’s paintings. Here, desiring bodies and animalistic forms collide with interior objects such as tables and lamps, crushing the boundaries between subject and object, a merging of internal and external worlds, real or imagined. Titles such as ‘The Subject is Split’ allude to a divided subjectivity, suspended between desire and abjection, the sensory body and conventions of language.

2025

CONTACT:

josephinewoodcontact@gmail.com

@josephinewoodart

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b. London, UK. Lives, works London UK

Education

2006 Postgraduate Diploma Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, UAL, London

1998 BA Hons Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London

Selected Exhibitions

2025 Forthcoming, Shared Origins, Winns Gallery, London, curated by Stephen Keane

2025 Forthcoming, Blink, Safehouse, London, curated by Dido Hallett & Anna Sebastian

2025 Dark Spring- Syzygy, Cross lane Projects Vestry St, London, curated by Petra Williams

2024 Turps Residency Exhibition, Turps Gallery, London

2024 Redcar Summer Exhibition, Redcar Contemporary Art Gallery, North Yorkshire, invited by Michael Archer

2024 solo, Hard Cell, Classwaroom, London

2022 My Bloody Finger, 16.9 Billboard commission, Kingsgate Gallery, London

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, curated by Gina Birch & Nicole Price

2019 Sick Monday, The Horse Hospital, London, curated by Dean Kenning, Liam & Vanessa Scully

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, Watson, Farley and Williams, London, curated by Dan Coombs

2018 Women Can't Paint, Turps Gallery, London, curated by Marcus Harvey

2018 Sick Monday, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, curated by Dean Kenning, Liam & Vanessa Scully

2017 NOI, PSW, Rum Factory, Bow Arts Trust, London

2016 ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, invited by Dan Coombs

2015 solo, Self Serve, 25 Cheriton (empty shop unit), London, supported by The London Borough of Camden

2015 Exeter Contemporary Open, Phoenix Gallery, Exeter, UK, finalist exhibition

2015 The East London Painting Prize, Rum Factory, London, finalist exhibition

2015 Revolutionary Britain; Art, Power & Politics, Harts Lane Studio, London

2014 Josephine Wood at Punk&Sheep, Punk&Sheep, curated by Cedar Lewisohn & Patricia Ellis, 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

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, curated by Alys Williams

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

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