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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.

CONTACT:

josephinewoodcontact@gmail.com

@josephinewoodart

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

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

Forthcoming - Syzygy, Cross lane Projects, Vestry St, London, 2025

Redcar Summer Exhibition, Redcar Contemporary Art Gallery, North Yorkshire, invited by Michael Archer (writer/critic), 2024

The Commission, University Women's Club, London, 2021

The Art of Painting, Copeland Gallery, London, 2021

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, 2019

Total Eclipse of The Heart - Paintings about Women, curated by Dan Coombs, Watson, Farley and Williams, London, 2019

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

Sick Monday, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, 2018

NOI, artist-curator, PSW, Rum Factory, Bow Arts Trust, London, 2017

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

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

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

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

Natural Language, Vitrine Gallery, London, 2012

Dead Darlings, Royal Academy of Art, Ghent, 2012

All that glitters, curated by Julika Gitner & Jon Purnel, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2011

Press, RED Gallery, London, 2011

Savage Cuts, Donlon Books, London, curated by Dean Kenning, 2010

Supermarket Art Fair, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, 2010

Mouthing Off, Vitrine Gallery, London, 2009

New Age, Y Gallery, Tartu, Estonia, 2009

Scare in the Community, Core Arts, London, 2009

35 London Books, Salon Fur Kuntsbuch, Vienna, 2008

CO-Lab'08, Global Art Container, Tallin, Estonia, 2008

Subb Urbe of Sound, artist-curator, The Elevator Gallery, London, 2008

The Coma Lounge, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 2008

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, 2007

Growbag, Mile End Arts Pavilion, London, 2006

DRATER part 2, Galerie Mischenmode (Guido W. Baudach), Berlin, 2002

DRATER part 1, Dragon Gallery, London, 2001

Awards/Residencies

forthcoming, 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, 2019

Artist General Benevolent Institution Fund, 2016

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

Teaching/talks

Visiting Lecturer, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London

Visiting Lecturer, South Bank Colleges, London

Visiting Lecturer, The Essential School of Painting, London

Artist talk, Reading School of Art

Artist talk, University Centre St Helens, Liverpool

Artist talk & panel, Liverpool Independent Biennial, Time, Space, Paint: A Conversation

Artist talk, School of Arts, University of Westminster

Artist talk, Liverpool Independent Biennial, Time, Space, Paint: A Conversation