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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

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