CV

b. London, UK
Lives and works in London, UK

email: josephinewoodcontact@gmail.com

instagram: @josephinewoodart

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Education

2006 – Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts London
1998 – BA (Hons) Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London

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Solo & Two-person Exhibitions

2025 - Upcoming - Stigma, with Petra Williams, Koppel Collective Gallery, London

2024 Hard Cell, Classwaroom, London

2022 My Bloody Finger, 16.9 Billboard Commission, 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, London – curated by Cedar Lewisohn & Patricia Ellis

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Selected Exhibitions

2025
Portable Frictions, The Koppel Project, London
Shared Origins, Winns Gallery, London – curated by Stephen Keane
Blink, Safehouse, London – curated by Dido Hallett & Anna Sebastian
Dark Spring – Syzygy, Cross Lane Projects Vestry St, London – curated by Petra Williams

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2024
Turps Residency Exhibition, Turps Gallery, London
Redcar Summer Exhibition, Redcar Contemporary Art Gallery, North Yorkshire – invited by Michael Archer
 

2021
The Commission, University Women's Club, London
The Art of Painting, Copeland Gallery, London

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2019
Freeze-frame Fast-forward, Koppel Project Central, London – curated by Gina Birch & Nicole Price
Sick Monday, The Horse Hospital, London – curated by Dean Kenning, Liam & Vanessa Scully
If I Was a Rich Girl, Kunstraum Riehen, Basel – curated by Clare Kenny, with Louise Bourgeois, Helen Chadwick, Valie Export
Total Eclipse of the Heart – Paintings About Women, Watson, Farley and Williams, London – curated by Dan Coombs

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2018
Women Can't Paint, Turps Gallery, London – curated by Marcus Harvey
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
Exeter Contemporary Open, Phoenix Gallery, Exeter – finalist
The East London Painting Prize, Rum Factory, London – finalist
Revolutionary Britain: Art, Power & Politics, Harts Lane Studio, London
 

2012
Natural Language, Vitrine Gallery, London – curated by Natasha Rees
Dead Darlings, Royal Academy of Art, Ghent

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2011
All That Glitters, Whitechapel Gallery, London – curated by Julika Gitner & Jon Purnel
Press, RED Gallery, London
 

2010
Savage Cuts, Donlon Books, London – curated by Dean Kenning
Supermarket Art Fair, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
 

2009
Mouthing Off, Vitrine Gallery, London – curated by Alys Williams
New Age, Y Gallery, Tartu, Estonia
Scare in the Community, Core Arts, London
 

2008
35 London Books, Salon für Kunstbuch, Vienna
CO-Lab'08, Global Art Container, Tallinn, Estonia
Subb Urbe of Sound, The Elevator Gallery, London
The Coma Lounge, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
 

2007
Hung Drawn Quasi Stellar Object, Portman Gallery, London
Journey to the Foul Side of the Sun, Wittenplatz, Amsterdam
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

2024 – Turps Residency, Turps Banana, London
2024 – Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant
2023 – Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Grant
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 Residency, Global Art Container, Tallinn, Estonia
2008 – The Elephant Trust Grant
 

Press & Publications

2024 – Catalogue, Redcar Summer Exhibition, RCCAG – text by Michael Archer
2020 – Sight & Sound, Lindsay Hallam
2019 – Catalogue, Sick Monday – Lindsay Hallam
2019 – Garageland Reviews
2019 – Wall Street International
2015 – Exeter Express and Echo (newspaper)
2015 – Catalogue, Exeter Contemporary Open
2015 – Catalogue, The East London Painting Prize – text by Oliver Basciano
2013 – Art & Music – The Saatchi Gallery Magazine
 

Talks & Panels
Artist Talk - The Essential School of Painting, London, 2024

Artist Talk – Reading School of Art, 2023
Artist Talk – University Centre St Helens, Liverpool, 2023
Artist Talk & Panel – Time, Space, Paint: A Conversation, Liverpool Independent Biennial, 2023
Panel – Women Can't Paint, Turps Gallery, 2018
Artist Talk – School of Arts, University of Westminster, 2015

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Private collections including:

Shezad Dawood
Emma Hart
Marcus Harvey
Peter Kwong