J o s e p h i n e W o o d
Education
BA Hons Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London
Postgraduate Diploma Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
Exhibitions
2022 16.9 Billboard, commissioned public display billboard for Kingsgate Gallery, Feb-Mar 2022
2021 The Commission, group, University Women's Club, London
2021 The Art of Painting, group, Copeland Gallery, London
2019 Freeze-frame Fast-forward, Koppel Project Central, London. Curated by Gina Birch & Nicole Price
2019 Sick Monday at The Horse Hospital, London, curated by Dean Kenning, Liam and Vanessa Scully
2019 If I was a Rich girl, Kunstraum Riehen, Basel, curated by Clare Kenny, including artists: Louise Bourgeois, Helen Chadwick, Valie Export & Wolfgang Tilmans
2019 The Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize Exhibition, London
2019 GIFC & Velvet Ropes, House of Vans, London
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 (2) Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland
2018 Sick Monday, Genesis Cinema, London
2017 NOI, artist-curator, PSW, Rum Factory, Bow Arts Trust, London 2017
2015 Exeter Contemporary Open, finalists exhibition, Phoenix Gallery, Exeter
2015 The East London Painting Prize, finalists exhibition, Rum Factory, London
2015 Self Serve, Solo show in a disused shop on a housing estate, London NW1, Supported by The London Borough of Camden
2015 Revolutionary Britain; Art, Power & Politics, Harts Lane Studio, London
2016 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition 2016, Mall Galleries, London, UK, nominated by Dan Coombs
2014 Josephine Wood at Punk&Sheep, solo show, Punk&Sheep, project space London, curated by Cedar Lewisohn & Patricia Ellis
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, performance event curated by Julika Gitner & Jon Purnel, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2011 Mass Observation, curated by Dean Braningan, XRay at The Perseverance, London
2011 Press, 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 Coma lounge, The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
2007 Journey to: The Foul Side of the Sun, Wittenplaats, Amsterdam
2006 The Foul Side of the Sun, Bar-A-Bar, London
2006 HOUSE, non-gallery space Hackeny,, curated by Laura Buckley, Hackney, London
2006 I’ll Show you mine, Postgraduate exhibition, Chelsea Colllege of Art & Design, London
2004 Portrait of the Artist, Kurdish Community Centre, curated by Dean Kenning & Julika Gitner, London
2003 Cardboard Gallery, Drater Collective, purpose built gallery made entirely from cardboard, Quaker Street, London 2002
2002 Sausage Man, Drater Collective, Mischenmode Gallery, curated by Guido Baudach, Berlin
2001 Drater Dreams of a Promised Land, Drater Collective, The Dragon Gallery, London
Awards/Commissions/Residencies
Kingsgate Workshops 16.9 Billboard commission 2022
LCN Space Artist Development Programme, awarded, 2021
Arts Council Fundi 2020
The Arts Foundation Futures Award, nominated 2019
Commissioned by Sick Monday for short film, Arts Council, 2018
The East London Painting Prize, shortlisted, 2015
Exeter Contemporary Open, shortlisted, 2015
CO-Lab'08, artist residency, Global Art Container, Tallinn, Estonia, 2008
Press/publications
Sight & Sound, ‘Atrocity Exhibition’, by Linday Hallam, Jan 2020
Sick Monday, catalogue, text by Lindsay Hallam 2019
If I was a Rich girl, Kunstraum Riehen, Basel
https://independent-collectors.com/collections/if-i-was-a-rich-girl/
Garageland Reviews, Interview by Alex Michon, June 2019
http://garagelandmagazine.blogspot.com/2019/06/wising-up-to-marks.html
Women Can't Paint, Wall Street International, featured, exhibition review by Jillian Knipe, May 2018
https://wsimag.com/art/37724-women-cant-paint
Women Can't Paint, Studio International, exhibition review, May 2018
Exeter Express and Echo, featured painting, Oct 21 2015
Wall Street International, featured painting for The East London Painting Prize, 2015
The East London Painting Prize 2015 catalogue, text by Oliver Basciano
Art & Music - The Saatchi Gallery Magazine, featured interview, Autumn Issue 2013
Teaching/Talks
Visiting Lecturer, The Essential School of Painting, London, 2021-present
Artist Talk, University Centre St Helens, Liverpool, 2022
Artist Talk, Reading School of Art, 2021
Artist Talk, Time, Space, Paint: A Conversation, Liverpool Independents Biennial, 2021 organised by Fiona Sterling
Artist Talk, School of Arts, University of Westminster, 2009
Visiting Lecturer, Chelsea College of Art & Design, 2008
Community Projects
Artist Facilitator for Stretch Charity, across UK prisons
Artist Facilitator, MIND Camden, London
Artist Facilitator, The Fruit & Veg Stall, project, Somers Town, London, commissioned by Central Saint Martins, Stretch Charity
Artist Facilitator, Dancing 'Round Canning Town, London, commissioned by Caritas Anchor House, Stretch Charity
Artist Facilitator, The Firm, drugs and alcohol centre, London, funded by The Innovation Fund