b. London, UK
Lives, works London UK
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Education
2006 Postgraduate Diploma Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts, 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, commissioned by Kingsgate Gallery, London
2015 Self Serve, self initiated Solo show in a disused shop on a housing estate, London. Supported by The London Borough of Camden
2014 Josephine Wood at Punk&Sheep, solo show, Punk&Sheep, curated by Cedar Lewisohn & Patricia Ellis, London.
Selected Group Exhibitions
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, curated by Clare Kenny with Louise Bourgeois, Helen Chadwick, Valie Export , Basel, Switzerland
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, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland
2017 NOI, artist-curator, PSW, Rum Factory, Bow Arts Trust, London
2015 Exeter Contemporary Open, finalists exhibition, Phoenix Gallery, Exeter
2015 The East London Painting Prize, finalists exhibition, Rum Factory, London
2015 Revolutionary Britain; Art, Power & Politics, Harts Lane Studio, London
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, as Wood+Rees, curated by Julika Gitner & Jon Purnel, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2011 Press​, live performance, 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
2008 CO-Lab'08, 6 live performances over one week, Global Art Container, Tallin, Estonia
2008 Subb Urbe of Sound, artist-curator, The Elevator Gallery, London
2008 The Coma Lounge, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2007 Hung Drawn Quasi Stellar Object, Portman Gallery, London
2007 Journey to the Foul Side of the Sun, Wittenplatz, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Awards/Residencies
2023 - 24 Artist Residency, Classwaroom, London
2022 Kingsgate Gallery 16.9 Billboard commission
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 live art residency, Global Art Container, Tallinn, Estonia
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Press/publications
2020 Sight & Sound, ‘Atrocity Exhibition’, Sick Monday by Linday Hallam
2019 Sick Monday catalogue, Lindsay Hallam
2019 Garageland Reviews, interview, Alex Michon
2019 Wall Street International, Woman Can't Paint, by Jillian Knipe
2015 Exeter Express and Echo, featured painting
2015 Catalouge, Exeter Contemporary Open
2015 Wall Street International, featured painting for The East London Painting Prize
2015 Catalougue, The East London Painting Prize by Oliver Basciano
2013 Art & Music - The Saatchi Gallery Magazine, interview
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Teaching/Talks
2023 The Essential School of Painting, Artist Talk, London
2022 A Brush with Power - Painting & Politics, course writer & lecturer, The Essential School of Painting, London UK
2022 University Centre St Helens, Artist Talk, Liverpool, UK
2021 Reading School of Art, Artist Talk, Reading UK
2021 Liverpool Independents Biennial - Time, Space, Paint: A Conversation, Artist Talk hosted by Fiona Sterling
2018 Turps Gallery, Woman Can't Paint, panel discussion, London
2009 School of Arts, University of Westminster, Artist Talk, London
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