Phoebe Boswell CV
Born: Nairobi Nationality: British/Kenyan Live/Work: London dob: 02.01.82
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EDUCATION
2008/9 Central St Martins College of Art, University of the Arts London, Postgraduate Diploma 2D Character Animation (Distinction)
2001/5 Slade School of Art, University College London, BA Fine Art Painting (Upper Second hons)
2001 Slade School of Art, Alternative Foundation Course
2000/1 Central St Martins College of Art, University of the Arts London, Foundation Diploma 2D Multimedia
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS / PRESENTATIONS
2024
Like Hydrogen Like Oxygen, Ben Hunter Gallery, London
Constellations Part II: Figures in Webs and Ripples of Space, Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana
In Praise of Black Errantry, UNIT London, Palazzo Pisani San Marina, Venice
TEFAF with Ben Hunter Gallery, TEFAF, Maastricht
Soulscapes, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
Constellations Part I: Figures on Earth and Beyond, Gallery 1957, London
2023
Women & Water, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
Like a Shortcut Through the Brambles, Coventry Biennial, Coventry
The Alchemy Lecture, York University, Canada
Liminal Beach, solo exhibition, Wentrup Gallery, Berlin
Double Self, Rele Gallery, Lagos
A Tree Says (In These Boughs The World Rustles), solo exhibition, Orleans House, London
PhotoIreland, Dublin
Art Basel with Wentrup Gallery, Switzerland
Bodies of Water: A Confluence of Voices, solo performance, Gagosian, London
Rites of Passage, Gagosian, London
Papier.Salon.III, Wentrup Gallery, Berlin/Hamburg
2022
Art Basel Miami with Wentrup Gallery, Miami Beach
Empowerment, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Bodies of Water: A Confluence of Voices, solo performance, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Loophole of Retreat, Venice Biennale, Italy
Manifesto of Fragility, La Biennale de Lyon, France
Promised Land, Hacer Noche, Oaxaca, Mexico
Still Waters Run Deep, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam
Portraits of People & Place, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London
On Love, HOME, London
2021
To The Edge of Time, University Library KU Leuven, Belgium
Yesterday We Said Tomorrow, Prospect P5, New Orleans
Drawing Biennial 2021, The Drawing Room, London
UNTITLED: art on the conditions of our time, group show, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
HERE (touring), solo exhibition, New Art Exchange, Nottingham
2020
PLATFORM, public moving image work for Lancy Bachet Train Station, commissioned by Fonds cantonal d'art contemporain, Geneva
Future Ancestors, solo booth, Sapar Contemporary at The Armory Show, New York
2019
Artists' Film International, nominated by Whitechapel Gallery, screenings in various institutions worldwide
Collective Intimacy, performances in collaboration with Theaster Gates, Prada MODE and The Showroom, 180 Strand + The Showroom
how the light gets in, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York
Get Up Stand Up Now, Somerset House, London
HERE, solo exhibition, Goteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg
The Space Between Things, solo exhibition, Autograph, London
2018
She Summons an Army, solo booth, Sapar Contemporary at Art Expo Chicago
I Need To Believe The World Is Still Beautiful, solo presentation special project 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Pioneer Works, New York
Take Me To The Lighthouse, solo exhibition, Sapar Contemporary, New York
2017
The New School: Shorts Programme, part of Unbound: Visions of the black feminine, British Film Institute, London
Sundance London, Picturehouse Central, London
Selected 7, touring screening programme inc Whitechapel Gallery, Fabrica, CCA Glasgow, Nottingham Contemporary, Plymouth Arts Centre, Exeter Phoenix
Being Her(e): Meditations on African Femininities, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg
Future Generation Art Prize, Collateral Event of the 57th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice
For Every Real Word Spoken, Tiwani Gallery, London, solo exhibition
Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Centre, Kyiv
Women Artists: A Conversation, The Fine Art Society, London
Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Park City, Utah
UNTITLED: Art on the Conditions of Our Time, New Art Exchange, Nottingham
2016
Dear Mr Shakespeare (short film), part of British Council's Shakespeare Lives series, launched online by The Guardian
Biennale of Moving Image, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva
KIN, Hangar, Lisbon
2015
Contemporary British Drawing, Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, Xi'an, China
A Story Within A Story, Gothenburg Biennale (GIBCA), Hasselblad Centre, Gothenburg
Migration, New Hall, Cambridge
Africa Utopia, Royal Festival Hall, London
2014
Interchange Junctions, 5 Howick Place, London
Trade Roots, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London
The Matter of Memory, Carroll / Fletcher Gallery, London
SELECTED AWARDS / RESIDENCIES / COMMISSIONS
2024
End of Innocence, music video commission for Shabaka Hutchings, Universal
Wall drawing commission, Gallery 1957, London
2023
Shortlisted for the Arts Foundation Futures Award in Place Writing, Arts Foundation
A Tree Says, solo exhibition commission, funded by the Arts Council and Richmond Council, Orleans House Gallery, London
2022
Writer-in-Residence, Whitechapel Gallery
For Those Who Chose The Sun, site-specific installation commission, for Hacer Noche, Oaxaca, Mexico
dwelling, audiovisual installation, for La Biennale de Lyon, France
Printmaking residency, URDLA, for La Biennale de Lyon, France
2021
Lumiere Award, Royal Photographic Society
Future Ancestors, new drawings commission, for UNTITLED: art on the conditions of our time, group show, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
The Black Horizon: Do We Muse on the Sky or Remember The Sea, site-specific installation commission, for Prospect 5, CAC New Orleans
2020
Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists, Paul Hamlyn Foundation
2019
Bridget Riley Drawing Fellowship, British School at Rome
Nominated for Jarman Award, Film London
Shortlisted for The Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize
PLATFORM, public moving image work for Lancy Bachet Train Station, commissioned by Fonds cantonal d'art contemporain, Geneva
2018
On The Line, wall drawing commission, Autograph, London
2017
Africa No Filter Ford Foundation Fellowship, Ford Foundation
Nominated for Selected 7, Film London
'Special Prize' Winner, Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Centre, Kiev
Selected in International Short Competition, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah
2016
Dear Mr Shakespeare, short film commission (role: conception, writer and performer), Shakespeare Lives series, British Council
Mutumia, commission for new interactive installation, Biennial of Moving Images, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva
2015
GIBCA Residency, Konstepidemin, Gothenburg (funded by IASPIS)
The A-Z of Emotions commission, Iniva
2013
Ride The Line, commemorative drawing commission for the Sky Cycling Team, Sky
2012
Sky Arts Ignition Futures Fund Award by Sky Arts/Ideastap
Shortlisted for the Arts Foundation Fellowship in Animation, Arts Foundation
COLLECTIONS
The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds University
The British Museum
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
RISD Museum
The Smith College Museum of Art
Bunker Art Space / Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection
UK Government Art Collection
Studio Museum of Harlem
BFI National Archive
The Greene Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX
PUBLICATIONS
Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World: The Alchemy Lecture 2023, published by Knopf Canada, Penguin Random House, 2024
Somnyama Ngongyama Volume II, Zanele Muholi, 2024
In Praise of Still Boys, Julianknxx, published by 180 Studios, 2021
Gagosian Quarterly, May 2023
Vitamin D3: Today's Best in Contemporary Drawing, Phaidon, 2022
The many lives and deaths of Louise Brunet, Manifesto of Fragility, edited by Sam Bardouil and Till Fellrath, Silvana Editoriale, 2022
The Faces Issue, FUKT, 2022
Me, Myself, I: Artists' Self-Portraits, Tessa Jackson with Lara Perry, RWA, sponsored by Bonhams, 2022
Venus in Two Acts, Saidiya Hartman, Cassandra Press in collaboration with MoMA, 2021
A Brief History of Black British Art, Rianna Jade Parker, Tate Publishing, 2021
BIG BANG: Imagining the Universe, on occasion of the exhibition To The Edge of Time, University Library KU Leuven, Hannibal Press, 2021
Feminist Bodies No 32, Frame Journal of Literary Studies, 2019