Biography

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Jessica Warboys

Born in 1977, UK. Lives and works London and Paris

Education

2002-2004 Slade School of Fine Art, London, Master of Fine Art (Sculpture)

1998-2001 Falmouth College of Arts, Cornwall BA (Hons) Fine Art

  • Solo Exhibitions

2011

  • Victory Park Tree Painting, Cell Project Space, London
  • No more summer of incompleteness, Sutton Lane, London
  • Land & Sea, Le Crédac, curated by Claire Le Restif, Ivry-sur-Seine
  • A l’étage, Satellite 4, Jeu de Paume, curated by Raimundas Malasauskas, Paris
  • Te Motutapu a Taikehu, BF15, curated by Marie de Brugerolle, Lyon

2010

  • Ballad of the Green Hoop, Live/Film/Event, South London Gallery, London

2009

  • Parasol, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris, France

2008

  • Le Chant du Rossignol, Foundry Darling, Quartier Ephémère, Montréal, Canada
  • Ancient Wanderer, Point Ephémère, Paris, France

 

  • Selected Group Exhibitions/screening

 2012

  • Au loin une île !, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, curated by Vanessa Desclaux and Marie Canet, Paris (upcoming)
  •  Into the woods, Galerie des Galeries, Galerie Lafayette, curated by Daria de Beauvais, Paris (upcoming)

2011

  • Au loin une île !, Frac Aquitaine, curated by Vanessa Desclaux and Marie Canet, Bordeaux
  • Tableaux, Le Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble
  • Madame Realism’, Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture, curated by Lisette Smits, Maastricht

2010

  • Les Vagues, Frac Carquefou, curated by Emilie Renard, Nantes
  • The October Show, Limoncello, London
  • Monsieur Mirroir, Selected for the 12th Ricard Foundation Price,curated by Emilie Renard (exhibition: 21th September – 6th November 2010), Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris
  • The old sow sent them out to… they got into it and rolled down the hill. Wiels Project Room, a proposition by Martin Laborde, Brusells
  • Poldhu, 7ème Rencontres Internationales des Arts Multimédia, Buy-Sellf Art Club, Marseille
  • Solar Skill, Fluxia, Milan, Italy
  • The Lark a Book for Two Hands, in collaboration with Morten Norbye Halvorsen Back Lane West, Redruth, Cornwall, UK

2009

  • 54ème Salon d’art contemporain de Montrouge, Paris, France, curated by Stéphane Corréard
  • Objets Scéniques, Séance Contrechamp, Le Cinématographe, Nantes, France, curated by Marie de Brugerolle

2008

  • Kunstwerk Bazaar, Outpost Gallery, Norwich, UK, curated by Andrew Hunt.
  • Ne pas jouer avec des choses mortes, La Villa Arson, Nice, France, curated by Eric Mangion and Marie de Brugerolle

2006

  • Six shows, six weeks, MOOT, Nottingham, UK

2005

  • The Darkest Hour, The Leisure Club Mogadishni, Copenhagen, Denmark, curated by William Turner
  • Love and Science, Galleri Blunk, Trondheim, Norway, curated by Morten Halvorsen
  • Somewhere in Between, Galleri Kit, Trondheim, Norway, curated by Morten Halvorsen

2004

  • Arrivals, The Pump House Gallery, London, selected by Tom Morton and Catharine Patha
  • The International Exchange Exhibition, Hunter College Art Galleries, Times Square Gallery, New York

2003

  • Loosely Drawn, (temporary space), London, curated by J & N Warboys

2002

  • Ceiling Centre, (temporary space), London, curated by J & N Warboys

2001

  • Open Film Screening, LUX cinema, London
  • Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Camden Arts Centre, London and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sunderland, selectors: Jennifer Higgie, Mike Nelson, and Chris Ofili.
  • Residencies

2011                   Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
Stomboli, Fiorucci Art Trust, Italy

2010                   Frac des Pays de la Loire

2008-2007      Point Ephémère, Paris, France

  • Lecture

2008 Presentation and contextualisation of works from 2001-2008, École Nationale des Beaux Arts de Lyon, Lyon, France

  • Catalogues
  • A l’étage – Plat Verso, published to coincide with the exhibition A l’étage, curated by Raimundas Malasauskas, organised by Jeu de Paume at the Maison d’art Bernard Antonioz, Nogent sur Marne, March 2011
  • Salon du Montrouge 54 (Catalogue), curated by Stéphane Corréard, 2009
  • Ne Pas Jouer avec des Choses Mortes, curated by Eric Mangion and Marie de Brugerolle, JRP Ringier, Presses du réel, 2008
  • Bloomberg NewContemporaries 2001 (Catalogue), Bev Bytheway, Sacha Craddock and Des Lawrence, Clifford Press, Coventry, 2001