Phoebe Collings-James
b.1987 London, United Kingdom
BA, Goldsmiths College, London, 2009
Selected solo/duo exhibitions
2018
Give Me A Minute, performance at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
The Amount of Love You Have to Give is More Than I Can Stand, Ginerva Gambino, Cologne, DE
Relative Strength, Arcadia Missa, London, UK
2017
Expensive Shit, 315 Gallery, New York, US
2016
ATROPHILIA (w Jesse Darling), Company, New York, US
Triste Tropiques, Liste, Basel, CH
Just Enough Violence, CONDO, (w A.L Steiner), Arcadia Missa, London, UK
2015
Choke On Your Tongue, Italian Cultural Institute & ARTUNER, London, UK
2014
Die Geister, die ich rief werd’ ich nun nicht los, (The Demons I summoned Won’t Let Me Go) 3 solo presentations with Art&Language and Sam Anderson, Cookie Butcher, Antwerp, BE
2013
The Flesh Is All You Have If You Mortify That There Is No Hope For You, Ritter Zamet Gallery, London
Blood on the Leaves, Blood on the Roots, Preteen Gallery, Mexico City, MX
Selected Group Shows
In Whose Eyes, Beaconsfield Gallery, London, UK
Burn Your Idols, Art Cologne, DE
After Cesaire /Modern Tropiques, curated by Aindrea Emelife, Platform Southwark, London
The Turnpike Pottery, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh
2017
The Yellow Wallpaper, Ginevra Gambino, Cologne, DE
Okey Dokey, Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf, DE
Bust Wide Open, Harlem Postcards, Studio Museum Harlem, US
Safe Passage/Get Home Safe [Screening], Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City, MX & New York, US
2016
Black ‘Paintings’, Site131, Dallas, US
Still/Moving, Norton Museum of Art, Miami, US
The Rebel Man Standard Festival, Guest Projects, London, UK
2015
Art Basel Miami, (w Sam Anderson & Noel McKenna) Mother’s Tankstation, Miami, US
The Written Trace, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, US
I Know You Got Soul, ARNDT, Bukit Merah, SG
Manifesto, S.A.L.T Magazine, London, UK
2014
Too Much, Two Queens, Leicester, UK
All That Matter’s is Whats Left Behind, Ronchini Gallery, London, UK
It’s Been Four Years Since 2010, Arcadia Missa, London, UK
2013
Ground Control to Major Tom, Group show @ Cookie Butcher, home of the Verhaegen Family Collection, Antwerp, BE
Straight II DVD, Still House Group, Miami Basel, Miami, US
I Don’t Know It’s An Illusion I Don’t Care, Preteen Gallery Offsite @ Vamiali’s, Athens, GR
2012
Effigy, Ritter Zamet, London, UK
Exhibit 1, New End Art Foundation, London, UK
I’m Too High To Deal With This Shit Right Now, 72 Truck, Madrid, ES
Ordinary Life, Marrakech Biennale, Marrakech, MA
2011
Forum Lounge: FAST FORWARD II Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, California, US
Licker Licence touring show, Curated by Hazel Hill McCarthy of Show Cave L.A, Neoma, Milan. Mediamatic, Amsterdam. Sameheads, Berlin. Jaguar Collective, London. Preteen Gallery, Mexico City, Pendu, NYC.
Selected talks/events/projects
2019
(upcoming) Sounds 4 Survial ## performance with Jamila Johnson-Small, Borealis Festival, Bergen, NO
(upcoming) Sounds 4 Survial ## performance with Jamila Johnson-Small, Cafe Oto, London, UK
(upcoming) Sounds 4 Survial ## performance with Jamila Johnson-Small, Sonic Acts, Amsterdam, NL
2018
Sound as Weapon, Sounds 4 Survival, performance and residency Wysing Arts Center, Cambridge, UK
Give Me A Minute, performance at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
La Manutention (with Jamila Johnson-Small), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
Ceramics workshop, The Turnpike, Leigh
2017
Hotline : Artist Provocations, Fierce Festival, Birmingham, UK
Chroma, Working Women of Colour Conference, New York, US
Last Yearz Interesting Negro/Jamila Johnson-Small: BASIC TENSION, ICA, London, UK
Featured Artist: Phoebe Collings-James, Sculpture Center, online
2015
Dazed Forum, Fashion and Identity Politics
Protein Forum, Gender and new feminisms
2014
NUOVE// Ceramics Residency, Nove, IT
Cass School of Art and Architecture, Fighting the Establishment or creating a New one?, London, UK
Tate Britain, Authenticity and Identity, London, UK
WOW festival, Royal Festival Hall, Mixed Race Identities, London, UK
2013
Cunt Today, Online
2012
East London Fawcett Group, Women in The Arts – Are Things Equal?, London, UK