PHOEBE COLLINGS-JAMES

b.1987, London, UK
BA, Goldsmiths College, London, 2009

Installation view, Phantom Sculpture, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK (2023)
Installation view, Feet of Clay, Kestle Baron, Helston, UK (2022)
Phoebe Collings-James, Joy comes with the morning II, 2022, Unglazed ceramic, polypropylene rope and speakers, Dimensions variable
Phoebe Collings-James, Don’t despair (infinity loop), 2021, Glazed ceramic, 110 x 110 cm, 43 1/4 x 43 1/4 inches
Installation view, Feet of Clay, Kestle Baron, Helston, UK (2022)
Installation view, Body Vessel Clay, York Art Galleries, UK (2022)
Phoebe Collings-James, The subtle rules the dense, 2021, Glazed ceramic, 55 x 40 x 12 cm

SELECTED SOLO/DUO EXHIBITIONS

2024
In Practice, SculptureCenter, New York, US

2023
bun babylon; a heretics anthology, Arcadia Missa, London, UK

2021
A Scratch! A Scratch!, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
Who Blows The Horn?, Picture Room, New York, US

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, UK
Blood on the Leaves, Blood on the Roots, Preteen Gallery, Mexico City, MX

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION

2024
Conversations, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (Upcoming)
In and Out of Place. Land after Information 1992-2024, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, DE
From the Renaissance to the Present Day: Highlights from Southampton’s Collection, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK

2023
Oh téléphone, oracle noir (…), Le Magasin CNAC, Grenoble, FR
Phantom Sculpture, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK
Unearthing: Memory, Land, Materiality, The Courtauld Gallery, London, UK
Within + Without, Unit London, London, UK
East London Art Prize Shortlist Exhibition, Nunnery Gallery, London, UK

2022
IN-SIDE-OUT-SIDE-IN, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Feet of Clay: Contemporary Ceramics, Kestle Barton, Helson, UK
Crowd Control, High Art Arles, Arles, FR
Body Vessel Clay, Two Temple Place, London, UK
Body Vessel Clay, York Art Gallery, York, UK
At Peace II, Two Queens, Leicester, UK

2021
Produktive Bildstörung. Sigmar Polke und aktuelle künstlerische Positionen, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, DE
LOOP, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK

2019
You Feel Me, FACT Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

2018
In Whose Eyes, Beaconsfield Gallery, London, UK
After Cesaire /Modern Tropiques, curated by Aindrea Emelife, Platform Southwark, London, UK
The Turnpike Pottery, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, UK

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

2023
The Wild Escape: Environmental artist in residence, Beaconsfield, London, UK
In conversation with Professor Kathryn Yusoff, Beaconsfield, London, UK

2020
The Freelands Lomax Ceramics Fellowship, Camden Art Centre, London, UK

2019
Screening, Bridge-s, curated by Solange Knowles, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, LA
Sounds 4 Survial ## performance with Jamila Johnson-Small, Borealis Festival, Bergen, NO; Café Oto, London, UK; 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, UK

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

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

2012
East London Fawcett Group, Women in The Arts – Are Things Equal?, London, UK

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Arts Council of England, London (UK); Kadist Foundation, Paris (FR); York Art Gallery, York (UK); Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton (UK)