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Born in Kenya, of British and Kenyan heritage, brought up in the Arabian Gulf and currently living and working in UK, Boswell’s practice – which moves across media from drawing and painting, to film, video, sound, and writing – uses auto/biographical stories as catalysts to contest histories, traverse geographies and ecologies, and imagine futurity.
Phoebe Boswell lives and works in London, UK. Recent exhibitions include Like Hydrogen, Like Oxygen, Ben Hunter, London, UK; Rites of Passage, Gagosian, London, UK; Loophole of Retreat, Venice Biennale, Italy; How the light gets in, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York City, USA; HERE, Goteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden; Liminal Beach, Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany; UNTITLED: art on the conditions of our time, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK; Soulscapes, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK. She was the Bridget Riley Drawing Fellow at the British School of Rome in 2019, received the Lumière Award from the Royal Photographic Society in 2021, and was Whitechapel Gallery’s 2022 writer-in-residence.
Bowell’s work is held in public collections globally, including The British Museum, London, UK; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), USA; RISD Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA; The British Film Institute’s National Archive, Berkhamsted, UK; the Government Art Collection, London, UK; and The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds, UK (acquired by Contemporary Art Society).
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