Phoebe Boswell

Phoebe Boswell was born in 1982 in Nairobi. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, where she currently lives and works.

Her drawings, installations and video works have been exhibited internationally in venues like Gagosian, London, UK | Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, DE | Prospect 5, New Orleans, US | Drawing Biennial, London, UK | Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK | Somerset House, London, UK | British Film Institute, London, UK | Sundance, London | Constitution Hill, Johannesburg | Pinchuk Centre, Kiew | The Fine Art Society, London | Biennale of the Moving Image, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, CH | Xi’An Academy of Fine Arts, China | Gothenburg Biennale | Royal Festival Hall, London.

Her works are in the collections of the British Museum, London, UK; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), US; RISD Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, US; 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 the Contemporary Art Society).

She has been awarded the Lumière Award of the Royal Photographic Society (2021) | Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists (2020) | Bridget Riley Fellowship, British School at Rome (2019) | Ford Foundation Fellowship (2017) | Future Generation Art Prize, Kiev (2017).