Overview

Phoebe Boswell (b. 1982 Nairobi, Kenya, lives and works in London, UK) studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. Boswell's artistic practice is rooted in a restless diasporic consciousness, skillfully combining traditional draftsmanship with digital technologies, fluidly transitioning between various media including drawing, painting, film, video, sound, and writing.

 

Phoebe Boswell's works been exhibited in international venues, including Gagosian, London; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; Prospect 5, New Orleans; Drawing Biennial, London; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Somerset House, London; British Film Institute, London; Sundance Fim Festival, London; Constitution Hill, Johannesburg; Pinchuk Centre, Kiev; The Fine Art Society, London; Biennale of the Moving Image, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; Xi’An Academy of Fine Arts, China; Gothenburg Biennale and Royal Festival Hall, London. Boswell's works are in the collections of the British Museum, London; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; RISD Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; the British Film Institute’s National Archive, Berkhamsted; the Government Art Collection, London and the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds. The artist has also received numerous awards, including 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).

Works
  • Exhibition view: Phoebe Boswell, Like Hydrogen Like Oxygen, 2025. Ben Hunter Gallery, London, UK
    Exhibition view: Phoebe Boswell, Like Hydrogen Like Oxygen, 2025. Ben Hunter Gallery, London, UK
  • Exhibition view: Phoebe Boswell, Like Hydrogen Like Oxygen, 2025. Ben Hunter Gallery, London, UK
    Exhibition view: Phoebe Boswell, Like Hydrogen Like Oxygen, 2025. Ben Hunter Gallery, London, UK
  • Exhibition view: Phoebe Boswell, Like Hydrogen Like Oxygen, 2025. Ben Hunter Gallery, London, UK
    Exhibition view: Phoebe Boswell, Like Hydrogen Like Oxygen, 2025. Ben Hunter Gallery, London, UK
  • Symbiosis (The Cosmological We)
    Symbiosis (The Cosmological We)
  • To know love
    To know love
  • After the Burning
    After the Burning
  • All Possible Everything
    All Possible Everything
  • Bless the Boats
    Bless the Boats
  • Exhibition view Orleans House Gallery, London, UK
    Exhibition view Orleans House Gallery, London, UK
  • Exhibition view Orleans House Gallery, London, UK
    Exhibition view Orleans House Gallery, London, UK
  • Exhibition view Rites of Passage, Gagosian, London, UK
    Exhibition view Rites of Passage, Gagosian, London, UK
  • Future Ancestors
    Future Ancestors
  • In Search of the Common Place
    In Search of the Common Place
  • The Present Juncture of Entanglement
    The Present Juncture of Entanglement
  • These New Shores
    These New Shores
  • Exhibition view Dwelling, Lyon Biennale, FR
    Exhibition view Dwelling, Lyon Biennale, FR
  • Ocean
    Ocean
  • Universe
    Universe
  • Exhibition view HERE, Gotenborg Kunsthol, Gothenburg, SW
    Exhibition view HERE, Gotenborg Kunsthol, Gothenburg, SW
  • Exhibition view Here, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
    Exhibition view Here, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
  • Exhibition view The Black Horizon (Do We Muse on The Sky or Remember The Sea), Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, US
    Exhibition view The Black Horizon (Do We Muse on The Sky or Remember The Sea), Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, US
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