JOSIE MCCOY

JOSIE MCCOY - Ivanka - Courtesy of the artist
JOSIE MCCOY - Ivanka - Courtesy of the artist
JOSY MCCOY - Jared - Courtesy of  PETRA LOSSEN Fine Art
JOSY MCCOY - Jared - Courtesy of PETRA LOSSEN Fine Art

Josie McCoy graduated from the MA Fine Art course at Central St Martin's in 1999. Since then she has had solo exhibitions in London, Valencia, Newcastle, Milan and Santiago de Compostela and has exhibited in numerous group shows.

Her work has been selected for competitions and awards including the Castellon International Painting Prize, four times for the BP Portrait Award and she received a Woo Charitable Foundation Arts Bursary. In 2001, she was awarded first prize for the Centre of Attention Painting Prize.

 

 

Her paintings are in private and public collections including the BBC, Standard Chartered Bank, the Collection of University of Wales, the Jeremy Mogford Collection and the Borchard Collection of British Self-Portraits in the 20th Century.

 

Education

 

1998-1999

MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design, London

1995-1997

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Solihull College, Birmingham

 

 

Glow and Celebrity: The Philosophy of Josie McCoy, ATM Gallery, Gijón

New Work, Sporting Club Russafa, Valencia

Reflections, 10 Grosvenor Street, Mayfair, London

Paint3d, Sporting Club Russafa, Valencia

Las Chicas de Almodóvar, DF Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela

New Work, Eyestorm Gallery, Ipswich, Exeter and Milan

New Paintings, Eyestorm / Britart, 18 Maddox Street, London 

The Royle Variety Show, Notting Hill Arts Club, Notting Hill Gate, London

EastEnders, The Centre of Attention, 15 Cotton’s Gardens, London

 

Selected group exhibitions

 

 

2017

Political Poetical, Petra Lossen Fine Art, Zurich

Refugiarte, Centre del Carmen, Valencia

McCoy, Gingles, Picazo: Works on paper, Sporting Club Russafa, Valencia

2016

 

Sporting at Standard, Standard Gallery, Valencia

La Bohemia, Castellón

2015

 

Intimate Strangers: Politics as Celebrity, Celebrity as Politics, Matucana 100, Santiago de Chile

Rites of Passage – Ritos de Transición, Sporting Club Russafa, Valencia

2014

 

Additionen der Gegenwart - Zeitgenössische Kunst us der Sammlung Frank Hense, Kunstmuseum, Bochum, Germany

2013

 

From madonna to Madonna, DA2 (Domius Artium) , Salamanca

At Home with the Ludskis, Rio Cinema, Dalston, London

   

2012

 

Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Collection: The Next Generation, Kings Place Gallery

Albert Square… the artists move in, A-side B-side Gallery, London

Mothers, Chester University, Chester

2011

 

Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Competition, Kings Place Gallery, London

RCA Secret 2011, Royal College of Art, London

11:11, East Gallery, Brick Lane, London

2010

 

RCA Secret 2010, Royal College of Art, London

Dalston Underground Studios: Ten Years, The Boys Hall, Dalston, London

When Central Met Saint Martins, Central Saint Martins, Lethaby Gallery, London

2009

 

Christmas Exhibition, Opus Art, Newcastle upon Tyne

Visiones de Anhelo, Galería Espacio, Valencia

Perfect Present, 242 Cambridge Heath Road, London

2008

 

Face Value, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno

Pulse New York  with Houldsworth, New York

Seduced, The Windows Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London

2007

 

Dorian Gray Project: Happy Days, John Jones, London

The Dream of Putrefaction, Metropole Galleries, Folkestone and The Fieldgate Gallery

Stone.Plate.Grease.Water,Museum for Modern Art for Wales, Machynlleth

2006

 

scope LONDON with Lounge Gallery, Truman Brewery, London

Sensuous Panorama, Lounge, London

Castellón Painting Prize, Municipal Art Centre of Alcorcon, Madrid, Spain

2005

 

RCA Secret 2005, Royal College of Art, London

II International Painting Prize of the Castellon County Council, EACC, Castellon, Spain

2004

 

Bob’s Your Uncle, Eyestorm, 547 West 27th Street, New York

Vector Vecteur, L'Espace d'animation des Blancs Manteaux, Paris

2003

 

Josie McCoy & Mimei Thompson, QUODart, Brighton

Lexmark European Art Prize, Eyestorm Gallery, London

BP Portrait Award 2003, National Portrait Gallery, London, Aberdeen Art Gallery

Faces, Mark Jason Fine Art, 71 New Bond Street, London

2002

 

The Painting Class, The Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London

BP Portrait Award 2002, National Portrait Gallery, London andAberdeen

Hunting Art Prizes 2002, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London

2001

 

RWA Open Painting Exhibition 2001, RWA, Bristol

BP Portrait Award 2001, National Portrait Gallery, London, Sheffield Galleries, Sheffield

Salon The Centre of Attention Painting Prize, Identity UK, London

2000

 

Artfutures, The Barbican Centre, London

Mighty Real, Dazed and Confused Gallery, Old Street, London

BP Portrait Award 2000, National Portrait Gallery and Aberdeen Art Gallery

1999

 

Artfutures, Royal Festival Hall, London

MA Degree Show, Central Saint Martins, London