JOSIE MCCOY
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