Joshua Leon
For personal inquiries
joshuajleon21@gmail.com
Links
https://chisenhale.org.uk/exhibition/joshua-leon/
https://www.capc-bordeaux.fr/en/residences/joshua-leon
https://www.kunstverein-muenchen.de/en/program/writers-residency/residents/joshua-leon
https://mahler-lewitt.org/residents/joshua-leon
http://editorialconcreta.org/just-as-bad-as-the-last
https://www.kw-berlin.de/en/pogo-bar-podcast-joshua-leon/
https://dailypractice.nl/joshua-leon-attendances-close-to-close/
Joshua Leon (London, 1990)
Education
2024 Ph.D. Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2017 MA Photography Royal College of Art, London, UK
2014 BA Photography, University of the Arts, London, UK
Forthcoming
2025 "Materia", Mahler+Lewitt Studios & Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto, Italy
2024 [ ] O [ ] E [ ], Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
"Itinéraire Fantôme", CAPC, Bordeaux, France
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Loose Routes Along the Familiar, Madonna del Pozzo, Spoleto, Italy
2020-2021 Attendance(s) Close to the Close, Daily Practice, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Kounsel (w/Abbas Zahedi)
2022 Revision, PEER Gallery, London, UK
POST, Barbican, London, UK
Two-Person Exhibitions
2019 Your Head, Mind w/Luli Perez, Chisenhale Art Place, London, UK
Pendre la Crémaillère (Housewarming) w/ Jean Feline, Light Eye Mind, London, UK
The Social w/Jean Feline, Chisenhale Art Place, London, UK
2018 FALLEN w/ Adam Glibbery, Studio Riverlight, London, UK
INHALE w/ Adam Glibbery, Filet, London, UK
Group Shows
2022 Expo in a Box, Frac Lorraine, Metz, France
An Incomplete A-Z of Art and Poetry, Mahler +Lewitt, London, UK
2021 Governmental Fires, Futura, Prague, Czech Republic
Worst Case Scenario, Kqora, Paris, France
Performing Dawns, Hoxton Gallery, London, UK
2020 RIEN N’AURA EU LIEU (Nothing will have taken place), Arles, France
2019 Rehearsing the Real, Peckham24, London, UK
You, Me and Everybody Else, One Room Gallery, London, UK
The Same Tendency, Summer Hall Place, Edinburgh, UK
2018 Adventitious Encounters, Open Space Contemporary, London, UK
DO IT! Domestic, Lødz, Poland
Ariadne, Dyson Gallery, London
Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost, Berlin Bienniale, Berlin, Germany
2017 Lost Senses, Guest Projects, London, UK
Histoire Naturelle, Montvalent, France
The Dose makes the Poison, Carousel, London, UK
2016 One Life, Live Well, Team Titanic & Gully Havoc, Berlin, Germany
Performances/Conferences/Public Program & Interventions
2022 ‘Tears of Conceptualism’ with Cedric Fauq, ARCO Madrid, Spain
2021 Passanten, Warwick University, UK
Drinks at the Gattapone, Mahler + Lewitt Studios, Spoleto, Italy
Lamentation No.1: A Smuggler's Guide to Loss, PogoBar Podcasts, KW, Berlin, Germany
2020 An Unfinished History of Glass pt 1 & 2, Artists and Allies, Berlin, DE
Call and Response, N.A.F.A.E, London, UK
Long Table: Lament, South London Gallery, London, UK
The Conch, curated by Cédric Fauq, South London Gallery, London, UK
Open Space Contemporary Launch, Swiss Church, London, UK
2019 Solitary Pleasures, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2018 Orlando Journal #3 Launch, The Horse Hospital, London, UK
Syntropic Surfaces, Hamburg, Germany & Lisbon, Portugal
Lethe, A Corner With, London, UK
2017 I’ll be more social tomorrow, Chalton Gallery, London, UK
Bapor Tabo(o), Inventory Platform, London, UK
Selected Writing
2022 Salvage Rhythms, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Lounging in Liberty, Galeria Piu, Bologna, Italy
2021 Just as bad as the Last, Editorial Concreta, Spain, Online
As if you Cared, Care(less), MA Biblioteque, London, UK
2020 High Tides im Eiscafé, Galerie in der Wassermühle Trittau, Hamburg, Germany
An Unfinished History of Glass, Prova Research Journal, UK
To say something when there is so little to say, Open Space Contemporary Online, UK
Sociality in the time of Grief, Still Point Journal, UK
2019 Sam Williams at SMH AGM, Fad Magazine, UK
2018 Ecstatic Body, Orlando Journal #3, London, UK
Howie Street Quadruplet, Everyday Press, London, UK
Static, The N.O.N, Online Journal for Contemporary Writing, Berlin, DE
The Poetics of Self Help, IAAC (International Art Awards for Criticism), UK & China
Perpetual Inventory, Offline Press, London, UK
The Man with the Midas Touch, GAIA Art Foundation, London, UK
2017 The Double, Double, Spectrum Artists Moving Image Network, London, UK
2016 Cabaret Wittgenstein, Berlin, DE
Teaching
2022 Visiting Lecturer, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania
2021 Visiting Lecturer, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania
2020 Visiting Lecturer, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
Visiting Lecturer, Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK
Visiting Lecturer, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2019 Visiting Lecturer, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK
2018 Visiting Lecturer, Royal College of Art, London UK
2017 Visiting Lecturer, London College of Communication UAL, London, UK
Residencies
2023 Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
CAPC, Bordeaux, France (in association with FLUXUS)
2021 PINK, Manchester, UK
Mahler + LeWitt, Spoleto, Italy
2019 Chisenhale Studios, London, UK
Public Collections
49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine, Metz, France