studiojoshualeon@gmail.com
Joshua Leon (Austrian/ British)
Press
https://vashtimedia.com/joshua-leon-chisenhale-gallery-review-missing-o-and-e/
https://apollo-magazine.com/joshua-leon-jewish-history-chisenhale-review/
https://contemporaryartsociety.org/explore/resources/joshua-leon-chisenhale
https://plastermagazine.com/interviews/the-exchange-abbas-zahedi-and-joshua-leon/
Links
https://www.moussemagazine.it/shop/joshua-leon-the-process/
https://chisenhale.org.uk/project/joshua-leon/
https://www.southparade.biz/grapewatching
Education
2023PhD Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2017MA Photography, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2014BA Photography, University of the Arts, London, UK
Prizes, Fellowships and Grants
2026Project Grant, BMWKMS, Austria
2025Catalogue Prize, Krupp Stiftung, Germany
Grapewatching, BMWKMS, Austria
2024Emerging Art Foundation Writing Prize, London, UK
2023The Missing O and E, BMWKMS, Austria
2019London Arts and Humanities Research Stipend, London, UK
Publications
2024The Process, Chisenhale Gallery & Mousse, ed. Olivia Aherne and Amy Jones
Forthcoming
2027Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
Solo Exhibitions
2025Grapewatching, South Parade, London
2024The Missing O and E, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
2021Loose Routes Along the Familiar, Madonna del Pozzo, Spoleto, Italy
Attendance(s) Close to the Close, Daily Practice, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Selected Group Shows
2026Nos Jeunesses, Musée National de L'histoire De L’immigration, Paris, France
2025Burn the Diaries, Read the Out Loud, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Tactical Spectres, La Ferme du Buisson, Paris, France
2024Itinéraire Fantôme, CAPC, Bordeaux, France
Presque Partout (almost everywhere), 49 Nord 6 Est, Frac Lorraine, Metz, France
2023“Archive as……Slippages”, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
2022Expo in a Box, 49 Nord 6 Est, Frac Lorraine, Metz, France
An Incomplete A-Z of Art and Poetry, Mahler +Lewitt, London, UK
2021Governmental Fires, Futura, Prague, Czech Republic
2020RIEN N’AURA EU LIEU (Nothing will have taken place), Arles, France
2019Pendre la Crémaillère w/ Jean Feline, Light Eye Mind, London, UK
The Same Tendency, Summer Hall Place, Edinburgh, UK
2018FALLEN w/ Adam Glibbery, Studio Riverlight, London, UK
INHALE w/ Adam Glibbery, Filet, London, UK
Selected Performances/ Workshops/ Conferences
2025To Other or to be Othered, Austrian Association of Curators, Austria
An unfinished, ever evolving history of glass, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2024Absence, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
AIRE, CAPC, Bordeaux, France
Fragmentary Memories (workshop), Nunnery Gallery, London, UK
An Evening of Music and Poetry, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
2022Revision, PEER Gallery, London, UK
POST, Barbican, London, UK
‘Tears of Conceptualism’, ARCO Madrid, Spain
2021Passanten, Warwick University, UK
Lamentation No.1: A Smuggler's Guide to Loss, PogoBar, KW, Berlin, Germany
2020An Unfinished History of Glass pt 1 & 2, Artists and Allies, Berlin, DE
Long Table: Lament, South London Gallery, London, UK
The Conch, South London Gallery, London, UK
Selected Writing
2026The Gift, Twinkler, Vienna, AT
The Hippo’s Innoncence, Catalogue Text Universal Thoughts by Georg Petermichl, Linz
2022Salvage Rhythms, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Lounging in Liberty, Galeria Piu, Bologna, Italy
2021Just as bad as the Last, Editorial Concreta, Spain, Online
As if you Cared, Care(less), MA Biblioteque, London, UK
2020An Unfinished History of Glass, Prova Research Journal, UK
To say something when there is so little to say, Open Space Contemporary, UK
Sociality in the time of Grief, Still Point Journal, UK
2019Sam Williams at SMH AGM, Fad Magazine, UK
2018The Poetics of Self Help, International Art Awards for Criticism, UK & China
Selected Teaching
2026Guest Professor, Städelschule, Frankfurt, DE
Guest lecturer, Akademie Fine Arts Munich, Munich, DE
2023-2026
Associate Lecturer, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2023- 2025
Visiting Lecturer, London South Bank Univeristy, London, UK
2023Visiting Lecturer, Akadamie der Bildenden Künste München, Munich, Germany
2021Visiting Lecturer, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania
Selected Residencies
2026International Studio Scholarship, Mönchengladbach, Germany
2025Los Angeles, Kassel, Germany
PART, Vienna, Austria
2023Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
CAPC, Bordeaux, France (in association with FLUXUS)
2021Mahler + LeWitt, Spoleto, Italy
PINK, Manchester, UK
Public Collections
49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine, Metz, France