Jo Spence
WORKS
Healing Camera
Healing Camera
Healing Camera
Biography
| 1934 | Born in London, UK |
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| 1950 | Graduated from Secretarial College |
| 1967–1974 | Started her own agency which specialised in family portraits, and wedding photos |
| Early 1970s | Refocused towards documentary photography |
| 1979-1981 | Studied the theory and practice of photography at the Polytechnic of Central London |
| 1982 | Diagnosed with breast cancer |
| 1992 | Passed away |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2021 | Jo Spence: From Fairy Tales to Phototherapy. Arnolfini, Bristol, UK |
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| 2020 | Jo Spence: Photo Therapy. Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, UK (Online Exhibition) |
| 2017 | Memory Cards. Shin Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2016 | Jo Spence. Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, UK Jo Spence: The Final Project,.Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, UK |
| 2015 | Jo Spence. BP Spotlight, Tate Britain, London, UK |
| 2013 | Jo Spence: Work (Part III) ‘The History Lesson’. White Columns, New York, NY Jo Spence and Alexis Hunter , (curated by George Vasey), Richard Saltoun, London, UK; travelled to Galleria L’Elefante, Treviso, Italy |
| 2012 | Jo Spence: Work (Part I). SPACE, London, UK Jo Spence: Work (Part II). Studio Voltaire, London, UK |
| 2008 | Jo Spence: Self Portraits. Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK |
| 2005 | Jo Spence Beyond the Perfect Image. MACBA, Barcelona, Spain Jo Spence Beyond the Perfect Image. Camera Austria, Granz, Austria Jo Spence: Beyond the Family Album and Other Projects. Belfast Exposed Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| 1996 | Jo Spence: Early Work - The History Lesson and Other Projects. Sans Walk Gallery, Kingsway College, London, UK Jo Spence: The Art of Transgression. Toronto Photographers Workshop Gallery, Toronto, Canada |
| 1995 | Jo Spence: The Healing Camera. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan Jo Spence: Matters of Concern - Collaborative Images 1982 -1992. Royal Festival Hall, London, UK; travelled to Impressions Gallery, York, UK Jo Spence: Photographs. Out of the Blue Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland and KJP Gallery, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK |
| 1991 | Missing Persons / Damaged Lives. Jo Spence: Recent Collaborative Works. Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK |
| 1990 | Jo Spence Collaborative Works. Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia; travelled to Victorian Centre for Photography, Melbourne, Australia; Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney, Australia; University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia |
| 1985 | Jo Spence: Review of Work 1950-1985. Cambridge Dark Room Gallery, Cambridge, UK |
| 1979 | Beyond the Family Album. Jo Spence Photography Workshop, London, UK |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2022 | Telling Stories: Picture Post and its Legacy. James Hyman Gallery, London, UK |
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| 2021 | On Hannah Arendt: The Modern Age. Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, UK A Picture of Health. Arnolfini, Bristol, UK |
| 2020 | Heather Agyepong, Anna Fox & Jo Spence: In Sickness And In Health. James Hyman Gallery, London, UK Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women’s Rights. The British Library, London, UK |
| 2019 | OSMOSCOSMOS. Centre de la Photographie Genève, Geneva, Switzerland Misbehaving Bodies. Wellcome Collection, London, UK P is for Portrait. The Art House, University of Worcester, Worcester, UK 1989. The end of the 20th century. IVAM, Valencia, Spain |
| 2018 | Laid Bare in the Landscape. Nevada Museum of Art, Nevada, NV DRAG: Self-portraits and Body Politic. Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, UK Camera Austria International. Laboratory for photography and Theory. Museum der Modern Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria Cultural Sniping: Photographic Collaborations in the Jo Spence Memorial Library Archive. Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck University of London, London, UK Women Look at Women. Curated by Paola Ugolini, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, UK |
| 2017 | Here We Are,.Old Sessions House, London, UK Tread Softly. Bothy Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK EXITUS – Death, Grief and Melancholy. Galleri F15, Moss, Norway |
| 2016 | Flesh: Skin and Surface. York Art Gallery, York, UK Teesside World Exposition of Art and Technology. Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK In a Dream You Saw a Way To Survive and You Were Full Of Joy. Hayward Gallery, London, UK; travelled to The Whitworth, University of Manchester, UK; De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill-On-Sea, UK; and Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, UK |
| 2015 | All Men Become Sisters. Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland Liberties. Collyer Bristow LLP, London, UK Not yet. On the Reinvention of Documentary and the Critique of Modernism. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain Past Caring. University of Bradford, Bradford, UK |
| 2014 | Jo Spence: A Survey. Frieze Masters, Spotlight Section – Stand S1, London, UK Artevida política [politics]. Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Your Tongue In My Mouth. Stanley Picker Gallery, London, UK Keywords. Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Somewhat Abstract: Selections from the Arts Council. Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK |
| 2013 | Living Loss: The Experience of Illness in Art. Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Ireland, curated by Fiona Kearney in association with the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, Ireland |
| 2012 | Family Matters. Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK Artery. 1971-1984 Rob Tufnell, London, UK Auto/Pathographies. curated by Tamar Tembeck, OBORO, Montréal, Canada |
| 2011 | Unsettled Objects. Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK |
| 2007 | Documenta 12. documenta und Museum Fridericianum Veranstaltungs-GmbH, Kassel, Germany |
| 2000 | Protest and Survive. Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK |
| 1996 | Public Domain. Centre d’Art de Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain |
| 1994 | Matters of Concern: Collaborative Images, 1982-1992. Royal Festival Hall, London, UK |
| 1993 | Body Politics: Rosy Martin, Jo Spence and Shari Caroline Diamond. PS 122 Gallery, New York, NY Renegotiations: Class, Modernity and Photography. Norwich Gallery, UK |
| 1992 | Real Stories: Revisions in Documentary and Narrative Photography. Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark |
| 1991 | Exploring the Unknown Self: Self-Portraits of Contemporary Women. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1989 | Through the Looking Glass. Barbican Gallery, London, UK |
| 1988 | Sexual Difference: Both Sides of the Camera (with Terry Dennett). Miriam and Ira Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, NY |
| 1987 | Staging the Self. National Portrait Gallery, London, UK |
| 1985 | The Picture of Health. Photography Workshop, London, UK |
| 1982 | Family Fantasy and Photography: The Polysnappers. Cockpit Gallery, London, UK |
| 1979 | Three Perspectives on Photography. Hayward Gallery, London, UK Who’s Holding the Baby: Hackney Flashers Collective. distributed by Photography Workshop Ltd, London, UK |
Collection
| Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME, USA Centre Pompidou, Paris, France FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK MACBA | Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain MOMA | Museum of Modern Art, New York,, NY, USA Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland New Hall Art Collection at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA, USA Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, USA Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada Tate Collection, London, UK Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA, USA Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK Wellcome Trust, London, UK |