| Education | |
| 1998-1999 | MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London |
| 1995-1997 | BA (Hons) Fine Art, Solihull College, Birmingham |
| Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2021 | Musas, Madres, Magas y Asesinas, Centro Cultural Melchor Zapata, Benicássim |
| 2021 | Las Musas de Josie McCoy, Sala de Exposiciones El Oscurico, Buñol |
| 2017 | Glow and Celebrity: The Philosophy of Josie McCoy, ATM Gallery, Gijón |
| 2016 | New Work, Sporting Club Russafa, Valencia |
| 2014 | Reflections, 10 Grosvenor Street, London |
| 2012 | Paint3d, Sporting Club Russafa, Valencia |
| 2007 | Las Chicas de Almodóvar, DF Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela |
| 2006 | New Work, Eyestorm Gallery, Exeter, Ipswich and Milan |
| 2004 | New Paintings, Eyestorm / Britart, 18 Maddox Street, London |
| 2001 | The Royle Variety Show, Notting Hill Arts Club, Notting Hill Gate, London |
| 2000 | EastEnders, The Centre of Attention, 15 Cotton’s Gardens, London |
| Selected Group Exhibitions | |
| 2023 | Reimagined Realities, Gallery Arteria, Barcelona, Spain |
| 2023 | El 5è Element, Oficina Municipal de Turisme, Ulldecona, Tarragona, Spain |
| 2023 | Where Beauty lies, De Souza Gallery, Spain |
| 2022 | Relics of Future’s Past, Valencia, Spain |
| 2022 | EXOIT – When Healing Begins, De Souza Gallery, Cervera del Maestre, Spain |
| 2022 | Urban and Contemporary Art Exhibition, La Joya Space, Valencia, Spain |
| 2021 | RA Summer Exhibition 2021, Royal Academy of Arts, London Dirty Pink, Sporting Club Russafa, Valencia If not now, when? Spilt milk virtual exhibition |
| 2020 | John Lennon is not dead, The Stash Gallery, London Home-works, Spilt Milk online exhibition and zine |
| 2019 | Paint, PS Mirabel 2019 Painting Prize, Manchester re:birth, Gallery One, Edinburgh Palette, Edinburgh |
| 2018 | The Ghost Tide, curated by Monika Bobinska & Sarah Sparkes, Thames Side Studios Gallery, London Russafart Exposicion Colectiva, Imprevisual Galería, Valencia Face to Face, Kunsthalle Hense, Armlandstr. 20, Gescher |
| 2017 | Political Poetical Petra Lossen Fine Art, Zurich Col.lectiva d’artistes del Sporting Club Russafa en Cullera, Casa de l’ensenyança, Cullera 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 aus der Sammlung Frank Hense, Kunstmuseum, Bochum, Germany Russafart, Sporting Club Russafa, Valencia |
| 2013 | From Madonna to Madonna, Domus Artium (DA2), Salamanca At Home with the Ludskis, Rio Cinema, Dalston, London |
| 2012 | Dreaming of a Black and White Christmas, A-side B-side Gallery, London Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Collection: The Next Generation, Kings Place Gallery, London 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 Hammerson Artist Initiative, former London Stock Exchange building, London When Central Met Saint Martins, Central Saint Martins, Lethaby Gallery, London |
| 2009 | Visiones de Anhelo, Galería Espacio, Valencia Perfect Present, 242 Cambridge Heath Road, London Lo que cuenta(s), Galería Espacio, Valencia |
| 2008 | Face Value, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno Pulse New York with Houldsworth, New York Suburbia, The Foreign Press Association, London 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, London Stone.Plate.Grease.Water, International Contemporary Lithography, Museum for Modern Art for Wales, Machynlleth and Bankside Gallery, London Two Faced, The Changing Face of Portraiture, book launch and exhibition, Hong Kong and London. http://www.wearitwithpride.com/twofaced |
| 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, Espai D’Art Contemporani De Castello, Spain |
| 2004 | Bob’s Your Uncle, Eyestorm, 547 West 27th Street, New York Vector Vecteur, L’Espace d’animation des Blancs Manteaux, Paris Mothers, Oxford House, London Love N Bullets, Transition, London |
| 2003 | Reduced, Century Gallery, London Science Fiction:Double Feature, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design Lexmark European Art Prize, Eyestorm Gallery, London Josie McCoy & Mimei Thompson, QUODart, Brighton BP Portrait Award 2003, National Portrait Gallery, London, Aberdeen Art Gallery Pop Culture, Beatrice Royal, Eastleigh Don’t you forget about me, Studio Voltaire, London New Directions: Art vs Mainstream Visual Culture, Plinth, The Cube, Leeds Faces, Mark Jason Fine Art, 71 New Bond Street, London 14 x 14, Century Gallery, London |
| 2002 | The Painting Class, The Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London BP Portrait Award 2002, National Portrait Gallery, London, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen Beauty’s where you find it, Britart Gallery, London Golden, Britart Gallery, 60-62 Commercial Street, London Viva la Republique, The Centre of Attention, London Hunting Art Prizes 2002, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London |
| 2001 | 14 x 14, Mafuji Gallery, London Art is Dead, Britart Gallery, London RWA Open Painting Exhibition 2001, RWA, Bristol BP Portrait Award 2001, National Portrait Gallery, London, Sheffield Galleries, Sheffield Art 2001, Britart at the Business Design Centre, London 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 Directions 2000, The Lethaby Gallery, London |
| 1999 | Artfutures, Royal Festival Hall, London MA Degree Show, Central Saint Martins, London Secret Lives, Axiom Arts Centre, Cheltenham |
| Selected bibliography | |
| 2017 | Lorena Kloosterboer, ‘Idiosyncratic Monochromes’, PoetsArtists Volume 85 |
| 2011 | Sandy Nairne, ‘500 Portraits: BP Portrait Award’, National Portrait Gallery publication. Antonio Nodar, ‘From Portrait to Self Portrait Vol. 1’. |
| 2010 | Emma Wall ‘Graduate art: make an art of your investments’, The Telegraph, 21 August 2010. Lee Morgan, ‘Workspace: Josie McCoy’, ArtsCulture, June 2010. Ethan Bodnar, ‘Creative Grab Bag’. |
| 2009 | Systems Design Ltd, ‘Two Faced: The Changing Face of Portraiture’. |
| 2007 | Illera, Lotte. ‘Second Glance: Paintings by Josie McCoy’ Bolz, Issue 6 2004. |
| 2004 | Edwards, Charlotte. ‘Dalston Underground Studios’ Art Review, July/August 2002. |
| 2002 | Aitch, Iain. ‘Soap on Canvas’ Wish, April 2002. Dunning, Matthew. ‘A Brush with Fame’ Fable, February 2002. |
| 2001 | Greenstreet, Roseanna. ‘Questionnaire – Q & A Josie McCoy’, The Guardian Weekend magazine, 12 May 2001. |
| 2000 | ‘Mighty Real’ Dazed and Confused, November 2000. |
| Prizes and awards | |
| 2002 | Woo Charitable Foundation Arts Bursary |
| 2001 | Royal West of England Academy Open Painting Exhibition 2001 – commended The Centre of Attention Painting Prize – awarded first prize |
| Collections | |
| Colección Ofelia Martín & Javier Núñez BBC Collection of University of Wales Jeremy Mogford Collection Standard Chartered The Centre of Attention Permanent Collection The Borchard Collection of British Self-Portraits in the 20th Century |
De Souza GalleryContemporary Modern Art