Contact:
jomcgonigal@hotmail.co.uk
Phone +44(0)7968 066708
Address: Patricia Fleming Gallery
Oxford House, 4 Oxford Lane
Glasgow, G5 9ER
Jo McGonigal is an artist living and working in Manchester, UK. She is also a Lecturer in Fine Art at the University of Leeds. In 2020 she joined Outside Architecture, an artist-led collaborative group based in London, participating in exhibitions and events internationally. Her practice has gained significant recognition within the last few years, with a number of important mid-career group shows, several solo shows and a series of ambitious larger-scale projects. She was shortlisted for the prestigious Tate Northwest Prize in 2020; longlisted for the British Art Show 2020 and nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Award in 2017 and 2018. McGonigal has gallery representation with Patricia Fleming Gallery, Glasgow. The concerns that drive this work are new materialities/-isms and paintings intersection with architecture.
Curriculum Vitae
Solo Shows:
2024 | Title tbc, Show & Residency at Patricia Fleming Gallery, Glasgow
2023 | Pale Ground, Studio2, Robinwood Mill, Todmorden. West Yorkshire with accompanying text by Tim Ingold - read this here
2020 | Blinder, Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow. New commission.
2018 | Act Seven: Paler, Blinder, University of Leeds, School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies. Final PhD by practice exhibition. External Examiner: Ian Kiaer
2016 | Shift, Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow
2015 | Between Painting & Place, Platform A Gallery, Middlesbrough
Upcoming Art Fairs:
2023 | Miami Art Fair with Patricia Fleming Gallery
2023 | Manchester Contemporary
Group Shows
2024 | Hard Painting II Phoenix Gallery, Brighton (contemporary abstract painting)
2022 | 60 drawings, Whitaker Museum, Rawtenstall, Touchstones Gallery, Rochdale
2021 | Nomadic Dialogue 2: New Fluid Territories – Displacement, steamed via Home4Cooperation, Nicosia, Cyprus
2021 | Platform A Gallery, 10 Year anniversary show.
2020 | Yellow Archangel, Oceans Apart Gallery, Salford.
2020 | Slow Burn, Auxillary Gallery, Middlesbrough
2019-20|Contemporary British Painting, Huddersfield Art Gallery cont’d ASC Gallery, London (full colour publication)
2019 | Hard Painting x 2, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton (full colour publication)
2019 | Come and Go. Halt Extreme Left, (Outside Architecture) Winchester Art Gallery, University of Southampton.
2019 | Sunday Art Fair, London, Ambika, University of Westminster.
2019 | Fully Awake, Edinburgh University Galleries, (Edinburgh Arts Festival with full colour publication)
2018 | After an Act, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast.
2018 | Paint North, Ladybeck Gallery, Leeds.
2017 | Ciara Williams Solo Art Prize -2nd prize at Cello Factory, London (Judges Lisa le Feuvre/ Robin Klassnik)
2017 | Mary Maclean & Jo McGonigal, RaumX Projects London
2017 | International Biennial of Non-Objective Art, Lyon, France with full colour publication.
2017 | Eccentric Geometric, Arthouse1, London (co-curated)
2017 | Manchester Contemporary Art Fair
2016 | From A to C; This Being B, Caustic Coastal, Salford. (A continuation of the exhibition Cabedal that took place at Platforma Revólver, Lisbon, 2012, organised by Tiago Duarte with the collaboration of Victor Pinto da Fonseca)
2016 | Marmite Painting Prize Block 336, London, UK & Highlanes Gallery, Ireland (finalist/full colour publication)
2016 | Ingredients, Method, Serving Suggestion, APT Gallery, London
2016 | Transparent Things, Vane Gallery, Newcastle.
2016 | Cascading Relevant Information, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
2016 | Gray Face, Perennial Gallery, Bristol
2015 | Real Painting Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (co-curatorial project)
2015 | Poppositions, (Independent Art Fair alongside Art Brussels / CePRA Award, University of Leeds)
2014 | Something Like Now, Cardroom, Manchester
2014 | Neo Print Prize Finalist, Neo Gallery, Bolton
2014 | Society of Island Universes, Manchester (Curated by Lisa Denyer)
2014 | Straddle the Line, APT Gallery, London (Curated by Della Gooden/Catherine Ferguson)
2013 | Contemporary Art Society Collections, Mirabel, Manchester
2013 | Summer Show, MALGRAS l NAUDET, Rogue, Manchester
2013 | Some Recent Examples, Lever Street, Manchester
2013 | Housing a Pig, Flood Gallery, Dublin
2012 | Cabedal, Platforma Revolver, Lisbon (full colour publication)
2011 | We are all in this together, Bureau, Manchester
2011 | FAFA GALLERY, Helsinki
2009 | Kiss of a Lifetime, BEARSPACE, London
2009 | Northern Print Biennale VANE, Newcastle
2008 | Future 50s PSL [Project Space Leeds] selected by Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool
2008 | Economic Thought Projects, Ard Bia Gallery, Galway, Ireland & Berlin.
Gallery Representation & Research partnerships
2019 | Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow (https://www.patricia-fleming.com)
2020 | Outside Architecture, London - an artist-led collaborative group, founded by Tim Renshaw, Bernice Donszelmann and Mary Maclean. (University of Reading, Royal College of Art, Royal Academy and Chelsea College of Art & Design, UAL, https://www.outsidearchitecture.org).
Press
Featured as part of Artsy exclusive 2021
https://www.artsy.net/artist/jo-mcgonigal-1
Research, Scholarship and Awards
2019 PhD Fine Art Practice-led, ‘The Affect of Painting as a Physical Space’ University of Leeds, FAHACS, (Amanda Burton Scholarship)
2019 Finalist Contemporary British Painting
2019 Shortlisted Finalist Tate North West
2018 Shortlist Paul Hamlyn Award
2017 Shortlist Paul Hamlyn Award
2017 Chiara Williams Solo Award (finalist / 2nd prize)
2016 Marmite Painting Prize, London & Highlands Gallery, Ireland.
2015 MFA Fine Art, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, AHRC
Publications & Exhibition Catalogues
Hard Painting - Exhibition Catalogue / Phoenix Gallery, 2020.
Fully Awake - Exhibition Catalogue / Edinburgh Arts University, 2019
Future 50 – Aesthetica Art Prize 2016
Marmite Painting Prize 2016 Exhibition Catalogue
Eccentric Geometric, Arthouse1, Della Gooden commissioned essay http://www.arthouse1.co.uk/assets/eccentric-geometric-and-theories-of-the-world-in-our-heads-dg.pdf
Recent reviews and journals
2020 Journal of Contemporary Painting – To and Fro by Helen Robertson, Issue 5.2. Review of exhibition at RaumX.
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-contemporary-painting-52-is-now-available
Corridor8 - Contemporary British Painting (review, 2019) Beyond Surface – Painting for Dark Times: The Contemporary British Painting Prize and Mandy Payne: Out of Time by Emma Bolland https://corridor8.co.uk/article/beyond-surface-painting-for-dark-times/
Saturation Point – Hard Painting X2 (review) http://www.saturationpoint.org.uk/Inside%20the%20outside.html
The Herald, Scotland – ‘Shift’ at Patricia Fleming Projects. https://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/14801450.jo-mcgonigal-and-her-painting-dis-assemble/
Curated exhibition reviews include:
Real Painting at Castlefied Gallery, Manchester 2015 http://www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk/event/real-painting/
Craig Staff : http://www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Painting-qua-painting_Essay-by-Craig-Staff.pdf
David Sweet: On Image, Object, And the Tradition of Paintedness
Daniel McMillan reviews Real Painting for The Double Negative
Keeping pace with painting: Sara Jaspan reviews Real Painting for CreativeTourist.com
Robert Clark previews Real Painting for the Guardian
NOW SHOWING #100: The week’s top exhibitions, as selected by a-n
CreativeTourist.com round-up Real Painting in pictures
Sara Jaspan interviews the curators of Real Painting, Jo McGonigal & Deb Covel forCorridor8
Claire Walker reviews Real Painting for Corridor8
Tom Emery reviews Real Painting for This is tomorrow
Dan Crosby reviews Real Painting
http://www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2015/06/paint-activated-castlefield-gallerys-real-painting-reviewed/