JOJO KNOWLES

Jojo Knowles (Sweden/USA) is a visual artist working with installation, sculpture and performance. Her artistic language comes from a critical lens on human behavior but it is filtered through sensitivity in material, emotion, and through humor. Most of her research and methodology centers around the abject, and how embracing that which makes us animal and “disgusting” can create more empathy and self-awareness. She engages with topics surrounding the relationship between humans, animals, and nature, commodification, hygiene and sterility, womanhood, trauma, and the absurd. She creates ideas for new realities to mend human’s relationship with themselves, each other, and with the nature around them. Revealing other possibilities for how to be human.

UPCOMING

Solo exhibition Collateral, Pulchri Studio, The Hague 30 August - 23 September 2025

AWARDS / GRANTS

PRO Onderzoek Grant Stroom Den Haag 2025
Research & Development Grant Amartefonds 2025
Stroom Young Talent Award 2024

EXHIBITIONS / WORK

Group show DUPLEX AiR, Lisbon April 2025
Group exhibition / performance for "Tense Tides? Act 3" Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam Dec 2024
OPENING + exhibition The View, co-founded artist run initiative/studio in Escamp, The Hague Dec 2024
Solo exhibition "I'll take your waste in my hands" Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam Nov 2024
Fem Disturbances Roodkapje, Rotterdam Nov 2024
Group exhibition Melkweg, Amsterdam Sep 2024
Graduation Show Royal Academy of Art, The Hague July 2024
Performance WORM, Rotterdam Jan 2024
Solo exhibition Waterkant bunker, The Hague June 2023
For the exhibition series/collective Safe Space For Stupid Ideas.
Group exhibition Pulchri Studio, The Hague June 2023
Performance Cultuurlab Delft, Netherlands Oct 2021

Host NEST contemporary exhibition space, The Hague current
Camp leader Barnens Ö, Sweden 2021-2023
Every time I have the chance, I work at summer camp in the Stockholm Archipelago for children ages 8-12.

RESIDENCIES

Duplex AiR Lisbon, Portugal April-May 2025

EDUCATION

Bachelor Fine Arts Royal Academy of Art, The Hague Netherlands 2020-2024
Preparatory Year Royal Academy of Art, The Hague Netherlands 2019-2020
International Baccalaureate Diploma Program Katedralskolan Lund, Sweden 2016-2019