Joshua Woolford
Joshua Woolford is a transdisciplinary artist working across performance, sound, video, and installation. Joshua’s work is grounded in cultural research and their personal experiences of being a member of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora living in England.
Through their practice, Joshua acknowledges and confronts experiences of violence, aggression, and misalignment prevalent within our socio-political landscapes by centering embodied knowledge, the ‘unseen’ and intuition as powerful and disruptive states which provoke critical dialogues.
Woolford graduated with an MA from the Royal College of Art (Contemporary Art Practice) and Cum Laude from the Design Academy Eindhoven (Media and Culture) and is currently a LAHP funded PhD candidate across Slade and the Royal College of Art with a project exploring anticapitalist and anticolonial resistance and performance. In 2026 Joshua received an Arts Council R&D grant to further develop their practice. In 2024 Joshua was the recipient of an Arts Council DYCP grant, and the a-n Artists Bursary. They were the 2023-24 Interpretation Artist in Residence at Tate and a New Contemporaries 2023 Artist.
Notable exhibitions include live performances at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, as and exhibitions and performances at various institutions across London, such as HOME by Ronan Mckenzie, Somerset House, Black Cultural Archives, the V&A, Gucci flagship store, Camden Art Centre, Tate Britain and Whitechapel Gallery.
In addition to their artistic practice, Joshua lectures at the Royal College of Art (School of Architecture), UAL (London College of Communication & Central Saint Martins) and UCL (Slade School of Fine Art) and takes on design commissions.