Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck
Painting, Mixed Media, Prints & Photography
b. 1990, Strasbourg, France
Lives and works in rural Oxfordshire, England
Transdisciplinary artist Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck's practice includes painting, drawing, collage, photographic prints, sculpture, and publishing. Tagada Hoffbeck shows extensively in Far-East Asia and Europe. Tagada Hoffbecks recent exhibitions include Somerset House (London), Totodo (Tokyo), Kate MacGarry (London). Selected public and private collections include Design Museum (Gent, BE), Booklet Art Library (Tokyo, JP), Clinique Rhena (Strasbourg, FR), and Los Angeles Contemporary Archives (Los Angeles, US)
Portrait photograph by Aloha Bonser-Shaw for TOAST, 2023
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024, Edge Effects, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2023, One Foot in The Sky, Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, UK
2023, Caring & Tender, Ao-Hata Books, Fukuoka, Japan
2023, Caring & Tender, OBG, Kobe, Japan
2022, Dreaming About Tomorrow, Nidi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2022, Caring & Tender, Terrace Square Photo, Tokyo, Japan
2022, Speaking With Paper, Geulwoll, Seoul, Korea
2021, What if God was an Insect? Ao-Hata Bookstore, Fukuoka, Japan
2020, From Brown to Pink, From Pink to Green, Readan Deat, Hiroshima, Japan
2020, The Things I made, Nidi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2020, Meeting, Pon Ding, Taipei, Taiwan
2020, Memories from the Ordinary, Tenoha Gallery Space, Milan, Italy
2019, Tamil Diary, Totodo, Tokyo, Japan
2018, Take Care, きをつけて, Nidi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2017, Épistolaire Imaginaire, Merci, Galerie Jean Francois Kaiser, Strasbourg, France
2016, Épistolaire Imaginaire, Le Refuge, Egg, London, UK
2015, Épistolaire Imaginaire, Les Fleures du Japon, IKO IKO Space, Los Angeles, US
2014, Épistolaire Imaginaire, わけあうことば , Utrecht/NOW ideA, Tokyo, Japan
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024, Edge Effects, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2023, One Foot in The Sky, Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, UK
2023, Temporal, Tappan, Los Angeles, CA
2023, Untitled, Picture Room, New York, US
2023, Flower Beds, Hweg Gallery, Penzance, UK
2023, Oxfordshire Artweeks, Oxfordshire, UK
2023, abC Art, Ming Contemporary Art Museum McaM, Shanghai, China
2022, Penser, Manger, Partager II, Lewisham Arthouse for Deptford X, London, UK
2022, New Nature , Paterson Zevi Gallery, London, UK
2022, Oxfordshire Artweeks, Oxfordshire, UK
2022, By your side, HOME, London, UK
2021, Outside, Together, Funk, Cologne, Germany
2021, Avec ce qui reste, Ravisius Textor, Nevers, France
2020, MK Calling, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
2019, Blank Space Library, Exposed Art Projects, London, UK
2019, Tea Today, Nidi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2019, Run Home, The Hankyu Event Hall, Osaka, Japan
2019, Nieves : Zine Wall, Amala Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2018, Run Home, Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York, US
2017, Inaka no Hana Nidi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2016, Douceurs de l'imperceptible, Tender Books, London, UK
2015, To Hide To Show , MAMA Gallery, LA, US
2014, Thoughts; Empire, Faith and War, Brunei Gallery, London, UK
2010, Mulhouse 010, Le Musée des Beaux Arts de Mulhouse, France
SELECTED PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Design Museum, Gent, Belgium
Booklet Art Library, Tokyo, Japan
Clinique Rhena, Strasbourg, France
Garden Museum Archive, (London, UK
Le Centre de Documentation AWARE, Paris, France
La Ville de Strasbourg, Artothèque, Strasbourg, France
Los Angeles Contemporary Archives, Los Angeles, US
La Médiathèque de l'Institut Français du Royaume-Uni, London, UK
GRANTS & AWARDS
2024 Winner Portrait of Britain Photography Award, UK
2023 Society of Authors Grant - Drusilla Harvey Access Fund, UK
2020, Arts Council England
2016, MTArt Support for research in Japan
SELECTED ART COMMISSIONS
2023 Southbank Centre, London, UK
2022, Deptford X
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2023 BOAN 1942, Seoul, South Korea
2016, O Apartamento Lisbon Portugal
SELECTED PUBLIC TALKS
2023, Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck: Permaculture and Poetics, Tate Lates series at Tate Modern, London, UK
2023, Recipe For Zine Making, The Zine Fair at The Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, UK
2020, Architecture and space in ‘Journal du Thé’ and ‘Penser, Manger, Partager’ at Archipel Centre de Culture Urbaine, Musée des Beaux Arts, Lyon, France
2019, In conversation with T. S. Wendelstein at Nidi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2018, An introduction to ‘Penser, Manger, Partager’ on the occasion of No Ocean, No Life, on invitation of Å Journal, Ofr - Copenhagen, Denmark
2017, In conversation with Rio Tomo, Galerie Jean-Francois Kaiser, Strasbourg, France
2016, MTArt Conference Ellie Tsatsou & Johanna in conversation, Art Rooms, London, UK
2015, Speaker at MTArt Conference, Contemporary Artists, Contextual Realities, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
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