James Webb
James Webb works with sound, text, installation, and found materials. His projects are guided by acts of address, invitation, translation, and displacement, often posing questions to objects, places, and other presences. Attentive to the contexts and communities around them, these projects engage with belief and communication, listening to how meaning forms, stutters, and shifts across place and time.
Biography
James Webb has had solo exhibitions at, amongst others, Webb has had solo exhibitions at, amongst others, Slowly slowly and then all at once at Kabuso Art Centre (Norway, 2025), The Moon Will Not Stay Hidden Forever at Liljevalchs Stockholm (Sweden, 2024), blank projects (South Africa, 2020, 2016, 2014, 2010, 2006), Winnipeg Art Gallery (Canada, 2019), Imane Farès Gallery (France, 2019, 2016), the Art Institute of Chicago (USA, 2018), SPACES, Cleveland (USA, 2018), Norrtälje Konsthall (Sweden, 2018, 2016 and 2019), Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield (UK, 2016), Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen (Norway, 2015), CentroCentro, Madrid (Spain, 2013), Johannesburg Art Gallery (South Africa, 2012), and mac Birmingham (UK, 2010).
Major group exhibitions include Kunsthalle Mulhouse (2025), the Blaffer Art Museum (2024), Asturp Fearnley Museet (2024), Monheim Triennale II (2023), the International Biennale of Saint-Paul de Vence (2023), the Islamic Arts Biennale (2023), the Mona Foma Festival (2023), the 16th and 8th Lyon Biennale (2022, 2007), the 14th Curitiba International Biennial (2019), the 13th Dakar Biennial (2018), the 4th Prospect Triennial in New Orleans (2017), documenta 14 (2017), the 13th Sharjah Biennial (2017), 12th Havana Biennale (2015), 55th Venice Biennale (2013), and the 3rd Marrakech Biennale (2009). Other notable group shows include those at spaces such as A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town, Wanås Konst and Historiska, Sweden, MAXXI, Rome, Darat al Funun, Jordan, Théâtre Graslin, Nantes and Tate Modern, London.
Recent exhibitions
| 2025 | Let the Darkness Be a Doorway, solo exhibition, Galerie Imane Farès, Paris, FR See you in Happiness, solo exhibition, blank projects, Cape Town, ZA tuuui trrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, group exhibition, MAC/CCB, Belém, Lisbon, PT Déborder la rivière, group exhibition, Kunsthalle Mulhouse, FR For the Birds, group exhibition, MGK Siegen, DE |
| 2024 | Slowly, slowly, and then all at once, exposition individuelle, Kunsthuset Kabuso Art Centre, Øystese, NO The Moon Will Not Stay Hidden Forever, exposition individuelle, Liljevalchs +, Stockholm, SE Prayer (Houston), exposition de groupe, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, USA Between Rivers, exposition de groupe, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, NO |
| 2023 | Goodbye to Love, Marres, group exhibition, House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, NL International Biennale of Saint-Paul de Vence, curated by Ludovic Delalande and Claire Staebler, group exhibition, Saint-Paul de Vence, FR Monheim Triennale II, curated by Kathrin Jentjens and Frank Schulte, group exhibition, Monheim am Rhein, DE A bruit secret. Hearing in art, group exhibition, Basel, CH Awwal Bayt (First House), group exhibition, Islamic Arts Biennale, Jeddah, SA MONA FOMA festival, group exhibition, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, AU-TAS |