Jo Spence

♀ *1934-1992 / United Kingdom

Works

Solo exhibitions

A Woman's Place?

Belfast Exposed Photography, Belfast (GB)
17 Oct 2024 – 21 Dec 2024
Fairytales and Photography

IN FOCUS DISPLAYS

The Centre for British Photography, London (GB)
26 Jan 2023 – 28 May 2023
Jo Spence

Stills Center Photography, Edinburgh (GB)
29 Jul 2016 – 16 Oct 2016
Beyond the Perfect Image

Camera Austria, Graz (AT)
1 Apr 2006 – 25 Jun 2006
Més enllà de la imatge perfecta

Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona (ES)
27 Oct 2005 – 15 Jan 2006
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Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow (GB)
21 Jun 2005 – 30 Jul 2005
Beyond the Family Album and other projects

Belfast Exposed Photography, Belfast (GB)
3 Mar 2005 – 15 Apr 2005

Group

Dark Tales

British Documentary Photography and the Gothic

The Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol (GB)
17 Sep 2026 – 20 Dec 2026

with Kjell-Åke Andersson, Bill Brandt, Anna Fox, Robert Frank, Don McCullin, Lee Miller, John Myers, Akihiko Okamura, Sue Packer, Martin Parr, Charlie Phillips, Sarah Pickering …
Women in Revolt!

Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990

The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (GB)
7 Mar 2025 – 1 Jun 2025

with Zarina Bhimji, Gina Birch, Sutapa Biswas, Tessa Boffin, Sonia Boyce, Chila Kumari Burman, Helen Chadwick, Vivienne Dick, Catherine Elwes, Rose English, Mona Hatoum, Susan Hiller …
Energy: Sparks from the Collection

V&A Victoria & Albert Museum, London (GB)
1 Oct 2024 – 18 May 2025

with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Joana Choumali, William Henry Fox Talbot, Brian Griffin, Man Ray
What They Saw

Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843–1999

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (US)
8 Apr 2025 – 11 May 2025

with Berenice Abbott, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Emmy Andriesse, Diane Arbus, Eve Arnold, Anna Atkins, Tina Barney, Martine Barrat, Ruth Bernhard, Eva Besnyoe, Aenne Biermann, Margaret Bourke-White …
Women in Revolt!

Art and Activism in the UK 1970–1990

Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh (GB)
25 May 2024 – 26 Jan 2025

with Zarina Bhimji, Gina Birch, Sutapa Biswas, Tessa Boffin, Sonia Boyce, Chila Kumari Burman, Helen Chadwick, Vivienne Dick, Catherine Elwes, Rose English, Mona Hatoum, Susan Hiller …
Flucht in die Öffentlichkeit

Prolog zum f/stop —  Festival für Fotografie Leipzig

Kunstraum D21, Leipzig (DE)
4 Apr 2024 – 16 Jun 2024

with Terry Dennett, Ion Grigorescu, Sanja Ivekovic, Zbigniew Libera, Martha Rosler, Aykan Safoğlu, Gabriele Stoetzer
THIS IS ME, THIS IS YOU

The Eva Felten Photoraphy Collection

Museum Brandhorst, München (DE)
19 Oct 2023 – 7 Apr 2024

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Victor Burgin, Harry Callahan, Larry Clark, Bruce Davidson, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Rineke Dijkstra, William Eggleston, Robert Frank, LaToya Ruby Frazier …
Women In Revolt!

Art, Activism and the Women’s movement in the UK 1970–1990

Tate Britain, London (GB)
8 Nov 2023 – 7 Apr 2024

with Zarina Bhimji, Gina Birch, Sutapa Biswas, Tessa Boffin, Sonia Boyce, Chila Kumari Burman, Helen Chadwick, Vivienne Dick, Catherine Elwes, Rose English, Mona Hatoum, Susan Hiller …
Café Royal Books

an independent publisher dedicated to post-war photography from Britain and Ireland

Stills Center Photography, Edinburgh (GB)
10 Nov 2023 – 10 Feb 2024

with Shirley Baker, Sophie Gerrard, Chris Killip, Marketa Luskacova, Daniel Meadows, Martin Parr, Johny Pitts, Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, David Williams
Le plaisir du texte (The pleasure of text)

an exploration of the relationship between images and words in art

Musée des beaux-arts, Le Locle (CH)
24 Mar 2023 – 18 Sep 2023

with Melissa Catanese, Geraldo de Barros, Chloe Dewe Mathews, Ketty La Rocca
The English at Home

Twentieth Century Photographs from the Hyman Collection

The Centre for British Photography, London (GB)
26 Jan 2023 – 28 May 2023

with Shirley Baker, Ian Berry, Richard Billingham, Bill Brandt, John Bulmer, Anna Fox, Ken Grant, Brian Griffin, Bert Hardy, David Hurn, Kurt Hutton, Daffyd Jones …
Writing her own Script

Women Photographers from the Hyman Collection

Photo London, London (GB)
11 May 2023 – 14 May 2023

with Heather Agyepong, Shirley Baker, Dorothy Bohm, Sonia Boyce, Juno Calypso, Helen Chadwick, Hannah Collins, Maisie Cousins, Anna Fox, Eliza Hatch, Susan Hiller, Alexis Hunter …
Domestic Bliss

GoMA Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (GB)
1 Jan 2022 – 31 Dec 2022

with Jane Evelyn Atwood, Anne Collier, Ettore Sottsass, Joel Sternfeld, Nick Waplington
Telling Tales. Picture Post and its Legacy.

key photographers of Picture Post magazine

James Hyman Gallery, London (GB)
29 Mar 2022 – 10 Jun 2022

with Shirley Baker, Bill Brandt, Anna Fox, Ken Grant, Bert Hardy, Nigel Henderson, Paul Hill, David Hurn, Kurt Hutton, Daffyd Jones, Colin Jones, Chris Killip …
Maternality

Richard Saltoun, London (GB)
10 Jan 2020 – 29 Feb 2020

with Eleanor Antin, Helen Chadwick, Liv Pennington, Annegret Soltau, Carmen Winant
OSMOSCOSMOS

Eros & Cosmos

Centre Photographie Geneve, Genève (CH)
19 Jun 2019 – 25 Aug 2019

with Johan Oesterholm, Nobuyoshi Araki, Ursula Böhmer, Dorothee Baumann, Renate Bertlmann, Anne Collier, Nicolas Crispini, Bunu Dhungana, Charles Eames, Ray Eames, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Sylvie Fleury …
Camera Austria International

Laboratory for Photography and Theory / Labor für Fotografie und Theorie

Museum der Moderne , Salzburg (AT)
24 Nov 2018 – 3 Mar 2019

with Robert Adams, Nobuyoshi Araki, Lewis Baltz, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Petar Dabac, William Eggleston, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Seiichi Furuya, Luigi Ghirri, David Goldblatt, Nan Goldin, Sanja Ivekovic …
Laid Bare in the Landscape

Nevada Museum of Art, Reno (US)
29 Sep 2018 – 27 Jan 2019

with Laura Aguilar, Ruth Bernhard, Imogen Cunningham, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Judy Dater, Regina Jose Galindo, Sally Mann, Ana Mendieta, Joan Myers, Otobong Nkanga, Carolee Schneemann, Francesca Woodman
DRAG: Self-portraits and Body Politics

Hayward Gallery, London (GB)
22 Aug 2018 – 14 Oct 2018

with Eleanor Antin, Oreet Ashery, Renate Bertlmann, Luciano Castelli, Adam Christensen, Jimmy Desana, Valie Export, Samuel Fosso, Lynn Hershman, Ann Hirsch, Birgit Juergenssen, Michel Journiac …
WOMEN LOOK AT WOMEN

Inaugural exhibition at the Dover Street

Richard Saltoun, London (GB)
15 Feb 2018 – 31 Mar 2018

with Eleanor Antin, Renate Bertlmann, Helen Chadwick, Valie Export, Alexis Hunter, Friedl Kubelka, Annegret Soltau, Francesca Woodman
Here we are - Paris

Burberry

ex-locaux de Liberation, Paris (FR)
26 Jan 2018 – 4 Feb 2018

with Shirley Baker, Janette Beckman, Jane Bown, Brian Griffin, Daffyd Jones, Colin Jones, Karen Knorr, Alasdair McLellan, Daniel Meadows, Martin Parr, Charlie Phillips, Gosha Rubchinskiy …
Medicine in Art

MOCAK, Krakow (PL)
22 Apr 2016 – 2 Oct 2016

with Marina Abramovic, Eleanor Antin, Kader Attia, Daniele Buetti, Valie Export, Kristof Kintera, Juergen Klauke, Milja Laurila, Zoe Leonard, Man Ray , Bjoern Melhus, Aurelia Mihai …
An Ideal For Living

Photographing Class, Culture an Identity in Modern Britain

Huxley-Parlour, London (GB)
27 Jul 2016 – 17 Sep 2016

with Richard Billingham, Bill Brandt, John Bulmer, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bruce Davidson, Peter Dench, Raymond Depardon, Elliott Erwitt, Anna Fox, Philip Jones Griffiths, Frank Habicht, Bert Hardy …
Now You See Me

TJ Boulting, London (GB)
18 May 2016 – 2 Jul 2016

with Juno Calypso, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Mat Collishaw, Eloise Fornieles, Rachel Howard, Rasha Kahil, Thomas Mailaender, Haley Morris-Cafiero
Sie. Selbst. Nackt.

Paula Modersohn-Becker und andere Künstlerinnen im Selbstakt

Museen Böttcherstraße, Bremen (DE)
20 Oct 2013 – 2 Feb 2014

with Marina Abramovic, Marianne Breslauer, Renee Cox, Imogen Cunningham, Ana Mendieta, Lee Miller, Yoko Ono, Catherine Opie, Cindy Sherman, Annegret Soltau, Hannah Wilke, Francesca Woodman
Alexis HUNTER & Jo SPENCE

Richard Saltoun, London (GB)
22 Aug 2013 – 27 Sep 2013

with Alexis Hunter
Goodbye London - Radical Art and Politics in the Seventies

nGbK Neue Gesellschaft, Berlin (DE)
26 Jun 2010 – 15 Aug 2010

with Derek Jarman, John Savage, Stephen Willats
Documenta Kassel 2007

documenta, Kassel (DE)
16 Jun 2007 – 23 Sep 2007

with Halil Altindere, Eleanor Antin, Maja Bajevic, Yael Bartana, Johanna Billing, James Coleman, Danica Dakic, Harun Farocki, Andrea Geyer, Simryn Gill, David Goldblatt, ZHENG Guogu …

Events

Bristol Photo Festival 2026

A biennial of photography locally grounded with an international focus.

Bristol Photo Festival, Bristol (GB)
14 Oct 2026 – 15 Nov 2026

with Bill Brandt, Andrea Hernández Briceño, Michel Campeau, River Claure, Kegham Djeghalian Sr, Fatma Fahmy, Anna Fox, Robert Frank, Gayatri Ganju, Florence Goupil, Joy Gregory, George Hallett …
FOTOGRAF ZONE FESTIVAL 2025

TALK TOGETHER

Fotograf 07 z.s., Praha (CZ)
3 Oct 2025 – 12 Oct 2025

with Andrej Balco, Mihai Barabancea, Szilvia Bolla, Benedetta Casagrande, Alexander Chekmenev, Dev Dhunsi, Viola Fatyol, Barbara Hammer, Phelim Hoey, Ksenia Ivanova, Félixe Kazi-Tani, Csilla Klenyanszki …
ARTIST AND MODEL | ARTIST AS MODEL

Photo London 2025

James Hyman Gallery, London (GB)
15 May 2025 – 18 May 2025

with Cecil Beaton, Bill Brandt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, John Coplans, John Deakin, Frantisek Drtikol, Nigel Henderson, Colin Jones, Andre Kertesz, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Gustave Le Gray, Zanele Muholi …
f/stop 2024 - 10. Festival für Fotografie Leipzig

Flucht in die Öffentlichkeit

f/stop Festival, Leipzig (DE)
31 May 2024 – 16 Jun 2024

with Nika Autor, Alvin Baltrop, Nilbar Gueres, Niklas Goldbach, Ion Grigorescu, Sanja Ivekovic, Volkmar Jaeger, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Barbora Kleinhamplova, Zbigniew Libera, Erik Niedling, Roxana Rios …
Photo London 2023

Photo London, London (GB)
11 May 2023 – 14 May 2023

with Bryan Adams, Heather Agyepong, Albarran Cabrera, Maurizio Anzeri, Nobuyoshi Araki, Chantal Elisabeth Ariëns, Jean-Piere Attal, Shirley Baker, Gian Paolo Barbieri, Wylda Bayron, Federica Belli, Dorothy Bohm …
Photo Oxford 2021

Women and Photography: Ways of Seeing and Being Seen

Photography Oxford, Oxford (GB)
15 Oct 2021 – 15 Nov 2021

with Heather Agyepong, Anna Atkins, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Margaret Courtney-Clarke, Chloe Dewe Mathews, Anna Fox, Alexis Hunter, Mari Mahr, Aida Makoto, Daido Moriyama, Zanele Muholi, Mika Ninagawa …
50JPG - 50 Days for Photography in Geneva

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Centre Photographie Geneve, Genève (CH)
19 Jun 2019 – 25 Aug 2019

with Annelies Strba, Romy Alizee, Nobuyoshi Araki, Jane Evelyn Atwood, Ursula Böhmer, Dorothee Baumann, Helene Bellenger, Mathieu Bernard-Reymond, Renate Bertlmann, Viktoria Binschtok, Mauren Brodbeck, Florence Chevallier …
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Zsona Maco, Mexico City (MX)
7 Feb 2019 – 10 Feb 2019

with Sofia Ayarzagoitia, Jose Manuel Ballester, Vanessa Beecroft, Lynda Benglis, Barbara Bloom, James Casebere, Adriana DuQue, Christine Elfman, Bruna Esposito, Leandro Feal, Lourdes Grobet, Candida Hoefer …
Miart 2018

Fiera Milano International , Milano (IT)
13 Apr 2018 – 15 Apr 2018

with Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Vanessa Beecroft, Gabriele Beveridge, Helene Binet, Mimmo Jodice, Dennis Oppenheim, Gina Pane, Anne & Patrick Poirier, Tobias Zielony