James Webb
James Webb’s work unfolds through sound, text, and found objects, emerging from attentive engagement with particular contexts, communities, and presences. Through practices of listening, translation, and inquiry, Webb’s projects reflect on belief and communication, tracing how meaning forms, stutters, and shifts as it moves across place and time.
Webb has had solo exhibitions at, amongst others, Kunsthuset Kabuso, Øystese, Norway (2025); Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden (2024); the Art Institute of Chicago, USA (2018); SPACES, Cleveland, USA (2018); Norrtälje Konsthall, Norrtälje, Sweden (2018); Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, United Kingdom (2016); Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway (2015); CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain (2013); Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa (2012); and mac, Birmingham, United Kingdom (2010).
Major group exhibitions include the 16th and 8th Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon (2022 and 2007), 13th Biennial of Dakar (2018), 4th Prospect Triennial of New Orleans (2017), Documenta 14 (2017), 13th Biennial of Sharjah (2017), 12th Bienal de la Habana (2015), 55th Biennale di Venezia (2013), and the 3rd Marrakech Biennale (2009). Other notable group shows include those at spaces such as Wanås Konst and Historiska Museet, Sweden; MAXXI Roma, Italy; Darat al Funun, Jordan; Théâtre Graslin, France; and the Tate Modern, London.
Born 1975 in Kimberley, South Africa. Based in Stockholm, Sweden & Cape Town, South Africa.
Represented by blank, Cape Town, and Imane Farès, Paris.
Website: www.theotherjameswebb.com
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/theotherjameswebb
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theotherjameswebb
