grants, awards and residencies
| 2023 & 2024 | Artist Residency, Konstepidemin, Gothenburg, Sweden |
| 2023 | Principle Investigator, HEIMR, (co-I Dr Laden Hashemi, Violence and Society Unity, City University), UCA AHRC IAA funding |
| 2022 | Honorable Mention for vision and unique contribution to cinema (Holes), Experimental Forum, Los Angeles. |
| 2022 | Principle Investigator, Animating Farnham, KE funding |
| 2021 | Artist Residency, C4RD (Centre for Recent Drawing), London |
| 2020 | Co Investigator, Sensory Spaces, StoryFutures Immersive Fellowships |
| 2018-2022 | Named Researcher, StoryFutures, AHRC Creative Cluster in Immersive Storytelling |
| 2020 | Norman McLaren-Evelyn Lambert Award for Best Book on Animation Published 2018-19, Society for Animation Studies, Experimental and Expanded Animation (eds. Hamlyn and Smith, Ch.12 by Birgitta Hosea) |
| 2018 | Visiting Researcher grant, Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, Exeter |
| 2017 | Norman McLaren-Evelyn Lambert Award for Best Book on Animation Published 2015-16, Society for Animation Studies, Animated Landscapes (edited by Chris Pallant, Chapter 9 by Birgitta Hosea) |
| 2016 | Artist-in-residence, Goan Conversations, Manora, Goa, India |
| 2016-18 | Visiting Professorship, School of Arts and Film, Chengdu University, China |
| 2016 | Artist-in-residence, Cill Rialaig, Ireland |
| 2015 | Artist-in-residence, ATINA Asilo, Italy |
| 2014 | Artist-in-residence, Yarat Contemporary Arts, Baku, Azerbaijan |
| 2010 | Artist-in-residence, Digital Arts and Animation Department, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA |
| 2010 | Adobe Impact Award |
| 2010 | Artist-in-residence (in collaboration with Foá, Grisewood, McCall), the Centre for Drawing, Wimbledon College of Art |
| 2009 | Second prize, MAMA Awards for Holographic Arts (Performance category), Musion Academy, London |
| 2009 | Artist-in-residence (in collaboration with Foá, Grisewood, McCall), the Centre for Drawing, Wimbledon College of Art |
| 2006 | Finalist, DIFFRACTION ARTIST PLACEMENT, Arts Council England, Adobe, Montalvo Arts Centre and The Junction. |
| 2004 | Nominated Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (fRSA) |
curation
| 2024 | Animate Accelerate: Live Animation discussion between Rose Bond, Johannes DeYoung, Birgitta Hosea and Miwa Matreyek for Animate Projects |
| 2022 | Fission: the New Wave of International Digital Art (co-curated with Zhang Xiaotao and Li Fei), Guizhou Provincial Museum, China: 44 international digital media artists |
| 2020-2022 | Synaesthetic Syntax (co-curated with Juergen Hagler), Expanded Animation, Ars Electronica, Linz: live and online events |
| 2021 | Performance Drawing 2021 (co-curated with Maryclare Foá and Carali McCall), Centre for Recent Drawing, London: 8 artists: VR gallery, residencies, live and online events |
| 2017 | Performing Identity: Inside the Outsider (co-curated with Rose Bond), Boundary Crossings, Pacific Nothwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon, USA:exhibition of animation installation |
| 2017 | Lying Belly, 51% Remember Her, Elements Gallery, London and Strangelove Film Festival, Folkestone: selection of feminist animations |
| 2015 | The Fair and the Foul (with Julie Matthias and Dawn Kemp), The Old Operating Theatre Museum, London: animated interventions to permanent museum collection |
| 2015 | Women Hold Up Half the Sky (with Chunning Guo and Shelley Page), Strangelove Moving Image Festival: program of animations by Chinese women |
| 2014 | Chunning Guo, Ketchup, Window Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London |
| 2014 | 12 Azerbaijani artists; Birgitta Hosea, Shadow Voices, Natavan Gallery, Baku, Azerbaijan; |
| 2014 | Maryclare Foá, Birgitta Hosea, Carali McCall, Anne Robinson, Sarah Sparkes,Thurle Wright, Seeafar, Num3er Gallery, Deptford X, London; |
| 2014 | Maryclare Foá, Birgitta Hosea, Carali McCall, Anne Robinson, Sarah Sparkes,Thurle Wright, Seeafar, Folkestone Triennial Fringe, Folkestone; |
| 2013 | Curatorial team member responsible for AV (overall curator – Jeremy Till), Liquid Boundaries, UK Pavilion, Shenzhen Architecture and Urbanism Biennial, China; |
| 2003-10 | Adobe Inspired Media, monthly event in London for creatives from animation, post-production and motion graphics |
selected solo exhibitions
| 2024 | Holes, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell, UK |
| 2021-2 | Holes, ASIFA Keil, Q21, Vienna, Austria |
| 2018 | Erasure, Hanmi Gallery, Seoul, Korea (interview - Studio International) |
| 2016 | Erased, Whelkboy Gallery, Folkestone |
| 2011 | Chatter, animation installation, Bar Sequence, London |
| 2010 | Chatter, animation installation, Cinematic Arts Gallery, USC, Los Angeles, USA Lunch with Miss Smith, site-specific interactive animation installation, Mansfield Court, London |
| ARC: I draw for you, Performance, Centre for Drawing, Wimbledon (in collaboration with Foá, Grisewood, McCall) | |
| 2009 | line process echo repeat2, Performance, Centre for Drawing, Wimbledon (in collaboration with Foá, Grisewood, McCall) |
| 2007 | Dog Betty performances, public intervention, central London |
| 2004 | Visitation (curated by Sandra Louison) Site specific video installation in the Crypt of St Pancras Church featuring video loops playing on piles of broken old TV sets in the dark tunnels of the crypt. London. Reviewed on Radio 4. |
| 1998 | Fluid Fictions (curated by Bradley Quin) Installation of computer animation and Super-8 projections in Christie's (the auctioneer’s) warehouse, London. Part of Ice Garden - work from Swedish artists. |
| 1997 | Romantic Fictions (with Elaine Axten) – installation of mutilated Mills and Boons romantic novels. Shown in Whitechapel Open and Waterstones bookshop as part of MAVIS Goes Shopping: a series of site-specific installations by artists in shops on Camden High Street, London. |
| 1996 | Virus installation, performance and giant virus sculptures. Shown in Whitechapel Open and as part of World AIDS Day Exhibition at the Globe Centre, London |
| 1993 | Hot Pussy – sexual chair sculpture installation - The Edge Gallery, Cromer Street, London. Reviewed in Time Out, The Face, Ms London, Skin Two, Brutus (Japan), Pink Paper, Capital Gay, Virgin FM, News of the World, Shebang. Interviewed on TV – UK Living (Sky TV, Europe) and Fashion Sushi (NTV, Japan) |
| 1993 | Seaside Collection - Lauren Shanley Contemporary Textiles, London. Reviewed in Time Out and the Evening Standard |
| 1992 | Dream Chair, Baik Gallery, London |
selected group exhibitions and screenings
| 2024 | Drawing as Expanded Research Method, RCA White City: 100 blind steps on a Motherline [Konstepidemin – Vasastaden] (drawing series) |
| Re/walk InspiralLondon 2024: Ritual Spiral Drawing led by Birgitta Hosea and Sarah Sparkes in collaboration with Charlie Fox and the InspiralLondon Collective | |
| Animation as Art: A Multi-Sensory Experience, Museum of Texas Tech, Lubbock, Texas, USA: Walkcycle (installation) | |
| 2023 | Wandering: Digital Art in Historical Spacetime, Hunan Museum, China: Walkcycle (installation) |
| Dipole Field, Box Art Space, Beijing. China: Holes (installation) | |
| Windows and Thresholds, the Bell House, Dulwich Festival, London: Holes (installation) | |
| Film festival screenings of Holes (short film version): Film Maudit 2.0, Los Angeles, USA; Tricky Women Festival, Austria; Punto y Raya festival, Lisbon; |
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| 2022 | Beijing Illumination: An Artistic Journey of Changping, Xiayuan Art Season, Changping District, Beijing, China: Holes |
| Rhapsody On Earth, Guiyang Shang Space Art Centre, China: dotdot dash (documentation) | |
| Fisson: International New Wave of Digital Art, Guizhou Provincial Museum, China: Holes (installation) | |
| Film festival screenings of Holes (short film version): Animafest Cyprus; Athens AnimFest, Greece; Antimatter [Media Art], Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, BC, Canada; Brighton International Animation Festival, UK; Chicago Underground Film Festival, USA; Fest Anča, Slovakia |
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| 2021 | Performance Drawing 2021, Centre for Recent Drawing and Hundred Years Gallery, London: Walk Cycle (with Footslip) |
| Figures in Focus, London International Animation Festival, Barbican, London: Erasure | |
| Drawn to Time, Drawing Research Network, Loughborough University: Traion III (Folkestone) | |
| Vertigo of Time, Pareidolie Salon international du dessin contemporain, Marseilles: Erasure | |
| 2020 | Gender*uck, National Gallery X (curated by Flux Artists): Out There in the Dark, Medium, Traion I (Ferme), Rosary Drawing XII, dotdot dash |
| Milieu and Moment Dimension, Zhejiang University School of Art and Design: Infection Drawing II (Trojan), Infection Drawing III (24 Hours in Zoom) | |
| The Epic of the Trails: Art of Metropolitan Trails, Pavillion of the Arsenal, Paris: dotdot dash | |
| Pandemic Encounters, Leonardo Laser live online peformance event with Paul Sermon (curated by Randall Packer): Soleimon von Schrenk-Magico | |
| The Trojan Donkey, Facebook Live performance art event (curated by Amin Gulgee,Adam Fahy-Majeed and Sara Vaqar Pagganwala): Infection drawing II (Trojan) | |
| Beg, Steal, Borrow, Bermondsey Project Space, London: Medium, Out There in the Dark | |
| 2019 | Empire II: VOID, 58th Venice Biennale UK Collateral exhibition (curated by Vanya Balogh): Erased |
| Metamorphosis, Red Square Museum, Shenzhen, China (curated by Tianran Duan): Erasure, Rosary Drawing XII | |
| Empire II: Age of Anxiety, Oaxaco Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico (curated by Vanya Balogh and Marissa ): Erasure, Untitled Hitchcock Still #1, Erased | |
| In The Dark, Cello Factory, London (curated by Genetic Moo): opening night performance of dotdot dash | |
| 2018 | Night Walking North Kent Festival and London Park City Festival (curated by Charlie Fox for InspiralLondon): dotdot dash |
| Mind Your Head Art Cabaret, Golden Anchor, London (curated by Calum F Kerr and Caroline Gregory): Melania the Stepback Wife | |
| Empire II: Age of Anxiety, Haus Gallery, Tallinn Art Week, Estonia; Rogue Gallery Studio, Hastings; Super Pop, Madrid; Etablissement Culturel Solidare, Paris; (curated by Vanya Balogh): Erasure, Untitled Hitchcock Still #1 | |
| 2017 | Longitude and Latitude, Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art, China (curated by Zhang Xiaotao): Warping the Weft |
| Karachi Biennale, Theosophy Society, Karachi, Pakistan (curated by Amin Gulgee): Medium | |
| Empire II: Age of Anxiety, Castello 1610/A, Venice Biennale; Brussels Art Week; Unit 1 Gallery, London; White Post/Corridor Gallery, London; SPEKTRUM, Berlin (curated by Vanya Balogh): Erasure | |
| Holland Animated Film festival, Utrecht; Strangelove Film Festival, Folkestone; Canterbury AniFest, UK; AnimFest, Athens; Mzansi Women’s Film Festival, Johannesburg, South Africa; Libo International Animation and Comics Festival, Guizhou, China; Les Femmes Underground Film Festival, Los Angeles; Eye Myth Festival, Vancouver; AntiMatter, Victoria, Canada; AFC Global Fest, Kolkata, India; Locomocion, Mexico; Visionaria, Italy: Erasure (Interview - Eyemyth) |
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| 51% Remember Her, Elements Gallery, London (curated by Rebecca Feiner): Rosary Drawing XII, Erasure | |
| 2016 | Big Deal#7, Leicester Square Q-Park, London (curated by Vanya Balogh): Virus Stills 1-7 |
| Beyond Noumenon, New Media Arts Centre, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China (curated by Tingting Lu and Tianran Duan): Rosary Drawing XII, Scoured I-XV, Cleaning I-II | |
| Kicking an Elephant Through a Catflap, Royal College of Art, Kensington (curated by Qona Rankin): Cleaning I-II | |
| MarKings, House of Illustration, London (curated by Megan Donnelly): Notes on a Table (with Foá, Grisewood, McCall) (Review by John Miers) |
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| Homunculous, the Asylum, London (curated by Rekha Sameer): Shadow Ship | |
| 2015 | Drawn Conversations,(in collaboration with Drawn Together) Performance Studio, University of Coventry (curated by Jill Journeaux and Helen Gorrill): Notes on a Table I (After John Cage) and Notes on a Table II (Reunion) |
| Mysterious Objects at Noon, Art Lacuna, London (in collaboration with Lynn Lu)(curated by Gavin Maughfling & Suzanne Emmony): Paradoxes for the Virtual II | |
| The Fall of the Rebel Angels, Castello 1610/A, Venice Biennale satelite show, Italy(curated by Vanya Balogh): Anguish II (After Delsarte) | |
| Mysterious Objects at Noon, Objectif, Singapore (in collaboration with Lynn Lu)(curated by Gavin Maughfling & Suzanne Emmony): Paradoxes for the Virtual II | |
| Year of the Sheep, QPark Chinatown, London (curated by Vanya Balogh): Trotting Shadow I (Ram Ladies) | |
| G+VERL, University of Hertfordshire, London (curated by Ian Willcock): Time Channel | |
| Play, Lab451London, Camden Image Gallery, London (in collaboration with Lynn Lu)(curated by Geraldine Gallavardin): Paradoxes for the Virtual I | |
| 2014 | Dans Ma Cellule, Une Silhouette, Centre d'Art Contemporain, La Ferme du Buisson, Paris (in collaboration with M. Foá)(curated by Lore Gablier): Traion I (Ferme) |
| Over Time, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich and the National Maritime Museum, London (curated by Anne Robinson): Time Channel | |
| Drawology, Lanchester Gallery, Coventry (in collaboration with M. Foá) (curated by Deborah Harty): Traion IV (Coventry) | |
| The Hollow (part of We could Not Agree), Q-Park, Cavendish Square, London (curated by Sarah Sparkes): Shadow Puppet I | |
| 2013 | Living Film, No-w-here Lab, London (curated by Vicky Smith / Karel Doing): Out There in the Dark |
| Draw to Perform, ]Performance Space[, London (with M Foá)(curated by Ram Samocha): Performative lecture | |
| Technology Frontiers, The Economist, London (curated by Oliver Gingrich): White Lines | |
| Making Knowledge, Lethaby Gallery, London (curated by Anne Tallentire): research documentation for Medium | |
| 2012 | Exploding Cinema, Goldsmiths, London (curated by Sarah Sparkes): Medium |
| GHost IV, St Johns, London (curated by Sarah Sparkes): Medium | |
| Dickensian Hauntings, Shoreditch Town Hall, London (curated by Jane Webb): Medium | |
| Ghost Station, Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes (in collaboration with M. Foá) (curated by Art Hertz): Turple | |
| Decode / Recode, University of Salford (in collaboration with M. Foá) (curated by Paul Sermon): Turple | |
| 2011 | Brixton Calling!, 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning (these works from former members of the Brixton Artists Collective are being archived in the Tate Britain): Dream Chair, Fierce Pussy |
| D R A F T, Parasol Unit, London (in collaboration with M K Palomar): Free Time | |
| Papay Nights Festival, Orkney (in collaboration with Foá, Grisewood, McCall): SKY vs Skype | |
| 2010 | Mix 23 Queer Experimental Film Festival,New York: Out There in the Dark Animation Deviation, UWE, Bristol (curated by Vicky Smith): Out There in the Dark Bitbots, Kingly Court, London: Manga cat toy Holographic Serendipity, Shunt, London (curated by Oliver Gingrich): White Lines I Can't Even Draw Straight,LLGFF, British Film Institute, London (curated by Jason Barker): Out There in the Dark Kinetica, P3, London (curated by Oliver Gingrich): White Lines |
| 2009 | Joined Up,The Vault Gallery, Lancaster (in collaboration with Foá, Grisewood, McCall): Collaborative Drawing Musion Gala Awards, The Old Cinema, University of Westminster, London (curated by Oliver Gingrich): White Lines Act Art 7, Hidden, London (curated by Mark Massive): Out There in the Dark UpStage 090909 Festival,Haymatlos, Eclectic Tech Carnival, Istanbul, Turkey; Norsk Telemuseum, Oslo, Norway; Muffatwerk Cafe, Munich, Germany; New Dowse Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand; Hutt City Libraries, New Zealand; SCHAUMBAD - Freies Atelierhaus Graz, Austria; MAD @ Smalle Haven Eindhoven, Netherlands; APO33, Nantes, France; School of Interactive Art and Technology, Simon Fraser University in Surrey, BC, Canada; Syneme, University of Calgary, Canada; Culture Centre Pancevo, Serbia (curated by Helen Varley Jamieson and Vicki Smith): At Home with Mr and Mrs Smith Forkbeard Residency showcase, Devon: Exorcism Musion Showcase, Slade Technology Fayre (curated by Oliver Gingrich): White Lines Showcase 09, Lethaby Gallery, London (curated by Andrew McGettigan): Place of Work |
| 2008 | Explorations, the Innovation Centre, CSM, London: research documentation from Out There in the Dark line process echo repeat, the Lethaby Gallery, London (with Foá, Grisewood, McCall): Out There in the Dark Moves08, Manchester: Photosonic; Sound Drawings |
| 2007 | Here Tomorrow Residency, the Lethaby Gallery, London: Dog Betty Adobe Inspired Media, Curzon Cinema, London: Dog Betty |
| 2006 | 1era Bienal Internacional de Performance, Santiago de Chile Technarte, Bilbao, Spain: London Angel |
| 2005 | Cosmic Zoom festival, Denmark: London Angel Video Forum, London: London Angel 291 Gallery, London: London Angel the Fleapit, London: London Angel Northern Exposure, Newcastle: London Angel |
| 2004 | IBC, Amsterdam: London Angel Adobe Live, South Africa: London Angel |
| 2003 | San Diego Experimental Film Festival, San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts, USA: 90 |
| 2001 | IBC, Amsterdam: Colombia Road Video Forum, London: Colombia Road |
| 2000 | ICA Bar, London: Virus 291 Gallery, London: Virus Raya, Athens, Greece: Virus Keigo Arts, Japan: Virus LoveBytes, Sheffield: Virus The Ikon Gallery, Birmingham: Virus |
| 1999 | Lux Centre, London: Virus Chicago Underground Film Festival, USA: Virus Raindance Festival, London: Virus |
| 1998 | London Electronic Arts, London: Waves Chisenhale Dance Centre, London: Waves |
| 1997 | Backspace Cyber Café, London: Virus interactive Globe Centre, London: Virus installation |
| 1994 | 3 Little Bloomfield, Sydney, Australia: Hot Pussy Hackney Town Hall, London: Hot Pussy |
| 1993 | Whitechapel Open, London: Hot Pussy |
| 1992 | The Worx, London: Angels Cable Street Studios, London: Dream Chair; Angels |
| 1991 | Brixton Art Gallery, London: Dream Chair; Angels |
| 1987 | Transmission Gallery, Glasgow: Why Witch? Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow: Why Witch? |