Jonathan Baldock works across multiple platforms including sculpture, installation and performance. With work often taking on a biographical form, he addresses the trauma, stress, sensuality, mortality, and spirituality around our relationship to the body and the space it inhabits. Baldock has an ongoing interest in the contrast between the material qualities of ceramic and fabric used within his work. Concerned with removing the functional aspects of the materials he engages, Baldock instead works in a performative way through his sculptural assemblages bringing the viewer, the object and the space they simultaneously occupy into question as a ritual act or theatre.

Current
—Wink Wink curated by Garth Gratix, The Whitaker Museum, (UK), 18 May – 23 July 2023

Forthcoming
—through the joy of the senses (solo), Charleston, Lewes (UK), 13 September 2023 – 7 January 2024

—Touch wood (solo) Weston Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (UK),
23 September 2023 –14 April 2024

Education

—2003–2005 Royal College of Art, Kensington, London (MA Painting)
—2000–2003 Winchester School of Arts, Winchester (BA Fine Art Painting)

Solo & Two Person Exhibitions

2023
—Unearthed (solo), Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany,
14th April - 28th May 2023
—we are flowers of one garden (solo) Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, (UK), 12 January – 18 February 2023

2022
—Grave Goods (solo), Nicelle Beauchene, New York (USA) 03.03.–02.04.2022

2021
—Warm Inside (solo) Accelerator, Stockholm (SE) 16.10.–19.12.2021
—Human Conditions of Clay (curated by Deborah Smith) CHAPTER, Cardiff (UK) 15.10.–13.04.202
—“I’m Still Learning” (Curated by This is Jackalope), La Casa Encendida, Madrid (E)
—Masque, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York (USA)

2020
—Me, Myself and I, Kunsthall Stavanger (NOR)
—Facecrime, The Bluecoat, Liverpool (UK)
—Facecrime (suspect), Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (UK)

2019
—Facecrime, Camden Arts Centre, London (UK)
—Facecrime, Tramway, Glasgow (UK)
—Personae, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (UK)

2017
—There’s No Place Like Home, CGP, London (UK)
—My biggest fear is that someone will to crawl into it, SPACE, London (UK)
—Love Life: Act 2 (touring 2 Person show with Emma Hart), The Grundy, Blackpool (UK)
—Love Life: Act 3, (touring 2 Person show with Emma Hart), De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill (UK)
—Jonathan Baldock, OneWorkGallery, Vienna (AT)

2016
—Love Life: Act 1, (touring 2 Person show with Emma Hart), PEER, London (UK)
—The Skin I Live in, Nicelle Beauchene, New York (USA)

2015
—SUCKERZ, L’Etrangere, London (UK) (2 person show with Emma Hart)

2014
—Notes from the Orifice, VITRINE Gallery, London (UK)
—The Soft Machine, Chapter Gallery, Cardiff (UK)
—Warm Bodies, (2 person show with Olga Balema), Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, (NL)
—Hot Spots, (organised by Tobin Gibson) The Apartment, Vancouver (CAN)
—Multiple points in this crude landscape, Primary, Nottingham (UK)

2013
—A Strange mix between a Butcher’s Shop and a Nightclub, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (UK)

2012
—The Blue Epoch, Colloredo-Mansfeldský Palác, AMoYA, Prague (CZ)

2011
—Musica, Annarumma Gallery, Naples, (IT)
—Pierrot, PeregrineProgram, Chicago (USA)

2010
—The Fool’s Flipside, Cell Projects, London (UK)

2008
—Ennui, Backlit Studios, Nottingham (UK)
—H.E, The Fine Art Society, London (UK)

Group Exhibitions

2023
—Poor Things: A group exhibition brought together by Emma Hart and Dean Kenning, The Fruitmarket, Edinburgh (Scotland) 4 March –21 May 2023

—Homo Sacer exhibition on law and art (curated by Jack Ky Tana and Nick Modrzewski), La Trobe Art Institute, Victoria (AU), 14 February – 7 May 2023

—Re-materialized: The Stuff that Matters (group); Kaufmann Repetto, Milan (IT), 9^th February – 8^th April
—Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art, Hayward Gallery, London (UK) 26 October 2022 – 8 January 2023

2022
—Human Conditions of Clay (curated by Deborah Smith) touring Chapter Art Centre, Cardiff and John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (UK)
—An Ode to Orlando, Pi Artworks, Fitzrovia, London, England
—Disrupting the Canon, The Arts Club, London, England

2021
— Threadbare, Jonathan Baldock, Huguette Caland, Jeffrey Gibson, Tau Lewis, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
— Stephen Friedman Gallery at the London House of Modernity, London
— Towner International, Towner Eastbourne (UK)
— Right About Now (recent acquisitions in the Arts Council Collection), No.9 Cork Street, London (UK)

2020
― 25 Years, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (UK)
― In stitches, Larsen Warner, Stockholm (SWE)

2019
― Hyper Mesh (Curated by Alice Bonnot), Assembly Point, London (UK)
― Fault Lines (curated by Edward Ball), Freelands Foundation, London (UK)
― Handle with care (curated by Julie Thiemann), q18, Cologne (GER)

2018
― Objects Like Us (Curated by Amy Smith-Stewart and David Adamo), The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut (USA)
― TERRA; A contemporary history of ceramic sculpture, Hotel Contemporary, London (UK)
― Bedswerver, Flat:Two, London (UK)
― Distortions (organised by Carl D’Alvia) Nathalie Karg, New York (USA)
― Jutro, Castor, London (UK)
― The Gathering, Panthera Today, Brussels (BE)
― Doubting Thomas (curated by Ying Kwok), Duddells, London (UK)
― Rhapsodies, PingPong Gallery, Brussels (BE)

2017
― Idea Home Show. MIMA (MIddlesborough Institute of Modern Art), Middlesborough (UK)
― Offshore (curated by Invisible dust), Ferens Art Gallery & Hull Maritime Museum, Hull (UK)
― Bodikon, Belmacz, London (UK)
― Ex Roma IV, A.P.T, London (UK)
― Mad Cow, SCAG Contemporary, Vienna (AT)

2016
― Conversation Piece | Part 3 (curated by Marcello Smarrelli), Fondazione Memmo, Rome (IT)
― Maybe your lens is scratched? (curated by Bianca Baroni & Alex Meurice), The Averard Hotel, London (UK)
― Baldock, Pope, Zahle, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Arts (NGCA), Sunderland, (UK)
― Seepferdchen und Flugfische (touring), Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen (GER)
― Seepferdchen und Flugfische (touring), Thermen am Viehmarkt, Trier (GER)
― Seepferdchen und Flugfische (touring), Forum Alte Post, Pirmasens (GER)
― Sunscreen, New Art Exchange, Nottingham (UK)
― The Conformist, Belmacz, London (UK)
― Costermongering (A project by Paul Branca), Belmacz, London (UK)
― Mask, Pluspace, Coventry (UK)
― My own private Idaho (organised by Rafal Zajko), Charlton Gallery, London (UK)
― Gettin’ the heart ready (10th Anniversary show), The Royal Standard, Liverpool (UK)
― IMAGINE, Brand New Gallery, Milan (IT)

2015
― Archetypes, Power, and Puppets, College of Wooster Art Museum (CWAM), Wooster, OH (USA)
― ESSERE TESSILE (being textile), (Curated by Chiara Gatti), Stelline Foundation, Milan (cat.) (IT)
― Only the Lonely / Seuls les solitaires (curated by Elina Suoyrjö), La Galerie centre d’art contemporain, Paris (FR)
― Sunscreen, Venice Biennale, Venice (IT)
― Made in Balmoral, Bad Ems (GER) A friend is only a human body, Nicelle Beauchene, New York (USA)
― The Varieties – Dance First, Think Later, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston (UK)

2014
― Contemporary Art Society: Art in the Home, York (UK)
― Protected Space, Belmacz, London (UK)
― Hey I’m Mr Poetic, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, (UK)
― Tokyo in the Fall, Gerald Moore Gallery, London (UK)
― ING Discerning Eye (Nominated by Helen Sumpter), Mall Galleries, London (UK)

2013
― ARE YOU ALRIGHT? New Art From Britain, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), Toronto, (CAN)
― Relativity Absolute, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (UK)
― HEISSE STEINE, NASSE ZONEN, SCHNELLE MELONEN, VBKÖ, Vienna (AT)
― SpaziAperti, Romanian Academie, Rome (IT)
― Please Be Quiet, British School in Rome, Rome (IT)
― For Summer Is A Come Unto Day (curated by Simon Costin), Belmacz, London (UK)
― Implausible Imposters, Ceri Hand Gallery, London (UK)
― A Conspiracy of Detail, Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow (UK)
― The Gathering, Mytoro Gallery, Hamburg (GER)
― Jaakko Pallasvuo & Jonathan Baldock, Triple OG, One Thoresby Street, Nottingham (UK)

2012
― LondonTwelve, City Gallery, Prague (CZ) *catalogue.
― The Gathering, Yukiko Kawase Galerie Contemporain, Paris (FR)
― Imagined Pasts and Unknown Futures, High House Gallery, Oxon, Oxford (UK)
― Dawdle, Blackboard 8, Space, London, Curated by Gareth Bell-Jones (UK)

2011
― Condensation, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary, London (UK)
― Apocalypstik, The Nunnery, London (UK) Pile, Chapter Gallery, Cardiff (Wales)
― Polemically Small, (curated by Edward Lucie-Smith), Torrance Art Museum, California, (USA)
― Jonathan Baldock / Karla Black / Morag Keil / Jonathan Monk, MALLORCA Landings, (Mallorca)
― British Art Now, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (AUS) *catalogue.

2010
― Boyfriend Material (curated by LIANGWEST & Prem Sahib), 8 Egerton Garden Mews, London (UK)
― Props, Events & Encounters; Theatricality in Contemporary Sculpture, The Hub, Athens (GRE) catalogue.
― Hierarchies of Allegiance, The Royal Standard, Liverpool, (UK)
― Pile (curated by Craig Fischer), Surface Gallery, Nottingham (UK)
― SV10 (Selected by Jennifer Higgie and Rebecca Warren), Studio Voltaire, London (UK)
― Negotiable Values, 501 Arts Space, Chongqing (CN)
― NEWSPEAK; British Art Now, Saatchi Gallery, London (UK) catalogue.

2009
― Memories and Encounters, Viafarini, Milan, (IT)
― NEWSPEAK; British Art Now, Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, (RU) *catalogue.
― O/A Stiff New Speak: Bandeau (Curated by Nicholas Byrne and Gareth Bell Jones, Tricycle Arts Centre, Kilburn, London (UK)
― Straylight Cavern, Cell Project Space, London (UK)
― Group Show TC Open, Turner Contemporary, Margate (UK)
― Stranger Things are Happening, (curated by Jude Bennett), Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth (UK)

2008
― Straylight Cavern, Cooper Gallery, Duncan & Jordanstone School of Art, Dundee, Scotland
― From Panic to Power (curated by Brian Bress), Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, (USA)
― The Brotherhood of Subterreanea, (organised by Ben Judd), Kunstbunker Nuremberg, (GER)
― Wassail, Cell Project Space, London (UK)

2007
― Lady Holic, Rod Barton Invites, London (UK)
― Group, W.S. Bartletts, London, (UK)
― Frou Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires, Colony Gallery, Birmingham (UK)

2006
― First, Last and Always, Axis Arts Centre Dublin (IR)
― Through The Large Glass, Three Colts Gallery London (UK)
― World Cup, 39, London (UK)
― Baroque My World, Transition Gallery, London (UK)
― Milk Before Tea, Tara Bryan Gallery, London (UK)
― Hollow Salon, Hollow Contemporary, London (UK)

2005
― All At Once, Together, At the Same Time; Colony Gallery, Birmingham (UK)
― Anthea Hamilton, Adam Latham, Jonathan Baldock, I-cabin; London, (UK)
― Invasion’s Of Piquancy; Kenny Schacter ROVE, London (UK)
― SV05 (Selected by Enrico David and Cathrine Wood), Studio Voltaire, London (UK)
― Painting MA show; RCA, Kensington Gore, London (UK)
― Redundancy; Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, Hants (UK)
― Shabu Frabu, 007 Hollybush Gardens, London (UK) Grants/Awards/Residencies

Grants, Awards, Residencies

2018
― Porthmeor Studios Guest Resident, St Ives, Cornwall (UK)
― Creation of the initial London Borough of Culture Award commissioned by Mayor of London (UK)

2017
― Freelands – Lomax Ceramic Fellowship, Camden Art Centre, London (UK)

2015
― Kunstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems (GER)

2013
― Abbey Fellowship, British School in Rome (IT)
― Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai (CN)

2012
― The Forest Residency, Wysing Art Centre, Cambridge (UK)

2011
― A.I.R KinoKino, Sandnes, Norway Arts Council England Grant, Sichuan Fine Art Institute, Chongqing (CN)

2010
― ACME Firestation Residency, London, (UK)

2009
― Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW)
― Summer Residency, Aberdeenshire, (Scotland)
― ViaFarini, Milan, Italy (Nominated by Runa Islam)

2008
― Braziers International Workshop Residency, Oxford (UK)

2007
― Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Residency, Maine (USA)

Performances

2019
― The Gatekeepers, Tramway (UK)
― The Gatekeepers, Camden Arts Centre (UK)

2018
― Judder Shudder I (with Florence Peake), Tate St Ives, Cornwall (UK)
― Judder Shudder II (with Florence Peake) Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway (NOR)

2017
― Inter-penetrating waves of energy constellating in time and space (Florence Peake with myself performing in “the bed”), SPACE, London
― Inhale/Inhabit (collaboration with Florence Peake), Fondazione Memmo, Rome (IT)
― Kokoro Dance performance in There’s No Place Like Home, CGP, London

2015
― The Book of Love (collaboration with Kokoro Dance), The Roundhouse, Vancouver, Canada

2014
― Apparition of the Phantom Limb (collaboration with Florence Peake), Experimentica14 Festival, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.
― Vignette for the Orifice (collaboration with Florence Peake), VITRINE, London
― Multiple points in this crude landscape (with Florence Peake), Primary, Nottingham
― Revolver II: Interventions (collaboration with Rafal Zajko) Matts Gallery, London, UK

2013
― A Strange mix between a Butcher’s Shop and a Nightclub (collaboration with Dog Hill Kennel Projects), Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (UK)
― Two Figures in a Landscape (choreographed by Rubato Dance Group), Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (CN)

Bibliography

2023

—Frankel, Eddy, ‘Jonathan Baldock: ‘We Are Flowers of One Garden’’, TimeOut, 23 January
—Squires, Bea, ‘What’s on? Exhibitions opening this month’, London Planner, 19 January
—Elliot, Martha, Lloyd Smith, Harriet, ‘London art exhibitions: a guide for early 2023’, Wallpaper*, 13 January
—Worrall, Sean, ‘ORGAN: Five Recommended Art Things – Jonathan Baldock at Stephen Friedman Gallery, Hannah Beerman at Claas Reiss, Laura Lancaster / Rachel Lancaster at Workplace, Yutaka Hashimoto at Moosey London, Wynnie Mynerva at Gathering and…’, 19 January
—Anonymous, ‘Blooming Good’, because, 18 January
—Anonymous, ‘Jonathan Baldock: we are flowers of one garden’, Artlyst, 18 January
—Sturges, Connor, ‘The best exhibitions in London in 2023’, Condé Nast Traveller, 10 January
—Anonyomous, ‘Twelve Out of London Art Exhibitions 2023’, Artlyst, 9 January

2022

—Westall, Mark, ’12 Exhibitions to See in Early 2023’, FAD Magazine, 22 December
—Schwarz, Gabrielle, ‘Strange Clay: a garden of weird and wonderful delights at the Southbank’, The Telegraph, 25 October
—Durrant, Nancy, ‘Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art at the Hayward Gallery review - weird and wonderful’, Evening Standard, 25 October
—Lloyd-Smith, Harriet, ‘The best 12 art gifts for the creative in your life’, Wallpaper*, 8 December
—Mohammed, Hikmat ,‘The December 2022 Guide to the Best Food, Art, Theater Shows and Shops in London’, Yahoo Life, 1 December
—Buxton, Pamela, ‘Review: Pottery goes off-piste in the Hayward Gallery’s Strange Clay’, The RIBA Journal, 11 November
—Crichton-Miller, Emma, ‘Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art — immediate, unpredictable and outrageous’, Financial Times, 4 November 2022
—Gleadell, Colin, ‘How the art world finally started taking ceramics seriously’, The Telegraph, 1 November
—Sherwin, Skye, ‘Down to Earth: Ceramic art may be the medium of the moment’, Art Basel, 31 October
—Anonymous, ‘Strange Clays Indeed’, Southwark News, 31 October
—Cumming, Laura, ‘Strange Clay review – dynamic ceramic’, The Guardian, 30 October
—Emma Crichton-Miller, review: “All fired Up”, FT Weekend; Life &Arts Supplement, 5-6 November p.14-15
—“Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art” Hatje Cantz ISBN:9783775752558
—WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK, “Strange Clay: I skipped happily through this punchy show” The Times Sunday Nov 6^th November
—Helena Haimes, Review: Grave Goods, The Brooklyn Rail, 5.04.2022
—Jonathan Jones, Guardian, Going Out: Art, 26.03.2022 —Castle, Elana, ‘Essential highlights from Frieze New York 2022’, Effect Magazine, 24 May
—Kelly, Brian P., ‘What Sold at Frieze New York 2022’, Artsy, 23 May
—Donoghue, Katy, ‘Favourite Finds at Frieze New York 2022’, Whitewall, 20 May
—Smith, Roberta, ‘At the Shed, Frieze II Takes Off’, The New York Times, 19 May 2022
—Smith, Melissa, ‘Metaphysical Landscapes, Playful Ceramics, and a Revelatory Rediscovery: Here Are Five of the Best Booths at Frieze New York’, Artnet News, 19 May
—Kelly, Brian P., ‘The 10 Best Booths at Frieze New York 2022’, Artsy, 19 May
—Westall, Mark, ‘Preview: 10th Anniversary of Frieze New York’, FAD Magazine, 16 May
—Vahey, Pilar, ‘Ten Top Picks under $25k on Frieze Viewing Room’, Frieze, 13 May
— Gerlis, Melanie, ‘Return of Frieze New York proves that small is beautiful’ Financial Times, 13 May
—Anonymous, ‘Solo Shows at Frieze New York 2022’, Frieze, 4 May 2022

2021
— Interview Stirworld 03.12.2021

2020
— Kyle Nathan Brown, https://corridor8.co.uk/article/jonathan-baldock-facecrime-at-bluecoat/ 30.09.2020
— Sara Jaspan ; Exhibitions editor, https://www.creativetourist.com/event/jonathan-baldock-facecrime/ 09.10.2020
— https://artviewer.org/jonathan-baldock-at-kunsthall-stavanger/
—Maja Lorkowska, https://www.thestateofthearts.co.uk/features/last-chance-to-see-jonathan-baldock-facecrime-the-bluecoat/ 13.10.2020
— Remy Greasley, https://www.artinliverpool.com/features/reviews/review-jonathan-baldock-facecrime-at-bluecoat/ 16.04.2020
— Chris Bayley. Exhibition text: Me, Myself and I, Kunsthall Stavanger 10.09.2020
— Stephen Friedman Gallery, 25 years, Hardcover catalogue for the show, ISBN 978-1-5272-7474-7

2019
— Louisa Elderton, Phaidon Press will publish Vitamin T: Threads + Textiles in Contemporary Art, March 2019
— Katy Cowan, https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/ceramic-masks-by-jonathan-baldock/
— Salvatore Viviano, The OWG Diary, Harpune Verlag, ISBN 978-3-902835-55-0 p.135-136
— Emily Steer, https://elephant.art/jonathan-baldock-investigates-emotional-impact-human-face/ , 23 September 2019

2018
— Joel Riff, Multifacette, La Revue de la Ceramique pp.54-55 Dec 2018
— The Domestic Plane: New Perspectives on Tabletop Art Objects, Published by The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2018, Hardcover, perfect bound
ISBN: 978-1-9413662-0-2
— Geir Haraldseth, review: Judder Shudder II, (Norwegian)
— Stephanie Wade,1/10/2018

2017
— Chris Sharratt, Jonathan Baldock and Emma Hart; FRIEZE, Nov 20
— Florence Peake: Portfolio, FRIEZE, Nov 22
— Hettie Judah, London’s Rising Stars; ES Magazine, 06.10.2017 p.19
— Laura Snoad
— Herbert Wright, Review: Jonathan Baldock and Emma Hart take on Mr Punch: Bizarre Babies and Sinister Signs in Blackpool, FAD, July 7
—Jennifer Thatcher, Around London, ArtNews, Spring 2017, p. 118
— Illaria Puri Purini, Rome: Open City, Frieze, 25/01/2017
— Jessie Bond, Review: Jonathan Baldock and Emma Hart: Love Life, This is Tomorrow; 23/01/2017
— Mette Kjærgaard Præst, Exhibition Review; LOVE LIFE: ACT 1, by Jonathan Baldock and Emma Hart
— Adela Smejkal, Review: Theres No Place Like Home, dateagleart.com, 27 June
— Robert Clark, Exhibitions: Opening this week, The Guardian Guide, 17-23 June, p.33
— Craig Burnett, ‘Don’t you think that’s a bit personal?’, Emma Hart–Mamma Mia, Aldgate Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 978-9780854881 p.30-31

2016
— Grace Beaumont, Review-Jonathan Baldock and Emma Hart, ARTFORUM, Critics Picks;
— Paul Carey-Kent, Review- Jonathan Baldock and Emma Hart: Love Life – Act 1, Art Monthly, No.402, Dec 2016.
— Ilaria Puri Purini, Friday Dispatch: The Contemporary Art Society, 18/11/2016
— Jonathan Jones, Top Five New Exhibitions, The Guardian Guide, Nov 12-18 p.32
— Judith Carlton interviews Jonathan Baldock, Body Art, NOTION Magazine, Issue 72, pp.218-223
— Gema Melgar, 04. Quiénes somos?... Nosotros Art Magazine, Issue 1, April, pp.34-35 (Spanish)
— Andrew Russeth, Cutting a fine figure around New York, ArtNews, Spring Issue, p.120
— Joseph Akel, FourTwoNine,
— Howard Halle, REVIEW: Jonathan Baldock, TIME OUT New York, Issue 1036, January 20 - February 2, 2016, p.53
— Howard Halle, The top five New York art shows this week: critics picks, TIME OUT Online, January 4
— 5 To See This Weekend: 3. Jonathan Baldock, The Skin I Live In, Aesthetica Magazine, Posted 8 January
— The Ace Face, On the Rocks Magazine, No.4, Autumn/Winter, pp.68-77

2015
— Dr Arantxa Echarte, Jonathan Harvey (editor), Studios for artists: concepts and concrete. A collaboration between Acme Studios and Central Saint Martins, Black Dog Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-910433-08-992995, p.50, 61, 64, 89
— Dario Cimorelli, ESSERE TESSILE (being textile) 100 artist’s threads from the Canclini Collection, SilvanaEditorile, Milan (cat.) p.70
— Emily Steer, SUCKERZ: Jonathan Baldock & Emma Hart, Elephant Magazine Online, July 2015
— Roberta Smith, REVIEW: NADA art Fair, NEW YORK TIMES, May 14, C.29
— Dean Kissick, The most curious booths at NADA art fair, I-D, May 15
— Eric Thorp, Interview: Emma Hart and Jonathan Baldock—SUCKERZ, 3 July
— Andrea Rabinovitch, Review: The Book of Love, 17 Dec, 2015 -
— Alexander Varty, Kokoro Dance’s Book of Love open to interpretation, 24 November

2014
— Helen Sumpter, Review: Jonathan Baldock; Notes from the Orifice, ARTREVIEW, vol.66, no.9, December issue, p.113.
— Kate Neave, Seductive Spaces; Four new art talents expand expectations of installation, TWIN Magazine, issue 11, chapter 15.
— Hanne Hagenaars, Warm Bodies in Diepenheim, MISTER MOTLEY, 27 Aug, 2014
— Molly Taylor, Open Files, Elephant Magazine, Autumn 2014, Issue 20, p.22
— Molly Taylor, Interview with Jonathan Baldock: NEWS, Elephant Magazine Online, 08.10.2014
— Alice Butler, Shows: Review —The Soft Machine, FRIEZE Magazine, 11/06/14
— Skye Sherwin, New Exhibitions, THE GUARDIAN Guide, 19/04/14
— Oliver Basciano, Preview: The Soft Machine, ARTREVIEW, 23/04/14
— Dan Tucker, Jonathan Baldock’s Soft Machine, QUENCH, Issue 144, May 2014, p.34 - 35

2013
— Nick Warner, REVIEW: A strange cross between a butcher’s shop and a nightclub, Wysing Arts Centre, ART MONTHLY, Jul-Aug 2013, p.30-p.31
— Spyke Milligan, The Next Generation of YBA’s? New Show Survey’s Britains Rising Art Upstart’s, ARTINFO.COM, April 24, 2013 (http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/894898/the-next-generation-of-ybas-new-show-surveys-britains-rising)
— Clare Pennington, Cloaked Figures Dance at the Rockbund, ARTINFO.Com, March, 2013

2012
— LUKÁŠ JEŽEK, 24.6.2012, Výtvarník Jonathan Baldock V Praze se střetává hodně uměleckých směrů

2011
— Claudine Ise, Critic’s Picks: Pierrot, ArtForum International Magazine, November, 2011
— R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, F. Schulze (Editors), Doppleganger; Images of the Human Being, published by Gestalten, 2011, ISBN: 978-3-89955-332-1, p.190-191
— Condensation – Group show at Danielle Arnaud Gallery (REVIEW), April 23, 2011

2010
— Volume ONE: Theatricaility in Contemporary Sculpture. IF Architects. 2010, ISBN 978-960-99562-0-8
— Patricia Ellis, Newspeak : British Art Now - From the Saatchi Gallery, London (Paperbook), Published by Booth-Clibborn Editions 2010, ISBN; 9781861543141 , p.17-20
— Patrizia Brusarosco, Milovan Farronato, Souvenir d'Italie. A nonprofit art story, Mousse Publishing, 2010, (ISBN: 9788896501108), p.154 – 155
— M B Piotrovsky (Author), Dimitri Ozerkov (Author), Patricia Ellis (Author), Newspeak: British Art Now [Hardcover], The Hermitage Museum, Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2010, ISBN: 9781861543165, p.11-14
— Francesco Scasciamacchia - Brand New, FLASHART International Magazine, Mar-Apr 2010, p.104
— Michael Glover, Ones to Watch: The Pick of Saatchi’s New Crop, The Independent, Arts Section, 14 May 2010, p.7
— Alexander Menden, Suddeutsche Zeitung, Gestern Haifisch, heute Kartoffelesser, 8 June 2010, p.12
— Andrew McKie, The State of Young Art in Britain, The Wall Street Journal; Europe (Britain) Vol XXVIII No.86, June 4 – 6, 2010, p.11
— Conxa Rodriguez, Saatchi vuelve a vender una nueva ola de artistas, Publico, June 1, 2010

2009
— Alex Hetherington, Straylight Cavern, AN Magazine, Jan/Feb, 2009

2008
— Wayne Burrows, Art Review: Jonathan Baldock, METROlife, DEC 17, 2008
— Robert Ayers, Scope Basel Ups the Ante, www.artinfo.com, June 3, 2008
— Katharina Erlenwein, Alles eine Glaubensfrage: Junge Britische Kunstler steillen im Nürnberger Kunstbunker aus, Donnerstag, 17/4/08.
— Stephanie Siebert, Ausstellung im Kunstbunker: Was Fuhrt die Bruderschaft im Schilde?, Nurnberger Zeitung, 17/4/08.
— Georg Kasch, Bruderschaft aus Pappemache, Abendzeitung, Friday 18.4.2008
— Francesca Gavin, Love and Hate in Hackney: Art Review, www.bbc.c.o.uk, 20 April 2006

Collections

— Arts Council England, UK
— The Grundy Art Collection, Blackpool, UK
— The Saatchi Collection, London, UK
— The David Roberts Collection, London, UK
— Robert Deveraux, UK
— Canclini Collection, Milan

Visiting Lecturer/Tutor

2019
— Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen (UK)

2018
— MA Slade UCL, London (UK)
— BA Fine Art Drawing, Camberwell College of Art and Design
— BA Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University
— Feedback Session, Liverpool

2017
— BA Sculpture, Slade School of Fine Art, London (UK)
— Royal Academy Schools, London (UK)

2016
— Kingston University, (Fine Art Dept)

2013
— Winchester School of Art (Fine Art Dept) Hants, UK
— Nottingham University (BA Fine Art), UK

2012
— Goldsmith College (MFA course), London, UK

2011
— Foundation Level Visual Art, Rogland School of Art, Stavanger, Norway
— Fine Art Dept (MFA) SAIC, Chicago Art Institute, Illinois, USA

2009
— Fine Art BA and MA, Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts, London
— Fine Art BA and MA, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham

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—2003–2005 Royal College of Art, Kensington, London (MA Painting)—2000–2003 Winchester School of Arts, Winchester (BA Fine Art Painting)

2023—Unearthed (solo), Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany, 14th April - 28th May 2023—we are flowers of one garden (solo) Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, (UK), 12 January – 18 February 2023

2022—Grave Goods (solo), Nicelle Beauchene, New York (USA) 03.03.–02.04.2022

2020 —Me, Myself and I, Kunsthall Stavanger (NOR)—Facecrime, The Bluecoat, Liverpool (UK)—Facecrime (suspect), Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (UK)

2019 —Facecrime, Camden Arts Centre, London (UK)—Facecrime, Tramway, Glasgow (UK)—Personae, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (UK)

2016 —Love Life: Act 1, (touring 2 Person show with Emma Hart), PEER, London (UK)—The Skin I Live in, Nicelle Beauchene, New York (USA)

2015 —SUCKERZ, L’Etrangere, London (UK) (2 person show with Emma Hart)

2013 —A Strange mix between a Butcher’s Shop and a Nightclub, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (UK)

2012 —The Blue Epoch, Colloredo-Mansfeldský Palác, AMoYA, Prague (CZ)

2011 —Musica, Annarumma Gallery, Naples, (IT)—Pierrot, PeregrineProgram, Chicago (USA)

2010 —The Fool’s Flipside, Cell Projects, London (UK)

2008 —Ennui, Backlit Studios, Nottingham (UK)—H.E, The Fine Art Society, London (UK)

2023—Poor Things: A group exhibition brought together by Emma Hart and Dean Kenning, The Fruitmarket, Edinburgh (Scotland) 4 March –21 May 2023

—Homo Sacer exhibition on law and art (curated by Jack Ky Tana and Nick Modrzewski), La Trobe Art Institute, Victoria (AU), 14 February – 7 May 2023

—Re-materialized: The Stuff that Matters (group); Kaufmann Repetto, Milan (IT), 9th February – 8th April—Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art, Hayward Gallery, London (UK) 26 October 2022 – 8 January 2023

2022—Human Conditions of Clay (curated by Deborah Smith) touring Chapter Art Centre, Cardiff and John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (UK)—An Ode to Orlando, Pi Artworks, Fitzrovia, London, England—Disrupting the Canon, The Arts Club, London, England

2020 ― 25 Years, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (UK)― In stitches, Larsen Warner, Stockholm (SWE)

2019 ― Hyper Mesh (Curated by Alice Bonnot), Assembly Point, London (UK)― Fault Lines (curated by Edward Ball), Freelands Foundation, London (UK)― Handle with care (curated by Julie Thiemann), q18, Cologne (GER)

2017 ― Idea Home Show. MIMA (MIddlesborough Institute of Modern Art), Middlesborough (UK)― Offshore (curated by Invisible dust), Ferens Art Gallery & Hull Maritime Museum, Hull (UK)― Bodikon, Belmacz, London (UK)― Ex Roma IV, A.P.T, London (UK)― Mad Cow, SCAG Contemporary, Vienna (AT)

2014 ― Contemporary Art Society: Art in the Home, York (UK)― Protected Space, Belmacz, London (UK)― Hey I’m Mr Poetic, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, (UK)― Tokyo in the Fall, Gerald Moore Gallery, London (UK)― ING Discerning Eye (Nominated by Helen Sumpter), Mall Galleries, London (UK)

2012 ― LondonTwelve, City Gallery, Prague (CZ) *catalogue.― The Gathering, Yukiko Kawase Galerie Contemporain, Paris (FR)― Imagined Pasts and Unknown Futures, High House Gallery, Oxon, Oxford (UK)― Dawdle, Blackboard 8, Space, London, Curated by Gareth Bell-Jones (UK)

2007 ― Lady Holic, Rod Barton Invites, London (UK)― Group, W.S. Bartletts, London, (UK)― Frou Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires, Colony Gallery, Birmingham (UK)

2018― Porthmeor Studios Guest Resident, St Ives, Cornwall (UK)― Creation of the initial London Borough of Culture Award commissioned by Mayor of London (UK)

2017― Freelands – Lomax Ceramic Fellowship, Camden Art Centre, London (UK)

2015 ― Kunstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems (GER)

2013 ― Abbey Fellowship, British School in Rome (IT)― Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai (CN)

2012 ― The Forest Residency, Wysing Art Centre, Cambridge (UK)

2011 ― A.I.R KinoKino, Sandnes, Norway Arts Council England Grant, Sichuan Fine Art Institute, Chongqing (CN)

2010 ― ACME Firestation Residency, London, (UK)

2009 ― Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW)― Summer Residency, Aberdeenshire, (Scotland)― ViaFarini, Milan, Italy (Nominated by Runa Islam)

2008 ― Braziers International Workshop Residency, Oxford (UK)

2007 ― Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Residency, Maine (USA)

2019 ― The Gatekeepers, Tramway (UK)― The Gatekeepers, Camden Arts Centre (UK)

2018 ― Judder Shudder I (with Florence Peake), Tate St Ives, Cornwall (UK)― Judder Shudder II (with Florence Peake) Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway (NOR)

2015 ― The Book of Love (collaboration with Kokoro Dance), The Roundhouse, Vancouver, Canada

2013 ― A Strange mix between a Butcher’s Shop and a Nightclub (collaboration with Dog Hill Kennel Projects), Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (UK)― Two Figures in a Landscape (choreographed by Rubato Dance Group), Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (CN)