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Joanna Penso is an artist whose practice centres the sonic architecture of the body. Employing these textures as artistic material, she looks to re-frame the value of our physical form within a production-prioritised society, working expansively in live performance, sonic film, installation and radio. She practices Gut Listening across radio waves on her show Come Digest With Me - Resonance.FM

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EDUCATION
Chelsea College of Art BA (Hons) FINE ART 2012- 2015

SELECT SOLO SHOWS
The River in You, Divfuse, London 2025
LISTEN-IN, Garage Gallery, London 2024
SUPPER SONATA, Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts 2023

SELECT GROUP SHOWS
Translucent Intersections - APT Gallery London 2025
In Between Knots - Pushkin House London October 2024
Sonic Supper Club edition: Greens - [collaboration with chef Lucia Russo] Nunnery Cafe London 2024
37th Annual Open - Southwark Park Galleries London 2023
The Big Cellar Collective, Porthmeor Studios- St Ives September Festival, Cornwall 2023
Aesthetica Art Prize longlist, York Art Gallery 2023
ME 2 U: A collective manifesto; Baesianz presents the 2022 Bow Open, Nunnery Gallery, London 2022
36th Annual Open - Southwark Park Galleries London 2021

RADIO
The Symphony Beneath the Skin - RTM.fm 
Come Digest With Me - Resonance.FM

COMMISSIONS
Sound Design - Red Field by Nye Thompson & Krisstoffer Dunk, Salford 2024
Sound Design - CU SOON (3 channel multi-channel film installation) by Nye Thompson 2023 LINK TO AUDIO HERE
Sound Design - /artefact (film) by Nye Thompson 2020 

TALKS
The Body as Site [for field recording] - ' In the Field || ', London College of Communication, CRiSAP 2024

CONSULTANCY
Artist Advisor, Farrells Architecture firm 2020
External advisor, UEL Revalidation of Fine Art & Graphic Design BA 2018
External advisor, UEL Revalidation of BA Fine Art Top Up Programme Kensington & Chelsea College 2018


PRESS