Joey Holder

Joey Holder is an artist and researcher whose work raises philosophical questions of our universe and things yet unknown across science, technology, and human-machine-animal interactions. She creates immersive, multimedia 'worlds' by conversing with experts across fields including marine biology, genetic research, and behavioural psychology, exploring themes ranging from deep-sea lifeforms, speculative evolution, Magick, non-human time and aliens. Her research investigates how our belief systems deeply shape how we perceive, interact with, and understand the environment. These systems, which include mythological, cultural, political, and philosophical frameworks, influence our perceptions of nature, our relationship towards it (and therefore each other), and the value we place on environmental protection. She is currently a PhD Candidate at Birmingham City University where she is exploring how participatory, transdisciplinary artworks can reshape our understanding of time and life through the lens of resurrection ecology and regeneration. Through a convergence of art, ecology and anthropology, her research thesis aims to transcend linear and predictive narratives about the environment, proposing new ways of imagining life's trajectory and challenging existing conventions of evolution and adaptation. Holder has exhibited widely internationally, including the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Design Museum London, the Sydney, Athens, Ljubljana, Wuhan and Moscow Biennales, and Transmediale in Berlin. She also directs SPUR, an online platform supporting digital art, and Chaos Magic, an arts project space in Nottingham​. In 2021 she was named in Apollo Magazine's 40 Under 40 for her cutting-edge contributions to the intersection of art and technology. She has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, Frieze magazine, Artforum, Art Monthly, Flash Art, Studio International, Dazed, VICE and BOMB.

19 - 22 Oct 2023 , Solo booth (with Seventeen), Paris+ par Art Basel, Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris