Deborah Joyce-Holman

Deborah-Joyce Holman (b. 1991 in Basel, Switzerland. Lives and works in London and Basel) is a multidisciplinary artist interested in strategies of refusal, which include opacity, illegibility, and absence as Black and queer counter-hegemonic stances. During their SI residency, Deborah-Joyce was nominated as a finalist for the 2023 Swiss Art Award and featured in CFGNY’s Residency at Sculpture Center, New York. Their work has recently been shown at Galerie Gregor Staiger (solo, 2023); Oregon Contemporary (2023); Cordova, Barcelona (solo, 2022); Istituto Svizzero, Palermo (solo, 2022) schwarzescafé, Luma Westbau, Zurich (solo, 2022); Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2022); Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (2022); Unfinished Live, The Shed, New York City & House of Electronic Arts, Basel (2021); 7th Athens Biennial (2021); Cherish, Geneva (solo with Yara Dulac Gisler, 2021); Yaby, Madrid (2021); Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (2021); La Quadriennale di Roma (2020); Mikro, Zurich (solo, 2019); Fondation Entreprise Ricard, Paris (2019); Auto Italia, London (2019); Alienze, Lausanne (duo, 2018); OSLO10, Basel (2017), among others.