ARTIST JOSIE McCOY AT 'BLOOM GALLERY' IN JANUARY 2024 • 24/7 Valencia
Based in Valencia and originally from England, Josie McCoy is a distinctive artist and is part of a new exhibition of artists at ‘Bloom’ Gallery in January 2024 in Ruzafa (Valencia). Josie McCoy was born in Plymouth in 1969 and currently lives and works in Valencia, Spain. She graduated from the MA Fine Art course at Central Saint Martin’s, London, in 1999, and has since widely exhibited her painted portraits of iconic female characters from film and television. She has had solo shows in London, Milan, Santiago de Compostela and Valencia. Recent individual exhibitions include ‘Muses, Mothers, Magicians and Murderers’ at Centro Cultural Melchor Zapata, Benicássim (2021) and ‘The Muses of Josie McCoy’ at Sala de Exposiciones El Oscurico in Buñol Castle, Spain (2021). McCoy has participated in numerous group shows worldwide, in the UK, Europe, South America and the U.S, recently in Dirty Pink at Il Conventino, Florence (2022), and A Generous Space 3 at Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield (2023). Her paintings have been selected four times for the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in London and she was shortlisted for the Castellon International Painting Prize, Spain. She received a Woo Charitable Foundation Arts Bursary and was awarded first prize for the Centre of Attention Painting Prize. McCoy's paintings are included in private and public collections including the BBC, Standard Chartered Bank, Collection of the University of Wales, The Centre of Attention Permanent Collection, Jeremy Mogford Collection, Borchard Collection of British Self-Portraits in the 20th Century and the Ofelia Martín & Javier Núñez Collection.