Catherine Parsonage
(b. 1989, Birkenhead)
Education
2011-13 MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London
2009-11 BA Fine Art, Manchester Metropolitan University
Selected Solo Exhibitions / Projects
2023 Your love is like a heatwave,16:9 Billboard, Kingsgate Project Space
2022 Anecdotes & Attitude, Michael Pennie Gallery, Bath Spa University
2019 Art O Rama, Bosse & Baum, Marseille
2019 Notes in Green, Clima, Milan
2017/8 Convivium, Bosse and Baum, London
2017 Present Future, Artissima, House of Egorn, Turin
2016 Granpalazzo, Bosse and Baum, Zagarolo
2016 Art Rotterdam, House of Egorn, Rotterdam
2015 a wrist that turns, House of Egorn, Berlin
Selected Group Exhibitions / Projects
2024 The Choral Criticism of Maggie Nelson, Tell me stories A cura di Manuela Pacella, Flash Art.
2024 Open Studios, FORM ICA, Bath
2023 Speed date, Oceans Apart, Manchester
2022 Overspill, Terrace Gallery, London
2022 Triangle, Freelands Foundation, London
2021 Manta Ray, Materia, Rome
2021 Body Snatchers, Like a Little Disaster, Bari
2020 Un’introduzione, viaraffineria, Catania
2019 Hypamaremma, Chpt 2. Ansedonia
2019 Mi Art, Clima, Emergent Section, curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini
2018 Searching for myself through remote skins, Renata Fabbri, Milan
2018 Psst a play on gossip, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome
2018 sign just under the skin House of Egorn, Berlin
2018 As I took her arm … Yellowspace, Varese
2017 Full for it, Catherine Parsonage & Tomaso de Luca, Garbo’s, Rome
2017 Paris is Burning, Garbo’s, Rome
2017 June Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome
2017 Le Nouveau Voyeurisme, Hotel Contemporary, Milan
2016 December Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome
2016 Doppleganger, Lewisham Art House, London
2015 Rhythm, Movement, Caesura: Lychee One, London
2015 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, World Museum. Liverpool
2015 Manchester Contemporary: Rogue Project Space, Granada Studios,
2014 Alex Mackin Dolin, Catherine Parsonage, Amalia Ulman, Cabinet, Milan
2013 I DID DID I, ASC Gallery, London
2013 21st Century & Design RCA - 2013, Christies, London
2013 Honeymoon, The Triangle Space, Chelsea School of Art & Design, Lon
2013 RCA Secret, Henry Moore Gallery, London
2012 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, WV, Glasgow
Selected Awards and Residencies
2025 FHEA Award (Fellow of Higher Education Academy)
2021 Freelands Painting Fellow, Bath Spa University
2018/9 Studio Program Fellow, Castro Projects, Rome
2016/7 Sainsbury Scholarship at British School at Rome
2015 Artist in Residence, Villa Lena, Pisa
2013/4 Basil Alkazzi Studio Grant, London
2012 Artist in Residence,Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
2011-13 The Ali H. Alkazzi Scholarship Award, Royal College of Art, London
Visiting Lectureships / Artist Talks
2024 WITTA podcast UWE
2024 Artist Talk & Visiting Lecturer, UWE
2022 Artist Talk & Mentor, Turps Art School
2021 Artist Talk The Holburne Museum
2021 Artist Talk & Visiting Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University
2021 Artist Talk & Visiting Lecturer, Brighton School of Art
2018 – 2020 Guest Critic, Rhode Island School of Design, International Honors Program, Rome
2018 – 2020 Guest Critic, Cornell University, Rome
2013 Visiting Lecturer, Kingston University
2011 - 2019 Visiting Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University
Professional Appointments
2022 - Present Mentor Turps Correspondence Course
2021 - Present Teaching Fellow in Fine Art
Pathway Leader, MA Fine Art: Painting Bath Spa University
2018-20 Adjunct Lecturer in Art History, John Cabot University, Rome
2018-20 Adjunct Lecturer in English, American University Rome
Thesis advisor: Interdisciplinary Studies (Fine Art)