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James Webb
b. 1975
lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden

     selected works
     biography
     texts

selected exhibitions:
     What Fresh Hell Is This
     17
     Ecstatic Interference
     next thing you know
     The Two Insomnias



︎︎︎ artists

—publications

2020 JAMES WEBB: . . . , blank projects, South Africa.

2015 JAMES WEBB: Xenagogue, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Norway. 


—selected press

2024 O’Toole, S. Art works flow between rivers and into the sea. Mail and Guardian (published 6 December 2024).

2024 Wach, A. Where the current carries us. Monopol [online] (published 6 November 2024).

2024 Guevara Acevedo, E.  A Hack into Nature. Public Art Dialogue magazine(published 26 October 2024).

2024 Bjerke, M. Review: The fear of being understood: "Between Rivers” at Astrup Fearnley Museum. NRK News [online] (published 22 October 2024).

2023 Moloi, N. Time is an exaggeration: ‘The Future Is Behind Us’ at A4. ArtThrob [online] (published 17 April 2023).

2023 Foley, H. At Mona Foma, I encountered death rituals, underwater soundscapes, worship – and transcendence. The Conversation [online] (published 23 February 2023).

2023 Proctor, RA. From darkness to everlasting light: all you need to know about the first Islamic Arts Biennale. Wallpaper Magazine (published January 2023).

2022 O’Toole, S. Listen to this Sekoto Painting - it is not silent. Mail and Guardian (published 14 October 2022).

2022 O’Toole, S. South African artists taking over Chicago, Bonteheuwel style. Mail and Guardian (published 6 May 2022).

2021 Mann, D. Nothing here does not hear you: Voices from the Monument. The Critter [online] (published 22 July 2021).

2021 Meighan, C. Exhibition uses arresting artworks to explore impact of pandemic. The National [online] (published 17 May 2021). 

2021 Mansfield, S. Art reviews: The Normal at Talbot Rice Gallery | Emma Talbot at DCA. The Scotsman [online] (published 14 May 2021). 

2020 Leibbrandt. T.  Ghost in the Hotel: On James Webb, Guy Tillim, and Liza Grobler. ArtThrob [online] (published 28 October 2020).

2020 Seals, J. The Other. James Webb’s Prayer & Janet Cardiff’s The Forty Part Motet. ARTPULSE [online] (accessed 12 May 2020).

2020 Kuijers, I. Sympathetic Magic: On James Webb and Donna Kukama. ArtThrob [online] (published 12 May 2020).

2020 Thurman, C. James Webb's What Fresh Hell is This: the art of interruption as shown up by reality in yet another long take. Business Day, South Africa (published 24 April 2020).

2019 Biles, J. Prayer (Chicago). Art Exhibition. By James Webb. The Art Institute of Chicago, 2018. Religious Studies Review.

2019 Scemama, P. kindness. La République {de l’art} [online] (published 11 September 2019).

2019 Stevens, N. The Inverted Funnel/ James Webb’s ‘Three Dreams of the Sinking World’. ArtThrob [online] (published 7 May 2019).

2019 Elizabeth, M. ‘James Webb’s ‘3 Dreams of a Sinking World – reflections on the Carlton Hotel’. Bubblegum Club [online] (published April 2019).

2018 ‘Prayer’ by James Webb at Art Institute of Chicago. BLOUIN INFO [online] (published 25 October 2018).

2017 Coussonet, C. The sound artist making a call for resilience. Apollo Magazine [online] (published 12 January 2017).

2016 Potts, D. James Webb: We Listen for the Future, Aesthetica, Issue 74 (published December 2016).

2016 Forrest, N. James Webb’s Sound Art Symphony at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. BLOUIN ARTINFO [online] (published 9 November 2016).

2016 Leibbrandt, T. Reverberating Sound of Things to Come: James Webb’s Ecstatic Interference’. ArtThrob [online] (published 1 March 2016).

2016 O’Toole, S. Bassdrum: Predictions from the heart of the sun. Sunday Times, South Africa (published 23 February 2016).

2016 O’Toole, S. Critics Picks: James Webb. Artforum (published February 2016).

2016 Minaar, M. Webb se konseptuele minimalisme tref. Die Burger, South Africa (published 18 February 2016)

2015 Buys, A (ed). Xenagogue. Hordaland Kunstsenter, Norway.

2014 Jauhianen, I. The Sound of James Webb. Another Africa [online] (published 14 November 2014).

2013 Gallais, J-M. Creating Ellipses. What You See Is What You Hear, Issue 7 (published December 2013).

2012 Bester, R. James Webb. Art South Africa, Vol 11.1 (published 7 September 2012).

2012 Buys, A. James Webb: MMXII, this is tomorrow [online] (published 6 September 2012).

2012 O’Toole, S. Young African Artists. Business Day Wanted magazine, South Africa (published September 2012).

2010 Voice in the Wilderness. Mail & Guardian, South Africa (published November 2010).

2010 O’Toole, S. Black Landscape: An Argument in Three Parts. Art South Africa, V9.1 (published September 2010).

2010 Simbao, R. One day, all of this will be yours. ArtThrob [online] (published March 2010).

2010 Minnaar, M. Artist of the imagination. The Argus, South Africa (published 20 February 2010).

2009 Davis, J. James Webb. 2009 Melbourne International Arts Festival – Visual Arts Program catalogue (published 2009).

2009 Karlsen, A.S. Hacking and Hiding, “A Proposal for Articulating Works And Places” 3rd Arts In Marrakech Biennale catalogue text (published 2009).

2007 O’Toole, S. A Sweet and Tender Hooligan, “The history of a decade that has not yet been named”, catalogue to the Lyon Biennale (published 2007).

2006 Hardy, S. That Subliminal Kid. Art South Africa, Vol 4.3 (published March 2006).