b. 1986, United Kingdom
Joey Holder makes research-driven installations that generate fictional worlds in response to contemporary, real-world events. Holder often works with computational geneticists, marine biologists, behavioural psychologists and investigative journalists to address themes including future farming, disinformation, folkloric creatures, synthetic biology and deep-sea ecosystems. Her work is interested in the limits of human knowledge, the unknowns and unclassifiable character life on and beyond earth. Holder’s installations invite us to observe the porous boundary between humans, animals and machines. She suggests the impermanence and interchangeability of these apparently contrasting and oppositional worlds, claiming instead that ‘everything is a mutant and a hybrid’.
Joey Holder studied at Kingston University, London and Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work has been exhibited at Galleria Sculptor, Helsinki (2024); X Museum, Beijing (2023); Matt’s Gallery, London (2018), and the Design Museum, London (2018).