Jade de Montserrat

Jade de Montserrat, born in 1981, received an MA in Drawing from Norwich University of the Arts in 2003 and an BA in History of Art from Courtauld Institute of Art. Today her practice includes performance, drawing, painting, film, installation, sculpture, print and text. Through her work, de Montserrat explores issues of race and the vulnerabilities of bodies, and in so doing exposes the gaps in our visual and linguistic habits.

In 2017 de Montserrat was the recipient of the Stuart Hall Foundation Scholarship, which supported the artist’s PhD (via MPhil) with the Institute of Black Atlantic Research at University of Central Lancashire (thesis entitled ‘Race and Representation in Northern Britain in the context of the Black Atlantic: A Creative Practice Project’).

Jade de Montserrat has had solo presentations in the UK including at Brighton CCA, Brighton, (2022); Manchester Art Gallery, (2021); Iniva, London (2019) and at Bluecoat, Liverpool, (2018). The artist’s work has been part of group presentations internationally including Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, UK (2022); ‘Soil.Sickness.Society’, Kunsthal Rønnebæksholm, Næstved, Denmark (2021) and ICA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (2018). Screenings and performances include ‘Live Charcoal’, durational performance at Hospitalfield, Arbroath, UK (2021); ‘No Need For Clothing’, drawing performance installation at Cooper Gallery, Dundee (2017) and ‘Josephine and the Leopard’ screening for ‘Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter’, The Kitchen, New York, USA (2016).

Jade de Montserrat is represented by Bosse and Baum.