The lone figure in all of Juno Calypso's images is her: she photographs herself in couples-only motels, abandoned underground bunkers and heart-shaped hot tubs. Across film, photography and installation, Calypso builds a soft pink universe of femininity, solitude, desire and despair, all with an ultra-critical edge. In the process, she's become one of the most recognisable photographers working today, forging a totally unique aesthetic that has seen her move seamlessly from immersive, intimate gallery exhibitions to leading major fashion campaigns. Calypso's art is deeply sinister, hyper-feminine and filled with humour. This is cinematic, introspective art for the age of the self and the selfie.

- Eddy Frankel, Time Out

 

b. 1989, London

EDUCATION
2012 BA (Hons) Photography. London College of Communication, University of the Arts London
2008 Art Foundation Diploma. Chelsea School of Art, University of the Arts London

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Manchester Art Gallery, UK

Wellcome Collection, UK

AWARDS

2018 Royal Photographic Society, Vic Odden Award Winner

2018 • Creative Review, Best in Book, Photography Annual 2018 (for the series, What To Do With A Million Years)

2017 Creative Review, Best in Book, Photography Annual 2017 (for the series, A Girl’s Guide To Egg Freezing)

2016  Foam Talent 2016

2015  The BJP International Photography Award

2013  The Catlin Art Prize

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018 Juno Calypso, Studio Giangaleazzo Visconti, Milan

2018 What To Do With A Million Years, TJ Boulting, London

2017 The Honeymoon, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast

2016 The BJP IPA Winners' Show, TJ Boulting, London

2015 71a Presents: Juno Calypso, 71a Gallery, London

2015 Artist of the Day, Flowers Gallery, London

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 The Cult of Beauty, Wellcome Collection, London

2023 • (IT’S MY PARTY) I CAN CRY IF I WANT TO, Guts Gallery, London

2023 • The Horror Show, Somerset House, London

2022 Role Play, Prada Foundation, Tokyo

2021 Role Play, Prada Foundation, Milan

2021 • Youthquake! Kunsthal Museum, Rotterdam

2020 • MONSTER/BEAUTY, Lychee One, London

2019 ULTRA: Art for the Women’s World Cup, J HAMMOND PROJECT SPACE, London

2019 Nude, Villa Schöningen, Berlin

2019 Home Sweet Home, Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles 

2018 Routinised Absurdity, KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin

2017 From Selfie To Self-Expression, Saatchi Gallery, London

2017 INDUSTRY, dc3 Art Projects, Edmonton, Canada

2017 FOAM Talent, Red Hook Labs, New York

2017 Isolation Chamber Vacation, Worthing Museum, Worthing, UK

2016 Vogue Italia: Photo Vogue, 'The Female Gaze', Base Milano, Milan

2016 Lianzhou Foto Festival, 'As Entertaining as Possible', Lianzhou, China

2016 FOAM Talent, Unseen Photo Festival, Amsterdam

2016 Now You See Me, TJ Boulting, London

2016 The Real Thing, Flowers Gallery, New York

2015 Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London, UK & Flowers Gallery New York

2015 reGeneration3, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico

2015 Artist of the Day, Flowers Gallery, London

2015 reGeneration3, Musée de Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland

2013 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London

2013 The Catlin Art Prize, Londonewcastle Project Space, London

 

BOOKS

2022 • The Story of Art Without Men, Katy Hessel (Penguin)

2021 • Photography Now: Fifty Pioneers Defining Photography For The Twenty-First Century, Charlotte Jansen (Tate/Octopus)

2019 Great Women Artists, Rebecca Morrill (Phaidon)

2017 Firecrackers: Female Photographers Now by Fiona Rogers & Max Houghton (Thames & Hudson)

2017 Girl on Girl by Charlotte Jansen (Lawrence King)

2016  Mossless 4: Public/Private/Portrait, The International Centre of Photography 

2013  It's Nice That Annual, It's Nice That

2013  The Catlin Art Guide, Justin Hammond 

FILM SCREENINGS

2016 'The Honeymoon Suite' (2015), screened at Photo London, Somerset House, London

2016 Women of the World Festival, projection, Southbank Centre, London

2015 'The Honeymoon Suite' (2015), screened at L/O Library of Arts, Paris

2015 'The Honeymoon Suite' (2015), screened at Spazio ex Cobianchi, Milan

2015 'The Honeymoon Suite' (2015), screened at the SPBH TV Room. Tate Modern, London

2014 'The Making of Joyce' (2014), screened at The Piccolo Theatre, Milan

 

SELECTED PRESS

2023 • FT Magazine: Juno Calypso’s Cult of Beauty

2021 The Guardian: The Big Picture: Juno Calypso’s Honeymoon for One

2021 The Art Newspaper: Umbro and OOF Magazine Collaborate with Juno Calypso to Design Football Shirt

2019 The Guardian: Juno Calypso's Best Photograph: Voyeurism in a Pink Cold-War Bunker

2019 Creative Review: Juno Calypso Explores The Calming Power of Pink

2018 British Vogue: Juno Calypso's Five Favourite Objects

2018 Wallpaper*: Juno Calypso’s 3D Renderings Take Form at Galeria Melissa in London

2018 METRO: Juno Calypso Stayed in a Cold War Era Bunker Underneath Las Vegas For Her New Photo Series

2018 Time Out: Juno Calypso: What to do with a Million Years Review ★★★★★

2018 Another Magazine: Three Weeks in a 1960s Subterranean Dwelling, with Juno Calypso May 30th

2018 It’s Nice That :Juno Calypso’s Eerie New Series 17th May

2017 BBC Radio 1 June

2017 • The Sunday Times Magazine 30 April 

2017 TIME: This Photographer Turns The Feminine Ideal on its Head

2017  Paper Magazine 3 Feb

2016 COVER: Port Magazine: 5th Anniversary Issue 

2016  Miss Vogue: Who's That Girl? Juno Calypso Interview

2016 COVER: Foam Magazine #45: Talent

2016  COVER: The Financial Times, Photo London Special

2016  Amuse / i-D: Five Female Artists Turning Hotel Selfies into Art

2016  NRC Handelsblad, 19 March, Holland

2016  AnOther Mag: How Instagram Has Become Every Young Artist’s Secret Weapon

2015 The British Journal of Photography, October Issue

2015  It’s Nice That: One’s to Watch 2016

2015  GLAMOUR Spain

2015  i-D / VICE: Juno Calypso’s Staged Self-Portraits Reveal The Hidden Labour of Women Behind Bathroom Doors

2015  Dazed & Confused, This Photographer Went on a One-Woman Honeymoon

2015  The Guardian: Juno Calypso’s One Woman World Tour of Honeymoon Hotels

2015  Photomonitor: Artist of the Day Exhibition Review

2015  Broadly / VICE: Photos of Honeymoon Horrors in a Pennsylvanian Love Hotel

2015  Wonderland Magazine: Artist of the Day 15

2015  The Independent Magazine, June 27, UK

2015  Ain’t Bad Magazine, Issue 10, USA

2014  VICE: Portraits of Suburban Hell

2014  Paula Magazine, Chile

2014  Juxtapoz: Juno Calypso’s “Joyce”

2014  Aesthetica Magazine, Issue 60

2014  Slate: Challenging and Strange Portrait of Femininity

2014  Huffington Post Arts

2013  Wall Street International

2013  BBC News: Catlin Art Prize Shortlist

2013  Dazed & Confused: New Photographer Juno Calypso Visits Valley Of The Dolls with Alter-ego Joyce

2013  The Sunday Times Magazine, 14th April, UK

2013  The Independent 'One To Watch', 9th March, UK

2013  Wonderland Magazine Online

2013  Elephant Magazine, Winter Issue #13, Amsterdam

2012  Hotshoe Magazine, August-September Issue #179, UK