Jo Longhurst
The British artist Jo Longhurst holds a Ph.D. by practice from the Royal College of Art in London. Her work has been shown in numerous major events, including the exhibitions Other Spaces, Mostyn, Wales; The Worldly House, at Documenta (13), Kassel; Photography in Britain since 2000, the Krakow Photomonth; Cocker Spaniel and Other Tools for International Understanding, Kunsthalle zu Kiel and Ursula Blickle Foundation; Becoming Animal, Becoming Human, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst/New Society for Visual Arts, Berlin; New Works: Pavilion Commissions, National Media Museum, Bradford; New Contemporaries 2008, Liverpool Biennial; and The Refusal, Museum Folkwang, Essen. She was awarded the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Grange Prize (recently renamed the AIMIA/AGO Photography Prize) in 2012.