MFA Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London

1998–2002

BA Honours Fine Art, University of Newcastle

The Pointed Finger, Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, London

Osmosis, Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, London

Iris, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK

2018

Field, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy

Pregnant Landscape, Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, London

2016

Solo presentation of the works in the collection, The Saatchi Gallery, London

2015

Distant People and Self-Soothing Objects, Wilkinson Gallery, London

2013

The Presence of People and Shapes, Wilkinson Gallery, London

2012

Phoebe Unwin, The Corridor, Reykjavik, Iceland

2011

Man Made, Wilkinson Gallery, London

2009

Making an Outside Space Theirs, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles

2008

Feelings and Other Forms, Wilkinson Gallery, London

2007

A Short Walk from a Shout to a Whisper, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK

2006

The Grand and the Commonplace, Wilkinson Gallery, London

Modern Art and St Ives, Tate St Ives, collection display

Arcadia for All? Re-thinking Landscape Painting for Now, The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds

The Kingfisher's Wing, Grimm Gallery, New York

Abstraction Now, The Corn Hall, Diss, Norfolk, UK

Painters + Collection 2021, Nakata Art Museum, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

The Corridor at 40 years, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland

Home and Unhome, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and Contemporary Art Centre, Chongqing, China

Pericolante, Arcade, London / Vortic

Le Realtà Ordinarie, Banca di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

2019

Cet Elixir, Moly-Sabata Fondation Albert Gleizes, Sablons, France

The Aerodrome, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

2018

The Day in the Evening, Space K, Seoul

2017

31 Women, Breese Little Gallery, London

Portrait (for a screenplay) of Beth Harmon, Tenderpixel, London

La Diablesse, Tramps, London

2016

Towards Night, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK

Ghosts of Other Stories: The British Council Collection, The Model, Sligo, Ireland

Walk Through 500 Years of British Art, Tate Britain, London

Illusive Flowers, Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau, Germany

2015-2016

One Day Something Happens: Paintings of People, A selection by Jennifer Higgie from the Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery National Touring Exhibition

2014

Emotional Resources, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland

A Poem for Raoul and Agnes, Selected by Sherman Sam, Ancient and Modern, London

I Cheer a Deadman’s Sweetheart, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK

Three Women Painters: Phoebe Unwin, Clare Woods and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, CAS, London

Somos Libres II: Works from the Mario Testino Collection, Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin

2013

Art from Britain and Poland since 1990, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

2012

Recent British Painting, Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam

2010-2011

British Art Show 7, Hayward Touring Exhibitions; Nottingham, London, Glasgow and Plymouth

2010

Le Deuil, IFF, Marseille, France

Fade Away, Gallery North, Newcastle

2009

Newspeak: British Art Now, The Saatchi Gallery, London

Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Jerwood Space, London

The Voice and Nothing More, Slade Research Centre, London

Rant, Pacific Design Centre, Los Angeles

Commissioned artwork contribution for Voids: A Retrospective of Empty Exhibitions, a publication made in collaboration with Centre Pompidou, Kunsthalle Bern and JRP/Ringier of Zurich "…avant il n’y avait rien, après on va pouvoir faire mieux.", CIRCUIT, Centre for Contemporary Art, Lausanne

2008

M25 Around London, curated by Barry Schwabsky, CCA Andratx Art Centre, Mallorca

Jeckyll Island, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles

Notations: a celebration of John Cage, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London

2007

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen

Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Thomas Dane Gallery, London

Saturn Falling, The Corridor, Iceland

Salon 2007: New British Painting and Works on Paper, Art Work Productions, London

The Contended Heart, W139, Amsterdam

2005

Between Courage and Coincidence, IBID Projects, Vilnius

Augnablik: The Blink of an Eye, Govett-Kerr, Hoxton Square, London

Milk Gallery Presents Current Slade Painting, Milk Gallery, New York

In Between the Sole and the Heal, Globe Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

2004

Summer at Cassland, Hackney, London

2002

Open, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Arts Council Collection

National Gallery of Iceland

UK Government Art Collection

CCA Andratx, Mallorca

British Council Collection

Tate Gallery, London

Saatchi Collection, London

Southampton City Art Gallery

Fenberger House, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Kolon Group Collection, Seoul, South-Korea

Collezione Maramotti, Italy

Collezione Di Mario Testino, Italy

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

Jiménez-Colón Collection, Ponce

HSBC, London

Arcadia for All? Re-Thinking Landscape Painting for Now, University of Leeds, UK

The Kingfisher’s Wing, Grimm Gallery

Le Realtà Ordinarie, text by Davide Ferri, Banca de Bologna, Italy

The Day in the Evening, Space K / Kolon Group, South Korea

Field / Phoebe Unwin, (solo), text by Declan Long and interview with Simone Menegoi, Collezione Maramotti / Silvana Editoriale, Italy

The Exhibition of a Film, a book by Mathieu Copeland, Les Presses du reel, Dijon

One Day Something Happens: Paintings of People, essays and interviews by Jennifer Higgie, published by the Arts Council Collection at Southbank Centre, London

Distant People and Self-Soothing Objects, (solo), text by George Vasey, Wilkinson Gallery, London

Opere Dalla Collezione Di Mario Testino, Rizzoli Publishing

Recent British Painting, Grimm Gallery Publications, Amsterdam

The Quiet Theatre, Rosanna Mclaughlin, Sister Mag Press in association with Hobbs McLaughlin Publishing

Vitamin P2, Phaidon, London

Sanctuary: Britian’s Artists and Their Studios, Transglobe Publishing / Thames and Hudson, London

In the Days of the Comet: British Art Show 7, Hayward Gallery, London

Newspeak, Saatchi Gallery, London

Younger Than Jesus: Artist Directory, Phaidon, New Museum, New York

Vides: a Retrospective, commissioned artwork for publication, Centre Pompidou, Paris

Feelings and Other Forms, (solo), text by Jens Hoffmann, Wilkinson Gallery, London

A Short Walk from a Shout to a Whisper, (solo), text by Max Henry, Milton Keynes Gallery, UK

Shortlisted for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women Sixth Edition in Collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery

2012

Philip Leverhulme Prize, The Leverhulme Trust

2005

The Clare Winsten Memorial Award, Slade School of Fine Art

2004

The Steer Prize for Painting, Slade School of Fine Art

2003

Arts and Humanities Research Board, full postgraduate grant (two years)

2002

Dissertation Prize, University of Newcastle

2000

Bartlett Travel Award, University of Newcastle

1999

John Christie Prize for Painting, University of Newcastle