Jo Dennis
Never the Straightest Path
27.03 – 25.04.2026
Belenius
Opening
Thursday 26.03 at 6 – 8 PM
Jo Dennis (b. 1973, UK) is a British artist based in London. Her practice spans two decades working across painting, sculpture, photography, and installation. Dennis explores our psychological and emotional connection to place and memory, specifically in relation to ruination, surface and decay, and how these themes link with notions
of mortality.
Dennis received her MA Painting at The Royal College of Art London (2022) and BA Fine Art and Contemporary Critical Theory at Goldsmiths College London (2002).
Recent exhibitions include; A Letter to My Daughter (2025), Carvalho Gallery, New York, USA, Armoury (2025), JO-HS Gallery, New York, USA, David Zwirner PLATFORM (2025), curated by Elisabeth Johs (group), A Glass of Absinth (2025), JO-HS Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico, Dallas Art Fair (2024), PM/AM Gallery, Dallas, USA,Town Hall Disco (2024), Newchild Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium and Absent without Leave (2022), Sid Motion Gallery, London, UK.
Dennis is a recipient of a Grants for the Arts from Arts Council England 2023 – 24. She is the co-founder of several artist lead projects; Pigeon Park (2021 – 22), Peckham 24 Photo Festival (2016 – 2024), AMP Gallery (2015 – 2018) and Asylum Chapel (2010 – current). She has collaborated with Sid Motion Gallery on five solo projects (2017 – 2023) including the launch of her first artists book I touched this with my hand, I touched that with my eye 2020. Dennis’ work is part of the TiA Collection, Santa Fe, the Soho House collection and numerous private collections.
Her work was recently included in The Book Of Ladders, 100 Contemporary Art Works edited by Paul Carey Kent and Adeline de Monseignat (2023), and Site Specific by Tall Poppy Press (2023).
An essay by Rebecca Birrell PHD to accompany the exhibition A Letter to My Daughter (2025), Carvalho Gallery, New York, USA can be read here. An essay about her practice by art critic and curator John Slyce can be read here. ‘Margins of Error and Expectation’ an essay written by David Campany as an afterward for Dennis’ book I touched this with my hand, I touched that with my eye (2021) can be read here.