Madinah Farhannah Thompson C.V.
Education
Goldsmiths University of London - MA (Distinction) Performance Making, 2020
The Cass, London Metropolitan University — BA (Hons) Fine Art First Class, 2017
Workshops, Lectures & Talks
All Flesh is Good @ Live Art Development Agency, London 2024
New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 2024
Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich 2023
London Metropolitan University, London 2023
Think Tank Live @ Spill Festival, Ipswich 2022
Intersect @ Live Art Development Agency, London 2022
Exhibitions & Shows & Performances
Performer Miles Greenberg Water in a Heatwave as part of Marina Abramović Institute, Southbank Centre, London, October 2023
Performer in the Miles Greenberg's durational work
Re-performer Marina Abramović retrospective, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, October 2023 - January 2024
‘re-performer’ in the Marina Abramović retrospective at the Royal Academy in London
Stories We Tell Ourselves, sounds from deep within, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, February 2024
Stories We Tell Ourselves, sounds from deep within performance with q & a as part of the programme for Chinasa Ezugha's The Narrow Path: Glossolalia in Public exhibition
Landscapes of Progress?, Hestercombe House and Gardens, Somerset, November 2023 - March 2024
Call When You Reach film included in the Landscapes of Progress? group show
Women and Water, The Women's Art Collection, Cambridge, October 2023-February 2024
Saliva & Tears/ Underneath You film included in the Women and Water group show
Call When You Reach, Live Art Development Agency, London, July 2023
Screening of Call When You Reach alongside q&a
A Sea Change, Art in Romney Marsh, Romney Marsh, September - October 2022
Site-specific installation of To Those Whom film and text in A Sea Change group show
Womxn, Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop, London, May - June 2022
To weave water digital collage included in the Womxn group show
Atmospheres, Hestercombe House and Gardens, Somerset, November 2021-February 2022
Against Interruptions film included in the Atmospheres group show
Cob Gallery x Plop End of residency show, October 2021
Call When You Reach series exhibited at Cob Gallery in Camden
ING Discerning Eye, Online, November 2020
Selected by one of the guest curators to present four first edition prints from my film Saliva & Tears/ Underneath You
Young Contemporary Talent Purchase Prize Exhibition, Online, November 2020
Selected to exhibit my film Saliva & Tears/ Underneath You
Barrel Organ Live 8, London, October 2018
Selected to presented my performance lecture Black Face White Space as part of Barrel Organ's live art scratch night at Camden People's Theatre in London
A Month at the Venice Art Pavilion, London, March 2018
Selected to exhibit an audio piece and present the accompanying performance lecture based on the research I undertook during my stewardship in Venice at Raw Labs gallery in London
Your Reality is Broken, London, December 2017
Performer in MAS Productions take over 'Your Reality is Broken' at The Wellcome Collection in London. Specifically interacting with the audience in the Reading Room during the ASMR ‘Brain tingles: touch, sound and attention’ experience
Young Contemporary Talent Purchase Prize Exhibition, London, December 2017
Selected to exhibit an installation and present my solo performance lecture in the Ingram Collections show at the Cello Factory gallery in London
Tenderloin 11, London, November 2017
Presented my solo performance lecture as part of Steakhouse Live's regular live art event at Toynbee Studios in East London
Awards & Residencies
Black Scholars Residency, 2023
Six month residency at Live Art Development Agency in Bethnal Green with a sharing in October 2024
Wainsgate Dances, March 2023
One week residency at Wainsgate Dances in Hebden Bridge
Norwich Theatre Residency, Autumn 2022
Two week residency at Stage Two, Norwich Theatre
Live Art Development Agency Residency, Summer 2022
Residency at LADA in Bethnal Green
Cob Gallery x Plop Residency, Autumn 2021
One month residency at Cob Gallery in Camden with the Plop residency
Hestercombe Residency, September 2021
One week residency at Hestercombe House and Gardens
Young Contemporary Talent Purchase Prize, November 2020
Winner of the 2020 YCT Prize
Work purchased by The Ingram Collection
Owen Rowley Prize, Best in Show, 2017
Awarded for best exhibition in The Cass' BA Fine Art graduate show
British Council Fellowship, 2017
Awarded one month fellowship, invigilating at the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and conducting a research project
Publications & Interviews
Art Monthly, (No. 459), September 2022
Art/Class written by Bob Dickinson
BBC Belongings, 25/07/2022, July 2022
Interview on BBC Radio Norfolk's Belongings show
Feature by Hibaq Farah in The Guardian
Social Work?: Open (Issue 2), 2021
Sweet Thang (Issue 6), 2020
Blog for British Council website