MAISIE COUSINS
Maisie Cousins was born in 1992 in London. She received a BA in Fine Art Photography from the University of Brighton in 2014.
Cousins's stimulating images explore the relationship between the beautiful and the grotesque with a visceral rawness. Her use of intimately cropped images of detailed subject matter pushes the boundaries of seduction and repulsion. The glossy and hyper-saturated images she creates include motifs such as food, flowers, waste and the impoliteness of the body, the latter as celebration of femininity.
EDUCATION
2011-2014 BA Fine Art Photography, Brighton University
2010 Foundation Fine Art, Camberwell College of Art
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Jardín, cocina, basura y cuerpo, Galería Hilario Galguera, Mexico City
Rubbish, Dipping Sauce, Grass Peonie Bum, Fotografiska, Tallin, Estonia
2020
Rubbish, Dipping Sauce, Grass Peonie Bum, Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden
2018
Dipping Sauce, Elephant West, London
2017
grass, peonie, bum, TJ Boulting, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
TIFF Festival, Wrocław, Poland
2020
Post Tenebras Spero Lucem, Galeria Hilario Galguera, Mexico City
2019
Peer to Peer, part of Look Photo Biennial, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool and Shanghai Centre of Photography, China, nominated by Shoair Mavlian
Body Fiction(s), European Month of Photography Luxembourg, Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art Luxembourg
FOAM Talents 2018, travelling to San Francisco, New York, London, Paris and Frankfurt
Beyond Fashion, Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer, touring from Hong Kong
ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, curated by Louis Wise
2018
In The Company Of, curated by Katy Hessel, TJ Boulting
IMAGE: Reflections on Contemporary Culture through Photography, Messums Wiltshire, UK
Bodyfiction, Fotofo festival, Bratislava, Slovakia
Seeping Upwards, Rupturing the Surface, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Ontario, part of Contact Photography Festival, Canada
Women in Art Fair, Gallery Elena Shchukina, London
2017
I feel sick / Hot Flush, Francesca Allen & Maisie Cousins, KK Outlet, London
2016
Into You, ATM Gallery, Texas
A New Sensation, Mother London, curated by Ashleigh Kane of Dazed & Confused magazine and Grace Miceli
Life Force, Untitled Space, New York, curated by Rachel Bell and Molly Soda
What a Time to be Alive, Sunday gallery, Los Angeles, in collaboration with Slow Culture
Zero Zero, Annka Kultys Gallery, London
Female Matters, Box gallery, London
2015
Late at Tate Britain, Cookmaid, digital commission exploring the body in response to Sir Nathaniel Bacon’s Cookmaid with Still Life of Vegetables and Fruit
AWARDS
Shortlisted for Deutsche Borse Foundation Photography Prize for the book Rubbish, Dipping Sauce, Grass, peonie, bum
Finalist for Paris Photo Aperture First Book Award for Rubbish, Dipping Sauce, Grass, peonie, bum