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Julia Fullerton-Batten

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Julia Fullerton-Batten was born in 1970 in Bremen, Germany. She lives and works in London, UK.

Fullerton-Batten is a fine-art photographer renowned for her highly cinematic visual story-telling. Her large-scale projects are based around specific themes. Each image in the project embellishes her subject matter in a series of thought-provoking narrative ‘stories’ using staged tableaux and sophisticated lighting techniques. Fullerton-Batten’s use of unusual locations, highly creative settings, street-cast models, accented with cinematic lighting are hallmarks of her style of photography. She insinuates visual tensions in her images, and imbues them with a hint of mystery, which combine to tease the viewer to re-examine the picture, each time seeing more content and finding a deeper meaning.

Her body of work now encompasses eighteen major projects spanning almost two decades of engagement in the field. One of her earliest major projects, Teenage Stories (2005), narrates the transition from adolescence to adulthood and represents the feelings of fear and discomfort experienced alongside puberty. Fullerton-Batten’s most recent project, Old Father Thames (2018-2024), is an epic ode to London’s River Thames. Her meticulous tableaux reimagine the many people, tales and legends that have washed up on its shores.

Her works are in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery in London; the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland; the Parliamentary Art Collection, Houses of Parliament in London. Her photographs have been exhibited at international institutions, including: Center Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai; Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid; National Portrait Gallery, London; Swedish Museum of Photography.

Solo exhibitions

2024

Old Father Thames, Marcorossi artecontemporanea, Milan, Turin and Verona, Italy

Stories II, LS / Galeria, Four Seasons Hotel, Mexico City, Mexico

 

2023 

Esposicion Julia Fullerton-Batten, LS / Galeria, Santa Fe, Mexico

 

2022

Stories, LS / Galeria, Polanco, Mexico City, Mexico

 

2019
The Show, mc2gallery, Milan, Italy


2016
Korea 2013, Korean Consulate, mc2gallery, Milan, Italy

2015
Selected Works, Randall Scott Gallery, Baltimore, USA

Korea, mc2gallery, Milan, Italy

 

2014
A Testament to Love, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, USA

 

2013
Mothers and Daughters, Tokyo Arts Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Unliving, Camara Oscura Galeria de arte, PhotoEspaña, Madrid, Spain
DongGang Photo Festival, Yeongwol Women’s Culture and Arts Centre, DongGang, South Korea
Unadorned, Randall Scott Gallery, Washington DC, USA

 

2012
Teenage Stories, Awkward, Mothers and Daughters, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, USA

Julia Fullerton-Batten 2005-2012, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, USA

 

2010
In Between, Casa dell’Arte, Istanbul, Turkey
10th Shanghai International Photographic Art Exhibition, Exhibition Centre, Shanghai, China

 

2008
Teenage Stories, Galerie Les Filles Du Calvaire, Brussels, Belgium
School Play, Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin, Germany
Randall Scott Gallery, Washington DC, USA

 

2006
Teenage Stories, Charing X Gallery, London, UK
A Picture of Health, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Chez Ali, Roquette, Arles, France

2000
Different Stories, The Special Photographers Company, London, UK

Group exhibitions

2024

Fahey/Klein Gallery, Paris Photo, France

Marcorossi artecontemporanea, The Phair – Photo Art Fair, Turin, Italy

Artitled Contemporary, Mia Photo Fair, Milan, Italy

Artitled Contemporary, Photo London, Somerset House, London, UK

International Meetings of Photography, Plovidv, Bulgaria

 

2023

Interpretations by Julia Fullerton-Batten, Haus der Fotografie, Olten, Switzerland

Ostend International Biennial of Photography Biennale, Ostend, Belgium

Visual Narrative, The Busan International Photo Festival, Busan, South Korea

165th International Photography Exhibition, The Royal Photographic Society, Bristol, UK

 

2021
Escape Route, Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok, Thailand

 

2020
Celebrating 10 Years, Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden
Looking Out from Within, Hangar Art, Call for European Photography, FotoBrussels Festival 05, Brussels, Belgium
Looking Out from Within, All in this Together, Photo Vogue Festival 2020, Milan, Italy
Otto, Lockdown Day 82, ICP Concerned, the International Center of Photography, New York, USA
Alice, Lockdown Day 76, Fotofestival Schiedam, The Netherlands

 

2019
Faces, Camara Oscura Galeria de arte, Madrid, Spain
mc2gallery, Haute Photographie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
209 Women, Portaits of women MPs Shot by Women Photographers to Celebrate 100 Years of Votes for Women in the UK, Portcullis House, Westminster, London, UK
Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition, York Art Gallery, York, UK
FotoArtFestival, Bielsko-Biaa, Poland
Lens Culture Imaginative Storytelling Award Winner, Aperture Gallery, New York, USA
Ethereal, Galerie Joseph Turenne, Paris, France
Summer Time, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Lishui Photography Festival, Zhejiang Province, China

 

2018
Spring Selections, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, USA
212 Photography Festival, Bomontiada, Istanbul, Turkey
Art on a Postcard, The Hepetatis C Trust Charity, Photo London, UK
Lens Culture Portrait Awards (projection), Photo London, Somerset House, London, UK
Whitebox Gallery, Publika Art Space, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Galeria Impakto, Lima, Peru
Summertime, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Da uno a dieci, mc2gallery & Ncontemporary, Milan, Italy
Dreamlike, Vogue Italia, VFNO 2018, Palazzo Morando, Milan, Italy
11th Pollux Award, 5th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography, Barcelona, Spain
Women Perspectives Now, Organ Vida International Photography Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Croatia
Embracing Diversity, Photo Vogue Festival, Milan, Italy

 

2017
Feral Children, Format, Festival of International Photography, Quad, Derby, UK


2016
United Photo Industries, The Act, Photoville, New York, USA
Me in the Photography, Daegu Photo Biennale, South Korea

2015
Flatland Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mothers and Daughters, Triennal of La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium
Constructed Photography, Fotografica Bogota, FotoMuseo, National Museum of Photography, Bogota, Colombia
AOP awards, Lowry Hotel, Manchester, UK
Octavia, Look/15/ Liverpool International Photography Festival, Liverpool, UK
Mothers and Daughters, Auckland Festival of Photography, New Zealand
Drink me, Bebeme, Domus Artium (DA2), Salamanca, Spain
125 Live Gallery, London, UK
Uncertain States, Four Corners Gallery, London, UK
Galeria Impakto, Lima, Peru
Forged Worlds, Manhattan Bridge Anchorage, Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York, USA

 

2014
Staged Reality, Fotografiska, Swedish Museum of Photography, Stockholm, Sweden
Conspiracy of Women, Camara Oscura Galeria de arte, Madrid, Spain
Mothers and Daughters, Blind, Noorderlicht, International Festival of Photography, Kristiansund, Norway
The Luxury Purple Club, Madrid, Spain
School Play, The Fence, Photoville, Brooklyn and Atlanta, USA
Summer Open, Forest, 2013, Aperture Foundation, New York, USA

 

2013
From Madonna to Madonna” (De)constructions of the Feminine in Contemporary Society, DA2 Museum, Salamanca, Spain
Cambiare. Fotografia e responsabilità, Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Galerie Von&Von, 3 Positionen, Nurnberg, Germany
Summertime, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York and San Francisco, USA
Lumino City, Galeria Impakto, Lima, Peru
Mothers and Daughters, Galerie du lyce Joliot Curie, Hirson, France
Portrait Salon, The Hotel Pelirocco, Brighton, UK
Mothers and Daughters, RMA Institute, Most Artists, Bangkok, Thailand

 

2012
Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin, Germany
Mothers and Daughters, Photaumnales, La Grange, Picardy, France
The Youth Code, Daegu Photo Biennale, South Korea
The Enchanted Forest, Norderlicht Photofestival 2012, The Netherlands
Fiction Worlds, Pingyao Photography Festival, China
The Photographers 2012, Chris Beetles Fine Art, London, UK

 

2011
Lens Culture Fotofest, Espace Dupon, Paris, France
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fundacion Caja, Madrid, Spain
De Garage, Biennal Photography Festival, Mechelen, Belgium
Lens Culture Int. Exposure Awards: 31 Contemporary Photographers, San Francisco, USA
VII Gallery, New York, USA
All We Did Was Not Enough, Camara Oscura Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Imaginary Cities, Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain
Foto8 SummerShow, London, UK
Voies Off Screening, Arles, France

 

2010
Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife Museum, Spain
Dancing on the Ceiling: Art & Zero Gravity, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) Troy, New York, USA
Skotia Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Dreamlands, Pompidou Center, Paris, France
Castello di Rivara, Centre for Contemporary Art in Turin, Italy

 

2009
Love & Money – 50 years of Creative Britain, Audio-visual exhibition, London, UK
Hereford Photography Festival, UK
Teenage Stories, La Filature, Scene Nationale Mulhouse, Alsace, France
Gallery Sun, Seoul, South Korea
Summertime, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, USA
Terry O’Neill Awards, IPG Independent Photographers Gallery, Battle, UK
Prix de l’Insense-Montblanc, Mont Blanc Boutique, Paris, France
L’Insense Photo, Paris Photo, Montblanc, Paris, France
David Rohans Creative Showcase, Grove Hotel, Hertfordshire, UK
It’s a Wonderful Life, Randall Scott Gallery, Washington DC, USA

 

2008
Photo 50, London Art Fair, London, UK
Unseen, The Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai – MOCA Shanghai, China
Galerie Caprice Horn, Art Hong Kong, HK
Galerie Caprice Horn, Maco Mexico Arte Contempraneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Art Brussels, Contemporary Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium
Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, Chelsea, New York, USA
Fantasy – What Ever Happened to Your Dreams?, Galerie Les Filles Du Calvaire, Brussels, Belgium
MAP Mouvement d’Art Public / Make Art Public, Montreal, Canada
Teen City, The Adolescent Adventure, Musee de L’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland
Hunterdon Art Museum, New Jersey, USA
Beyond Representation, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, USA
The Figure Today, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco and New York, USA
Festival Images 08, Vevey, Switzerland
Galerie Caprice Horn, KIAF, Korea International Art Fair, Seoul, South Korea
Eric Franck, The Parking Lot, London, UK
Sotheby’s Auction House, London, UK
Galerie Caprice Horn, Lianzhou International Photo Fest, Lianzhou, China
Galerie Caprice Horn, Art Paris, Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Humanscape, SIPF Seoul International Photography Festival, Seoul, South Korea

 

2007
Arrrebato, Camara Oscura Galeria de arte, Madrid, Spain
Darmstadter Tage der Fotografie, Germany
Galerie Les Filles Du Calvaire, Brussels, Belgium
Biennal of Photography, Guangdong Museum of Art, China
HSBC Award, PhotoEspana, Madrid, Spain
Les Rencontres D’Arles, France
Special exhibition dedicated to British Photography, Photo-London, UK
Camara Oscura Galeria de arte, ArteSantander Art Fair, Santander, Spain
Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
HSBC Award, Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
Like There is No Tomorrow, Caprice Horn Galerie, Berlin, Germany
C-Photo Magazine, Phillips De Pury, New York, USA
HSBC Award, Phillips De Pury, New York, USA
Fantasy – What Ever Happened to Your Dreams?, Galerie Les Filles Du Calvaire, Paris, France
Randall Scott Gallery, Aqua Art Miami, Aqua Wynwood Miami, USA

 

2006
New, Modern and Contemporary Art Fair, Olympia, London, UK
Eric Franck Fine Art, Photo-London, Royal Academy, London, UK

Summer Group Show, Richard Levy Gallery, New Mexico, USA
Randall Scott Gallery, Art (212) New York, USA
No Fancy Titles, Randall Scott Gallery, Washington DC, USA

 

2005
Eric Franck Fine Art, 23rd Contemporary Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium
Eric Franck Fine Art, Photo-London, Royal Academy, London, UK

2002
Warse Nasse Gallery, New York, USA

Works