Zinzi Minott
Minott explores the relationship between bodies and politics, her practice moves between film, sound, sculpture, prints, performance and object based work. She is interested in what it means to have a body, the disruption of lineages and employment of the glitch as a tool to provoke critical reflections of Black Queer life.
She is curious about the study of movement, geographically, physically, politically and how this can equip us better to “be together”.
Her practice frequently draws on repetition duration and exhaustion as key features or tools to aid discursive enquiry.
She is specifically interested in telling Caribbean stories, highlighting the histories of those enslaved during The Atlantic Slave Trade, the resulting migration of The Windrush Generation to the UK and it’s links to contemporary life.
She explores cultures around film, sound, sculpture and movement, with a specific interest in Black Sonic production, bass, mixing, remixing, vibration and dark space. She is interested in the temporary building and dismantling of communities which occur in rave spaces, performances, and theatres and what this can teach us about contemporary communities and life.
Solo Exhibitions
Black on Black, Sadlers Wells, London, UK (2023)
Many Mikl Mek Ah Mukl, Queercircle, London, UK (2023)
Black on Black, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (2022)
BLOODSOUND, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK (2022)
Fi Dem III: Ancestral Interference, Spike Island, Bristol, UK (2020)
Group Exhibitions
SXSW 2025, London, UK (2025)
Reverb, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK (2024)
Conversations, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (2024)
Page, Stage, Space, San Mei Gallery, London, UK (2024)
Rupture: Interventions of Possibility, Art at a Time Like This, Online (2023)
Let The Song Hold Us, FACT, Liverpool, UK (2022)
In the House of my Love, Brent Biennial, UK (2022)
Nine Nights curated by Channel B, ICA, London, UK (2022)
Radical Kitchen, Serpentine, London, UK (2018)
Queer and Now, Tate Britain, London, UK (2018)
Anniversary Show, Guest Projects, London, UK (2018)
more of an avalanche, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK (2017)
THE OTHER’D ARTIST/S, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK (2017)
Thick/er Black lines, Tate Modern, London, UK (2017)
Screenings
British Art Network, London, UK (2021)
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, UK (2021)
Sheffield Documentary Film Festival, UK (2021)
Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami, USA (2021)
Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami, USA (2020)
Scottish Queer International Film Festival, Glasgow, UK (2020)
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, UK (2019)
Scottish Queer International Film Festival, Glasgow, UK (2019)
Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami, USA (2019)
Daata, Online (2018)
Performances
Keyon Gaskin w/ Zinzi Minott and Moya Michael, Artist Space, New York, USA (2023)
Shortlist LIVE!, ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival, Kuopio, FI (2022)
Performance: Zinzi Minott, One Lyrical Bitch Solo, Kunsthall Stavanger, NO (2019)
In Movement, Somerset House, London, UK (2019)
Queer Black Performance: A Colloquium, St Jon’s Collage, Oxford, UK (2019)
Talking Neighbours: Reimagine the Institution with Theatrum Mundi, Tate Modern, London, UK (2019)
Thinking Queer, Marlborough Theatre, London, UK (2018)
Residencies
La Becque, La Tour-de-Peilz, CH (2023)
Artist-in-residence, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK (2019)
Artist-in-residence, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (2018)
Artist-in-residence, Wellcome Collection, London, UK (2018)
Artist-in-residence, Tate Modern and Britain, London, UK (2017)
Artist-in-residence, British Library, London, UK (2016)
Artist-in-residence, Somerset House, London, UK (2016)
Artist-in-residence, Rich Mix, London, UK (2016-17)
Awards/Bursaries
Max Mara Art Prize for Women 9th Edition (Nominated, 2023)
2022 ANTI Festival International Prize (Shortlisted, 2022)
Jamaican Arts Society Fellowship (2022-23)
Jerwood Live Work Fund (2021)
Adrian Howell’s Award (Winner, 2020)
Continuous Commission (2019-22)
Diverse Action Bursary (2019)
OneDance UK Trailblazer Award (Winner, 2017)
ImpulzTanz Dance Web (2016)
Helping Artists Keep Going
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