Jaime Welsh’s highly-constructed photographs – often of clinical, official interiors – depict figures in architectural space as allegories for anxious or tense psychological ones. His research focuses on the formal relationship between humans and architectural space and the evocation of psychological interiority through photography.
Jaime Welsh was born in 1994 in Lisbon, Portugal and he lives and works in London where he graduated from Goldsmiths (2018-2021) as a scholarship recipient of the Gulbenkian Foundation and Goldsmiths University. Recent projects have been exhibited at Art|Basel Statements, Basel; Ginny on Frederick, London; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; South London Gallery, London; Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon; Firstsite Museum, Colchester; Elvas Museum of Contemporary Art, Elvas. Recent awards include Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021; Tomorrow by White Cube 2021 and Circa Art Class of 2020. Welsh has been an artist in residency at Rua das Gaivotas 6 and Tate Exchange at Tate Modern. Public collections include the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum and the MACE (Antonio Cachola’s) collection. Jaime Welsh’s work has been reviewed in Frieze Magazine, British Journal Of Photography, Elephant Magazine; Contemporânea; Jornal Expresso, and Umbigo Magazine, among other publications.
Magis non prohibente [...] quam adprobante by Alberta Romano, L'Essenziale Studio Vol.06, Journal of Visual Arts and Design, November 2023
The abyss stares back: Inside Jaime Welsh's anxious rooms, British Journal of Photography, June 2023
Alberta Romano on Jaime Welsh's For Laura, MADRAzine #16, March 2022
Jaime Welsh: For Laura, Contemporânea, 2021
For Laura: trapped in reality's artificial reproduction, Umbigo Magazine, 2021
Rising Stars: Elephant's Pick of This Year's Most Exciting Art School Graduates, Elephant Magazine, 2021
Installation view at Art|Basel Statements, Booth M9, Basel, Switzerland
June 13th - 18th 2023
Installation view at Art|Basel Statements, Booth M9, Basel, Switzerland
June 13th - 18th 2023
Inward
Installation view at Ginny on Frederick, London, United Kingdom
June 3rd - July 30th 2023
Fabricações Internas
Installation view at Galeria Municipal de Arte de Almada, Almada
October 29th 2022 - March 4th 2023
Fabricações Internas
Installation view at Galeria Municipal de Arte de Almada, Almada
October 29th 2022 - March 4th 2023
Installation view at LISTE Art Fair Basel, Basel
June 10th - June 19th 2022
For Laura
Installation view at Madragoa, Lisbon
October 22nd 2021 - January 8th 2022
For Laura
Installation view at Madragoa, Lisbon
October 22nd 2021 - January 8th 2022
For Laura
Installation view at Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show, London
July 15th - 20th 2021
DOOMED
Installation view at Spirit Shop, Lisbon
October 17th - November 30th 2020
Homework
Installation view at Madragoa, Lisbon
May 29th - July 25th 2020
A Sonic Youth
Installation view at Galeria Municipal de Almada - Casa da Cerca, Almada
September 7th - October 19th 2019
Coded Encounters
Installation view at Galeria Graça Brandão, Lisbon
April 20th - June 2nd 2018