Evy Jokhova

Evy Jokhova (1984, Switzerland – EE/UK/RU) lives and works between Lisbon, London, and Vienna. Jokhova is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice engages with dialogue and relationships between social anthropology, architecture, philosophy and art. Working with drawing, sculpture, installation, sound, film and performance, she aims to bridge gaps between these fields and their inherent hierarchical structures. A graduate of MA Fine Art, Royal College of Art (2011) and MA Political Communications, Goldsmiths College (2013), Jokhova is the recipient of numerous awards including Arts Council Individual Grants Award (2018), Royal Academy Schools Fellowship (2016-19), Royal British Society of Sculptors Bursary Award (2017-18), Wien Kultur Förderung (2017) and Amsterdam Fonds voor Kultur (2018). Has participated in the following residencies: Yarat Contemporary Art Space (2018), Belvedere Museum Vienna (2017), BijlmAIR Amsterdam (2017), Villa Lena (2017), Nida Art Colony (2017) and Florence Trust (2008-09), amongst others.

Solo exhibitions include: Oasis, curated by Paulius Petraitis, Meduza, Vilnius (2025); Three Colours: Flesh, 3+1 Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon (2025); Three Colours: Shadow, curated by Filipa Oliveira, Galeria Municipal de Arte, Almada (2023); Three Colours: Green, 3+1 Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon (2022); How to live together, CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam (2018); The Shape of Ritual, project commissioned by Belvedere Museum, Vienna (2017); Towering in the conditions of fragments, Passen-gers, London (2017); Staccato, Marcelle Joseph Projects, London (2016).

Recent group exhibition include: Prémio Novos Artistas Fundação EDP, curated by Catarina Rosendo, Luís Silva and Sérgio Mah, MAAT, Lisbon (2025); DRYADS OF COSQUER, curated by Merilin Talumaa and Justė Kostikovaitė, La Traverse, Marseille (2024); Art in the Age of the Anthropocene, curated by Linda Kaljundi, Eha Komissarov, Ulrike Plath,Bart Pushaw and Tiiu Saadoja, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn (2023); Goddesses and Warriors: 100 Years to Marija Gimbutas, House of Histories at the Lithuanian National Museum, Vilnius, LT (2022); WOTRUBA. Himmelwärts, curated by Gabrielle Stöger-Spevak, Belvedere Museum, Vienna (2021); Art in the Plague Year, curated by Douglas McCulloh, Nikolay Maslov & Rita Souther, UCR California Museum of Photography, California (2021); On Photographic Beings, Latvian National Museum, Riga (2020); Boundary Layers, Yarat Contemporary Art Space, Baku (2019); Prevent this Tragedy, Dateagle / Vongoetz Art, London (2018); Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Better Living: Tenderflix film festival, The Horse Hospital, London (2017) amongst others. Since 2014 the artist has run Allotment – a collaborative research project that explores social relationships and cultural politics through food.

Jokhova’s work is held in the public collections of the British Government Art Collection, UK; Lafayette College Library, USA; Royal College of Art, UK; Royal Shakespeare Company, UK; WW Contemporary Art, UK; and Museu Arte Contemporânea Armando Martins, Portugal; and Vasco Santos Collection, Portugal.

Three Colours: Flesh

Three Colours: Green

Three Colours: Flesh by Evy Jokhova…, Katya Savchenko, May 2025

Evy Jokhova: finalista do Prémio Novos Artistas…, José Marmeleira, May 2025

Evy Jokhova with 3+1 Arte Contemporânea…, Dominique Catherina Foertig, September 2024

Three Colours: Green by Evy Jokhova…, Miguel Pinto, December 2022

Imagining Photographic Beings, Maija Rudovska, October 2020

Image as a substance enveloping space and place…, Santa Hirša, October 2020

Interviews with Artists, Pippa Eason, April 2020

Evy Jokhova at Lily Brooke, Michael Amherst, January 2019

Evy Jokhova’s Multi-Disciplinary Art Practice Investigates Ontological Enquires And Aesthetic Manipulations, Yannis Kostarias, January 2019