Brittany Shepherd: Coward

Brittany Shepherd

Coward

15th May — 28th June 2025

MAMOTH is delighted to announce the opening of Coward, a solo exhibition by Toronto-based artist Brittany Shepherd, on 15 May. This marks Shepherd’s second exhibition in London and her second collaboration with the gallery.

Brittany Shepherd’s practice spans painting, video, sculpture and writing. Her research and archiving from internet sources provides a basis for her compositions, imagery and material vocabulary. Items such as rubber bedsheets, latex masks and smeared lipstick enter a reproduced constellatory imaginary that hint at the latent visual record of personal explorations made public through photography and dissemination. This tension between photography and the artist’s hand through selection, competition and paint is made apparent through her use of photo-realist techniques.

About the Artist

Brittany Shepherd (b. 1988) lives and works in Toronto, Canada. She obtained her BFA from the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU). Shepherd’s work has been exhibited across North America, Europe, and Asia. Her solo exhibitions include The Last Laugh at Deli Gallery, Mexico City (2024), Phantasmata at Pangée, Montreal (2023), Deliverance at MAMOTH, London (2022), Sub Rosa at In Lieu, Los Angeles (2022), Waltz of the Mired at Chris Andrews Gallery, Montreal (2021), Façades at Bunker2, Toronto (2018), Of Flight and Of Leak at Roberta Pelan, Toronto (2016), amongst others.

Shepherd’s group and two-person exhibitions include Amnesia at Bonny Poon/Conditions, Toronto (2024), Adrift on the Lonely Etheric Ocean, curated by Brooke Wise at The Hole, New York (2024), Wanderlust at Roberts Projects, Los Angeles (2023), Ashes to Lashes, Dust to Lust at Grove, Berlin (2023), START Inaugural Exhibition—Season One at Start Museum, Shanghai (2022), All I Remember Now at In Lieu, Los Angeles (2021), Not Too High, Not That Low at Division Gallery, Toronto (2018), The Ghost in the Machine at Motel, New York (2017), A Weirdly Floating “We” Snaps into a Blurry Focus (two-person exhibition) at 8-11, Toronto (2016), and Spit, curated by Aleksander Hardashnakov at Leslie Spit, Toronto (2013), amongst others.

Her work has been presented at prominent art fairs, including NADA Miami with Pangée, Montreal (2023) and In Lieu, Los Angeles (2022), Barely Fair with Grove, Chicago (2023), Material Art Fair (solo) with Someday Gallery, Mexico City (2022), Utopian Visions Art Fair, curated by Ana Iwataki and Marion Vasseur Raluy, Portland (2018), Art Toronto (solo project booth), curated by Art Metropole, Toronto (2017), and NADA Miami with Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto (2016). Shepherd has also contributed to auctions and fundraisers, such as the C Magazine Auction, Toronto (2017, 2020), and Mercer Multiplier at Mercer Union, Toronto (2017). Her publications include Crease and The Bride, published by JMS Press and Perish Publishing, respectively.

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