James D Hopkins

James D. Hopkins (b.1994, Cardiff) is an artist living and working in London. He has exhibited in London, various locations around the UK as well as in Madrid, New York and Florida and in 2018 was an October resident at chaNorth Artist Residency, Upstate New York.

James’ work focuses on the asymmetrical and absurd, exploring cultish iconography and performative combat. Consuming an abundance of prolific online media which is absorbed and regurgitated into a mesh of over-saturated grotesqueness; combining humour with a feeling of unrelenting dread. Paintings. Characters and installations which are aesthetically alarming, repetitive, nostalgic humorous and unsettling, grounded in the idea of Kayfabe; a professional wrestling term describing staged events portrayed as if they were real. He works with costume, painting, performance, video, sculpture and installation, often combining these media simultaneously.

​His alter-ego Deadboy the Kid is a member of DANKCollective, a London art collective who focus on the absurdity, humour and violence of post-irony culture.

Fine Art BA (Hons) - First Class, Kingston University

Art and Design Foundation - Distinction, University of South Wales

Upcoming Exhibitions:



TBA, Cable Depot, London, Spring 2024

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Solo exhibitions as part of DANKCollective:



09/20 Distant Peak, Peak Gallery, London, UK

09/19 Not to My Taste, Harlesden High Street, London, UK (with AVD)

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Group exhibitions/performances:

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02/23 Doozy Magazine Launch, Bristol, UK



12/22 ORGONE DONORS, Brixton Beneficiary, London, UK

07/22 The Magnificences, Take Courage Gallery, London, UK

03/22 SET open studios, London, UK



07/21 Going Away.tv LIVE - Judgement Day. Arebyte Gallery, London UK

03/21 FOOD, Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre, Bury, UK



10/20 no-longer-being-able-to-be-able, skelf, online

03/20 Spout, Ghost Whale, London, UK



12/19 Megalith, part of the Wrong Biennale, Longyearbyen Svalbard, NO

10-12/19 Villa Rosa, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, UK

03/19 Tales of Diverted Reality at Manhattan Bridge, New York, USA

02/19 UK Young Artists Takeover, Nottingham, UK



10/18 New Materialities of the Digital Age, Harlesden High Street, London, UK

09/18 localhost:AVD, APT Live @APT Open Studios Deptford, London, UK

09/18 Archipiélago, former British Embassy, Madrid, ESP

08/18 I'm Baba, Art&Craft West Norwood, London, UK

07/18 Types of Abstra...