Phoebe Unwin was born in Cambridge in 1979. She studied at Newcastle University (BA Hons 1998 – 2002) and Slade School of Fine Art (MFA 2002 – 2005). Recent exhibitions include 'Osmosis', Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, London (solo, 2020); 'Iris', Towner Gallery, Eastbourne UK (solo, 2019); 'The Aerodrome', Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2019); 'Field', Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy (solo, 2018); 'Home and Unhome', Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and Contemporary Art Centre, Chongqing, China (group, 2020); 'Le Realtà Ordinarie', Banca di Bologna, Bologna (group, 2020); 'Cet Elixir', Moly-Sabata Fondation Albert Gleizes, Sablons, France (group, 2019); 'The Day in the Evening', Space K, Seoul (group, 2018); ‘31 Women’ Breese Little Gallery, London (group, 2017); ‘Portrait, for a Screenplay, of Beth Harmon’ Tenderpixel, London (group, 2017); ‘Illicit Flowers’ Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland, Germany (group, 2016); ‘Towards Night’ Towner Gallery, Eastbourne (group, 2016); ‘Walk Through 500 Years of British Art’ Tate Britain, London (group, 2016); ‘Distant People and Self-Soothing Objects’, Wilkinson Gallery, London (solo, 2015); ‘One Day Something Happens: Paintings of People, work selected from the Arts Council Collection by Jennifer Higgie’ (group, 2015-16); ‘Emotional Resources’, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland (group, 2014-15) and The British Art Show 7 ‘The Days of the Comet’, a Hayward Gallery National Touring Exhibition (group, 2010-11). 

Her work is held in both private and public collections including Tate Collection, UK; Arts Council Collection, UK; Saatchi Collection, London; Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut; Government Art Collection, UK; Kolon Group Collection, Seoul; Jiménez-Colón Collection, Ponce; Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia; HSBC, London; Fenberger House, Nagano Prefecture, Japan; British Council Collection, UK; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; and Southampton City Art Gallery.