Imogen Stidworthy

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Imogen Stidworthy is a British multimedia artist based in Liverpool.

She has exhibited at documenta 12^[1] and most recently her work has been shown at the Thessaloniki Biennale (2007), Shanghai Biennale (2006), “Be What You Want but Stay Where You Are” at Witte de With, Rotterdam (2005) and ‘Governmentality’ at Miami Art Central (2004). Recent solo shows include ‘Get Here’ at Galerie Hohenlohe, Vienna (2006), “Dummy” at FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon (2005) and ‘Audio Cab’, a temporary public art work installed in taxi cabs in Luton (2005).

In 2004, Stidworthy was shortlisted for the Beck's Futures prize, for a video work featuring Cilla Black impersonators.^[2] In 1996 she won the Dutch Prix de Rome.^{[citation needed]}

Stidworthy is a tutor at Piet Zwart Akademie, Rotterdam and an Advising Researcher at the Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht. In 2008 she won the Liverpool Art Prize^[3]