2020/21 Open School East Associates Programme.
2015/16 QCF Cultural Heritage Diploma.
2012/15 BA Philosophy | King’s College, London.
2014 University of California, Los Angeles.
Solo/Duo Presentations
2024 | Palimpsests & Epithets | Skēnē | Malmö, Sweden.
2022 | Seeking Channels w/Hannan Jones | Well Projects | Margate, UK.
2022 | Deciphering a Broken Syntax | South London Gallery | London, UK.
2019 | Meet You There at Six | Treasure Hill Artist Village | Taipei, Taiwan.
Selected Group Presentations
2023 | Something More Than Masquerade (film) | Timehri Film Festival | Georgetown, Guyana
2023 | Something More Than Masquerade (film) | Aesthetica Short Film Festival | UK
2023 | Something More Than Masquerade (film) | Encounters Film Festival | UK
2023 | Something More Than Masquerade (film) | RESONANCE: 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning | London.
2023 | Something More Than Masquerade (film) | not/nowhere Analogue Shorts | London, UK.
2022 | Somethin More Than Masquerade (film) | Make Film History x BBC Archive | Bertha DocHouse | London, UK.
2022 | Sun Dial (sonic fiction) | Late at TATE Britain | London, UK.
2021 | Sun Dial (sonic fiction) | The Sunken Garden - Margate NOW Festival | Margate, UK.
2021 | The Island is No Home (video installation) | How to Lift Heavy | Nayland Rock Hotel | Margate, UK.
2021 | The Island is No Home | New Contemporaries | South London Gallery | London, UK.
2021 | The Island is No Home (screening) | Abandon Normal Devices Festival (Online).
2020 | Mediations on Body | CIRCA Art | Piccadilly Lights | London, UK.
2019 | Mediations on Body (screening) | PERIPHERY | South London Gallery | London, UK.
Performances // Sound Presentations
2023 | Re-Imagining In-Conversation w/ Hannan Jones | Future Soundscapes Festival | Silent Green | Berlin, DE.
2020 | Residency Presentation | Q-O2 | Brussels, BE.
2023 | Re-Imagining In-Conversation w/ Hannan Jones | The Inner Bark of Trees | Archive Books x Savvy Contemporary | Berlin, DE.
2023 | Home: A Domestic Fiction w/ Hannan Jones | Royal College of Art | London, UK.
2023 | Hannan Jones - Pat Thomas - Shamica Ruddock (trio) | Counterflows Festival | Glasgow, UK.
2023 | Hannan Jones - Pat Thomas - Shamica Ruddock (trio) | Cafe OTO | Glasgow, UK.
Awards
2023 | Jerwood New Work Fund
2022 | Somerset House Studios Studio Bursary | London, UK
2022 | Womxn of Colour Artist Award (shortlisted artist) | 198 CAL | UK
2022 | Elephant Trust | Bursary | UK
2021 | FLAMIN Fellowship | Film London | England, UK.
2021 | Eccles Centre Visiting Fellow | Research Fellowship | The British Library | London, UK.
2020 | New Contemporaries | Bloomberg Philanthropies and Art Council England. UK
2020 | Jerwood Creative Bursary | Jerwood Arts
2020 | Tech/Play/Learn | Theatre in the Mill
2019 | Francis Chagrin Award | Sound & Music
Residencies
2023 | Amant | New York, US.
2023 | Akademie Schloss Solitude Algorithmic Poetry Web Residency w/Hannan Jones
2023 | Q-O2 | Brussels, BE.
2022 | New Contemporaries x Hospitalfield Arts: New Writing Residency
2022 | Seeding Space Residency, London Performance Studios
2021/2 | South London Gallery Postgraduate Residency
2021 | CCA Glasgow x A/C Projects [w/ Hannan Jones]
2020 | Black Cultural Archives x Languid Hands | Digital Research Residency.
2020 | Trickster, Teacher, Chaos, Clay | CRATE Space Margate - UK x Durham Art Gallery, Ontario - Canada | Digital Residency
2019 | ESEA Artist-in-Residence | Taipei Artist Village | Taiwan.
2018 | Both Sides Now w/ Amal Khalf & Fatima Al Qadari | Brighter Sounds x Peoples History Museum | Manchester - UK.
Papers, Publications & Other Printed Matter
2023 | Speculation is the Vehicle w/ Hannan Jones | Un/Magazine Print (AUS) and Online
2023 | Well Projects Seeking Channels Anthology
2021 | Let Our Legacy Continue: Beginning an archival journey - A Creative Essay of the digital co-creation and hybrid dissemination of Windrush Oral Histories at the University of Greenwich’s Stephen Lawrence Gallery | Co-Author | Caribbean Social Forum & University of Greenwich | London, UK.
2021 | How to Lift Heavy | Publication | Open School East | Margate, UK.
2020 | So It Goes | Publication | Open School East | Margate, UK.
E: shamicaruddock@gmail.com
Full CV available on request