Toby Tobias Kidd (aka Toby Tobias / Toby Kidd) is a Welsh-born, London-based artist and musician. He employs sound, text, encounters, and sculpture, engaging in how art can reshape (public) space, collective imagination, and the politics of shared experience.

Founding member of indie art-pop band Hatcham Social ("Irresistible" – The Guardian, "Orange Juice of the noughties" – Alan McGee, "slow burning brilliance" – Louder Than War) (Fierce Panda, TBC ATO) and deconstructed-pop duo New Commercial Product, he has exhibited and performed at venues including the Barbican Centre, Pi Artworks, Channel 4, and BBC Radio 4 (including Loose Ends with Clive Anderson). He's collaborated with musicians including Tim Burgess, Douglas Hart, members of Primal Scream, artists such as Janette Parris, and civil society campaigners. His 2022 work Blossom showed alongside Fiona Banner, Barry Flanagan, and John Latham.

He is co-founder of micro-institution Pragmata Collective, staging experimental installations and interventions. Recent work includes land-based sculpture in the English countryside, Italy, and Ireland, exploring ideas of rewilding and land beyond borders, and a speculative fiction robot opera performed at Filet Space.

He leads Public Art & the Economics of Imagination, a research podcast with King’s College London’s Centre for Philosophy & Art and co-founded Crocodile Laboratories London, a collaborative label distributed via Cargo Records.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/t0bytobiaskidd
Website: https://tobytobiaskidd.com/
Listen to new NCP track: https://fckncp.bandcamp.com/track/a-buffoon-in-a-suit-is-this-how-it-works
Solo Album: https://soundcloud.com/tobykidd/sets/bot-opera-beta-1
Public Art & The Economics of Imagination Podcast: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/public-art-the-economics-of-imagination