Education
- Born 1959 in Trivandrum, India
- Lives and works in London, UK
- 1981
- Slade School of Art, London, UK
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2024
- "Life Painting," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
- 2023
- "Celia Paul: Myself Among Others," Victoria Miro Gallery, Venice, Italy
- "Celia Paul: 26 Years of Portraiture with Studio Prints, 1985-2011," Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
- 2022
- "Celia Paul: Memory and Desire," Victoria Miro, London, UK
- 2020
- "Celia Paul: Self Portrait, an extended reality (XR) exhibition on Vortic Collect," Victoria Miro, London, UK
- 2019
- "Celia Paul," Victoria Miro, London, UK
- 2018
- "Celia Paul," curated by Hilton Als, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA; The Huntington, San Marino, CA
- 2017
- "The Sea and the Mirror," Victoria Miro, Venice, Italy
- 2016
- "Celia Paul: Desdemona for Hilton by Celia," Victoria Miro, London, UK
- 2015
- "Celia Paul: Desdemona for Hilton by Celia," Gallery Met at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, NY
- 2014
- "Celia Paul," Victoria Miro, London, UK
- 2012
- "Celia Paul: The Separation series and recent work," Chichester Cathedral, UK; Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
- "Gwen John and Celia Paul: Painters in Parallel," Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
- 2011
- "Celia Paul: Identity, Paintings and Watercolours," Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
- "Celia Paul: Mothers and Daughters, Etchings and Drawings," Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
- 2010
- "Celia Paul: Mothers, Daughters and Sisters," University Gallery and Baring Wing, Newcastle, UK
- "Celia Paul," De Queeste, Brussels, Belgium; touring to Abeley-Watou, Flanders, Belgium
- 2009
- "Celia Paul: Where I am now," Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
- "Celia Paul: Etchings 2004-6," Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
- 2006
- "Celia Paul, Where I am now," Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
- 2005
- “Celia Paul Paintings and Works on Paper,” Graves Art Gallery, Sheeld, UK
- 2004
- “Celia Paul: Stillness - Paintings and Etchings 1990-2004,” Abbot Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Kendal, UK
- “Celia Paul: Prints and Watercolours,” Marlborough Graphics, London, UK
- 2002
- “Celia Paul, Corner,” Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2002-2004)
- 1999
- “Celia Paul: Recent Drawings and Prints,” Marlborough Graphics and Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
- “Celia Paul: Etchings 1995-1999,” Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
- 1995
- “Celia Paul: Etchings 1991-1995,” Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
- 1991
- “Celia Paul: Paintings and Drawings,” Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK “Celia Paul: Etchings,” Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
- 1986
- "Celia Paul,” Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2023
- "Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
- "Face to Face: A Celebration of Portraiture," Marlborough Gallery, London, UK
- 2022
- "The Story of Arts as it’s Still Being Written," Victoria Miro, London, UK
- "Intimacy," Victoria Miro, London, UK
- "Pictus Porrectus: Reconsidering the Full-Length Portrait," "Isaac Bell House," Rhode Island, US
- "Figuration," Marlborough Gallery, London, UK
- "Me, Myself, I – Artists’ Self-Portraits," Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK
- 2021
- "The Sublime in Nature," Daniel Malarkey, London, UK
- 2020
- "I See You, an extended reality (XR) exhibition on Vortic Collect," Victoria Miro, London, UK
- "Parley for the Oceans x Vortic," online exhibition, Vortic Going Home, Marlborough Graphics, London, UK
- 2019
- "Works on Paper," Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark
- "Unparalleled Journey through Contemporary Art of Past 50 Years," RUBELL MUSEUM, Miami, FL
- 2018
- "Contemporary Dialogues with Tintoretto," Ca’ d’Oro, Venice, Italy
- "Studio Prints: a Survey," Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
- All Too Human, Tate Britain, London, UK; Painting Life: Bacon, Freud and the School of London, MFA Budapest, Hungary
- 2017
- "House Work," Victoria Miro, London, UK
- 2016
- "NO MAN'S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection," National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), Washington; Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
- "Forces in Nature," Victoria Miro, London, UK
- "Inspired by Soane: I found this and thought of you...," Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, UK
Bibliography
- 2024
- Osberg, Annabel. "Critics Pick: Los Angeles, Celia Paul," Artforum, February 21 (Link)
- Laster, Paul. "8 Must-See Solo Gallery Shows in February 2024," Galerie, February 5 (Link)
- Parker, Dian. "Don’t Miss: The Intense Stillness of Celia Paul’s ‘Life Painting’," The Observer, Februrary 1
- 2023
- Hodgkin, Beatrice. "Artist Celia Paul’s debt to Venice," Financial Times, October 25
- 2022
- Marius, Marley. “An Enthralling Exhibition in Newport Puts the Full-Length Portrait in Focus,” VOGUE, July 15
- Payne, Cynthia. "Celia Paul’s Letters to Gwen John," The Brooklyn Rain, June
- Williamson, Beth. "Celia Paul: Memory and Desire," Studio International, April 29
- Hallett, Florence. "Tarred by same brush"," i, April 8
- Scholes, Lucy. "Can you be an artist’s muse without ruining your own career?," The Telegraph, April 4
- "Celia Paul: Against Any Intrusion: Writing to Gwen John," The Paris Review, March 2
- Mendelsohn, Meredith. "In Newport, Artists Turn Tables on the Gilded Age," The New York Times, July
- 2021
- “Celia Paul, “The Trauma and Talent of Some of History’s Greatest Women Artists”,” The New York Times, October
- 2020
- Szalai, Jennifer. "‘I Am My Own Subject’: Celia Paul on Lucian Freud, Motherhood and a Life in Art," The New York Times, Nover 20
- “Diary: Painting in the Dark,” London Review of Books, December 12
- “Lockdown review– Celia Paul: My Studio at Victoria Miro and Vortic,” Splash, July 10
- “The power of creativity: friends of Bazaar share imaginative responses to crisis,” Harper’s Bazaar, July
- Wullschläger, Jackie. “London lockdown paintings are raucous and lyrical,” Financial Times July 8
- Hallett, Florence. “Celia Paul: My Studio,” The Arts Desk, June 30
- 2019
- Adams, Tim. "Celia Paul on life after Lucian Freud: ‘I had to make this story my own’," The Guardian, October 27
- “Women of the Year’, ‘Artist of the Year: Celia Paul,” Harpers Bazaar, December
- Mclaughlin, Rosanna. “A Muse in Her Own Words: Celia Paul’s Self-Portrait”,” Frieze, November 26
- “Review, ‘Holding up a Mirror’,” The Daily Telegraph, November
- “Can a Woman Who Is an Artist Ever Just Be an Artist?” The New York Times, November
- “Self-Portrait by Celia Paul, review: stepping out of Lucien Freud’s shadow,” The Telegraph, November
- “How do women become more than objects in art? The painters Celia Paul and Cecily Brown navigate a medium historically dominated by men. Where the body is buried,” The New York Times, November
- “Self-Portrait by Celia Paul, review: stepping out of Lucien Freud’s shadow,” The Telegraph, November
- 2018
- “Celia Paul, "Gwen John",” Frieze Masters, October
- “Celia Paul,” Apollo, April
- “Works by artist Celia Paul featured in exhibition curated by writer Hilton Als,” Yale News, March 22
- “Celia Paul, ‘Acclaimed artist Celia Paul on painting from life – and loss,” Financial Times, March 16
- Neyeri, Farah. “A muse steps out of the shadows,” The New York Times, March 10
- 2016
- Cumming, Laura. "Celia Paul: Desdemona for Hilton by Celia; Maggi Hambling: Touch – review," The Guardian, September 11
- Elmhirst, Sophie. “Standing Tall: Celia Paul will always be her own woman,” Harper’s Bazaar Art, November
- Lloyd, Joe. “Celia Paul: Desdemona for Hilton by Celia,” Studio International, October 13
- Cumming, Laura. “It’s always the quiet ones...” The Observer, September 11
- Wullschlager, Jackie. “Artist Celia Paul explores the beauty of melancholy,” Financial Times, September 2
Public Collections
- Abbot Hall Art Gallery & Museum, Kendal, UK
- British Museum, London, UK
- Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
- Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece
- Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA
- Morgan Library, New York, USA
- National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
- New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge, UK
- Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
- Saatchi Collection, London, UK
- The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, Texas, USA
- Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
- Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA