Introduction

Education

1983 B.A., Literature and Arts, Harvard University, Boston, USA

1978 Harrow School, London, UK

Solo Exhibitions

2024
Studio Visit, Unit, London

2022
Fubon Art Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan

2020
Where Art Happened: From Klint to Party, Unit, London, UK

2019
Picasso’s Villa, Modernism Inc, San Francisco, USA
Artist Studios: From Picasso to Kusama, Modernism Inc, San Francisco, USA
In the Studio, Creation at Work, Musée Eugène-Delacroix, Paris, France

2018
Secrets of the Studio, Monet to Wei Wei, Le Musée en Herbe, Paris, France

2016
Artists Studios from Giacometti to Kapoor, Serena Morton, London, UK
Artists Studios from Picasso to Jeff Koons, Modernism Inc., San Francisco, USA

2015
Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington, USA

2012
Goddess, Kirsty Stubbs, Gallery, Dallas, USA

2011
Heartland, Serena Morton, London, UK

2008
Creative Spaces: The Studios of Dali, Kahlo, Picasso, Matisse, Lefevre Fine Art, London, UK

2006
Picasso’s Villa La Californie, curated by Fred Hoffman, M&B Fine Arts, Los Angeles, USA

2004
The Studios of Matisse, Picasso, Warhol, and Duchamp, Francis Naumann Fine Art, New York, USA

1998
Forest of Statues, and Fallen Tree, Richard Salmon Gallery, London, UK

Group Exhibitions

2022
Nassima Landau, Tel Aviv, Israel

2019
Zona Maco, Mexico City, Mexico

2018
Independent Vision, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, USA 

2017
Works on Paper, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, USA

2016
Art Miami, Modernism, Miami, USA

2015
Staring Back on Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon, Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington, USA
Spark, ESMOA, El Segundo Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA

2010
The Art of Knowledge, Zimmer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA

2007
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Francis Nauman Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA

2003
Reflections on Marcel Duchamp in Modern and Contemporary Art, Francis Nauman Fine Art, New York, USA

1984
Jean Michel Basquiat + Graffiti Art, Robert Fraser at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK 

Selected Press

2024
April “Framed in Time”, Vogue Portugal

2020
December ‘Pictures From a Pandemic: Damian Elwes’, White Hot Magazine
November ‘Damian Elwes, Where Art Happened: From Klint to Party‘, Art Limited

2019
September ‘Damian Elwes’, Wall Street International Magazine

2018
‘À Tous les Ateliers’, Elle Magazine

2017
September ‘Meet Damian Elwes the art world’s inside man’, Spears Magazine

2016
December ‘British Artist Damian Elwes Transports Us to the Studios of Picasso, Matisse, Haring & More’, Crave Magazine
June ‘Art Inside the Painters Studio’, SF Weekly

2013
July ‘Damian Elwes: A Painter in search of the roots of inspiration’, Independent

2008
‘Damian Elwes: Creative spaces: the Studios of Dali, Kahlo, Picasso, Matisse‘, Lefevre Fine Art

1997
‘Paradise Found‘, British Vogue

Selected Collections

Delacroix Museum, Paris, France
Fubon Art Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
Gregory Peck, Estate of Cecilia Peck + Daniel Voll, LA, USA
Rothschild Collection, Tring, UK
Harrow Art Museum, London, UK