Damian Elwes
B.1960 Based in Los Angeles, USA
Introduction
By painting artists’ studios, Damian Elwes’s works capture the sublimity of creative experience and transport us into the worlds of creative geniuses. For Elwes, the artist’s studio and its contents were emblematic of the essence of an artistic personality. Many of these spaces no longer exist today, after being taken over by new owners. Elwes’s paintings have therefore taken on a commemorative dimension; they are detailed tangible records that transport the viewer into the inner sanctum of the creative mind.
Education
1983 B.A., Literature and Arts, Harvard University, Boston, USA
1978 Harrow School, London, UK
Solo Exhibitions
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
Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Harrow Art Museum, London, UK