Somaya Critchlow

Place: London

Born: 1993

Biography:

Somaya Critchlow is a British artist born in London, UK in 1993. She lives and works in London. Somaya Critchlow obtained her BA in Painting at the University of Brighton before joining The Royal Drawing School, London, where she earned a Postgraduate Diploma in 2017. In April 2023, Somaya Critchlow: Paintings and Drawings, the artist’s first institutional show in North America, opened at The FLAG Art Foundation in New York, USA. In autumn of 2023, Critchlow was featured in the group show “Pictures Girls Make”: Portraitures , curated by Alison M. Gingeras at Blum & Poe, LA. Previous solo exhibitions include Afternoon’s Darkness at Maximillian William, London (2022); Blow-Up , Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zürich (2021), Underneath a Bebop Moon , Maximillian William, London (2020) and Sincere for Synonym at Fortnight Institute, New York (2019). Recent group exhibitions include The Soul As Sphere , curated by Critchlow at The Lightbox Gallery and Museum, Woking (2022); Women Painting Women , the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas (2022); The Soul as Sphere , Maximillian William, London (2022); Drawing Attention: Emerging British Artists , British Museum, London (2022); Sweet Lust , White Cube, Paris (2022); Get Lifted! , curated by Hilton Als, Karma, New York (2021) and Mixing it Up: Painting Today , Hayward Gallery, London (2021). Critchlow’s work is featured in public collections including the Baltimore Museum of Art; LACMA, Los Angeles; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Columbus Museum of Art; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; RISD Museum, Providence; ICA Miami; Pallant House Gallery, Chichester; The Box, Plymouth; Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.