Lewis’ boisterous tableaux of urban debauchery highlight the very real yet often ignored depravities that flow through our contemporary existence and reveal dichotomies that define today’s society. Drawing from his own life experiences and the scenes he has witnessed over the years, Lewis often paints mundane scenes of everyday life and turns them into feverish spectacles, creating allegorical compositions that are rooted in both over-the-top phantasmagoria and social realism.
The result is a visual language equal parts Martin Parr meets Chris Morris, Rembrandt-cum-Basquiat; plausibly grotesque, amplified to absurdity, narrative-laden and energetically complex. Dale Lewis (b. 1980) earned a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art from London Guildhall in 2002, followed by a Master of Fine Arts from Brighton in 2006, and completed the Turps Studio Programme in 2015. Lewis has held a number of solo exhibitions, including ‘No Place Like Home’ at Block 336 in London (2021); ‘The Great Day’ at Edel Assanti in London (2020); ‘Free Range’ at Nino Mier Gallery in LA (2019), and ‘Hope Street’ at CHOI&LAGER Gallery in Seoul (2018). Lewis’ institutional exhibitions include ‘The Day I Saw You” at Museo de la Cancillería in Mexico City (2021) and ‘Friends and Friends of Friends’ at the Schlossmuseum in Linz (2020). Lewis received 2016 Jerwood Painting Fellowship, and his’ 33-metre-long painting, The Great Day, was included in the inaugural exhibition of Art Matters Museum in Hangzhou, China in 2021. Lewis’ permanent 8-meter-high mural at Picturehouse’s newest central London cinema was unveiled that same year. Lewis currently lives and works in London.
데일 루이스는 향락에 빠진 현대 도시상을 그리며 우리의 삶 속 분명 존재하지만 종종 방관과 부정의 대상이 되는 다양한 사회적 부패를 강조하고 현대사회 깊숙이 자리잡은 상반되는 이념 및 요소들을 조명한다. 개인적 서사와 직접 목격한 상황들을 회화로써 화폭에 펼치는 작가는 지극히 일상적인 장면을 토대로 광란의 스테이지를 구축하고, 과장된 환상과 사회적 사실주의가 뒤섞인 우화적 내러티브를 만들어간다.
데일 루이스 (Dale Lewis, 영국, 1980 년 출생)는 2002 년 런던 길드홀에서 미술 학사 학위를, 2006 년 브라이튼에서 미술 석사 학위를 수료하였고 2015 년에 터프스 스튜디오 프로그램을 수료하였다. 루이스는 런던 Block 336 갤러리에서 ‘No Place Like Home’ (2021), 런던 Edel Assanti 갤러리에서 ‘The Great Day’(2020), LA Nino Mier 갤러리에서 ‘Free Range’(2019), 서울 초이앤초이 갤러리에서 ‘Hope Street’(2018) 등 다수의 개인전을 선보인 바 있으며, 멕시코시티의 Museo de la Cancillería 에서 ‘The Day I Saw You’(2021), 린츠의 Schlossmuseum에서 ‘Friends and Friends of Friends’(2020) 등 기관 전시를 가진 바 있다. 루이스는 2016 년 Jerwood Painting Fellowship 을 수상하였다. 루이스의 33 미터 길이의 대형 회화 The Great Day 는 2021 년 중국 항저우에서 열린 Art Matters Museum의 개관전에 포함되었고, 같은 해 완공된 런던 중심부 시네마 Picturehouse 에서 작가의 8 미터 높이의 벽화가 공개되었다. 루이스는 현재 런던에서 거주하며 작업 중이다.
Born in 1980, London, UK
Lives and works in London, UK
EDUCATION
2002
- London Guildhall University, BA in Fine Art, London, UK
2006
- University of Brighton, MA in Fine Art, Brighton, UK
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
- (forthcoming) The Great Day - Art Matters, Hangzhou, China
2023
- SWEET AND SOUR, CHOI&CHOI Gallery, Seoul, KR
2022
- The Great Day - Art Matters, Hangzhou, China
2021
- No Place Like Home, Block 336, London, UK
2020
- The Great Day, Edel Assanti, London, UK
2018
- Free Range, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
- Fat, Sugar, Salt, Edel Assanti, London, UK
2017
- Iconoclasts: Art out of the Mainstream, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
- Full English, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, NY, US
- Dale Lewis, Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Figure Out, Union Gallery, London, UK
- Jerwood Painting Fellowship, Norwich University of the Art, Norwich, UK
2016
- Dale Lewis, NADA, New York, NY, US
- Dale Lewis, Edel Assanti, London, UK
- Hope Street, Choi and Lager Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
- HUMAN, CHOI&CHOI Gallery, Seoul
2022
- Memento, Sixty Six, London
- MacArthur Park, Cromwell Place in association with Ridley Road Project Space, curated by Will Ballantyne-Reid, London
- FLOWER, CHOI&CHOI Gallery
2021
- The day I saw you: Portraits from the AMMA Collection, Museo de la Cancillería, Mexico City, Mexico
2020
- Friends and Friends of Friends, curated by Oli Epp, Schlossmuseum, Linz, Austria
- Crowd, Hannah Barry Gallery, London
- Ridiculous, Elephant West, London
2018
- Entrance Installation, Times Square Space,1500 Broadway, New York, NY
- Parallel Realities, Galerie Division, Montreal, QC
2016
- Mixed Signals, Christian Larsen Gallery, Stockholm
- Jerwood Painting Fellowship, Jerwood Visual Arts, London
2015
- New London Figurative, Charlie Smith London, London
- Summer Show, Turps Gallery, London
- Spring Show, No.4A, Malvern Hills, Worcestershire
- Art Car Boot Fair, London
- The Future Can Wait, Art Bermondsey Project Space, London
2014
- A Remembered Dream, The Invisible Line, London, UK TIAF, The Rag Factory, London
2012
- To Your Health, Lomography Gallery Store, London
2011
- Heroes and Villains, The VZ Gallery, London
2009
- Drawing, Magatzems, Valencia
- Drench/Absorb, Oblong Gallery, London
2008
- In War at War, Art Space, Chicago, Illinois
2007
- Possible Preparation, Grey Area Gallery, Brighton
2006
- Giving Birth to Monsters, University of Brighton Gallery, Brighton
2005
- Erotica, The Basement, Brighton
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2020
- Block 336, residency, London, UK
2019
- Art Athina, residency, Athens, Greece
2018
- Arsenal Montreal, residency, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Zabludowicz Collection, residency, New York, US
2016
- Jerwood Painting Fellowship, Jerwood Arts, London, UK
COLLECTIONS
By Art Matters, Hangzhou, China
Fundacion AMMA, Mexico
The Arsenal, Montreal, Canada
David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Hort Foundation, New York, USA
Space K Kolon, Seoul, South Korea