ELOISE LAWSON
Born in 1987;
lives and works in London.
elo.lawson@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Royal Drawing School, London
The Drawing Year
2021-2022
Slade
School of Fine Art, London
MFA in Fine Art Media
2016 - 2018
University of Edinburgh
combined BA & MA in History of Art
& Italian
2006 - 2010
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Christie’s, London
Best of The Drawing Year 2022
November 2022
The Swiss Church, London
In Nihilum
March 2020
curated by Francisca Portugal, Sasha Shevchenko, & Pia Zeitzen
Casa da Dona Laura, Lisbon
Mellifluous Elephant
March 2019
curated by Francisca Aires Mateus
The Lewis Barber Shop, London
Salon 63
September 2018
curated by
Sasha Galitzine
(Arts Council Funded)
Slade
Research Centre, London
Body as Archive
April 2018
curated by Rowland Hill
UCL Art
Museum, London
The composition has been
reversed
September - December 2017
curated by Dr Andrea Fredericksen
ILYD.NU (online exhibition space for sound
art)
These emotions of the body
solo presentation for month of July 2017
curated by Dyveke Bredsdorff
Chalton Gallery, London
Fade
to Purple
December 2016
curated by Katarzyna Perlak
Regent’s Canal, London
Pompe (roving procession of performances)
7th October 2016
curated by Sasha Galitzine
Nahmad
Projects, London
What is the meaning of this gathering?
solo performance presentation
on 17th June 2016
as part of group exhibition ‘I am NOT Tino Sehgal’
June-July
2016
curated by Francesco Bonami
RESIDENCIES
RISD (Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Drawing Marathon Residency
5 weeks - January/February 2023
Borgo Pignano, Italy
1 week - July 2022
Villa Lena, Italy
6 weeks - June/July 2020
Casa da Dona Laura, Lisbon
Funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation
1 week - March 2019
Slade Summer School Teaching Residency
4 weeks - August 2018
UCL Art Museum Residency
April-December 2017
AWARDS
The Royal Drawing School Cass Art Prize, 2022
The UCL Art Museum Prize, 2018 (& work
acquired by the museum)
Sarabande Fund for Emerging Artists, 2017 (shortlisted)
PRESS
Fad Magazine
‘My week in the art world -
Sunday at Salon 63’
by Giulia Trojano
26 September 2018
Financial Times
‘The Art Market’
by Melanie Gerlis
21 September 2018
Twin Magazine
‘Salon 63’
by India Doyle
16th
September 2018)
Something Curated
‘8 Emerging Artists To Follow From The Slade
Graduate Show’
15 June 2018
The White Review
‘Sitting, Scrawling, Playing’
by Emily Gosling
September 2016