Born 1979, United Kingdom. Lives and works in London
Education
2006-2008 Royal College of Art, London, MA Fine Art: Painting
2005 Universität der Künste Berlin, Socrates Erasmus Scholarship
2004-2006 Chelsea School of Art and Design, London, BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Frictions, L21 Gallery, Palma, Mallorca
Low Anchored Cloud, Alma Pearl, London
2023 Poreuse, Gilles Droualt Galerie, Paris
2022 Sink in sink down, L21 Factory, L21 Gallery, Barcelona
2021 Shape I know, Galeria Alegria, Barcelona
2019 Lydia Gifford, Siegfried Contemporary, London
2018 Routines, Super Dakota Brussels
2016 Midsection, Micky Schubert, Berlin
I am vertical, Centre International d’Art et du Paysage, Ile de Vassiviere, France
2015 To. For. With, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
2014 Drawn, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Lydia Gifford, Secteur Lafayette FIAC, Paris with Laura Bartlett Gallery
2013 Siding, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel
2012 The Neighbour, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
Midday, David Roberts Art Foundation, London
Distances, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin
2011 Its Hurtling Gold, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
Lydia Gifford, Statements, Art Basel 42, Basel with Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
2010 Brackets, Marcelle Alix, Paris, November
Lydia Gifford, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2024 Sticking Up For Soft, The Amber Room, Cedric Bardawil, London
2023 ABSTRACT COLOUR, curated by Lewis Dalton Gilbert, Marlborough London.
Mosaic Art Award, Hauser and Wirth, London
Positions, Part two, Alma Pearl, London [Curated by John Slyce]
Cambio De Escena, L21, Palma , Mallorca.
A painting Show, Benjamin Parsons x Hannah Payne, Oxford.
2022 “MAN’S TRACES IN NATURE”, Anders Dickson, Clemence De La Tour Du Pin, Cyprien GaillardY, Jef Geys, Lydia Gifford, Piotr Janas, Patricia L. Boyd, James Lewis, Maria Loboda, Win Mccarthy, Mikołaj Moskal, Daniel RothANIEL ROTH, He Xianguy, Galeria Wschód, Warsaw.
STUFFED, Lydia Gifford, Cullinan Richards, 7 Vyner Street, London.
Looking Through The Window Wearing Only Socks, Curated by Francesco Giaveri, L21 Gallery, Mallorca.
2021 Clinamen: Marte Johnslien, Lydia Gifford, Gillian Lowndes, Fold Gallery, London
Heels and Faces,Tørreloft, AGA Works, Copenhagen.
2019 You, (Collection of the Lafayette Anticipation Foundation, Paris), Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Clearings: Lydia Gifford, Anna-Bella Papp and Clementine Keith Roach, curated by Laura Bartlett for Blue Mountain School, London
As A Butterfly Folded In A Caterpillar That Will Soon Unfold, Nicoletti Contemporary, London
2018 Searching for Myself Through Remote Skins, curated by Bianca Baroni, Galeria Renata Fabbri, Milan
Black Hole, Art and Materiality from Informal to Invisible, GAMEC, Bergamo
2017 Lydia Gifford and John Divola, with Laura Bartlett Gallery, Art Basel Feature
2016 Valerie Beston Artists' Trust, Marlborough Fine Art, London
Masha, Super Dakota, Brussels
2015 Drawn by its Own Memory, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
Women’s Art Society II, curated by Adam Carr, MOSTYN, Llandudno Real Painting, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Adventures in Bronze, Clay and Stone, curated by Adam Carr, Arezzo City Arts Festival
2014 Perfume, Jan Kaps, Cologne Autograft, Laurel Gitlen, New York
2013 Can’t Hear My Eyes, curated by Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk, Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid
White, Simon Dickinson, New York
2012 Prairies, 3rd Edition of Les Ateliers de Rennes: Biennial for Contemporary Art, Rennes
Minimal Myth, Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam
Jonathan Binet, Lydia Gifford and David Ostrowski, BolteLang, Zurich, Switzerland
2011 Young London, V22, London
Tableaux, Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France
2010 Lydia Gifford, Manuela Leinhoß, Laura Riboli, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
Session_9_Object, Am Nuden Da, London
2009 Moon Star Love, Marcelle Alix, Paris
Taj Mahal Travellers, Gallery Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden
2008 About, Auto Italia South East, London
Between Shadows, Cordy House, London
Pentimenti, Permanent Gallery, Brighton
MA Fine Art Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London
Work in Public Collections
Margulies Foundation, Florida,
Jumex Foundation, Mexico
FRAC Auvergne, France
Kadist Foundation, Paris
Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich
Museum Boijmans von Beuningen, Rotterdam
Galeries Lafayette, Paris
Lepsien Art Foundation, Dusseldorf
LVMH, Paris
Publications.
Ima-Abasi Okon: A Reader published by PSS, PressfroPractice, Reshaping the collection Tate Britain. 2021
You, Collections Lafayette Anticipations published by paris Musees. 2019
Lydia Gifford, Words by Raimundas Malasauskas. Published by Laura Bartlett Gallery, 2017. Micro Tate 31, TATE ECT, Summer 2014. ISSUE 31
Awards and Scholaships
2008 Valerie Beston Young Artists’ Prize, London
2005 Socrates Erasmus Scholarship, Universität der Künste Berlin