Daisy Parris is a painter of psychological space. Direct text-based works and abstract paintings are made up of a vernacular that has developed through experience, relationships and through the depths and the peaks of their human existence thus far. Parris brings intimacy, insight and integrity to their paintings with great psychological and emotional force. The work is imbued with the sensitivity of one who feels everything, taking us through unflinching narratives and moments of reflection and tenderness. An ode to human existence, their work is sometimes silent, sometimes savage, with paintings that construct self portraits of personal battles and triumphs in a fast moving yet contemplative assault on the canvas.
Daisy Parris (b. 1993, Kent, UK) lives and works between London and Somerset, UK
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Sim Smith, London, UK (upcoming)
James Fuentes, Los Angeles, USA (upcoming)
Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, USA
2023
Pièce Unique, Massimo De Carlo, Paris, France
Mother Me, Carl Freedman, Margate, UK
2022
I see you in everyone I love, Sim Smith, London, UK
The Warm Glow, James Fuentes, New York, USA
2021
Pain For Home, M+B, Los Angeles, USA
Rocks Are Heavy, Makasiini Contemporary, Turku, Finland
Poem For Home, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2020
Star-Studded Canopy, Sim Smith, London, UK
The Worry Tree, Ruttkowski;68, Paris, France
2019
All The Cars Are Looking At Me, The Bomb Factory, London, UK
2018
Daisy Parris, Blank100, Dalston, London, UK
Poem, Las Palmas Project, Lisbon, Portugal
Hope I Dream Of You Tonight, The Chopping Block, Peckham, London, UK
2017
Vacant Seasons, The Chopping Block Gallery, Peckham, London, UK
Group and Two Person Exhibitions
2024
Present Tense, Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, UK
2023
Art Basel Miami Beach, James Fuentes, Miami, USA
Elsewheres, curated by Zuzana Ciolek, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, USA
Two person exhibition with Tim Garwood, Arario Gallery, Shanghai, China
2022
Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, China
A Thing for the Mind, Timothy Taylor, London, UK
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, Nicodim Gallery, New York, USA
Necessity, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
2021
36 Paintings, Harper's Books, East Hampton, New York, USA
Up Close!, CFHill, Stockholm, Sweden
2020
Talk Like Strangers, with Nico Stone, Sebastian Helling and Jesse Littlefield, Part 2 Gallery, Oakland, California, USA
2019
What Kind Of Spirit Is This?, Sim Smith, London, UK
Rude Assembly Part 4, Sydney, Australia
Feels Like Forever Ago, collaboration work with Laurie Vincent, Rochester Art Gallery, UK
2018
Aberrant Ad Libs with Bridge Mullen, Next To Nothing, New York, USA
Can Everyone Cope, The Chopping Block, Peckham, London, UK
What Can I Say?, 301 Gallery, Monsterrat, Massachusetts, USA
2017
What Do You Represent Now?, Plan5 Sickla, Stockholm, Sweden
Make Room, Cusp NYC, Brooklyn New York, USA
Do I Beg This Slender Inch with Thom Trojanowski Hobson and Florence Hutchings, The Chopping Block Gallery, Peckham, UK
Art The Arms Fair, Set Space London, UK
Blood, Sweat and Fears with Louis Slater and Euan Roberts, Cachette
HerOiNE: The Future Is Pink, The Square Gallery, London, UK
A Minha Casa é a Tua Casa, with Andre Mulzer and Charlotte Livine, Produzentengalarie, Hamburg, Germany
2016
Posthuman: The Figure In Ruin with Matt Bray, Sunpier House, Chatham, Kent, UK
2015
CATRAME with Andre Mulzer, The Amersham Arms, London, UK
The Artificial Exhibition, Safehouse, London, UK
The Sleeping Giant part ii, The Amsersham Arms, London, UK
Small Bird's Nest With Blue Eggs Inside, MMX Gallery, London, UK
The Sleeping Giant, The Amersham Arms, London, UK
Friday 13th, HFBK Haus 5, Hamburg, Germany
2014
ASA Open Studios, Hamburg, GermanyGoldsmiths Degree Show, London, UK
2011
Chatham Dockyard with UCA, Kent, UK
Two Sides Of The Same Coin with Phil Dillon, The Brook Theatre, Chatham, Kent, UK
Collections
The Olivia Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico
The Rose Museum, Boston, USA
ICA Miami, Miami, USA
Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
The Roberts Institute of Art, UK
Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, UK
HSBC Art Collection, London, UK
Selected Bibliography
'Daisy Parris Paints From the Gut' Kat Hudson, FRIEZE, January 2022
The New Yorker, Johanna Fateman, June 2022
Artforum online, 'Must See', July 2022
Emergent Magazine, Alex Leav, July 2022
Another Magazine, Violet Conroy, July 2022
Education
2014
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Goldsmiths University, London, UK
Awards & Residencies
2015
ASA Art School Alliance, Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany