Lewis Chamberlain, b.1966

Lewis Chamberlain


1966
Born North Humberside

1984 - 1988
Studied Slade School of Fine Art

1994
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York

1999 - 1998
B.P. Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery - Commended

2001
Discerning Eye - First Prize (ING Barings)


Selected solo exhibitions


2007
Lewis Chamberlain. Things that Go, James Hyman Gallery, London

2004
Lewis Chamberlain, Recent Paintings and Drawings, James Hyman Fine Art, London

2002
Barings Bank, London

2001
Merchant Ivory Commission, New York

1996
Fine Art Society, London

1993
Guillaume Gallozzi Gallery, New York

1991
Guillaume Gallozzi Gallery, New York


Selected group exhibitions


2008
Childish Things. Andrews, Baselitz, Brassai. Chamberlain, Kertez, Moore, Rego, Weston, James Hyman Gallery, London

2006
Paintings by Frank Auerbach, Tony Bevan, Lewis Chamberlain and Glenys Johnson, James Hyman Gallery, London

2001
B.P. Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London

Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London

2000
B.P. Portrait Award - National Portrait Gallery, London 1998,1997

1998
B.P. Portrait Award - National Portrait Gallery, London

Inside, New Inn Yard, London

Art’98, Business Design Centre, London

1997
B.P. Portrait Award - National Portrait Gallery, London

1996-7
Remaking Reality, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge

1996
Fine Art Society, London

1993
Piccadilly Gallery, London


Selected Collections


Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, East Yorkshire


Selected Publications

Artist Statement
Lewis Chamberlain (b.1966) is celebrated for his hyper-realistic pencil drawings which can take as much as four years to complete, and for his incredibly detailed paintings often of childrens toys in domestic interiors.

The rooms do not include people, whether children or adults, and the result is highly charged psychologically, perhaps suggesting abandonment.