Pam Evelyn, Hidden Scene, oil on linen, 3 panels, 321 x 117 cm each, 2022 © Pam Evelyn Pam Evelyn Portrait of Pam Evelyn, 2023, photo by Robert Glowacki © Pam Evelyn, courtesy Pace Gallery Details:b. 1996, Surrey, United Kingdom Read More Pam Evelyn is a painter living and working in London. Her expansive, abstract canvases are densely layered, richly textured meditations on nature, the body, and materiality. Evelyn’s intuitive approach to painting translates her lived experience in the world onto the canvas, creating complex and vivacious compositions that brim with life. Her charged use of oil paints—carefully layered, scraped, and rearticulated over several months—recalls the seething vitality of Abstract Expressionist painters while retaining a distinct and contemporary quality.Made over long periods of time, Evelyn’s paintings move through countless iterations as she builds up and pares back her gestures in a dynamic tension between destruction and resolution, freedom and control, collapse and resurrection. The works appear like living, breathing canvases as the complexity of texture and temporality encased in the oil paint drips and sweats, obscures and reveals in turn. Indeed, Evelyn speaks of her paintings as quasi-sentient beings, positioning herself as their audience rather than creator as she allows them to dictate their direction.Evelyn holds a BFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London (2019) and an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2022). She received the Cass Art Prize in 2019 and a prestigious residency at Porthmeor Studios, Cornwall in 2022. Evelyn’s work is included in the public collections of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy and Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom. Recent exhibitions include The Reason for Painting, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, United Kingdom (2023); and New British Abstraction, Centre for International Contemporary Art, Vancouver, Canada (2023). In 2023, Evelyn was commissioned by Whitechapel Gallery, London, to create two etchings to accompany the major exhibition, Action, Gesture, Paint Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970 (2023). Read More Pam Evelyn, Deluge, 321 × 300 cm in two panels, 321 x 150 cm, each, 2023 © Pam Evelyn Pam Evelyn, Fertility, oil on linen, 360 cm × 240 cm, 2022 © Pam Evelyn Exhibitions View All Past Pam Evelyn A Handful of Dust Sep 6 – Sep 30, 2023 London Journal View All Essays In Conversation: Pam Evelyn and Matthew Higgs Sep 08, 2023 News Pam Evelyn Joins Pace Gallery Jul 27, 2023 One-Artist Exhibitions Group Exhibitions Public Collections Awards and Residencies Periodicals Books and Catalogues Close One-Artist Exhibitions Pam Evelyn One Artist Exhibitions Dates1996, Surrey, United KingdomLives and works in London, UKEducation2019–2022, Royal College of Art, London, MA in Painting2016–2019, Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London, BFA2023Pam Evelyn: A Handful of Dust, Pace Gallery, London, September 6–30, 2023.Pam Evelyn: Amid Tall Waves, Massimo De Carlo Pièce Unique, Paris, February 21–March 4, 2023.2022Pam Evelyn: Built on Clay, The Approach, London, April 7–May 3, 2022.2021Pam Evelyn: Spectacle of a wreck, Peres Projects, Berlin, October 8–November 19, 2021. Group Exhibitions Pam Evelyn Group Exhibitions 2023The Reason for Painting, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, United Kingdom, May 4–June 25, 2023.New British Abstraction, Centre for International Contemporary Art, Vancouver, March 9–April 16, 2023. (Catalogue)2024Abstraction (re)creation – 20 under 40, Le Consortium, Dijon, France, April 26–September 08, 2024.2022Sabrina, Sim Smith, London, November 19–December 17, 2022.High Humanity, Jack Siebert Projects, Paris, October 17–22, 2022.What You See Is What You Get, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, June 30–July 29, 2022.An Ode to Orlando, Pi Artworks, London, February 4–26, 2022.2021Summer Group Exhibition, Baert Gallery, Los Angeles, July 24–September 24, 2021.Le coeur encore, The Approach, London, July 3–August 7, 2021.Diaries of a Climate, Baert Gallery, Los Angeles, March 9–May 1, 2021.2020Up Up and Away, Hockney Gallery, London, 2020.2019Bad Actors, Karst Gallery, Plymouth, United Kingdom, September 27–November 9, 2019. Set The Borders On Fire!, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, July 24–August 4, 2019.A Myth, Amorph, A Method, Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam, April 19–May 25, 2019.Bridge, IZO Art Gallery, Moscow, 2019.2017Olio, The Crypt Gallery, London, 2017. Public Collections Pam Evelyn Public Collections Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, ItalyZabludowicz Collection, London Awards and Residencies Pam Evelyn Awards and Residencies 2022Porthmeor Studios Residency, Cornwall, United Kingdom2019Cass Art Prize, United Kingdom Periodicals Pam Evelyn Periodicals 2023“The Best of 2023: According to 6 Painters Who Defined It” (Pace Gallery exhibition reviews). Ocula, 22 December 2023. https://ocula.com/advisory/perspectives/best-of-2023-according-to-painters-who-defined-it/.Greenberger, Alex. “Pace Gallery Takes on 27-Year-Old Painter Pam Evelyn, Making Her the Youngest Artist on Its Roster.” Artnews, 27 July 2023. https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/pace-gallery-pam-evelyn-representation-1234675731/Halpern, Julia. “Painting Outside the Lines” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). W Magazine, 13 December 2023. https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/contemporary-abstract-artists-women.“MASSIMODECARLO opens Pam Evelyn's first solo exhibition with the gallery at MASSIMODECARLO, Pièce Unique” (exhibition preview). ArtDaily, 22 February 2023. https://artdaily.cc/news/154732/MASSIMODECARLO-opens-Pam-Evelyn-s-first-solo-exhibition-with-the-gallery-at-MASSIMODECARLO--Pi-egrave-ce-Unique“11 Artists Having a Major Moment This Fall” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Artsy, 1 September 2023. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-11-artists-major-moment-fall“Royal College Talent Pam Evelyn Joins Pace Gallery” Ocula, 28 July 2023. https://ocula.com/advisory/picks/pam-evelyn-joins-pace-gallery/Steer, Emily. “Pace Tapped Painter Pam Evelyn as Its Youngest Talent. She Tells Us What’s Behind Her New Show of Tumultuously Beautiful Abstractions” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Artnet News, 22 September 2023. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artist-pam-evelyn-pace-london-2366415Swanson, Carl. “The 2023 Creative Aristocracy: Introducing the New Kings and Queens of Culture.” Town & Country, 28 September 2023. https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a45160263/new-creative-rising-stars-2023/.2022Evelyn, Pam. “In the Studio with Pam Evelyn.” Interview with James Ambrose. Émergent Magazine, 2022. https://www.emergentmag.com/interviews/pam-evelynEvelyn, Pam. “Pam Evelyn in the Studio.” Interview with Rory Mitchell. Ocula, 6 April 2022. https://ocula.com/advisory/perspectives/pam-evelyn/Herbert, Martin. “Pam Evelyn’s Psychological Landscape.” Independent, March 2022. https://www.independenthq.com/features/pam-evelyns-psychological-landscape2021Evelyn, Pam. “Pam Evelyn.” Interview with Wonderland. Wonderland, 17 November 2021. https://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/2021/11/17/pam-evelyn-interview/“5 New Artistic Talents That the Artnet Gallery Network Is Watching in November.” Artnet News, 19 November 2021. https://news.artnet.com/buyers-guide/5-artists-that-the-artnet-gallery-network-is-watching-in-november-2037907 Books Pam Evelyn Books 2023New British Abstraction (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Louis Blanc Franard, Matt Carey-Williams, Viahsta Yuan, and Tony Hui Cao. Vancouver: Centre for International Contemporary Art, Vancouver, 2023: 70–75, illustrated.Delorme, Jean-Baptiste, and Stéphanie Ibars, eds. A Story of Art, Yvon Lambert, a Collection, a Donation, a Venue. Paris: Centre national des arts plastiques; Avignon: Collection Lambert; Paris: Éditions Dilecta, 2023: 406–409, illustrated.