Lisa Denyer – CV

Painter based in Manchester and Edinburgh


Contact

lisadenyer84@hotmail.com


Solo Presentations & Two Person Exhibitions 

2023 – Colour Theory, OSKA, Edinburgh 

2021 – Strata with Elise Ashby, Paper Gallery, Manchester, curated by Laura Harris

2019 – Reset, Paper Gallery, Manchester 

2018 – A Piece of Magic, Volume Gallery, Berlin

2017 – Sobre fragmentos y materia with Valeria Maculan, Kir Royal Gallery, Madrid, curated by Sara G. Arjona

2017 – Lisa Denyer Open Studio, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin

2016 – Paintings as Objects, PS Mirabel, Manchester

2014 – Geode, South Square Gallery, Thornton

2014 – Catalyst with Holly Rowan Hesson, Piccadilly Place, Manchester

2010 – Lisa Denyer, Gate Foot Gallery, Cumbria

2009 – Lisa Denyer, Coventry Artspace


Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 – Abstract Alchemy, Detail Gallery, Edinburgh

2023 – Summer Exhibition, Picture London Framing

2023 – A Generous Space 3, Huddersfield Art Gallery

2023 – Leeds Summer Show, Leeds Playhouse, curated by Courtney Spencer and Helen Dryden

2023 – X, Newcastle Contemporary Art, curated by Narbi Price

2023 – Paper Cuts, 50 MV, Liverpool

2023 – Objects, Axel Obiger, Berlin

2023 – Spring Exhibition, Blue & Berry, Chelford

2023 – SSA 130 Years, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

2022 – Winter Exhibition, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington

2022 – Culture House, Summerhall, Edinburgh

2022 – Paint Edgy, The Ropewalk, Barton upon Humber, curated by Judith Tucker

2022 – The Tarpey Gallery Open, Castle Donington

2022 – Colours, The Stone Space, Leytonstone, curated by Matthew Macaulay

2022 – Colour Flex, The Terrace Gallery, London, curated by Matthew Macaulay

2022 – Sixty Drawings + Ten, The Whitaker, Rossendale, curated by Carolyn Curtis Magri and Gary James Williams

2022 – Vitalistic Fantasies, Elysium Gallery, Wales curated by Paula MacArthur and Casper White

2022 – Paper After All, Royal Cambrian Academy, Wales, in collaboration with Paper Gallery and Saul Hay, Manchester

2022 – Inaugral Exhibition, Blue & Berry, Chelford

2022 – Paradoxes, an exhibition by Contemporary British Painting, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight

2022 – Expanded Painting, Air Gallery, Altrincham

2022 – Habitat, Contemporary Six, Manchester

2022 – Routes North, Messums, Harrogate

2021 – Summer Exhibition, Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester

2021 – Stand close and breathe me in, Oceans Apart, Salford, and Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough, curated by Enzo Marra

2021 – Light & Dark, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington

2020 – Somewhere Between Reality and Obscurity, The Viewing Room (online), curated by Garth Gratrix

2020 – Contact Layer, Painting at the End of the World (online), curated by Ian Gonczarow

2020 New Visions, Vantage Art Projects (online), curated by Katie Neece

2020 – I’m in a Window Mood (online), curated by Lucy Cox 

2020 – At Our Still Lives Posed, Axel Obiger, Berlin

2019 – Inner Landscapes, HilbertRaum, Berlin

2019 – Godfather Too, Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough

2019 – Made in Britain, The National Museum of Poland, Gdańsk

2018 – PaintLounge, Kühlhaus, Berlin, curated by Paula MacArthur and Wendy Saunders

2018 – Message from Manchester, Herrnhuter Church, Berlin

2018 – Deep Maps, Dada Post, Berlin

2017 – Connection, &Gallery, Edinburgh

2017 – Anything Goes?, Art Bermondsey Project Space, London, selected by Anna McNay

2017 – Estampa Contemporary with Kir Royal Gallery, Madrid

2017 – Contemporary Masters from Britain, touring show in China, Yantai Art Museum, Artall Gallery, Nanjing, Jiangsu Art Gallery, Nanjing and the Tianjin Academy of Fine Art

2017 – The Surface of Things, The New Adelphi Gallery, Salford

2017 – Line & Fold, Campbasel with Paper Gallery, Basel

2017 – Adolf Menzel's Foot, PS Mirabel, Manchester, curated by Magnus Quaife

2017 – Testing 1,2,1,2, Unit 3 Projects, London, curated by John Bunker

2017 – Precision of Thought, SE9 Container Gallery, London, curated by Matthew Macaulay

2017 – Semiotic Guerilla Warfare, Charlie Smith, London

2017 – Merge Visible, St Marylebone Church Crypt, London, curated by Charley Peters

2017 – Northern Abstracts, Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester

2016 – New Room, Class Room, Coventry

2016 – Salon Art Exhibition, coGalleries, Berlin

2016 – Tracing Paper, Paper Gallery, Manchester

2016 – The Manchester Contemporary with Paper Gallery, alongside Mali Morris and Linda Hemmersbach

2016 – Paper Dialogues, Kir Royal Gallery, Valencia 

2016 – Precious Little, Art–Athina, Athens, curated by Jackie Berridge

2016 – Window, Artists Workhouse, Coventry

2016 – Contemporary British Painting Group Show, St Marylebone Crypt, London

2015 – Semiotic Guerrilla Warfare Part I, Paper Gallery, Manchester, in collaboration with Charlie Smith, London

2015 – Inbox, HMS Exhibition Space, Nottingham

2016 – Semiotic Guerrilla Warfare, Dean Clough, Halifax

2015 – Twitter Art Exhibit, Moss Library, Norway, curated by David Sandum

2015 – Contemporary British Abstraction, SE9 Container Gallery, London

2015 – @PaintBritain, Ipswich Art School Gallery, Ipswich, curated by Simon Carter

2015 – Contemporary British Painting, Huddersfield Art Gallery

2014 – Society of Island Universes, Piccadilly Place, Manchester, curatorial project

2014 – About Painting, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, curatorial project

2014 – We’ll Show You Ours, Gallery Oldham 

2013 – New Perspectives in Painting, The Studios Gallery, New Mills

2013 – Painting Too, HMS Exhibition Space, Nottingham, curated by David Manley

2013 –Form/Function, Piccadilly Place, Manchester, curatorial project with Matthew Macaulay

2013 – Now You See It, Now You Don’t, Terrace Gallery, London, curated by Karl Bielik

2013 – Meditations, Pluspace, Meter Room, Coventry

2012 – Contemporary Printmaking: From Andy Warhol To The Emerging Generation, Store Street Gallery, London

2011 – No.1 Paint, Blankspace, Manchester


Awards

Shortlisted for the Kleinwort Hambros Award, 2019, nominated by Sunny Cheung, held at V&A, London

Shortlisted for the Greater Manchester Arts Prize, 2016/2018

Shortlisted for Beep Wales Painting Prize, 2016

Received first prize in the PS Mirabel Open, 2015

Shortlisted for the Bankley Open, 2013/2014/2015

Shortlisted for The Title Art Prize, 2011

Shortlisted for Salon Art Prize, 2010

Received second prize in the Gilchrist Fisher Award, 2010, held at Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London


Collections

 

The Priseman-Seabrook Collection

Private collections – UK, Spain, Italy, Germany, USA, France