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Elena Rivera-Montanes (b.1998, Frimley) is a British painter based in London. She received her BA (Honours) in Fine Art: Painting from Wimbledon College of Arts and has exhibited in multiple group shows, including The Painted Room at GRIMM, Amsterdam, curated by Caroline Walker and most recently a solo presentation with Painters Painting Paintings. Primarily exploring themes of time, loss, and observations of life, Rivera-Montanes depicts interior and domestic spaces that are often familiar to her. Constructed through a nostalgic colour palette, she stitches together memories, overlooked quotidian moments and personal history to tell stories, prompting the viewer to perceive the paintings in relation to their own lives or experiences. Although many of the paintings are devoid of figures, the work in fact conveys friends and family who inhabited these spaces, remembered through belongings, objects and their sentimental value. Evoking a familiarity most can respond to, the work floats between the past and present. With reference to photographs she has taken herself, or found in her family album, Rivera-Montanes collages these liminal spaces to form fragmented moments in time, which explore the ambivalence between the places and people she can remember and what has been forgotten. Through the process of painting these moments, she aims to mirror how we recall, blur and rewrite our memories. For enquiries please contact [email protected] EDUCATION 2017-2020 • BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, UAL Wimbledon College of Arts 2016-2017 • Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, The University for the Creative Arts, Farnham SELECTED SOLO SHOWS 2025 • As Time Passed, Painters Painting Paintings SELECTED GROUP AND TRIO SHOWS 2025 • Scroll NYC, New York • Double Q, Hong Kong 2024 • What Now?, PM/AM Gallery, London • A Quiet Room, A Place in Your Heart, WOAW Gallery, Singapore • International Women’s Day, Art on a Postcard, London • Four-Folds, Lychee One Gallery, London 2023 • The Painted Room, Curated by Caroline Walker, GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam • Colour, Texture, Substance, No Name, Warbling, London • Only When This Cigarette Is Ended, Pictorum Gallery, London • The Angel in the House, Studio West Gallery, London • International Women’s Day, Art on a Postcard, Fitzrovia Gallery, London ART FAIRS 2025 • Art Brussels, Night Café, Belgium 2024 •The Salon, NADA and The Community, Night Café, Paris COLLECTIONS • X-Museum, Beijing RESIDENCIES 2021 • The Prunella Clough Residency Prize, UAL, Wimbledon College of Arts SELECTED PRESS & PUBLICATIONS 2024 • Where’s the frame? • Artcube 2024 Discoveries Report Top 100 Early-Career Artists 2023 • The Painted Room, Catalogue, published by GRIMM • Wallpaper Magazine, Caroline Walker curates as Grimm Amsterdam explores domesticity in art |
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