CV

Artist based in London. Turps Art School Studio Programme 2026-07

lisadenyer84@hotmail.com

Solo presentations and two person exhibitions

  • 2026Colour in Context with Jing Su, HOFF, London, curated by Martin Mayorga
  • 2023Colour Theory, OSKA, Edinburgh
  • 2021Strata with Elise Ashby, Paper Gallery, Manchester, curated by Laura Harris
  • 2019Reset, Paper Gallery, Manchester
  • 2018A Piece of Magic, Volume Gallery, Berlin
  • 2017Sobre fragmentos y materia with Valeria Maculan, Kir Royal Gallery, Madrid, curated by Sara G. Arjona
  • 2017Lisa Denyer Open Studio, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin
  • 2016Paintings as Objects, PS Mirabel, Manchester
  • 2014Geode, South Square Gallery, Thornton
  • 2014Catalyst with Holly Rowan Hesson, Piccadilly Place, Manchester
  • 2010Lisa Denyer, Gate Foot Gallery, Cumbria
  • 2009Lisa Denyer, Coventry Artspace

Selected group exhibitions

  • 2026Kiln Shift, Clink Street Ceramics, part of London Design Festival
  • 2026Taxi Driver, Terrace Gallery, London
  • 2026Inaugural Exhibition, Auto Amor Gallery, Kent
  • 202610 x 10, Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester
  • 2026The First Round Proper, Bloc Projects, Sheffield
  • 2026Art Swap, The Art House, London
  • 2026Final Gilchrist Fisher Award Exhibition, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
  • 2026Vol. 3 Auto Amor, Terrace Gallery, London, selected by Karl Bielik
  • 2025Open Studio, Watkins House, London
  • 2025Summer Exhibition, Wasps Riverside House, Edinburgh
  • 2025Mancunian Heritage under the Spotlight, WPP, Manchester
  • 2025Wrexham Painting Prize, Wrexham School of Art
  • 2024Assembly, Rye Creative Centre, curated by Paula MacArthur
  • 2024Slow Painting, Plough Arts Centre and Studio KIND, Barnstaple
  • 2024Winter Exhibition, Detail, Edinburgh
  • 2023Abstract Alchemy, Detail Gallery, Edinburgh
  • 2023Summer Exhibition, Picture London Framing
  • 2023A Generous Space 3, Huddersfield Art Gallery
  • 2023Leeds Summer Show, Leeds Playhouse, curated by Courtney Spencer and Helen Dryden
  • 2023X, Newcastle Contemporary Art, curated by Narbi Price
  • 2023Paper Cuts, 50 MV, Liverpool
  • 2023Objects, Axel Obiger, Berlin
  • 2023Spring Exhibition, Blue & Berry, Chelford
  • 2023SSA 130 Years, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
  • 2022Winter Exhibition, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington
  • 2022Culture House, Summerhall, Edinburgh
  • 2022Paint Edgy, The Ropewalk, Barton upon Humber, curated by Judith Tucker
  • 2022The Tarpey Gallery Open, Castle Donington
  • 2022Colours, The Stone Space, Leytonstone, curated by Matthew Macaulay
  • 2022Colour Flex, Terrace Gallery, London, curated by Matthew Macaulay
  • 2022Sixty Drawings + Ten, The Whitaker, Rossendale, curated by Carolyn Curtis Magri and Gary James Williams
  • 2022Vitalistic Fantasies, Elysium Gallery, Wales, curated by Paula MacArthur and Casper White
  • 2022Paper After All, Royal Cambrian Academy, Wales, in collaboration with Paper Gallery and Saul Hay, Manchester
  • 2022Inaugral Exhibition, Blue & Berry, Chelford
  • 2022Paradoxes, an exhibition by Contemporary British Painting, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight
  • 2022Expanded Painting, Air Gallery, Altrincham
  • 2022Habitat, Contemporary Six, Manchester
  • 2022Routes North, Messums, Harrogate
  • 2021Summer Exhibition, Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester
  • 2021Stand close and breathe me in, Oceans Apart, Salford, and Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough, curated by Enzo Marra
  • 2021Light & Dark, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington
  • 2020Somewhere Between Reality and Obscurity, The Viewing Room (online), curated by Garth Gratrix
  • 2020Contact Layer, Painting at the End of the World (online), curated by Ian Gonczarow
  • 2020New Visions, Vantage Art Projects (online), curated by Katie Neece
  • 2020I'm in a Window Mood (online), curated by Lucy Cox
  • 2020At Our Still Lives Posed, Axel Obiger, Berlin
  • 2019Inner Landscapes, HilbertRaum, Berlin
  • 2019Godfather Too, Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough
  • 2019Made in Britain, The National Museum of Poland, Gdańsk
  • 2018PaintLounge, Kühlhaus, Berlin, curated by Paula MacArthur and Wendy Saunders
  • 2018Message from Manchester, Herrnhuter Church, Berlin
  • 2018Deep Maps, Dada Post, Berlin
  • 2017Connection, &Gallery, Edinburgh
  • 2017Anything Goes?, Art Bermondsey Project Space, London, selected by Anna McNay
  • 2017Estampa Contemporary with Kir Royal Gallery, Madrid
  • 2017Contemporary Masters from Britain, touring show in China, Yantai Art Museum, Artall Gallery, Nanjing, Jiangsu Art Gallery, Nanjing and the Tianjin Academy of Fine Art
  • 2017The Surface of Things, The New Adelphi Gallery, Salford
  • 2017Line & Fold, Campbasel with Paper Gallery, Basel
  • 2017Adolf Menzel's Foot, PS Mirabel, Manchester, curated by Magnus Quaife
  • 2017Testing 1,2,1,2, Unit 3 Projects, London, curated by John Bunker
  • 2017Precision of Thought, SE9 Container Gallery, London, curated by Matthew Macaulay
  • 2017Semiotic Guerilla Warfare, Charlie Smith, London
  • 2017Merge Visible, St Marylebone Church Crypt, London, curated by Charley Peters
  • 2017Northern Abstracts, Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester
  • 2016New Room, Class Room, Coventry
  • 2016Salon Art Exhibition, coGalleries, Berlin
  • 2016Tracing Paper, Paper Gallery, Manchester
  • 2016The Manchester Contemporary with Paper Gallery, alongside Mali Morris and Linda Hemmersbach
  • 2016Paper Dialogues, Kir Royal Gallery, Valencia
  • 2016Precious Little, Art–Athina, Athens, curated by Jackie Berridge
  • 2016Window, Artists Workhouse, Coventry
  • 2016Contemporary British Painting Group Show, St Marylebone Crypt, London
  • 2016Semiotic Guerrilla Warfare, Dean Clough, Halifax
  • 2015Semiotic Guerrilla Warfare Part I, Paper Gallery, Manchester, in collaboration with Charlie Smith, London
  • 2015Inbox, HMS Exhibition Space, Nottingham
  • 2015Twitter Art Exhibit, Moss Library, Norway, curated by David Sandum
  • 2015Contemporary British Abstraction, SE9 Container Gallery, London
  • 2015@PaintBritain, Ipswich Art School Gallery, Ipswich, curated by Simon Carter
  • 2015Contemporary British Painting, Huddersfield Art Gallery
  • 2014Society of Island Universes, Piccadilly Place, Manchester, curatorial project
  • 2014About Painting, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, curatorial project
  • 2014We'll Show You Ours, Gallery Oldham
  • 2013New Perspectives in Painting, The Studios Gallery, New Mills
  • 2013Painting Too, HMS Exhibition Space, Nottingham, curated by David Manley
  • 2013Form/Function, Piccadilly Place, Manchester, curatorial project with Matthew Macaulay
  • 2013Now You See It, Now You Don't, Terrace Gallery, London, curated by Karl Bielik
  • 2013Meditations, Pluspace, Meter Room, Coventry
  • 2012Contemporary Printmaking: From Andy Warhol To The Emerging Generation, Store Street Gallery, London
  • 2011No.1 Paint, Blankspace, Manchester
  • 2010Gilchrist Fisher Award Finalist Exhibition, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London

Awards

  • Shortlisted for Wrexham Painting Prize, 2025
  • 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