Dale grew up in the small industrial working class town of Harlow in Essex. Harlow owes its design to Sir Frederick Gibberd (English architect, town planner and landscape designer). From its inception following the second world war and across the most the late 20th Century, over 100 artists including Henry Moore, Ralph Brown, Elisabeth Frink, William Mitchell, Barbara Hepworth, Auguste Rodin and Nick Hornby have their sculptures spread throughout the township. It’s in this environment in the 1980s and 90s that Dale Lewis spent his childhood and grew up. From an early age he showed and interest in art and creativity. He was and continued to immerse himself in all sort of projects that lead to him graduating with a Bachelors in Fine Art from London Guildhall (2002) and a Masters from Brighton university (2006). To date Dale’s work has appeared in several exhibitions both locally and internationally with recently showings with Choi & Lager gallery, Seoul (2016), Saatchi, London (2017), Edel Assanti, London (2018 and 2020) and Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles (2019)
Dale’s figurative works are influenced by the artist’s personal encounters with an acute awareness and sensitivity to the environments that he finds himself in or frequents; his interpretation of the everyday lives of his subjects are filtered through the his satirical and poignant sense of humour. When referring to the characters in his work or living in London he has expressed his love of the ordinary people he sees in London who come from all walks of life. Living in this city and in a much loved but less well to do borough the people he comes across provide a plethora of inspiration and appreciation of what would normally be regarded as the under-belly of life in the city.
Education
2002 London Guildhall University, BA in Fine Art, London, UK
2006 University of Brighton, MA in Fine Art, Brighton, UK
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Block 336, London, UK (forthcoming)
2020 The Great Day, Edel Assanti, London, UK
2018 Free Range, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
Fat, Sugar, Salt, Edel Assanti, London, UK
2017 Iconoclasts: Art out of the Mainstream, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Full English, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, NY, US
Dale Lewis, Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Figure Out, Union Gallery, London, UK
Jerwood Painting Fellowship, Norwich University of the Art, Norwich, UK
2016 Dale Lewis, NADA, New York, NY, US Dale Lewis, Edel Assanti, London, UK
Hope Street, Choi and Lager Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Group Exhibitions
2021 The day I saw you: Portraits from the AMMA Collection, Museo de la Cancillería, Mexico City, Mexico 2020 Friends and Friends of Friends, Schlossmuseum, Linz, Austria
Crowd, Hannah Barry Gallery, London, UK
Ridiculous, Elephant West, London, UK
2018 Entrance Installation, Times Square Space,1500 Broadway, New York, NY, US
Parallel Realities, Galerie Division, Montreal, QC, Canada 2016 Mixed Signals, Christian Larsen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Jerwood Painting Fellowship, Jerwood Visual Arts, London, UK 2015 New London Figurative, Charlie Smith London, London, UK
Summer Show, Turps Gallery, London, UK
Spring Show, No.4A, Malvern Hills, Worcestershire, UK
Art Car Boot Fair, London, UK
The Future Can Wait, Art Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK
2014 A Remembered Dream, The Invisible Line, London, UK TIAF, The Rag Factory, London, UK 2012 To Your Health, Lomography Gallery Store, London, UK
2011 Heroes and Villains, The VZ Gallery, London, UK
2009 Drawing, Magatzems, Valencia, Spain
Drench/Absorb, Oblong Gallery, London, UK 2008 In War at War, Art Space, Chicago, Illinois, US
2007 Possible Preparation, Grey Area Gallery, Brighton, UK
2006 Giving Birth to Monsters, University of Brighton Gallery, Brighton, UK 2005 Erotica, The Basement, Brighton, UK
Awards and Residencies
2020 Block 336, residency, London, UK (forthcoming)
2019 Art Athina, residency, Athens, Greece
2018 Arsenal Montreal, residency, Montreal, QC, Canada 2017 Zabludowicz Collection, residency, New York, US
2016 Jerwood Painting Fellowship, Jerwood Arts, London, UK
Public Collections
Fundacion AMMA, Mexico
The Arsenal, Montreal, QC, Canada David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Pictures of Dale in studio copyright and courtesy of Dan Coombs