Celia Paul

Celia Paul was born in 1959 and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in the collections of the British Museum, the National Portrait Gallery (London), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her major solo exhibitions include Celia Paul, curated by Hilton Als, at the Yale Center for British Art (2018) and the Huntington Art Museum, San Marino, California (2019); Desdemona for Celia by Hilton at Gallery Met, New York (2015–16) and Innervisions at the Gladstone Gallery in New York City. Her work was included in the group exhibition All Too Human at Tate Britain (2018). She is the author of three books, Self-Portrait, Letters to Gwen John, and Objects of Desire: An Artist in Venice.

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