Daniel Crews-Chubb

Daniel Crews-Chubb was born in Northampton, England in 1984 and now lives and works in London.

He studied at the Turps Art School in London and Chelsea College of Arts in London.

Crews-Chubb is rapidly gaining international recognition for his innovative and experimental collage paintings, which draw on the legacies of Art Brut, Arte Povera and Abstract Expressionism and interrogate symbols and archetypes from art history. As David Pagel of the Los Angeles Times writes: “If Crews-Chubb’s paintings were billboards, they would stop traffic. But there is more going on than immediately meets the eye.To look closely is to see how deliberately, even carefully, each is made … You don’t have to know what stands out to come face to face with their beauty, which is dirty and grimy and so far from pretty that you might start to think that beauty without a touch of grunge or even ugliness isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Crews-Chubb’s first institutional installation opened in June 2021 at Wellington Arch in collaboration with English Heritage, and his first major institutional exhibition will open in autumn 2022 at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. The artist has had solo exhibitions at Roberts Project, Los Angeles (2018); Vigo Gallery, London (2016); and Galerist, Istanbul (2014). Recent group exhibitions include Telescope, curated by Nigel Cooke, Hastings Contemporary, Hastings (2019); Tree, Vigo Gallery, London (2018); and ICONOCLASTS: Art out of the Mainstream, Saatchi Gallery, London (2017). His work is represented in international public and private collections including the Denver Art Museum, Colorado;The Long Museum, Shanghai; Saatchi Gallery, London; The Bunker Artspace and Beth Rudin de Woody Collections, Palm Beach and New York;