Biography:
Tristan Gittens is a painter and materials artist working between California and London. He has over twenty years of experience working in the fields of data analysis and bio-science and comes from a familial lineage of artists. His practice is the intersection between these disciplines. He recently graduated from Royal College of Art in London with an MA degree in painting.
Statement:
My work examines human experience on an emotional and philosophical level. The work transpose concepts of space and time in relationship to individual and group perceptions of reality into material representations through painting and mixed media. The work is an emotionally expressive landscape of the concept of existence.
Tristan Gittens b. 1970
tristan@tristangittens.com
www.tristangittens.com
www.instagram.com/tristanstarstreakfrancogittens
Education:
2023 – Royal College of Art – MA Painting
1998 – Stanford University – MS Epidemiology
Works in Collections:
Karen Fox Collection
Deborah Page Collection
Andrea and Fred Fenster Collection
Residencies and Publications:
2022 – PADA / Turps Banana (Portugal)
2022 – Artist Talk Magazine – Issue 19 April
Awards:
2023 – Bloomberg New Contemporaries (Shortlisted)
2022 – Brixton Art Prize (Shortlisted)
2022 – Waverton Prize – (Longlisted)
Selected Exhibitions:
2024 – Desert Modernism (McNaughton Estate USA)
2024 – Surreal Salon 16 (Baton Rouge Gallery & Juxtapoz Magazine USA)
2023 – Surreal Salon 15 (Baton Rouge Gallery & Juxtapoz Magazine USA)
2022 – SOHO Revue – (SOHO Revue Gallery London)
2022 – Art on a Postcard – Winter 2022 Auction (notable: Gavin Turk, Grayson Perry, Clayton Schiff)
2022 – British Painting 3 – (Bermondsey Project Space London UK)
2022 – Home – (The Regency Town House Brighton UK)
2022 – Masculinity – (Gallery 46 Whitechapel London UK)
2022 – Diaspora – (Bermondsey Project Space London UK)
2022 – Progression – (D-Contemporary Gallery Mayfair London UK)
2022 – Tiger Tiger Burning Bright – (Barreiro Portugal)