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GRACE TOBIN

Grace Tobin (b. 1993) is a British artist who grew up in New York City. She is currently living and working in London. She attained her BA in Visual Arts from Oberlin College (2016) and MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2022). Grace has exhibited both in London and internationally, including shows in New York, Belgium, Milan, and Shanghai.


Tobin’s practice explores our relationships to the environments we inhabit, considering how these connections impact our sense of self. Her practice stems from ideas of space holding personal narrative, documenting the physical and psychological impact such environments have in informing our identity. Tobin challenges our sense of space through subtracting material and softening edges, presenting a segmented reality, a blurred memory.


Her work reflects on how physical objects can build and hold emotional value, over time embodying histories and identity. By reconstructing intimate domestic environments from her own history and memory, she considers this human instinct of creating semiotic value, or creating meaning, from our surroundings.


The hazy dreamlike colour palette of Tobin’s paintings, paired with the use of pattern, mirrors the themes of imperfection and repetition in our lives and routines. The saturated tinted hues of her works resemble the distorted lenses through which we recall. Grace Tobin’s work exhibits the speculative, contemplative moments in which we are formed, informed, and reminded by our surroundings over time.

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EXHIBITIONS

BY THE LIGHT OF THE CANDLE: GROUP EXHIBITION

24 January - 21 March 2026

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Education:
2022
MA Painting, Royal College of Art
2016
BA Visual Arts with Honors, Oberlin College
2014
Studio Arts Center International

Solo Exhibitions:
2024
Contemporary by U Gallery, 'Echoes', Taipei, TWAN
Rhodes Contemporary Art, 'Soft Voices', London, UK

Group Exhibitions:
2024
Soho Revue, 'Inside, Outside', London, UK
EDJI Gallery, 'Sanctuaries', Brussels, BELG

2023
Court Tree Collective, 'British Invasion', Brooklyn, NY
Rhodes Contemporary Art, ‘ORIGINS’, London UK
Canopy Collections, 'Full House', London UK
Studio West, 'The Angel in the House', London, UK
LEEZ+SMITH, Unit 1 Gallery, 'Take My Hand', London, UK
Hashimoto Gallery, 'Lush', New York, USA
Cub_ism Artspace, ‘Multiple Refraction — The Ghost of Modernism', Shanghai, CHIN

2022
Cub_ism Artspace, West Bund Art Fair, Shanghai, CHIN
Canopy Collections, 'All the Lives We Ever Lived', London, UK
Rhodes Contemporary Art, select works, London UK
Blink, 'Room Share 3', London, UK
Court Tree Collective, 'Summer Lounge', Brooklyn, NY
Plain Gallery, 'As It Turns Out', Milan, IT
Royal College of Art, Degree Show, London, UK
Royal Society of British Artists, 'RBA Rising Stars', London, UK
Zberro Gallery, 'What’s Your Dream', Paris, FR

2021
The Holy Art Gallery, 'Transitions', London, UK
RCA collective, 'Naturisms', London, UK
All Mouth Gallery, 'Small Pleasures', London, UK
London Paint Club, 'Contemporary Narrative', London, UK
Royal College of Art, 'Work in Progress Show', London, UK

2018
Bushwick Open Studios, 'Eye of the Beholder', New York, USA

2016
Fisher Gallery, 'The Nature of Chaos', Ohio, USA
Baron Gallery, 'Going Places', Ohio, USA
Space Gallery, 'Community Space', Ohio, USA

Awards:
2023
Soho Revue Artist Residency

2022
RBA Rome Scholarship Semi-Finalist, Royal Society of British Artists

2012
John Fredrick Oberlin Merit Scholarship, Oberlin College

Selected Press
2023
Friend of the Artist, Vol. 17, contemporary art magazine, US
2016
plain china, online literary magazine, US
The Plum Creek Review, Oberlin College magazine, US

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