NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone Gallery announces the representation of renowned British artist Celia Paul, in partnership with her longstanding gallery, Victoria Miro. This new collaboration with the London-based painter will be marked by a solo exhibition at the gallery in New York in May 2026. A work by the artist will feature in the gallery’s presentation at Art Basel Paris in October and Paul will present a series of new paintings at Sant’Andrea de Scaphis in Rome in November 2025.

Celia Paul mines the complexities of interior and exterior life, looping back and forth through time to the people and places closest to her. From 1977 to 2007, she worked on a series of paintings of her mother, and since then she has concentrated on painting her four sisters, especially her sister Kate, as well as a number of portraits of other family members and close friends. She has also produced many evocative self-portraits over the course of her career.

Constancy and change, and how the past is always held in dialogue with the eternal present of the painted image, are, for Paul, inextricably linked to a consideration of self: the immediate self as well as the selves we have been in shadows, mirrors or memories, and the many selves we recognise or perhaps refute in the perception of others. Writing in her recent monograph published by MACK, the artist comments, ‘My young self and I – we are the same person. I can stretch out my old hand – with its age spots – and hold my young unblemished hand.’

Further cornerstones of Paul’s art include seascapes and depictions of her home and studio. Home as a quest and a question is an encompassing theme. Water—representing the eternal, the flow of time, or a sense of bodies becoming dissolute and consciousness shifting to a more elemental plane—is an enduring motif. Together, they lend Paul’s work its particular tempo of movement and stillness, while a newfound sense of self-acceptance, even defiance, in Paul’s recent self-portraits suggests that concepts of rootedness and belonging might reside not in a physical place so much as in a state of being. For Paul, this lies in the act of painting.

“Celia Paul is an incredible artist, and we are so excited to welcome her to Gladstone. We look forward to presenting her work and building new audiences for these visionary paintings,” said Max Falkenstein, Senior Partner at Gladstone.

“I am honored to be showing the mysterious and beautiful paintings of Celia Paul,” said Gavin Brown, Partner at Gladstone. “Celia is unflinching in her belief and commitment to art and to the painted image. Her strength of will is a lesson to us all in the vital and central place of art in all our lives. I am also thrilled to be working with Victoria Miro again, who has been a colleague and friend for over three decades.”