Born 1994
Lives and works in London
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Under The Same Sky, Studio Voltaire, London
2023
Some days I feel more alive, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, England
2022
Now I Know You I Am Older, Thomas Dane Gallery, London
Group Exhibitions
2026
The Vandals, Gladstone Gallery, New York NY
The Weight of Being: Vulnerability, Resilience and Mental Health in Art, Two Temple Place, London, England
2025
Toward the Light: Artists for the Ali Forney Center, David Zwirner, New York NY
land marks, Pace Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Swimming, curated by Russell Tovey, GRIMM, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Chiaroscuro, Victoria Miro Gallery, Venice, Italy
A Room Hung With Thoughts: British Painting Now, curated by Tom Morton, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas TX
Barbana Bojadzi, Jake Grewal, Cole Lu, Bortolami Gallery, New York NY
2024
Voyage, Maureen Paley, Hove, England
Drawing Biennial 2024, Drawing Room/Tannery Arts, London
2023
BOFFO Fall Benefit Exhibition 2023, Kurimanzutto, New York
Drawing attention: emerging artists in dialogue, British Museum Touring Exhibition, York Art Gallery, York, England [travelling to: Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, England; Hartlepool Art Gallery, Hartlepool, England]
Royal Drawing School: Celebrating the Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III & Queen Camilla, London, England
2022
Interior, Michael Werner Gallery, London
Shifting Waters, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai, India
Drawing Attention: Emerging British Artists, The British Museum, Great Russell St, London
Dissolving Dreams, Kasmin Gallery, New York, United States
2021
Drawing Biennial 2021, Drawing Room, London
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai, India
2020
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2020, South London Gallery, London
Deity, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh
Everyday is Sunday, UTA Artists Space - Viewing Room, Beverly Hills, United States
No Time Like The Present, Public Gallery - Viewing Room, London
2019
The Drawing Year, Open Studios 2019, London
The Drawing Year End of Year Exhibition 2019, Hackney, London
Best of The Drawing Year 18-19, Christie’s, London
Full English, Platform Southwark, London
Looking for Validation, The Nayland Rock Hotel, Margate
2018
The Earth Issue X The House of St Barnabas, The House of St Barnabas, London
2017
The Space Within, Neo:Gallery 22, The Market Place, Town Centre, Bolton
Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II’s 91st Birthday, Indera Kayangan Ballroom, The Empire Hotel and Country Club, Kg Jerudong, Muara - Tutong Hwy, Brunei
2016
20th National Open Art Winners' Exhibition, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
20th National Open Art Winter Exhibition, Mercer's Hall, Mercers' Company, Ironmonger Lane, London
Recent Graduates' Exhibition, The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Evolution, Battersea Park, London
2016 Woon Foundation Prize, Baltic 39, Newcastle upon Tyne
Into the Woods: Picturing Trees, St Annes Galleries, Lewes
University of Brighton: Graduate Show, Brighton
Press
Hannah Silver 'Who are the emerging artists to know in the UK now?' Wallpaper, 2026
Mark Westall 'Jake Grewal’s first institutional exhibition in London to open at Studio Voltaire' FAD Magazine, 2025
Alex Needham 'Jake Grewal Explores Landscape Painting While Capturing the Angst—and Joy—of Queer Life' W Magazine, 2025
'Jake Grewal: Under the Same Sky' Apollo Magazine, 2025
Harald Smart 'Jake Grewal - Fresh New Painter' Fantastic Man, 2024
'Jake Grewal – interview: ‘I don’t know where I make work from other than my experience and emotional response’' Studio International, 2023
Romina Provenzi 'Jake Grewal Paints a Picture of What it Means To Be Alive' Elephant, 2023
Isabel Seligman 'Emerging artist Jake Grewal on the importance of drawing' The British Museum, 2022
Skye Arundhati Thomas 'Jake Grewal and Lionel Wendt Share a Fleeting Feeling' Frieze, 2022
Public Collections
The Fitzwilliam Museum
The Hepworth Wakefield
The Government Art Collection
The British Museum
The Royal Collection
Awards
2021 Nominated - Kleinwort Hambros Emerging Artist Award
2016 NOA Prize Winner: Cass Art Award
2016 Woon Foundation Prize Judge's Discretionary Award
Education
2018 - 2019 The Drawing Year, The Royal Drawing School, London
2013 - 2016 First Class BA Hons, Fine Art: Painting, The University of Brighton, Brighton
2012 - 2013 Art and Design Foundation Diploma, Kingston University, London
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