Celia Paul (Tiruvanantapura, 11 de novembro de 1959 - ) é uma pintora britânica nascida na Índia. Paul é conhecida principalmente por seu trabalho impressionista, que ela desenvolveu durante sua educação na Slade School of Fine Art. Paul vive e trabalha em Londres, Inglaterra.
Celia Paul nasceu em Thiruvananthapuram (anteriormente chamada de Trivandrum), sul da Índia.
De 1976 a 1981, ela estudou na Slade School of Fine Art em Londres, onde conheceu Lucian Freud, que era um tutor visitante e com quem ela teria um relacionamento.
Paul foi representada pela Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Londres, de 1984 a 1986, e depois pela Marlborough Fine Art, Londres, de 1989 a 2014. Ela foi representada pela Victoria Miro, Londres, desde maio de 2014[1][2].
Uma exposição individual de novos trabalhos da artista intitulada Celia Paul: Memory and Desire ocorreu no Victoria Miro em Londres, de 6 de abril a 14 de maio de 2022. A exposição coincidiu com a publicação de Letters to Gwen John, um novo livro da artista publicado por Jonathan Cape e New York Review Books que se concentra em uma série de cartas endereçadas à pintora Gwen John (1876–1939), que há muito tempo é um espírito tutelar de Paul[3].
Paul escreveu sua autobiografia Self-Portrait, que foi lançada em 2019 e bem recebida pela crítica em importantes jornais, incluindo The Guardian, The New York Times e The New York Review of Books[4][5].
- "Celia Paul: Memory and Desire", Victoria Miro, London, 6 April – 14 May 2022
- "Celia Paul: Self-Portrait", an extended reality (XR) exhibition on Vortic Collect, Victoria Miro, London, UK, 10 November – 12 December 2020
- "Celia Paul: My Studio", an extended reality (XR) exhibition on Vortic Collect, Victoria Miro, London, UK, 26 June – 25 July 2020
- "Celia Paul", Victoria Miro, London, 13 November – 20 December 2019
- "Celia Paul", curated by Hilton Als, Yale Center for British Art, 3 April – 12 August 2018
- "The Sea and The Mirror", Victoria Miro Venice, 23 September – 21 December 2017
- "Desdemona for Hilton by Celia", Victoria Miro, London, 16 September – 29 October 2016
- "Desdemona for Celia by Hilton", Gallery Met, New York, 2015
- "Celia Paul", Victoria Miro, 2014
- "Gwen John and Celia Paul: Painters in Parallel", Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, 2012–2013
- "Celia Paul", Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, 2005
- "Celia Paul: Stillness", Abbot Hall, Kendal, 2004
- Regular solo exhibitions at Marlborough Fine Art, 1991–2013
- "Celia Paul", Bernard Jacobson Gallery, 1986
- Celia Paul, Letters to Gwen John. Jonathan Cape, April, 2022 ISBN 9781787333376
- Celia Paul, Self-Portrait. Jonathan Cape, November 2019 ISBN 9781787331846
- Beth Williamson, Celia Paul: Memory and Desire , Studio International, 29 April 2022
- Drusilla Modjeska, Looking to the Past, an Artist Finds a Soul Mate in Gwen John , The New York Times, 26 April 2022
- Celia Paul, Against Any Intrusion: Writing to Gwen John , The Paris Review, 2 March 2022
- Zadie Smith, The Muse at her Easel, The New York Review of Books, 21 November 2019
- Tim Adams, Celia Paul on life after Lucian Freud: ‘I had to make this story my own’, The Guardian, 27 October 2019
- Financial Times Magazine: "Acclaimed artist Celia Paul on painting from life- and loss": 16 March 2018
- Farah Nayeri, New York Times: Artist’s Muse Steps out of the Shadows: 5 March 2018 and front page of New York Times International 11 March 2018
- Sophie Elmhirst, ‘Standing Tall: Celia Paul will always be her own woman’, Harper’s Bazaar Art, November 2016 [Cover artwork Anemone, Celia Paul, May 2016]
- Laura Cumming, ‘It’s always the quiet ones...’, The New Review [The Observer], 11 September 2016
- Jackie Wullschlager, ‘Artist Celia Paul explores the beauty of melancholy’, Financial Times, 2 September 2016
- Hilton Als, "Celia at Home", in Celia Paul (London: Victoria Miro, 2014)
- Rowan Williams, (introduction) Gwen John and Celia Paul: Painters in Parallel (Chichester: Pallant House Gallery, 2012)
- Catherine Lampert, "Eighty Steps", in Celia Paul (London: Marlborough Fine Art, 2011)
- Frank Paul, (introductions) Celia Paul (Sheffield: Graves Art Gallery, 2005) and Celia Paul (London: Marlborough Fine Art, 2013)
- William Feaver, (introduction) Celia Paul: Stillness (Kendal: Abbot Hall Art Gallery, 2004)
- Alistair Hicks, The School of London: Resurgence of Contemporary Painting (Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1989)
- "Can a Woman Who Is an Artist Ever Just Be an Artist", New York Times Magazine, November 2019.
Celia Paul, Victoria Miro. Consultado em 26 de agosto de 2024.
Celia Paul. Art UK. Consultado em 25 de agosto de 2024.