Dexter Dalwood

Dexter Dalwood was born in Bristol, England, in 1960. He studied St. Martins School of Art, London from 1981 - 85 and then at the Royal College of Art, London, from 1988 - 89.  Dalwood’s paintings and prints are collages of visual imagery from art history, personal memory and political and cultural events from the past. His work reinterprets the genre of History Painting for a contemporary audience.

In 2017 Dalwood undertook a residency in Oaxaca, Mexico, making a body of work that featured in a solo exhibition that travelled to Centro de las Artes San Agustín, Oaxaca (2022) and Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Mexico City (2021). Other solo exhibitions include Lisson Gallery, London (2024); Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong (2021, 2016); Simon Lee Gallery, London (2019, 2014); Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna (2017); Centre Pasqu’Art, Biel, Switzerland (2013); David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen (2012); Nolan Judin Gallery, Berlin (2011); and a major retrospective at FRAC Champagne-Ardennes, CAC Malaga and Tate St Ives, for which Dalwood was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2010.

Recent group exhibitions include Galerie Nordenhake, Mexico City (2024); Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico (2023); A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town (2023); Centro de las Artes de San Agustín, Oaxaca (2022); Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Mexico City  (2022); Tate Modern, London (2020); National Portrait Gallery, London, travelled to Grand Palais, Paris, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, and Espoo, Finland; National Museum Cardiff, Wales; Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2018).

In 2025 Dalwood co-curated the first monographic exhibition in the UK devoted to nineteenth-century Mexican artist José María Velasco, with Daniel Sobrino Ralston at The National Gallery, London.

His work is held in various public collections including the British Council, London; Tate, London; Saatchi Gallery, London; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; Pallant House Gallery, Chichester; Hamburger Bahnhof-Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin; Trevi Flash Museum of Contemporary Art, Trevi; Champagne-Ardennes, Reims; and Centre Pasqu Art, Biel, Switzerland.

Dexter Dalwood lives and works in Mexico City.