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Biography
Rhea Dillon is an artist, writer and poet based in London. Dillon works across sculpture, painting, olfaction and wide-ranging materials to articulate an aesthetic of diasporic Blackness grounded in a postcolonial nonbeing. Her charged exhibitions and writing use poet(h)ics, abstraction, and everyday objects to produce distinctive arrangements of sense and affect. Dillon’s work is a long intergenerational study that connects to her ancestors through her eclectic armoury and experimentation with different forms.
The artist’s first institutional solo exhibition, An Alterable Terrain, opened at Tate Britain, Art Now in 2023. Accompanying this major exhibition, a new book showcases her poetically insightful work. Edited by Dillon, An Alterable Terrain features her poethic writing, alongside newly commissioned texts, posthumously published poems from the poetry archives in Jamaica and installation views of the exhibition alongside individual works.
Solo and group exhibitions from 2024 include Fractal Being at Cordova, Barcelona; Gestural Poetics at Soft Opening at Paul Soto, Los Angeles; Air de Repos (Breathwork) at Capc Bordeaux; Tituba, qui pour nous protéger? at Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Conversations at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Burning Down the House: Rethinking Family at Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland; Each now, is the time, the space at Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore; and Janus at Berggruen Arts & Culture in partnership with The Kitchen, Palazzo Diedo, Venice.
She was the Guest Editor of the Interjection Calendar for Montez Press, 2024, which was launched in May 2025 in New York at Wendy’s Subway.
The artist presented Catgut – The Opera as part of Park Nights 2021 at the Serpentine Pavilion, a publication of the same title was released in 2023 by Worms Publishing and launched at the ICA London.
She was an Elaine G. Weitzen Studio Program Fellow at the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program 2024–2025 in New York.
Current Exhibitions
Traces Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto 21 May – 27 June 2026
What poetry allows is the removal of parts of speech so that a life may make sense to itself.
How to lift traces to lines, to tangibility full of traces that have been erased by regimes of governance or regimes of power?
So, where I find myself located as trace, trace becomes vocabulary.
An edited trace from Brand, Dionne.
“Pressure on Verbal Matter: Dionne Brand and the Making of Language”.
Interview by Robert Enright. Border Crossings Magazine, November 2020.
With special thanks to Dionne Brand.
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Soft Opening, London
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