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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.
She was the Guest Editor of the Interjection Calendar for Montez Press, 2024, which is to be launched in May 2025 in New York.
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.
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.
Currently, she is an Elaine G. Weitzen Studio Program Fellow at the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program 2024–2025 in New York.
Current Exhibitions
Prototype Westbeth Gallery, New York 9 May – 25 May 2025
2025 ISP Studio Exhibition
The Whitney Museum ISP’s Studio exhibition, Prototype, presents new work by the 2024–25 Elaine G. Weitzen Studio Program Fellows Nooshin Askari, Paige K. Bradley, Dahlia Bloomstone, Cheeny Celebrado-Royer, Rhea Dillon, Niloufar Emamifar, Valentina Jager, Ash Moniz, Daniel Melo Morales, Iulia Nistor, Pegah Pasalar, Chantal Peñalosa Fong, Alex Schmidt, Julia Taszycka, and misra walker. The exhibition will be on view at Westbeth Gallery, a nonprofit fine arts gallery in Manhattan’s West Village.
Gallery hours: Wednesday–Sunday: 1–6 pm; closed Mondays and Tuesdays.
Curated by Juana Berrío and the 2024–2025 Studio Program Elaine G. Weitzen Fellows.
Contact
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