B.1966
Lewis Chamberlain is celebrated for his hyper-realistic pencil drawings which can take as much as four years to complete, and for his incredibly detailed paintings often of childrens toys in domestic interiors.
Lewis Chamberlain
1966
Born North Humberside
1984 - 1988
Studied Slade School of Fine Art
1994
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York
1999 - 1998
B.P. Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery - Commended
2001
Discerning Eye - First Prize (ING Barings)
Selected solo exhibitions
2010
The Winter Visitor and Other Drawings, The Drawing Gallery, Shropshire
2009
Lewis Chamberlain, The Hiding Place, James Hyman Gallery, London
2007
Lewis Chamberlain. Things that Go, James Hyman Gallery, London
2004
Lewis Chamberlain, Recent Paintings and Drawings, James Hyman Fine Art, London
2002
Barings Bank, London
2001
Merchant Ivory Commission, New York
1996
Fine Art Society, London
1993
Guillaume Gallozzi Gallery, New York
1991
Guillaume Gallozzi Gallery, New York
Selected group exhibitions
2008
Childish Things. Andrews, Baselitz, Brassai. Chamberlain, Kertez, Moore, Rego, Weston, James Hyman Gallery, London
2006
Paintings by Frank Auerbach, Tony Bevan, Lewis Chamberlain and Glenys Johnson, James Hyman Gallery, London
2001
B.P. Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
Eye, The Mall Galleries, London
2000
B.P. Portrait Award - National Portrait Gallery, London 1998,1997
1998
B.P. Portrait Award - National Portrait Gallery, London
, New Inn Yard, London
Art'98, Business Design Centre, London
1997
B.P. Portrait Award - National Portrait Gallery, London
1996-7
Remaking Reality, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
1996
Fine Art Society, London
1993
Piccadilly Gallery, London
Collections
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, East Yorkshire
Selected Publications