About
Lesley Bunch was awarded the Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2022 and The London Group Cornelissen Prize in 2023. She has exhibited in the UK, Europe, Asia, and the US, with solo shows ‘Absence : Presence’ in Rome, ‘Shadow Language’ in Seoul, and ‘Cut Two Pieces in Three’ in London.
Group shows include: ‘50th International Award Exhibition’ San Diego Art Institute; ‘Ten Artists to Watch’ LACDA Los Angeles, ‘Talking Things’ Blyth Gallery Imperial College; ‘Stillness in Movement’ Bermondsey Project Space; ‘Slow Painting’ Studio KIND; ‘Adrift’ Originalprojects; ‘X’ Contemporary British Painting, NCA Newcastle; ‘Silent Disco 23’ Greystone Industries curated by Graham Crowley; ‘Stand and See’ Wimbledon Space; ‘Prized’ OPO Artspace; ‘ArtWorks Open 22’ Barbican Arts Group Trust; ‘Multitude’ Fondazione Luciana Matalon Milan.
Bunch studied at Goldsmiths’ College and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She has a BA in Fine Art & Art History and an MA in Archaeology (Japanese art of the Edo Period).
Her work is held in private collections throughout the UK, US, Italy, Germany and South Korea, and in the Priseman Seabrook Collection of 21st Century British Painting.
She is Joint Secretary of Contemporary British Painting and a member of The London Group.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 – Cut Two Pieces in Three, One Paved Court Gallery, London
2020 – Shadow Language, CICA Museum, Seoul
2019 – Absence : Presence, Arte Borgo Gallery, Rome
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
2025
Darkness Visible, A.P.T. Gallery, London
The John Ruskin Prize: Shortlisted Artists, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London
The London Group Annual 2025, Royal Watercolour Society Gallery, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Small Wonders, Croydon Art Space, London
Talking Things, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London
Stillness in Movement, Bermondsey Project Space, London
Slow Painting: Cultural Landscapes, Studio KIND, Barnstaple
Around Rome, Biblioteca Angelica, Rome
Assembly, Contemporary British Painting, Rye Creative Centre
Transparent as a Dragonfly, Bermondsey Project Space, London
…Adrift… Originalprojects, PrimeYarc, Great Yarmouth
2023
Regeneration, Hansard Studio, London
The London Group Open 2023, Copeland Gallery, London
Prized, Old Parcels Office Artspace, Scarborough
Transparent as a Dragonfly, Arte Borgo Gallery Rome
Silent Disco ’23, Greystone Industries curated by Graham Crowley
Leeds Summer Group Show, Leeds Playhouse
X – Contemporary British Painting, Newcastle Contemporary Art
Soliloquio, Tempio di Pomona, Salerno, Italy
Fragility Unveiled, Palazzo Pisani Revedin, Venice, Italy
A Slash of Blue, Gerald Moore Gallery, London
Open Artspace 2023, Old Parcels Office, Scarborough
2022
Contemporary British Painting Prize 2022
Artworks Open 2022, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London
Tapped 13, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Leave a Trace, Palazzo Cancelleria Vaticana, Rome
Multitude, Fondazione Luciana Matalon, Milan
Elevate 04, Kroll, the Shard, London
Circle 2022, CICA Museum, Seoul
Plenitude, Museo Diocesano San Matteo, Salerno
Paradoxa, Museo Crocetti, Rome
2021
Windows into the Virtual Exhibition, Loosenart, Millepiani Rome
Trame, Palace of Vatican Chancellery, Rome
Infinity Art, Ateneo de Madrid, Madrid
Concept 2021, CICA Museum, Seoul
Meetings, Loods 6, Amsterdam
Parallel Visions, Arte Borgo Gallery, Rome
Jackson Painting Prize longlist
2020
Sguardi Contemporanei, Spazio San Vidal, Venice
Mass, CICA Museum, Seoul
Genesis, Museo Bellini, Florence
Chromatic Harmonies, Museo Crocetti, Rome
Human Perceptions, CoGalleries, Berlin
2019
A Timeless Mood, Micro Arti Visive, Rome
Ten Artists to Watch, Los Angeles Center For Digital Art
– Curated by: Meghan Doherty, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
– Leigh Gleason, California Museum of Photography
Artist Statement 4 CICA Museum, South Korea
Top 40 Juried Competition, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art
– Curated by: Bryan Barcena, Museum of Contemporary Art
– Nicolas Barlow, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Contemporary in Dialogue, Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso
Annual Meeting Exhibition, British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL)
Offline, Biblioteca Angelica, Rome
Connect With Us, NewFormatArt, Palazzo Velli, Rome
2018
Midwest Center for Photography Juried Exhibition, Kansas
The Soul, the Color, The Matter, Museo Crocetti, Rome
Art Workers, Rome Art Week, Biblioteca Angelica, Rome
2017
Shadows: Darkness and Light, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Hot New Pics Show, Midwest Center for Photography, Kansas
2016
CICA Contemporary Photography Exhibition, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art
2014
Stand and See, Wimbledon College of Art Gallery, AA2A Artists in Residence University of Arts London, Wimbledon and Camberwell
Painting Now, Bryant & Keeling Prize Exhibition. One Church Street Gallery, Great Missenden
2012
Ludlow Open – Selectors: Philip Harley (Head of 20th Century British & Irish Art, Christies London), Dr. Yvonne Crossley, (Director, Drawing Gallery), David Cleaton-Roberts (Director, Alan Cristea Gallery), Anne de Charmant (Director, Meadow Arts), Lucy Jones (Artist)
2011
A Day in the Life of Ernesto Bones, Stanley Picker Gallery, exhibition by Ab Rogers Design, written contribution
A Different View Part III: Still Life, St Georges Tooting, London
2010
Ludlow Summer Exhibition
Curiouser and Curiouser, Old Vic Tunnels, submit2gravity & Old Vic co-production
2009
Transition, Bargehouse, Oxo Tower, London
50th International Award Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego CA
ArtWorks Open 2009, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London
2008
Electric Blue, Bargehouse, Oxo Tower, London
Inside Out, Winchester
AWARDS
2023 – The London Group Open, Cornelissen Prize
2022 – Awarded the Contemporary British Painting Prize
COLLECTIONS
Priseman Seabrook Collection: 21st Century British Painting
PUBLICATIONS
2022
Hettie Judah,‘Emotional Spectres: Lesley Bunch’s Abstracted Objects’,
Contemporary British Painting 2022 Catalogue Prizewinner’s Edition: 76-83
2020
CICA Art Now 2020 CICA Press
2019
Artist Statement #4 CICA Press
2011
INPA 1 Manifest’s International Painting Annual, Ohio
RESIDENCIES
2013-14
AA2A Artist in Residence, Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL London
