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 in the UK include:
IMTwentyOne IMT Gallery; ArtEvol 2025: Voices from the Undefined, Saatchi Gallery; The John Ruskin Prize 2025 Trinity Buoy Wharf; Talking Things Blyth Gallery Imperial College; The London Group Open 2023 Copeland Gallery; Flat Volume APT Gallery; Darkness Visible APT Gallery; Where Silence Breaks Art Forward Gallery; 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; A Slash of Blue Gerald Moore Gallery; Annual Meeting Exhibition British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL); Curiouser and Curiouser, submit2gravity & Old Vic co-production Old Vic Tunnels.

International group shows include:
50th International Award Exhibition San Diego Art Institute; The Gloaming Plane 35blumen Krefeld; Ten Artists to Watch LACDA Los Angeles (curated by Meghan Doherty, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Leigh Gleason, California Museum of Photography), EX NIHILO Manifest Gallery Ohio; Multitude Fondazione Luciana Matalon Milan; Soliloquio Temple di Pomona Salerno; Fragility Unveiled Palazzo Pisani Revedin Venice; Leave a Trace Palazzo Cancelleria Vaticana Rome; Plenitude Museo Diocesano San Matteo Salerno; Paradoxa Museo Crocetti Rome; Windows into the Virtual Loosenart Millepiani Rome; Infinity Art Ateneo de Madrid; Genesis Museo Bellini Florence;  Human Perceptions CoGalleries Berlin; A Timeless Mood Micro Arti Visive Rome; Top 40 Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (curated by Bryan Barcena, Museum of Contemporary Art and Nicolas Barlow, Los Angeles County Museum of Art); Shadows: Darkness and Light Black Box Gallery Portland, Oregon; Offline Biblioteca Angelica Rome.

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.