B. 1997 London, UK
Email: lily@lilyfine.com
Instagram: @lilyfine
Lily Rose Fine is a British/Canadian painter. Interested in our human need for meaning, she examines what devotion looks like in a modern context, through potent symbolism, memorabilia, and art making as an attempt at an afterlife. Within a collected language of iconography inspired by relics, antique objects, cinema, theatre, and art history, she casts herself and those close to her as recurring actors that embody narratives of intimacy, obsession, preservation, and privacy. Fine often uses antiques and found objects as extensions of her paintings. Thinking about everyday personal belongings as relics and devotional objects, she grasps at an elusive feeling within everything she makes; one that captures the eery mystery of encountering the public future of private, personal, anonymous ephemera. Depicting her own ineffable personal experiences veiled with ambiguity, she invites a collaboration with viewers’ inquiries, projections and instinctive storytelling, often becoming a mirror for self-reflection.
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Photo by Ananna Rafa
CV
Education
2022-23
The Drawing Year postgraduate program, The Royal Drawing School, London, UK
2015-19
OCAD University, Bachelor of Design, Toronto, ON
Teaching Experience
2023-24
Young Artists Tutor, Royal Drawing School, London, UK
Select Exhibitions
2026
Circle of Stones, Field Projects Gallery, New York, NY
2026
Curation by Alex Delany, Platform, New York, NY
2026
WE ARE PARTS, group exhibition, TURN Gallery, New York, NY
2025
Emerging & Midcareer International Art Awards Exhibition, Center of International Contemporary Art, Vancouver, BC
2024
The Spirit of Charleston, group exhibition, Watts Contemporary Gallery, Guildford, UK
2024
Art on a Postcard Summer Auction, group exhibition, Bomb Factory, London, UK
2023
Best of the Drawing Year 2023, group exhibition, Christie’s, London, UK
2022
Art on a Postcard Winter Auction, group exhibition, Dreweatts, London, UK
Residencies
2025
PADA International Residency, Barreiro, Portugal
2024
Dumfries House Residency, Scotland
2023
Borgo Pignano Residency, Tuscany, Italy
Awards & Grants
2025
Canada Council for the Arts International Residencies Grant
2024
ACS Studio Prize, Shortlist
2019
401 Richmond Career Launcher Prize, OCAD University
2019
Project 31 Award, OCAD University
Collections
2023
Royal Collection
2023
Sir Mike Moritz Collection
Email: lily@lilyfine.com
Instagram: @lilyfine
Lily Rose Fine is a British/Canadian painter. Interested in our human need for meaning, she examines what devotion looks like in a modern context, through potent symbolism, memorabilia, and art making as an attempt at an afterlife. Within a collected language of iconography inspired by relics, antique objects, cinema, theatre, and art history, she casts herself and those close to her as recurring actors that embody narratives of intimacy, obsession, preservation, and privacy. Fine often uses antiques and found objects as extensions of her paintings. Thinking about everyday personal belongings as relics and devotional objects, she grasps at an elusive feeling within everything she makes; one that captures the eery mystery of encountering the public future of private, personal, anonymous ephemera. Depicting her own ineffable personal experiences veiled with ambiguity, she invites a collaboration with viewers’ inquiries, projections and instinctive storytelling, often becoming a mirror for self-reflection.
Photo by Ananna Rafa
CV
Education
2022-23
The Drawing Year postgraduate program, The Royal Drawing School, London, UK
2015-19
OCAD University, Bachelor of Design, Toronto, ON
Teaching Experience
2023-24
Young Artists Tutor, Royal Drawing School, London, UK
Select Exhibitions
2026
Circle of Stones, Field Projects Gallery, New York, NY
2026
Curation by Alex Delany, Platform, New York, NY
2026
WE ARE PARTS, group exhibition, TURN Gallery, New York, NY
2025
Emerging & Midcareer International Art Awards Exhibition, Center of International Contemporary Art, Vancouver, BC
2024
The Spirit of Charleston, group exhibition, Watts Contemporary Gallery, Guildford, UK
2024
Art on a Postcard Summer Auction, group exhibition, Bomb Factory, London, UK
2023
Best of the Drawing Year 2023, group exhibition, Christie’s, London, UK
2022
Art on a Postcard Winter Auction, group exhibition, Dreweatts, London, UK
Residencies
2025
PADA International Residency, Barreiro, Portugal
2024
Dumfries House Residency, Scotland
2023
Borgo Pignano Residency, Tuscany, Italy
Awards & Grants
2025
Canada Council for the Arts International Residencies Grant
2024
ACS Studio Prize, Shortlist
2019
401 Richmond Career Launcher Prize, OCAD University
2019
Project 31 Award, OCAD University
Collections
2023
Royal Collection
2023
Sir Mike Moritz Collection