Gabriella Boyd

GRIMM is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new paintings by Scotland-born artist Gabriella Boyd, on view at the Amsterdam gallery from December 12, 2025 to February 7, 2026. This will be the artist's first solo exhibition in Amsterdam (NL).

The act of painting for Gabriella Boyd is an act of translation, from the interior or verbal, into the exterior and visual. Her paintings give visual form to internal sensations, memories, narratives and spaces held in the mind. Boyd explores and collapses the distinction between interior and exterior states by bringing together representational motifs with purely symbolic structures or diagrammatic forms. In an attempt to depict embodied experience and memory, painting enables the approximation of sentiment or language, allowing invisible sources of power and energy to flourish in indefinite but sincere, candid vocabularies.

Utilising a distinct, almost uneasy palette, her paintings, some imposing in scale, others quietly intimate, explore power relations between people and their environments; the charging or depletion of resources experienced within daily life.

In 2024, the artist held her first institutional solo exhibition, Presser, at Cample Line in Dumfriesshire, Scotland (UK). During the same year, she completed a residency with The Roberts Institute of Art in Scotland, where she began developing the body of work that would form her solo exhibition in Amsterdam.

In 2026, Boyd will have a solo exhibition at the Yuz Museum, Shanghai (CN).

About the artist

Gabriella Boyd (b. 1988, Glasgow, UK) lives and works in London (UK). She studied at Glasgow School of Art (2007-2011) and Royal Academy Schools, London (2014-2017). She was shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize in 2016, and was commissioned by the Folio Society to illustrate a new edition of Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams in 2015.

Selected solo exhibitions: Beloved Axis, Espace Niemeyer, Paris (FR), 2024; Presser, Cample Line, Dumfriesshire (UK), 2024; Landing, GRIMM, London (UK), 2023; Mile, GRIMM, New York, NY (US), 2022; Signal, Micki Meng, San Francisco, CA (US), 2020; For Days, Seventeen Gallery, London (UK), 2020; and Help Yourself, Blain Southern, London (UK), 2018.

Selected collections: AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL); Arts Council Collection, London (UK); Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (US); de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA (US); He Art Museum, Guangdong (CN); Long Museum, Shanghai (CN); The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, TX (US); The David and Indre Roberts Collection, London (UK); Royal Academy of Arts, London (UK); and Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (UK), among others.