C. Lucy R. Whitehead (b. 1991) makes figures that blur the line between body, object, and role, placing them in landscapes and interiors where they try on identities that never fully fit. The canvas holds these figures in suspension, like specimens preserved in a jar: contained, displayed, and turned into spectacle. Within each frame, they echo the boxes and stereotypes that organize daily experience, straining against boundaries that both define and restrict them. Through this push and pull, Whitehead is interested in how the body is encountered not as a fixed symbol or possession, but as something inhabited, exhibited, and continuously renegotiated.
Whitehead holds a BA in Drawing from Camberwell College of Art and an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, where she was awarded the Basil H. Alkazzi Scholarship. She has had solo exhibitions at Megan Mulrooney Gallery in Los Angeles, Soho Revue in London and Incubator in London. She has also exhibited at NADA art fair in New York and Miami, Untitled Art Fair Miami and Expo Chicago, among others.
Written June 2026