Bio
Through painting, works on paper and image-based pieces, Clara Kelvin Grey endeavors to question our trajectory within a ceaseless growth/collapse cycle. Kelvin Grey’s visual language draws on a varied range of influences, including sacred sites, altars, ruins, botany and rural landscapes. Moving between media, Kelvin Grey weaves contemporary third landscapes, visions of world endings and memories into evocative scenographies. From the monumental scale of her paintings to the intimacy of her works on paper, Kelvin Grey’s practice reflects a questioning of our place in time and space.

Dark and earthly hued, Kelvin Grey’s work is both enveloping and expansive. She often uses tones and materials for their symbolic association with the remnants, places of worship and overflowing nature that shape her immediate surroundings. Represented as a site of potentiality, architecture is central to her practice. Beginning with ruins, palazzi and churches, her paintings emerge from the addition of overgrowing plants, fog, rain, storms and abundant growth. Using heavy impasto made from pure oil paint and ochre pigments sourced from southern France, she works in layers creating a stratum of paint that builds upon each additional sheet of imagery. Loose pigments and emulsions break the layers, blurring and obscuring the underlying surface. The positioning in time and space of the works, combining relics, the contemporary climate collapse and future regeneration beckon the viewer into an afterworld.

Kelvin Grey (b. 1996; Cambridge, UK) received her MFA from the Berlin University of Arts (UdK) in 2025. She lives and works in Sicily, Italy.


Education
2019/2024  MFA Fine Arts. Universität der Künste. Berlin, Germany. Meisterschülerin, Prof Robert Lucander.

Group Exhibitions
2025: Water Me. Zirka Space. Curated by Maria Pia Napolitano De Majo. Munich, Germany. 
2025: Graduation Show. Universität der Künste. Berlin, Germany. 
2024: Encounters with Nature. Galerie Kellermann. Dusseldorf, Germany.
2024: Future Nature, curated by Gohar Dashti. Ax Gallery. Berlin, Germany.
2023: Grand Finale; Garden of Eden. Curated by Madelen Isa Lindgren. MOLT. Berlin, Germany. 
2023: Ergebnishorizont. Schaufenster. Curated by Markus Janti. Berlin, Germany. 
2023: Grun verkauft sich nicht so gut. Hilbertraum. Curated by Markus Janti. Berlin, Germany.
2023: 4th Metaverse International Art&Design Invitation Exhibition. Curated by Guo Chen. Online. Gwangju, South Korea.
2023: Rundgang. Universität der Künste. Berlin, Germany. 
2022: Berlino, Napoli, Lipsia. Kombinat Rundgang. Halle 14. Leipzig, Germany.

Residencies/Awards
2024 - Civitella Ranieri Residency. Umbertide, Italy.
2020 - IF Research Award. Institut für gestalterisches Forschen. Berlin, Germany. 

Publications
Text and artwork. PANOPTICON Zine.  Munnezzocene, in conversation with Marco Armiero.  Milan, Italy. May 2025. 
Paintings featured in Architect Antonio Martinello’s home studio. VOGUE Living. The Italian Issue.  June 2024. 
Interview. MOLT online publication. Berlin, Germany. June 2024. 
Text and film screening. The Cult Collective. Issue X: Cycles. Print and Online. Screening at Humboldthain. Berlin, Germany. March 2024.

©2025 Clara Kelvin Grey