Irvin Pascal is from London and lives and works in Sussex. His paintings, made from a combination of different materials, exhibit great texture and mostly dark colors. His sculptures have a specific monumentality and explore a field between the human body and abstraction. In some of his works Pascal uses a unique sculptural material (Pascollar), developed by the artist using, among other matters, his own hair. Pascal’s investigation of masculinity encompasses a lot of his own story: his past as a boxer, his African and Caribbean roots and even his own physical presence in the works of art he produces. The artist was one of the Bloomberg New Contemporaries for 2017.
b.1987 London
Lives and works in Sussex, England
EDUCATION
2015-2017 MA Fine Art University of Brighton
2005-2008 BA(hons) Architecture University of Brighton
SOLO SHOWS
2020 No End to New Beginnings, County Gallery, Palm Beach, USA
2019 ‘The Nenaissance’, Niki Cryan, Lagos (Eko Atlantic), Nigeria
2018 The Sweetest Taboo, GNYP Gallery, Berlin
GROUP SHOWS
2019 Crossroads, hosted by Black Shade Projects, Ozwald Boateng, Saville Row, Mayfair, London
Young Monsters, curated by Marcelle Joseph, Lychee One, London
Full English, Performance Marathon, Curated by Dateagle, Platform Southwark, London
NAE Open, New Art Exchange, Nottingham
The Flat Files, The Pit, Los Angeles
33 Bridges, curated by Charlotte Call, Cork Street, Mayfair, London
Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2019, Ever Gold [Projects], Los Angeles
BFAMI gala 2019, Sotheby’s, London
2018 Defying the Narrative: Contemporary Art from West and Southern Africa, Ever Gold [Projects], San
Francisco
Material, The Cob Gallery, London
Talisman in the age of difference, curated by Yinka Shonibare MBE,
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
After Cesaire/ Modern Tropiques, Platform Southwark, London
Marks Make Meaning: drawing across disciplines, Grand Parade gallery, Brighton
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Block 336, London
BFAMI gala 2018, The Dorchester, London
BFAMI gala 2018, Phillips, Berkley Square, London
2017 ‘The Long Count’, Von Goetz, London
BHM, Latham & Watkins, London
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2017, BALTIC 39, Newcastle
PIAF, Copeland Gallery, London
Before Words, MAFA show, University of Brighton,
MA and other Postgraduates Exhibition, Atkinson Gallery, Somerset
2016 Untitled, Latham Watkins, London
Hot Black males, Buster Mantis, London
The cross wiring of sex and violence, in the mind of a pygophilist, UoB, Brighton
BAOH, Brighton, England
New work, Made, Brighton
2015 An Ode to Black British Artistry, Hoxton Basement gallery, London
2014 Stars on canvas, Maddox Arts, London