Julian Lombardi (b. 1996 Philadelphia, USA) received his Painting MA from the Royal College of Art in London 2024. Lombardi creates both physical and digital works that explore the depths of the subconscious mind and its relationship with the complicated present. Recent exhibitions include Nowhere to Be, L.U.P.O Lorenzelli Projects, Milan, Italy, Through closed eyes, darkly, Belenius, Stockholm, Sweden, MA Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom, Summer Fling III, L.U.P.O Lorenzelli Projects, Milan, Italy, Julian Lombardi: Beautiful Little Rapture, The Something Machine, Bellport, New York, Palimpsestic Impressions, Arusha Gallery, London, United Kingdom. In 2025 - Lombardi will return to The Something Machine for his second solo esxhbition with the gallery. Lombardi will have his inaugural solo exhibition with Carl Kostyál at the gallery’s Savile Row location in London in 2026.
Julian Lombardi lives and works in London.
Julian Lombardi is an American artist living and working in
London. Lombardi’s position on biomorphic abstraction points to the genre’s capacity for
redemption, agency and psychosocial awareness. Lombardi leans into his sub- and
unconscious to create distinct protean forms that commingle with the uncanny land- and
dreamscapes. Lombard’s inquest into surrealism allows for sensuous color and rapturous
painterliness to reveal our nuanced relationships to the complicated present.
While Lombardi’s practice draws from his deep understanding to painting’s histories, his
signature vocabulary offers abstraction in the present tense where beholders are offered
an opportunity to think through the complexities of contemporary life.
- Jeffrey Uslip
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