Lombardi’s work moves between painting, sculpture and installation, developing biomorphic forms, symbolic architectures and psychologically charged spaces. His paintings explore the subconscious, the instability of contemporary experience and the emergence of forms that seem to hover between organism, relic, signal and machine.
Recent exhibitions include The Global Carnival, curated by Jeffrey Uslip at Carl Kostyál, London; Orders of Emergence with Gus Monday at Make Room, Los Angeles; Beautiful Little Rapture at The Something Machine, Bellport; Unstable Grounds at Kearsey & Gold, London; Through closed eyes, darkly at Belenius, Stockholm; Nowhere To Be at L.U.P.O. Lorenzelli Projects, Milan; and Palimpsestic Impressions at Arusha Gallery, London.
Julian Lombardi lives and works in London.
In early 2026 Lombardi presented a solo exhibition with Carl Kostyál at the gallery’s Savile Row space in Mayfair, London, before undertaking a research-based project at the Vannucci Artist Residency in Città della Pieve, Umbria, supported by the Deighton Family Foundation.
“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
Curator, United States Pavilion, 2026 La Biennale di Venezia
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