Kingsley Ifill
Kingsley Ifill’s work is an investigation of the intersection between painting, photography and film, a subtle search for tranquillity in an indefinable infinite moment. Staged within the current Western world, where truth and reality has no fixed position, and freedom is continuously redefined by the powers that govern, we wonder whether they, as objects, become physical proof of the continuously evolving human perception, reminding us of times in a not so distant past, where our ideas towards things such as science, politics, religion, gender, sexuality, and race, were surely different - thus providing optimism of what could lay ahead. As the artist says: “Even now we find ourselves in a world with smartphones and billions of photos being taken every second, somehow the act of stopping time and recording a fragment into a small rectangle still seems like magic to me.” - Kingsley Ifill, 2021
Born 1988
Lives and works in London, United Kingdom
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
A Dance Along the Artery, Eighteen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019
Soul Swallower, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018
Bouquet, LNCC, London, United Kingdom
Last Sip First, Gallery pleasewait, Paris, France
2017
Mute, Golborne Gallery, London, United Kingdom
like a rat up a drain pipe, Soho Revue, London, United Kingdom
2016
Stutter, Cob Gallery, London, United Kingdom
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
V1 XX - Twenty years of V1 Gallery, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021
Eye For a Sty – Tooth For The Roof, Danny Fox & Kingsley Ifill, Eighteen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2020
Crowd, Hannah Barry Gallery, London, UK
2019
MINE III, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018
MINE II, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017
Turbulence, Golborne Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Muscle, Paul Loya Gallery, Los Angeles, United States
2016
Oceans Without Surfers, Cowboys Without Marlboros, PM/AM, London, United Kingdom
Winter Show, M. Goldstein, London, United Kingdom
Heat, Paul Loya Gallery, Los Angeles, United States
Hamburger Eyes, Slow Culture, Los Angeles, United States
2015
Royal Rumble, The Cremlin, London, United Kingdom
2014
You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory, Faux Pas Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2012
Young British Alcoholics, Eternal Youth, London, United Kingdom
2010
Film Por Vida, Fuse Gallery, New York, United States
The Technology Show, NYU Gallatin Galleries, New York, United States
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2020
Danny Fox & Kingsley Ifill, Eye for A Sty – Tooth for The Roof, published by Tarmac Press
Danny Fox & Kinsley Ifill, Haze, published by Tarmac Press
2019
Kingsley Ifill, Soul Swallower, published by Tarmac Press
