Chelsea Tijerina
Chelsea is an emerging London based artist. She holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in London. Her practice draws from her background as an advertising creative.
“Lacerations”, or rips and tears, of the surface play an important role in her current work. It symbolizes a yearning or a desire to acknowledge what lingers behind the images we see. She invites audiences to peel back layers of paper in a symbolic performance that reveals her paintings.
She’s exhibited in shows both in the UK and EU. Group shows include Invisible Identities (2024) at Hackney Gallery and The Graduate Art Show (2024) at Woolf Gallery, Of One’s Own Gallery (2025) at Ethereal Maison, Electric Bodies (2025) at 1 Warwick by Maslow’s. Her work was also featured during Genèva Art Week (2025) in Switzerland as a showcase for Art_List collective at Rue Goetz-Monin 8. In April 2025, she hosted her first solo exhibition and performance Behind These Mountains (2025) at Spazio 996/A, Venice. The work was produced during her residency at Studio Panicale in Tuscany. Soon after, two of her works were longlisted for the 2025 Women in Art Prize. In January 2026, she held an exhibition and performance titled, Supermarket Flats (2026) at Arebyte Studios in South London.