
artist portrait courtesy of Gilbert Towshend
Noemi Conan. Painter.
Born in Warsaw, Poland. Based in London, UK. Perpetually suspended between leaving and coming back to a house in a Polish peripheral town. Painting faces, felines and firs, always self-portraits, regardless of figure. However- this is not a memoir. Loosely inspired on obsessions drawn from historic painting, woodland roaming, cigarette smoke absorbtion, communist propaganda, capitalist visual overload, peripheral town ennui. Nostalgia is in there, uncomfortably stuck like a small bit of grit inside a shoe.
Conan graduated with a Ba in Painting and Printamking from the Glasgow School of Art in 2021, followed by the Drawing Year at the Royal Drawing School in 2022 and an MFA in Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2026.
Featured in the John Moores Painting Prize in 2020 and 2023, the Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2021, Untitled Art Fair in Miami in 2023 and 2024 where she showed work with Christine Park Gallery and Drawing Now Paris in 2025 where she exhibited with Traits Libres Gallery.