Samantha Fellows

  • Samantha Fellows (b. New York) is a London-based artist. She holds a BFA in Fine Art from Oregon State University...
    Samantha Fellows (b. New York) is a London-based artist. She holds a BFA in Fine Art from Oregon State University and completed a year at Turps Art School in 2023. In 2025, Samantha was selected as one of 26 artists for New Contemporaries and exhibited with them at South London Gallery and MIMA in early 2026. She also exhibited in the John Moores Painting Prize exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery and was shortlisted for the Cass Art Prize at Copeland Gallery in October 2025, where she was awarded the Michael Harding Oil Painting Prize.

     

     

  • Samantha showed twice with curators OHSH Projects recently: in "Pedigree" at The Bottle Factory and 2025 in “Taste: a taste of the British art scene” with Wönzimer Gallery in Los Angeles. Samantha was also longlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize and the Beep Painting Prize. Her work has twice been selected for Blue Shop Gallery’s Works on Paper exhibitions and she showed with the gallery in their December group show “When the Curtain Falls” as well as at this year’s London Art Fair.  She is a member of Contemporary British Portrait Painter

     

    Education

    2022-23 Turps Art School 

    1992-95 BFA Fine Art Oregon State University, USA awards 

    2025 New Contemporaries 

    John Moores Painting Prize exhibitor

    Cass Art Prize Michael Harding Oil Painting Award

    2024 Contemporary British Painting Prize longlisted

    Beep Painting Prize longlisted

    Exhibitions

    2025 John Moores Painting Prize Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

    Cass Art Prize, Copeland Gallery, London

    Pedigree OHSH Projects, Bottle Factory, London

    Works on Paper 7 Blue Shop Gallery, London

    The CBPP Exhibition 2025 The Department Store, London

    Time to Time Unprimed Collective, Safehouse, London

    2024 When the Curtain Falls, Blue Shop Gallery, London

    Layers The Dept Store, Brixton, London

    Daisy Chains and Summer Rain The Handbag Factory, London

    Taste Wönzimer Gallery + OHSH Projects, Los Angeles, USA

    Contemporary British Portrait Painters The Dept Store, London

    Works on Paper 6 Blue Shop Galleries, London

    South Open 2 OHSH Projects, Peckham, London

    Fierce Scandal Lido Stores, Margate

    A Room of One's Own Irving Gallery, Oxford

    2023 Unearthed 54 The Gallery, Mayfair, London

    Under Their Skin One Paved Court, Richmond, London

    Do Not Swallow Safehouses, Peckham, London

    Small and Mighty Ladies Drawing Club