Nancy Cadogan (b.1979) is a British American artist, celebrated for her figurative paintings with their profound engagement with literature, time, and the still moments of life.
Cadogan’s works were described as “heaven on a canvas” by the Evening Standard, and has been penned as “the new Paula Rego”. She has had solo exhibitions internationally, including at Saatchi Gallery, London in 2019 and Keats-Shelley House, Rome in 2020. In 2022, she was invited as Artist in Residence at the British Ambassador’s Residence in Paris.
Her latest project, ‘The Lost Trees’, explores our relationship with trees, time, and the natural world.
In 2024, she was invited by the Torre delle Arti, Bellagio, to showcase a body of work inspired by Lake Como, titled ‘Stanza’. Director of the Ingram Collection, Jo Baring has described these works as “a poetic dialogue with the viewer, inviting us into a space of contemplation through the eloquence of her painterly prose.”
Selected Exhibitions
2025 The Lost Trees, Garden Museum, London
2024 Stanza, Torre delle Arti, Italy
2024 LOVE /lʌv/, Loughran Gallery, London
2023 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
2023 Eye of the Collector, London
2023 British Art: Then and Now, Dorfold Zuleika Gallery, London
2023 The Beaumont London Commission, Atelier Zuleika, London
2023 LAPADA, Gillian Jason Gallery, London
2022 Metier London Collaboration, London
2022 The Still Point, Gillian Jason Gallery, London
2022 Eye of the Collector, London
2022 Live Painting, Artist in Residence, Green Week, British Embassy, Paris
2021 All the Good Things, The Cadogan Hotel, London
2020 Gusto, Keats Shelley House, Rome
2020 London Presentation, Browns Hotel, London
2020 Art from the Heart – NHS, Zuleika Gallery, London
2020 Wall of Small, Lyndsey ingram Gallery, London
2019 Astrup Fearnley Museet Auction, Oslo
2019 Footnotes, Brigith Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London
2019 Mind Zero, Saatchi Gallery, London
2017 Still Reading, Sladmore Contemporary and Shapero Rare Books, London
2016 The Blue Edition, 68 Kinnerton Street, London
2016 Art Southampton, New York City
2016 A Sense of Place, Art Bastion, Miami
2011 Art for Charity Auction, Christie’s Milan
2011 21st Chelsea Antiquarian Book Fair, London
2008 Recent Paintings Sladmore Contemporary London
2007 Group Show, GrandyArt, Smithfield Gallery, London
2006 Grand Beginnings, GrandyArt, Arndean Gallery, London
2005 Recent Paintings: Utah Landscapes, Frost and Reed Gallery, New York City
2004 Recent Paintings: Morocco, Frost and Reed Gallery, New York City
2002 Graduation Show, Mall Galleries, London
Selected Press
Country & Town House, Artist Studio
2024
Or perhaps her vivid colourful canvases speak to our hankering for a simpler way of life.
Financial Times, How to Spend it
2024
In her latest works, which can be seen in situ at the Torre delle Arti Bellagio cultural centre, she considers not only the dramatic scenery of Como but its historic role as a muse.
W Magazine, In Bellagio, an Artist’s Ode to Lake Como Comes to Life, 2024
Nancy Cadogan’s “Stanza” show at the Torre delle Arti is just one of the attractions in the breathtaking Italian village.
Airmail, Stanza at the Torre delle Arti, Bellagio
2024
The English artist Nancy Cadogan has a long and fruitful relationship with Italy.
Artlyst, Two Decades Of Painting On Lake Como
2024
Lake Como, a beauty so sublime, our first encounter is simultaneously tinged with the fear of its vanishing – and our own.
Tatler, Como on in
2024
In a feature first published in the July 2024 issue of Tatler, Nancy Cadogan explores her passion for the natural splendour of Italy
Creative Boom, Celebrate the joyfulness of solitude
2022
Nancy Cadogan's work represents traditional domestic scenes and reminds us of the often-forgotten joyfulness of solitude.
Creative Boom, Celebrate the 'deep sense of connection' artists have with Italy, 2020
Nancy Cadogan reflects on her close ties with Italy and hopes to support the recovery of the Italian art scene and tourism following the devastating impact of coronavirus.
Tatler, Nancy Cadogan takes Rome with new exhibition, 2020
The exhibition is a tour de force of bright, bold colour inspired by the Great Romantic Poets.
The London Magazine, Interview with Nancy Cadogan,
2021
Nancy was named as one of the ‘Top 20 New British Art
Talents’.