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Rhea Dillon

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Gestural Poethics
Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, 2025

1/98 Rhea Dillon, 71°67’55.4”94°06’40.2”25: VI 2025
Sapele mahogany, glass, resin, molasses

1/98 Rhea Dillon, 71°67’55.4”94°06’40.2”25: VI (detail), 2025
Sapele mahogany, glass, resin, molasses

1/98 Rhea Dillon, 71°67’55.4”94°06’40.2”25: I 2025
Sapele mahogany, glass, resin, molasses, 33 × 13.5 × 26 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, 71°78’10.6”23°52’17.3”25: II 2025
Sapele mahogany, glass, resin, soil, 34 × 13.5 × 26 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Fractal Being
Cordova, Barcelona, 2024

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Gestural Poetics
Soft Opening at Paul Soto, Los Angeles, 2024

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Prayer. 2024
Sapele mahogany, oil stick and paper, 95.2 × 125 × 23 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, piercing space and parting seas 2024
Sapele mahogany, oil stick and paper, 95.2 × 125 × 23 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Less than that; 2024
Sapele mahogany, oil stick and paper, 95.2 × 125 × 23 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, There’s so much air in the word for wishes for, wishes of. 2024
Sapele mahogany, oil stick and paper, 95.2 × 125 × 23 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, carried on the spirit air. 2024
Sapele mahogany, oil stick and paper, 95.2 × 125 × 23 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Each now, is the time
Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, 2024

1/98 Rhea Dillon, The Black Fold
Kunstverein Kevin Space, Vienna, 2023

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Left by Left, Left OutRight. (Fascist Aesthetics) 2023
Anti-climb paint on wood, 5 panels 70 x 54.5 cm each

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Atlas above all, else 2023
Ceramic and cut crystal, 113 x 18.5 x 18.5 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, An Alterable Terrain
Tate Britain, London, 2023

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Placing Her Within An Alterable Terrain 2023
Acrylic glass, 160 × 160 × 160 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Flagging Visions Of Periphery 2023
Steel, polyester and resin, 104.5 × 130 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Flagging Visions Of Periphery (detail), 2023
Steel, polyester and resin, 104.5 × 130 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, As Wata to Wine, Wine to Blood, Blood to Dirt, Dirt to Sand, Sand to Water; Wata (Bit) 2023
Iron, plastic and sand, 10.2 × 40.7 × 30 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Swollen, Whole, Broken, Birthed in the Broken; Broken Birthed, Broken, Deficient, Whole—At the Black Womb’s Altar, At the Black Woman’s Tale 2023
Sapele Mahogany, Calabashes, 25.4 × 160 × 25.4 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, C/leaning Figures 2023
Scent, soap, molasses and resin, Dimensions variable

1/98 Rhea Dillon, C/leaning Figures (detail), 2023
Scent, soap, molasses and resin, Dimensions variable

1/98 Rhea Dillon, We looked for eyes creased with concern, but saw only veils
Sweetwater, Berlin, 2023

1/98 Rhea Dillon, There the flawed became whole (Then the screen would light up, and I’d move right on in them pictures) 2023
Steel, 125.5 × 250

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Incomprehensible Sex Coming To Its Dreaded Fruition; nothing remains but Pecola & the Unyielding Earth 2023
Sapele mahogany and marigold seeds, 22.5 x 38 x 19 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Pretty eyes. Pretty blue eyes. Big blue pretty eyes. Run, Jip, run. Jip runs, Alice runs. Alice has blue eyes. Jerry has blue eyes. Jerry runs. Alice runs. They run with their blue eyes. Four blue eyes. Four pretty blue eyes. Blue-sky eyes. Blue-like Mrs. Forrest’s blue blouse eyes. Morning-glory-blue-eyes. Alice-and-Jerry-blue-storybook- 2023
Anti-climb paint, paper, sapele mahogany, 91 × 91 × 6 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, She was washing dishes. Her small back hunched over the sink—a winged but grounded bird, intent on the blue void it could not reach. 2023
Brass and polyester, 21 x 9 x 12.5 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, An Unholy Trinity (the) Imaginary, Symbolic and Real 2022
Sapele mahogany, 117 × 87 × 87 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, An Unholy Trinity (the) Imaginary, Symbolic and Real (detail), 2022
Sapele mahogany, 117 × 87 × 87 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Seeing from nowhere the place in between 2022
Concrete and glass, 31.5 × 13 × 13 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Cup runneth over, runneth out, runneth raw—I forget my body is about me 2022
Concrete and glass, 19 × 23 × 29.5 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Sole Responsibility: Aged 12, but above III 2023
Cut crystal, Dimensions variable

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Sole Responsibility: Aged 12, but above III 2022
Cut crystal, Dimensions variable

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Sole Responsibility: Aged 12, but above III 2023
Cut crystal, Dimensions variable

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Vexilla Sumpta 2022
Oil and anti-climb paint on canvas, 105 × 210 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Vexilla Sumpta (detail), 2022
Oil and anti-climb paint on canvas, 105 × 210 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, The Mythic Silent black Woman in an Act of Folding 2022
Oil on canvas, 45.7 × 183 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, The Mythic Silent black Woman in an Act of Folding (detail), 2022
Oil on canvas, 45.7 × 183 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, 42 Oakley 77 2019, from b to B 2022
Oil on canvas, 30 × 80 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, In spite of false Winds 2022
Oil on canvas, 30 × 80 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Real Corporeal
Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2022

1/98 Rhea Dillon, 9/3 or I know how to fall (3) and I was born to nights (9)
Bold Tendencies, London, 2022

1/98 Rhea Dillon, The Sombre Majesty (or, on being the pronounced dead)
Soft Opening, London, 2022

1/98 Rhea Dillon, A Caribbean Ossuary 2022
Wooden cabinet and cut-crystal, 42 × 208 × 161.5 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, A Caribbean Ossuary (detail), 2022
Wooden cabinet and cut-crystal, 42 × 208 × 161.5 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Every Ginnal Is A Star 2022
Plastic, 193 × 193 × 10 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, The Sombre Majesty (or, on being the pronounced dead)
Soft Opening, London, 2022

1/98 Rhea Dillon, New Wor(l)d. 2022
Sapele mahogany, oil stick and paper, 95.2 × 125 × 23 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Both Low Hanging Fruit And The Scavenged High Rise – Either Way: Suspension. So, Slackening The Hold Here I Ask Through The Poethics Of Suspense, ‘How Can You Rest When Still Strung Up?’ 2022
Sapele mahogany crosier, bus seat moquettes and thread, 311 × 110 × 93 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, The Sombre Majesty (or, on being the pronounced dead)
Soft Opening, London, 2022

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Nonbody Nonthing No Thing
V.O Curations, 2021

1/98 Rhea Dillon, From Landing to arriva(L) In Clear Waters Only I Can Paint Black 2021
Foam, bus seats, non drying anti-climb paint, plastic, acrylic paint & bleach, 135 × 88 × 72 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, From Landing to arriva(L) In Clear Waters Only I Can Paint Black (detail), 2021
Foam, bus seats, non drying anti-climb paint, plastic, acrylic paint & bleach, 135 × 88 × 72 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Painting (D-o-u-b-l-e-P-e-n-d-u-l-u-m) 2021
Acrylic on bamboo, 142 × 2 × 4 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Painting (D-o-u-b-l-e-P-e-n-d-u-l-u-m) (detail), 2021
Acrylic on bamboo, 142 × 2 × 4 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Faeces I 2021
Polyester backing and foam, 45 × 55 cm (59 × 73 cm framed)

1/98 Rhea Dillon, The Myth Of The Noble Savage, A Hoodlum Afar And A Saint At Her Desk 2021
360° dome mirror, Jamaican coins, chain and non drying anti-climb paint, 60 × 60 × 134 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, The Myth Of The Noble Savage, A Hoodlum Afar And A Saint At Her Desk (detail), 2021
360° dome mirror, Jamaican coins, chain and non drying anti-climb paint, 60 × 60 × 134 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Incomplete Lysis 2021
Concrete and glass, 43 × 15 × 29 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Incomplete Lysis (detail), 2021
Concrete and glass, 43 × 15 × 29 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Faeces II 2021
Polyester backing and foam, 45 × 55 cm (59 × 73 cm framed)

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Ffaeces I 2021
Polyester backing and foam, 45 × 34 cm (59 × 73 cm framed)

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Ffaeces III 2021
Polyester backing and foam, 45 × 34 cm (59 × 73 cm framed)

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Nonbody Nonthing No Thing
V.O Curations, London, 2021

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Vexilla Maurus 2021
Oil on canvas, 206 × 106 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Vexilla Maurus (detail), 2021
Oil on canvas, 206 × 106 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Janus
Soft Opening, London, 2021

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Janus *pause* leaking fortified enclaves 2020
Sapele Mahogany, steel and fluids, 100 × 100 × 18 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Cellar Door (A Litany) 2020
Anti climb paint, oil and newsprint on board, 86 × 51.5 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Cellar Door (A Litany) (detail), 2020
Anti climb paint, oil and newsprint on board, 86 × 51.5 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, No Man Is An Island
Almine Rech, London , 2020

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Angels Die So Pigs Can Fly And Other Folks Tales 2020
Oil and acrylic on canvas, 40 × 30 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Icarus! Icarus! Icarus! 2020
Oil and acrylic on canvas, 45.5 × 35.5 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Dishwater and No Images
Peak Gallery, London, 2020

1/98 Rhea Dillon, These words took years to arrive *pause* leaking fortified enclaves 2020
Ink and acrylic paint on paper mounted onto felt noticeboard, 60 × 90 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, UdderAngel 2020
Acrylic on canvas, 100 × 150 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Golgotha 2020
Thread on Barbie blanket mounted on rusted steel cross, 196 × 120 × 30 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, Atlas’ Duppeee Whoopeee Seat: women should stop cleaning faeces, everyone should clean faeces 2020
balloon, disinfectant, body oils & found object, 98 × 54 × 64 cm

1/98 Rhea Dillon, (Working Title) Browning 2025 2021
Video, colour, sound, 28 min

<p><em>Gestural Poethics</em></p> — *Gestural Poethics*,
Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, 2025

<p><em>71°67’55.4”94°06’40.2”25: VI</em></p> — *71°67’55.4”94°06’40.2”25: VI*, 2025

<p><em>71°67’55.4”94°06’40.2”25: I</em></p> — *71°67’55.4”94°06’40.2”25: I*, 2025

<p><em>71°78’10.6”23°52’17.3”25: II</em></p> — *71°78’10.6”23°52’17.3”25: II*, 2025

<p><em>Fractal Being</em></p> — *Fractal Being*,
Cordova, Barcelona, 2024

<p><em>Gestural Poetics</em></p> — *Gestural Poetics*,
Soft Opening at Paul Soto, Los Angeles, 2024

<p><em>Prayer.</em></p> — *Prayer.*, 2024

<p><em>piercing space and parting seas</em></p> — *piercing space and parting seas*, 2024

<p><em>Less than that;</em></p> — *Less than that;*, 2024

<p><em>There’s so much air in the word for wishes for, wishes of.</em></p> — *There’s so much air in the word for wishes for, wishes of.*, 2024

<p><em>carried on the spirit air.</em></p> — *carried on the spirit air.*, 2024

<p><em>Each now, is the time</em></p> — *Each now, is the time*,
Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, 2024

<p><em>The Black Fold</em></p> — *The Black Fold*,
Kunstverein Kevin Space, Vienna, 2023

<p><em>Left by Left, Left OutRight. (Fascist Aesthetics)</em></p> — *Left by Left, Left OutRight. (Fascist Aesthetics)*, 2023

<p><em>Atlas above all, else</em></p> — *Atlas above all, else*, 2023

<p><em>An Alterable Terrain</em></p> — *An Alterable Terrain*,
Tate Britain, London, 2023

<p><em>Placing Her Within An Alterable Terrain</em></p> — *Placing Her Within An Alterable Terrain*, 2023

<p><em>Flagging Visions Of Periphery</em></p> — *Flagging Visions Of Periphery*, 2023

<p><em>As Wata to Wine, Wine to Blood, Blood to Dirt, Dirt to Sand, Sand to Water; Wata (Bit)</em></p> — *As Wata to Wine, Wine to Blood, Blood to Dirt, Dirt to Sand, Sand to Water; Wata (Bit)*, 2023

<p><em>Swollen, Whole, Broken, Birthed in the Broken; Broken Birthed, Broken, Deficient, Whole—At the Black Womb’s Altar, At the Black Woman’s Tale</em></p> — *Swollen, Whole, Broken, Birthed in the Broken; Broken Birthed, Broken, Deficient, Whole—At the Black Womb’s Altar, At the Black Woman’s Tale*, 2023

<p><em>C/leaning Figures</em></p> — *C/leaning Figures*, 2023

<p><em>We looked for eyes creased with concern, but saw only veils</em></p> — *We looked for eyes creased with concern, but saw only veils*,
Sweetwater, Berlin, 2023

<p><em>There the flawed became whole (Then the screen would light up, and I’d move right on in them pictures)</em></p> — *There the flawed became whole (Then the screen would light up, and I’d move right on in them pictures)*, 2023

<p><em>Incomprehensible Sex Coming To Its Dreaded Fruition; nothing remains but Pecola & the Unyielding Earth</em></p> — *Incomprehensible Sex Coming To Its Dreaded Fruition; nothing remains but Pecola & the Unyielding Earth*, 2023

<p><em>Pretty eyes. Pretty blue eyes. Big blue pretty eyes. Run, Jip, run. Jip runs, Alice runs. Alice has blue eyes. Jerry has blue eyes. Jerry runs. Alice runs. They run with their blue eyes. Four blue eyes. Four pretty blue eyes. Blue-sky eyes. Blue-like Mrs. Forrest’s blue blouse eyes. Morning-glory-blue-eyes. Alice-and-Jerry-blue-storybook-</em></p> — Pretty eyes. Pretty blue eyes. Big blue pretty eyes. Run, Jip, run. Jip runs, Alice runs. Alice has blue eyes. Jerry has blue eyes. Jerry runs. Alice runs. They run with their blue eyes. Four blue eyes. Four pretty blue eyes. Blue-sky eyes. Blue-like Mrs. Forrest’s blue blouse eyes. Morning-glory-blue-eyes. Alice-and-Jerry-blue-storybook-, 2023

<p><em>She was washing dishes. Her small back hunched over the sink—a winged but grounded bird, intent on the blue void it could not reach.</em></p> — *She was washing dishes. Her small back hunched over the sink—a winged but grounded bird, intent on the blue void it could not reach.*, 2023

<p><em>An Unholy Trinity (the) Imaginary, Symbolic and Real</em></p> — *An Unholy Trinity (the) Imaginary, Symbolic and Real*, 2022

<p><em>Seeing from nowhere the place in between</em></p> — *Seeing from nowhere the place in between*, 2022

<p><em>Cup runneth over, runneth out, runneth raw—I forget my body is about me</em></p> — *Cup runneth over, runneth out, runneth raw—I forget my body is about me*, 2022

<p><em>Sole Responsibility: Aged 12, but above III</em></p> — *Sole Responsibility: Aged 12, but above III*, 2023

<p><em>Vexilla Sumpta</em></p> — *Vexilla Sumpta*, 2022

<p><em>The Mythic Silent black Woman in an Act of Folding</em></p> — *The Mythic Silent black Woman in an Act of Folding*, 2022

<p><em>42 Oakley 77 2019, from b to B</em></p> — *42 Oakley 77 2019, from b to B*, 2022

<p><em>In spite of false Winds</em></p> — *In spite of false Winds*, 2022

<p><em>Real Corporeal</em></p> — *Real Corporeal*,
Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2022

<p><em>9/3 or I know how to fall (3) and I was born to nights (9)</em></p> — *9/3 or I know how to fall (3) and I was born to nights (9)*,
Bold Tendencies, London, 2022

<p>The Sombre Majesty (or, on being the pronounced dead)</p> — *The Sombre Majesty (or, on being the pronounced dead)*,
Soft Opening, London, 2022

<p>A Caribbean Ossuary</p> — *A Caribbean Ossuary*, 2022

<p>Every Ginnal Is A Star</p> — *Every Ginnal Is A Star*, 2022

<p>New Wor(l)d.</p> — *New Wor(l)d.*, 2022

<p>Both Low Hanging Fruit And The Scavenged High Rise – Either Way: Suspension. So, Slackening The Hold Here I Ask Through The Poethics Of Suspense, ‘How Can You Rest When Still Strung Up?’</p> — *Both Low Hanging Fruit And The Scavenged High Rise – Either Way: Suspension. So, Slackening The Hold Here I Ask Through The Poethics Of Suspense, ‘How Can You Rest When Still Strung Up?’*, 2022

<p>Nonbody Nonthing No Thing</p> — *Nonbody Nonthing No Thing*,
V.O Curations, 2021

<p>From Landing to arriva(L) In Clear Waters Only I Can Paint Black</p> — *From Landing to arriva(L) In Clear Waters Only I Can Paint Black*, 2021

<p>Painting (D-o-u-b-l-e-P-e-n-d-u-l-u-m)</p> — *Painting (D-o-u-b-l-e-P-e-n-d-u-l-u-m)*, 2021

<p>The Myth Of The Noble Savage, A Hoodlum Afar And A Saint At Her Desk</p> — *The Myth Of The Noble Savage, A Hoodlum Afar And A Saint At Her Desk*, 2021

<p>Incomplete Lysis</p> — *Incomplete Lysis*, 2021

<p>Ffaeces III</p> — *Ffaeces III*, 2021

<p>Vexilla Maurus</p> — *Vexilla Maurus*, 2021

<p>Janus</p> — *Janus*,
Soft Opening, London, 2021

<p>Janus *pause* leaking fortified enclaves</p> — *Janus *pause* leaking fortified enclaves*, 2020

<p>Cellar Door (A Litany)</p> — *Cellar Door (A Litany)*, 2020

<p>No Man Is An Island</p> — *No Man Is An Island*,
Almine Rech, London , 2020

<p>Angels Die So Pigs Can Fly And Other Folks Tales</p> — *Angels Die So Pigs Can Fly And Other Folks Tales*, 2020

<p>Icarus! Icarus! Icarus!</p> — *Icarus! Icarus! Icarus!*, 2020

<p>Dishwater and No Images</p> — *Dishwater and No Images*,
Peak Gallery, London, 2020

<p>These words took years to arrive *pause* leaking fortified enclaves</p> — *These words took years to arrive *pause* leaking fortified enclaves*, 2020

<p>Atlas’ Duppeee Whoopeee Seat: women should stop cleaning faeces, everyone should clean faeces</p> — *Atlas’ Duppeee Whoopeee Seat: women should stop cleaning faeces, everyone should clean faeces*, 2020

<p>(Working Title) Browning 2025</p> — *(Working Title) Browning 2025*, 2021

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