Rex Southwick

Rex Southwick (b. 1997; London, UK) is a painter whose highly saturated, large-scale works explore domestic space through the lenses of ownership and aspiration. He works from images sourced via building contractors and construction site visits. Rex reimagines idealised homes at an incomplete, less imposing stage—where the “dream” is still under construction.

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About

Rex Southwick’s paintings turn luxury architecture into a stage. He works from images sourced through building contractors and construction site visits. The spaces look sunlit and seductive. But they are often unfinished. That “behind the scenes” feeling matters. Rex Southwick focuses on modernist houses, from Palm Springs desert estates to villas in the south of France. In many works, he includes labourers and visible traces of construction. This brings narrative into scenes that usually feel effortless, and it introduces hierarchy and ownership. By translating glossy, online domestic imagery into paint, Rex Southwick turns digital fantasy into something physical—material, present, and impossible to scroll past.

Exhibitions

Exhibition: Between Worlds | London | November 26, 2025

Exhibition: Between Worlds | London | November 26, 2025

Education

Leeds Arts University, BA Fine Art, 2018 (Leeds, UK)

Notable Private & Public Art Collections

Azman Museum (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

Frank-Suss Collection (London, UK)

Moore Family Collection (Randburg, South Africa)

The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) (CA, USA)

Palm Springs Art Museum (CA, USA)

Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) (FL, USA)

Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento (CA, USA)

Select Group & Solo Exhibitions

Between Worlds, Meso Ventures, The HiLight, 2025 (London, UK)

To Distraction, Unit, 2025 (London, UK)

Topia, Unit, 2023 (London, UK)

Nassima Landau, 2022 (Tel Aviv, Israel)

Art Taipei, Taipei World Trade Center, 2022 (Taipei, Taiwan)

Playground of Geometry, Centre of International Contemporary Art Vancouver (CICA), 2022 (Vancouver, Canada)

Art Taipei, Taipei World Trade Center, 2021 (Taipei, Taiwan)

Rites of Passage, Unit, 2021 (London, UK)

Purple Lands, Unit, 2020 (London, UK)

Querencia, Unit, 2019 (London, UK)

HSBC, Private Bank in Collaboration with Auc Art, 2019 (London, UK)

London Fashion Week, Old Truman Brewery, 2019 (London, UK)

Rising stars 2018, Coombe Gallery, 2018 (Devon, UK)

AON Community Art Award, Leadenhall Building, 2018 (London, UK)

PURPLE LANDS, Sloane Square, 2018 (London, UK)

Free Range, The Old Truman Brewery, 2018 (London, UK)

Swetshop III, Hyde Park Book Club, 2017 (Leeds, UK)

Untitled Entitled, Smith Street Gallery, 2017 (London, UK)

CMYK, Regents Street, 2016 (Leeds, UK)

I’ll Show You Mine, 2015 (Leeds, UK)