Lisa Brice
Lisa Brice (b. 1968, Cape Town, South Africa) is a London-based painter whose work challenges traditional representations of women in art history. The exhibition brings together paintings from the past five years alongside new works created in response to Serpentine’s location and architecture. The galleries are organised around four settings that recur in Brice’s paintings: the park, the studio, the bar and the fight arena, each a stage for her female protagonists. Mirrors, doorways and reflections, recurring motifs in Brice’s work, are incorporated into the exhibition’s scenography, extending the theatrical qualities of her paintings into the gallery space.
New large-scale paintings created for Serpentine’s entrance and central gallery extend Brice’s ongoing exploration of women’s self-defence, resistance and solidarity.
An illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition, surveying Brice’s practice to date through new contributions responding to different bodies of work.
Artist bio
Lisa Brice (b. 1968, Cape Town) graduated from Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town in 1990. Her recent solo exhibitions include Keep Your Powder Dry, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2025); LIVES and WORKS, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (2023); Bar Games (1993-2023), Sadie Coles HQ, London (2023); Lisa Brice, Charleston Trust, Lewes (2021); Smoke and Mirrors, KM21, The Hague (2020); and Art Now: Lisa Brice, Tate Britain, London (2018). She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions including The Woman Question: 1550–2025, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2025); ‘Are we still up to it?’ – Art & Democracy, Herrenchiemsee Palace, Chiemsee (2025); To Improvise a Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curates, Hayward Gallery, London, which traveled to Leeds Art Gallery, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, and Nottingham Castle (2025); A Room Hung With Thoughts, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas (2025); Paraventi: Folding Screens from the 17th to 21st Centuries, Fondazione Prada, Milan (2023); Capturing the Moment, Tate Modern, London (2023); A Century of the Artist’s Studio 1920–2020, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2022); Women Painting Women, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas (2022); Mixing It Up: Painting Today, Hayward Gallery, London (2021); Life Between Islands: Caribbean–British Art 50s – Now, Tate Britain, London (2021); A Contemporary Collection, Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire (2020) and Home Truths: Domestic Interiors in South African Collections, South African National Gallery, Cape Town (2016). For over a decade, Brice spent time between the UK and Trinidad following residencies at the Gasworks, London, in 1998 and at CCA7, Trinidad, in 1999-2000; she now lives and works in London.
