Dan Rawlings

Like artist Vhils, Dan Rawlings is part of this generation of virtuoso artists, capable of generating highly poetic works by digging into the material. Dan Rawlings chooses his metal supports with care: an advertising plate (brands of gasoline, car, gas, etc.), a fire extinguisher, a can of gasoline or even on a larger scale, a van or a silo grain... He then makes a very fine cut by hand using a plasma cutter, drawing floral and plant pattersn in the material. He even sometimes goes even further, seeking to provoke a new perception in the visitor, by projecting lights through the object and its hollowed-out areas, thus generating a veritable theater of shadows on the walls and floor that surround the work.

This makes it possible to give life and body to this nature thus regenerated in a poetic way and to question the spectator in his relationship to the work and to the meaning it conveys. An even more significant feeling in his monumental installations, we feel the mark of passing time, and we are lost between past, present and future. Like artist Daniel Arsham who projects the viewer into a deserted world of which only the vestiges of our industry and our technology remain, Dan Rawlings highlights what is essential and symbolically shows us nature taking back its rights on objects.

Dan Rawlings has been represented by Chenus Longhi Gallery since 2019 and collaborates with several international galleries, including the prestigious Saatchi Gallery and Stolen Space in London. In 2021, he held his first institutional solo exhibition at the 20-21 Visual Arts Centre in Scunthorpe, followed by his «2052» exhibition at Château Lamazière in Cormeilles-en-Parisis in 2022. In 2024, Dan Rawlings makes headlines: the newly established Renault Fund for Art and Culture commissions two works from the gallery, transforming a vintage 1973 Renault 5 and the brand-new R5 E-Tech into striking artistic statements.

Chenus Longhi is proud to dedicate a new solo exhibition to Dan Rawlings in 2025, reinforcing its commitment to highlighting his unique and socially engaged artistic universe.

Solo exhibitions

2025 - A Better Way Forward, Galerie Chenus Longhi, Paris (FR)

2023 - It went like this, StolenSpace, London (GB)

2023 - Asunder, Chenus Longhi, Lille Art Up, Lille (FR)

2022 - 2052, Château Lamazière, Cormeilles-en-Parisis (FR)

2022 - Now or Never, Galerie Chenus Longhi, Urban Art Fair, Paris (FR)

2021 - Future Returns, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe (GB)

2021 - Give Way, StolenSpace, Londres (GB)
2019 - The Earth Exhales, Galerie Chenus Longhi, Paris (FR)
2018 - Fragments, That Art Gallery, Bristol (GB)

2018 - Post Oil, Site Festival, Stroud (GB)
2017 - Solo show, The Line Gallery, Stroud (GB)
2016 - Untranslated, Curious Duke Gallery, Londres (GB)

Group exhibitions and art fairs

2024 - Chlorophylle, Orangerie, Château de Sucy-en-Brie (FR)

2024 - Group show with Chenus Longhi, District 13 Art Fair, Paris (FR)

2023 - Group show with Chenus Longhi, Urban Art Fair, Paris (FR)

2023 - Group show with StolenSpace, Art Miami, Miami (US)

2022 - Fragile, LaVallée, Bruxelles (BE)

2021 - In Bloom | Saatchy Gallery, Londres (GB)

2021 - Group show with Chenus Longhi, Urban Art Fair, Paris (FR)

2020 - Postcards of 2020 | StolenSpace, Londres (GB)

2020 - FairPlay, Chenus Longhi, Paris (FR)
2020 - One, Two... Street Art ! x Musée en Herbe | Genève (CH)
2020 - Ensemble, Chenus Longhi, Paris (FR)
2020 - Up | Jealous Gallery, Londres (GB)
2019 - Group show with Galerie Chenus Longhi, Art Élysées, Paris (FR)
2019 - Group show | Stroud Valleys Artspace (SVA), Stroud (GB)
2019 - Where Do We Go From Here?, Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
2019 - Group show with Galerie Chenus Longhi,Urban Art Fair, Paris (FR)

2018 - Intervention, 1963 Gallery London, Hackney Creative Social Club, Londres (GB)
2018 - UNCENSORED installation hall, Urban Nation, Berlin (DE)
2018 - Group show | Hidden gallery, Bristol (GB)
2017 - 10 years of Pure Evil gallery, Pure Evil gallery, Londres (GB)
2016 - Shelfware, The Line Gallery, Linlithgow (GB)
2016 - ArtGardenParty, CuriousDukeGallery,London (GB)
2016 - Winter wonderland, Stroud Valleys Artspace (SVA), Stroud (GB)
2016 - Group show, Byard Art Gallery, Cambridge (GB)

Outdoor, public commissions and festivals

2024 - Commission of two artworks for the Fonds Renault pour l'art et la culture, Paris (FR)

2021 - Installation ‘DelaysExpected’, RHS Chelsea Flower show, London (GB)

2019 - Installation ‘ShortHaul’, Unbiennale, UrbanNation, Berlin (DE)
2019 - Installation ‘Nature Delivers’, SHANGRI-LA Festival (GB)
2019 - Installation ‘JoyRide’,VolklingerHutte, Volklingen (DE)

2019 - Installation ‘JoyRide’, UrbanArtFair, CarreauduTemple, Paris(FR)

2019 - Installation for the UnBiennale, UrbanNation, Berlin (DE)
2018 - Installation ‘JoyRide’, MonikerArtFair, London (GB)
2017 - Installation ‘NatureDelivers, Kendall Calling Festival, Cumbria (GB)

2015 - Installation ‘Silo’,AffordableArtfair, BatterseaPark, London (GB)

2015 - Installation ‘CrazyGolf’, Goods Shed, Stroud (GB)