Christophe Lennox (b. 1986)

‘The first few sessions of a new painting are always torture. Like I’ve forgotten how to do it. So usually I paint it white and start again. A white painting is different than a white canvas.’

Christophe Lennox’s paintings unfold through cycles of layering and erasure. Forms disappear and return altered, embedding absence and transformation into the surface.

The process involves a balance of control and instinct, allowing a work to shift far from its starting point. Erasure is not a correction, but an essential gesture through which the image arrives at its final state.

Rooted in experiences of identity, sexuality, mental health, love, death, and the shifting terrain of relationships, the paintings hold both moments of connection and the ache of separation. They move beyond the personal to ask how we live with one another — and with ourselves — inviting the viewer to share in that reflection.

Christophe Lennox was born in Scotland and studied painting at Concordia University in Montreal, where he earned his BFA. He now lives and works as a painter in Oslo. He has exhibited in the United Kingdom, Canada, Norway, and Denmark.