Overview
Oh de Laval, My liver has to handle what my heat cannot, 2021 (detail)
Oh de Laval, My liver has to handle what my heat cannot, 2021 (detail)

I paint to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection.

 

— Oh de Laval

The work of Polish-Thai artist Oh de Laval is concerned with human behaviour: the decisions we make, why we make them and how we feel as a result. These decisions are windows into our very personalities. In this spirit, each of de Laval’s paintings acts as a window into her character, her pleasures and her imaginings.

Among Oh de Laval’s varied inspirations are Francis Bacon’s hedonistic lifestyle, sociologist Émile Durkheim’s theory that deviance is necessary to a functioning, successful society, and her love for the French New Wave, Italian cinema, and Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky.

Oh de Laval (b.1990, Warsaw, PL) earned a degree in sociology from the University of Warsaw in 2016 before moving to London to pursue painting. Her recent exhibitions include Galerie Marguo, Paris, FR (2023, solo); Unit London, UK (2021, solo); Galerie Claire Castaud, Paris, FR (2024, group); Allouche Gallery, New York, NY (2024, group); Museum of Sex, New York, NY (2024, group); Bridge Mogura Gallery, Tokyo, JP (2023, group); Galerie Droste, Paris, FR (2022, group); Nassima Landau Art Foundation, Tel Aviv, IL (2022, group); Asia Art Center, Taipei, TW (2021, group); Xiao Foundation, Hong Kong, CN (2021, group); Villa Merkel, Esslingen, DE (2021, group); Galerie Droste, Paris, FR (2020, group), Unit London, UK (2020, group).

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Biography
Oh de Laval, No mercy, 2021 (detail)
Oh de Laval, No mercy, 2021 (detail)

Born  1990 in Warsaw, Poland. Works and lives in Paris, France.

 

Solo Exhibition

 

2023

Galerie Marguo, Take Your Pleasure Seriously, Paris, France
2022  Galerie Marguo, Solo Presentation, Art Paris, Paris, France
2021

Unit London, Wild Things Happen in Stillness, London, UK

 

Group Exhibitions

 

2024

Galerie Marguo, Art Collaboration Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan (Upcoming) 
 

Andrea Festa Fine Art, Boudoir, Rome, Italy
 

Show Studio, SHADOW-BAN, London, UK
 

Galerie Claire Gastaud, Le jardin des délices, Paris, France
 

Allouche Gallery, Technostalgia, New York, NY

 

Museum of Sex, I LICKED IT, ITS MINE, New York, NY

 

Sothebys London We Are the Future, London, UK

2023

Art Bund Fair, Cassina Projects, Shanghai, China

 

Untitled Art Fair, Room57 Gallery, Miami, USA

 

Bridge Mogura Gallery, 'Hajimemashite!', Tokyo, Japan

 

Droste Gallery, Chronicles 7, Berlin, Germany

 

Room 57 Gallery First Impression, New York, NY

 

Galerie Marguo, Art Paris 2023, Paris, France

 

Bridge Mogura Gallery, Hajimemashite!, Tokyo, Japan

2022

Galerie Droste, Echos, Paris, France

 

Nassima Landau Art Foundation, Domesticity, Tel-Aviv, Israël

2021

Galerie Droste, Chronicles 3 at KPM Berlin, Berlin, Germany

 

Asia Art Centre, My Secret Garden curated by Melanie Lum, Taipei, Taiwan

 

Xiao Foundation, Group Exhibition curated by Hans Werner Holzwarth, Hong Kong

 

Villa Merkel, Ein Museum auf Probe, Esslingen, Germany

2020

Galerie Droste, Watchlist, Paris, France

 

Unit London, Drawn Together (online), London, UK

 

Unit London, Alter Ego, London, UK

Collections

 

Fundación AMMA, Mexico City, Mexico

Dib Museum, Bangkok, Thailand

Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, USA

Studio Berkhain Museum, Berlin, Germany 

Emergentes Art Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon 

Xiao Foundation, Hong Kong

X Museum, Beijing, China

Asymmetry Foundation, London, UK

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Works
  • The Sinner
    Oh de Laval
    The Sinner, 2025
    Acrylic on canvas
    100 x 80 cm (39 ⅜ x 31 ½ in)
  • Give me a Summer to remember
    Oh de Laval
    Give me a Summer to remember, 2023
    Acrylic on canvas
    100 x 100 cm (39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in)
    104 x 104 x 5 cm (41 x 41 x 2 in) framed
  • In the field
    Oh de Laval
    In the field, 2023
    Graphite on paper
    70 x 100 cm (27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in)
    76 x 107 cm (framed)
  • Lust has no mercy
    Oh de Laval
    Lust has no mercy, 2023
    Glass
    51.5 x 75 x 48 cm (20 1/4 x 29 1/2 x 18 7/8 in)
  • I’m trained not tame
    Oh de Laval
    I’m trained not tame, 2022
    Graphite on paper
    70 x 100 cm (27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in)
    76 x 107 cm (framed)
  • Some situations breaks your heart but fix your vision
    Oh de Laval
    Some situations breaks your heart but fix your vision, 2022
    Graphite on paper
    77 x 112 cm (30 1/4 x 44 1/8 in)
    83 x 119 cm (framed)
  • You live more for 5 minutes going fast on a bike than other people do in all of their life
    Oh de Laval
    You live more for 5 minutes going fast on a bike than other people do in all of their life, 2022
    Acrylic on canvas
    Triptych
    Each: 190 x 200 cm (74 3/4 x 78 3/4 in)
  • Forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest
    Oh de Laval
    Forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest, 2021
    Acrylic on canvas
    150 x 170 cm
  • You’ll never meet right people at the wrong time, because right people are timeless
    Oh de Laval
    You’ll never meet right people at the wrong time, because right people are timeless, 2021
    Acrylic on canvas
    200 x 200 cm
  • Dimanche Soir a Paris
    Oh de Laval
    Dimanche Soir a Paris, 2020
    Acrylic on canvas
    120 x 150 cm
  • Here comes a feeling you though you’d forgotten
    Oh de Laval
    Here comes a feeling you though you’d forgotten, 2020
    Acrylic on canvas
    80 x 70 cm
  • The end of the world, acrylic on canvas
    Oh de Laval
    The end of the world, acrylic on canvas, 2020
    Acrylic on canvas
    150 x 120 cm
  • The slower the kiss the faster the heartbeat
    Oh de Laval
    The slower the kiss the faster the heartbeat, 2020
    Acrylic on canvas
    100 x 100 cm
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