Gaia Ozwyn

Born 1991, Plymouth, UK

Lives and works in London, UK

Gaia Ozwyn is a Caribbean-British artist, who completed an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2024, supported by the Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship. Originally trained as a biomedical scientist and in Medicine, she spent several years working as a doctor in the NHS before committing to a full-time painting practice. Ozwyn’s work explores transitional spaces - borderlands and peripheries - as sites of tension, transformation, and truth. Rooted in the shared experience of inhabiting a corporeal and shifting world, the paintings reflect a dynamic interplay between material presence and transience. In 2025, Ozwyn was selected for the RCA BLK x Yinka Shonibare Foundation residency, held at the G.A.S. Foundation in Lagos, Nigeria.

EDUCATION

2024 MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London, UK

2020 Medicine and Surgery MBBS, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry

2016 Biomedical Science BSc 1st Class Honours, University of Plymouth

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2025 ‘Incantations of a Vague Borderland’, LBF Contemporary, London, UK

2025 ‘Material Sensibilities’, October Gallery, London

2024 ‘Group Show 58’, PM/AM, London UK

2024 ‘Like a Beacon Against the Cold’, LBF Contemporary, London, UK

2024 ART021 Hong Kong. Group presentation by Seefood Room, HK

2024 ‘Stretching The Light’, curated by Alayo Akinkugbe, RELE Gallery, London, UK

2024 Royal College of Art Graduate Show 2024, Royal College of Art, London, UK

2024 ‘LBF at the Lake’, LBF Contemporary, Muskoka, CAN

2023 ‘Junctures,’ Chili Art Projects, London, UK

2023 ‘If You Are Lost, This is Where You Can Be Found,’ Peckham Safehouse, London, UK

2023 London Art Biennale, UK

2022 ‘Eternal Elements by Diba Art,’ S&P Gallery, London, UK

2021 ‘SuperGlue 21,’ Espacio Gallery, London, UK

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