Brianna Lois Parker
Brianna Lois Parker (b. 1998) is a British-Caribbean oil painter based in London. Working across still life and portraiture, Parker finds significance in the everyday, using familiar objects, food, gestures and encounters to explore identity, intimacy and belonging. Her paintings draw from observation, conversation and memory, often bringing the ordinary into unexpected dialogue with ideas of taste, aspiration and social identity. With a direct and quietly playful approach, Parker’s work pays close attention to gesture, touch and the details through which personal and cultural histories reveal themselves.
Parker was awarded the Margate Art Prize by Tracey Emin and commissioned by Netflix for Portrait of a Top Boy at Somerset House, also featured by the National Portrait Gallery website. She appeared on Portrait Artist of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Jackson’s Art Prize, placing in the top 0.2% of 12,964 submissions and receiving the Judge’s Choice Award.
EDUCATION
Kingston University, London, UK - 1st class BA (Hons), 2021
EXHIBITIONS
2025
The Hari Art Prize, Hari Hotel, London, UK
The Mayor of London’s Black History Month - ‘Standing Firm in Power and Pride’, Gallery OCA, London, UK
Island in the City, Curated by Sherece Rainford and Louis Chapple, ROSL & Gallery OCA, London, UK
Mirroring Dialogue, Curated by Ronan Mckenzie and Tione Trice Thurloe Place, London, UK
Jackson's Art Prize, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
Her, Camden Open Air Gallery, London, UK
2024
In Plain Sight, Curated by Habib Hajallie, Dartford, UK
Hardware, Curated by The Connor Brothers, London, UK
What I Thought I Knew, Curated by Ronan Mckenzie, London, UK
2023
Game Changers, The Bingham Riverhouse, London, UK
Portrait of a Top Boy, Curated by Ronan Mckenzie, National Portrait Gallery
(online), Somerset House, London, UK
Ambivalent Paradox, Omaka Gallery, London, UK
Margate Art Prize, Awarded by Tracey Emin, Ramsay & Williams, Guesthouse
Hotels, Margate, UK
2022
Home, One Paved Court, London, UK
2021
Ascension, Zari Gallery, London, UK
KSA Degree Show, Online
AWARDS/HONOURS
2025
Shortlisted for Hari Art Prize
Selected for artist residency with Fishtank Workshop
Winner of Judges Choice Award, Jackson’s Art Prize
2024
Featured on Sky’s Portrait Artist of the Year - painting was selected by Emma Thynn, Marchioness of Bath
Selected for mentorship by Habib Hajallie
2023
Winner of the Margate Art Prize, Awarded by Tracey Emin
Portrait of a Top Boy, Curated by Ronan Mckenzie, National Portrait Gallery (online), Somerset House, London, UK - commissioned by Netflix
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