Jenny Saville RA graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1992 and was appointed as lecturer at The Slade School of Fine Arts, London between 2000 - 2006. Saville currently works between London and Palermo, Italy.
Saville is best known for her large scale oil paintings of fleshy female figures, through which she invokes a deep fascination in the palpability of flesh, extremities of anatomy, and the grotesque combined with a masterly and yet intuitive instinct for the handling of paint.
By 1994 Saville’s increasing profile enabled her to exhibit in several notable group shows: Young British Artists III, Saatchi Gallery, London (1994), Contemporary British Art ’96, Museum of Kalmar, Stockholm (1996) and the iconic Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of the Arts, London (1997), positioning Saville as one of the foremost painters of her generation. In 1999 Saville produced her first major solo exhibition; Territories for Gagosian Gallery, New York and subsequently her second solo show; Migrants, also for Gagosian Gallery, New York (2003). More recently Saville was the subject of an in-depth survey exhibition at the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome (2005) and the renowned collector Carlo Billoti commissioned Saville to produce 3 artworks for the inagural exhibition of the Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome (2006). Most recently, the artist curated La Peregrina, a personal and contemporary response to Rubens and His Legacy at the Royal Academy (2015).