Leon Scott-Engel (b.1999, London, UK) lives and works in London. He completed his BA at Glasgow School of Art in 2022 and was awarded the Richard Ford Award and Research Residency at the Museo Del Prado, Madrid. He has had a recent solo show, Handle With Care, at Pipeline in London (2023) and a duo show, Another Round, with George Richardson at Flexitron, in collaboration with Pipeline (2023).
Selected group shows include: John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (2025); Spillâge, Standpoint Gallery, London, UK (2025); Hand Me Downs, Flexitron, London, UK (2025); Vigil: Dreams and the Afterlife, curated by Shipton and Semester 9 at Loods6, Amsterdam, NL (2024); Swab art fair, Split and Neven, Barcelona, ES (2024); The Way of All Flesh, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (2024); Voyeur - The Space Between Us, HBH Gallery, London (2024); Inverted Corneum, Split, London (2023); GRIDLOCK, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2022);
EDUCATION
2019-2022: Glasgow School of Art: BA Painting and Printmaking (First Class Honours) 2018-2019: Central Saint Martins: Fine Art Foundation (Distinction)
SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Another Round, Flexitron, in collaboration with Pipeline, London [with George Richardson]
Handle With Care, Pipeline, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Strings Attached: Chapter II, Pipeline, London [forthcoming] New Geographies, The Tagli, London [forthcoming]
John Moore’s Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Spillâge, Standpoint Gallery, London
Hand Me Downs, Flexitron, London
2024
Vigil: Dreams and the Afterlife, Shipton x Semester 9, Loods 6, Amsterdam Swab art fair, presentation with Neven and Split, Barcelona
Voyeur - The Space Between Us, HBH Gallery, London
The Way of All Flesh, Saatchi Gallery, London
Physical, Lea Bridge Library Pavillion, London
Pourqoui London, Gertrude x Canopy Collections, London
2023
Are We Nearly There Yet?, Beaston Projects at Platforms Project’s, Athens Inverted Corneum, Split, London
In The Making, Liliya Art Gallery, London
2022
To Feel All Your Warmth, Warbling, London GRIDLOCK, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Raising Boys, Black White Gallery, London
Degree Show, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
Figures in Motion, The Pipe Factory, Glasgow
The Front Room II, D Contemporary, London DOPPELGÄNGER, Strangefield, French Street, Glasgow
2021
Stuck, The Glue Factory, Glasgow
RESIDENCIES/ AWARDS
John Moores Painting Prize, Selected Exhibiting Artist, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (2025)
Good Eye Projects, Residency, May-September, London (2025)
Richard Ford Award, Research Residency at the Museo Del Prado, July-August, Madrid (2021)
Curatorial Projects
Flexitron, Artist-run Project Space, Programme Coordinator, 2024- (Ongoing) Are We Nearly There Yet, Group Show, hosted by Beaston Projects, Platforms Project, Athens (2023)
DOPPELGÄNGER, Group Show, Strangefield, French Street, Glasgow (2022)
PUBLICATIONS/ PRESS
In the Studio with Leon Scott-Engel, interview for New Wave Magazine [Rosie Lowit] Voyeur - The Space Between Us, Exhibiton Catalogue, HBH Gallery, London [Folium Books]
Body Language, Emergent Magazine [Ella Slater]
George Richardson and Leon Scott-Engel walk into a bar, Interview for Plaster Magazine [Jacob Wilson]
Soft Touch, 500 Review [Henry Tudor Pole]
Recommended Exhibition: Leon Scott-Engel’s, ‘Handle With Care’, The Shock of the Now, Issue 91 [Hector Campbell]
DOPPELGÄNGERS, Exhibition Catalogue, [Edited and Designed by Leon Scott- Engel]
Raising Boys: adolescence, masculinity and the blurry lines where they meet, The Face Magazine [Didem Gokpinar]
Time ! Please 2020 [Black Sifichi, Roma Napoli and Thierry Martin]