Rhys Coren (b. 1983, Plymouth, UK) lives and works in London. Coren works across animation, writing, performance, painted marquetry, and furniture. His work explores rhythm, color and texture with cartoon-like clouds, text, grids of color, shadows and the interplay of lines. Coren credits the structures found in electronic dance music, jazz and disco as central to his work.

Public art installations by Coren include a nine-meter-long terrazzo mural at Bond Street Crossrail station, Everyone I’ve Ever Known (2020), and the animation Love Motion, projected across the facade of the Royal Academy of Arts (2018).

Coren’s most ambitious public art installation – a 60-meter (200-foot) long floor work created with reclaimed marble and granite, spanning the length of a pedestrian walkway connecting Bishopsgate to Exchange Square in London – is due to open in 2026.

Coren completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art, at the Royal Academy Schools, London, in 2016. He graduated from the University of West England, Bristol, in 2006, and from Plymouth College of Art & Design in 2002.

Solo exhibitions include Foreign & Domestic, New York (2024); Seventeen, London (2023, 2021, 2019, 2017); Frans Kasl Projects, Eindhoven (2021); Grimm Gallery, New York (2018); Galerie pcp, Paris (2016) and Jerwood Project Space, London (2014). Group exhibitions include galeriepcp, Paris (2024); Quench, Margate (2024); Royal Academy, London (2024); The Pit, Los Angeles (2023); John Moores Painting Prize, Liverpool (2023); Drawing Room, London (2021); University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield (2019); Bluecoat, Liverpool; Screen City Biennial, MS Sandnes Boat, Stavanger, Norway (2017); Seventeen, London (2016); Royal Academy of Arts, London (2016); Slate Projects, London (2015).