William Grob

London, 1992
lives and works in Berlin

William Grob studied photography at Falmouth University and now lives and works in Berlin. His oil paintings feature figures in snapshots from quotidian life, either in quiet, private repose, or in transitional public spaces. There is a soft melancholy to his characters; alienation and loneliness are recurrent themes. Grob uses colours as a vivid emotional language to create rhythm and movement as much as form. Like Chagall, Grob renders fantastical scenes of marginal figures in village life; though in his playful irony, Grob never loses his engaged sense of empathy. Among his most significant solo exhibitions are In All Weathers, presented in 2025 at Nosbaum Reding Gallery in Luxembourg, and Overlaid Emotions, held in 2020 at Luisa Catucci Gallery in Berlin. On the group exhibition front, a standout is his participation in Outsiders Everywhere in 2025 at Tabula Rasa Gallery in Beijing. Also noteworthy is his presence in the 2023 exhibition Picasso 50 Years, organized by Christie’s in London.

SOLO SHOWS

2025
In All Weathers, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg

2023
Diagonal Lovers, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels

2022
Lost Millennials (duo), Luisa Catucci Gallery, Berlin

2020
Overlaid emotions, Luisa Catucci Gallery, Berlin

2018
Scope Art Fair, Basel

2017
Solo Show at Albert’s Club during Frieze Art Fair, London

GROUP SHOWS

2025
Still life and Flowers, Curated by Yam Shalev, Room57 Gallery, New York
A Bittersweet Reality, Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Outsiders Everywhere, curated by William Leung, Tabula Rasa Gallery, Beijing

2024
Anonymous Drawings, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin

2023
Modern Now, Setareh Gallery, Berlin
Charity auction for Desideria Care e.V., Sotheby’s, Cologne
Picasso 50 years, Christie’s Auction House, London
Art Brussels Fair, with Nosbaum Reding, Brussels
2012 Never Happened: An Epilogue, Indebt Gallery, Amsterdam

2022
Particle + Phillips Auction house. Art Basel takeover, Miami
Noir Night Market, Charity fundraiser ‘Berlinforborders’, Berlin
A Drawing Show, PaintTalk, London

2021
Plop Residency Show, Cob Gallery, London
Tusk charity event, Soho Revue, London

RESIDENCY

2022
Malevich.io, Como

2021
Plop X Cob, London

2016
Galerie 102, Berlin

2015
Roll-up Gate, New York