Oli Epp

Born in 1994, Oli Epp is part of the generation which grew up surrounded by digital technology. While his painting is the product of our experience of an increasingly digitized world, his caustic humor embodies the other side of the coin, encouraging us to distance ourselves from our unhealthy, modern foibles. His simplified human silhouettes, reduced to their bare essentials, form a parody of our real, everyday world and with his keen sense of tragi-comedy, he reveals the farcicality of certain of our collective rituals and behavior.

Oli Epp’s paintings are very smooth in nature, including polished flat tints alongside more blurred zones created with the use of an airbrush. His use of light radiates in a surreal impression of a backlit screen. The graphic simplicity and the seemingly apparent ease the viewer experiences in interpreting his paintings in fact mask a social satire of rare depth.

Oli Epp graduated from the City & Guilds of London Art School in 2017 and is currently based in London. He has been awarded numerous prizes and has enjoyed a variety of residencies. In 2018, Semiose Gallery organized his first solo exhibition in a gallery, followed by several others in 2020, 2022, and 2025. In 2025, the NTNU Art Museum in Taipei dedicated a solo show to his work accompanied by a catalog. He has also curated several exhibitions, at the Perrotin Gallery in Paris and the Arsenal Contemporary in Montreal. He has participated in many group exhibitions including Cat People at the Noisy-le-Sec Gallery (2025) and Art Without Borders at the Royal Academy of Arts (2023). His works feature in numerous private and public collections including the Blanca and Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection in Madrid, the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.