b. 1976, United Kingdom
Selma Parlour, b.1976, London, lives and works in London, UK
Major exhibitions include; Activities for the Abyss (solo), Pi Artworks London, UK (2019); Upright Animal (solo), Pi Artworks London, UK (2018); Parlour Games (solo), Marcelle Joseph Projects (solo), House of St Barnabas, London (2016); Paradoxes of the Flattened-Out Cavity (solo), Dio Horia, Mykonos (2015); Selma Parlour (solo), MOT International Projects, London, UK (2012); Selma Parlour and Yelena Popova, Horton Gallery, NY, USA (2012); and Bloomberg New Contemporaries, ICA, London, UK (2011). In 2014, Parlour was selected for Thames and Hudson's international competition and publication 100 Painters of Tomorrow. Parlour was granted the Mark Rothko Memorial Trust Award (2018). She was the recipient of the Sunny Dupree Family Award for a Woman Artist at the Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2017) and was a Prizewinner at the John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Gallery, Liverpool (2016). Major collections include; Creative Cities Collections, Beijing and the Saatchi Gallery, London.