Miranda Forrester is a figurative painter living and working in London. She graduated from the University of Brighton with a BA in Fine Art Painting. Forrester explores the queer Black female gaze, confronting the erasure of Black women from the Western art historical canon and picturing what the male gaze has historically refused to see. Working on translucent polycarbonate sheeting, her surfaces dissolve the boundary between figure and ground, embracing deliberate ambiguity around gender, sexuality, and identity. Drawing on Renaissance compositional traditions while radically reconfiguring who occupies those spaces, her work celebrates Black women and non-binary people as unbounded, self-possessed, and held within environments that honour their presence.
Solo exhibitions include (Upcoming) Evening rituals, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Florida, USA (2026); Be Like Water, Foundry Seoul, South Korea (2025); Interiorities, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Chicago IL, USA (2024); Arrival, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK (2023); Abode, Guts Gallery, London, UK, (2020).
Group exhibitions include Present, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK (2026); Conversations, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (2024); In Praise of Black Errantry, Venice Biennale, Italy (2024); In the Blood, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK (2024); LEDA and the SWAN: a myth of creation and destruction, Victoria Miro Gallery II, London, UK (2023); Like Paradise, Claridges Art Space, London, UK (2023); Hauntology: Ghostly Matters, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Chicago IL, USA (2023); Uprising, Schloss Görne, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2022); Best of 2021, SEAM Agency, London, UK (2021); Reality Check, Guts Gallery, London, UK (2021); Poetic Sustenance: Ryan Christopher, Miranda Forrester & Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK (2021); BBZ Alternative Graduate Show, Copeland Gallery, London, UK (2019); PLOP End of residency show, The Koppel Project, London, UK (2019); Scapes, Trace queer art collective, The Marlborough Theatre, Brighton (2018); Conjecture, University of Brighton, Brighton (2018); Fragments, Norman Rea Gallery, York (2018); Pink season, Pop up gallery, Brighton (2018); Foundation Show, University for the Creative Arts, Epsom (2016).
Highlights and Collections
Miranda Forrester has been awarded numerous awards and residencies including the Breakthrough Artist Award with Soho House in 2022 and the Cass Art Phoenix Studio Award in 2019, alongside residencies with Palazzo Monti (Italy), PLOP (UK), and more. Forrester’s work is held in collections internationally, including in the Soho House collection, Arts council collection and the Beth Rudin DeWoody collection.
Group exhibitions include Present, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK (2026); Conversations, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (2024); In Praise of Black Errantry, Venice Biennale, Italy (2024); In the Blood, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK (2024); LEDA and the SWAN: a myth of creation and destruction, Victoria Miro Gallery II, London, UK (2023); Like Paradise, Claridges Art Space, London, UK (2023); Hauntology: Ghostly Matters, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Chicago IL, USA (2023); Uprising, Schloss Görne, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2022); Best of 2021, SEAM Agency, London, UK (2021); Reality Check, Guts Gallery, London, UK (2021); Poetic Sustenance: Ryan Christopher, Miranda Forrester & Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK (2021); BBZ Alternative Graduate Show, Copeland Gallery, London, UK (2019); PLOP End of residency show, The Koppel Project, London, UK (2019); Scapes, Trace queer art collective, The Marlborough Theatre, Brighton (2018); Conjecture, University of Brighton, Brighton (2018); Fragments, Norman Rea Gallery, York (2018); Pink season, Pop up gallery, Brighton (2018); Foundation Show, University for the Creative Arts, Epsom (2016).
Highlights and Collections
Miranda Forrester has been awarded numerous awards and residencies including the Breakthrough Artist Award with Soho House in 2022 and the Cass Art Phoenix Studio Award in 2019, alongside residencies with Palazzo Monti (Italy), PLOP (UK), and more. Forrester’s work is held in collections internationally, including in the Soho House collection, Arts council collection and the Beth Rudin DeWoody collection.