Gregg Chadwick creates his artwork in an old airplane hangar in Santa Monica, California. The recurring sound of airplane take-offs and landings from the active airport runway outside his studio reminds him of his own history of travel.



Chadwick has exhibited his artworks in galleries and museums both nationally and internationally. He earned a Bachelor's Degree at UCLA and a Master’s Degree at NYU, both in Fine Art.



Chadwick has had notable solo exhibitions at the Manifesta Maastricht Gallery (Maastricht, The Netherlands), Space AD 2000 (Tokyo, Japan), the Lisa Coscino Gallery (Pacific Grove, CA), the Julie Nester Gallery (Park City, Utah), the Sandra Lee Gallery (San Francisco), and Audis Husar Fine Arts (Los Angeles) among others. Chadwick has participated in over one hundred and fifty group exhibitions including the L Ross Gallery (Memphis, Tenn), the Andrea Schwartz Gallery (San Francisco), Band of Vices (Los Angeles), the LOOK Gallery (Los Angeles), the Propeller Gallery (Santa Monica), the di Rosa Preserve Gallery (Napa) and the Arts Club of Washington (Washington DC).



Chadwick’s art is notably included in the collections of the Adobe Corporation, the Gilpin Museum, the Graciela Hotel – Burbank, the Harbor Court Hotel - San Francisco; the Kimpton Group’s headquarters in San Francisco, the National Museum of the Marine Corps, Nordstrom Company Headquarters, the UCLA School of Nursing, the W Hotel Hollywood, and Winona State University.





Chadwick is frequently invited to lecture on the arts. He has spoken at UCLA, Monterey Peninsula College, the Esalen Institute, TRAC 2015, the World Views forum in Amsterdam - The Netherlands, and at Categorically Not - a monthly forum that considers the arts and science. Twice a year he delivers a lecture on art and social justice at UCLA in an interdisciplinary form with the UCLA School of Nursing.



Chadwick was a working artist in residence at the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles leading students at Culver City High School in an exploration of Dael Orlandersmith’s “Until the Flood.”



Chadwick is the proud father of his transgender daughter Cassiel Chadwick..

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

For me, oil painting is the transmission of a mystical tradition. My process is a cycle of application and erasure: I build the surface only to scrape it back while wet, leaving behind a fragile palimpsest. These under-images are vital ghosts—remnants of earlier ideas that remain visible within the work.
At the heart of this technique is the use of pentimenti. I embrace both planned and accidental marks, layering paint to create a succession of present moments. This accumulation of history creates a distinct sensation of light emanating from within the canvas.
The meaning of my art—the interplay of memory, time, and human struggle—is inextricably linked to the physical reality of the oil painting process. The human figure, rendered in transparent veils of color, functions as a visible archive of its own history. My physical engagement with the surface ensures that the process of creation is synonymous with the resulting narrative.
These works reflect the 21st-century human subject: a collection of memories and hopes layered over time. My paintings ask for a different kind of attention—slower, closer, and perhaps more honest.

- Gregg Chadwick, March 2025