Sam Wootton
Commissioned Works
Tate Modern, Commissioned painting, 2025.
Salomon, Commissioned series of paintings in Soho store, 2025.
Rally Festival, Commissioned painting for installation, 2026.
Arts Council, Commissioned large-scale public work, Wolverhampton, 2025
Gucci, Commissioned painting and accompanying WIP video, 2022.
Axel Arigato, Paris Fashion Week, Live oil painting in-store, 2023.
Reuben Selby, London Fashion Week, Live oil painting during runway show, 2022.
Sandro, Commissioned painting for AW24, 2024.
Bape, Commissioned painting for Bapestas, 2026.
Blue Nour, Commissioned series of paintings in response to signature scents, 2025.
‘Sainte, Heavenly Thoughts', Oil Painting for Sainte, Acclaimed musician, 2022.
‘Four Pistols in a Bottle Factory', by Maisie Williams, for 'Pistol', Miniseries on Hulu, 2022.
‘Miles', Oil Painting for Hannah Khalique Brown Acclaimed actress, 2023.
Levi’s, Gifted clothes to paint in-studio, 2025.
Brixton Brewery, Sponsorship of solo show, 2023
Meller, Gifted clothes to paint in-studio, 2023.
Residencies & Delivered Workshops
Deptford X, Artist Associate, 2026
Hypha Studios, Platformed Artist, 2026
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Residency, 2024
Copeland Park Gallery, London Fashion Week AW22, 2022
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 'A Workshop; Constructing your own Portrait’, 2025.
Arts Council Commissioned Workshops, 2025: 'A Workshop; Tapestried Histories’, 2025.
Bishops Stortford Grammar: 'A Workshop; Oil painting Portraits’, 2025.
Wolverhampton Grammar School: 'A Workshop: Oil Painting’, 2025.
Arts Consultancy & Writing
V&A, Consultancy on Youth Culture, Art & Membership, 2025.
MØRNING.FYI, Consultancy on Youth Culture, Tech & Art Engagement, 2023.
Royal Opera House, 2021, Consultancy on Youth Culture & Art
Vice Media, 2021, Consultancy on Social Media & Art
New Wave Magazine, 2021: 'Shaquille Aaron Keith, an Artist interview', Print
Roar Magazine, Show Review, Kehinde Wiley, In Search of the Miraculous, 2018.
Radar Radio Blog, Show Review, Basquiat, Boom For Real, 2019.
Shows
RALLY FESTIVAL, PUBLIC INSTALLATION, September 2026, Works exhibited: ‘Grauballe Man’
DEPTFORD X WEEKENDER, October 2026, Works exhibited: 7 x assorted works
FRIEZE, COLLECTOR’S BREAKFAST, October 2026, Works exhibited: ‘Dragons …In The Bog'
‘WE HAVE NEVER BEEN POWERLESS’, BLEUR GALLERY, August 2026, Works exhibited: 6 x assorted works
LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL with LOTTIE MAC, September 2026, Works exhibited: ‘Martyred on a Plywood Cross’
‘MEETINTHEMIDI’, HARLESDEN HIGH STREET & BLEUR GALLERY, March 2026, Works exhibited: ‘Perfecto Miserable
‘A QUICK PECK ON YOUR NAN’S PORCH’ FREEHOUSE, April 2026, Works exhibited: 10 x assorted works
‘MORE ART’, WOLVERHAMPTON ART GALLERY, JUNE 2024 Works exhibited: ’Shadows of Men on Ghosts of Horses’
'COLLECTIVIST II', DEPTFORD YARD, CURATED BY ISAAC ANDREWS, LONDON, FEBRUARY 2024 Works exhibited: 'Market Day', 'Soft as Feathers', Oil on Canvas
'REFRACTIONS, BEYOND WHAT MEETS THE 'I'', DUO SHOW, PACHEANNE ANDERSON GALLERY & ADVISORY, KOOP PROJECTS, BRIGHTON, NOVEMBER 2023 Works exhibited: 12 works spanning latter half of 2023
'TO ACT, TO BE', SOLO SHOW, FOREVERGOOD GALLERY, LONDON BRIDGE, SEPTEMBER 2023 Works exhibited: 20 works spanning breadth of oeuvre
'SCRATCHING THE SURFACE AT THE FACTORY PROJECT, PACHEANNE ANDERSON GALLERY & ADVISORY', DURING FRIEZE WEEK, NEWHAM, OCTOBER 2021 Works exhibited: 'Infinite Seats at the Table', Oil on Canvas 'Goya Gumbani, the Great', Oil on Canvas 'Lance, Blood Sucker', Oil on Canvas 'Samuel Ross' Spectres of the Walls', Oil on Canvas
PARIS FASHION WEEK, 'MSM X AXEL ARIGATO: OUR WORLDS COLLIDE', PARIS, JANUARY 2023 Works exhibited: 'New Hair, Oil on Canvas
LONDON FASHION WEEK, 'REUBEN SELBY: THE WILL TO FORM', COPELAND GALLERY, PECKHAM, FEBRUARY 2022 Works exhibited: 'Djenaba and Tess, Nymphs of the Waterfall', Oil on Canvas 'Benny, Scribe of Tomes', Oil on Canvas 'Willow, New Youth', Oil on Canvas 'Infinite Seats at the Table' Oil on Canvas 'Samuel Ross' Spectres of the Walls', Oil on Canvas
LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL, 'PERMANENT TEMPORARY', BERMONDSEY, NOVEMBER 2021 Works exhibited: 'Archie, Oracle', Oil on Canvas
SLACKER CITY, LAVA LA RUE CONCERT, MAP CAFE CAMDEN, DECEMBER 2019 Works exhibited: 'Untitled', Oil on canvas
Press
The Face Magazine, 2023, TJ Siddhu 'Emerging artist Sam Wootton will be swinging open the doors of South London's ForeverGood this Thursday for his first solo show, presenting surreal, well-dressed portraits that tap into tech, AI and the weird corners of the internet. It's only on for a few days, so pull yourself out of bed and get down. Wootton's one to watch.'
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Frieze Website, 2026: Bringing together Sam Wootton, Ken Nwadiogbu, Melissa Newbery Welcome, Savannah Harris and PJ Harper, the exhibition explores ideas of resistance, identity, visibility and resilience through painting, sculpture and installation. Rather than approaching resistance as something loud or performative, the exhibition considers the quieter forms of power found in endurance, holding space and continuing to create within structures not necessarily designed to accommodate you. Sam Wootton explores masculinity, identity and youth culture through a multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, drawing and installation, while Ken Nwadiogbu’s socially engaged work examines identity, migration and visibility.
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Plaster Magazine, 2025, Dora DB 'Painter Sam Wooton has a similar kind of split, though the influences of his other job are more obvious. He works part-time for a modelling agency, and also paints distorted yet elegant bodies and expressive, stylised faces. “The glossiness of the editorials we do, I also find in my paintings,” he told me. Still, he sees the connection as mostly subconscious. “I’ll always need that work to remind me that my practice requires sowing ahead of reaping. I think to be an artist today is to fill so many boots anyway, what’s another pair of work boots besides a reminder that your studio slippers might be more comfortable?”
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Brave Projects, 2025, Victoria Comstock-Kershaw 'Sam Wootton, a self-taught painter who has worked for Gucci, Sandro, Axel Arigato and the Tate, deliberately skipped art school. “I didn’t go… because I was pretty set in the idea that I was going to pursue art irrespective of whether I studied or not,” he explains. “I studied English Literature at KCL, and always found time to make, and sell, paintings. I knew I could do this, I knew the passion wasn’t going anywhere.” At first, being self-taught “felt like an augmentation granting more freedom in movement, both institutionally and within my practice. Fewer walls or boxes.”
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Dazed Mag, 2024, Thom Waite 'Curated by Isaac Andrews, the London Exhibition turns a blind eye to education or art world accolades: 'The art world is already elitist enough.'
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Hector Campbell, 2023 Included in 'Recommended openings this week' for the W/C 4th September.
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Mission Statement Mag, 2023, Leonie Bell 'During the event (For Paris Fashion Week) we had a live art performance from London based artist Sam Wootton, who painted a beautiful piece amidst all the chaos. He let us know the piece is part of a larger body of work centred around building your identity while caring for your inner child.'
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Tirade World, 2022, Sophie Emmett 'Sam Wootton is a bold, articulate and skilled painter, finishing an English literature degree at Kings college , he has since worked as a model, radio presenter, in journalism and as a stylist, the world is quite literally this young Artist’s oyster. From 2018, his paintings have been creating quite the stir among the London Art scene and on Tik Tok , where he’s got quite the following.'
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MSM, 2022, Kaycia Ainsworth 'Sam Wootton's space resembled an ornamental magpie's nest. The 'nest' contained shoes, the ash of incense, scrunched up tubes of paint, books, radios, plants, all laid on the floor beneath his artwork, acting as an educational collage, a crime scene style investigation into Sam's mind and inspiration, presented for his audience's consumption..."I'm an advocate for creating a gallery space that you would move through with the same ease with which you'd move through your own home or a party"...'I feel very comfortable here'.
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Soft Punk Mag, 2021, Jacob Barnes 'Despite being well-established in London's fashion circles, artist Sam Wootton is much more than a pretty face. Having now established an almost cult-like following for his distinctive, realist paintings, Wootton has moved from the ranks of model to bonafide artist in a matter of months, making him someone to both watch for the future and enjoy in the present. When I was given the opportunity to sit down for drinks with Sam, I had to take it – ever-articulate and thoughtful about his own work, I knew I had plenty of thoughts, but wanted to hear it from the horse's mouth, so to speak.'
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Flash Art International, 2021, J.P Barnes 'Take, for example, the meteoric growth of London-based artist Sam Wootton on the platform (TikTok). The recent graduate has amassed more than 72,900 likes on his videos detailing his painting process from his bedroom, while still yet to accrue much by way of an exhibition history. Wootton is by all counts a bona fide artist, or certainly as much as any other graduate beginning to find their way, but one must ask if this is simply akin to the influencer-artist hybrid which is so easily discarded above, or something altogether different. Despite Wootton’s model good looks and dulcet narration, the focus of the content remains the production of a piece, not simply that of his art-adjacent life, more glamor than gouache.’
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Contact Creatives, 2021, Cory Edwards 'Art exists in the smallest, most informal spaces. Art is often on our phone. Art can be very little, or integrated into accessible design. It can be a doormat, or the opening animation to an app.My work's built upon this premise. I love inspiring people to think about my work, but never aim to be difficult for the sake of it. I aim to find beauty in so much that's often disregarded as vapid. One of my friends recently described my work as ‘deifying, without making the subject gods’, and I think I like that as a summation.’
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Fizzy Mag, 2020, Tenai Palomino 'After graduating from King’s College London and beginning to work with Dover Street Market, Sam Wootton continues to showcase his insanely unique creative flair through a series of alluring works. As a model and radio presenter for JuiceBox Radio, with experience in styling and journalism, the London-based creative exhibits his boundless talents throughout multiple avenues, cementing himself as one to watch. Infusing both classical and contemporary features into his work, the proficient painter is storming the art world with an authenticity impossible to ignore. Who you know comin’ like this?’