Penny Goring London, United Kingdom, b. 1962

Goring lives and works in London, where she was born in 1962.

She graduated in Fine Arts, specializing in painting, from Kingston School of Art in London in 1994, after studying Fashion Writing at the London College of Fashion between 1980 and 1981.

Goring produces drawings, paintings, sculptures, videos, and poems that respond to both personal and universal traumas such as pain, violence, addiction, aging, suffering, and fear.

Goring’s drawings and paintings stem from autobiographical experiences, which she expresses through symbols drawn from her own dark yet youthful universe. She frequently turns to motifs such as landscapes, flowers, weeping, and the dual figure of Penny and Amelia—an ex‑lover who died young from a heroin overdose. In her paintings, precision is key: flat backgrounds become fields of color that trap dismembered or distorted female figures at various stages of attempted escape.

Goring has exhibited, among other venues, at the ICA, London; Tate St Ives; the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw; South London Gallery; and Arcadia Missa, London.

In 2026, her first solo exhibition in Mexico and the Americas took place, Penny Goring: Unloving Love / El desamor del amor, organized by Amparo and Manuel Foundation in collaboration with Colegio de San Ildefonso (Mexico City, Mexico) and Arcadia Missa.