Find our more about the exhibition Jenny Saville: Ancestors at West 21st Street, New York. Installation views, works, editorial content, press, and more.

Find our more about the exhibition Jenny Saville: Ancestors at West 21st Street, New York. Installation views, works, editorial content, press, and more.

Find our more about the exhibition Jenny Saville: Ancestors at West 21st Street, New York. Installation views, works, editorial content, press, and more.

Find our more about the exhibition Jenny Saville: Ancestors at West 21st Street, New York. Installation views, works, editorial content, press, and more.

Find our more about the exhibition Jenny Saville: Ancestors at West 21st Street, New York. Installation views, works, editorial content, press, and more.

Find our more about the exhibition Jenny Saville: Ancestors at West 21st Street, New York. Installation views, works, editorial content, press, and more.

Find our more about the exhibition Jenny Saville: Elpis at 980 Madison Avenue, New York. Installation views, works, editorial content, press, and more.

Find our more about the exhibition Jenny Saville: Migrants at 555 West 24th Street, New York. Works, editorial content, press, and more.

Find our more about the exhibition Jenny Saville: Ancestors at West 21st Street, New York. Installation views, works, editorial content, press, and more.

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Learn about the work and career of artist Jenny Saville. Artworks, biography, exhibitions, news, museum exhibitions, press, and more.

In her depictions of the human form, Jenny Saville transcends the boundaries of both classical figuration and modern abstraction. Oil paint, applied in heavy layers, becomes as visceral as flesh itself, each painted mark maintaining a supple, mobile life of its own. As Saville pushes, smears, and scrapes the pigment over her large-scale canvases, the distinctions between living, breathing bodies and their painted representations begin to collapse.

Find our more about the exhibition Jenny Saville: Territories at Wooster Street, New York. Works, editorial content, press, and more.

Find our more about the exhibition Jenny Saville: Oxyrhynchus at Britannia Street, London. Installation views, works, editorial content, press, and more.

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Jenny Saville speaks with Nicholas Cullinan, the director of the National Portrait Gallery, London, about her latest self-portrait, her studio practice, and the historical painters to whom she ...

Find our more about the exhibition Jenny Saville: Oxyrhynchus at Britannia Street, London. Installation views, works, editorial content, press, and more.

Find our more about the exhibition Jenny Saville: Ancestors at West 21st Street, New York. Installation views, works, editorial content, press, and more.