Christopher Page explores the boundaries between light, shadow and reflection, creating paintings that hover between illusion and abstraction. His trompe l’oeil works – painted on canvas or directly onto architectural surfaces – transform spaces into uncanny environments where the virtual and physical collide. Simulating framed paintings, windows and mirrors, his flat, meticulously rendered canvases mimic light, glass and shadow, disorienting our perception of depth and reality.
 

Drawing from Baroque traditions, Page’s work challenges the viewer’s sense of presence and absence. Blank ‘mirrors’ offer neither reflection nor certainty, yet they compel introspection. These works are rich in art historical references and probe our dissociation from physical reality in an era dominated by screens.
 

Through installations and standalone pieces, Page manipulates architectural contexts, dissolving the boundaries between inside and outside, painting and space. His practice prompts reflection – literal and metaphorical – on how light and its surrogates reveal, obscure, and shape our understanding of the world.
 

Christopher Page (b. 1984, London, UK; lives and works in Dorset, UK) received his MFA from Yale School of Art in 2011. Page’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at Ben Hunter Gallery, London; Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Villa Lontana, Rome; and Para Site, Hong Kong. His work is held in the collection of Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro. Recent exhibitions include ‘Present Tense’, Hauser & Wirth Somerset (2024); ‘Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder’, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York (2023), ‘Earth Sky Body Ruins’ (with Clementine Keith-Roach), Ben Hunter, London (2023); ‘Fading Light in the Picture Gallery’, Dirimart, Istanbul (2022); and ‘Knots’ (with Clementine Keith-Roach), P.P.O.W., New York (2022). Page is the founder and editor of Effects, a journal of art, poetry and essays.