Gwynna Dille (b. 2001, Los Angeles, CA) creates work dedicated to a loving observation of
friendship, minor grievances, and great pleasures alike. Her work is intertextual, using
literature, myth, religion, and the stories she grew up hearing from her dad to bridge the gulf
between her experiences and her storytelling: when diagnosed with a minor illness, she paints
herself as a poolside Ophelia surrounded by friends who politely entertain this drama, or when
rehashing something that happened years ago with a friend, they are posed laying among
tombstones, ‘burying their dead’ so to speak.
Gwynna graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2023 with a degree in Painting
and a concentration in History studying rituals, rites, and holy sites in Paganism and Christianity
in Northern Europe.
Her work was featured in 'Picnic At Hanging Rock' at Sargent's Daughters Gallery. Additionally, her work has been in New American Paintings Pacific Coast Issue #157 and #163. Dille was featured in Michael Farris's group show 'Newly Available' in 2024 and the Field Projects Gallery online show 'Not Even Home Will Be With You Forever' in 2022. In 2023, she curated and exhibited in the RISD Museum's Gelman Gallery show entitled 'Go Thither'.
