Antonia CH (b. 1997, Cali, Col) is a Colombian artist based in London, working predominantly in painting.
Her paintings explores the human figure, the human condition and the emotional ties between people and places. Drawing from personal experience, her Latin American upbringing, mythology and literature, she brings observed and invented imagery together in paintings that move between figuration and abstraction.
Places in London, Cali, the Farallones mountains and the colombian caribbean often become references for her paintings. Shaped by her experiences and associations, and informed by memory and imagination, her paintings map out an emotional topography.
Her ongoing series Common Ground, Albion, Physical Memory, Body Current and Myths of My Own overlap and are intertwined through recurring interests in relationships, intimacy, community, the body, place and self-understanding. Myth and literature offer ways of understanding the world, she often reimagines literary figures such as Sisyphus and Hamlet’s Ophelia through her visual language, giving form to a unique universe. Built up through paint, her paintings move between defined and dissolving spaces. Similar to magical realism, she paints scenes in which ordinary life begin to behave like myth.
She holds an MA in Fine Art from The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, and has studied at the New York Studio School and Bath School of Art and Design. Her solo exhibitions include Uplifted at Incubator, London (2024), This Seat is Taken at LKIF Gallery, Seoul (2024), and Before and After Coffee at Galería de la Aduana, Barranquilla (2021). Exhibited with Isabel Sullivan Gallery, New York, and participated in Art Miami 2024 as part of the gallery’s art fair presentation. Also exhibited with Twilight Contemporary and LBF Contemporary, London.
She is an Artist in Residence at Sarabande Foundation in 2025–26 and is a recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant and Sarabande Foundation Award. Her work has been exhibited internationally and featured in Wallpaper, Forbes and The Art Newspaper.
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