A woman with long dark hair, wearing black clothing and black sneakers, standing with arms crossed in an art gallery near a fireplace, with abstract blue and gray paintings on the wall behind her.

Leila Bartell is a London-based artist whose work investigates perception, memory, and the conditions through which visibility is produced. Her practice engages with philosophy, art history, and the landscape tradition, treating painting as a site in which internal and external realities intersect.

Bartell has presented solo exhibitions at Daniel Katz Gallery and Tristan Hoare Gallery. Her exhibition Memory Fields (2025) at Tristan Hoare Gallery placed her work in dialogue with John Constable’s skies, reconsidering the landscape tradition through perceptual instability. Her 2024 exhibition at Daniel Katz Gallery formed a contemporary dialogue with Baroque sculpture by Filippo Parodi.

In addition to painting, she works in film when a different temporal or perceptual field is required. These works emerge from the same ongoing inquiry and extend her investigation into interiority and experience.

Her work is held in public and private collections across Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. She was selected for Harper’s Bazaar Germany’s 2025 Art List.