Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville (b. 1970) is a British painter celebrated for her monumental, visceral depictions of the human body. Emerging in the 1990s as part of the Young British Artists, she pushed figurative painting into new territory with her raw, intimate studies of flesh, identity, and physicality. Working with sweeping, expressive brushwork, Saville magnifies the body’s complexities and vulnerabilities, making her one of the most influential contemporary figurative painters of her generation.