• Renée Estée (b. 1992) is an Australian-born, New York-based artist. She’s a recent Hunter MFA Graduate (Dec 2022) and graduated...
    Renée Estée in her studio in Sydney Studio, Australia, 2025. Image courtesy of the artist and COMA, Sydney.

    Renée Estée (b. 1992) is an Australian-born, New York-based artist. She’s a recent Hunter MFA Graduate (Dec 2022) and graduated with a BFA Honors (First Class Honors) from the Victorian College of the Arts (Melbourne, Aus) in 2016.

     

    Linking ideas and imagery of the Australian Outback, Hauntology, Orphism and contemplations of afterlife beliefs, Estée’s practice highlights myth-making and rituals surrounding mourning, celebration and commemoration. Operating as visual love letters and epitaphs, her large-scale oil paintings coalesce figuration and abstraction to conjure spaces where she can commune with the deceased and contend with future loss. Taking on apparitional characteristics; figures materialize from layered, loose, gestural mark-making that merge in and out of their surrounding environments, whilst animals wander in the peripheries, simultaneously observing departures and transformations taking place. Carving out spaces from thick impasto marks alongside thin washes and surface stains, Estée considers painting’s ability to omit and transfigure.

     

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  • Artworks
    • Renée Estée Soul Collision with Comet Hale-Bopp, 2025 synthetic polymer paint, oil paint on canvas 166 x 150 cm 65 3/8 x 59 in
      Renée Estée
      Soul Collision with Comet Hale-Bopp, 2025
      synthetic polymer paint, oil paint on canvas
      166 x 150 cm
      65 3/8 x 59 in
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    • Renée Estée Long Distance Farewell, 2025 oil paint, oil bar, mica, charcoal on canvas 163 x 184 cm 64 1/8 x 72 1/2 in
      Renée Estée
      Long Distance Farewell, 2025
      oil paint, oil bar, mica, charcoal on canvas
      163 x 184 cm
      64 1/8 x 72 1/2 in
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    • Renée Estée Endless Loop, 2025 oil paint, synthetic polymer paint, charcoal, mica on canvas 157 x 200 cm 61 3/4 x 78 3/4 in
      Renée Estée
      Endless Loop, 2025
      oil paint, synthetic polymer paint, charcoal, mica on canvas
      157 x 200 cm
      61 3/4 x 78 3/4 in
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    • Renée Estée Spirit Echo, 2025 oil paint, charcoal, mica, embroidery on canvas 180.5 x 171 cm 71 x 67 3/8 in
      Renée Estée
      Spirit Echo, 2025
      oil paint, charcoal, mica, embroidery on canvas
      180.5 x 171 cm
      71 x 67 3/8 in
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  • Exhibitions

     
     

  • "Encountering a Renée Estée painting is like stumbling across a book that has been left open. Except here the spine is shaped by timber and the pages clipped from canvas, as if smoothed down mid-chapter and faced out into better reading light."

     

     

    Chloe Borich, To Be Magazine, 2023

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