Elsa Rouy (b. 2000, Sittingbourne, UK) lives and works in London. She graduated from Camberwell College of Art in 2021 and has since developed a practice of semi-autobiographical painting that uses the figure to explore the complexities of personhood. Her characters often occupy moments that blur the line between suffering and pleasure, addressing themes of femininity, control, destruction, desolation, evolution, and catharsis.

Rouy’s work examines the anxieties and intimacies of bodily awareness, navigating both societal and internal power structures, while reflecting on the fluidity of existence. She has had solo exhibitions at galleries including GNYP, Berlin; Guts, London; and Steve Turner, Los Angeles, and in 2026 her work was the subject of a solo exhibition at Museum Elektrownia, Radom.