Julian Pace

Julian Pace was born in 1988 in Seattle, Washington, and is self-taught, with no formal art school training documented in public sources. His gallery biography describes several formative years spent living in Florence, Italy, followed by time in New York, before he settled in Los Angeles, where he now lives and works.

Pace's paintings and drawings depict cultural, political, and sports figures rendered with exaggerated proportions and a pop-historical sensibility, treating celebrity, sport, and consumer culture as subjects of observation. His first widely noted solo exhibition, Some People, opened at The Cabin in Los Angeles in 2020; a Juxtapoz feature on that body of work credited it with placing him in a broader conversation about a new generation of American figurative painters. He followed with Some Paintings at Simchowitz in Los Angeles in 2021, Front and Back at Simchowitz's downtown Los Angeles space and a solo presentation at De Brock Gallery in Knokke, Belgium in 2023, and the selling exhibitions Beloved Artifacts (2024) and Courtside (2025) at Sotheby's in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles. He is currently represented by Simchowitz and De Brock Gallery.

Critical attention to Pace remains limited relative to his gallery and auction profile, concentrated mainly in a small number of art-press features rather than institutional scholarship. A Juxtapoz feature on Pace's 2020 show at The Cabin situated the resulting body of work within a conversation about a new generation of American painters known for treating iconography in surprising, often imposing and joyous ways. Coverage elsewhere, including Hypebeast and features tied to his sports subject matter, has focused on his treatment of sport and celebrity as cultural phenomena rather than on formal art-historical placement. No major awards, prizes, or museum acquisitions have been documented for him to date.

Pace's clearest auction benchmark is a work recorded as Untitled, which sold for GBP 226,800 at Phillips in London on 14 October 2022. Other documented results sit far below that figure: Heritage Auctions recorded a sale of USD 2,000 on 20 June 2025, and Heritage's artist index separately lists a work on paper titled Selfie (2020, watercolor and colored pencil), though the two records could not be confirmed as the same lot. That spread, from roughly two thousand dollars to more than two hundred thousand pounds, reflects an auction market that is still small in volume and highly dependent on the individual work and venue rather than a smooth price curve. His primary market has leaned on selling exhibitions at Sotheby's and gallery shows at Simchowitz and De Brock Gallery rather than a deep secondary-market history.

Pace is an early-career artist by market standards: his auction history is short, volume is low, and results vary enormously depending on the specific work, medium, and sale venue, from roughly USD 2,000 works on paper to a six-figure-pound auction result. There is no catalogue raisonne, and no museum collection holdings have been documented in public sources, so provenance and confirmation through Simchowitz or De Brock Gallery remain the most reliable ways to verify a given work.