Rhys Douglas Farrell is an artist living and working in Calgary, Alberta. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts (major in Drawing +Painting) from the Alberta University of the Arts in the spring of 2016. Farrell is the recipient of several painting scholarship from ACAD where he was also the Representative for the Painting Department and the Director of the Student Gallery, Quoin Gallery. He was signed on with the Herringer Kiss Gallery when still a student and his first solo show was named by Canadian Art Magazine as a “Must See”. Farrell has completed a number of public art projects with the Telus Spark Science Center, Beltline Urban Mural Project, the City of Calgary and a number of private commissions. His work has been aggressively collected by private and corporate collections alike and he recently completed five international residencies with Pinea & Linea De Costa A.I.R program in Spain, Graniti Murales in Sicily, the TARP Program in Kuala Lumpur with Taksu Gallery, JupiterFab Artist Residency program in Guadalajara, Mexico as well as The W Hotel Artist in residence in Kuala Lumpur. Gaining international recognition he signed on with TAKSU Gallery in Singapore 2019 and Gallery Mckinley in 2023. Farrell is the recipient of the 2019 Alumni Horizon Award from AUArts. Most recently Farrell received the Visual Arts Individual Project Grant from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.