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Fragments of Epic Memory
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio 19 Sep 2024 - 26 Jan 2025 'Fragments of Epic Memory' is a vibrant tapestry of Caribbean history and culture, interweaving the past and present through a rich collection of art. It showcases over a century of visual narratives, from the poignant aftermath of emancipation captured in photography to the dynamic expressions of contemporary artists. This exhibition... Read more -
Pop Forever: Tom Wesselman &...
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris 16 Oct 2024 - 3 Mar 2025 Tom Wesselmann is considered one of the most influential artists of his and our time. Primarily known as a 'Pop Artist' in the 1960s, his creative period spans almost five decades, from the late 1950s to the 2000s. The Fondation Louis Vuitton, in close collaboration with the Estate of Tom... Read more -
Unreal City
Saatchi Gallery 19 Oct - 17 Nov 2024 In the vibrant heart of London, Unreal City unfolds like a richly layered canvas, echoing the city’s own complex history. This exhibition, featuring three generations of artists, is a testament to the enduring and evolving nature of abstract painting. Each work is a bold stroke in the ongoing dialogue with... Read more -
40 Years of the Future: Jo McGonigal x Frank Bowling
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester 20 Oct 2024 - 2 Feb 2025 This exhibition will bring together two painters whose works have drawn inspiration from sculpture. Jo McGonigal makes what she refers to as spatial paintings. They leave the constraints of the canvas support behind to interact directly with the architecture in which her works are placed. For McGonigal encountering painting should... Read more -
Selected Prints
Brixton Library 6 Nov - 31 Dec 2024 This remarkable collection, created in collaboration with DACS and King & McGaw, spans Sir Frank’s artistic journey from 1968 to 2020. It includes ‘map paintings’ and ‘pour paintings,’ including the vibrant Middle Passage, 1970; recently seen in the Entangled Pasts exhibtion at the RA. Each print is meticulously handmade in... Read more
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Standing Ground
Curated by Raksha Patel & Trevor Burgess 5 - 22 Sep 2024 Thames-Side Studios Gallery 5 - 22 September 2024 PV 6 September / 6-9 pm. Thursday – Sunday, 12:00-17:00 Read more -
Summer Exhibition 2024
Royal Academy, London 18 Jun - 18 Aug 2024 This year’s show, coordinated by sculptor Ann Christopher RA , makes space for the best work by open-submission artists and Royal Academicians. The mix of art by household names and emerging talent is what makes the Summer Exhibition the UK’s best-loved art show. Many works will be available to buy... Read more -
Rupture & Connection
Green Family Foundation, Dallas, Texas 8 Jun - 22 Sep 2024 The exhibition, primarily featuring works from the Green Family Collection, draws inspiration from Édouard Glissant, the Martinique-born philosopher, poet, and writer. Glissant's work articulates a system of relations that recognizes the individual's opacity and identity's multiplicity. He described an 'aesthetics of rupture and connection' that transcends geopolitical boundaries and lineage,... Read more -
Pullen's Yards Open Studios | Summer 2024
Frank Bowling presents: Rachel's Rugs, Poetry Readings and Children's Workshop 7 - 9 Jun 2024 OPENING WITH A SPECIAL POETRY EVENT Poetry readings by: Rohan Ayinde Akhera Williams with Abi Roach Penn on cello Friday 7 June, 7pm Unit 3, Peacock Yard Children's Art Workshop Don't miss this unique chance for your child to dive into creativity! Everything is ready to go—canvas, paint,... Read more -
Beyond the Bassline: 500 Years of Black British Music
British Library, London 26 Apr - 26 Aug 2024 Spanning the course of half a millennium this exhibition will demonstrate how Music, for people of African descent, has been a means through which to express our heritage and rituals; a means through which we have internally negotiated our stories of struggle and oppression, spirit and strength. Using the drum... Read more -
Day for Night: New American Realism
Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica in collaboration with Aïshti Foundation, Palazzo Barberini, Rome 14 Apr - 14 Jul 2024 Day for Night: New American Realism From April 14 to July 14, 2024, the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica, in collaboration with Beirut's Aïshti Foundation, presents 'Day for Night: New American Realism.' Curated by Massimiliano Gioni and Flaminia Gennari Santori, the exhibition showcases over 150 works by American artists from... Read more -
The 24th Biennale of Sydney: Ten Thousand Suns
Various venues, Sydney 9 Mar - 10 Jun 2024 Ten Thousand Suns departs from an acknowledgement of a multiplicity of perspectives, cosmologies, and ways of life that have always woven together the world under the sun. This central life-giving body, like the world it shines light upon, has otherwise been known under thousands of different words in as many... Read more -
Chromascopic
Art in Perpetuity Trust Gallery, London 29 Feb - 17 Mar 2024 This exhibition attempts an expansive exploration of colour and the multifarious ways in which contemporary artists have employed it to extraordinary effect. The central focus of 'Chromascopic' is, as the title suggests, to 'look at colour'. More specifically, the purview of this exhibition is to examine, explore and celebrate the... Read more -
Skid, 2023
South London Gallery, For One Day Only 18 Feb 2024 Frank Bowling presents his monumental painting Skid, 2023 for One Day Only. Read more -
Entangled Pasts, 1768–now: Art, Colonialism and Change
Royal Academy of Arts, London 3 Feb - 28 Apr 2024 Next spring, the Royal Academy of Arts will bring together over 100 major contemporary and historic works as part of a conversation about art and its role in shaping narratives of empire, enslavement, resistance, abolition and colonialism - and how it may help set a course for the future. Artworks... Read more -
Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art, 1950s–Now
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto 6 Dec 2023 - 1 Apr 2024 Making its way across the Atlantic to the AGO from Tate Britain, Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art, 1950s-Now examines the relationship between the Caribbean and Britain and reconsiders British art history in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries from a Caribbean perspective. Featuring more than 30 artists, including Frank Bowling, Aubrey... Read more -
Like Paradise
Claridge's ArtSpace, London 5 Oct 2023 - 19 Jan 2024 Like Paradise, a dynamic group exhibition curated by the renowned Ekow Eshun, brings together artists of colour exploring natural landscapes. Like Paradise focuses on figures of colour within scenes of nature - a bold retort to the clichéd urban environment. Historically, people of colour have been excluded from narratives about... Read more -
170 Annual Open Exhibition
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol 8 Sep 2023 - 14 Jan 2024 The RWA's renowned annual open exhibition is now in its 170th year, and - as always - offers a stunning variety of work from emerging and established artists. This dynamic, varied and uplifting exhibition includes a stunning array of painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture, installation and mixed media artworks, and... Read more -
Summer Exhibition 2023
Royal Academy of Arts, London 13 Jun - 20 Aug 2023 Utinam nonumy aliquip ne vim, no nihil dicam est. Velit nonumy invidunt cu sed, te mei ocurreret consectetuer. Stet iuvaret nec at, ut suas vocent prodesset nam. Mel libris phaedrum ad. Dicit possit luptatum qui an. Quisque egestas diam in arcu cursus euismod quis. Arcu vitae elementum curabitur vitae nunc... Read more -
Frank Bowling: Landscape
Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles 31 May - 18 Aug 2023 One of the foremost British artists of his generation, Sir Frank Bowling has spent more than six decades relentlessly challenging the limits of the medium of painting and expanded its possibilities, attracting acclaim for his contributions to abstraction. 'Landscape,' the artist's first solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood,... Read more -
The New York Years 1966–1975
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 20 May - 10 Sep 2023 Discover the luminous and technically pioneering paintings made during Frank Bowling's pivotal decade in New York, when he became a key actor in a vibrant art scene that transformed his practice. Born in Bartica, British Guiana (now Guyana), Bowling began his career in London and visited Guyana before arriving in... Read more
