Winter 2025/26 News
Winter Pullens Open Studios
We're excited to announce that Frank's studio doors will be open to all in this year's Winter Pullens Open Studios. This gives a rare opportunity to view Frank's current works in progress, not yet seen by the public. Join us on 5-7 December, accompanied by live music and food.
New exhibition announced
The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge will present Frank Bowling: Seeking the Sublime in 2026, bringing together key works from across Frank's six-decade career. From his bold early figurative pieces to the radiant abstracts that define his later practice, this exhibition offers a rare opportunity to follow his artistic journey.
Release of Tate publication
Frank joins many other modern masters in Tate's Artist Series collection. This pocket-sized publication contains a new essay by Dominique Heyse-Moore and artwork reproductions, and is available online and in Tate shops.
Exhibitions
36th Bienal de Sao Paulo
Frank continues to exhibit 25 paintings spanning 50 years of his career at the 36th Bienal de Sao Paulo. Curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, this edition is entitled Not All Travellers Walk Roads - Of Humanity as Practice. Open until 11 January 2026.
Ways of Seeing
Ways of Seeing is a new permanent exhibition at the Museum of Art in Lodz, presenting a multifaceted narrative of 20th- and 21st-century art as well as the museum's own history as a space of artistic experimentation, avant-garde ideas, and solidarity.
Photography and the Black Arts Movement: 1955-85
This is the first exhibition to examine how photography shaped a cultural and aesthetic movement that celebrated Black history, identity, and beauty, and features Palimpsest I - Mothers House DarkRedGreen (1966). Open until 11 January 2026 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
Press
Actor and presenter James Corden recently revealed himself as a collector of Frank Bowling's work, selecting Raining Down South (1968) as his favourite MoMA artwork in a New York Times feature tied to his participation in ART on Broadway.
Finestre sull'Arte highlights Frank's contribution to a new film premiering in Tate Britain's Constable and Turner exhibition, featuring commentary from leading contemporary artists on the pair's lasting influence.
In Observer NY, Elisa Carroll praises an "evocative" work by Frank Bowling included in From Now: A Collection in Context, the inaugural permanent collection exhibition at the new Studio Museum in Harlem.
On Display
Night Journey, 1969-70 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Raining Down South, 1968 at MoMA, New York.
Image captions
From top to bottom:
Pullens Open Studios 2025 Winter Poster.
Portrait of Frank Bowling in studio, 2025. © Frank Bowling.
Installation view, Middle Passage, 1970. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 2025. Photo: NGC.
Frank Bowling, Night Journey, 1968-1969, acrylic on canvas, 212.7 x 183.2 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of Maddy and Larry Mohr, 2011 (2011.590.2). © Frank Bowling. All rights reserved, DACS/Artimage, 2022.
Raining Down South, 1968, acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 348.5 x 275.5 cm. Courtesy the artist. Photographed by Charlie Littlewood. © Frank Bowling. All rights reserved, DACS 2024.
Frank Bowling, Middle Passage, 1970. Acrylic painting and oil ink on canvas, 319.9 x 280.3 cm. Pledge by Michael Nesbitt, Winnipeg. © Frank Bowling (Copyright Visual Arts-CARCC, 2023). Photo: NGC.