Current
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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 -
1st National Black British Music
British Library, London 1 Apr - 1 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
Past
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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
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