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Ian Hamilton Finlay: Fragments
30 April – 24 May 2025 London Gallery I Fragments is both a major new book and eight exhibitions that will take place internationally during May 2025 in Basel, Brescia, Edinburgh, Hamburg, London, New York, Palma de Mallorca and Vienna, curated and edited by Pia Maria Simig. Learn More -
Victoria Miro Projects – Giuditta Branconi: Fragile
25 April – 30 May 2025 Miro Presents In her latest body of work, Branconi focuses on the male figure, offering a nuanced portrayal of masculinity. Fragile invites viewers to reflect on contemporary notions of gender, strength and vulnerability through a lens of tenderness and introspection. Learn More -
Barbara Walker: Any Time, Any Place, Any Where
22 March – 3 May 2025 Venice Completed during a recent residency with the gallery in Venice, this new body of work features self-portraits created in dialogue with Old Masters and the experience of being an anonymous figure immersed in the city. Learn More -
Celia Paul: Colony of Ghosts
14 March – 17 April 2025 London Gallery I Colony of Ghosts coincides with the launch of a major new monograph, published by MACK in March 2025, spanning some fifty years of painting by the artist.
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Inka Essenhigh: The Greenhouse
14 March – 17 April 2025 London Gallery II The New York-based artist’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery comprises a body of work completed during the past year, featuring botanical, landscape and figurative motifs poised between an exuberant exterior world and an energetic interior consciousness. Learn More -
Victoria Miro Projects – Tidawhitney Lek: Marooned on Foreign Feelings
14 February – 31 March 2025 Miro Presents Marooned on Foreign Feelings is an exhibition of new work by LA-based artist Tidawhitney Lek. This is the eighth project in an ongoing series of presentations by invited international artists on Vortic. Learn More -
Saskia Colwell: Skin on Skin
1 February – 15 March 2025 Venice Works on view explore themes of voyeurism, intimacy and representation. The interplay between the softness of charcoal and the organic quality of vellum creates a close connection to the human body in images which question norms surrounding female representation and contemporary issues of censorship and agency. Learn More -
Chiaroscuro: A Century of Charcoal
1 February – 1 March 2025 Miro Presents On view in a specially designed gallery on Vortic.art, with selected works at Victoria Miro, London and Venice, the exhibition brings together works by over 30 artists made over the past 100 years. The charcoal drawings range from preparatory sketches to fully realised, monumental works. Learn More -
At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World
30 January – 8 March 2025 London Gallery I This exhibition highlights the artist’s career-long commitment to depicting the human condition and her practice of painting people from many walks of life, focusing on her paintings of people from queer communities and those who were a part of their circle. Learn More -
María Berrío: The End of Ritual
21 November 2024 – 18 January 2025 London Gallery I The End of Ritual depicts moments of disquiet articulated within densely populated interiors, spaces where the old world meets the new and a restless dynamic unfolds between performers and spectators in and out of the frame. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication featuring new writing on the artist by... Learn More -
Motion in Stillness: Dance and the Human Body in Movement
21 November 2024 – 18 January 2025 London Gallery II Presented by Vortic and Victoria Miro, Motion in Stillness: Dance and the Human Body in Movement presents works by artists who all have a relationship with dance or with the human body in movement. Learn More -
Chris Ofili: Joyful Sorrow
26 October – 14 December 2024 Venice Joyful Sorrow is a two-site exhibition in Paris and Venice of the acclaimed British painter Chris Ofili’s newest body of work that continues his exploration of Shakespeare’s Othello. Learn More -
Jules de Balincourt: Moving Landscapes
4 October – 2 November 2024 London Gallery II In this new body of work, the Brooklyn-based artist continues his exploration of painting as an intuitive process, resulting in fantasy-like worlds in which landscapes and seascapes become sites of possibility and escape. Learn More -
Yayoi Kusama: EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE
25 September – 2 November 2024 London Gallery I Victoria Miro is delighted to announce Yayoi Kusama’s fourteenth solo exhibition with the gallery, which premieres a new Infinity Mirror Room and introduces works from a new series of paintings.
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Victoria Miro Projects – Konstantina Krikzoni: Nymphidia
19 September – 10 November 2024 Miro Presents Nymphidia is a presentation on Vortic by London-based artist Konstantina Krikzoni. This is the seventh project in an ongoing series of presentations by invited artists on Vortic. Learn More -
Maria Nepomuceno: Expiro
14 September – 12 October 2024 Venice The title of the exhibition is derived from a work by the artist of the same name: Expiro, a Portuguese word chosen for its similarity, in sound and meaning, to the Italian espiro, to exhale, which in turn relates to the traditional glassblowing techniques used for the first time by the artist in the creation of these works. Learn More -
Eric Fischl: Bathers
29 June – 17 August 2024 Miro Presents, Venice Created as part of Vortic Artists Projects, Bathers is Eric Fischl’s first exhibition at Victoria Miro Venice and brings together painted bronze reliefs derived from virtual paintings. Learn More -
Victoria Miro Projects – Jemima Murphy: Finding June
7 June – 16 August 2024 Miro Presents An online presentation by London-based artist Jemima Murphy. This is the sixth project in an ongoing series of presentations by invited international artists on Vortic. Learn More -
Boscoe Holder | Geoffrey Holder
1 June – 27 July 2024 London Gallery II On view across the two spaces of our London gallery, these exhibitions consider for the first time the siblings as painters in parallel. Learn More -
Sarah Sze
16 April – 16 June 2024 Venice The artist’s sixth exhibition with Victoria Miro marks a return to Venice for Sze, who featured in the 1999 and 2015 Biennales and represented the United States with her exhibition Triple Point in the 2013 Biennale. Learn More -
Secundino Hernández: Problematic Corners
10 April – 18 May 2024 London Gallery I The Spanish artist’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery features a dynamic series of oval works that expand on his unique painting language. Learn More -
Doron Langberg: Flowers
3 February – 30 March 2024 Venice The works on view in Venice were painted en plein air at different times of the year. Langberg paints these fleeting moments spontaneously in one session, alighting on patches of ground and recording them in bursts of activity. Learn More -
Doron Langberg: Night
26 January – 28 March 2024 London Gallery I Featuring large-scale tableaux of nightclubs and beach scenes, Night is a hymn to nocturnal worlds both interior and exterior, and the spaces of ambiguity, opportunity and liberation – physical and psychological – that open up after dark. Learn More -
LEDA and the SWAN: a myth of creation and destruction
1 December 2023 – 13 January 2024 London Gallery II, Miro Presents Curated by Minna Moore Ede and presented by Vortic Curated and Victoria Miro, an exhibition of primarily new work by sixteen artists across a variety of media – drawing, painting, sculpture, film and dance. Their responses to the myth of Leda and the Swan are diverse; each has found their... Learn More -
Stephen Willats: TIME TUMBLER
22 November 2023 – 13 January 2024 London Gallery I Victoria Miro is delighted to present an exhibition by pioneering British conceptual artist Stephen Willats on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. Bringing together new works and seminal examples from the 1970s, Time Tumbler , curated with Jelena Kristic, charts developments in the artist’s singular language, reveals the constancy of... Learn More -
Victoria Miro Projects – Tainan Cabral: Medley
22 November 2023 – 20 January 2024 Miro Presents Victoria Miro Projects is delighted to present an online exhibition of new paintings by Brazilian artist Tainan Cabral. This is the fifth in an ongoing series of presentations by invited international artists on Vortic. ‘Nothing is entirely abstract. Everything has a feeling that drives this abstraction. But it’s also about... Learn More -
Celia Paul: Myself, Among Others
28 October – 9 December 2023 Venice New paintings completed during a recent residency with the gallery in Venice. The exhibition is accompanied by a new text by Eleanor Nairne. Learn More -
Ali Banisadr: The Changing Past
11 October – 11 November 2023 London Gallery II The first solo presentation of works by the New York-based artist since he joined the gallery in 2021 features a substantial body of paintings completed over the past two years. Learn More -
Paula Rego: Letting Loose
22 September – 11 November 2023 London Gallery I An exhibition of works from the 1980s, a period of liberation and self-discovery that led to great breakthroughs for the artist and saw her first major exhibitions in the UK and the US. Learn More -
Chantal Joffe: The Eel
5 September – 21 October 2023 Venice An exhibition of new paintings completed this summer during a residency with the gallery in Venice. Learn More -
Tal R: How to Count to Tree
1 July – 26 August 2023 Venice Victoria Miro is delighted to present How to Count to Tree , an exhibition in Venice of new paintings by Tal R. Tal R often employs apparently simple compositional devices and motifs from everyday life to create complex, atmospheric worlds that, beginning with the recognisable and known, expand or collapse... Learn More -
Howardena Pindell: New Works
8 June – 29 July 2023 London Gallery II Victoria Miro is delighted to present an exhibition of new spray dot paintings by Howardena Pindell. Howardena Pindell’s spray dot paintings are among her most iconic works. The artist first created these sensuous paintings in New York in the early 1970s. Using various hole punchers and tools, she punched into... Learn More -
Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins
2 June – 29 July 2023 London Gallery I Victoria Miro is delighted to present The Seven Deadly Sins , a major new series of paintings by Chris Ofili. Completed over the past six years, the works on view offer an expansive meditation on sin and the complex experience of sinfulness. Learn More -
Isaac Julien: Once Again… (Statues Never Die) – Photographs
2 May – 4 June 2023 London Gallery II Victoria Miro is delighted to present an exhibition of newly conceived photographic works by Isaac Julien, focusing on his latest work, Once Again… (Statues Never Die) . Once Again… (Statues Never Die) is an immersive five-screen installation by artist and filmmaker Sir Isaac Julien. Commissioned by the Barnes Foundation in... Learn More -
Victoria Miro Projects – Emma Talbot: Magical Thinking
27 April – 16 June 2023 Miro Presents Victoria Miro Projects is delighted to present Magical Thinking , an online exhibition of new paintings by Emma Talbot. This is the fourth in an ongoing series of presentations by invited international artists on Vortic. Emma Talbot is acclaimed for work that confronts some of the most urgent questions of... Learn More -
Alex Hartley: Closer Than Before
22 April – 17 June 2023 Venice The first site-specific installation at Victoria Miro Venice features a dynamic architectural intervention that transforms part of the gallery, providing context for new wall-mounted works that continue the artist’s interest in layering, materiality, illusion and how art questions our relationship to time. Learn More -
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami: A Making of Ghosts
14 April – 20 May 2023 London Gallery I Victoria Miro is delighted to present an exhibition of new work by Kudzanai-Violet Hwami. Comprising paintings in dialogue with large-scale wall-based and suspended photographic images, A Making of Ghosts reflects on aspects of grief and the action of memory, unfolding as the viewer moves through the gallery space. Learn More -
Grayson Perry
11 February – 2 April 2023 Venice Two exhibitions by Grayson Perry in London and Venice. The Venice exhibition features ceramics and works in silver and bronze, and works on paper including collages and a new etching. Learn More -
Victoria Miro Projects – Cindy Phenix: The Interchange of Substance was Fascinating
9 February – 31 March 2023 Miro Presents Victoria Miro Projects is delighted to launch an online presentation by Los Angeles-based artist Cindy Phenix. This is the third project in an ongoing series of occasional presentations by invited international artists on Vortic. Learn More -
Grayson Perry: Posh Cloths
3 February – 25 March 2023 Victoria Miro London Two exhibitions by Grayson Perry in London and Venice. In London, a selection of textile works from the past eight years, including new tapestries, will be on view. Learn More -
Hernan Bas: The Conceptualists
18 November 2022 – 21 January 2023 London Gallery I While earlier paintings hinge on characters with nascent identities and burgeoning interests, the works in this exhibition follow a new theme, in which Bas’ protagonists engage in a variety of obsessive pursuits that, deemed strange under everyday circumstances, might be rationalised or even championed when considered as ‘conceptual art’. Learn More -
Victoria Miro Projects – Richard Ayodeji Ikhide: Acts of Creation
9 November 2022 – 18 January 2023 Miro Presents Victoria Miro Projects is delighted to launch an online presentation by Richard Ayodeji Ikhide, featuring a new series of paintings by the London based Nigerian artist. This is the second project in an ongoing series of occasional presentations by invited international artists on Vortic. Learn More -
Hedda Sterne: Metamorphoses
5 November – 10 December 2022 Venice This exhibition features works drawn from the late 1960s and early 1970s, including important paintings from 1967 created by pouring thinned acrylic paint on to raw canvas. Learn More -
Alice Neel: There’s Still Another I See
11 October – 12 November 2022 London Gallery II This exhibition, the first of its kind, focuses on pairings of paintings by Neel of the same sitter, sometimes completed only a year or two apart, sometimes decades apart. Learn More -
Secundino Hernández: time TIME
11 October – 12 November 2022 London Gallery I New works continue his investigation into the vocabulary of painting and historical classifications of the medium to create images that radiate a sense of urgency. Learn More -
María Berrío: The Land of the Sun
17 September – 29 October 2022 Venice In this new body of work, Berrío conjures an apocalyptic scenario, against which the efforts of her central character become Sisyphean as she journeys through a world of heat and dust. Learn More -
Cubitt 30
16 – 17 September 2022 London Gallery II Victoria Miro is delighted to host a fundraising exhibition that will begin a year-long celebration of Cubitt ’s 30th anniversary. The exhibition will remain on view on Vortic throughout the yea r. For over three decades Cubitt has provided studio space for artists in central London alongside a renowned non-profit... Learn More -
The Story of Art as it’s Still Being Written
8 September – 1 October 2022 London Gallery I Victoria Miro is delighted to present The Story of Art as it’s Still Being Written . This exhibition, curated by Katy Hessel, coincides with the publication of her major new book The Story of Art without Men, published by Hutchinson Heinemann on 8 September 2022 . The Story of Art... Learn More -
Chris Ofili: Harvest
25 June – 10 September 2022 Venice Victoria Miro is delighted to present Harvest , an exhibition in Venice by Chris Ofili. The exhibition debuts a suite of new works that share the title Harvest – Flower Eaters . Completed over the past year in watercolour, charcoal and gold leaf on paper, these works comprise two rectangular... Learn More -
Intimacy
8 June – 30 July 2022 London Gallery II This summer, for the first time, a group exhibition at the gallery in London and a presentation at Art Basel share a common theme. In these works, a number of which have been created especially for the occasion, artists convey aspects of intimacy in its many forms: maternal, erotic, platonic,... Learn More -
Tal R: Untitled Flowers
26 May – 30 July 2022 London Gallery I Victoria Miro is delighted to present Untitled Flowers , an exhibition of new paintings by Tal R. The paintings are complemented by a large-scale installation of drawings. On view in the waterside garden will be a number of recent bronze sculptures by the artist. In his work Tal R often... Learn More -
Paula Rego: Secrets of Faith
23 April – 18 June 2022 Venice Completed in 2002, the works on view depict episodes from the life of the Virgin Mary – subjects familiar in Christian art radically retold by Rego that are among the most special to the artist. Learn More -
John Kørner: Cosmopolitan Super Fruits
8 April – 14 May 2022 London Gallery II Victoria Miro is delighted to present Cosmopolitan Super Fruits , an exhibition by Danish artist John Kørner. Following Intercontinental Super Fruits , John Kørner’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States (on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit from November 2021 until January 2022), this exhibition builds... Learn More -
Celia Paul: Memory and Desire
6 April – 14 May 2022 London Gallery I This exhibition of new paintings coincides with the publication of Letters to Gwen John, a new Jonathan Cape book by the artist which centres on a series of letters addressed to the painter Gwen John (1876–1939), who has long been a tutelary spirit for Paul. Learn More -
Flora Yukhnovich: Thirst Trap
1 – 26 March 2022 London Gallery I New paintings by the artist draw upon various depictions of the Roman goddess Venus in mythology, art history and contemporary culture. Learn More -
Doug Aitken: Open
15 February – 26 March 2022 Miro Presents Victoria Miro (London), 303 Gallery (New York), Galerie Eva Presenhuber (Zürich), and Regen Projects (Los Angeles) are pleased to announce a joint presentation of the new virtual reality exhibition by Doug Aitken, Open , exclusively on Vortic. Learn More -
Unmasked
12 February – 27 March 2022 Venice An exhibition in Venice of works by Milton Avery, Jules de Balincourt, Hernan Bas, María Berrío, Chantal Joffe, Doron Langberg, Alice Neel and Celia Paul. Learn More -
Victoria Miro Projects: Sarah Cain
28 January – 2 April 2022 Miro Presents Victoria Miro Projects is a dynamic series of online presentations by invited international artists in a specially conceived gallery on Vortic Collect. The inaugural project, Or is it because the problem is beautiful to me, features new works by Los Angeles-based artist Sarah Cain on view until 2 April 2022. Learn More -
Paula Rego: The Forgotten
19 November 2021 – 12 February 2022 Victoria Miro Testament to a career spent exploring hidden narratives and their associated stigmas, The Forgotten encircles themes and subjects that are often masked or concealed – out of politeness or embarrassment – such as mental illness and old age. Learn More -
Inka Essenhigh
6 November – 11 December 2021 Venice Essenhigh’s first exhibition at Victoria Miro Venice will present new paintings from her ongoing series of botanical works in enamel paint, a medium the artist first worked with two decades ago. Learn More -
Sarah Sze
12 October – 6 November 2021 London Gallery II Victoria Miro is delighted to present an exhibition by Sarah Sze. In Sarah Sze’s new paintings, scaled to Victoria Miro’s Gallery II space, the artist incorporates a wealth of painted and collaged elements and traces of multiple image-making mediums, laying bare the narrative of the studio and the developmental arcs... Learn More -
Victoria Miro x OUT Collective
15 September – 31 December 2021 Miro Presents Victoria Miro is delighted to participate in OUT Collective on Vortic with an exhibition of works selected by Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Doron Langberg and Russell Tovey. Learn More -
Doron Langberg: Give Me Love
3 September – 6 November 2021 London Gallery I For his first exhibition with the gallery, Langberg shows near-abstract large-scale depictions that give material form to moments of desire. Learn More -
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami: When You Need Letters for Your Skin
3 September – 6 November 2021 London Gallery I Victoria Miro is delighted to present When You Need Letters for Your Skin , the gallery’s first solo exhibition of new paintings by Kudzanai-Violet Hwami. Based in the UK, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami was born in Gutu, Zimbabwe and lived in South Africa from the ages of nine to seventeen. Her paintings... Learn More -
Doug Aitken: Microcosmos
15 July – 30 October 2021 Venice Victoria Miro is delighted to present an exhibition in Venice by the celebrated American artist Doug Aitken. Microcosmos features a new series of handmade fabric wall hangings that, engaging with the physical act of making, visually articulate a world that is driven by information and continuously in flux. The exhibition... Learn More -
Chantal Joffe: Story
4 June – 31 July 2021 London Gallery II Accompanied by an artist’s book with a new text by Olivia Laing, Story features paintings of the artist’s mother and considers issues of aging, motherhood and visibility, focusing particularly on the complex relationship between mother and child over time. Learn More -
Yayoi Kusama: I Want Your Tears to Flow with the Words I Wrote
4 June – 31 July 2021 London Gallery I Victoria Miro is delighted to present Yayoi Kusama’s thirteenth solo exhibition with the gallery. This major presentation of new works features a dynamic installation of paintings from Kusama’s iconic My Eternal Soul series, bronze pumpkins and painted soft sculptures. Additionally, a newly realised sculpture, presented within a darkened interior and... Learn More -
Conrad Shawcross: The Measures of Change
19 May – 10 July 2021 Venice Coinciding with the opening of La Biennale di Venezia: The 17th International Architecture Exhibition, The Measures of Change features a number of the artist’s celebrated Fracture sculptures, the debut of a new series of Perimeter Studies sculptures, and prints from a new body of work, Studies for The Patterns of Absence.
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Idris Khan: The Seasons Turn
13 April – 15 May 2021 London Gallery I Click here to book your timed reservation slot Victoria Miro is delighted to announce an exhibition of new works by Idris Khan. Conceived of as two distinct installations, each a reflection on aspects of the past year, The Seasons Turn includes a suite of 28 watercolour and oil collaged works... Learn More -
Christian Holstad: Time wounds all heels
10 April – 8 May 2021 Venice Victoria Miro is delighted to present an exhibition in Venice by Christian Holstad. The US artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, Time wounds all heels features new two- and three-dimensional works in ceramic, crochet, fabric and pencil, and an earlier Eraserhead drawing that acts as a touchstone for this... Learn More -
The Sky was Blue the Sea was Blue and the Boy was Blue
24 February – 30 April 2021 Miro Presents An exhibition of work by 19 artists celebrating the colour blue, available online and on Vortic as part of The London Collective. Learn More -
Reprieve x Vortic
10 December 2020 – 31 January 2021 Miro Presents An online exhibition of works by Hernan Bas, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Doron Langberg, Grayson Perry and Paula Rego. Learn More -
Chantal Joffe: Naked
17 November – 18 December 2020 Miro Presents Victoria Miro is delighted to present a series of large-scale pastel self-portraits by Chantal Joffe, viewable online and on Vortic Collect . Learn More -
Celia Paul: Self-Portrait
10 November – 12 December 2020 Miro Presents An extended reality (XR) exhibition of new and recent paintings by Celia Paul on the occasion of the US publication of the artist’s acclaimed autobiography, Self-Portrait. The exhibition is available exclusively online and via the App Store on Vortic Collect. Learn More -
Francesca Woodman: New York Works
31 October – 12 December 2020 Venice Victoria Miro is delighted to present an exhibition of works made in New York from 1979–80 , focusing on a rare series of colour photographs by Francesca Woodman staged in her New York apartment. In her short career Francesca Woodman (1958–1981) produced an extraordinary body of work acclaimed for its... Learn More -
Conrad Shawcross: Fracture Array (T14C27), 2020
28 October – 24 November 2020 Miro Presents Victoria Miro is delighted to premiere a major bronze triptych by Conrad Shawcross on view as part of London Collective on Vortic Collect . The first triptych in the artist’s Fracture series, Fracture Array (T14C27) is specially created for this presentation. Borne out of his celebrated Paradigms , which are... Learn More -
María Berrío: Flowered Songs and Broken Currents
6 October – 18 December 2020 London Gallery II In these works, the artist explores how the formation of historical memory occurs amidst processes of grieving in a village that maps the site of her own imagination. Learn More -
Parley for the Oceans x Vortic
2 October – 2 November 2020 Miro Presents An online exhibition of works by Elmgreen & Dragset and Celia Paul. Learn More -
Grayson Perry: The MOST Specialest Relationship
15 September – 18 December 2020 London Gallery I New work by Grayson Perry, including ceramics, a tapestry and a large-scale print, are inspired by his forthcoming three-part documentary Grayson Perry’s Big American Roadtrip , on Channel 4 from 23 September. The series, in which the artist travels across the US on a custom-built motorbike he designed especially for... Learn More -
Flora Yukhnovich: Barcarole
12 September – 24 October 2020 Venice Inspired by a residency with the gallery in Venice, these new works reflect on the influence of the city and Venetian culture. Learn More -
Alex Hartley: The Houses
28 July – 29 August 2020 Miro Presents An extended reality (XR) exhibition of new works by Alex Hartley, featuring for the first time examples of British modernist architecture. In his acclaimed ongoing series The Houses , Alex Hartley brings together photographic and overlaid painterly elements to examine the idea of the viewpoint, the frame and the boundary... Learn More -
Isaac Julien: Photographic works from Lessons of the Hour – Frederick Douglass
21 July – 29 August 2020 Miro Presents Victoria Miro is delighted to present an extended reality (XR) exhibition of photographic works from Isaac Julien’s acclaimed L essons of the Hour – Frederick Douglass . The exhibition is also available to view via the App Store on Vortic Collect Learn More -
María Berrío: A Day’s Cadence
7 July – 8 August 2020 Miro Presents An extended reality (XR) exhibition of new works by the Brooklyn-based artist. Learn More -
Khadija Saye: in this space we breathe
7 July – 8 August 2020 London Collective on Vortic Collect Khadija Saye: in this space we breathe , a portfolio of nine silkscreen prints by the late British-Gambian artist, is offered in support of the Estate of Khadija Saye and the Khadija Saye IntoArts Programme. This special presentation for London Collective on Vortic Collect coincides with the launch of Breath... Learn More -
Celia Paul: My Studio
26 June – 25 July 2020 London Collective on Vortic Collect An extended reality (XR) exhibition of new paintings by the celebrated British artist Celia Paul to launch the London Collective. This series of works completed during these past months focus on the artist’s home and studio, a place that sits at the very heart of Paul’s enquiry into the complexities... Learn More -
Secundino Hernández: Dreaming of Wild Honey
23 June – 25 July 2020 Miro Presents An extended reality (XR) exhibition of new paintings by the Spanish artist Secundino Hernández, available exclusively online and via the App Store on Vortic Collect. Learn More -
I See You
2 June – 4 July 2020 Miro Presents Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Sarah Ball, María Berrío, Celia Hempton, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Chantal Joffe, Maria Lassnig, Jessie Makinson, Alice Neel, Celia Paul, Lisa Yuskavage. I See You is an exhibition of paintings that brings together historical and contemporary works by female artists with a focus on depictions of male subjects. From... Learn More -
Flora Yukhnovich: The Venice Paintings
19 May – 20 June 2020 Miro Presents An exhibition of new paintings presented by Victoria Miro in association with Parafin, available to view on Vortic. Learn More -
Hernan Bas: Venetian Blind
8 February – 14 March 2020 Venice The exhibition, which includes a decorative room screen and several large-scale works on paper, weaves characteristically expansive lines of enquiry around themes of privacy, mourning and seclusion, and the physical, emotional and symbolic conduits between the living and the dead. Its anchor point, conceptual and physical, is A Private Morning... Learn More -
Stan Douglas: Doppelgänger
31 January – 14 March 2020 London Gallery I Victoria Miro is pleased to present Doppelgänger , a video installation by Stan Douglas. Debuted at La Biennale di Venezia, 58th International Art Exhibition, May You Live in Interesting Times, this ambitious work is exhibited for the first time in the UK. Doppelgänger is concurrently on view at David Zwirner,... Learn More -
Hedda Sterne
29 January – 14 March 2020 Victoria Miro Mayfair Victoria Miro presents the first UK solo exhibition of works by Hedda Sterne (1910–2011). Learn More -
Celia Paul
13 November – 20 December 2019 London Gallery II This exhibition, the artist’s fourth with the gallery, focuses on the two key tenets of her work: portraiture and landscape. Learn More -
Idris Khan: Words Beneath Words
26 October – 14 December 2019 Venice For this latest body of work, Khan uses wood blocks, stamping oil-based ink on to the surface of panes of glass to create images of intense power and presence. Learn More -
Doug Aitken: Return to the Real
2 October – 20 December 2019 London Gallery I Victoria Miro presents Return to the Real, an exhibition of new works by Doug Aitken. Conceived as a unified composition of sound, light, form and movement, the exhibition explores our rapidly changing relationships to one another and the world around us in an age dominated by technology. ‘We are living... Learn More -
Rock My Soul
2 October – 2 November 2019 London Gallery II New and historical works by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Sonia Boyce, Karon Davis, Zanele Muholi, Wangechi Mutu, Frida Orupabo, Howardena Pindell, Betye Saar, Khadija Saye, Tschabalala Self, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Curated by Isaac Julien. ‘Rock My Soul borrows its title from the eminent black feminist scholar and writer bell hooks’ 2003 book,... Learn More -
Grayson Perry: Super Rich Interior Decoration
25 September – 20 December 2019 Victoria Miro Mayfair In these new works, the artist casts an anthropological eye on the heady collision of art, money, power and desire. Learn More -
Secundino Hernández: Grapado a la piel
13 September – 19 October 2019 Venice Victoria Miro has established a studio space in Venice for invited artists to spend extended time in the historic city and make new bodies of work. This exhibition of small-scale figurative paintings was created in the Venice studio by the acclaimed Spanish artist Secundino Hernández. Learn More -
Milton Avery: The Late Portraits
20 July – 8 September 2019 Venice Victoria Miro presents an exhibition of portraits drawn from the last four years of Milton Avery’s life. Characterised by economy of touch and luminescence of colour, the works on view see the artist apply a lifetime of experience to cherished subjects and motifs. Milton Avery (1885–1965) made portraits throughout his... Learn More -
Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement
7 June – 27 July 2019 London Gallery I Isaac Julien’s nine-screen installation, premiering at Victoria Miro, traverses a collection of Lina Bo Bardi’s most iconic buildings, offering a meditation on the iconic work and on the legacy of the visionary modernist architect and designer (1914–1992). ‘Linear time is a western invention; time is not linear, it is a... Learn More -
María Berrío, Caroline Walker, Flora Yukhnovich
7 June – 27 July 2019 London Gallery II A summer exhibition featuring three young artists who rethink traditional genres to touch upon themes of migration, the workplace, and the gendered language of painting. Learn More -
Howardena Pindell
5 June – 27 July 2019 Victoria Miro Mayfair Victoria Miro presents an exhibition of recent works and large-scale paintings from the 1970s by Howardena Pindell, the artist's first solo exhibition in the UK. Learn More -
Njideka Akunyili Crosby: “The Beautyful Ones”
11 May – 13 July 2019 Venice Victoria Miro presents the most recent works from Los Angeles-based artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s acclaimed series “The Beautyful Ones” . Begun in 2014, Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s ongoing series “The Beautyful Ones” is comprised of portraits of Nigerian children, including members of the artist’s family, derived from personal photographs and, more... Learn More -
NS Harsha
11 April – 18 May 2019 London Gallery I This solo exhibition by the renowned Indian artist NS Harsha features new and recent works, including the major installation Reclaiming the Inner Space.
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Chantal Joffe
11 April – 18 May 2019 Victoria Miro and Victoria Miro Mayfair On view at Wharf Road are large-scale canvases depicting the artist’s family and friends. The exhibition continues at Mayfair , featuring selections from a year of self-portraits completed during 2018. Joffe has often talked about her paintings in terms of transitions, those associated with growing and ageing, as well as... Learn More -
Chantal Joffe
11 April – 18 May 2019 Victoria Miro Mayfair On view at Victoria Miro Mayfair are selected self-portraits from a series begun in January 2018, by the acclaimed British painter Chantal Joffe. The exhibition continues at Wharf Road , featuring large-scale canvases depicting the artist’s family and friends. On New Year’s Day, 2018, the artist set herself the challenge... Learn More -
John Kørner: Life in a Box
1 February – 23 March 2019 London Gallery I Victoria Miro presents Life in a Box , an exhibition by the Copenhagen-based artist John Kørner, featuring new and recent paintings, and sculptural elements including a climbing frame that also functions as a bar. A painter of erudite, questioning canvases in which topical content is tackled with various degrees of... Learn More -
Christian Holstad, Grayson Perry, Tal R, Betty Woodman
26 January – 18 April 2019 Venice This exhibition brings together ceramic works by four artists who, through a diversity of approaches, explore the possibilities of the medium: its fluidity, in spite of an undeniable physicality, in relation to genres such as painting and sculpture, and equally flexible capacity for both figuration and abstraction. Learn More -
Asger Jorn, Per Kirkeby, Tal R
23 January – 23 March 2019 Victoria Miro Mayfair Victoria Miro presents an exhibition celebrating three generations of internationally acclaimed Danish artists: Asger Jorn (1914–1973), Per Kirkeby (1938–2018), and Tal R (born 1967). Asger Jorn, Per Kirkeby and Tal R are great artist-experimenters. Danish by birth or residence, each has looked simultaneously to Denmark and outwards to international movements... Learn More -
Ilse D’Hollander
7 November 2018 – 11 January 2019 Victoria Miro Mayfair Victoria Miro presents the first solo exhibition in the UK of paintings by Ilse D’Hollander. Learn More -
Yayoi Kusama: THE MOVING MOMENT WHEN I WENT TO THE UNIVERSE
3 October – 21 December 2018 Victoria Miro, Wharf Road THE MOVING MOMENT WHEN I WENT TO THE UNIVERSE, a major exhibition of new works by Yayoi Kusama, takes place across the Wharf Road galleries and waterside garden. T he exhibition features new paintings, including works from the iconic My Eternal Soul series, painted bronze pumpkin and flower sculptures, and... Learn More -
Francesca Woodman: Italian Works
15 September – 15 December 2018 Venice An exhibition of works made in Italy by the celebrated photographer Francesca Woodman (1958–1981), including examples from the Eel Series , created in Venice in 1978. Born and raised in the United States, Francesca Woodman considered Italy her second home. She lived in Florence for a year as a child,... Learn More -
Conrad Shawcross: After the Explosion, Before the Collapse
13 September – 27 October 2018 Victoria Miro Mayfair An exhibition of new works by Conrad Shawcross features new Fracture sculptures and two new mechanical works, in addition to a sequence of unique photographic prints created by firing a laser through a series of faults in fragments of glass. United by an aesthetic akin to that of scientific models,... Learn More -
Adriana Varejão
14 July – 8 September 2018 Venice An exhibition of new Saunas and Baths paintings, and Meat Ruins by the renowned Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão, her sixth exhibition at the gallery. Since the mid-1990s, Adriana Varejão has explored two juxtaposing motifs – flesh and tiles (azulejos ) – drawing on the decorative tradition of her native Brazil... Learn More -
Alex Hartley: The Houses
21 June – 28 July 2018 Victoria Miro Mayfair The Houses is a series of new wall-based works by Alex Hartley inspired by iconic examples of modernist domestic architecture. Alex Hartley’s work addresses complicated and sometimes contradictory attitudes toward the built and natural environments, showing us new ways of physically experiencing and thinking about our constructed surroundings. In The... Learn More -
Sarah Sze: Afterimage
8 June – 28 July 2018 London Gallery I An exhibition featuring two new site-specific works: Images in Debris , an installation of images, light, sound, film, and objects, that seeks to transform the visitor's perception and experience of the first-floor gallery; and Afterimage, an environment of wall-based works in the ground-floor gallery that replicates aspects of the artist’s... Learn More -
Do Ho Suh
25 May – 7 July 2018 Venice Made at the STPI Creative Workshop in Singapore, the new works in this exhibition are part of the artist’s ongoing Rubbing/Loving project, in which rubbings of interior spaces and everyday objects are created in a process that discloses and memorialises details of the artist’s surroundings. Do Ho Suh has visited... Learn More -
Chantal Joffe: Pastels
14 April – 19 May 2018 Venice An exhibition of new and recent pastels by Chantal Joffe. This is the first exhibition by the artist comprising solely of pastel works on paper. ‘When you change the medium, you change everything.’ – Chantal Joffe Chantal Joffe brings a combination of insight and integrity, as well as psychological and... Learn More -
Surface Work
11 April – 16 June 2018 Victoria Miro Mayfair This international, cross-generational exhibition is a celebration of women artists who have shaped and transformed, and continue to influence and expand, the language and definition of abstract painting. The exhibition was additionally on display at Gallery I and Gallery II Wharf Road (until 19 May 2018). Victoria Miro Mayfair Gallery... Learn More -
Surface Work
11 April – 19 May 2018 London Gallery II Taking place across Victoria Miro's London galleries, this international, cross-generational exhibition is a celebration of women artists who have shaped and transformed, and continue to influence and expand, the language and definition of abstract painting. The exhibition was also held at Gallery I Wharf Road and Victoria Miro Mayfair .... Learn More -
Surface Work
11 April – 19 May 2018 London Gallery I Taking place across Victoria Miro's London galleries, this international, cross-generational exhibition is a celebration of women artists who have shaped and transformed, and continue to influence and expand, the language and definition of abstract painting. The exhibition was additionally on display at Gallery II Wharf Road and Victoria Miro Mayfair.... Learn More -
Jorge Pardo
2 February – 24 March 2018 London Gallery I An exhibition comprising paintings and an installation of lamps by the Mexico-based Cuban-American artist. Celebrated for his use of vibrant colours, eclectic patterns and natural and industrial materials, Pardo, a MacArthur Fellow, has since the 1990s drawn on the historical intersections of fine art, architecture and design to create a... Learn More -
Mark Wallinger: Italian Lessons
27 January – 24 March 2018 Venice Victoria Miro, in collaboration with Hauser & Wirth, presents Italian Lessons , an exhibition by Mark Wallinger. Selected by the artist especially for Victoria Miro Venice, the works on display date from 1991 to 2016 and reflect a career-long engagement with ideas of power, authority, artifice and illusion. While sources... Learn More -
Jules de Balincourt: They Cast Long Shadows
19 January – 24 March 2018 Victoria Miro Mayfair Quiet, reflective and mysterious, new paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Jules de Balincourt continue an intuitive approach to image-making, where the world we inhabit is filtered through the artist’s own psychological landscape. In Troubled Eden , 2017, a snaking river, encroached upon by signs of human activity, is worn like a... Learn More -
Stan Douglas
26 October – 20 December 2017 Victoria Miro Mayfair The first in a new series of works triggered by the uprisings of the early 2010s, including the Arab Spring and riots across global locations including London and the artist’s home town of Vancouver, these photographs focus on two scenes associated with events in London in August 2011: Mare Street... Learn More -
Idris Khan: Absorbing Light
3 October – 20 December 2017 London Gallery II The exhibition marks an important departure for Khan, who will show works in bronze for the first time along with an entirely abstract painting. Uniting aesthetic and metaphysical questions, Khan has often employed techniques of layering and repetition to realise fragmentary experience or disparate ideas as a single image or... Learn More -
Celia Paul: The Sea and The Mirror
23 September – 16 December 2017 Venice Celia Paul’s art stems from a deep connection with subject matter and is quiet, contemplative and ultimately moving in its profound attention to detail and deeply-felt spirituality. She is renowned for her intimate depictions of people and places she knows well. From 1977 to 2007 Paul worked on a series... Learn More -
Tal R: Sexshops
20 September – 20 December 2017 London Gallery I With their areas of flat, unmodulated colour and deceptively simple compositions, Tal R’s paintings have long questioned our conception of and presumptions about our surrounding reality – what we see and where its meaning and beauty lies. In these new works he brings a quizzical eye to the largely unconscious... Learn More -
Hernan Bas: Cambridge Living
6 September – 21 October 2017 Victoria Miro Mayfair Following a period of research while in residence at Jesus College Cambridge in 2016, Bas has developed new subject matter including the famed ‘Night Climbers of Cambridge’, a group of students whose nocturnal ascents of the ancient buildings of the university and town, taking photographs while trying to avoid detection,... Learn More -
Alice Neel, Uptown
15 July – 16 September 2017 Venice A new chapter of the acclaimed exhibition Alice Neel, Uptown, curated by the Pulitzer Prize winning critic and author Hilton Als, is on display at Victoria Miro Venice. Learn More -
Milton Avery
7 June – 29 July 2017 Victoria Miro Mayfair Victoria Miro’s first exhibition by the twentieth century master Milton Avery (1885 – 1965) since announcing the gallery’s representation of his work in Europe, and also the first exhibition of the artist’s work in London for ten years, features paintings and works on paper from throughout his career. Many of... Learn More -
Alice Neel, Uptown
18 May – 29 July 2017 London Gallery I Curated by the celebrated US critic and author Hilton Als, Alice Neel, this exhibition focuses on paintings made by the artist during the five decades in which she lived and worked in upper Manhattan. Learn More -
Isaac Julien: “I dream a world” Looking for Langston
18 May – 29 July 2017 London Gallery II Isaac Julien’s seminal work Looking for Langston (1989/2017) is the focus of this exhibition of newly-conceived, large-scale and silver gelatin photographic works and archival material. Shot in sumptuous monochrome Looking for Langston is a lyrical exploration - and recreation - of the private world of poet, social activist, novelist, playwright,... Learn More -
Chris Ofili: Poolside Magic
10 May – 8 July 2017 Venice Victoria Miro is pleased to announce the opening of a new gallery in Venice. The inaugural exhibition is Poolside Magic by Chris Ofili. T he exhibition comprises a suite of pastel, charcoal and watercolour works on paper, which are being shown together for the first time. Poolside Magic , in... Learn More -
Secundino Hernández: Paso
1 April – 6 May 2017 London Gallery I At Wharf Road, Hernández is showing abstract paintings that continue his investigation into gesture and form while extending the innovative techniques of accumulation and removal for which he has become widely known. Learn More -
Secundino Hernández: Paso
1 April – 20 May 2017 Victoria Miro Mayfair Meaning ‘step’, the exhibition title, Paso, refers to a series of movements through abstraction and figuration. A new series of figurative works is on display at Victoria Miro Mayfair. Learn More -
Do Ho Suh: Passage/s
1 February – 18 March 2017 Victoria Miro Gallery I & II Inspired by his peripatetic life, Do Ho Suh has long ruminated on the idea of home as both a physical structure and a lived experience, the boundaries of identity and the connection between the individual and the group across global cultures. Meticulously replicating the architecture of the places in which... Learn More -
House Work
25 January – 18 March 2017 Victoria Miro Mayfair Including Mamma Andersson, Jules de Balincourt, Hernan Bas, Marc Chagall, Peter Doig, Adrian Ghenie, David Harrison, Karen Kilimnik, John Kørner, LS Lowry, Alice Neel, Celia Paul, Grayson Perry, Tal R, David Rayson, George Shaw and Cy Twombly. A group exhibition of contemporary and historical paintings looks at ideas of home... Learn More -
Alex Hartley: After You Left
19 November – 16 December 2016 Victoria Miro Gallery I and Garden An exhibition of new work by the British artist, including a major architectural intervention in the gallery’s waterside garden. Thoughts of modernism and its legacy, as well as Romantic ideas of the ruin and the picturesque are conjured in these new works. While modernist architecture has been a constant touchstone... Learn More -
Maria Nepomuceno: Sim
11 November 2016 – 14 January 2017 Victoria Miro Mayfair Vibrant and seductive floor- and wall-based sculptural works feature in this exhibition, the artist’s first at Victoria Miro Mayfair. Displaying a characteristically dynamic approach to form, these new works expand upon the Rio de Janeiro-based artist’s methods of rope weaving and straw braiding, in which pre-existing and found elements such... Learn More -
Njideka Akunyili Crosby: Portals
4 October – 5 November 2016 Gallery II, Victoria Miro, 16 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s first solo exhibition in Europe features a new body of work made especially for Victoria Miro. The Los Angeles-based artist, who relocated from Nigeria to the United States at the age of 16, draws on art historical, political and personal references to make luminous, densely layered figurative... Learn More -
Protest
23 September – 5 November 2016 London Gallery I Doug Aitken, Jules de Balincourt, Vlassis Caniaris, Elmgreen & Dragset, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Christian Holstad, Isaac Julien, Yayoi Kusama, Wangechi Mutu, Alice Neel, Chris Ofili, Richard Prince, Sarah Sze, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Kara Walker. Learn More -
Celia Paul: Desdemona for Hilton by Celia
16 September – 29 October 2016 Victoria Miro Mayfair New and recent works by Celia Paul draw on the artist’s delicate and moving explorations of intimacy with people and landscape. Since her first solo exhibition at Victoria Miro in 2014, there has been an increased focus on self-portraiture and seascapes. For this exhibition, examples from both bodies of work... Learn More -
Yayoi Kusama: Sculptures, Paintings & Mirror Rooms
25 May – 30 July 2016 Victoria Miro Gallery I, Gallery II and Garden Spanning the gallery’s three locations and waterside garden, this major exhibition features new paintings – including her important, ongoing My Eternal Soul series and signature Infinity Nets – iconic pumpkin sculptures, and immersive mirror rooms, all conceived specially for this presentation. These new works reflect her lifelong preoccupation with the... Learn More -
Yayoi Kusama: My Eternal Soul paintings
25 May – 30 July 2016 Victoria Miro Mayfair Spanning the gallery’s three locations and waterside garden, this major exhibition features new paintings – including her important, ongoing My Eternal Soul series and signature Infinity Nets – iconic pumpkin sculptures, and immersive mirror rooms, all conceived specially for this presentation. These new works reflect her lifelong preoccupation with the... Learn More -
Jules de Balincourt: Stumbling Pioneers
14 April – 14 May 2016 London Gallery I Perched on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, Los Angeles has, since the pioneering age, been the limitless repository of America’s dreams of the frontier, of desires that saturate the sunsets, freeways, canyons and swimming pools that de Balincourt paints. This landscape, a disjunctured synthesis of the human, the architectural,... Learn More -
John Kørner: Apple Bombs
8 April – 14 May 2016 Victoria Miro Mayfair An exhibition of new paintings by the Copenhagen-based artist. Painting, for Kørner, serves the unambiguous, if impalpable, function of exercising the imagination much in the same way as a bicycle stretches out the legs. The artist’s previous work has variously taken the situations of sex workers and Danish soldiers killed... Learn More -
Stan Douglas: The Secret Agent
2 February – 24 March 2016 London Gallery I A solo exhibition by the celebrated Canadian artist Stan Douglas, featuring the UK premiere of a new multi-screen film installation along with a series of large-scale photographs. Saturated with information, and yet rejecting easily consumable messages, these works place the viewer within the charged atmospheres and ambiguous political and social... Learn More -
Chantal Joffe
22 January – 24 March 2016 Victoria Miro Mayfair An exhibition of new work by Chantal Joffe, in which celebrated writers keep company with the artist's friends and family members. Practising painting and drawing as the loving collection of subjects, people met in the flesh and on the page, Joffe prompts a re-evaluation of notions of self-disclosure and intimacy... Learn More -
David Harrison: Flowers of Evil
14 November – 18 December 2015 London Gallery I In David Harrison’s third solo show with the gallery, a selection of new work presents a densely populated and fully realised universe, where the supernatural pull of the natural world is intertwined with a keen sense of modern civilisation’s insensitivities. Foxglove, Belladonna and Wolfsbane fairies are among the cast of... Learn More -
Kara Walker
Norma 13 November 2015 – 16 January 2016 Victoria Miro Mayfair The second of two exhibitions at the gallery in autumn 2015 by the celebrated American artist Kara Walker. Often provocative and humorous, Kara Walker's work explores the tensions and power plays of racial and gender relations. Walker's work engages with historical narratives and the ways in which these stories have... Learn More -
Forces in Nature – curated by Hilton Als
13 October – 14 November 2015 London Gallery II A group exhibition curated by the celebrated US critic and author Hilton Als. The exhibition explores the idea of man in nature and includes works by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Verne Dawson, Peter Doig, NS Harsha, Alice Neel, Chris Ofili, Celia Paul, Tal R, Sarah Sze, Kara Walker, and Francesca Woodman.... Learn More -
Elmgreen & Dragset: Self-Portraits
13 October – 7 November 2015 Victoria Miro Mayfair The exhibition features a new series of works that are representations of museum wall labels of other artists’ works, including David Hockney, Ross Bleckner, Roni Horn, Martin Kippenberger, and Nicole Eisenmann, among others. Learn More -
Kara Walker
Go to Hell or Atlanta, Whichever Comes First 1 October – 7 November 2015 London Gallery I The first of two exhibitions at the gallery in autumn 2015 by the celebrated American artist Kara Walker. Often provocative and humorous, Kara Walker's work explores the tensions and power plays of racial and gender relations. Walker's work engages with historical narratives and the ways in which these stories have... Learn More -
Varda Caivano
9 September – 3 October 2015 Victoria Miro Mayfair The artist's third solo exhibition at the gallery comprises works that suggest lines of evolution, of continuity and departure, in her practice. A selection of recent painting and work on paper displays the abiding capacity of the artist’s work to strike a subtle balance between the materiality of paint and... Learn More -
Doug Aitken
12 June – 31 July 2015 Victoria Miro Mayfair A specific constellation of five key works that has been conceived for the gallery by the artist, and deals with contemporary ideas of time through the use of sound, touch, light and reflectivity; with each work existing in a zone between abstraction and representation. At the core of the exhibition... Learn More -
Ian Hamilton Finlay: 1789 1794
10 June – 31 July 2015 London Gallery I An exhibition of the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) marking the 90th anniversary of the artist's birth. A philosopher, sculptor, poet and gardener, Finlay drew on and reinvigorated the classical tradition. This exhibition, curated by Pia Maria Simig, features work Finlay created in response to the French Revolution, and... Learn More -
Conrad Shawcross: Inverted Spires and Descendent Folds
10 June – 31 July 2015 London Gallery II An exhibition of new sculptures in steel and cast bronze. Considered 'maquettes' - some for realised commissions, and others propositions for works on a monumental scale - this body of work focusses on two lines of enquiry: Shawcross's ongoing explorations of the four-sided tetrahedron as a tessellating form in his... Learn More -
Idris Khan: Conflicting Lines
1 May – 6 June 2015 Victoria Miro Mayfair An exhibition of new work in the artist's fourth solo presentation with the gallery. Working across mediums including sculpture, painting and photography, Khan is well known for his large-scale works, which use techniques of layering to arrive at what might be considered the essence of an image, and to create... Learn More -
Tal R: Chimney school of sculpture
23 April – 30 May 2015 London Gallery I An exhibition of new work by the Copenhagen-based artist, accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, with essay by Tom Morton, view an online version . Tal R has often used the word 'kolbojnik', meaning leftovers in Hebrew, to describe his practice of sourcing and collecting a wide range of imagery,... Learn More -
NS Harsha: Upward Movement
26 March – 25 April 2015 Victoria Miro Mayfair The artist's second solo exhibition with Victoria Miro and his first in the Mayfair gallery. One of the most significant Indian artists of his generation, Harsha draws on a broad spectrum of Indian artistic and figurative painting traditions and popular arts as well as the western art canon. He has... Learn More -
Sarah Sze
30 January – 28 March 2015 London Gallery I Spanning all three spaces, this is the artist's third solo show with the gallery and her first presentation in Europe since representing the United States at the 2013 Venice Biennale. In the Wharf Road galleries the exhibition comprises three installations - one on each floor - that the artist has... Learn More -
Sarah Sze
30 January – 14 March 2015 Victoria Miro Mayfair Spanning all three spaces, this is the artist's third solo show with the gallery and her first presentation in Europe since representing the United States at the 2013 Venice Biennale. In the Wharf Road galleries the exhibition comprises three installations - one on each floor - that the artist has... Learn More -
Sarah Sze
30 January – 28 March 2015 London Gallery II Sarah Sze's exhibition at Victoria Miro spans all three spaces. This is the artist's third solo show with the gallery and her first presentation in Europe since representing the United States at the 2013 Venice Biennale. In the Wharf Road galleries the exhibition comprises three installations - one on each... Learn More -
Wangechi Mutu: Nguva na Nyoka
14 October – 19 December 2014 London Gallery I The gallery's second exhibition by the artist, widely known for her elaborate collages that explore and subvert cultural preconceptions of the female body and the feminine. Mutu's practice has been described as engaging in her own unique form of myth-making. This exhibition, Nguv a na Nyoka (meaning 'Sirens and Serpents'... Learn More -
Eric Fischl
Art Fair Paintings 14 October – 19 December 2014 London Gallery II The gallery's first exhibition with the prominent US artist. Eric Fischl made his reputation in the 1980s with large-scale figurative oil paintings depicting ambiguous, erotically charged scenarios set in the American suburbs. Since that time his practice has developed, although his focus remains on representations of the human figure, depicted... Learn More -
Alice Neel: My Animals and Other Family
14 October – 19 December 2014 Victoria Miro Mayfair This exhibition features a group of paintings and drawings in which Neel captures the character and spirit of people and of animals. Learn More -
Yayoi Kusama: Bronze Pumpkins
16 September – 19 December 2014 The exhibition comprises a major new series of bronze sculptures on display in the gallery's unique water garden. The bronze pumpkins have been two years in the making and mark the first time the artist has worked with bronze on such a large scale. Since her earliest formative years, in... Learn More -
Francesca Woodman
Zigzag 9 September – 4 October 2014 Victoria Miro Mayfair The first solo exhibition of the artist's work at the Mayfair gallery. In her short career Woodman produced an extraordinary body of work - over 800 photographs - acclaimed for its singularity of style and range of innovative techniques. This exhibition considers the zigzag and other abstract geometrical forms as... Learn More -
Victoria Miro at Schloss Sihlberg
14 – 22 June 2014 Sihlberg 10, 8002 Zürich, Switzerland This special presentation by Victoria Miro in Schloss Sihlberg, Zürich considers the work of three artists, Idris Khan, Yayoi Kusama and Conrad Shawcross, focussing on an intersection of their practices through the use of abstraction and repetition. The presentation runs from 14 to 22 June 2014. The gestural abstraction of... Learn More -
Celia Paul
12 June – 2 August 2014 London Gallery II Victoria Miro is pleased to announce that the gallery now represents renowned British painter Celia Paul and is delighted to present her first solo exhibition at the gallery. Paul's paintings have an otherworldly, haunting quality. She makes intimate depictions of people and places she knows well. She has made no... Learn More -
Secundino Hernández
11 June – 2 August 2014 London Gallery I Victoria Miro is pleased to announce that the gallery now represents Spanish painter Secundino Hernández, and is delighted to present his first solo exhibition at the gallery. Learn More -
Adriana Varejão: Carnivorous
6 June – 2 August 2014 Victoria Miro Mayfair The artist's fifth solo presentation with Victoria Miro and her first in the Mayfair gallery. One of the most original voices in contemporary Brazilian art, Varejão's diverse practice comprises painting, sculpture, photography and installation. Her sources encompass the baroque, history, ceramics, botany and art history. This presentation conceived especially for... Learn More -
Hernan Bas: Memphis Living (Paintings)
26 April – 31 May 2014 London Gallery II An exhibition featuring a series of new paintings and works on paper, and coinciding with the publication by Rizzoli, New York of HERNAN BAS: a lavish monograph that is the most comprehensive publication devoted to the artist's career to date. With over 200 colour plates and with texts by Christian... Learn More -
Christian Holstad: Corrections
26 April – 31 May 2014 Victoria Miro · Gallery I New collage work by the American artist is presented in his third exhibition with the gallery. Corrections looks at various types of borders, boundaries and constraints in our environment that impact our lives, from the political and governmental to the social and personal. Borders and boundaries can be physical, like... Learn More -
Hernan Bas: Memphis Living (Works on Paper)
26 April – 31 May 2014 Victoria Miro Mayfair An exhibition of new paintings and works on paper, coinciding with the publication by Rizzoli, New York of HERNAN BAS: a lavish monograph that is the most comprehensive publication devoted to the artist's career to date. With over 200 colour plates and with texts by Christian Rattemeyer, Jonathan Griffin, and... Learn More -
Tal R: Walk Towards Hare Hill
13 March – 17 April 2014 Victoria Miro Mayfair An exhibition of a cycle of distinctive plein air paintings by the Copenhagen-based artist. Walk towards Hare Hill comprises thirty-seven works created near the artist's summerhouse in northern Denmark, over a couple of months in late summer 2013. More than just the latest series in the Copenhagen-based artist's oeuvre, Walk... Learn More -
Maria Nepomuceno: TRANS
13 March – 17 April 2014 Victoria Miro · Gallery II An exhibition featuring a vibrant and seductive series of sculptural installations and interventions. For this exhibition, the Rio de Janeiro-based Nepomuceno expands her characteristically dynamic approach to form, using traditional methods of rope weaving and straw braiding as well as techniques of her own design. The works in TRANS extend... Learn More -
Stephen Willats: REPRESENTING THE POSSIBLE
13 March – 17 April 2014 London Gallery I An exhibition which brings together previously unseen works on paper from the 1960s and the present day in a specially conceived installation. Willats' career is also currently celebrated in two further London exhibitions: CONTROL, the first survey of the artist's work from the sixties, is at Raven Row until 30... Learn More -
Isaac Julien: PLAYTIME (Seven Screen Installation)
24 January – 1 March 2014 London Gallery I Isaac Julien's PLAYTIME is an ambitious new body of work exploring the dramatic and nuanced subject of capital. Featuring the world premiere of a seven-screen installation at Victoria Miro Wharf Road, and accompanying photographic works at Victoria Miro Mayfair. View a teaser here . This exhibition is in memoriam of... Learn More -
Isaac Julien: PLAYTIME (Photographic Works)
24 January – 1 March 2014 Victoria Miro Mayfair Isaac Julien's PLAYTIME is an ambitious new body of work exploring the dramatic and nuanced subject of capital. Featuring the world premiere of a seven-screen installation at Victoria Miro Wharf Road, and accompanying photographic works at Victoria Miro Mayfair. View a teaser here . This exhibition is in memoriam of... Learn More -
Stan Douglas: Disco Angola
23 November 2013 – 18 January 2014 Victoria Miro Mayfair The artist's second solo show with Victoria Miro and his first at our new Mayfair gallery. In Midcentury Studio , Douglas' first exhibition with Victoria Miro, monochrome photographs were created in the guise of a mid-twentieth century Canadian press photographer. In the case of Disco Angola the artist assumes the... Learn More -
Jules de Balincourt: Itinerant Ones
16 November – 20 December 2013 London Gallery I The first solo exhibition in the UK for the Paris-born, New York-based painter. Known for his carefully constructed paintings that move effortlessly between abstraction and figuration, the imagined and the real, this new body of work sees de Balincourt moving away from direct references to current social, political or popular... Learn More -
Adriana Varejão: Polvo
16 October – 9 November 2013 London Gallery II A new body of work by the artist, in her fourth solo presentation at the gallery. One of the most original voices in contemporary Brazilian art, Varejão's diverse practice comprises painting, sculpture, photography and installation. Her sources are many, encompassing baroque art, history, architectural ruins, natural sciences and theatre. Varejão... Learn More -
Yayoi Kusama: White Infinity Nets
1 October – 16 November 2013 Victoria Miro Mayfair Victoria Miro inaugurates its new Mayfair gallery with a presentation of recent white Infinity Net paintings by Yayoi Kusama. It is the first time Kusama has exclusively shown white Infinity Nets in Europe and in its select concentration on these iconic works the exhibition recalls Kusama's debut solo show in... Learn More -
Idris Khan: Beyond the Black
20 September – 9 November 2013 London Gallery I A new body of work by the artist, for his third solo presentation with the gallery. This exhibition marks an important departure from Khan's photographic based works and comprises a suite of large black paintings, a monumental site specific wall drawing and a series of works on paper, all of... Learn More -
Cinematic Visions: Painting at the Edge of Reality
8 June – 3 August 2013 Victoria Miro Gallery I and Gallery II Njideka Akunyili, Jules de Balincourt, Ali Banisadr, Hernan Bas, Joe Bradley, Cecily Brown, Peter Doig, Inka Essenhigh, Eric Fischl, Barnaby Furnas, David Harrison, Secundino Hernández, Nicholas Hlobo, Chantal Joffe, Sandro Kopp, Harmony Korine, Yayoi Kusama, Glenn Ligon, Wangechi Mutu, Alice Neel, Chris Ofili, Celia Paul, Philip Pearlstein, Elaine Reichek, Luc... Learn More -
Barnaby Furnas
The first and last day 25 April – 25 May 2013 London Gallery I An exhibition of new works by the New York-based artist and his first show with the gallery. The active moment versus painting's innate stillness has been a central concern of Barnaby Furnas' work over the past decade. Pitched between depicted action and the act of painting - paint's illusory potential... Learn More -
Yayoi Kusama: Paintings & Accumulation Sculptures
25 April – 25 May 2013 London Gallery II An exhibition of seven new sculptures alongside a series of twelve recent paintings. These sculptures are the latest in Kusama's ongoing Accumulations series of works, originated in the 1960s, in which Kusama covered the surfaces of everyday objects, items of clothing, furniture, boats - even entire rooms - with hand-sewn... Learn More -
Verne Dawson
Apalachicola to Zirconia 16 March – 20 April 2013 London Gallery I An exhibition of new work, in the artist's third show with the gallery. An inherent storyteller, Dawson is a painter of landscapes, portraits, calendars, allegory, myth and pre-history - often in regard to astronomy and mathematics. He weaves together elaborate narratives in his paintings that entwine the legend of the... Learn More -
John Kørner: Fallen Fruit From Frisland
19 January – 2 March 2013 London Gallery I The gallery's third exhibition by the Danish artist. Fallen Fruit from Frisland comprises a series of new paintings presented as part of an installation that features a carpeted floor, rising wave-like against one wall, and a simple wooden boat made by the artist's great-grandfather. The exhibition title refers to Frisia,... Learn More -
Chris Ofili: to take and to give
6 October – 21 December 2012 London Gallery II Over the past two years Ofili has worked on a substantial suite of paintings and works on paper inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses as part of Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 , a unique collaboration between the National Gallery and The Royal Opera House. Working alongside choreographers and dancers from The Royal Ballet... Learn More -
Elmgreen & Dragset: Harvest
21 September – 8 December 2012 London Gallery I The exhibition showcases two precisely choreographed environments which at first may appear visually and conceptually diverse, but through Elmgreen & Dragset's own refined systems of logic, they bring to life a multi-layered set of narratives that play upon childhood memories, and question issues linked to our cultural heritage and the institutional through a personally charged perception. Learn More -
Sarah Sze
20 June – 11 August 2012 London Gallery I Victoria Miro is delighted to announce an exhibition of new work by Sarah Sze, her second solo show with the gallery. Characteristic of Sze's expansive practice, the exhibition will comprise several interrelated installations - conceptual constellations of everyday objects. Over both floors, Sze's latest body of work re-imagines the gallery... Learn More -
Grayson Perry: The Vanity of Small Differences
7 June – 11 August 2012 London Gallery II In The Vanity of Small Differences Grayson Perry explores his fascination with taste and the visual story it tells of our interior lives in a series of six tapestries at Victoria Miro and three programmes, All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry, for Channel 4. The artist goes... Learn More -
Stan Douglas: Midcentury Studio
18 April – 26 May 2012 London Gallery I Victoria Miro is pleased to announce the first gallery exhibition of Canadian artist Stan Douglas. Since the 1980s Stan Douglas has reappropriated key moments from history, precisely examining political, social and racial shifts, in an effort to deconstruct and reimagine their presupposed and foregone outcomes. Douglas appropriates the fantastical and... Learn More -
Yayoi Kusama: New Works
10 February – 5 April 2012 London Gallery I Victoria Miro Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Japan's most revered contemporary artist, Yayoi Kusama. The paintings have been selected from a major series commenced during the past three years. Initially conceived by Kusama to comprise a hundred paintings, the series has, with characteristic dynamism,... Learn More -
Alex Hartley: The world is still big
14 November 2011 – 21 January 2012 London Gallery I Victoria Miro is pleased to present Alex Hartley's most recent culmination of his on-going investigation into dystopian architecture, secular habitation and the construction of sanctuary as an inherent drive to form refuge from the world. Hartley returns to his previous lines of investigation; community, belonging and isolation, and counter culture... Learn More -
Maria Nepomuceno: The Force
12 October – 12 November 2011 Victoria Miro is pleased to present new work by Brazilian artist Maria Nepomuceno, whose seductive sculptures and installations made of brightly coloured rope, straw, ceramic and beads spread throughout the spaces they inhabit: they varyingly hang in hammock-like forms, drape down walls, sprawl across floors, or group together as constellations... Learn More -
Tal R: Science Fiction
12 October – 12 November 2011 London Gallery II Victoria Miro Gallery presents Science Fiction , an exhibition of new paintings by Tal R. The works in this exhibition mark a major development in the Danish artist's practice. Known for his exuberant paintings, works on paper, sculpture, textiles and installations that reflect an expansive and daring approach to subject... Learn More -
Doug Aitken
12 October – 12 November 2011 London Gallery I Doug Aitken's first solo exhibition in London for eight years will occupy both floors of Victoria Miro and include a specially reconfigured presentation of his acclaimed multi-channel film installation Black Mirror , alongside new wall-and floor-based sculptures and light box works. The exhibition starts with Sympathy for the Devil .... Learn More -
Conrad Shawcross: Sequential
7 September – 1 October 2011 London Gallery I Victoria Miro is delighted to present a new body of work by Conrad Shawcross, in the artist's second solo presentation with the gallery. Occupying both floors the exhibition emphasises the artist's ongoing enquiry into the concepts of sequence and repetition of form. Situated on the borders of geometry and philosophy,... Learn More -
Adriana Varejão
7 September – 1 October 2011 London Gallery II Victoria Miro is delighted to present a new body of work by Adriana Varejão in her third solo presentation at the gallery and her first show in London since 2004. One of the most original voices in contemporary Brazilian art, Adriana Varejão's diverse practice comprises painting, sculpture and installation. Her... Learn More -
Alice Neel: Men Only
8 June – 29 July 2011 London Gallery II The 11 paintings in this exhibition show a variety of attitudes, from the erotic to the ironic, in an exhibition that looks at Neel's particular relationship to her male subjects. Learn More -
Yayoi Kusama: New Paintings & Sculptures
7 June – 29 July 2011 London Gallery I Giant sculptures of tulips, a pumpkin, dogs and a doll are located in the gallery's canal-side garden and ground floor exhibition space, along with new paintings, creating a surreal inside-out landscape of nature and artifice. Kusama's preoccupation with the infinite and the sublime - to be found in pattern and... Learn More -
Ian Hamilton Finlay: Definitions
5 May – 1 June 2011 London Gallery I Victoria Miro Gallery is delighted to present a unique juxtaposition of Ian Hamilton Finlay's sculpture and a series of text works, termed Definitions . These Definitions present Finlay's own interpretations of the meanings of words, and in conjunction with related sculptural works, display Finlay's adroitness in exploring the written word's... Learn More -
Chantal Joffe
19 March – 21 April 2011 London Gallery I The exhibition centred around a powerful group of seven large-scale paintings where the artist restricted her palette to dark tones of black, red, blue and white. The works offer complex fictional portrayals of the artist's heroines painted chronologically and moving towards us in time from the 1840's. As well as... Learn More -
Varda Caivano
Voice 1 February – 12 March 2011 London Gallery I Victoria Miro is delighted to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Varda Caivano, her second solo show with the gallery. Evocative, elusive, and exuding a quiet confidence, Caivano's paintings present a series of explorations of the medium and the language of abstraction. In her practice, abstraction undergoes a rigorous... Learn More -
Tom Lubbock: Additional Dates (Collages from The Independent 1999–2004)
21 December 2010 – 22 January 2011 London Gallery I Tom Lubbock died on Sunday 9 January 2011. In tribute to him Victoria Miro Gallery will reopen his exhibition on Saturday 15 & Saturday 22 January from 10am to 6pm. Or by appointment Tuesday to Friday. Admission is free. Tributes to Tom Lubbock Tom Sutcliffe remembers his friend of 30... Learn More -
Francesca Woodman
17 November 2010 – 22 January 2011 London Gallery I Victoria Miro is delighted to announce an exhibition of work by Francesca Woodman drawn from her recent retrospective which opened in 2009 at Espacio AV, Murcia, touring to SMS Contemporanea, Siena and the Palazzo della Ragione, Milan in 2010. Victoria Miro will present a selection of some fifty photographs taken... Learn More -
Isaac Julien: Ten Thousand Waves
7 October – 13 November 2010 London Gallery II Isaac Julien's critically acclaimed, nine screen film installation TEN THOUSAND WAVES - starring Maggie Cheung, the legendary siren of Chinese cinema - is to receive its London premiere at the Hayward Gallery on 13 October, as part of the exhibition Move: Choreographing You . To coincide with the exhibition Victoria... Learn More -
Yayoi Kusama: Flowers That Bloom Tomorrow
7 October – 13 November 2010 Victoria Miro is delighted to present an ensemble of three new flower sculptures by Yayoi Kusama. The giant triffid-like flora will unfold in all their psychedelic glory, against the backdrop of the Gallery's canalside garden creating a surreal landscape of nature and artifice. Enormous clusters of sinewy stems in bright... Learn More -
Hernan Bas: The Hallucinations of Poets
7 October – 13 November 2010 London Gallery I Victora Miro is delighted to present The Hallucinations of Poets , the third solo exhibition with the gallery by Hernan Bas. The American painter Hernan Bas's practice has always been intrinsically linked to an exploration of literature and the written word. For an exhibition earlier this year, Bas presented works... Learn More -
Jacco Olivier
7 September – 2 October 2010 London Gallery I Jacco Olivier fuses painting and filmmaking by repeatedly reworking paintings in generous casual brush strokes and systematically photographing each development. The various stages are combined into projected animations that are both enigmatic and experiential. Victoria Miro is delighted to announce Jacco Olivier's third solo exhibition at the gallery. The new... Learn More -
In the Company of Alice
22 June – 30 July 2010 London Gallery I 'If you do not solve your painting problem in painting human beings, you do not solve it at all'. Gertrude Stein Hernan Bas, John Currin, Verne Dawson, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, David Harrison, NS Harsha, Boscoe Holder, Chantal Joffe, Karen Kilimnik, John Kørner, Yayoi Kusama, Wangechi Mutu, Alice Neel, Chris... Learn More -
Maria Nepomuceno
7 May – 12 June 2010 London Gallery I ‘Maria Nepomucen’s woven and beaded sculptures feel entirely self-sufficient. They're at once charming and mysterious, relaxed and vivacious, like the never-entirely-gentle Rio environment that produced them.’ Holland Cotter, The New York Times Victoria Miro is delighted to announce an exhibition of work by emerging Brazilian artist Maria Nepomuceno. Having recently... Learn More -
Stephen Willats: THE WORLD AS IT IS AND THE WORLD AS IT COULD BE
7 May – 12 June 2010 London Gallery I From the 1960s until today, London-based conceptual artist Stephen Willats has concentrated on ideas that today are ever-present in contemporary art: communication, social engagement, active spectatorship, and self-organization. Stephen Willats has situated his pioneering practice at the intersection between art and other disciplines such as sociology, cybernetics, systems research, learning... Learn More -
Idris Khan
17 March – 24 April 2010 London Gallery I Victoria Miro is delighted to announce an exhibition of new work by Idris Khan. Idris Khan's second solo show with the gallery, will consist of two major sculptural installations and a number of new photographic works that interlink seemingly disparate ideas of religion, Minimalism, music and poetry Khan's new body... Learn More -
William Eggleston
21st Century 15 January – 27 February 2010 London Gallery I Victoria Miro Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of new work by William Eggleston, which will be presented concurrently by Cheim & Read in New York in January 2010. William Eggleston is one of the most influential photographers of the last half-century. Born in 1939, Eggleston has lived and... Learn More -
Phil Collins
soy mi madre 17 November – 18 December 2009 London Gallery I Eliciting the complex and ambiguous relationship between the camera and its subject, Phil Collins' work examines individual and collective systems of representation. Collins' multifaceted practice is based on a close engagement with place and community, and has addressed issues of ethnicity, gender, and political and linguistic identity through participatory events... Learn More -
NS Harsha: Picking through the Rubble
10 October – 14 November 2009 London Gallery I Victoria Miro Gallery and Iniva present the first solo shows in London by Indian artist NS Harsha. Working across media including sculpture, installation and community-based collaborations, NS Harsha is known for his paintings that often depict fields of vast, sparsely detailed space populated by highly individuated figures in miniature as... Learn More -
Grayson Perry: The Walthamstow Tapestry
9 October – 14 November 2009 London Gallery II The Walthamstow Tapestry explores the emotional resonance of brand names in our lives and our quasi-religious relationship to consumerism. Charting man's passage from birth to death, the tapestry is peppered with leading brands encountered along the way. Stripped of their logos and thus much of their identity, the names run... Learn More -
David Harrison: Existence
3 – 26 September 2009 London Gallery I David Harrison's paintings, sculptures and collages make strange our relationship to the natural world. Harrison makes use of a multitude of materials and techniques, whether they be found materials or characters and stories from literature, myth, and history, to create his distinctive personal mythology. In his imagined world, we encounter... Learn More -
Yayoi Kusama: Outdoor Sculptures
23 June – 25 July 2009 Yayoi Kusama - whose legendary career spans six decades - celebrates her 80th birthday this year. To mark the occasion Victoria Miro is delighted to present, for the first time in London, three new pumpkin works. Situated in the gallery's canalside garden the sculptures will be presented alongside her permanently... Learn More -
Tal R: armes de chine
21 May – 25 July 2009 London Gallery I 'armes de chine refers to a classic manual about weapons from ancient China. These objects, which once had a very specific and practical purpose, now several hundred years later seem completely abstract. Like a long lost slang…' Tal R Victoria Miro Gallery will present the latest body of work by... Learn More -
Alice Neel: Works on Paper
18 April – 14 May 2009 London Gallery I The first exhibition of works on paper in the UK by the acclaimed figurative painter Alice Neel. Learn More -
The Collection
24 March – 9 April 2009 London Gallery I Victoria Miro collaborates with Siobhan Davies to present The Collection . For three weeks, performers and artists present specially commissioned dance and artworks at Victoria Miro Gallery in North London and Siobhan Davies Studios in South London. The Collection is a series of ambitious collaborations that look at the interfaces... Learn More -
Christian Holstad: american standard
6 February – 14 March 2009 London Gallery I Victoria Miro announces the second solo exhibition in the UK by American artist Christian Holstad, whose distinctive practice encompasses large-scale installations, performances, labour-intensive collage and hand-made textiles. american standard will comprise a number of new sculptural works, as well as a new body of drawings from Holstad's ongoing 'eraserhead' series.... Learn More -
John Kørner: War Problems
25 November 2008 – 24 January 2009 London Gallery I War Problems is a new series of sixteen large-scale works, each representing a Danish solider killed in Afghanistan and each bearing a single name - Anders , Mikkel , Thomas , Sonny . Recently on view as part of the 2008 U-Turn Copenhagen Quadriennial, the paintings on exhibition are a... Learn More -
Philip Pearlstein
Up Close and Impersonal 15 October – 15 November 2008 London Gallery II Up Close and Impersonal is the first major presentation in the UK of work by American painter Philip Pearlstein. Considered by many to be the foremost living American realist, Pearlstein's singular practice has since the late 1950s focused on depictions of the female nude. In his recent paintings and works... Learn More -
Elmgreen & Dragset: Too Late
14 October – 15 November 2008 London Gallery I The exhibition features a re-staging of the entire Victoria Miro space. Visitors will be met by a total transformation of the gallery's interior architecture via several new interconnecting large-scale installations by Elmgreen & Dragset. Learn More -
Udomsak Krisanamis
2 – 27 September 2008 London Gallery I Krisanamis' practice has long been characterised by his specific use of collage, creating densely obsessive patterns made from newspaper, noodles, cellophane and paint. Possessing a distinct formal and conceptual clarity, the paintings offer a unique experimentation with the well-worn territories of the grid yet refuse to adhere to any particular... Learn More -
Chantal Joffe
24 June – 2 August 2008 London Gallery I Chantal Joffe is well known for her expressive paintings of predominantly female figures. This latest exhibition will include an eclectic and wide-ranging group of subjects across two distinct bodies of new work. In the main gallery, Joffe continues to work on the very large scale perfectly suited to her painterly... Learn More -
Jesper Just
A Voyage in Dwelling 20 May – 14 June 2008 London Gallery I The first solo exhibition in the UK by Danish artist Jesper Just will premiere the newly commissioned film trilogy A Voyage in Dwelling in addition to a selection of earlier works, including Just's acclaimed film A Vicious Undertow . The new trilogy - consisting of the eponymous work A Voyage... Learn More -
Inka Essenhigh
3 April – 2 May 2008 London Gallery I This new series of large-scale landscape paintings offers a vivid portrayal of the weather and passing seasons. Some of the paintings on view depict nature as a living thing, as in Yellow Fall in which the grass and trees become alive, while others personify nature as mythological figures, such as... Learn More -
Yayoi Kusama
7 February – 20 March 2008 Victoria Miro Gallery I & II For the first time Victoria Miro presents an exhibition which spans both exhibition spaces at 14 & 16 Wharf Road offering a substantial presentation of Yayoi Kusama's work. For this exhibition, Kusama has conceived a new installation Dots Obsession - Infinity Mirrored Room (2008) especially for the upper gallery and... Learn More -
Wangechi Mutu: Yo.n.I
24 November 2007 – 19 January 2008 London Gallery I One of a new generation of prominent female artists, Wangechi Mutu first came to attention in 2000 with her pin-up drawings and elaborate figurative collages. Mutu's aesthetic employs an economy of surface and depth to engage in her own unique form of myth making. The artist manipulates ink and acrylic... Learn More -
Yayoi Kusama
10 October – 17 November 2007 London Gallery II Victoria Miro is pleased to announce a two-part exhibition by revered Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama. Born in 1929, Yayoi Kusama is one of the most influential and widely recognised artists of her generation. A contemporary and peer of Robert Ryman, Donald Judd and Dan Flavin, Kusama first came to prominence... Learn More -
Phil Collins
the return of the real 6 October – 10 November 2007 London Gallery I In his exhibition - the return of the real - Phil Collins investigates the post-documentary culture which reality television has come to epitomise, and the accompanying issues of authenticity and illusion, intimacy and inaccuracy, expectation and betrayal. Popular factual programming has been the central focus of Collins' multifaceted practice for... Learn More -
Sarah Sze
1 – 22 September 2007 London Gallery I Sarah Sze's first exhibition with the gallery spans both floors. The work on the ground floor is new to the gallery, while the piece on the second floor incorporates a reconfiguration of a recent work - Tilting Planet - initially shown at Malmö Konsthall, Sweden. Since the late 1990s Sarah... Learn More -
Francesca Woodman
19 June – 28 July 2007 London Gallery I This exhibition by American artist Francesca Woodman includes five large-format photographs presented for the first time along with a selection of some 30 photographs from the key formative periods in Francesca Woodman's career - Boulder, Colorado; Providence, Rhode Island; Rome and finally in America again at the MacDowell Colony, New... Learn More -
Hernan Bas: Saints & Secret Sects
2 June – 28 July 2007 London Gallery I This new body of work, Saints & Secret Sects furthers the artist's interest in figuring historical and mythological narratives within the imagery and iconography of popular culture, literature, queer culture and here, religious mysticism. In these new paintings, Bas's characteristically lonesome, youthful figures are cast as various saints. In one... Learn More -
Alice Neel: The Cycle of Life
23 May – 21 July 2007 London Gallery I This exhibition includes paintings from the 1940s to the 1980s and shows subjects ranging from infancy to old age. Learn More -
Ian Hamilton Finlay: The Sonnet is a Sewing-Machine for the Monostich
30 March – 12 May 2007 London Gallery I The Sonnet is a Sewing-Machine for the Monostich is the largest ever presentation of Finlay's rarely seen neon works, which date back to the early seventies and run parallel to his better-known inscriptions on stone. In his essay to accompany the exhibition Stephen Bann has noted: 'There can be no... Learn More -
Absent Without Leave
17 February – 17 March 2007 London Gallery I Works by 12 international artists, with new commissions by Elmgreen & Dragset, Loris Gréaud, Terence Koh, Systems House, Andro Wekua, and Jordan Wolfson; an installation of 40 new paintings by Dan Colen; and projects by Jeppe Hein, Kirsten Pieroth, Michael Sailstorfer, and Andreas Zybach. Learn More -
Jacco Olivier
12 January – 10 February 2007 London Gallery I Jacco Olivier is both a painter and a filmmaker who fuses painting and moving image to create short, intimate animations. Painted as simply as possible, in lush, casual strokes each painting is repeatedly reworked and systematically photographed at each stage of development. The resulting films are enigmatic and experiential -... Learn More -
John Kørner: 2006 Problems
25 November – 22 December 2006 London Gallery I There are plenty of known knowns in what John Kørner has recently painted: ships and trees, men and women, crocodiles and birds, town and country-and most apparently in '2006 Problems', factories and bicycles. These are modern things that we know we know. And as this commandeered logic continues, we know... Learn More -
Conrad Shawcross: No Such Thing As One
14 October – 18 November 2006 London Gallery I Victoria Miro Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of new sculptures by the British artist Conrad Shawcross. Conceived especially for the gallery spaces No Such Thing As One brings together a body of work that explores ideas concerning time and the essence of matter. Following upon his 2005 exhibition... Learn More -
Idris Khan
2 – 30 September 2006 London Gallery I In this new body of work, Khan re-photographs and digitally layers a sequence or series of pictures in an enigmatic play of appropriation and re-creation. His photographs possess characteristics more akin to drawing or painting and are presented as a kind of photographic palimpsest, animated by the accumulative intervention of... Learn More -
Stephen Willats: From My Mind To Your Mind
2 – 30 September 2006 London Gallery I During the sixties and early seventies, Stephen Willats was one of the very few serious representatives of international Concept Art in England. Drawing upon wide-ranging artistic means, Willats attempts to comprehend the way in which individuals see a world that is determined by social constraints, how people evaluate themselves and... Learn More -
Grayson Perry: The Charms of Lincolnshire
7 July – 12 August 2006 London Gallery I Grayson Perry was born and grew up in rural Essex. Living and working in London the artist's practice has largely dealt with metropolitan themes. The Charms of Lincolnshire allows Perry the possibility to think and create work about the countryside. This is not a historical exhibition about Lincolnshire. It focuses... Learn More -
Tal R: Minus
13 May – 23 June 2006 London Gallery I Victoria Miro presents Minus , an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Tal R. The Danish artist is best known for his exuberant and deceptively simple works, which transform a picture book naiveté into a darker, archaic and often violent world. This is the third in a... Learn More -
Anne Chu
8 April – 6 May 2006 London Gallery I Anne Chu's work is underpinned by a sophisticated and highly conceptual approach to form, content and colour. Renowned for her ability to work with a variety media, in her practice Chu integrates wood, bronze, ceramic, resin and fabric in such a way that one medium is animated by another. Textiles... Learn More -
Verne Dawson
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and other paintings 25 February – 1 April 2006 London Gallery I Victoria Miro Gallery is delighted to present new works by American artist Verne Dawson. The exhibition comprises a series of seven paintings aligned to seven planets each depicting a certain day of the week; two large paintings, horizontal and vertical respectively, recounting the fairytales of Red Riding Hood and Jack... Learn More -
Tracey Moffatt
Adventures 20 January – 18 February 2006 London Gallery I Highly regarded for her formal and stylistic experimentation in film, photography and video, Tracey Moffatt's work reformulates stylistic motifs of popular and visual arts culture. Mining the images and narratives of her vast visual memory, she draws particular inspiration from the film and television she was exposed to as a... Learn More -
Smadar Dreyfus
Lifeguards 20 January – 18 February 2006 London Gallery I Developed over three years of research by the artist, Lifeguards is a dual screen audiovisual installation that examines the way culture is embedded in speech and how identity is constructed through language. The installation insists upon complete immersion of the viewer, exploring the contrasts between aural and visual perception, between... Learn More -
Chantal Joffe
19 November – 17 December 2005 London Gallery I Known for her expressive studies of women and children, these new large panels represent a move away from the intimacy characteristic of Chantal Joffe's previous work, and into a realm where the play between physical reality and imagery becomes more apparent. Her fluid and deliberately disintegrating painting style is carried... Learn More -
Isaac Julien: True North & Fantôme Afrique
14 October – 12 November 2005 London Gallery I This October, Victoria Miro Gallery will present the UK premiere of True North and Fantôme Afrique , two audiovisual installations by celebrated artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien, alongside associated photographic series. Developing Julien's preoccupation with notions and expressions of diaspora, the creolising of space and crossings, the works explore the... Learn More -
Alex Hartley: Don’t want to be part of your world
6 September – 8 October 2005 London Gallery I Don't want to be part of your world is a series of large-format landscape photographs Alex Hartley has taken in remote locations around the world. To these idyllic, desolate vistas he has inserted detailed architectural models meticulously built in relief on the surfaces: deserted geo-domes nestle amongst the rocks of... Learn More -
Varda Caivano
7 July – 4 August 2005 London Gallery I Victoria Miro Gallery presents a new series of paintings by London-based artist Varda Caivano for her first solo exhibition. -
Thomas Demand
7 June – 2 July 2005 London Gallery I This exhibition features approximately five large-scale photographic works and the London premier of his most recent film Trick (2004). -
Inka Essenhigh
27 April – 28 May 2005 London Gallery I Victoria Miro Gallery presents new paintings and works on paper by New York-based Inka Essenhigh, all of which advance the artist's highly stylized investigation of narrative, universal experience and everyday life. Widely known for her fluid, dynamic imagery and inventive figures, with these works Essenhigh has furthered her move from... Learn More -
David Harrison
23 March – 23 April 2005 London Gallery I David Harrison is an artist attracted to the day-to-day oddities that are often overlooked by most people. His paintings are populated by fantastical characters and wildlife placed in eerie, otherworldly settings. Taking traditional subjects of landscape and myth the artist creates magical tales that are relevant to our time and... Learn More -
Christian Holstad: Beautiful Lies You Could Live In
23 March – 23 April 2005 London Gallery I In the project space, Victoria Miro Gallery presents a new installation by New York-based artist Christian Holstad, titled Beautiful Lies You Could Live In. -
Hernan Bas: In the Low Light
23 March – 23 April 2005 London Gallery I 'Sometimes it is so light. That hurts my eyes. And it's too many lamps - little sparkles all over, up high, and large ones that are dreadful. They could fall on me, you know.' Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth In the Low Light is a body of work which... Learn More -
Suling Wang
21 February – 19 March 2005 London Gallery I Suling Wang's paintings address concerns relating to her identity and location as an artist in an attempt to move towards a new kind of abstraction. -
Photography 2005
Group Exhibition 18 January – 12 February 2005 London Gallery I Florian Maier-Aichen, Idris Khan, Brandon Lattu, Stephen Gill, Dan Holdsworth, Bettina von Zwehl Photography 2005 reveals a dynamic range of artistic practices. Some of the photographers are digital virtuosos working on the frontier of the medium in order to move it forward conceptually. Others exploit the original strengths of photography... Learn More -
William Eggleston
Dust Bells 23 November – 18 December 2004 London Gallery I “When people ask me what I do, I say that I’m taking pictures of life today.” William Eggleston Born in Memphis in 1939, William Eggleston has, for almost fifty years, photographed American life. Hailed as the father of colour photography, his ability to find beauty in the banal has changed... Learn More -
Grayson Perry
12 October – 13 November 2004 London Gallery I Grayson Perry creates seductively beautiful pots to convey challenging themes: at the heart of his practice is a passionate desire to comment on deep flaws within society. The forms of the pots may be traditional, but Perry resolutely distances himself from the typical cannon of artistic ceramics. Rather he uses... Learn More -
Jacco Olivier
Moving Pictures 12 October – 13 November 2004 London Gallery I Jacco Olivier is a young Dutch painter who uses animation to illuminate the narrative process of painting. Olivier fuses painting and moving images in tiny, projected, animated works that invest small and intangible moments with a magical lyricism. Olivier begins with a painting that he paints over time and again;... Learn More -
Adriana Varejão: Saunas
14 September – 9 October 2004 London Gallery I In the Sauna paintings, Varejão explores questions inherent to painting and geometry, with a sensitive use of light and shade to represent simple, contemporary tiled interiors that the artist describes as 'psychological ambience'. Fine colour gradations enliven the apparent chromatic uniformity of these paintings whilst the grids that constitute these... Learn More -
After Image
21 June – 31 July 2004 London Gallery II Simryn Gill, Ana Mendieta, Cindy Sherman, Francesca Woodman Curated by Glenn Scott Wright, After Image touches on issues ranging from self-definition to cultural belonging. Simryn Gill, Ana Mendieta, Cindy Sherman and Francesca Woodman all use photography of their own bodies to explore identity, sexuality and cultural iconography. The work included... Learn More -
Alice Neel: A Chronicle of New York 1950 - 1976
1 June – 31 July 2004 London Gallery II Bringing together paintings from three decades, this exhibition shows the remarkable range of characters that Neel portrayed in paintings that demonstrate a rare combination of painterliness and acute draughtsmanship. Learn More -
Udomsak Krisanamis
30 April – 22 May 2004 London Gallery I “In Udomsak’s earliest works, meaning slips and skitters across their smooth monochromatic surfaces or sinks between the pin pricks of light in a blanket of black. In his later paintings, it is buried in fine layers of paper or noodles, concealed under thick blobs of colour. We are tricked into... Learn More -
Painting 2004
30 March – 24 April 2004 London Gallery I Hernan Bas, Avner Ben-Gal, Varda Caivano, Charline von Heyl, John Kørner, Dana Schutz, Suling Wang Painting 2004 showcases the work of a younger generation of international artists originating from America, Argentina, Cuba, Denmark, Germany, Israel and Taiwan. Their work draws on a variety of sources including, romanticism, storytelling, recent and... Learn More -
Raqib Shaw
Garden of Earthly Delights 19 February – 20 March 2004 London Gallery I Raqib Shaw, 29, graduated with an MA in Fine Art from Central St Martin's in 2002. Born in Calcutta and brought up in the cultural wealth of Kashmir, Shaw's ancestry has shaped his richly layered paintings. Raqib Shaw's family are carpet makers and shawl traders and he grew up immersed... Learn More -
Extended Painting
14 January – 14 February 2004 London Gallery II Anne Chu, Hiroko Nakao, Jacco Olivier, Grayson Perry, Tal R, Adriana Varejão This exhibition features six artists from Asia, the Americas and Europe whose work extends the possibility of painting beyond the canvas. American artist Anne Chu uses a variety of media including wood, bronze, urethan and ceramic. Chu incorporates... Learn More -
Doug Aitken: I don’t exist
18 October – 6 December 2003 London Gallery I I don't exist , Doug Aitken's first solo show in the UK since exhibiting at the Serpentine Gallery in 2001 features the London premiere of the video installation interiors, lightboxes from Aitken's plateau trilogy and a radical new photographic sculpture. The artist has said of interiors, ' I wanted to... Learn More -
Isaac Julien: Paradise Omeros and Baltimore
9 September – 11 October 2003 London Gallery I 'Few artists have cut as impressive a swathe between structural and narrative film as the British artist, Isaac Julien. His film installations effortlessly alternate between the specific and the elliptical, the documentary and disorienting visual effects, creating a dazzling crisscrossing path that seems appropriate to the theme of doubled otherness...... Learn More -
Ian Hamilton Finlay: Idylls and Interventions
27 June – 2 August 2003 London Gallery I Idylls and Interventions brings together a number of Finlay's seminal series of prints along with a major new work and recent sculptures. The exhibition is conceived by Ian Hamilton Finlay and Pia Maria Simig. Ian Hamilton Finlay is principally a poet - a Modernist artist who has consistently exploited nature,... Learn More -
Tal R: Lords of Kolbojnik
17 May – 14 June 2003 London Gallery I 'My art always finds its point of departure in contemporary life… I'd say that most of my works are about things I've picked up in all imaginable places other than in the world of art.' Tal R. Lords of Kolbojnik is the first solo exhibition of Danish artist, Tal R.... Learn More -
Chantal Joffe
Women 4 April – 7 May 2003 London Gallery I 'Joffe is effortlessly fluent in her descriptions of human emotions through manipulated external appearances... she shows the inherent gormlessness to which we are all susceptible, no matter how cool, which reveals our greater humanity.' Neal Brown, Frieze Best known for her small paintings of children and larger bucolic landscapes, this... Learn More -
Verne Dawson
Wheel of Fortune 18 February – 19 March 2003 London Gallery I Maurizio Cattelan: Why Painting? Verne Dawson: Painting is a primary activity, somewhere between whistling and scratching. Flash Art In his own words Dawson paints 'still lives of tools and materials of painting, insects, birds, plants and animals, visions of prehistoric communities, also futuristic communities, historic figures and events, people and... Learn More -
Rijksakademie Show
Artists from the past ten years at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam 14 January – 8 February 2003 London Gallery I Lars Arrhenius • Hans Broek • Thomas Demand • Meschac Gaba • Carla Klein • Kiki Lamers • Moshekwa Langa • Jacco Olivier • Hans Op de Beeck • Michael Raedecker • de Rijke / de Rooij • Tim Stoner • Fiona Tan • Jennifer Tee • Sylvie Zijlmans -
Inka Essenhigh
29 October – 7 December 2002 London Gallery I Inka Essenhigh's large scale paintings create an enigmatic world in which animated action figures are cast alongside mythological characters and the demimonde in roles where time-honoured human concerns such as patriotism, religion, competitiveness and heroism are played out in futuristic landscapes. Her paintings often include the presence of scarcely individualized... Learn More -
Stephen Willats: Through Your Symbolic World
11 September – 8 October 2002 London Gallery I 'Every cultural landscape requires its signposts, not just to get around in the present, to find out where and what things are, but to point to a vision of the future, to show a possible destiny. I see this as a consequence and a function of my practice as an... Learn More -
Chris Ofili: Freedom One Day
25 June – 3 August 2002 London Gallery I This exhibition comprises two separate bodies of work created over the past three years. The Upper Room is a series of thirteen paintings each one a meditation on a single colour and single motif. The paintings are exhibited in a specially constructed space that has been conceived by the artist... Learn More -
Peter Doig
100 Years Ago 13 April – 22 May 2002 London Gallery I Nominated for the Turner Prize in 1994 and winner of the John Moores Foundation Prize the previous year, Peter Doig is known for his exploration of the formal and thematic possibilities of landscape. His experimental approach to surface, texture and colour makes him among the most inventive painters of his... -
Adriana Varejão
30 January – 28 March 2002 London Gallery I Adriana Varejão fills the Lower Gallery with a monumental wall based installation, Macau Wall , while the Upper Gallery houses new individual floor and wall based work. The fine colour gradations that enliven the apparent chromatic uniformity of Varejão's recent painting evoke the traditions of Minimalism or monochrome painting. However,... Learn More -
Bettina von Zwehl
30 January – 28 March 2002 London Gallery I German born, London based artist Bettina von Zwehl exhibits her new body of work Profiles, 2001, which is inspired by the diptych of Battista Sforza and Federigo da Montefeltro,c.1470, by Piero della Francesca. -
Carnegie Art Award
9 – 20 January 2002 London Gallery I Hedevig Anker, Lars Arrhenius, Håkan Bengtsson, Juhana Blomstedt, Bonnén, Peter Carlsen, Dag Erik Elgin, Carolus Enckell, Harald Fenn, Linn Fernström, Jens Fänge, Katrine Giaever, Kristján Gu∂mundsson, Jan Håfström, Matti Kujasalo, Sami Lukkarinen, Rita Lundqvist, Kehent Nielsen, Janne Räisänen, Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen, Johan Scott, Kjell Torriset. -
Dawn Mellor
Madame X and the Party Tricks 23 November – 21 December 2001 London Gallery I For this exhibition Dawn Mellor has invented a female figure loosely based on the legend of Faust – a homosexual, lewd, drunken and blasphemous magician, who was obsessed with fame and able to conjure up and communicate with the devil. -
Lars Nilsson
The House Angel 22 November – 21 December 2001 London Gallery I For over a decade Nilsson’s art has been largely centered around his own body, be it a matter of its conspicuous absence or by exposing it to the extreme. -
Abigail Lane
Tomorrows World, Yesterdays Fever (Mental Guests Incorporated) 4 October – 10 November 2001 London Gallery I Tomorrows World, Yesterdays Fever (Mental Guests Incorporated) extends Abigail Lane's preoccupation with the fantastical, the Gothic and the uncanny through a trio of arresting and theatrical installations which are based around film projections. -
Works on Paper: (From Acconci to Zittel)
27 June – 15 September 2001 London Gallery I Giovanni Anselmo, Alex Katz, Lisa Yuskavage, Vito Acconci, Henry Moore, Dawn Mellor, Nicolas de Stael, Cecily Brown, Karen Kilimnik, Sue Williams, Inka Essenhigh, Rosemarie Trockel, John Currin, David Hockney David Smith, Paul Klee, Verne Dawson, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Stephen Willats, Terry Winters, Ernesto Neto, Peter Lanyon, Chantal Joffe, Alighiero E Boetti, Chris Ofili, Udomsak Krisanamis, Lazar el Lissitsky, Fiona Banner, Glenn Ligon, Kasimir Malevich, Tal R, Dinos and Jake Chapman, Anne Chu, Peter Doig, Tim Gardner, Stanley Brouwn, Takashi Murakami, Yayoi Kusama, Man Ray, Keir Smith, Sol Lewitt, Wayne Gonzales, Christo, William Kentridge, David Harrison, Nen Nicholson, Richard Long, Martin Creed, Abigail Lane, Richard Tuttle, Carl Andre, Andrea Zittel, Robin Lowe, Raymond Pettibone, Gerwald Rochenschaub. -
Hiroko Nakao
22 May – 23 June 2001 London Gallery I This exhibition presents Nakao’s elaborately layered, collaged paintings, which incorporate fabric, stitching, lace and stickers as well as motifs such as butterflies and doll like figures. -
Udomsak Krisanamis
22 May – 23 June 2001 London Gallery I Thai born, New York based artist Udomsak Krisanamis is best known for his richly textured collaged paintings which reflect his highly personalised approach to language. -
Anne Chu
22 May – 23 June 2001 London Gallery I Using a variety of media including wood, bronze, urethane and ceramic, Anne Chu incorporates painting into unexpected materials, exploring established artistic conventions of the East and West and drawing from various art making traditions. -
Alex Hartley: Case Studies
28 March – 12 May 2001 London Gallery I Alex Hartley is primarily known for his glass encased photographs of gallery spaces, tower blocks and fictional architectural constructions. In this exhibition he pursues his dialogue with iconic modernist architecture. The centre piece of the exhibition is Case Study , which is Hartley's most ambitious work to date. This monumental... Learn More -
Annika von Hausswolff
Spöke 28 March – 12 May 2001 London Gallery I Spöke (Ghost) 2000, consists of five colour photographs of a nearly empty house as well as an installation of every day objects - chairs, fire extinguishers, a carpet, a pot plant. Until recently von Hausswolff's work has reflected the human body, more often than not expressing signs of damage and... -
Tracey Moffatt
Invocations 28 March – 12 May 2001 London Gallery I Invocations is a return to the large scale format and rich colour of Tracey Moffatt's earlier classic work, Something More. -
Painting 2001
Group Exhibition 1 February – 17 March 2001 London Gallery I Verne Dawson, Mari Eastman, Steve Mumford, Kori Newkirk, Tal R, Daniel Richter -
Thomas Demand
28 November 2000 – 20 January 2001 London Gallery I Known for his immaculate photographs of environments elaborately constructed out of cardboard and paper, Thomas Demand continues to draw on source material from historical, political and media images. -
Gerwald Rockenschaub
28 November 2000 – 20 January 2001 London Gallery I Rockenschaub presents a monumental inflated object made of translucent PVC foil pieces welded together and filled with air. -
Isaac Julien: After Mazatlan
11 – 29 September 2000 London Gallery I Victoria Miro is pleased to present an exhibition of photographs by Isaac Julien which were made in collaboration with Hare and Hound Press during Julien’s recent residency at ArtPace in Texas. His film installation, The Long Road to Mazatlan - another collaboration with acclaimed dancer and choreographer Javier de Frutos,... Learn More -
Francesca Woodman
28 June – 28 July 2000 London Gallery I Francesca Woodman took her first self-portrait at the age of thirteen and for the next several years she created a body of work that was prolific for its singularity of style and range of innovative techniques. Finding her forte, Woodman used photography as a means of articulating her voice during... -
Chris Ofili: New Works on Paper
9 May – 23 June 2000 London Gallery I This is the first solo exhibition of Chris Ofili’s work in Britain since winning the 1998 Turner Prize. This much awaited exhibition concentrates on drawings – a lesser known aspect of Ofili’s oeuvre – which will constitute a new body of work at the gallery. -
Raw
7 May – 30 June 2000 London Gallery I Yayoi Kusama. Francesca Woodman, Robin Lowe, Adriana Varejão, Isaac Julien, Doug Aitken, Abigail Lane, Hadrian Pigott, Brad Lochore, Cecily Brown, Chris Ofili, Andreas Gursky, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Inez van Lamsweerde, Peter Doig, Thomas Demand, Stephen Willats, Dawn Mellor, Chantal Joffe, Anne Chu, Alex Hartley. Learn More -
Inka Essenhigh
15 March – 28 April 2000 Victoria Miro Cork Street In Essenhigh’s most recent large-scale canvases, action figures are cast alongside the demimonde in roles where time-honoured human concerns such as patriotism, religion, competitiveness and heroism are played out in futuristic, Madmax-like landscapes. Her paintings present a new, but not necessarily better world than our own; one whose rather outlandish... -
Spot On
9 February – 10 March 2000 Victoria Miro Cork Street Ross Bleckner, Peter Doig, Udomsak Krisanamis, Yayoi Kusama, Chris Ofili -
Chantal Joffe
12 January – 4 February 2000 Victoria Miro Cork Street This show of recent work by Chantal Joffe continues the small individual figure studies for which she has enjoyed such success, but now with the addition of some larger works in which a number of figures appear together. This is an exciting departure for Joffe’s work, extending it not just... -
Doug Aitken: Into the Sun
7 October – 12 November 1999 Victoria Miro Cork Street Learn More -
Isaac Julien: Three
10 – 30 September 1999 Victoria Miro Cork Street Three is the most recent of Isaac Julien's works to be made specifically for a gallery context, combining a full screening of the film with three looped sequences back-projected side by side and presented almost as a moving photographic triptych. -
Tracey Moffatt
Laudanum 26 May – 19 June 1999 Victoria Miro Cork Street A series of nineteen photogravures, which have been individually aged, scratched and hand-tinted, Laudanum has been more than a year in the making and has the appearance almost of fine graphite drawings. Once again, Moffatt's roots as an experimental film maker are evident with references to the work of Murnau,... -
Cecily Brown
Serenade 21 April – 21 May 1999 Victoria Miro Cork Street 'The place I'm interested in is where the mind goes when its trying to make up for what isn't there. When something is just suggested.' Cecily Brown in conversation with Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, (US edition), February, 1999 Cecily Brown graduated with a degree in painting from the Slade in 1993... -
Contemplating Pollock
Group Exhibition 3 March – 16 April 1999 Victoria Miro Cork Street Thomas Demand, Peter Doig, Andreas Gursky -
Robin Lowe
13 January – 26 February 1999 Victoria Miro Cork Street Recently seen in Young Americans 2 at the Saatchi Gallery in London, Lowe is best known for his hyperreal, close-up, psychological portraits of children and babies executed on metal panel. Despite their ostensibly child-like qualities, the subjects' facial expressions often verge on the adult and deathly, and their stances on... -
Yayoi Kusama
18 November 1998 – 8 January 1999 Victoria Miro Cork Street Most of Kusama's oeuvre can be traced back to early hallucinations she first had in her childhood of multiplying dots and nets which gradually spread to dominate her universe. These visions developed into obsessive neuroses which fuelled her paintings, sculptures and performances (during which she invariably covered her naked models... -
Hadrian Pigott
14 October 1998 – 13 November 1999 Victoria Miro Cork Street Hypergienics , Hadrian Pigott's first major London show since Young British Artists V at the Saatchi Gallery is a culmination of his investigation of the fetishism of domestic manias and the associated lunacy of consumer choice, the social implications of consumption, waste, fashion and taste. A set of beautiful, matching,... -
Heads Will Roll
14 September – 9 October 1998 Victoria Miro Cork Street Ian Hamilton Finlay, Robin Lowe, Dawn Mellor, Lars Nilson, Chris Ofili, Keir Smith -
Ian Hamilton Finlay
19 May – 19 June 1998 Victoria Miro Cork Street This exhibition of benches by Ian Hamilton Finlay coincides with the inauguration of a series of permanently placed sculptures – eight benches, a tree plaque and a large circular inscription of the names of trees found in Kensington Gardens – at the Serpentine Gallery in London. -
Urban Landscapes
Group Exhibition 22 April – 16 May 1998 Victoria Miro Cork Street Miles Coolidge, Marin Kasimir, Katia Liebmann, Steven Pippin -
Brad Lochore
Still Life 18 March – 17 April 1998 Victoria Miro Cork Street Continuing his investigation of the artifice of image making and the processes of visual perception, Lochore's new work marks a radical departure from the earlier computer generated shadows of window grids which recently have become more fractured and distorted, placing the viewer within a hallucinatory visual field. The paintings in... -
Abigail Lane
Never Never Mind 14 – 30 January 1998 Victoria Miro Cork Street Never Never Mind is an intensely lyrical work comprising a hypnotic sound component with neurotic imagery, capturing and engaging the viewer in a mesmerising moment. In past work Lane has at times explored the terrain between conceptual practice and demystification through the processes of mark-making and searching for clues, recodifying... -
Inez van Lamsweerde
The Widow 26 November – 20 December 1997 Victoria Miro Cork Street In The Widow series, the computer was only used to retouch the images and van Lamsweerde has entered into a narrative world, or so it seems at first glance, since we see an eight year old girl posing in different dresses and props. Yet because of the rigid colour scheme... -
Alex Hartley: Viewer
29 October – 21 November 1997 Victoria Miro Cork Street Alex Hartley presents a major new work, Viewer . A gargantuan fully functioning slide viewer, based on an early sixties design, takes over the gallery space whilst oversized slides lean casually against the wall. The 35mm slide is recognised in the art world as the most common form of currency... Learn More -
Minor Sensation
9 September – 17 October 1997 Victoria Miro Cork Street Dinos and Jake Chapman, Alex Hartley, Abigail Lane, Chris Ofili, Hadrian Pigott -
Stephen Willats: Street Talk
8 July – 1 August 1997 Victoria Miro Cork Street Stephen Willats presents three major new works which celebrate the richness of urban life in London where each individual builds his own space and reality in the face of a bombardment of everyday sensations. -
Chantal Joffe
4 April – 2 May 1997 Victoria Miro Cork Street 'The paintings are small format works with a figure or figures, usually partially cropped. I would like to think they are making something beautiful out of something trashy and perhaps something scary out of normality.' Chantal Joffe, March 1997 -
Thomas Demand
21 February – 27 March 1997 Victoria Miro Cork Street There is a certain uneasiness and estrangement about Thomas Demand's large and immaculate photographs of interior spaces and architectural exteriors. Tension between reality and artificiality is established by the fact that what at first appear to be hyperreal reproductions are in fact images of life-size reconstructions made of card and... -
Udomsak Krisanamis
22 January – 21 February 1997 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Steven Pippin
19 October – 18 November 1996 Victoria Miro Cork Street Learn More -
Andreas Gursky
25 May – 21 June 1996 Victoria Miro Cork Street Learn More -
Chris Ofili: Afrodizziac
25 May – 21 June 1996 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Nicholas May
New Paintings 17 April – 17 May 1996 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Face to Face
Group Exhibition 13 March – 12 April 1996 Victoria Miro Cork Street John Currin, Machiko Edmondson, Jun Hasegawa, Alex Katz, Robin Lowe, Elizabeth Peyton, Alessandro Raho, Mike Silva -
Ian Hamilton Finlay
31 October – 2 December 1995 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Dinos and Jake Chapman
14 September – 20 October 1995 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Temples
5 – 28 July 1995 Victoria Miro Cork Street Juren Albrecht, Bernd & Hiller Becher, Thomas Demand, Andreas Gursky, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Alex Hartley, Keir Smith, Stephen Willats -
Brad Lochore
24 May – 30 June 1995 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Marina Abramovic
Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful 12 April – 19 May 1995 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Alex Hartley: Fountain Head
1 March – 7 April 1995 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Thomas Demand
18 January – 24 February 1995 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Images of Masculinity
6 December 1994 – 24 January 1995 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Group exhibition
22 November 1994 – 13 January 1995 Victoria Miro Cork Street Peter Doig, Masakatsu Kondo, Brad Lochore, Nicholas May, Chris Ofili -
Dinos and Jake Chapman
14 September – 14 October 1994 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Ian Hamilton Finlay and Pia Maria Simig
29 June – 29 July 1994 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Nicholas May
18 May – 24 June 1994 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Stephen Willats: Random Life
15 April – 13 May 1994 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Thomas Bernstein
3 March – 8 April 1994 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Peter Doig
13 January – 18 February 1994 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Adam Barker-Mill
19 December 1993 – 3 January 1994 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Kay Rosen
27 November – 22 December 1993 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Annihilation
27 October – 19 November 1993 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Brad Lochore
15 September – 15 October 1993 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Robert Ryman
15 February – 19 March 1993 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Claudio Silvestrin
Ground on a wall 21 January – 20 February 1993 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Group exhibition
25 November – 17 December 1992 Victoria Miro Cork Street Karin Kneffel, Michael van Ofen, Andreas Schön -
Andreas Gursky
16 September – 1 October 1992 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Group exhibition
30 June – 30 July 1992 Victoria Miro Cork Street David Batchelor, Jake Chapman, Steven Cockerton, Alex Hartley, Pat Kaufman, Sarah Staton -
Vittorio Messina
22 May – 26 June 1992 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Instructions and Diagrams
9 April – 8 May 1992 Victoria Miro Cork Street Stanley Brouwn, Jake Chapman, Alan Charlton, Jakie Ferrara, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Richard Long, Robert Mangold, Robert Morris, Matt Mullican, Alan Murray, Simon Patterson, Fred Sandback, Franz Erhard Walther, Lawrence Weiner, Stephen Willats -
Ian Hamilton Finlay, with Annet Stirling – 10 Maquettes for Neo-Classical Structures
14 February – 3 April 1992 Victoria Miro Cork Street Ian Hamilton Finlay with Annet Stirling - 10 Maquettes for Neo-Classical Structures. -
Richard Tuttle
6 – 31 January 1992 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Bill Culbert
31 October – 29 November 1991 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Ian Hamilton Finlay: A Wartime Garden
17 October – 21 December 1991 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Richard Venlet
8 – 26 October 1991 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Alan Charlton
5 September – 1 October 1991 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Conceptual Living
2 – 31 July 1991 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Donald Judd
11 – 29 June 1991 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Paul Etienne Lincoln
Thirty Bonds from New York Hot and New York Cold 7 May – 8 June 1991 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Maurizio Nannucci
Not necessarily a monologue 11 April – 25 May 1991 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Group exhibition
9 April – 4 May 1991 Victoria Miro Cork Street Marina Abramovic, Kate Blacker, Marie Bourget, Angela Bullock, Lesley Boxcroft, Paula Pezzi, Tessa Robins, Kay Rosen, Yoko Terauchi, Marilyn Weber, Rachel Whiteread -
Thomas Bernstein
The Bouys 15 March – 5 April 1991 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Franz Erhard Walther
19 February – 30 March 1991 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Pat Steir
Waterfalls 29 November – 21 December 1990 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Fred Sandback
Drawings 1962 - 1980 24 October – 23 November 1990 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Kay Rosen
Paintings 1990 19 September – 13 October 1990 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Local Detail
3 – 8 September 1990 Victoria Miro Cork Street Bernd and Hilla Becher, Boris Becker, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff -
Richard Tuttle & Alan Charlton
16 May – 12 June 1990 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Ian Hamilton Finlay: Idylls
15 May – 30 June 1990 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Marie Bourget
Boomerang 24 February – 31 March 1990 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Hamish Fulton
Twenty One Walks, Twenty One Years 1969 - 1989 25 October – 30 November 1989 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Kate Blacker
4 – 15 September 1989 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Amikam Toren
1 – 30 August 1989 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Kate Blacker
13 – 28 July 1989 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Ulrich Ruckriem & Alan Charlton
16 May – 30 June 1989 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Maurizio Nannucci
There's no reason to believe that art exists 2 February – 5 March 1989 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Rüdiger Schöttle
Wool and Water 16 December 1988 – 13 January 1989 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Alan Charlton
Team Paintings 8 March – 8 April 1988 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Hans Haacke
Global Marketing 4 December 1987 – 9 January 1988 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Tony Hayward
Viewmaster 13 November – 2 December 1987 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Richard Tuttle
Palpa 6 – 30 October 1987 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Marie Bourget
A Fold in the Door 16 September – 3 October 1987 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Ian Hamilton Finlay: Works 1966–1986
14 July – 29 August 1987 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Ulrich Ruckriem
16 June – 10 July 1987 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
David Connearn
Salt and Water Drawing 19 May – 13 June 1987 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Unpainted Landscapes
10 April – 16 May 1987 Victoria Miro Cork Street Lothar Baumgarten, Marie Bourget, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Chris Drury, Andy Goldsworthy, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Hamish Fulton, Wolfgang Laib, Nikolaus Lang, Bernard Lassus, Richard Long, Martin Rogers, David Tremlett, Herman de Vries -
Yoko Terauchi
New Work 10 March – 4 April 1987 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Hamish Fulton
Coast to Coast Walks 31 January – 28 February 1987 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Foto Cliche
15 December 1986 – 27 January 1987 Victoria Miro Cork Street Marina Abramovic & Ulay, Art in Ruins, James Casebare, Clegg & Guttmann, Bill Culbert, Thomas Locher, Ken Kum, Thomas Ruff, Krzysztof Wodiczko -
Stephen Duncalf
New Paintings 16 July – 15 August 1986 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Hellmuth Reick
Set Piece 2: Cork Street 8 – 11 July 1986 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Ian Hamilton Finlay: Marat Assassiné Vitruvius/Augustus-Vitruvius/Robespierre Ideological Accessories
29 May – 5 July 1986 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Wolfgang Koethe
New Paintings 21 April – 23 May 1986 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Richard Tuttle
New Work 17 March – 18 April 1986 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Anthony Gormley
21 February – 14 March 1986 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Alan Charlton
22 January – 18 February 1986 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Kate Blacker
One in Vienna and One in a Million 10 December 1985 – 20 January 1986 Victoria Miro Cork Street -
Lolly Batty
Square Folded Circle 10 December 1985 – 20 January 1986 Victoria Miro Cork Street