Exhibitions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Doug Aitken: Into the Sun

7 October – 12 November 1999 Victoria Miro Cork Street Learn More

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