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

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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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

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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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: 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

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

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

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

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: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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