Exhibitions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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