Exhibitions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 – 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

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

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 (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

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