Stephen Friedman Gallery

With his dryly comic drawings, absurdist installations and sharp observations, British artist David Shrigley offers a humorous yet critical perspective on life and the art world. Behind the seemingly simple forms lies a serious undercurrent in which Shrigley questions the rules of society. What the Hell Was I Thinking?, at Kunsthal Rotterdam, invites visitors into his mind.

Wilding, the first posthumous exhibition of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s work in a public institution, will open at Fruitmarket.

Caroline Coon describes photographing the Clash for their first hit.

Melvin Edwards' solo show, SOME BRIGHT MORNING, is the artist's most comprehensive presentation in Paris to date. The exhibition is part of a retrospective organised in collaboration with Fridericianum and Kunsthalle Bern.

Melvin Edwards is featured in Galerie Magazine’s round-up of 7 essential museum exhibitions to visit in Paris, highlighting his retrospective at the Palais de Tokyo.

Alvorada presents the work of five Brazilian artists exploring themes of cultural resilience, memory and formal exploration across painting, photography and site-specific installations. 

Financial Times highlights Melvin Edwards and Jiro Takamatsu in their reframing of minimalist art history.

Sarah Ball's 'Petros', 2025 acquired at Frieze London to enter the national collection.

We are pleased to announce Jerwood Collection have acquired Emma (2025), an intimate new portrait by Sarah Ball.

Yinka Shonibare’s 'Abstract Bronze IV' captures the idea of harnessing the wind, with the sculpture resembling a vast sheet of fabric, billowing in the breeze. Imbued with a remarkable sense of dynamism, the sculpture embodies the movement of the air as if it is about to dance or move away.

We are delighted to announce Arts Council Collection have acquired Sarah Ball's painting Petros (2025) as part of their Frieze Acquisition Fund.

FAD Magazine highlights Alexandre Diop's solo exhibition 'Run For Your Life !' as one of five top art exhibitions to visit at Frieze.

Tonico Lemos Auad features in 'A Living Confluence', a two-person exhibition with Goia Mujalli. 

Jim Hodges features in Meredith Monk’s top ten list in Artforum.

This major group exhibition, curated by Hettie Judah with Hayward Gallery Touring, brings together the joys, heartaches, myths, mess and mishaps of motherhood through over 100 artworks, from the feminist avant-garde to the present day.  

“I believe that what matters most in my work – including my paintings – is how viewers feel when they see it. I want people to freely interpret and reflect on it in their own way.”  Izumi Kato

Izumi Kato features in Dazed's standout artists of Japan’s Aichi Triennale 2025.

Alexandre Diop features in Maxwell Rabb's September roundup.

"The international art festival’s sixth edition reveals beauty and hope amidst destruction". Eugenie Shin

Izumi Kato features in Tokyo Weekender's 10 Outstanding Artworks From Aichi Triennale 2025.

Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles explores how artists are using textiles in surprising and radical ways.

Caroline Walker: Mothering brings together work the artist has made over the past five years, exploring themes of motherhood and early-years care. This important publication reveals the evolution of Walker’s highly original artistic language.

Izumi Kato presents a selection of work at the Design Aichi Gallery, Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum as part of the 6th edition of the Aichi Triennale.

The home has fascinated artists for hundreds of years. But what, exactly, is the appeal? Artists including Caroline Walker, Andrew Cranston and Cece Philips on magic in the mundane.

Caroline Walker features in M(otherhood)s, a group exhibition at The Denison Museum that explores the many ways care, identity, and connection take shape across time and culture.

Apollo Magazine reviews For Children: Art Stories since 1968 at Haus der Kunst, Munich, highlighting Rivane Neuenschwander’s installation The Name of Fear.

Wallpaper* features Leilah Babirye in USA 400: The people shaping Creative America in 2025, highlighting her work that responds to anti-homosexuality legislation in Uganda. 

Ana Cláudia Almeida highlighted in artist feature by FADmagazine in light of co-representation announcement.

Stephen Friedman Gallery is pleased to announce co-representation of Brooklyn-based, Brazilian artist Ana Cláudia Almeida ahead of the artist's upcoming exhibition Over Again at our New York gallery.

Ana Cláudia Almeida co-represention by London and New York’s Stephen Friedman Gallery and Brazilian galleries Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel and Quadra highlighted by Artsy.

Hulda Guzmán: Miracle Fruits is an essential introduction to the vibrant universe of the Dominican artist.

Rivane Neuenschwander is a part of For Children. Art Stories since 1968, a group exhibition that explores childhood and what it means to create artworks for young audiences.

More than a dozen galleries on the storied Mayfair thoroughfare are celebrating its history with a group exhibition.

Caroline Walker portrays children’s play areas on a scale normally reserved for grand religious tableaux.

Featuring a monumental sculpture by Yinka Shonibare, Foster + Partners' has been announced as the winning design team for the Queen Elizabeth II National Memorial. Selected through an international competition, final designs will be unveiled in 2026, to coincide with what would have been Queen Elizabeth II’s 100th birthday, with construction scheduled to begin in 2027.

New Encounters is the first comprehensive reinstallation of The Columbus Museum of Art's contemporary galleries since the opening of the museum’s Margaret M. Walter Wing in 2015. Incorporating over 100 works by 68 artists from the 1940s to the present, highlights include 'Ssempewa from the Kuchu Mamba (Lungfish) Clan' (2022) by Leilah Babirye.

Forbes selects Luiz Zerbini's work Os Comedores de Terra | The Earth Eaters (2025) as one of the standout installations at Art Basel Unlimited. 

Thomas Hirschhorn participates in an exceptional collaboration between the Musée du Louvre and the Centre Pompidou-Metz, presenting an exhibition dedicated to the creativity of copyists. 

In partnership with New Contemporaries, Christie’s presents 75 Years of New Contemporaries, to honour and raise vital funds to support the next generation of UK-based emerging artists.

Stephen Friedman Gallery is pleased to present Rooted in Memory, the first UK solo exhibition of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (1940-2025, citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation). A groundbreaking visual artist as well as a prominent curator and activist, Smith paved the way for contemporary Indigenous artists over her remarkable fifty-year career.

Black Gold: Stories Untold invites 17 contemporary artists to reflect on the resilience, struggles, and triumphs of African Americans who lived in California from the Gold Rush to the Reconstruction period following the Civil War (c. 1849–1877).

Clare Woods has been invited to join the Roberts Institute of Art Residency in Scotland this June.

Stephen Friedman Gallery, New York is pleased to present Uncommon Sight, an exhibition of new paintings by Korean artist Yooyun Yang. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York, following her ambitious US debut in the 58th Carnegie International in 2022.

Yooyun Yang showcases three acrylic paintings on handmade Korean paper in the group show The figurative is not the exception but the rule at HITE Collection in Seoul.

“It feels significant to see something so familiar rendered in oils, and deemed worthy of a still life.”

Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists brings together over 150 works that explore artistic relationships, identity, and mutual influence in modern and contemporary British art.

Caroline Walker reflects on how motherhood and daily acts of care have shaped her practice in Apollo Magazine interview.

On the occasion of Caroline Walker: Mothering at The Hepworth Wakefield, we are delighted to announce the release of a new limited edition lithographic print by the artist.

The RSA Annual Exhibition is the largest and longest running exhibition of contemporary art in Scotland. Now in its 199 year, the RSA Annual Exhibition provides a platform for contemporary painting, sculpture, film, printmaking, photography and installation, alongside work by some of the country's leading architects.

Stephen Friedman Gallery presents 19, a solo exhibition by Swedish artist Andreas Eriksson. Rooted in the rural landscape surrounding the artist’s home and studio in Medelplana, Sweden, this new series of large-scale paintings continues Eriksson’s sustained exploration of landscape painting as topography and visual contemplation.

Leilah Babirye features in Great Women Sculptors, published by Phaidon, celebrating the work of more than 300 groundbreaking women sculptors from around the world.

Juan Araujo's two-sided volume Clouds and Shadows on Mars / Over Time, published by CURA, offers an immersive journey into the artist's practice, serving both as a record of his exhibition at Palazzo Massimo and as a monograph on his most significant works of recent years.

Stephen Friedman Gallery presents Queer Love, an exhibition bringing together a selection of significant and recently discovered erotic drawings by British artist and key Bloomsbury group member Duncan Grant (1885–1978) in dialogue with new works by contemporary queer artists including: Soufiane Ababri, Leilah Babirye, Anthony Cudahy, Kyle Dunn, Alex Foxton, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Wardell Milan, Sola Olulode, Tom Worsfold and Jimmy Wright. The exhibition is organized in collaboration with Charleston, UK.

Jim Hodges has released a new limited edition work, with you, supported by Artspace.

'De Sculptura' provides an impression of output by established and younger Austrian and international artists from the ALBERTINA Museum’s collection of contemporary art, which is currently diversifying in terms of featured media with innovative new emphases.

Kehinde Wiley's solo exhibition A maze of power travels to the Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.

British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare’s first major solo exhibition on the African continent, Safiotra [Hybridités/Hybridities] at Foundation H, Madagascar.

The exhibition at the Fondation H in Antananarivo includes the British Nigerian artist’s 6,000-book installation The African Library.