Stephen Friedman Gallery

Solo Exhibition

12 September 2020–31 January 2021

Deborah Roberts presents 'I'm'

'I'm' at The Contemporary Austin is the first institutional solo exhibition in Texas by Austin-based artist Deborah Roberts. The show comprises a selection of new collages and paintings, as well as two...

The Contemporary Austin, Austin, Texas, USA

Solo Exhibition

29 May–30 August 2020

Stephan Balkenhol has a major solo exhibition in Denmark

Museum Jorn in Silkeborg hosts the first comprehensive presentation of Stephan Balkenhol's work in Denmark. The exhibition was developed in close collaboration with the German artist and features new works. This project...

Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark

Solo Exhibition

7 May–26 July 2020

Jonathan Baldock presents 'Me, Myself and I'

Jonathan Baldock works across multiple platforms including sculpture, installation and performance. The artist's work is saturated with humour and wit, as well as an uncanny, macabre quality that channels his longstanding interest...

Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway

Group Exhibition

24 April–26 July 2020

Deborah Roberts, 'Allied with Power: African and African Diaspora Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection’

'Allied with Power: African and African Diaspora Art' is a group exhibition that celebrates recent acquisitions to Pérez Art Museum Miami's collection. Inspired by his upbringing in a number of Latin American...

Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida, USA

Solo Exhibition

13 March–21 June 2020

Jonathan Baldock, 'Facecrime'

'Facecrime' is a touring solo exhibition by British artist Jonathan Baldock. The exhibition features a series of ceramic columns inspired by the discovery, in 1974, of more than a thousand perfectly preserved...

The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK

Group Exhibition

8 March–28 June 2020

Mamma Andersson features in ‘The Future is Female’

Do we still need concepts like power woman, feminist and lady boss in this decade? Slowly new habits and a modern (er) thinking pattern are emerging: in 2020 society is increasingly aware...

CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands

Group Exhibition

8 March–27 September 2020

Mamma Andersson in 'Signature Women'

On International Women’s Day, Sunday March 8th, 'Signature Women – 100 Years on the Swedish Art Scene' opens at Artipelag, Sweden. Some 350 works by about 50 Swedish female artists are presented,...

Artipelag, Gustavsberg, Sweden

Group Exhibition

6 March–31 May 2020

Mecarõ. Amazonia in the Petitgas Collection

Mecarõ. Amazonia in the Petitgas Collection is the first institutional presentation of Catherine Petitgas’ collection. A significant figure in the recognition of contemporary Latin American art in Europe, she has been collecting...

MOCO, Montpellier, France

Commission

5 March 2020

David Shrigley shares his reinterpretation of Maison Ruinart: 'Unconventional Bubbles'

Ruinart Champagne, the world's first established Champagne House, announces 'Unconventional Bubbles' (Bulles singulières), an artistic reinterpretation of Maison Ruinart by British artist David Shrigley. This new body of work encompasses a wide...

Group Exhibition

29 February–10 May 2020

Deborah Roberts features in 'Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago'

'Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago' is a group exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago that brings together works from the city's public and private art collections. Stepping away from traditional formats, the...

MCA Chicago, Illinois, USA

Solo Exhibition

22 February–12 July 2020

'Kehinde Wiley: The Yellow Wallpaper'

'Kehinde Wiley: The Yellow Wallpaper' at William Morris Gallery is the artist's first solo show in a UK museum. Featuring six new large-scale female portraits, the exhibition offers a visual response to...

William Morris Gallery, London, UK

Solo Exhibition

8 February–3 May 2020

Denzil Forrester, 'Itchin & Scratchin'

Nottingham Contemporary presents a selection of paintings and works on paper by Denzil Forrester in his largest institutional exhibition to date. Titled Itchin & Scratchin, the show spans Forrester's engagement with the...

Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK

Group Exhibition

25 January–22 March 2020

Andreas Eriksson features in ‘Psychotropics'

'Psychotropics' is a group exhibition at New Art Centre in Wiltshire, England curated by Iwona Blazwick, Director of the Whitechapel Gallery, curator, writer and broadcaster. The exhibition brings together contemporary artists who...

New Art Centre in Wiltshire, England

Group Exhibition

24 January–16 May 2020

Yinka Shonibare CBE is included in 'Radical Revisionists'

'Radical Revisionists' is a group exhibition at Moody Center for the Arts, Texas that addresses the erasure of marginalized histories and investigates the ways in which artists reinterpret familiar themes through contemporary,...

Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Texas, USA

Group Exhibition

13 December 2019–5 April 2020

Deborah Roberts is included in ‘Re/Devaluing Colorism: Intersections of Skin Color and Currency'

'Re/Devaluing Colorism' is a group exhibition at Southwest School of Art in Texas, guest-curated by Aissatour Sidime-Blanton. The exhibition brings together the work of fourteen female artists to address the harmful effects...

Southwest School of Art, Newton Abbot, UK

Group Exhibition

7 December 2019–26 April 2020

Rivane Neuenschwander is included in 'Water'

'Water' is a group exhibition at Queensland Gallery of Modern Art that explores this fundamental element that sustains life on Earth. Bringing together work by Australian and international artists, the exhibition invites...

Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia

Award

26 October 2019–30 August 2020

Deborah Roberts is selected for the touring exhibition 'The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today'

The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today features work by nearly 50 finalists of National Portrait Gallery's latest Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. The exhibition encompasses a wide range of media including painting, drawing,...

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

Group Exhibition

9 October 2019–10 May 2020

Napoleonic paintings by Kehinde Wiley and Jacques-Louis David united

Jacques-Louis David's celebrated 19th-century portrait of Napoleon on horseback is shown alongside Kehinde Wiley's dramatic homage to the painting for the first time this autumn. Both works go on display at Château...

Château de Malmaison, Paris, France and Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA

Acquisition

Highlights of Recent Institutional Acquisitions

Deborah Roberts, 'We are Soldiers', 2019, MFA Boston, Massachusetts, USA Lisa Brice, 'Untitled', 2019, X Museum, Beijing, China Yinka Shonibare CBE, 'Adam and Eve', 2013, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa Deborah...

Viewing Room

1–19 April 2020

Latin America from 1950 to 2020: A Personal Journey

Stephen Friedman Gallery has built a reputation for its commitment over the last 25 years to championing artists from Latin America. The gallery inaugurates its Online Viewing Room (OVR) programme with a specially curated exhibition featuring works by celebrated historical and mid-career artists from South America who have formed a vital part of the gallery's history. The OVR is accompanied by a personal narrative from Stephen Friedman.

News

1–19 April 2020

Latin America from 1950 to 2020

To accompany the Online Viewing Room 'Latin America from 1950 to 2020: A Personal Journey', Luiz Zerbini has curated a list of his favourite Latin American books, films and museums. Books 'Estas...

Video

31 March 2020

Juan Araujo

Press

30 March 2020

AllRightsReserved and David Shrigley Team up for Upcoming MEET PROJECT

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29 March 2020

Art in a virtual reality: the platforms bringing exhibitions home

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Press

27 March 2020

Why Some Artists Turn Away Would-Be Buyers

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Video

26 March 2020

Channing Hansen

Video

24 March 2020

Denzil Forrester

#sfgoffsite launches by inviting you into Denzil Forrester’s home-based studio in Truro, Cornwall to see what he is currently working on. #sfgoffsite grants you special access into artists' homes and studios at...

Video

22 March 2020

Andreas Eriksson, 'Mapping Memories, Tracing Time'

Press

18 March 2020

Artist David Shrigley On 'Unconvetional Bubbles,' The Environment, And How Art Can Save The World

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18 March 2020

Art Basel Hong Kong Launches its online viewing rooms

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Press

13 March 2020

The pandemic is changing the world of art, and fast

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13 March 2020

Andreas Eriksson: 'Mapping Memories, Tracing Time'

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11 March 2020

Augmented reality: the artists and museums pushing the limits of technology through Instagram

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11 March 2020

Alarm sounds for art fairs across the world

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9 March 2020

What Sold during Armory Week

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6 March 2020

Art Industry News: The Armory Show is leaving the piers next year and changing its dates

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6 March 2020

Scenes from the 2020 Armory Show: A flooded Louvre, a Pig-headed Sculpture, and more

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Video

5 March 2020

David Shrigley, 'Unconventional Bubbles'

Ruinart Champagne, the world's first established Champagne House, announces 'Unconventional Bubbles' (Bulles singulières), an artistic reinterpretation of Maison Ruinart by British artist David Shrigley. This new body of work encompasses a wide...

Group Exhibition

5 March–22 August 2020

Rivane Neuenschwander features in 'Le monde à plat'

'Le monde à plat' is a group exhibition at Boghossian Foundation, Brussels that investigates the multitude of ways that art represents the world. The exhibition explores themes including cartography, travel and social...

Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium

Publications

2020

Andreas Eriksson

Weavings

Published to accompany the solo exhibition, 'Mapping Memories, Tracing Time' at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (13 March–16 April 2020).

Press

3 March 2020

Interviews: Rivane Neuenschwander

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27 February 2020

Kehinde Wiley: The Yellow Wallpaper at William Morris Gallery, London

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Press

26 February 2020

Time Out Review of Kehinde Wiley at William Morris Gallery

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Video

22 February 2020

Kehinde Wiley, 'The Yellow Wallpaper', William Morris Gallery, London, England

Video

19 February 2020

Denzil Forrester discusses his touring solo exhibition 'Itchin & Scratchin' at Nottingham Contemporary, UK

Press

17 February 2020

Sketch reveals augmented reality app animating the work of David Shrigley

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13 February 2020

The Obama Portraits and the National Portrait Gallery as a Site of Secular Pilgrimage

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12 February 2020

Two Napoleons in Brooklyn, One in Timberlands

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7 February 2020

Review: Melvin Edwards, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

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5 February 2020

6 must-see art exhibitions coming soon to Austin museums

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5 February 2020

Culture Type: The Year in Black Art 2019

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1 February 2020

Review: Lisa Brice at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

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30 January 2020

A peek into the process behind the popular Obama portraits

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Event

28 January 2020

Jonathan Baldock discusses his work in 'Tuesday Talks'

The 'Tuesday Talks' series presents leading artists, thinkers and curators who explore the driving forces, influences and sources of inspiration within contemporary art. The series is a collaboration between The Whitworth and...

The Whitworth, Manchester, UK

Press

28 January 2020

Singapore Fling: Nicolas Trembley around Singapore Art Week 2020

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Award

27 January 2020

Melvin Edwards is Awarded United States Artists Fellowship 2020

We are delighted to congratulate Melvin Edwards on receiving the coveted United States Artists Fellowship. The US Artists Fellowship 2020 has been awarded to fifty artists working across ten creative disciplines, each...

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27 January 2020

Yinka Shonibare’s Lady Justice Transcends Geography

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