Stephen Friedman Gallery

Denzil Forrester is included in The 58th Carnegie International

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Press

1 October 2022

‘We want to contaminate the street!’: the artist fighting Bolsonaro – with animal costumes

The Guardian External link

Caroline Coon joins Stephen Friedman Gallery

Event

14 September 2022

Caroline Coon joins Stephen Friedman Gallery

Inspired by feminism and the politics of sexual liberation, Caroline Coon’s unique paintings contest binary notions of gender and oppressive patriarchal values. Her works cover a variety of subjects including sex workers, beachgoers, intersex people, still lifes, football players and urban landscapes. All are united by Coon’s unwavering rebellion against the status quo.

Hettie Judah on the Place of Motherhood in the Art World

Press

31 August 2022

Hettie Judah on the Place of Motherhood in the Art World

Frieze External link

Yinka Shonibare CBE RA features in ‘The World Reimagined’

Group Exhibition

13 August–16 October 2022

Yinka Shonibare CBE RA features in ‘The World Reimagined’

The World Reimagined globe trails, are series of 103 unique public artworks that explore the history and legacy of the Transatlantic Trade as part of a UK-wide art and education initiative. The nationwide project aims to transform how we understand the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its impact.

Various locations around the UK

Hulda Guzmán is included in 'TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art'

Event

22 October 2022

Hulda Guzmán is included in 'TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art'

TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art is an annual contemporary art auction benefitting both the Dallas Museum of Art and amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research. Included in this year's edition is Hulda Guzmán's 'THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN', 2022.

The Rachofsky House, Dallas, Texas, USA

Sotheby’s and ICA present 75th Anniversary Auction featuring Yinka Shonibare CBE RA

Event

15 October 2022

Sotheby’s and ICA present 75th Anniversary Auction featuring Yinka Shonibare CBE RA

ICA and Sotheby’s join forces to raise funds to benefit the pioneering contemporary art institution in its 75th year. Yinka Shonibare CBE RA has created an entirely new piece for the sale, titled 'Modern Magic (Bangwa Queen)', 2022.

Sotheby's Contemporary Art Day Auction

True Believers: Benny Andrews and Deborah Roberts

Two Person Exhibition

6 October 2022–22 January 2023

True Believers: Benny Andrews and Deborah Roberts

'True Believers: Benny Andrews & Deborah Roberts' provides a historic and contemporary view of the Black experience in America through the work of two artists from different generations. This exhibition explores the deep connections between the work of two artists in relation to formal similarities, specifically their use of collage, as well as their shared interest in themes of activism, racial injustice, family, and religion.

McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, USA

Tau Lewis, Rivane Neuenschwander and Deborah Roberts are included in 'To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood'

Group Exhibition

5 October 2022–26 February 2023

Tau Lewis, Rivane Neuenschwander and Deborah Roberts are included in 'To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood'

'To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood' features an international and intergenerational group of 40 artists whose works in painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and video illustrate the diverse experiences of childhood. Through six thematic sections, 'To Begin Again' explores how artists have engaged with issues of self-expression, creativity, power, care, labour, and learning through the subject of childhood.

Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Deborah Roberts and Kehinde Wiley feature in 'Tiny Traces'

Group Exhibition

30 September 2022–19 February 2023

Deborah Roberts and Kehinde Wiley feature in 'Tiny Traces'

Tiny Traces' presents a rich history of London life from 1739-1820, a key period in Britain’s colonial past, through the stories of children from the African and Asian diasporas in the care of the eighteenth-century Foundling Hospital. Running as a parallel thread throughout the exhibition, works of art from leading contemporary artists, including Deborah Roberts and Kehinde Wiley, form a dialogue with the historic narratives.

Foundling Museum, London, England

Sotheby’s & The ICA Join Forces For 75th Anniversary Auction During Frieze Week

Press

27 September 2022

Sotheby’s & The ICA Join Forces For 75th Anniversary Auction During Frieze Week

FAD Magazine External link

7 Art Shows to See in California This Fall

Press

23 September 2022

7 Art Shows to See in California This Fall

The New York Times External link

David Shrigley features in 'A Perfect Day'

Group Exhibition

23 September–2 October 2022

David Shrigley features in 'A Perfect Day'

Group exhibition 'A Perfect Day' brings together 56 international artists and over 500 drawings with text that reflects the poetic, absurd, frustrating, and glorious in daily life, accompanied by drawing sessions and a programme of live events.

NDSM Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

‘Deborah Roberts: I’m’ Opens At Cummer Museum of Art And Gardens In Jacksonville For Final Stop Of National Tour

Press

18 September 2022

‘Deborah Roberts: I’m’ Opens At Cummer Museum of Art And Gardens In Jacksonville For Final Stop Of National Tour

Forbes External link

Holly Hendry features in 'Pigeon Park 2'

Group Exhibition

18–25 September 2022

Holly Hendry features in 'Pigeon Park 2'

A year since their inaugural exhibition in a cavernous Grade II listed former swimming baths, 'Pigeon Park' returns to its nesting home amid civic unrest, strikes and political hypocrisy to deliver another exhibition which questions inherited hierarchies and the meaning of material value in times of austerity.

Manor Place Warehouse, Walworth, London, England

Solo Exhibition

15 September–10 December 2022

Melvin Edwards: Wire(d) and Chain(ed)

Over the course of his nearly 50-year career, Melvin Edwards has explored materiality to confront social injustice. The title of this exhibition, ‘Wire(d) and Chain(ed)’, alludes to two of the artist's signature industrial media. Tracing the breadth of the artist’s life and work, the solo presentation showcases Edwards’ ability to formulate his distinct visual language in both two and three dimensions.

Christian-Green Gallery, Austin, Texas, USA

Deborah Roberts features in 'A Picture Gallery of the Soul'

Group Exhibition

13 September–10 December 2022

Deborah Roberts features in 'A Picture Gallery of the Soul'

The Katherine E. Nash Gallery presents 'A Picture Gallery of the Soul', a group exhibition of over 100 Black American artists whose practice incorporates photography. Featuring a range of photographic expressions from traditional photography to mixed media and conceptual art, the exhibition honours, celebrates, investigates, and interprets Black history, culture, and politics in the United States.

Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

Sarah Ball features in 'I'm stepping high, I'm drifting, and there I go leaping'

News

13 September–14 December 2022

Sarah Ball features in 'I'm stepping high, I'm drifting, and there I go leaping'

Group exhibition 'I'm Stepping High, I'm Drifting, and There I Go Leaping' at Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art features 65 works by 49 female and gender-nonconforming artists around the world. Curated by Weng Xiaoyu, the presentation focuses primarily on the medium of painting and works made in the past five years.

Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao City, Shandong Province, China

Art-World Insiders Pay Their Respects to the Late Queen Elizabeth II

Press

9 September 2022

Art-World Insiders Pay Their Respects to the Late Queen Elizabeth II

Artnet News External link

Hulda Guzmán features in 'Breathe into the Past: Crosscurrents in the Caribbean'

Group Exhibition

9 September 2022–29 January 2023

Hulda Guzmán features in 'Breathe into the Past: Crosscurrents in the Caribbean'

'Breathe into the Past: Crosscurrents in the Caribbean' takes its title from a line in Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ 2020 book 'Dub: Finding Ceremony', which concerns channeling ancestral knowledge toward understanding Caribbean histories and navigating Caribbean futures.

Fine Arts Center at Colorado Collage, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Price Check! Here’s What Sold—and for How Much—at Frieze’s Debut Fair in Seoul

Press

6 September 2022

Price Check! Here’s What Sold—and for How Much—at Frieze’s Debut Fair in Seoul

Artnet News External link

Leeds: First look at David Oluwale memorial sculpture

Press

4 September 2022

Leeds: First look at David Oluwale memorial sculpture

BBC News External link

Somerset House art show revisits the last 50 years through the prism of horror

Press

2 September 2022

Somerset House art show revisits the last 50 years through the prism of horror

Creative Boom External link

What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now

Press

1 September 2022

What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now

The New York Times External link

Seminar: Yinka Shonibare's Artistry - Global Trade, Art Collections and Museum History

Event

Thursday 1 September, 4-6pm (CEST)

Seminar: Yinka Shonibare's Artistry - Global Trade, Art Collections and Museum History

Nationalmuseum present a seminar on Yinka Shonibare CBE RA and his art, global trade, art collections and museum history. The seminar is arranged by Prinsessan Estelles stiftelse with lectures and panel discussions with representatives from the Ethnographic Museum, Stockholm School of Economics, Moderna Museet and Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art.

Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden

Santa Fe Indian Market’s centennial comes at a pivotal moment for Indigenous artists

Press

31 August 2022

Santa Fe Indian Market’s centennial comes at a pivotal moment for Indigenous artists

The Art Newspaper External link

A $20 million makeover turned a D.C. school into a modern art museum

Press

30 August 2022

A $20 million makeover turned a D.C. school into a modern art museum

The Washington Post External link

Ilona Keserü features in ‘Folded – Unfolded’

Group Exhibition

27 August–15 October 2022

Ilona Keserü features in ‘Folded – Unfolded’

The first major exhibition of Hungarian abstract art in Korea, ‘Folded – Unfolded’ presents abstract painting by Hungarian artists from the 1960s and the 1970s. Taking place alongside Frieze Seoul 2022 and Kiaf (Korean International Art Fair) Seoul 2022, the group exhibition draws upon the recently established collection of the Central Bank of Hungary and represents a broad range of techniques and materials.

Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea

D.C.’s Hirshhorn Museum announces massive acquisition spree of 95 works

Press

24 August 2022

D.C.’s Hirshhorn Museum announces massive acquisition spree of 95 works

ARTnews External link

Izumi Kato is included in Reborn Art Festival

Public work

20 August–2 October 2022

Izumi Kato is included in Reborn Art Festival

Reborn Art Festival is an arts and culture festival inaugurated during the summer of 2017 in one of the regions hardest hit by the triple disaster that devastated the northeastern coastline of Japan in 2011. Artworks created by renowned artists from Japan and around the world in collaboration with local people are exhibited in the Ishinomaki and Oshika areas.

Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

High Drama and Female Protagonists at Kimbell Art Museum

Press

17 August 2022

High Drama and Female Protagonists at Kimbell Art Museum

Paper City External link

The Parts that Make Us Whole: Benny Andrews and Deborah Roberts at the McNay Art Museum

Press

15 August 2022

The Parts that Make Us Whole: Benny Andrews and Deborah Roberts at the McNay Art Museum

Arts and Culture Texas External link

Melvin Edwards and Deborah Roberts are included in ‘51@51: Collected Works’

Group Exhibition

13 August–12 November 2022

Melvin Edwards and Deborah Roberts are included in ‘51@51: Collected Works’

Featuring fifty-one artworks by thirty-six prominent artists, group exhibition ‘51 @ 51’ is rennie museum’s final presentation in the historic Wing Sang building. Breaking the museum’s self-imposed rule of not titling its shows, ‘51 @ 51’ references the number of artworks in the exhibition as well as the address of the museum, 51 East Pender Street.

rennie museum, Vancouver, Canada

Themes of the African Diaspora in 'Black Atlantic'

Press

5 August 2022

Themes of the African Diaspora in "Black Atlantic"

The New Yorker External link

Jeffrey Gibson presents 'THE SPIRITS ARE LAUGHING'

Performance

Wednesday 3 August 2022, 7pm (MST)

Jeffrey Gibson presents 'THE SPIRITS ARE LAUGHING'

Jeffrey Gibson presents 'THE SPIRITS ARE LAUGHING', an ambitious flag twirling and speaking performance at Anderson Park Meadow at the Aspen Institute. The live piece incorporates a group of fifteen colour guard performers in a specialised choreographed presentation.

Anderson Park Meadow, Aspen Institute, Colorado, USA

Deborah Roberts features in 'Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirshhorn Collection'

Group Exhibition

2 August 2022 – Autumn 2023

Deborah Roberts features in 'Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirshhorn Collection'

This exhibition unites almost a century of work by 49 women and non-binary artists in a range of media drawn exclusively from the Hirshhorn’s permanent collection.

Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Park, Washington DC, USA

Press

31 July 2022

Jeffrey Gibson: Art in the Intersection

Chronogram External link

Hulda Guzmán features in ‘Who tells a tale, adds a tail’

Group Exhibition

31 July 2022–5 March 2023

Hulda Guzmán features in ‘Who tells a tale, adds a tail’

'Who tells a tale adds a tail: Latin America and contemporary art' highlights the work of 19 contemporary artists connected to Latin America. The exhibition demonstrates the ways in which ideas of storytelling and dialogue are essential to contemporary art practice.

Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, USA

Press

30 July 2022

Painting Black Existence Into History

The New Yorker External link

Leilah Babirye And February James feature in “Set It Off”

Press

27 July 2022

Leilah Babirye And February James feature in “Set It Off”

Essence External link

Panel Discussion: ‘From Near and Far’ Chaired by Katy Hessel

Video

26 July 2022

Panel Discussion: ‘From Near and Far’

Chaired by Katy Hessel

The World Reimagined revisits the history of the transatlantic slave trade through art

Press

26 July 2022

The World Reimagined revisits the history of the transatlantic slave trade through art

Wallpaper* External link

Why We Collect: Cathia Lawson-Hall and Philip Hall

Press

22 July 2022

Why We Collect: Cathia Lawson-Hall and Philip Hall

Art Basel External link

Press

22 July 2022

London: 5 Gallery Exhibitions

Culture Type External link

Event

Friday 22 July, 5-6pm (BST)

Panel Discussion: ‘From Near and Far’

We are delighted to present a panel discussion on Friday 22 July, 5-6pm (BST) chaired by Katy Hessel (art historian and founder of The Great Women Artists) featuring artists Kenturah Davis, Genevieve Gaignard, Deborah Roberts and Amy Sherald.

Online with Stephen Friedman Gallery

Video

21 July 2022

From Public Art Fund: Black Atlantic

'Black Atlantic' co-curators Hugh Hayden and Daniel S. Palmer, and artists Leilah Babirye, Dozie Kanu, Tau Lewis, and Kiyan Williams discuss their new artworks at Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Kehinde Wiley’s Mesmerising Exhibition in Venice Offers an Elegy for Global Victims of Colonialism

Press

20 July 2022

Kehinde Wiley’s Mesmerising Exhibition in Venice Offers an Elegy for Global Victims of Colonialism

Artnet News External link

Exhibitions

19 July–9 September 2022

Multiple V

Andreas Eriksson

Stephen Friedman Gallery is pleased to present ‘Multiple V’, an exploration of Andreas Eriksson’s print practice over the last two years. The presentation brings together a range of media including screen-print, lithography, etching and drypoint. The Swedish artist is known for his subtly textured depictions of the natural world, describing them as “existential landscapes”.

SLAY: Artemisia Gentileschi & Kehinde Wiley

Two Person Exhibition

19 July–9 October 2022

SLAY: Artemisia Gentileschi & Kehinde Wiley

‘SLAY’ features two paintings depicting different versions of the story of Judith and Holofernes, one by Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi and the other by American contemporary artist Kehinde Wiley.

The Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, USA

Anderson Ranch announce 2022 International Artist Honoree Yinka Shonibare CBE RA

Award

14 July 2022

Anderson Ranch announce 2022 International Artist Honoree Yinka Shonibare CBE RA

Yinka Shonibare CBE RA will be celebrated at Anderson Ranch Arts Center at a series of events during their annual Recognition Week including a gala dinner and live benefit auction on 14 July. The proceeds of the auction will support the non profit arts centre to provide workshops and extended residencies for the local community and international artists.

Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Colorado, USA

A Cut Above: The Women Using Collage to Assemble Their Own Art Spaces

Press

13 July 2022

A Cut Above: The Women Using Collage to Assemble Their Own Art Spaces

Elephant External link

Deborah Roberts In Conversation with Ekow Eshun

Event

Monday 11 July, 5pm (BST)

Deborah Roberts In Conversation with Ekow Eshun

Deborah Roberts is joined in conversation by writer and curator Ekow Eshun, to discuss her current solo exhibition, 'I have something to tell you' at Stephen Friedman Gallery until 23 July.

Online with Stephen Friedman Gallery

Event

8 July 2022

Talk Art, Jonathan Baldock

Actor Russell Tovey and gallerist Robert Diament meet with artist Jonathan Baldock to discuss his works across multiple platforms including sculpture, installation and performance for Season 13 of Talk Art.

Talk Art, Podcast

Deborah Roberts makes donation to Chisenhale Gallery

Press

7 July 2022

Deborah Roberts makes donation to Chisenhale Gallery

Financial Times External link

Sun Worshippers: Linda Yablonsky around Athens and Hydra

Press

3 July 2022

Sun Worshippers: Linda Yablonsky around Athens and Hydra

Artforum External link

On my radar: Bolu Babalola’s cultural highlights

Press

2 July 2022

On my radar: Bolu Babalola’s cultural highlights

The Guardian External link

Yinka Shonibare CBE RA features in 'Earth: Digging Deep in British Art 1781 – 2022'

Group Exhibition

2 July–11 September 2022

Yinka Shonibare CBE RA features in 'Earth: Digging Deep in British Art 1781 – 2022'

The final instalment of the RWA’s elements series, ‘Earth: Digging Deep in British Art 1781-2022’ is a major exhibition spanning four centuries of artwork. The group exhibition tackles the most expansive and urgent of subject matters, bringing together important modern, historical and contemporary artworks.

Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK

Press

30 June 2022

Yinka Shonibare Loves a Paradox

Cultbytes External link

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