Stephen Friedman Gallery

Jeffrey Gibson: THE SPIRITS ARE LAUGHING

True Believers: Benny Andrews and Deborah Roberts

Denzil Forrester is included in The 58th Carnegie International

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Video

8 December 2022

Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art — immediate, unpredictable and outrageous

Financial Times External link

Leilah Babirye and Jonathan Baldock feature in 'Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art'

Group Exhibition

26 October 2022–8 January 2023

Leilah Babirye and Jonathan Baldock feature in 'Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art'

'Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art' is the first large-scale group exhibition in the UK exploring how contemporary artists have used clay in unexpected ways. Featuring 23 international artists working across recent decades, the exhibition examines the plasticity and the possibilities of ceramics.

Hayward Gallery, London, England

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 in Conversation with Connie Choi

Event

15 December 2022

Deborah Roberts in Conversation with Connie Choi

Deborah Roberts is in conversation with Connie Choi as part of the Louis A. and Frances B. Wagner Lecture Series at McNay Art Museum, Texas.

McNay Art Museum, Texas, USA

Jeffrey Gibson is featured in 'Dreamhome'

Group Exhibition

3 December 2022

Jeffrey Gibson is featured in 'Dreamhome'

'Dreamhome: Stories of Art and Shelter' explores homemaking as a manifestation of cultural history and identity. Its artists reflect on 'home’ from their own perspectives, while also registering the shared hopes and anxieties asociated with ideas of domestic space, environment and belonging.

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Sarah Ball, Jeffrey Gibson and Kehinde Wiley are part of Beth Rudin DeWoody's collection at The Bunker

Group Exhibition

3 December 2022–12 May 2023

Sarah Ball, Jeffrey Gibson and Kehinde Wiley are part of Beth Rudin DeWoody's collection at The Bunker

Presenting rotating exhibitions and viewable storage of the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, The Bunker showcases a wide range of contemporary art by both well-known and emerging artists, displayed alongside iconic pieces of furniture and other curiosities. The collection champions emerging, and at times, overlooked artists, especially in the early stages of their careers, and so the Bunker offers insight into a truly unique collection.

The Bunker, Los Angeles, USA

Denzil Forrester is featured in 'Grayson's Art Club: The Exhibition III'

Group Exhibition

2 December 2022–16 April 2023

Denzil Forrester is featured in 'Grayson's Art Club: The Exhibition III'

'Grayson's Art Club: The Exhibition III' is the culmination of a project begun by Grayson Perry during the Covid-19 lockdown. Drawing together works by members of the public, celebrities and established artists, the works included are curated by Perry under weekly themes on the television program, Grayson's Art Club.

Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham, England

Art fairs

1–3 December 2022

Art Basel Miami Beach

Stephen Friedman Gallery presents a group exhibition of artists from its roster for Art Basel Miami Beach. Bringing together new sculptures, paintings and works on paper, the exhibition demonstrates the global breadth of the gallery programme. Incorporated in the exhibition will be a separate solo presentation for Kabinett by Japanese artist Izumi Kato.

Booth F25

And Van Gogh scores! What happens when art, football and fashion collide

Press

25 November 2022

And Van Gogh scores! What happens when art, football and fashion collide

The Guardian External link

Ged Quinn participates in 'Hospital Rooms' project at Torbay Hospital

Group Exhibition

Ongoing

Ged Quinn participates in 'Hospital Rooms' project at Torbay Hospital

Hospital Rooms has partnered with Devon Partnership NHS Trust to create artworks for three inpatient mental health wards at Torbay Hospital. Hospital Rooms is an arts and mental health charity that commissions extraordinary artworks for NHS mental health inpatient units across the UK, believing in the power of art to provide joy and dignity and to stimulate and heal.

Torbay Hospital, Salus Ward, Torquay, England

Denzil Forrester is included in 'Forecast Form'

Group Exhibition

19 November 2022–23 April 2023

Denzil Forrester is included in 'Forecast Form'

Taking the 1990s as its cultural backdrop, ‘Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today’ is the first major group exhibition in the United States to envision a new approach to contemporary art in the Caribbean diaspora, foregrounding forms that reveal new modes of thinking about identity and place.

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Nearly 100 Artist-Designed Globes Will Land in London’s Trafalgar Square This Weekend

Press

18 November 2022

Nearly 100 Artist-Designed Globes Will Land in London’s Trafalgar Square This Weekend

Artnet News External link

Event

17 – 25 November 2022

The World Reimagined Charity Auction

'The World Reimagined' is a ground-breaking, national art education project to transform how the Transatlantic Slave Trade is understood and its lasting impact on all of us. A globe created by Yinka Shonibare CBE RA is on view alongside 95 others at Trafalgar Square on Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 November. Eighteen of the globes including Shonibare's will be auctioned by Bonhams in support of the charitable project.

Online with Bonhams, London

Review: Pottery goes off-piste in the Hayward Gallery’s Strange Clay

Press

11 November 2022

Review: Pottery goes off-piste in the Hayward Gallery’s Strange Clay

The RIBA Journal External link

Melvin Edwards features in 'Revisiting 5 + 1'

Group Exhibition

10 November 2022–31 March 2023

Melvin Edwards features in 'Revisiting 5 + 1'

More than 50 years since the historic '5+1' exhibition at Stony Brook University, 'Revisiting 5+1' reflects and builds on the work and impact of its artists.

Paul W. Zaccaire Gallery, Stony Brook, New York, USA

Issey Miyake L’Eau D’Issey - Luiz Zerbini

Press

9 November 2022

Issey Miyake L’Eau D’Issey - Luiz Zerbini

Wonderland Magazine External link

From Adversity to Adornment: Leilah Babirye Interviewed by Ksenia M. Soboleva

Press

7 November 2022

From Adversity to Adornment: Leilah Babirye Interviewed by Ksenia M. Soboleva

BOMB Magazine External link

Strange Clay: I skipped happily through this punchy show

Press

6 November 2022

Strange Clay: I skipped happily through this punchy show

The Times External link

Yinka Shonibare CBE RA is included in 'A Gateway to Possible Worlds: Art & Science Fiction’

Group Exhibition

5 November 2022–10 April 2023

Yinka Shonibare CBE RA is included in 'A Gateway to Possible Worlds: Art & Science Fiction’

‘A Gateway To Possible Worlds’ brings together over 200 works from the late 1960s to the present day. The exhibition explores the world of science fiction as an expression of the present and a complex tool for understanding the future, which it helps to construct and predict.

Grande Nef, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France

Yinka Shonibare's ecological farm residency in Nigeria launches ahead of biggest-ever Art X Lagos fair

Press

4 November 2022

Yinka Shonibare's ecological farm residency in Nigeria launches ahead of biggest-ever Art X Lagos fair

The Art Newspaper External link

Yinka Shonibare CBE RA Launches G.A.S Foundation

Press

1 November 2022

Yinka Shonibare CBE RA Launches G.A.S Foundation

Artnet News External link

Down to Earth: Ceramic art may be the medium of the moment

Press

31 October 2022

Down to Earth: Ceramic art may be the medium of the moment

Art Basel External link

The Horror Show! at Somerset House holds a haunted mirror up to British life

Press

31 October 2022

The Horror Show! at Somerset House holds a haunted mirror up to British life

Financial Times

Press

30 October 2022

Strange Clay review – dynamic ceramic

The Guardian External link

‘Strange Clay’ review: a mucky, uncanny, visceral survey of ceramic art

Press

29 October 2022

‘Strange Clay’ review: a mucky, uncanny, visceral survey of ceramic art

Wallpaper* External link

Jeffrey Gibson at Frieze London Film by Iceni Studios

Video

27 October 2022

Jeffrey Gibson at Frieze London

Film by Iceni Studios

David Shrigley features in 'The Horror Show!'

Group Exhibition

27 October 2022–19 February 2023

David Shrigley features in 'The Horror Show!'

Somerset House presents a major exhibition celebrating our greatest cultural provocateurs and visionaries, examining how ideas rooted in horror have informed the last 50 years of creative rebellion in Britain.

Somerset House, London, England

Melvin Edwards features in 'Juan Francisco Elso: Por América'

Group Exhibition

27 October 2022–25 March 2023

Melvin Edwards features in 'Juan Francisco Elso: Por América'

'Juan Francisco Elso: Por América' investigates the brief yet significant career of the late Cuban artist Juan Francisco Elso. Based in Havana, Elso was part of the first generation of artists born and educated in post-revolutionary Cuba, who gained international recognition in the early 1980’s. The exhibition explores crosscurrents between Elso’s art and the creative output of both close colleagues and artists who demonstrate parallel affinities, featuring 45 works by more than 30 artists.

El Museo del Barrio, New York, USA

Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art

Press

26 October 2022

Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art

Time Out External link

David Shrigley on worrying, God and drawing like a five-year-old

Press

25 October 2022

David Shrigley on worrying, God and drawing like a five-year-old

The Guardian External link

Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art at the Hayward Gallery review - weird and wonderful

Press

25 October 2022

Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art at the Hayward Gallery review - weird and wonderful

Evening Standard External link

Strange Clay: a garden of weird and wonderful delights at the Southbank

Press

25 October 2022

Strange Clay: a garden of weird and wonderful delights at the Southbank

The Telegraph External link

Native American artist Jeffrey Gibson is reuniting land, people and song

Press

25 October 2022

Native American artist Jeffrey Gibson is reuniting land, people and song

Financial Times External link

‘A way through the darkness’: the art show sublimating the horrors of past half-century

Press

24 October 2022

‘A way through the darkness’: the art show sublimating the horrors of past half-century

The Guardian External link

From career suicide to cause for celebration: how the art world is finally embracing parenthood

Press

24 October 2022

From career suicide to cause for celebration: how the art world is finally embracing parenthood

The Art Newspaper External link

Denzil Forrester is included in 'Dark Light, Realism in the Age of Post truth'

Group Exhibition

Opening 23 October

Denzil Forrester is included in 'Dark Light, Realism in the Age of Post truth'

Group exhibition 'Dark Light: Realism in the Age of Post-Truths', curated by Massimiliano Gioni, assembles the work of over one hundred artists and more than two hundred pieces from the Tony and Elham Salamé Collection. Taking its title from a 2017 painting by the American artist Nicole Eisenman held in the collection, the presentation brings together recent acquisitions that question the meanings and functions of figuration in contemporary art.

Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon

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

How Childhood Inspires Artists and Their Art

Press

21 October 2022

How Childhood Inspires Artists and Their Art

The New York Times External link

How the Denver Art Museum Kicked Columbus Out the Door

Press

20 October 2022

How the Denver Art Museum Kicked Columbus Out the Door

The New York Times External link

17 Artists Whose Works Set Records at London’s Frieze Week Auctions

Press

20 October 2022

17 Artists Whose Works Set Records at London’s Frieze Week Auctions

Artsy External link

Here are 9 buzzed-about museum exhibitions to see in Paris

Press

18 October 2022

Here are 9 buzzed-about museum exhibitions to see in Paris

Artnet News External link

7 Must-See Shows to Visit during Paris Art Week 2022

Press

18 October 2022

7 Must-See Shows to Visit during Paris Art Week 2022

Artsy External link

Holly Hendry talks to Phillip Edward Spradley

Press

17 October 2022

Holly Hendry talks to Phillip Edward Spradley

FAD Magazine External link

The ICA San Francisco opens in lightning speed with a solo project by Jeffrey Gibson

Press

17 October 2022

The ICA San Francisco opens in lightning speed with a solo project by Jeffrey Gibson

Artnet News External link

What Sold at Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2022

Press

17 October 2022

What Sold at Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2022

Artsy External link

The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to See in London this October

Press

16 October 2022

The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to See in London this October

Tabish Khan External link

Solo Exhibition

15 October–26 November 2022

Jeffrey Gibson: They Come From Fire

An immersive, site-responsive installation by multimedia artist Jeffrey Gibson, 'They Come From Fire' transforms the exterior windows on the facade of the museum’s main building as well as the two-story interior court. This dynamic work celebrates Portland’s Indigenous history, presence and vitality and coincides with a survey of Dakota modernist Oscar Howe, serving as a bridge between the museum’s contemporary and Native American art collections.

Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA

Major galleries sign Venice Biennale’s women artists—at last

Press

14 October 2022

Major galleries sign Venice Biennale’s women artists—at last

The Art Newspaper External link

The 10 best booths at Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2022

Press

13 October 2022

The 10 best booths at Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2022

Artsy External link

The top picks from Frieze London, from folklore to fundraisers

Press

13 October 2022

The top picks from Frieze London, from folklore to fundraisers

The National External link

Spotlight: Hungarian Artist Ilona Keserü’s Bold Experiments With Abstraction Surface at Frieze Masters

Press

12 October 2022

Spotlight: Hungarian Artist Ilona Keserü’s Bold Experiments With Abstraction Surface at Frieze Masters

Artnet News External link

Press

11 October 2022

Frieze week highlights

Apollo Magazine External link

Press

11 October 2022

8 Shows to See in London During Frieze

ARTnews External link

How to make the most of art season in the capital

Press

8 October 2022

How to make the most of art season in the capital

Harper's Bazaar External link

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