Stephen Friedman Gallery

The 58th Carnegie International, titled ‘Is it morning for you yet?’ brings together historical works from the collections of international institutions, estates, and artists, alongside new commissions and recent works by contemporary artists.

Stephen Friedman Gallery is pleased to announce the acquisition of Kehinde Wiley’s celebrated new series ‘The Prelude’ (2021) by the rennie collection. Exhibited by the National Gallery, London, to great acclaim between December 2021 and April 2022, it consists of five large-scale paintings and an immersive six-channel digital film.

Black Rock Senegal announce the 2022-2023 participants for the third year of its Artist-in-Residence program. Founded by renowned artist Kehinde Wiley in 2019, Black Rock Senegal seeks to support new artistic creation through collaborative exchange and to incite change in the global discourse about Africa. 

Rothenstein’s enigmatic paintings are frequently characterised by a dreamlike quality. Mysterious figures often populate her flattened landscapes and interiors.

Public Art Fund presents a group exhibition at Brooklyn Bridge Park co-curated by artist Hugh Hayden and Public Art Fund Adjunct Curator Daniel S. Palmer. Titled 'Black Atlantic', the exhibition brings together new site-responsive artworks by Leilah Babirye, Hugh Hayden, Dozie Kanu, Tau Lewis and Kiyan Williams.

Actor Russell Tovey and gallerist Robert Diament meet with Caroline Walker to discuss 'Lisa' for Season 13 of Talk Art.

Stephen Friedman Gallery is proud to announce Tau Lewis’ participation in La Biennale di Venezia’s 59th International Art Exhibition 'The Milk of Dreams' curated by Cecilia Alemani.

Curated by Christophe Leribault, the exhibition 'Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence' is hosted at Fondazione Giorgio Cini on the occasion of the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. 

Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, presents landmark solo exhibition 'Yinka Shonibare CBE RA: Planets in My Head'. The expansive showcase features a selection from the past three decades of Shonibare’s body of work, including sculptures, paintings, photographs, print and film.

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.

The sixth edition of ‘A Summer in Le Havre’ features several temporary large-scale art installations and a curated programme of events. Highlights include a ‘half-man, half-woman being’ by Japanese sculptor Izumi Kato, set in the tree-lined square of Saint-Vincent church. Also on view is ‘Apparitions’ by German artist Stephan Balkenhol, a permanent installation of figures displayed on the facades of the city’s Perret Buildings.

Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec presents group exhibition 'America: Between Dreams and Realities' featuring over 100 works drawn from the prestigious collection of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC. 

'52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone' celebrates the fifty-first anniversary of the historic exhibition 'Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists', curated by Lucy R. Lippard and presented at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in 1971.

Group exhibition ‘Future Bodies from a Recent Past’ brings together more than 100 works and several large-scale installations by 58 artists. Featuring artists primarily from Europe, the United States, and Japan, the exhibition focuses on the major technological changes since World War II and their influence on our ideas of the body.

‘Wind Sculpture in Bronze I’ by Yinka Shonibare CBE RA is the third permanent sculpture presented to Royal Djurgården by Princess Estelle, Duchess of Östergötland's cultural foundation. The two metre sculpture, rendered in steel and fibreglass, captures the shifting movement of wind passing through Shonibare's signature Dutch wax batik fabric on a dramatic scale.

This summer, Hackney will welcome The World Reimagined globe trails, a series of specially-designed public artworks as part of a UK-wide art and education initiative. The project aims to transform how we understand the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its impact. 

For Art Basel Hong Kong 2022, Stephen Friedman Gallery presents new paintings and works on paper by Andreas Eriksson.

Caroline Walker joined Laura Smith (curator at Whitechapel Gallery, London) to discuss her current solo exhibition ‘Lisa’ at Stephen Friedman Gallery.

'Set It Off' brings together work by Leilah Babirye, Torkwase Dyson, February James, Karyn Olivier, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Kennedy Yanko. Often combining multiple elements of paintings, sculpture, installation, sound, and language, each artist in 'Set It Off' engages the monumental, the site-specific, or the immersive in their practice.

Curated by Dakin Hart with Alberto Rios de la Rosa, Assembly’s inaugural exhibition is devoted to cultural, social and economic exchange. 'Assembly 1: Unstored' features artworks 'rescued from the isolation of storage crates' and re-entered into the world, where they can 'play their role in the marketplace of ideas'. 

Stephen Friedman Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Jonathan Baldock for Frieze New York 2022.

'Women Painting Women' is a thematic exhibition featuring 46 female artists who choose women as subject matter in their works. This presentation includes approximately 50 evocative portraits that span the late 1960s to the present. International in scope, 'Women Painting Women' recognises female perspectives that have been underrepresented in the history of postwar figuration. 

Group presentation ‘The Circus We Are’ explores the influence of the circus world on art. Situating imagery of clowns, merry-go-rounds, fairground games and tightrope walkers alongside contemporary artworks, the exhibition poses the question ‘Are we in the circus?’.

On the occasion of the institution’s 30th anniversary, Kunstmuseum Bonn presents a comprehensive survey of its collection of contemporary art across twenty rooms. ‘Space for imaginative actions’ offers fresh perspectives on key figures, movements and subjects, as well as showcasing some of the world’s most innovative contemporary artists.

This exhibition presents a group of previously unrealized installations from one of sculptor Melvin Edwards' most dynamic bodies of work. 

Jeffrey Gibson: ‘The Body Electric’ is a comprehensive survey of Gibson’s multi-decade practice highlighting the artist's purposeful use of material, provocative language, and collaborative community-rooted performances.