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Art, Activism and the Women’s movement in the UK 1970–1990. This exhibition is the first of its kind – a major survey of work by over 100 women artists working in the UK from 1970 to 1990. Through their creative practices, women’s liberation was forged against the backdrop of extreme social, economic and political change.

'Flowers Forever: Flowers in Art and Culture' tours the cultural and visual history of flowers from antiquity to the present day.

'Rethinking Monuments: American Sculpture in its Time, 1850 – 2000' explores the development of the artists' relationship to the monument, its communication of narrative, and in turn the viewer's perception of these.

'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.

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.

'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.

'mixed up with others before we even begin' celebrates the historical and cultural processes of creolisation as an age-old mode of world-making. The group exhibition features works that examine postcolonial histories of diversity, satirical transliteration, queer folklore, and collective feminist rituals.

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.

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.

'Being In the World' marks the tenth anniversary of Long Museum. Curated by Iwona Blazwick, the group show is conceived as an artistic celebration of returning to 'the world' in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic.⁠

LACMA has a long history of presenting abstract art, dating to the 1964 exhibition 'Post-Painterly Abstraction' at the Los Angeles County Museum in Exposition Park. All of the works in 'New Abstracts' are recent additions to the museum’s permanent collection, many on view for the first time since being acquired.

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.

‘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. 

'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.

'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.

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.

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.

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.

Centred on the provocative term 'fake', the exhibition at Kunsthaus Graz traces the development of the interfaces between graphic design, media images and art since 1971.

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.