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Featuring around one hundred original prints, 'The Future is Blinking' considers the key themes in the history of photography in West and Central Africa with a focus on its peculiarities and its connections with other local art forms.

The first global survey exhibition dedicated to the use of clothing as a medium of visual art, ‘Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art’ examines work by thirty-five international contemporary artists, from established names to emerging voices. The presentation includes ‘The Anthropophagic Effect, Garment no. 4’, 2019 by Jeffrey Gibson and ‘The Ghost of Eliza Jumel’, 2015 by Yinka Shonibare CBE RA.

Now in its 5th edition, ‘Artists’ Fair Kyoto’ is an independent artist showcase that positions new works by internationally acclaimed artists alongside up-and-coming artists across multiple venues in the city. Japanese artist Izumi Kato will exhibit a scroll and a small stone sculpture at Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto.

'Captured Beauty' features contemporary works of art drawn from the Arts Council Collection, with paintings by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Denzil Forrester, Ryan Mosely, Mowbray Odonkor, and Caroline Walker. 

'Crazy: Madness in Contemporary Art' is a group exhibition comprising 11 new site-specific installations across the historic, interior and exterior spaces of Chiostro del Bramante, Rome. Curated by Danilo Eccher and featuring over 21 international artists, the presentation explores divergent portrayals and perceptions of reality in contemporary art.

Hawaii Triennial 2022 (HT22) is framed around the fluid concept of Pacific Century – E Ho‘omau no Moananuiākea – interweaving themes of history, place, and identity within the context of Hawaii’s unique location at the confluence of the Asia-Pacific and Oceania.

Group presentation ‘Résister, encore’ explores forms of resistance developed by artists. The exhibition includes ‘A Ruin is a Ruin (A Ruin is a Ruin)’, 2016 by Thomas Hirschhorn, a series of mixed-media works that combine imagery of ruins to investigate the charged meanings ascribed to these complex and politically charged sites.

'Legacies: London Transport’s Caribbean Workforce’ celebrates the contribution Caribbean people have made to transport in London and British culture more widely. The exhibition explores the struggles and triumphs many of these individuals and their families experienced as they moved halfway across the world from the Caribbean to the UK.

'Awakening: seeing beyond the frame', is a group presentation that explores the frame as a material and conceptual device that designates the limits of a subject, power, or identity. Through photography, sculpture, performance, textiles, collage, and video, artists Lorna Bauer, Marie-Claire Blais, Nadège Grebmeier Forget, Alicia Henry, Tau Lewis, Michaëlle Sergile, and Eve Tagny each uniquely defy prescribed norms and conventions. 

Group exhibition 'Les grands Ensembles' brings together twenty artists as a collective whose works involve an exploration of public space, architecture and related societal themes. 

To celebrate 30 years of impact on culture and creativity, Interscope Records brings together an intergenerational group of visual artists including Cecily Brown, Lauren Halsey, Rashid Johnson, Takashi Murakami, Ed Ruscha and Kehinde Wiley into dialogue with groundbreaking musicians from the last three decades.

Employing monstrous, grotesque, and humanoid figures and forms, group exhibition ‘And I Must Scream’ engages five themes—corruption and human rights violations, displacement, environmental destruction, the pandemic, and renewal. 

Tom Friedman features in 'Mind, Art, Experience: 10 Years of Chess & Culture in Saint Louis', a museum-wide group exhibition, celebrating the 10-year anniversary of The World Chess Hall of Fame (WCHOF).

Group exhibition, ‘A Site of Struggle’ explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a period of 100 years.

‘Sound as Sculpture’ brings together foundational works from the 1960s and 1970s with important recent works that examine the body’s ability to transmit, emit and absorb sound and explore the psychological and poetic effects of sound in space.

‘Testament’ is a large-scale group exhibition that responds to the seismic shifts in UK society triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, environmental crises and Brexit. 

'30 Americans' is a touring group exhibition that showcases important contemporary artists from across the United States to explore how American art has shed light on issues of racial, sexual and historical identity. The works on display are aesthetically and thematically diverse, spanning painting, installation, sculpture and videos and created from 1970 to the present day. 

Group exhibition ‘Alvim Corrêa and 10 Contemporary Artists’ showcases the works of Alvim Corréa, a Brazilian illustrator of military and science fiction books in dialogue with contemporary works that explore the complex relationship between humanity, new technologies, and nature. 

Celebrating its 75th anniversary year, the Arts Council Collection presents ‘Right About Now’ an exhibition featuring highlights from its recent contemporary art acquisitions, including a number of works presented publicly for the first time.

Presenting a broad showcase of the most recent acquisitions at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 'New Arrivals' includes 'Head nods and handshakes', 2019 by Deborah Roberts.