Category: London
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Firelei Báez in Residence
Hauser & Wirth Somerset is delighted to welcome Firelei Báez as our artist-in-residence in April 2024. Dominican-American artist Báez has achieved wide acclaim over the past decade for her immersive paintings, sculptures and installations that explore diasporic histories against the backdrop of colonial narratives and conventional ways of seeing, re-working…
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More than a moment: Major survey of Black figuration opens at National Portrait Gallery London
Curator Ekow Eshun has brought together portraits from 22 leading artists, including Kerry James Marshall and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Stephen Smith 19 February 2024 Claudette Johnson’s Standing Figure with African Masks (2018) Courtesy of the artist and Hollybush Gardens, London. Photo: Andy Keate. © Claudette Johnson The surge of interest in…
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Deborah Roberts in London
This new body of work investigates the challenges encountered by Black children as they strive to build their identity. The exhibition brings together paintings featuring both black and white backgrounds, including some of the largest works the artist has ever made. Roberts celebrates the figures’ individuality by placing them in…
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Rising Ghana
Featuring Annan Affotey, Aplerh-Doku Borlabi, Lord Ohene Okyerebour, Adjei Tawiah and Crystal Yayra Anthony, exhibition 18 (Rising Ghana) is a group presentation of five key emerging contemporary artists. Telling a story of self-expression and community driven support that extends out of Ghanaian domesticity and onto the world stage—the names in this…
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Tunji Adeniyi-Jones
Tunji Adeniyi-Jones’s paintings emerge from a perspective of what the artist describes as ‘cultural addition, combination and collaboration’. Born and educated in the UK and now living and working in the USA, his practice is inspired by the ancient history of West Africa and its attendant mythology, and by his…
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Henry Taylor debuts in UK
Henry Taylor culls his cultural landscape at a vigorous pace, creating a language entirely his own from archival and immediate imagery, disparate material and memory. Through a process he describes as ‘hunting and gathering,’ Taylor transports us into imagined realities that interrogate the breadth of the human condition, social movements…
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Top African artists Alida Rodrigues and Ibrahima Thiam
Alida Rodrigues was born in 1983, in Cabinda, Angola, and lives and works in London. She graduated with a BA in Fine Art, at The Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London, in 2007. In 2014 she had her first solo show at the Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim, in Norway…
