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London West End
forthcoming
4 Jun - 12 Jul 2026
34 Mortimer St, W1W 7JS, London
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 12-6pm
15
London West End
last week
9 Apr - 24 May 2026
34 Mortimer St, W1W 7JS, London
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 12-6pm
4
new and existing works centred on a monumental body of paintings shown for the first in its entirety in Syed’s first solo exhibition at the gallery
London West End
last week
22 Apr - 23 May 2026
16-17 Little Portland Street, W1W 8BP, London
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-5pm
3
an exhibition pairing seminal works by Caro with the pioneering practice of Capper to explore a cross-generational dialogue and the evolution of British sculpture
London West End
forthcoming
4 Jun - 1 Aug 2026
16-17 Little Portland Street, W1W 8BP, London
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-5pm
15
London West End
forthcoming
16
London West End
London West End
12 May - 17 Jul 2026
27 Cork Street, W1S 3NG, London
Mon-Fri 9am-6pm
58
London West End
23 Apr - 30 May 2026
31 Grosvenor Hill, W1K 3QU, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
10
an installation that sees Andrew draw on romanticised historical images of Aboriginal people - disrupting, reframing, and transforming them through new symbolic interventions
London West End
AY
forthcoming
4 Jun - 11 Jul 2026
31 Grosvenor Hill, W1K 3QU, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
15
London West End
30 Apr - 7 Jun 2026
16 Hanover Square, W1S 1HT, London
Tue-Fri 10am-5.30pm, Sat 11am-5pm
18
“I have continued to use 4.5 cm as the module and the paintings are always grey. I use these two constant elements to discover different ways of making the paintings” - Charlton
London West End
forthcoming
11 Jun - 11 Jul 2026
16 Hanover Square, W1S 1HT, London
Tue-Fri 10am-5.30pm, Sat 11am-5pm
22
London West End
30 Apr - 18 Jul 2026
16 Hanover Square, W1S 1HT, London
Tue-Fri 10am-5.30pm, Sat 11am-5pm
59
“for this project - another in my Imaginary Architecture series - I chose to explore iridescent clouds, sometimes known as \"rainbow clouds\", a meteorological phenomenon characterised by vibrant, colourful bands appearing on thin, semi-transparent clouds
London West End
forthcoming
37
London West End
London West End
11 Mar - 29 May 2026
12 Brook’s Mews, W1K 4DG, London
Mon-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 10.30am-2.30pm
9
new oil paintings depicting doors left ajar and offering a glimpse into an ambiguous and surreal terrain beyond - transforming the gallery into a labyrinth of thresholds
London West End
last week
27 Mar - 24 May 2026
47 Albemarle Street, W1S 4JW, London
Daily 10am-6pm
4
in a dialogue between historical context and contemporary experience, seven rising contemporary Chinese ink artists who approach the form from distinct perspectives
London West End
forthcoming
19 Jun - 16 Aug 2026
47 Albemarle Street, W1S 4JW, London
Daily 10am-6pm
30
London West End
20 Apr - 29 May 2026
26 Bury Street, SW1Y 6AL, London
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm
9
curated by Dr. Sophie Bostock and presented in collaboration with Galerie Ary Jan and Kent Antiques, a significant group of paintings and works on paper that collectively examine the visual and cultural frameworks of 19th-century Orientalism
London West End
last week
24 Apr - 22 May 2026
43 Pall Mall, St. James's, SW1Y 5JG, London
Tue-Fri 11am-5.30pm, Sat 11am-2pm
2
new works alongside prints and editions made over the last five years spanning the full breadth of the Opie’s multifaceted practice
London West End
forthcoming
5 Jun - 11 Jul 2026
43 Pall Mall, St. James's, SW1Y 5JG, London
Tue-Fri 11am-5.30pm, Sat 11am-2pm
16
London West End
1 - 30 May 2026
2-4 King Street, St. James's, SW1Y 6QP, London
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
10
ceramic assemblage sculptures and large-scale drawings by the British artist, exploring “how we are coping a quarter of the way through the 21st century – a time marked by psychological overload, acceleration and a pervasive sense of inertia”
London West End
last week
25 Mar - 22 May 2026
24 Grafton Street, W1S 4EZ, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
2
sculptures, paintings, and prints by five key artists from the gallery’s program who were at the avant-garde of American art during the 1960s and 70s
London West End
forthcoming
16
London West End
forthcoming
15
London West End
21 Apr - 30 May 2026
23 Princes Street, W1B 2LY, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
10
curated by Laïdi-Hanieh, the exhibition presents the pioneering Turkish-Arab modernist’s 1940s–60s works featuring gestural abstractions, figurative paintings, and works on paper exploring colour, texture, and cosmic themes
London West End
forthcoming
104
London West End
30 Apr - 7 Jun 2026
21 Cork Street, W1S 3LZ, London
Mon-Sat 11am-6pm
18
the British multidisciplinary artist captures subtle, absurd disruptions - small fractures in the ordinary that reveal tension, humour, and the poetic instability of everyday life
London West End
30 Apr - 25 Jun 2026
17-18 Golden Square, W1F 9JJ, London
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-5pm
36
new photographs of London by Riddy - “both a description of place and a kind of social survey”
London West End
23 Apr - 30 May 2026
43a Duke Street, St James’s, SW1Y 6DD, London
Tue-Sat 11am-6pm
10
Braeckman’s first solo exhibition in the UK presents recent works situated within the broader arc of his practice - “with their haunting stillness and ashen, moody dispositions, Braeckman’s images appear suspended outside place and narrative”
London West End
forthcoming
4 Jun - 25 Jul 2026
43a Duke Street, St James’s, SW1Y 6DD, London
Tue-Sat 11am-6pm
15
London West End
forthcoming
29 May - 11 Jul 2026
39 Dover Street, W1S 4NN, London
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 12-6pm
9
London West End
forthcoming
28 May - 13 Jun 2026
12 Saint George Street, 1st Floor, W1S 2FB, London
Wed-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 12-5pm
8
London West End
last week
14 Apr - 23 May 2026
26 Cork Street, W1S 3ND, London
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-5pm
3
Weems’ debut exhibition with the gallery in London presents recent and significant bodies of work reflecting on migration, belonging, and the enduring afterlives of the Atlantic passage
London West End
just opened
15 May - 7 Jun 2026
35 Bury Street, St. James's, SW1Y 6AY, London
Mon-Fri 10am-5.30pm, Sat 12-4pm
18
an exhibition dedicated to one of the most significant 20th-century Sri Lankan painters, a founder-member of the influential ’43 Group and pioneering figure in the development of abstraction in South Asia
London West End
London West End
last week
11 Feb - 23 May 2026
21 Woodstock Street, W1C 2AP, London
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-4pm
3
“alternate views on reality in post-war France”
London West End
forthcoming
21 May - 1 Aug 2026
23 Savile Row, W1S 2ET, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
1
an expansive exhibition covering five decades of the work of one of the most influential and essential artists of the 20th Century
London West End
forthcoming
1
alongside one of her renowned glass sculptures, never before exhibited works on paper from Horn’s new series exploring repetition and the written word as a medium
London West End
7 May - 10 Jul 2026
38 Bury Street, St James’s, SW1Y 6BB, London
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-5pm
51
including several paintings never previously exhibited, this exhibition focusses on a pivotal period in the early 1950s when Heron negotiated his own path between figuration and abstraction
London West End
forthcoming
5 Jun - 1 Aug 2026
30 Cork St, W1S 3NG, London
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-5pm
16
London West End
9 - 30 May 2026
76 Brewer Street, W1F 9TX, London
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat by appointment
10
the California-born, New York-based painter’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery and in the UK - “what unifies the portraits, cityscapes and landscapes is an abiding quality of presence - the gaze of a benevolent and attentive observer”
London West End
forthcoming
5 Jun - 12 Sep 2026
32 St. George Street, W1S 2EA, London
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-4pm
16
London West End
30 Apr - 30 May 2026
32 St. George Street, W1S 2EA, London
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-4pm
10
new paintings “seeded in the quiet depths of winter, born from a period of hibernation and recovery, and emerg[ing] now in the season of rebirth” in Smorczewski’s first solo exhibition in the UK
London West End
forthcoming
16
London West End
last week
2
Hajallie’s first solo exhibition with the gallery uses portraiture to examine the internal landscape of loss and celebrate pioneering Black cultural figures, family members, and his own experience as a British man of Sierra Leonean and Lebanese heritage
London West End
21 Apr - 28 May 2026
41 Dover Street, W1S 4NS, London
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
8
new abstract and figurative watercolour on paper compositions drawing on the rhythmic, patterned textiles of checks, tartans, and plaids continue Weaver’s ongoing concern with colour, gesture, geometry, and line
London West End
forthcoming
3 Jun - 8 Aug 2026
41 Dover Street, W1S 4NS, London
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
14
London West End
24 Apr - 30 May 2026
47 Mortimer Street, W1W 8HJ, London
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
10
London West End
forthcoming
15
London West End
15 Apr - 29 May 2026
9 Bury Street, SW1Y 6AB, London
Mon-Fri 10am-5.30pm
9
recent pieces by the Brooklyn-based abstract painter whose work enigmatically resembles geographical maps, aerial views, circuit boards, and coding systems, exploring race, culture, and systems of societal classification
London West End
1 - 30 May 2026
1st Floor, 19B Beak Street, W1F 9RP, London
Wed-Fri 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm
10
“Ahn continues to summon the ordinary, the anonymous, and the ghostly within the urban landscape of her everyday life in the UK”
London West End
1 - 30 May 2026
9 Cork Street, W1S 3LL, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
10
curated by Diana Kudaibergen, the Kazakh artist works with video, Al-driven cyber textiles, photography, and immersive sound to create a contemporary, technological, and philosophical world where water, myth, and the feminine intersect across Central Asia
London West End
1 - 30 May 2026
9 Cork Street, W1S 3LL, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
10
new large-scale charcoal works in the New York-based artist’s first solo exhibition in the UK “centers on female protagonists who both inhabit and unsettle the archetypes of the vixen and the bombshell”
London West End
forthcoming
15
London West End
forthcoming
4 Jun - 4 Jul 2026
9 Cork Street, W1S 3LL, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
15
London West End
forthcoming
4 Jun - 5 Jul 2026
65-66 New Bond Street, W1S 1RW, London
Mon-Sat 10am-6.30pm, Sun 12-5pm
15
London West End
London West End
last week
4 Mar - 23 May 2026
5 Hanover Square, W1S 1HQ, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
3
a series of paintings exploring childbirth sensations through abstraction, featuring sculptural orbs and concentric lines that depict energy and emotion in shifting scales of consciousness
London West End
forthcoming
15
London West End
last week
3
“these are, above all, abstract works, and as such are committed to full pictorial disclosure … for all their undoubted poise and beauty, Sandström’s paintings have a restless quality” - Tom Morton
The Photographers' Gallery
London West End
London West End
last week
13 Mar - 23 May 2026
51 Conduit Street, W1S 2YT, London
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
3
Ralaivao’s first UK solo exhibition presents new paintings that draw on Old Master techniques while pushing figuration to its limits, “flirting with but never fully embracing abstraction”
London West End
last week
13 Mar - 23 May 2026
51 Conduit Street, W1S 2YT, London
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
3
this solo exhibition of new paintings continues Zaidi’s practice of world-making, envisioning surreal, imagined topographies shaped by memory and myth
London West End
just opened
15 May - 20 Jun 2026
2 Savile Row, W1S 3PA, London
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
31
new paintings by Lyons examining how animals have shaped the human world materially, technologically, and philosophically
London West End
last week
3
titled after the fan culture term for a non-official version of a story, four artists who approach repetition as a method of revision, and explore how repeated gestures, processes, and images allow for small shifts to emerge through sustained attention
London West End
forthcoming
15
London West End
1 - 30 May 2026
6 Heddon Street, W1B 4BT, London
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
10
new paintings exploring the politics of green spaces in urban centres and questioning the power structures that govern climate catastrophe - proposing the garden as a radical symbol of equality and inclusiveness
London West End
forthcoming
5 Jun - 4 Jul 2026
6 Heddon Street, W1B 4BT, London
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
16
London West End
London West End
forthcoming
5 - 27 Jun 2026
74 Newman Street, W1T 3DB, London
Mon-Sat 10am-6pm
16
London West End
forthcoming
79
London West End
forthcoming
114
London West End
forthcoming
44
London West End
TRG
23
in the inaugural exhibition at the gallery’s new location on Pall Mall, works by modern and contemporary gallery artists, tracing the development of their practices over time with early works brought into dialogue with recent ones
London West End
last week
21 Apr - 22 May 2026
22 Old Bond Street, W1S 4PY, London
Tue-Fri 12-5pm
2
the first solo show in London dedicated to the self-proclaimed court painter of Austria, Siam, and Italy - the autodidact artist who spent twenty-four years in an asylum
London West End
London West End
forthcoming
11 Jun - 30 Sep 2026
21 Conduit Street, W1S 2XP, London
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
22
London West End
1 May - 6 Jun 2026
21 Conduit Street, W1S 2XP, London
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
17
large-scale, vibrant, abstract paintings exploring movement, displacement, and survival in Mays’ first solo exhibition at the gallery
London West End
30 Apr - 7 Jun 2026
2 Bourdon Street, W1K 3PA, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
18
in his distinctive painterly practice, Gleiwitz constructs pictorial worlds in which the grotesque, the mythological, and the everyday coexist
London West End
1 May - 14 Jun 2026
14 Bury Street, St. James's, SW1Y 6AL, London
Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 12-6pm
25
presented with Isamaya ffrench
London West End
15 Apr - 31 May 2026
94 New Bond Street, W1S 1SJ, London
Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 11.30am-6pm
11
the London and Sussex-based 3D-artist’s first exhibition at the gallery in New Bond Street centres on works created from books
Soho Photography Quarter
London West End
TPG
Lisa Barnard: The Canary and the Hammer
8 May 2025 - 31 May 2026
Ramillies Place, W1F 7LW, London
All day, every day
11
London West End
forthcoming
Auction: 25 Jun 2026
Exhibition: 18 - 24 Jun 2026
34-35 New Bond Street, W1A 2AA, London
Mon-Fri 10am-5pm
36
London West End
forthcoming
Auction: 24 Jun 2026
Exhibition: 10 - 23 Jun 2026
34-35 New Bond Street, W1A 2AA, London
Mon-Fri 10am-5pm
35
London West End
forthcoming
Auction: 24 Jun 2026
Exhibition: 18 - 23 Jun 2026
34-35 New Bond Street, W1A 2AA, London
Mon-Fri 10am-5pm
35
London West End
forthcoming
Auction: 25 Jun 2026
Exhibition: 18 - 24 Jun 2026
34-35 New Bond Street, W1A 2AA, London
Mon-Fri 10am-5pm
36
London West End
London West End
forthcoming
16
London West End
London West End
forthcoming
2 - 7 Jun 2026
67 Great Titchfield Street, W1W 7PT, London
Mon-Sat 10am-7pm, Sun 11am-4pm
13
London West End
last week
3
“Lou’s new works radiate a palpable sense of joy and freedom as she allows her medium to emote on its own terms … through processes of accumulation and care, Lou demonstrates how a material - as small, solid, inert as a glass bead - can amplify painting”
London West End
forthcoming
5 Jun - 31 Jul 2026
Ely House, 37 Dover Street, W1S 4NJ, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
16
London West End
last week
10 Apr - 23 May 2026
Ely House, 37 Dover Street, W1S 4NJ, London
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
3
sculptures from 2009 to the present and his latest painted self-portraits in an exhibition spanning almost twenty years of the Swiss artist’s work, “exemplifying Vital’s multidisciplinary approach and his alternative strategies of representation”
London West End
forthcoming
5 Jun - 19 Sep 2026
3 Duke Street, St James’s, SW1Y 6BN, London
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 12-6pm
16
London West End
forthcoming
5 Jun - 25 Jul 2026
11 Duke Street, St James’s, SW1Y 6BN, London
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 12-6pm
16
London West End
London West End
forthcoming
5 Jun - 11 Jul 2026
15 Bolton Street, W1J 8BG, London
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-5pm
16
London West End
forthcoming
28 May - 8 Aug 2026
24 Cork Street, W1S 3NG, London
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
8
London West End
11 Apr - 7 Jun 2026
7 Royalty Mews (Dean St), W1D 3AS, London
Wed-Sat 11am-5pm
18
a solo exhibition of paintings - her first in over ten years - by the first woman to be nominated for the Turner Prize
London West End
13 Apr - 13 Jun 2026
11 Cork Street, W1S 3LT, London
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
24
significant artistic achievements and pivotal paintings from the radical final chapter of Dubuffet’s career in a celebration of the gallery’s over 50 year relationship with the artist, since hosting his first British solo exhibition in 1972
London West End
8 May - 6 Jun 2026
50 Mortimer Street, W1W 7RP, London
Wed-Sat 12-6pm
17
a group exhibition with works by Jimmy DeSana, Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, William Etty, George Grosz, Maria Lassnig, Tony Morgan, Raymond Pettibon, Thomas Ruff, and Patti Smith
London West End
London West End
forthcoming
3 - 7 Jun 2026
12 St George Street, 2nd Floor, W1S 2FB, London
Daily 12-6pm
14
London West End
2 - 31 May 2026
20 Great Portland Street, W1W 8QR, London
Thu-Sat 11am-6pm
not open today
11
curated by Riccardo Greco and titled after the chauffeur-angel in Cocteau’s Orphée, this exhibition presents “a space in which bodies, objects and images are held in states of latent tremor, suspension and return”
London West End
13 Jan -
9 Conduit Street, W1S 2XG, London
Sun-Tue 8am-midnight, Wed-Sat 8am-2am
Baldock’s immersive installation is centered around eighty-four wall-based clay masks and brings his “blend of craft, humour and joy” to India Mahdavi’s luminous interiors
London West End
12 May - 7 Jun 2026
9 Conduit Street, W1S 2XG, London
Sun-Tue 8am-midnight, Wed-Sat 8am-2am
18
the 12th edition of sketch in Bloom presents “a floricultural tribute; an immersive flower show bringing together bold floral design and seasonal expression”