Mek Contemporary opens in Los Angeles

September 24, 2026

Mek Contemporary is a Los Angeles–based gallery founded on the belief that meaningful conversations in art often begin with a singular encounter.

The gallery presents contemporary artists working across disciplines and geographies, with particular attention to work that engages memory, migration, displacement, place, identity, and cultural inheritance. Mek is drawn to artists who explore these ideas through distinctive relationships to form, material, and image.

Grounded in close attention to each artist, each body of work, and the conversations their work inspires, the gallery develops focused exhibitions, publications, and sustained relationships with artists, collectors, institutions, and audiences. Through this approach, Mek extends these conversations beyond the exhibition space.

The gallery’s inaugural exhibition, Rafael Megall: Idols In Bloom, brings together paintings in which porcelain figurines and floral forms appear in states of repetition, fragmentation, and recombination.

At the center of the exhibition is an expanded conception of the idol. In Megall’s work, an idol is not necessarily an object of worship, but something invested with significance through attachment, memory, and experience. His figures draw from decorative porcelain figurines associated with Soviet-era domestic interiors. Collected, displayed, and often passed between generations, these objects became part of the visual language of everyday life, carrying associations with family, home, and a social world that has since changed.

Rafael Megall: Idols In Bloom is on view until 6 November 2026.

Alison Jacques announces representation of Quentin James McCaffrey

September 23, 2026

Alison Jacques is delighted to announce representation of Quentin James McCaffrey (b.1987, New York, US).

Quentin James McCaffrey paints carefully constructed, timeless interiors that are imagined yet feel anchored in reality. They evoke a sense of paradise while placing the viewer at its edges, uncertain whether they are being welcomed into or cast out of a dreamlike world. These interiors evoke a subconscious place charged with longing, fear and desire, always seen at a distance or through a reflection.

McCaffrey deliberately avoids working from direct studies or photographs: ‘When working too closely from a reference, it starts dictating the painting. I’m more interested in allowing the painting to arrive on its own.’ Rather than people, everyday objects act as psychological surrogates: mirrors, flowers, rugs, antique furniture, framed paintings, and potted plants become stand-ins for memory, emotion, and psychological presence.

His current solo exhibition at Alison Jacques continues until 3 October 2026.

photo: Clémence Polès Farhang

Sean Scully joins Cristea Roberts Gallery

September 16, 2026

Cristea Roberts Gallery is delighted to announce that it is now the representative for Sean Scully’s prints.

Sean Scully (b. 1945), one of the important abstract artists of his generation, has worked in the medium of print, alongside his paintings and sculpture, for over forty years.

Investigating the formal language of abstraction and minimalism, the artist’s prints feature the same motifs explored in his paintings; colourful grids, striped patterns, stacks of layered colours, windows, square compositions, and the spaces in between, are all imbued with the artist’s personal histories and experiences.

Today printmaking continues to offer Scully variety of expression and technical possibility, mostly recently seen in his new digital prints originally drawn, by hand, on an iPhone. Cristea Roberts Gallery’s first showing of Scully’s iPhone prints will be at The Armory Show, New York. Following further presentations at art fairs, including Frieze London and Art Basel Miami Beach, the gallery will stage a solo exhibition of works by the artist in June 2027.

photo: Helge Mundt

Sarah Ball joins Pilar Corrias

September 15, 2026

Pilar Corrias is thrilled to announce representation of Sarah Ball.

Sarah Ball’s practice is rooted in the construction of narrative and identity. Working from photographic sources, sometimes drawn from social media, and at times staged, she depicts individuals not in pursuit of likeness but as fragments of stories yet to be told. Faces, gestures, clothing and ornament become narrative cues through which the viewer might imagine the person beyond the image. In this process, identity itself becomes a site of construction. Moving beyond conventions of portraiture toward a more expansive form of narrative painting, Ball’s works occupy a space between the photographic and the fictional: meticulously painted yet deliberately open-ended, they offer a sense of ambiguity that invites the viewer to complete the narrative.

‘Sarah has a distinct ability at distilling the essence of a person. Through her singular works, Sarah captures a portrait of a generation, offering overlapping perspectives on personhood and identity. I have long admired Sarah’s unique approach to portraiture and I am delighted to be working with her.’ – Pilar Corrias

Sarah Ball will have her first solo exhibition with the gallery in June 2027, followed by her first institutional solo exhibition in the UK at The Holburne Museum, Bath in autumn 2027, curated by Jon Horrocks.

photo: Christopher Morris

Gazelli Art House now represents the Lilly Fenichel Foundation

September 14, 2026

Gazelli Art House is pleased to announce its representation of the Lilly Fenichel Foundation, formalising a relationship developed over several years and marking a new chapter in the international recognition of Austrian-born American artist Lilly Fenichel (1927-2016).

The representation comes at a pivotal moment in the reassessment of Fenichel’s place within post-war American abstraction. Over a career spanning seven decades, she moved between some of its most significant artistic centres — San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and New Mexico — while maintaining an uncompromising independence from the movements and categories that surrounded her. Her work evolved continually, from the gestural language of her early paintings to geometric abstraction, sculpture, and experiments with unconventional materials, resisting any singular definition of her work.

As the centenary of Fenichel’s birth approaches in 2027, Gazelli Art House will work closely with the Foundation to expand international awareness of her practice through exhibitions, institutional engagement, research, and scholarship. The partnership will culminate in a major solo exhibition at Gazelli Art House New York in 2027, marking the centenary of the artist’s birth. The announcement also comes amid renewed institutional attention to Fenichel’s work, with a series of museum presentations across the United States at Wichita Art Museum, Muscarelle Museum of Art, Speed Art Museum, Grinnell College Museum of Art, and Mobile Museum of Art.

Charles Burnand Gallery opens in Mayfair

September 11, 2026

This September, Charles Burnand Gallery opens its long-awaited permanent home at 20 Bruton Place, Mayfair. Opening on 12 September, during London Design Festival, the inaugural exhibition Under Wraps transforms the act of unveiling into part of the exhibition itself, with significant new works revealed through a choreographed sequence of automated unveilings.

The opening marks a defining moment in a period of sustained international growth for the gallery, whose exhibition and fair programme has expanded significantly across the United States, the Middle East, and Asia. The move sees Charles Burnand Gallery relocate from its Fitzrovia space, home to the gallery since 2021, into the heart of London’s historic gallery district. The Mayfair opening is the first of two major milestones in the gallery's expansion, with a permanent, large-scale gallery in the Cotswolds set to follow in 2027.

The Mayfair gallery has been designed by Richard Parr Architects, establishing a cohesive architectural language that will also define the Cotswolds gallery on its opening in 2027. Both spaces are conceived as sculptural environments for sculptural work, built to present materially ambitious design at a scale and quality more commonly associated with contemporary art institutions. Together, the two openings form a broader arc for the gallery: a defining cultural presence in London, followed by a landmark countryside destination for monumental, museum-scale work.

As the inaugural exhibition of Charles Burnand Gallery's new Mayfair home, Under Wraps establishes the curatorial direction of the space and reimagines what an opening exhibition can be, transforming the beginning of a new chapter for the gallery, its artists and their collectors into the substance of the exhibition itself.

Under Wraps is on view at Charles Burnand Gallery from 12 September 2026 to 9 January 2027.

André Brasilier (1929–2026)

September 10, 2026

Opera Gallery announces the death of the artist, who passed away on 8 September in Paris.

Few artists have sustained such an unwavering belief in painting’s capacity to express beauty, harmony, and emotion as André Brasilier. Over a career spanning more than seven decades, he created a singular pictorial world poised between reality and reverie, transforming the familiar into something timeless.

Born in Saumur in 1929, Brasilier developed an artistic language in which figuration was progressively distilled to its essential forms. Rather than reproduce the visible world, he sought to capture its sensations: the rhythm of horses in motion, the changing colours of a landscape, the harmony of music or the quiet presence of a figure. The beauty of his compositions, the fluidity of his line and his remarkable sense of colour shaped a deeply poetic and immediately recognisable body of work.

Certain subjects accompanied him throughout his life. Horses, first encountered in his native Saumur, embodied freedom, movement, and vitality. Music offered another form of harmony, translated in his paintings into colour and rhythm, while forests, seascapes, and changing seasons reflected his profound communion with nature. At the centre of this universe was his wife and muse, Chantal, whose presence over more than six decades brought an enduring intimacy and tenderness to his work.

Opera Gallery had the privilege of representing André Brasilier for over fifteen years, building a relationship founded as much on human connection as on a profound admiration for his work. We will remember not only an artist of remarkable sensitivity and singular vision, but a painter whose unwavering commitment to beauty, harmony, and emotion shaped an extraordinary body of work. His poetic world, at once intimate and universal, leaves an enduring legacy that will continue to resonate.

Opera Gallery announces global representation of Maurice Mboa

September 9, 2026

Opera Gallery has announced the global representation Cameroon-born, Geneva-based Mboa, whose distinctive practice explores the shifting boundaries between the visible and the invisible and the presence of the individual and the collective.

Born in Yaoundé in 1983, Mboa has developed a singular visual language centred on what he describes as Âmes-preintes (“Soulprints”). These enigmatic, faceless figures emerge through a highly distinctive and labour-intensive process where he applies layers of colour to metal panels before engraving their surfaces by hand with a tool made from glass. The resulting works combine painting, drawing and engraving, transforming the industrial material into richly textured fields populated by ethereal silhouettes, vegetation and intricate patterns.

Deeply informed by his Cameroonian heritage and the spiritual teachings passed down by his grandmother, a traditional healer, Mboa’s work considers the ways in which emotion, memory and ancestry can exist beyond physical form. His figures are not conventional portraits but “soulprints”, anonymous presences that invite viewers to look beyond identity and towards a shared human experience.

Mboa was among the invited artists featured in “Dreaming in Colour”, Opera Gallery London’s 2026 exhibition, introducing audiences to a practice in which colour, symbolism and material experimentation converge.

Jessica Smith appointed Managing Director of New Art Centre

September 8, 2026

New Art Centre has announced that Jessica Smith has been appointed Managing Director. This is the first such position in the New Art Centre’s history since Madeleine Bessborough CBE founded the gallery in 1958.

With over 25 years’ experience across the commercial art world Smith brings an extensive knowledge of contemporary artists, an ardent understanding of working with artist estates and a thorough insight of the complex split between a critical sphere focused on cultural value and a fluctuating commercial market. Smith previously held positions at the New Art Centre from 2017 to 2022 as Associate Director and Director. Since then she has been partner for the artist management consultancy Southern & Partners and Director of Bo Lee & Workman gallery. Earlier in her career she led the art fair programme at White Cube leaving to manage monographs and coordinate exhibitions in London, Berlin and New York.

The New Art Centre, Roche Court Sculpture Park is a commercial gallery set in the rolling Wiltshire countryside, near Salisbury. Established in Sloane Street, London in 1958, the New Art Centre is a specialist in 20th- and 21st-century art.

In 1994, the gallery moved from London to its current location at Roche Court, East Winterslow in Wiltshire. The house at Roche Court was originally built in 1804 for the family of Admiral Nelson. The park and woodlands which surround the house enable a focus on exhibiting outdoor sculpture, making the New Art Centre, Roche Court Sculpture Park a pioneer of the commercially run sculpture park in the UK.

Esther Schipper announces representation of Jenny Brosinski

September 7, 2026

Esther Schipper is delighted to announce the representation of Jenny Brosinski.

Jenny Brosinski was born in Celle, Germany. In 2012 Brosinski completed her Meisterschüler studies at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin. She was shortlisted for the Berlin Art Prize in 2014 and in 2024 nominated for the Hans-Purrmann Prize of the City of Speyer. Brosinski currently lives and works in Berlin and Blankensee.

Jenny Brosinski’s paintings combine an exploratory approach with a precise sense of composition. On often wide-open fields of unprimed linen or canvas, marks, stains, patches of color and occasional words are set against the exposed surface. Some motifs appear isolated; others form loose constellations or collide with one another. The resulting compositions are open but their shifts in scale, density and color give them a highly charged tension.

Brosinski works intuitively, allowing each mark to respond to what is already on the canvas. A drawn line may remain spare and tentative, while a stain or area of color can alter the balance of the entire composition. The paintings retain the evidence of this process. Playing with the combination of ostensible spontaneity and control, Brosinski’s vocabulary includes the directness of graffiti and the apparent simplicity of childlike drawing, but these forms are placed within a carefully considered pictorial structure. At times, bright and luminous colors stand out against the raw unpainted ground like signals.

The artist will have her first solo exhibition with Esther Schipper in November 2026 in Berlin.

Esther Schipper will represent Jenny Brosinski in collaboration with Galerie Knust Kunz, Munich.

photo: Joost Joossen

Reflex now represents Uwe Tobias

September 2, 2026

Reflex Amsterdam has announced its representation of Uwe Tobias, widely known with his brother Gert through their collaborative practice as the duo Gert & Uwe Tobias.

Over the past seven years, Uwe Tobias has developed a deeply personal body of work, exploring themes of memento mori, vanitas, still life, landscape and imagined terrains. Moving between figurative compositions and abstraction, his paintings inhabit a space between memory and invention, where grotesque figures, ambiguous forms and dreamlike spaces evoke both familiarity and mystery.

His new body of work as a solo artist will be premiered worldwide in Amsterdam late November and will remain on view for three months, through the beginning of March 2027.

The gallery is working on a major publication, to be released simultaneously with the opening of the exhibition, containing a selection of more than 150 paintings.

Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026)

August 27, 2026

Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama has died aged 97.

Yayoi Kusama’s work transcended two of the most important art movements of the second half of the twentieth century: pop art and minimalism. Her highly influential career encompassed paintings, performances, room-size presentations, outdoor sculptural installations, literary works, films, fashion, design, and interventions within existing architectural structures, which allude at once to microscopic and macroscopic universes.

Born in Matsumoto, Japan, Kusama was subject of both solo and group presentations worldwide. She presented her first solo show in her native Japan in 1952. In the mid-1960s, she established herself in New York as an important avant-garde artist by staging groundbreaking and influential happenings, events, and exhibitions. Her work gained renewed widespread recognition in the late 1980s following a number of international solo exhibitions, including shows at the Center for International Contemporary Arts, New York, and the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, both of which took place in 1989. She represented Japan in 1993 at the 45th Venice Biennale, to much critical acclaim. In 1998, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, co-organized Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958–1968, which toured to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1998–1999), and Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (1999).

photo: © Yayoi Kusama, courtesy of David Zwirner

James Cohan Gallery rebrands as NORR COHAN

August 26, 2026

James Cohan Gallery has announced that Partner David Norr has assumed sole ownership and leadership of the gallery. Since joining in 2015, Norr has played a central role in the gallery’s growth and success, helping shape its strategic direction alongside James and Jane Cohan. Following a carefully planned succession process, he now leads the gallery into its next chapter, building on its distinguished history while advancing its vision for the future.

The gallery has relaunched as NORR COHAN, a name that both carries forward its founder’s legacy and marks its evolution. James Cohan will continue to work with artists and collectors, ensuring continuity of those longstanding relationships. Jane Cohan has retired from her role at the gallery.

Before joining as Senior Director, Norr served as a curator at the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. This experience has informed his belief in the importance of institutions providing sustained, long-term advocacy for artists, a philosophy he shares with James Cohan and one that attracted him to the gallery. After being named a Partner in 2018, Norr became a co-owner in 2021 as part of the leadership transition plan.

Founded in 1999 by James Cohan, the gallery has built an internationally recognized program guided by the principle that its first obligation is to its artists, nurturing both their practices and their place in art history. The gallery’s artists span generations, cultures, and geographies, including Fred Tomaselli, Yinka Shonibare, Robert Smithson, Spencer Finch, Beatriz Milhazes, Bill Viola, and Elias Sime, as well as more recently Firelei Báez, Teresa Margolles, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Eamon Ore-Giron, Naudline Pierre, and Kennedy Yanko. The gallery has also mounted significant historical exhibitions, including presentations of Mary Sully and Toshiko Takaezu.

photo: Jordan Tiberio

603 Arts Foundation launches in New York

August 19, 2026

Founded by Kathleen “Kate” Lee and Clovis Lima Jr., 603 Arts Foundation is the first nonprofit dedicated exclusively to supporting emerging artists across Asia, the Asia-Pacific, and Latin America through exhibitions, institutional partnerships, collecting, public programming, and long-term artist advocacy.

Based in New York City, the foundation was established in response to the growing contradiction that while technology has made art more visible than ever, meaningful cultural exchange has become increasingly rare and fragmented, with many artists from Asian and Latin America continuing to face barriers to institutional recognition and collector networks. This prompted them to manually build the ecosystem they felt was missing themselves.

“The internet and social media have made art more visible, but not necessarily more accessible,” says Lee. “We realized that genuine cultural exchange still depends on intimacy, context, conversation, and sustained support.”

Named after the 0.0603 seconds it takes light to travel between Salvador, Brazil and Manila, Philippines, Lima Jr. and Lee’s birthplaces, respectively, 603 reflects the foundation’s larger mission of collapsing distance between cultures through art.

This summer, 603 Arts Foundation presents its inaugural exhibition, The cataclysm of binary star systems, at Nunu Fine Art in SoHo, on view until 29 August. Inspired by celestial mythology and the prospect of rebuilding civilization, the exhibition explores themes of migration, memory, identity, and collective survival, asking what histories and cultural traditions humanity would choose to carry into an uncertain future.

Exhibiting artists include María Elena Pombo, featured in MoMA PS1’s Greater New York 2026; Ang Ziqi Zhang, whose paintings merge abstraction, nightlife, and late-capitalist visual culture; Rithika Merchant, celebrated for intricate cosmological narratives drawing from folklore and science; Keb Cerda, Jess Vieira, and Fiona von Fürstenberg who exhibits in the United States for the first time; and Alex Maceda, Ana Won, César López, Danni Huang, John José Santos III, Leah Ying Lin, and Lena Becerra.

Pi Artworks now represents Antonio Cosentino

August 18, 2026

Pi Artworks is delighted to announce the representation of Antonio Cosentino (b. 1970, Istanbul), who lives and works in Istanbul. Working across painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video and writing, Cosentino has developed a distinctive practice rooted in the changing fabric of the city and in the relationship between memory, everyday life and imagination.

A founding member of Hafriyat Collective, established in 1996, Cosentino emerged from a generation of artists who turned their attention to the street, popular culture and the contradictions of a rapidly transforming Istanbul. The city has remained central to his work ever since. Long walks, photographs, buildings, vehicles, signs, discarded objects and chance encounters accumulate across his practice, forming what has been described as a visual diary of urban life. Reality and fiction sit easily alongside one another; nostalgia, humour and melancholy are equally present.

Cosentino is also a storyteller in the literal sense. Writing has long accompanied his exhibitions, alongside artist’s books and publications, extending the world of his paintings and objects into language. His stories share the same attentive gaze as his visual work: the ordinary details of the city—a street, a car, the sea, a neighbourhood, an unexpected encounter—can become the beginning of another reality. As Cosentino writes, unpredictability and uncertainty are fundamental to his way of working: “The radiant work creates its own story and its own reality.”

Mary Heilmann (1940-2026)

August 17, 2026

Hauser & Wirth and 303 Gallery have announced the passing of artist Mary Heilmann, aged 86, on 14 August 2026 on Long Island, New York. She is survived by her nieces, Ann Jaime and Chris Heilmann, and her nephew, John Heilmann Jr., and their families. She was predeceased by her brother John and his wife Linda.

Iwan Wirth, President of Hauser & Wirth, reflected, ‘Manuela, Ursula and I met Mary in the spring of 1994. We were introduced to her by the artist Patty Martori and we started to collect her work right away. Mary also introduced us to other artists she knew and admired like Louise Bourgeois. Our first project with Mary was her book ‘The All Night Movie,’ which is kind of an autobiography as an artist book, and our first show with her came along in 1997, with so many to follow. Mary was really our first love.’ Mary had 10 exhibitions with the gallery since 1997 and will be greatly missed by all.

‘Mary Heilmann’s work combined formal innovation with a distinctly personal and playful sensibility. Over five decades, she carved out a singular position in contemporary art with her daring balance of rigor and geometry with improvisation and gesture, alongside a palette of vibrant color. This approach has reshaped how we might think about Minimal or Postminimal art—once defined by a severe restraint of color and form. Mary brought joy, emotion, and freedom to her paintings and sculptures and we are proud to have presented her work at Dia not once but twice, recognizing the enduring significance and influence of her practice.’ - Jessica Morgan, Director of the Dia Art Foundation

photo: Joe Gaffney

Sydney Contemporary returns for 10th edition

July 29, 2026

Sydney Contemporary, Australasia’s leading contemporary art fair, returns to Carriageworks from 3-6 September 2026 for its 10th anniversary edition.
 
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Presented in partnership with MA Financial Group, the fair will feature more than 100 galleries from Australia, New Zealand, Asia, and the United Kingdom, bringing work by more that 500 artists from 33 countries.
 
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Over a decade on, Sydney Contemporary continues to attract the country’s most respected galleries, with the majority of exhibitors returning year after year - a testament to the Fair’s enduring role as Australasia’s premier platform for contemporary art. Showcasing the breadth of contemporary art across painting, sculpture, photography, installation, works on paper and new media, the Fair offers audiences and collectors at every stage the opportunity to discover significant new work by leading and emerging artistic voices, with all works available for acquisition.
 
Sydney Contemporary Founder and Co-Owner Tim Etchells said: “As we celebrate our 10th edition, we’re delighted to showcase exceptional presentations by over 100 exhibitors, many of whom have been with us since the very first edition of the Fair. Sydney Contemporary has grown into one of the region's most anticipated events and a vital part of our cultural ecosystem, a genuine meeting ground for collectors, artists, gallerists, curators, advisors and new buyers alike, and I am proud of the role it plays in supporting living artists by generating the highest concentration of art sales in Australasia each year. We can’t wait to welcome visitors through the doors in September, for what is shaping up to be our most exciting program yet.”
 
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Betye Saar (1926-2026)

July 28, 2026

Roberts Projects has announced that Betye Saar passed away in her sleep in the early morning of Sunday 26 July in Los Angeles, just four days before her 100th birthday.

A pioneering artist and a leading figure in the assemblage movement, Betye Saar will be remembered for a body of work that powerfully interrogated African American identity, spirituality and the intersections between diverse cultures. Emerging as a vital voice during the Black Arts Movement and second-wave feminism of the late 1960s and 1970s, Saar utilized found objects, family heirlooms and vintage ephemera to explore themes of race, gender and historical memory. Her practice transformed everyday items into groundbreaking artworks and installations, cementing her legacy as one of the most influential artists of our time.

Among Saar’s most iconic works is her 1972 assemblage, The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, which places a stereotypical mammy figure holding a broom and a rifle, transforming a symbol of servitude into a warrior of Black liberation. Another foundational work, Black Girl’s Window (1969), utilizes an old window frame as a structural device to merge autobiographical elements with mysticism and racial identity.

Saar’s seven-decade career has been the subject of numerous exhibitions at museums around the world, and her work is represented in the collections of more than ninety institutions globally. Her extraordinary body of work has established her as a landmark figure in contemporary art, with a voice that will continue to inspire future generations.

Saar was immensely proud of her family; she is survived by her three daughters, Lezley Saar (Agust Agustsson), Alison Saar (Tom Leeser) and Tracye Saar-Cavanaugh (Francis Cavanaugh) and her grandchildren Kyle Leeser, Maddy Inez, Sola Saar, Gen Saar-Agustsson, Spencer Saar Cavanaugh, Megan Cavanaugh and her red footed tortoise Rojo.

Saar’s legacy has been entrusted to the Betye Saar Legacy Group. Established in 2025 by the artist and her studio in collaboration with Roberts Projects, the legacy group is a coalition of leading scholars and esteemed curators from global institutions, each hand-selected by Saar for their expertise in different areas of her multidisciplinary practice and stands as a testament to the enduring importance of her life and work for future generations.

There are many opportunities to celebrate and engage with Saar’s work during her centennial year: including notable exhibitions such as Betye Saar’s Black Dolls at the New York Historical Society, on view through 4 October 2026, Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight at the Huntington Library on view through 30 November 2027 and Let’s Get It On: The Wearable Art of Betye Saar, on view at Roberts Projects Los Angeles through 22 August 2026.

photo: David Sprague

Jessica Morgan appointed Director of Tate

July 22, 2026

The Chairman and Trustees of Tate today announced that leading British curator Jessica Morgan, currently Director of Dia Art Foundation, has been appointed Director of Tate. Morgan will become the tenth Director in Tate’s history.

Jessica Morgan has been Director of Dia Art Foundation since 2015. Based in New York, Dia is a multi-sited organisation which commissions and organises artist projects and exhibitions, cares for a growing collection of modern and contemporary art, and stewards several major site-specific art installations across the USA and Germany. Under Morgan’s leadership Dia has become a more expansive and dynamic institution, from increasing free admission and undertaking capital projects across all of its sites, to bringing a broader range of artists and artworks into its collection and exhibition programme.

Morgan previously worked at Tate Modern as The Daskalopoulos Curator, International Art, from 2010 to 2014, and was Curator at Tate from 2002 to 2010. At Tate, she curated numerous major exhibitions and organised new commissions for the Turbine Hall, as well as playing a key role in the growth of Tate’s international collection. Before Tate, Morgan served as Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Morgan joins Tate at an exciting moment for the organisation, as Tate Liverpool prepares to reopen in 2027 following a major transformation. She will take up her new role on 1 January 2027, succeeding Maria Balshaw CBE. Until then, Karin Hindsbo (Deputy Director of Tate and Director of Tate Modern) is serving as Interim Director of Tate.

photo: Gabriela Herman