Where to find art by women in London in 2019
Our guide to female art exhibitions in London in 2019
Faith Ringgold exhibition, Serpentine Gallery
This June the Serpentine Gallery is mounting an exhibition of works by American artist Faith Ringgold, the first to be held in a European institution. The show will celebrate the artist’s 50-year career, which has challenged gender and racial inequality with unwavering directness.
Read more ...Luchita Hurtado exhibition, Serpentine Sackler Gallery
This is Luchita Hurtado's first solo show in a public gallery. At 98, she has waited a long time for public recognition and it is an all too familiar story of the artist mother, juggling family and career, overshadowed by the burgeoning career of an artistic spouse.
Read more ...Lee Krasner: Living Colour, Barbican Art Gallery
Throughout her career, she battled sexism in the industry and the overwhelming reputation of her husband, Jackson Pollock. But an exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery is set to change her course. Nearly 100 of Krasner’s pieces will go on display from May, in what will be the first European retrospective of her works in 50 years.
Read more ...Natalia Goncharova, Tate Modern
Russian artist Natalia Goncharova (1881–1962) scandalised the media of the day. She was a radical who challenged social and gender norms, using her body, as well as the theatre, to display her art. Tate Modern is set to present the first UK retrospective of her art, with a comprehensive survey of her varied career.
Read more ...Helene Schjerfbeck, Royal Academy
You can be excused for never having heard of Helene Schjerfbeck, an artist little-known outside of her native Finland. But that’s one of the great draws of a new exhibition at the RA, which will introduce UK audiences to another female trailblazer in art this summer. A major highlight will be Schjerfbeck’s self-portraits, a ghostly sequence in which amorphous figures stare out at the viewer against muted backgrounds – images of a woman truly ‘in a room of one’s own’.
Read more ...Cindy Sherman, National Portrait Gallery
Cindy Sherman was performing for the camera long before mobile phones even existed. Featuring around 180 works from international public and private collections, as well as new work never before displayed in a public gallery, Cindy Sherman will trace the development of Sherman's work from the mid-70s to the present day.
Read more ...Pre-Raphaelite Sisters, National Portrait Gallery
Pre-Raphaelite Sisters is the 160-year-delayed foil to the first exhibition of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1849. The show will illuminate the incredible contribution of twelve women to the movement, as both muses and artists in their own right.
Read more ...Dora Maar, Tate Modern
Tate Modern becomes home to another female surrealist this November, this time, the photographer Dora Maar. You might know her better as the erstwhile lover of Pablo Picasso. But Maar was a bold innovator, with a voice, a style and an avant-garde eye, all of her own.
Read more ...Sixty Years exhibition, Tate Britain
Tate Britain has announced a new curated display dedicated to the work of women artists working in Britain from 1960 to the present day. The gallery space will showcase around 60 works by more than 30 female artists, including Turner Prize winner Rachel Whiteread, painter Bridget Riley and the multimedia artist Mona Hatoum.
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