
RA Summer Exhibition 2024
The annual Summer Exhibition showcases a diverse array of contemporary works, including prints, paintings, films, photography, sculpture, and architectural works.
Tues–Sun: 10am–6pm Fri: 10am–9pm
The annual Summer Exhibition showcases a diverse array of contemporary works, including prints, paintings, films, photography, sculpture, and architectural works.
Tues–Sun: 10am–6pm Fri: 10am–9pm
For many, it’s as much a part of the summer to-do list as Glyndebourne or Wimbledon. The RA’s Summer Exhibition attracts big crowds.
6 June 2023
After two years in winter, the RA Summer Exhibition is back where it should be. The theme chosen by the exhibition’s coordinator, Alison Wilding RA, is ‘Climate’.
Tues–Sun: 10am–6pm
This year the RA Summer Exhibition has returned to form with a talented lineup of artists chosen by an inexhaustible group of jurors. The 251st edition received over 16,000 entries. Around 1200 works, in a range of media, goes on display, next week. The majority of these artworks are offered for sale, allowing visitors to purchase original work by upcoming and established artists.
3 June 2019
The Summer Exhibition is the world’s largest open submission contemporary art show which has taken place every year without interruption since 1769.
10am – 6pm daily Fridays until 10pm
The sometime transvestite artist Grayson Perry RA has been chosen to select the 2018 Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy.
7 September 2017
Artlyst’s highlights of the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2017.
12 June 2017
The British sculptor and Royal Academician Richard Wilson who is to coordinate this year’s Royal Academy of Arts’ Summer Exhibition has… Read More
7 April 2016
The Royal Academy of Arts has revealed the committee for the upcoming 256th Summer Exhibition, which is set to be coordinated by the renowned British artist and Royal Academician Ann Christopher.
5 December 2023
The Hayward Gallery’s new exhibition titled ‘In the Black Fantastic’ is the UK’s first major exhibition dedicated to the work of Black artists
29 June 2022
The Scottish painter, Jock McFadyen RA will be the coordinator of the 251st Summer Exhibition in 2019.
11 January 2019
Love it or loathe it the RA’s Summer Exhibition is here to stay as a permanent fixture of the London art calendar. This year we are assaulted by the RA’s most flamboyant flaneur Grayson Perry who has chosen to paint the walls buttercup yellow.
6 June 2018
Grayson Perry RA will be the co-ordinator of the Royal Academy annual Summer Exhibition in June 2018.
24 January 2018
The first ever solo exhibition of the iconic 60s pop artist Larry Smart (1945-2006) including his iconic Hendrix and Lennon silkscreen prints launches to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love 1967-2017.
20 May 2017
Raqib Shaw’s exotic Kashmir inspired paintings are to be exhibited at the Whitworth in Manchester. Sumptuous textiles, wallpaper and renaissance drawings from The Whitworth collection will create a key exhibition this summer.
11 April 2017
The Royal Academy’s has announced Eileen Cooper RA. will co-ordinate the 249th Summer Exhibition, which runs from mid-June until late August.
14 March 2017
For the past 247 years the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition has brought with it a cultural overview of contemporary art… Read More
12 June 2015
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29 July 2014
The Lisson Gallery are mounting a summer group exhibition featuring Cory Arcangel, Allora & Calzadilla, N. Dash, Robert Janitz, Paulo… Read More
8 July 2014
The Hepworth Wakefield is dedicating its gallery spaces to a large-scale exhibition of Franz West, who died in July 2012…. Read More
14 May 2014
Mark Leckey the Turner Prize winning artist has curated an exhibition that explores the magical world of new technology, as… Read More
13 July 2013
To mark the summer solstice – an astronomical moment of repose and contemplation, and the high point of the short… Read More
15 June 2013
The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2013, which has been coordinated by the Royal Academicians Norman Ackroyd RA and… Read More
5 June 2013
The Edinburgh Art Festival has announced the line-up for Scotland’s largest annual celebration of visual art which takes place throughout… Read More
5 April 2013
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition opens to the public today, following a week of previews, parties and press mosh-pits. A… Read More
7 June 2011
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24 March 2025
Exactly 100 years ago, the four Scottish Colourists had a very successful London show. It was only their second group appearance.
11 February 2025
On Saturday, thieves broke into the Drents Museum in the northern Dutch city of Assen in a dramatic pre-dawn heist. They used explosives to breach its doors and make off with four ancient artefacts, including a rare gold helmet…
27 January 2025
Artlyst has selected twelve art exhibitions that will take place out of London and around the UK during 2025.
14 January 2025
*UPDATED*
2025 promises to see another full and varied programme of art exhibitions in London. Artlyst has put together this month-by-month guide.
5 January 2025
Here are ten London Art exhibitions to look out for in 2025.
17 December 2024
Sotheby’s is hosting a selling exhibition focusing on the free-spirited Bloomsbury Group. Radical Modernity: From Bloomsbury to Charleston…
10 November 2024