RA Summer Exhibition 2022
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
Royal Academy Of Arts
Kyōsai: The Israel Goldman Collection
Known for his independent spirit, Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831-1889) is among Japan’s most important master painters. Witty, energetic and imaginative, his art continues to influence numerous artistic styles today, from manga to tattoo art.
Tues–Sun: 10am–6pm
Whistler’s Symphony In White Royal Academy
Walking into Whistler’s Woman in White exhibition, one does not know quite what to expect. After all, it is a bold choice to construct an exhibition based solely around one painting.
26 February 2022
Whistler’s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan
Joanna Hiffernan’s relationship with Whistler ran deeper than artist and muse. In this rich exhibition the RA explores her life and role as a friend, model, lover and collaborator.
Tues–Sun: 10am–6pm
Late Constable
This exhibition – which spans from 1825 until the artist’s unexpected death in 1837 – explores Constable’s late style through his paintings and oil sketches as well as watercolours, drawings and prints.
Tues–Sun: 10am–6pm
Summer Exhibition 2021
The Summer Exhibition is the world’s largest open-submission art show. It brings together art in all mediums, from prints, paintings, film and photography to sculpture, architectural works and more by leading artists, Royal Academicians and household names as well as new and emerging talent.
Tues–Sun: 10am–6pm
David Hockney: Sequentially Spring Royal Academy – Marina Vaizey
David Hockney is, for a variety of reasons, a British National Treasure. Why? It is stunningly evident in the special exhibition of paintings done last year, which explores, sequentially, the arrival of spring unfurling over three months in his four-acre garden in rural France.
27 May 2021
David Hockney: The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020
In the midst of a pandemic, David Hockney RA captured the unfolding of spring on his iPad, creating 116 new and optimistic works in praise of the natural world.
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Francis Bacon: Man and Beast
This powerful exhibition will focus on Francis Bacon’s unerring fascination with animals: how it both shaped his approach to the human body and distorted it; how, caught at the most extreme moments of existence, his figures are barely recognisable as either human or beast.
Tues–Sun: 10am–6pm
Tracey Emin / Edvard Munch: The Loneliness of the Soul
EXTENDED TO 1 AUGUST
Tracey Emin selects masterpieces by Edvard Munch to show alongside her most recent paintings
Mon–Sun: 10am–6pm advanced booking essential (Friends of the RA included)
Summer Exhibition 2020
For the first time in history, the Summer Exhibition will fall in winter.
to be announced
Gauguin and the Impressionists
Denmark’s Ordrupgaard Collection is a treasure trove of important Impressionist works. The RA will showcase 60 of its works by painters such as Manet, Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Morisot, Degas and Gauguin
to be announced
Léon Spilliaert
From his celebrated self-portraits to dreamlike scenes of the North Sea coast, this exhibition will introduce UK audiences to the visionary work of artist Léon Spilliaert.
Daily 10am – 6pm Friday 10am – 10pm
Picasso and Paper
Reopening
Picasso didn’t just draw on paper – he tore it, burnt it, and made it three-dimensional. From studies for ‘Guernica’ to a 4.8-metre-wide collage, this exhibition brings together more than 300 works on paper spanning the artist’s 80-year career.
Thursday to Sunday 11am-4pm
Eco-Visionaries
An exhibition examining humankind’s ecological impact on the planet.
10am–6pm, Fridays until 10pm
All Change: Tim Marlow Resigns As Royal Academy Art Director
Last week Christopher Le Brun announced he was stepping down as President of the Royal Academy and this week Tim Marlow the highly regarded Artistic Director of the Royal Academy of Arts has revealed he will also be leaving to become Chief Executive and Director of London’s Design Museum.
7 October 2019
Christopher Le Brun Royal Academy President To Step Down
Christopher Le Brun will step down as President of the Royal Academy of Arts in December 2019 after serving for eight years.
26 September 2019
Antony Gormley Plays With Our Perception of Space at RA
The Antony Gormley solo exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts opens on 21 September. It’s a solo show rather than a retrospective but covers work from the 1970s to the present day. The exhibition fills all thirteen rooms of the Royal Academy’s Main Galleries bringing together both existing and specially conceived new works.
19 September 2019
Lucian Freud: The Self-portraits
In a world-first, the Royal Academy unites Lucian Freud’s self-portraits in one extraordinary exhibition. See more than 50 paintings, prints and drawings in which this modern master of British art turns his unflinching eye firmly on himself.
Daily 10am – 6pm Friday 10am – 10pm
Helene Schjerfbeck Finland’s Best Kept Secret – Marina Vaizey
Is the Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946) the most fascinating artist the anglophone world has never heard of? The fashionable preoccupation with women artists of past and present is throwing up and out some real discoveries and rediscoveries.
25 July 2019
Antony Gormley
The exhibition will explore Gormley’s wide-ranging use of organic, industrial and elemental materials over the years,
Daily 10am – 6pm Friday 10am – 10pm
Helene Schjerfbeck
Discover the mesmerising paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck, one of Finland’s best kept secrets, in the UK’s first major exhibition of her work.
Daily 10am – 6pm Friday 10am – 10pm
RA Summer Exhibition Returns To Form Under Jock McFadyen
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
RA Summer Exhibition 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
London Original Print Fair 2019
At the London Original Print Fair visitors have the unparalleled opportunity to buy original prints spanning five centuries, from top international dealers, galleries and studios
Thursday 25 April 10am – 9pm Friday 26 April 10am – 9pm Saturday 27 April 10am – 6pm Sunday 28 April 10am – 6pm
Premiums Interim Projects
Premiums Interim Projects will provide an opportunity to see new work by 15 second-year students at the interim point of their postgraduate study at the Royal Academy Schools.
10am–6pm, Fridays until 10pm
The Renaissance Nude
Trace the development of the nude through some of the great masters of the Renaissance. Bringing together works by artists such as Titian, Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Dürer and Cranach, we shed light on a visual tradition at its most vital moment.
Daily 10am – 6pm Friday 10am – 10pm
Phyllida Barlow RA: cul-de-sac
Phyllida Barlow’s vibrant, large-scale installations transform the environments they inhabit.
Daily 10am – 6pm Friday 10am – 10pm
Bill Viola / Michelangelo: Life Death Rebirth
The Royal Academy brings together two artists Bill Viola and Michelangelo – born centuries apart – who explore the same universal themes with works of transcendent beauty and raw emotional power.
Daily 10am – 6pm Friday 10am – 10pm
Oceania Royal Academy A Lasting Air Of Strangeness – Edward Lucie-Smith
Oceania, Royal Academy: To some extent, our ideas about what we call ‘primitive’ or ‘tribal’ art are still formed by… Read More
1 October 2018
Cornelia Parker: Transitional Object (PsychoBarn),
Cornelia Parker RA brings her PsychoBarn installation to London and the Neoclassical surrounds of the Annenberg Courtyard at the Royal Academy of Arts.
Daily 10am – 6pm Friday 10am – 10pm
The Secret to a Good Life
This special project by Bob and Roberta Smith RA explores the story of women artists and the Royal Academy – through the lens of his own family history.
Daily 10am – 6pm Friday 10am – 10pm