Ryan Gander To Steer 2026 RA Summer Exhibition
The Royal Academy has announced that Ryan Gander — artist, Royal Academician, and long-time champion of creative mischief — will… Read More
7 December 2025
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RA Summer Exhibition: An Annual Artistic Ephemeral Jamboree – Oliver Malin
Another Annus Mirabilis, Another RA Summer Exhibition, No 258, which all kicked off in 1769, the year of Napoleon Bonaparte’s birth, so it’s always had big boots to fill….
11 June 2025
RA Summer Exhibition 2025
The UK’s best-loved art show returns this summer.
Tues-Sun 10am-6pm
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
RA Summer Exhibition Polite And Figurative – Sue Hubbard
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
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
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
Grayson Perry Selected To Coordinate RA Summer Exhibition 2018
The sometime transvestite artist Grayson Perry RA has been chosen to select the 2018 Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy.
7 September 2017
RA Summer Exhibition 2017 Twelve Highlights by Sara Faith
Artlyst’s highlights of the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2017.
12 June 2017
Richard Wilson Explores Artist Duos For 248th RA Summer Exhibition
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
Ann Christopher RA To Lead Royal Academy Lineup for 256th Summer Exhibition
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
In the Black Fantastic Ekow Eshun Curates London’s Best New Summer Exhibition
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
Jock McFadyen RA Announced As Coordinator Of 251st Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
The Scottish painter, Jock McFadyen RA will be the coordinator of the 251st Summer Exhibition in 2019.
11 January 2019
Ten Things I Loved About The RA’s 250 Anniversary Summer Exhibition
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 Appointed Coordinator Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2018
Grayson Perry RA will be the co-ordinator of the Royal Academy annual Summer Exhibition in June 2018.
24 January 2018
Larry Smart Exhibition Celebrates 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love
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 Unveils Planned Summer Exhibition At The Whitworth
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
Eileen Cooper RA. To Co-ordinate 249th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
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
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2015 – Michael Craig-Martin Delivers Pop-Arty Hues
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
Sculptor Dame Barbara Hepworth Featured In New Cumbrian Summer Exhibition
Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) is featured at Abbot Hall’s summer exhibition which focuses on one of the greatest artists of… Read More
29 July 2014
Lisson Gallery Summer Exhibition Explores A Minimalist Aesthetic Through Abstraction
The Lisson Gallery are mounting a summer group exhibition featuring Cory Arcangel, Allora & Calzadilla, N. Dash, Robert Janitz, Paulo… Read More
8 July 2014
Franz West: A Major New Exhibition At Hepworth Wakefield For Summer
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
Turner Prize Winner Mark Leckey Curates New Summer Exhibition
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
New Exhibition To Mark The Summer Solstice At Waterside Contemporary
To mark the summer solstice – an astronomical moment of repose and contemplation, and the high point of the short… Read More
15 June 2013
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Signals Start Of London’s Cultural Season
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
Edinburgh Art Festival Announces Summer 2013 Exhibition Program
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
Raw Power! Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2011
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
Grassroots Renaissance: Artist-Run Spaces Breathe Life Into Rural Culture
As the UK art world reels from the closures of major commercial galleries like Pace, Almine Rech close an imaginative grassroots revival……..
18 October 2025
The Daring Lee Miller From It Girl To War Photographer – Sue Hubbard
The American photographer, Lee Miller, had to break through a glass ceiling in a predominantly man’s world, continually reinventing herself from fashion model to becoming one of the very few accredited female war photographers of the Second World War
2 October 2025
New York Art Exhibition Insights Autumn 2025 – Ilka Scobie
New York Art Round-Up Autumn 2025: The magnificent and newly renovated Frick Collection debuted Flora Yukhnovich’s site-specific mural…
28 September 2025
Bayeux Tapestry: British Museum Launches Nationwide Programme Ahead Of Display
The British Museum has announced plans for a nationwide programme to accompany its landmark exhibition of the Bayeux Tapestry, which will travel to the UK…
17 September 2025