The Top 5 Painting Exhibitions to see in London this Winter
21 November 2025 • Tabish Khan
Black history, cakes, lost paintings, repose and hands.
Tag: Kerry James Marshall
Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955, Birmingham, Alabama, USA) builds a richly layered visual world that insists on Black presence within the canon of art history. Working across painting, collage, print, and sculpture, he composes scenes of everyday life—portraits, gardens, classrooms—rendered with deep, velvety blacks that claim space with unmistakable authority. His works braid beauty with critique, reimagining representation as both cultural repair and celebration. Meticulous, narrative, and quietly radical, Marshall reshapes the picture plane into a site of visibility, history, and self-determination.
Royal Academy of Arts to present major Kerry James Marshall solo exhibition.
29 May 2025 • Mark Westall
the RA to present the largest survey of celebrated American
artist and Honorary Royal Academician Kerry James Marshall ever to be shown in Europe
Kerry James Marshall to donate portrait of Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. to the University of Cambridge
2 October 2023 • Mark Westall
Kerry James Marshall, one of the leading international artists working today, is donating a portrait of prolific author, literary scholar and award-winning filmmaker Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. to the University of Cambridge.
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott.
28 July 2022 • Mark Westall
Featuring approximately forty paintings, “Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott” highlights the sixty-year-long career of Robert Colescott. Colescott’s bold and richly rendered works traverse art history to offer a satirical take on issues of race, beauty, and twentieth-century American culture.
Young, Gifted and Black the tour continues.
18 January 2022 • Mark Westall
Lehigh University Art Galleries (LUAG) will present Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art this February. This exhibition… Read More
TOP 10 Artists at Frieze Los Angeles
22 February 2019 • Oliver Malin
Frieze LA quietly rolled into town last week just after the Grammys and a safe distance from the Oscars (fingers crossed Olivia Coleman). The Uk’s premier Nuclear destroyer of art fairs, containing a bigger arsenal than any other threw the anchor down at Paramount studios.