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Stephen Friedman Gallery is pleased to announce the launch of Yinka Shonibare CBE RA's Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation cultural center in Nigeria. Set across sites in Lagos and Ijebu, G.A.S. is a non-profit dedicated to facilitating cultural exchange through tailored residencies, public programs, and exhibition opportunities primarily for creative practitioners from Africa and the diaspora.

Artist Caroline Walker discusses her exhibition ‘Birth Reflections’ with author and broadcaster Hettie Judah. This baby-friendly discussion explores the subjects of motherhood, pregnancy, birth, and the spaces we encounter during this journey. 

'Captured Beauty' features contemporary works of art drawn from the Arts Council Collection, with paintings by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Denzil Forrester, Ryan Mosely, Mowbray Odonkor, and Caroline Walker. 

Located in the heart of the nation’s capital, the Manif d’art is held every two years from February to April. A thematic event dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of contemporary art, the biennial is held in various locations throughout Québec City and this edition brings together 25 Canadian and 25 international collaborators from the cultural and artistic sectors. 

'Crazy: Madness in Contemporary Art' is a group exhibition comprising 11 new site-specific installations across the historic, interior and exterior spaces of Chiostro del Bramante, Rome. Curated by Danilo Eccher and featuring over 21 international artists, the presentation explores divergent portrayals and perceptions of reality in contemporary art.

Hawaii Triennial 2022 (HT22) is framed around the fluid concept of Pacific Century – E Ho‘omau no Moananuiākea – interweaving themes of history, place, and identity within the context of Hawaii’s unique location at the confluence of the Asia-Pacific and Oceania.

Group presentation ‘Résister, encore’ explores forms of resistance developed by artists. The exhibition includes ‘A Ruin is a Ruin (A Ruin is a Ruin)’, 2016 by Thomas Hirschhorn, a series of mixed-media works that combine imagery of ruins to investigate the charged meanings ascribed to these complex and politically charged sites.

We are thrilled to share a selection of recent museum acquisitions. ⁠

Holly Hendry joins Daniel S. Palmer (Curator at Public Art Fund, New York) to discuss her current solo exhibition, ’Holly Hendry: Fatty Acids’ at Stephen Friedman Gallery.

'Legacies: London Transport’s Caribbean Workforce’ celebrates the contribution Caribbean people have made to transport in London and British culture more widely. The exhibition explores the struggles and triumphs many of these individuals and their families experienced as they moved halfway across the world from the Caribbean to the UK.

Group exhibition 'Les grands Ensembles' brings together twenty artists as a collective whose works involve an exploration of public space, architecture and related societal themes. 

To celebrate 30 years of impact on culture and creativity, Interscope Records brings together an intergenerational group of visual artists including Cecily Brown, Lauren Halsey, Rashid Johnson, Takashi Murakami, Ed Ruscha and Kehinde Wiley into dialogue with groundbreaking musicians from the last three decades.

Employing monstrous, grotesque, and humanoid figures and forms, group exhibition ‘And I Must Scream’ engages five themes—corruption and human rights violations, displacement, environmental destruction, the pandemic, and renewal. 

Tom Friedman features in 'Mind, Art, Experience: 10 Years of Chess & Culture in Saint Louis', a museum-wide group exhibition, celebrating the 10-year anniversary of The World Chess Hall of Fame (WCHOF).

Group exhibition, ‘A Site of Struggle’ explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a period of 100 years.

‘Sound as Sculpture’ brings together foundational works from the 1960s and 1970s with important recent works that examine the body’s ability to transmit, emit and absorb sound and explore the psychological and poetic effects of sound in space.

Join Yinka Shonibare CBE and curator Victor Wang (Artistic Director and Chief Curator of the M WOODS museum in Beijing) for a discussion of Shonibare’s filmmaking practice. This online event is hosted by SOUTH SOUTH and coincides with the platform's first FILM Programme for the year featuring films by Yinka Shonibare CBE. 

‘Testament’ is a large-scale group exhibition that responds to the seismic shifts in UK society triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, environmental crises and Brexit.