Denzil Forrester news

Denzil Forrester, Suchitra Mattai and Zinzi Minott in conversation with Carla Acevedo-Yates on the occasion of Reverb, 5-6pm (Online)

'The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure' showcases the work of contemporary artists from the African diaspora, and highlights the use of figures to illuminate the richness and complexity of Black life.

Denzil Forrester’s documentary, Denzil’s Dance (2019), is featured in the retrospective Image, Music, Power: Julian Henriques and Parminder Vir’s Work in Film and Television. 

Join us on Wednesday 30 October at 7pm for a performance entitled Transversal by dancers Camryn Stafford and Storm Stokes.

Artist Denzil Forrester joins Director of SculptureCenter Sohrab Mohebbi for an online discussion about his practice.

 

Denzil Forrester features the drawing The Rose in the group exhibition Drawing the Unspeakable at Towner Gallery.

Pam Glick, Caroline Coon and Denzil Forrester feature in the 2024 White Columns Benefit Auction​.

'Beyond the Bassline' is a map of 500 years of Black British music.

'Come Home' is a selection of prints of works by contemporary artists made in aid of the Carnival Village Trust.

Taking the 1990s as its cultural backdrop, ‘Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today’ is the first major group exhibition in the United States to envision a new approach to contemporary art in the Caribbean diaspora, foregrounding forms that reveal new modes of thinking about identity and place.

'Thin Skin' is an exhibition of paintings by Australian and international artists who explore the liminal space between figuration and abstraction. Guest curated by Australian, London-based writer, curator and former editor of frieze magazine, Jennifer Higgie, it will feature works by more than thirty artists.

This group exhibition explores the development of the Long Museum's collection as it marks its ten year anniversary.

Artist Denzil Forrester is in conversation with music scholar and cultural activist Sonjah Stanley Niaah.

'Grayson's Art Club: The Exhibition III' is the culmination of a project begun by Grayson Perry during the Covid-19 lockdown. Drawing together works by members of the public, celebrities and established artists, the works included are curated by Perry under weekly themes on the television program, Grayson's Art Club.

Group exhibition 'Dark Light: Realism in the Age of Post-Truths', curated by Massimiliano Gioni, assembles the work of over one hundred artists and more than two hundred pieces from the Tony and Elham Salamé Collection. Taking its title from a 2017 painting by the American artist Nicole Eisenman held in the collection, the presentation brings together recent acquisitions that question the meanings and functions of figuration in contemporary art.

ICA and Sotheby’s join forces to raise funds to benefit the pioneering contemporary art institution in its 75th year. Yinka Shonibare CBE RA has created an entirely new piece for the sale, titled 'Modern Magic (Bangwa Queen)', 2022.

'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. 

'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.

Coventry Biennial 2021 will take place across Coventry & Warwickshire from 8 October 2021 – 23 January 2022. Named HYPER-POSSIBLE, this collaborative and socially focussed event brings together a wide range of local, national and international artists and creative practitioners to exhibit in galleries, museums and a range of historic and community locations across Coventry and Warwickshire.