Jiab Prachakul has been shortlisted for the National Portrait Gallery’s BP Portrait Award 2020 alongside Michael Youds and Sergey Svetlakov. Night Talk, Prachakul’s portrait of her close friends, Jeonga Choi, a designer from Korea, and Makoto Sakamoto, a music composer from Japan, are pictured […]
Dear Christine, A tribute to Christine Keeler – Conceived and curated by Fionn Wilson Image Credit: ‘Laughing while Smashing (for Mandy and Christine)’ by Roxana Halls EXHIBITION OPENS 2 – 29TH FEBRUARY 2020 SYMPOSIUM 22ND FEBRUARY 11AM – 7PM Open to […]
Mindy Lee is our WIA featured artist. Mindy Lee is an artist living and working in South London. She is the curator of the Blyth Gallery at Imperial College, London, and her recent show, Ghost Changing Room, at Wimbledon Space explored themes […]
It’s that time of year again. Art Review have published their Power 100. Artist Hito Steyerl, in the number 1 position in 2017, remains at number 4, while artist and activist Nan Goldin has been held off the top position […]
NAN GOLDIN, Sirens 14 November 2019 – 11 January 2020 Opening reception, Thursday 14 November, 18:00 – 20:00 Marian Goodman Gallery is delighted to announce its first exhibition with Nan Goldin, who joined the gallery in September 2018. [Featured image: Nan […]
What’s on this weekend. Please email hello@wearewia.com to include your event in our listings. What’s on At King’s Cross, meet Sharon Drew, at her show Immersion, Details here. Sarah Jane Moon (you can read her WIA artit Q&A here) will […]
Doris Salcedo has been selected by an independent, international jury as the first winner of the annual Nomura Art Award. The largest cash prize in contemporary visual arts, the Nomura Art Award is presented to an artist who has created […]
Patricia Treib, Limbs, Kate Macgarry Gallery, London, 7 November to 14 December 2019. Patricia Treib, Limbs Patricia Treib was born in 1979 in Saginaw, Michigan, and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Limbs is her second solo exhibition at the gallery and runs […]
Congratulations to Cornelia Parker on the first major survey exhibition of her work in the Southern Hemisphere. The Sydney-exclusive exhibition features over 40 artworks from across the artist’s career, including large-scale installations, embroideries, works on paper, video works, and a […]
Henny Beaumont, graphic novelist, freelance illustrator and political cartoonist, is WIA featured artist this week. Beaumont recently illustrated a children’s book about Lady Hale, Equal To Everything, published just after Lady Hale’s historic announcement at the Supreme Court, which led to […]
Long overlooked as one of Picasso’s women, rather than as an artist in her own right, Dora Maar is finally getting a solo show at Tate Modern this year. Born Henriette Théodora Markovitch, Maar grew up between Argentina and Paris […]
Winner of the Young Masters Emerging Woman Art Award, and also awarded highly commended 2nd prize sponsored by the Artists Collecting Society of the Young Masters Art Prize, Amanda McCavour is our WIA featured artist. McCavour is a Toronto-based artist who works with stitch to […]
Please note that applications are now closed Vision Art Fair is the first UK art fair dedicated to promoting women artists and their work. The first edition will take place at the Boiler House, Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, Spitalfields, […]
The Hayward Gallery presents a major retrospective exhibition devoted to the work of celebrated British artist Bridget Riley. Spanning 70 years of the artist’s working life, it will be the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of her work to date and runs from 23 October […]
Hayward Gallery to reopen to the public on 1 August with Among the Trees exhibition and offering free tickets for NHS staff![[Shortlist] La Toya Ruby Frazier, Mr. Yerby, Mom and Mr. Yerby’s Hands, 2005, Gelatin silver print, Pinault Collection. From LaToya Ruby Frazier (Mousse Publishing, 2019)](https://i2.wp.com/wearewia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Shortlist-La-Toya-Ruby-Frazier-Mr.-Yerby-Mom-and-Mr.-Yerby’s-Hands-2005-Gelatin-silver-print-Pinault-Collection.-From-LaToya-Ruby-Frazier-Mousse-Publishing-2019-e1595427074101.jpg?fit=75%2C75)
Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards announce Long and Shortlists for 35th edition of the prize
Bristol’s Black Lives Matter statue removed
CALL FOR ARTISTS: A LETTER IN MIND – ART ON AN ENVELOPE
£10,000 Tate Bursaries announced
