Exhibitions

Erica Rutherford

The Human Comedy 12 Nov - 21 Dec 2024 London 'The performance of gender, how it is enacted, is an ongoing act of improvisation within a scene of constraint.' — Judith Butler, Undoing Gender, 2004 Richard Saltoun Gallery presents a comprehensive exhibition dedicated to British-Canadian artist Erica RUTHERFORD (1923–2008), one of the first openly transgender British artists. The exhibition marks... Read more

Butterfly Time III

25 Oct - 20 Dec 2024 New York Richard Saltoun Gallery is pleased to present Butterfly Time: Part III, the final instalment of its three-part series marking the centenary of Surrealism. Named after a seminal work by the Czech artist Toyen, this series brings together key figures from the Surrealist movement, celebrating its far-reaching legacy through an international... Read more

Simryn Gill: Shelter

Curated by Catherine de Zegher 20 Sep - 2 Nov 2024 London Opening: Friday, 20 September | 6-8pm In-conversation with Simryn Gill, Catherine de zegher & Mark Rappolt : Saturday, 21 September | 2-4pm RSVP Catherine de Zegher: Simryn Gill shell shelter sphere From the silverfish lodging in a book with worm holes to the protective birdhouse in Vegetation (2016), from... Read more

Reena Saini Kallat

What the Sky Won't Say, the Ground Will 12 Sep - 25 Oct 2024 Rome EN: Richard Saltoun Gallery presents the solo exhibition What the Sky Won't Say, the Ground Will by Reena Saini KALLAT (b. 1973, Delhi), showcasing the work of one of India’s foremost contemporary artists. Known for her critical exploration of national and geographical boundaries, geopolitical conflicts, and their enduring impacts on... Read more

Butterfly Time: Part II

A group exhibition of women in Surrealism 3 Sep - 18 Oct 2024 New York Richard Saltoun Gallery is pleased to announce Butterfly Time: Part II as a part of a sequence of three group exhibitions underscoring the contributions by a total of 11 pioneering female artists from 4 different continents to the global Surrealist movement. Titled after a work by the renowned Czech artist... Read more

image-ridden impulse

12 Jul - 23 Aug 2024 New York Opening: Thursday, 11 July | 6pm Richard Saltoun Gallery and Franklin Parrasch Gallery are pleased to present image-ridden impulse, a collaborative group exhibition of works by ten cross-generational artists working in the field of abstraction: Magdalena ABAKANOWICZ (1930 - 2017), Latifa ALAJLAN (1998-), Yvonne Pacanovsky BOBROWICZ (1928 - 2022), Romany... Read more

Penny Slinger

Exorcism: Inside Out 3 Jul - 7 Sep 2024 London Private View: Tuesday, 2 July | 6pm “We have many works that follow The Hero's Journey, but how many that track that of the Heroine? This journey of the embodied soul is not sexist; we all, male and female alike, need to discover who we are. It is like a... Read more

Erin Manning

100 Acres 31 May - 22 Jun 2024 London As a part of London Gallery Weekend How big is the forest? It is the forest of the world. It is infinite. It twists around as a snake swallows its own tail and has no end and no beginning. No one has seen its farthest dimension.' - Annie Proulx, Barkskins... Read more

Romany Eveleigh: One Liners

Curated by Flavia Frigeri 8 May - 20 Jul 2024 Rome 'By expressing her constant longing for what she describes as the ‘sought-for beginning’ Eveleigh makes it clear that her work is about the making, rather than the end point. The difficulty, or as she says ‘the magnitude of a beginning’ is challenging for the artist, who each time needs to... Read more

Jan Wade

COLORED ENTRANCE 2 May - 22 Jun 2024 New York Richard Saltoun Gallery New York presents its inaugural solo exhibition COLORED ENTRANCE, by African-Canadian artist Jan WADE (b. 1952), on view between 2 May - 22 June 2024 to coincide with New York Frieze Week. COLORED ENTRANCE is Wade's first solo exhibition in the United States, on the occasion of... Read more

Fathi Hassan

I can see you smiling Fatma 9 Apr - 25 May 2024 London Private View: 9 April | 6pm Richard Saltoun Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition with Edinburgh-based, Egyptian born artist, Fathi HASSAN (b. 1957, Egypt), marking the gallery's representation of the artist. Showcasing a new body of paintings and a site-specific wall painting, this will be Hassan's first exhibition... Read more

Il Cinema per Fabio Mauri

Curated by Laura Cherubini 19 Mar - 27 Apr 2024 Rome Private view: March 19 | 6PM 'From the very beginning, the world has always seemed to me like a great, but partially decoded, projection. The object-symbol of the current state of things, of us standing in front of reality, is a screen.... We do not capture all the conceivable reality... Read more

Alexis Hunter: 10 Seconds

Curated by Natasha Hoare 6 Feb - 28 Mar 2024 London Private View: 6 February | 6pm ‘…I set up the narrative sequences to work as advertising does, within a minimum of ten seconds.’ - Alexis Hunter Richard Saltoun Gallery presents a solo exhibition of works by Alexis HUNTER (1948-2014), a pivotal figure in the British Feminist Movement of the 1970s,... Read more

Atelier dell’Errore: Die Werkstatt

Curated by Eva Brioschi 18 Jan - 9 Mar 2024 Rome PRIVATE VIEW: january 18 | 6PM “A little light, like a rushlight, to lead back to splendour. ” – E. Pound, Canto CXVI “Every time a new work is started, there is no way of knowing when and how it will be finished. The drawing evolves, hand in hand, day... Read more

Women's Work is Never Done

Curated by Catherine de Zegher 14 Nov 2023 - 27 Jan 2024 London Private View: November 14 | 6pm “Catherine de Zegher’s writing and curatorial practice (…) is a monumental achievement. Yet it does not seek monumentality. It shows us how to value everything that disdains monumentality and reveals to us the immense importance of tracing other threads of (…) vital creativity by... Read more

Daiara Tukano

Kihtimori: creation memories 8 Nov - 22 Dec 2023 Rome Private View: November 8 | 6pm EN: “The most we can hope for with our art is to have an impact. The more people we reach, the more politically evolved people there will be to vote for those who defend our rights.” - Daiara Tukano Richard Saltoun Gallery is... Read more

The Resistance of Pen and Paper

26 Sep - 4 Nov 2023 London “Thanks to the resistance of pen and paper, it does make one slow down and think.' - Umberto Eco “For all this time, however much I begged for pen and paper, they wouldn’t give it to me. I had thought of all the things I would write whenever they gave... Read more

Giulia Napoleone

Il Blu 12 Sep - 28 Oct 2023 Rome Richard Saltoun Gallery is delighted to present the first exhibition in Rome dedicated to Italian artist Giulia Napoleone (b. 1936) following her retrospective Realtà in Equilibrio held at Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome in 2018. The exhibition includes works on paper and paintings made by the artist... Read more

Peter Cook

Cities 18 Jul - 16 Sep 2023 London Richard Saltoun Gallery is honoured to present the visionary work of British architect Sir Peter Cook . Drawing on his work over the past 60 years, the exhibition features a site-specific architectural environment produced especially for the gallery, together with a selection of drawings and paintings that trace the radical... Read more

Ann-Marie James

L'Origine du Monde 22 Jun - 28 Jul 2023 Rome Richard Saltoun Gallery is delighted to present a new body of work by the former British School at Rome residence artist Ann-Marie James , inspired by L'Origine du monde (1866), the infamous scandalous painting by Gustave Courbet, together with works from three series of paintings: Museé Imaginaire, Rome and Forum.... Read more