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Whitechapel Gallery presents a major exhibition of work by William Kentridge from 21 September 2016 to 15 January 2017
The Whitechapel Gallery has presented 64 artists and 100 works of Arab art in an ambitious series of four displays which launched in September 2015 and ends in January 2017.
The Whitechapel Gallery presents an exhibition of rare early works by the American sculptor Keith Sonnier (b.1941) on view for the first time in the UK this summer.
The Whitechapel Gallery presents the first major UK survey of the American artist Mary Heilmann (b.1940). The exhibition spans the artist’s five decade career, from her early geometric paintings made in the 1970s to her recent shaped canvases in day-glo colours.
Joy Gregory with Whitechapel Gallery has won the Freelands Award 2023. This award enables organisations to present an exhibition by a mid-career female-identifying artist who may not yet have received the acclaim or public recognition that her work deserves.
Leading contemporary artists donate works for charitable Art Icon auction in support of Whitechapel Gallery’s education and community programmes.
Whitechapel Gallery is delighted to announce Chloe Carroll as the winner of the 2020 NEON Curatorial Award, the announcement of which has been postponed for two years owing to the Covid-19 pandemic.
16 May 2022 – Whitechapel Gallery is delighted to announce that curator and writer, Gilane Tawadros, has been appointed the new Director of Whitechapel Gallery, London. Currently Chief Executive of DACS, a not-for-profit visual artists' rights management organisation, and previously founding Director of the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva), Tawadros will take up her post in October 2022.
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