Painting
A spotlight on painting – emerging and established artists and their exhibitions, explored by the Wallpaper* team
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Kudzanai-Violet Hwami creates limited-edition cover for Wallpaper’s January 2021 issue
Each month Wallpaper* offers a leading creative figure carte blanche to design a limited-edition cover. For our January 2021 Next Generation issue, young Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai-Violet Hwami drew on her experience of social media to create a new painting, Plains of the Christmas Cow.
By TF Chan Last updated
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Kudzanai-Violet Hwami’s modern-pop portraits frame gender, sexuality and race
The Zimbabwean-born artist, who explores identity through vivid cartoon-inspired collages, headlines our January 2021 Next Generation issue. Writer Amah-Rose Abrams interviewed Hwami ahead of today's announcement that she has joined the roster of Victoria Miro Gallery
By Amah-Rose Abrams Last updated
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Defiant strokes: Hauser & Wirth hosts Philip Guston's transitional work
By Aaron Peasley Last updated
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Unseen works by landscape artist John Virtue to go on show at Fortnum & Mason
By Michael Yeung Last updated
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Remembering Pierre Soulages (1919-2022), a pioneer of post-war abstraction
Pierre Soulages, the pioneering French printmaker, sculptor and ‘painter of black’, has died aged 102
By Diane Theunissen Published
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Brave new world: Aldous Huxley meets maniacal gnomes at Djordje Ozbolt’s latest show
By Natalie Rigg Last updated
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The artists connecting with the writings of Virginia Woolf
By Charlotte Jansen Last updated
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Vienna’s art scene gathers pace, from auctions to Wes Anderson’s curatorial debut
By Jessica Klingelfuss Last updated
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Inner reflections: new works by Lita Albuquerque invoke introspection in LA
By Charlotte Jansen Last updated
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’Lines of Sight’: Carmen Herrera’s minimal abstraction takes over the Whitney Museum of American Art
By Ann Binlot Last updated
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Face painting: artist Gina Beavers on the best make-up tutorials
With her upcoming New York exhibition on hold, Beavers shares the make-up tutorials that inspire her bizarrely lush paintings
By Osman Can Yerebakan Last updated
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’Madrepora’: Cecily Brown’s painting Elysium at Thomas Dane Gallery
By Anna Brady Last updated
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Bjarne Melgaard is a real painters' painter at Saatchi Gallery
By Elly Parsons Last updated
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Artists tap into the creative source in the French Riviera
Fondation Carmignac presents an effervescent mix of contemporary art for a group exhibition guest-curated by Chiara Parisi
By Lanie Goodman Last updated
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What’s in a kiss? Artists explore the expression of love in a new show
By Charlotte Jansen Last updated
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‘I see portraiture as a means to impart a social commentary’
Self-taught Nigerian painter Eniwaye Oluwaseyi addresses #EndSARS in his debut show at ADA gallery in Accra
By Pei-Ru Keh Last updated
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Artist Karin Schaefer blends divine order and queer joy with hard-edged geometry
We explore the life, work and Massachusetts studio of American artist Karin Schaefer, ahead of her solo show ‘Continuum’ at Sears Peyton Gallery, New York
By Michael Reynolds Last updated
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Life in LA: Ariana Papademetropoulos explores sex, lies and the city
By Michael Slenske Last updated
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The repulsion and allure of Takesada Matsutani’s 3D paintings
Since the 1960s, the trailblazing Japanese artist has been developing his distinctive language of bulbous, surreal and sensuous forms. A show at Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong highlights the artist’s remarkable career and enduring appeal
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Hallucinogenic pop and erotic brushstrokes at London shows exploring the female gaze
By Charlotte Jansen Last updated
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Loribelle Spirovski explores the fine line between abstraction and photorealism
In her striking paintings, the emerging Australian artist riffs on formal portraiture, modernist furniture, surrealism, expressionist landscapes and more
By Charlotte Jansen Last updated
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Sam Gilliam’s musical musings on jazz, colour and Beyoncé
‘Existed Existing’ reflects the Colour Field master’s six-decade career in boundary-pushing chromatic exploration
By Pei-Ru Keh Last updated
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Markus Amm: painting’s modern alchemist reflects on perfecting pigments
By Ali Morris Last updated
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Mountain view: Gabriel Orozco presents a fresh body of work at the Aspen Art Museum
By Olivia Martin Last updated
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Wade Guyton gives painting a new edge in major Cologne museum survey
Renowned for his inkjet paintings, the American conceptual artist is the subject of a retrospective at Museum Ludwig charting two decades of his trailblazing practice
By Emily McDermott Last updated
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Yinka Shonibare steps into the curator’s seat with a sharp survey of African art
By Emma O'Kelly Last updated
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Sean Scully takes up residence in Picasso’s former studio at Château de Boisgeloup
The Irish artist’s gestural paintings and stacked sculptures preside over the 18th-century estate in Normandy
By Charlotte Jansen Last updated