Camden Art Centre is delighted to announce its forthcoming exhibitions programme from July 2024 to October 2025.
Lonnie Holley: All Rendered Truth
July 5–September 15, 2024
A major exhibition of new and recent work by acclaimed artist and musician Lonnie Holley (b. 1950, Birmingham, Alabama). Over more than four decades, Holley’s practice has drawn on the iconography and cultural refuse of Americana; the poverty and abuse he suffered growing up in a still deeply divided American South; and his subsequent immersion in the civil rights movement. The exhibition includes new works in sculpture and painting, made during a recent production residency in the UK. Supported by Edel Assanti, Henry Moore Foundation, and the Lonnie Holley Exhibition Circle.
Nicola L.: I Am The Last Woman Object
October 4–December 29, 2024
This major survey of work by Nicola L. (b. 1932, El Jadida, Morocco) will be the first time the full breadth of her practice has been explored in the UK and Europe. Recognised and celebrated in the context of Pop Art, Nouveau Realism, Feminism and design, this exhibition will explore the expansive themes of her work which ranged across cosmology, environmental concerns, sexuality, activism and political resistance. It will be accompanied by a new monographic publication. In collaboration with Frac Bretagne, Kunsthalle Wien, and Museion—Museum of modern and contemporary art, Bolzano/Bozen.
Jack O’Brien
October 4–December 29, 2024
Jack O’Brien (b.1993, London, UK), a London-based artist who works across sculpture, drawing, and painting, is the 2023 recipient of Camden Art Centre’s Emerging Artist Prize at Frieze. For his first institutional solo exhibition in the UK, he will present a major new sculptural commission, produced in response to the unique architecture of the galleries. O’Brien’s practice combines industrial, fashion-design and architectural techniques to consider the production of desire, histories of consumption, and the ruptures and infiltrations that ripple through public spaces. Supported by donors to the Camden Art Centre Emerging Artist Prize at Frieze.
Gregg Bordowitz
January 17–March 30, 2025
Gregg Bordowitz’s (b.1964, Brooklyn, US) art includes video, installation, performance, poetry, and prints—different modalities all organised around the artist’s central commitment to writing as an activity of thought. Words are gestures are images are letters in this ongoing transdisciplinary project, deeply shaped by his experience of being a long-time survivor of HIV for over thirty-six years. In collaboration with Bonner Kunstverein and supported by Kulturstiftung des Bundes.
Richard Wright
April 11–June 22, 2025
This will be the largest institutional solo exhibition in the UK for more than 20 years of the work of British artist and Turner Prize winner Richard Wright (b. 1960, London, UK). Known primarily for his site-specific and ephemeral wall-based paintings, the exhibition will also include new and rarely exhibited works on paper and in sculpture and glass. Wright’s work is an active and extended investigation into the material conditions of the physical world. Engaging with both the tangible and immaterial, he opens up spaces which shift and alter our perception, drawing on histories of painting, design, metaphysics, aesthetics, counter-culture and architecture.
Duane Linklater
July 4–September 21, 2025
Duane Linklater (b. 1976, Treaty 9 Territory/Moose Cree First Nation (Canada)) will present a new commission that continues his exploration of long-standing museum conventions and their relation to the material, visual, and cultural history and lived experience of Indigenous peoples. Working across sculpture, painting, and moving image, Linklater’s practice details and interrogates notions of hierarchical power, societal amnesia, loss and identity, and how they are articulated in an institutional context. The exhibition is a collaboration with New Curators and will be curated at Camden Art Centre by students on the 2024/25 programme.
Karimah Ashadu
October 3–December 28, 2025
Karimah Ashadu’s (b. 1985, London, UK) first institutional solo show in the UK will include a major new moving image commission, produced with Fondazione In Between Art Film, and presented within a site-specific installation. Ashadu’s practice employs an intimate and singular lens to examine notions of labour, formations and perceptions of the self, masculinity, and patriarchal systems within the economic, social, and cultural context of West Africa. The exhibition is the second in Fondazione In Between Art Film’s “Unison” series—a commissioning programme for moving image-based exhibitions in collaboration with international institutions. Commissioned by Camden Art Centre and Fondazione In Between Art Film.
*Images above: [1] Lonnie Holley, Chain Gang: Mt. Meigs, 2019. Padlock and eight steel forks. © Lonnie Holley. Courtesy the artist and Edel Assanti. [2] Nicola L., We Want to Breathe, 1975. Ink, cotton, wood. The Collection of Donald Porteous, acquired from Alison Jacques, London. Photo: Michael Brzezinski. [3] Jack O’Brien, Nectar. Installation view, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles, 2024. Photo: Paul Salveson. [4] Gregg Bordowitz, Some Styles of Masculinity. Performance view, New Museum, New York, 2018. Photo: Chloe Foussianes. [5] Richard Wright, Untitled, 2022. Leaded glass, metal frame. Installation view, The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and The Modern Institute/ Toby Webster Ltd., Glasgow. Photo: Keith Hunter. [6] Duane Linklater. Installation view, cache, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, 2024. Photo: Rachel Topham. [7] Karimah Ashadu, Cowboy, Film still, 2022. Courtesy of the artist.
