June 16, 2023–June 23, 2024
London NW3 6DG
United Kingdom
Camden Art Centre is delighted to announce its forthcoming exhibitions programme from June 2023 to June 2024.
Martin Wong: Malicious Mischief
June 16–September 17, 2023
This major survey exhibition of work by celebrated Chinese-American artist Martin Wong (b. 1946 Portland–d. 1999, San Francisco) spans the breadth of his practice including painting, drawing and sculpture, and is the first solo exhibition of his work in a UK institution. Wong’s practice merges diverse visual languages, including Chinese iconography, portraiture, urban poetry, graffiti and sign language. Recognised for his depictions of social, sexual and political scenographies in the United States from the 1970s to 1990s, Wong was influenced by his immediate surroundings and poetically wove together narratives of queer existence, marginal communities, and urban gentrification.
Initiated by KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, this exhibition is curated by Krist Gruijthuijsen and Agustín Pérez-Rubio, and produced in collaboration with Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo and Stedelijk Museum.
Tamara Henderson
October 6–December 31, 2023
Tamara Henderson’s (b. 1982, New Brunswick, Canada) major new commission comprises sculpture, installation, painting, live performance and film. Focused on the close observation of microbiology in compost soil, and the processes of decomposition, the project has evolved into four distinct characters who structure the entire exhibition: The Gardener; The Director; Sound; and Light. Henderson’s virtuosic ability to work with new and unconventional materials in tandem with more traditional processes of ceramic, glass, wood and metalwork, gives rise to a distinctive artistic language that casts archetypal characters in an animistic worldview, exploring how we are implicated in wider cosmologies that relate us to the planet and to the universe.
Marina Xenofontos
October 6–December 31, 2023
Marina Xenofontos (b. 1988, Limassol, Cyprus) is the 2022 recipient of Camden Art Centre’s Emerging Artist Prize at Frieze and will present an ambitious new commission for her first institutional solo exhibition in the UK. Encompassing kinetic sculptures, light installations, digital and analogue avatars, writing and film, her practice proposes methods for recovering the fantastical and imaginary aspects of culture, which may be obscured by history and ideology.
New Contemporaries
January 19–March 31, 2024
New Contemporaries returns to Camden Art Centre in 2023 after more than 20 years. The widely anticipated annual exhibition of early career artists was selected this year by internationally renowned artists Helen Cammock, Sunil Gupta and Heather Phillipson. Established in 1949, New Contemporaries gives visibility and recognition to the incredible breadth and depth of emerging talent in the UK. It has launched the careers of many notable artists including Paula Rego, David Hockney, Chris Ofili, Damien Hirst, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Laure Prouvost.
Matthew Krishanu
April 12–June 23, 2024
Matthew Krishanu’s (b. 1980, Bradford, UK) major exhibition will include both paintings and works on paper. The artist’s atmospheric, pared-back compositions depict scenes from his life, including his childhood years in Bangladesh growing up with his brother and their parents who were Christian missionaries. Seemingly familiar narratives are alluded to but destabilised, and the viewer’s own projections are called upon to fulfil the interpretive loop, raising questions about childhood, religion, race, power and the legacies of empire.
Working in series, one painting segues into the next as a natural telling of the artist’s own journey through the joys and sorrows of life, with deeply personal subject matter that speaks to the human condition in all its complexity.
Andrew Omoding
April 12–June 23, 2024
Andrew Omoding (b. 1987, Uganda) was Artist-in-Residence at Camden Art Centre in 2019. Following the success of his open studio he is returning to Gallery 3 for his first major solo exhibition in London. Working site-responsively, his largely autobiographical works emerge intuitively—reclaiming abandoned materials from his immediate surroundings, Omoding layers, weaves, threads, binds and wraps them into vibrant assemblages of contrasting colour, texture and form.
