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ART FAIRS
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British Art Fair 2026
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Photo London 2026
13 - 17 May 2026PHOTO LONDON JAMES HYMAN GALLERY is delighted to return again to Photo London in its new location at National Hall, Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London W14 8UX. We are located on... -
Treasure House Fair 2026
24 - 30 June 2026We are delighted to be exhibiting at Treasure House art fair from 24-30 7 June 2026. We are stand 219. Treasure House Fair enters its fourth edition in 2026. Nestled... -
London Art Fair
21 - 25 January 2026JAMES HYMAN GALLERY is delighted to exhibit at London Art Fair, join us at the Business Design Centre, Islington 21-25 January, 2026. We are convieneiently located right at the front... -
LAPADA
Berkeley Square Fair 28 October - 2 November 2025We are delighted to be exhibiting at LAPADA Berkeley Square Fair from 28 October to 2 November 2025. Since its inception in 2009, the LAPADA Berkeley Square Fair has grown... -
Treasure House 2025
24 May - 1 July 2025We are delighted to be exhibiting at Treasure House art fair from 27 June to 1 July 2025. Treasure House Fair enters its third edition in 2025. Nestled within the... -
PHOTO LONDON 2025
15 - 18 May 2025We are delighted to return to the Photo London at Somerset House. We are located in the central marquee on Stand G01. ARTIST AND MODEL | ARTIST AS MODEL Important... -
BRITISH ART FAIR 2024
26 - 29 September 2024We are delighted to return to the British Art Fair at the Saatchi Gallery in the King’s Road. We are again on the first floor, STAND 40. -
BRITISH ART FAIR 2023
28 September - 1 October 2023We are delighted to return to the British Art Fair at the Saatchi Gallery in the King’s Road. We are again on the first floor, STAND 38. This year we... -
Photo London 2022
Three Special Presentations 11 - 15 May 2022This year our ambitious presentation is in three parts. The Countess of Castiglione. The Creation of a Legend. We are delighted to present the very first London exhibition of one... -
British Art Fair 2022
29 September - 2 October 2022Founded in 1988, British Art Fair is the only fair dedicated to Modern and contemporary British art. Each year, fifty leading dealers exhibit paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures covering all... -
Masterpiece 2022
Around Pop: British Pop Art and its Legacy 29 June - 6 July 2022We are pleased to present a specially curated exhibition which addresses British Pop Art and its Legacy. -
London Art Fair 2022
20 - 24 April 2022We are looking forward to exhibiting at the rescheduled London Art Fair in April. Our specially curated presentation will focus on important Modern British paintings and works on paper. We... -
Frieze Masters 2020
7 - 16 October 2020We are delighted to participate in Frieze Masters / Frieze Viewing Rooms , a new mobile app and web-based platform, that gives collectors the opportunity to explore and acquire art... -
Paris Photo 2021
10 - 14 November 2021James Hyman Photography is delighted to return to Paris Photo. This year, we have divided our booth into three main sections. Chronologically, the first, entitled The Great Wall is a...
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EXHIBITIONS
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ARTIST AND MODEL | ARTIST AS MODEL
6 - 18 May 2025ARTIST AND MODEL | ARTIST AS MODEL Important Photographs from Gustave Le Gray to Zanele Muholi This exhibition presents one of the central themes of photography from its earliest days... -
Celebrating 25 Years of James Hyman Gallery
27 October - 20 December 202427th October 2024 marks twenty five years since the founding of James Hyman Fine Art in 1999. To mark this anniversary we are staging a special online exhibition. Based in... -
Derrick Greaves. From Shangri La to the Walled Garden
A 95th Birthday Celebration 17 June - 26 August 2022From Shangri-La to the Walled Garden includes paintings, watercolours and collages made during the last 15 years. The climax is a group of large-scale paintings made over the last two... -
Telling Stories
Picture Post and its Legacy 29 March - 10 June 2022The exhibition presents some of the key photographers of Picture Post magazine as well as a curated selection of some later British photographers who built on this storytelling or documentary... -
The Challenge of Post War Painting
3 June - 4 September 2004Continuing our ongoing series of curated exhibitions devoted to the greatest British artists of the twentieth century, James Hyman Gallery are delighted to be holding a major exhibition addressing one... -
Lewis Chamberlain. Recent Paintings and Drawings
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William Turnbull. Heads and Figures. 1953-56
23 September - 12 November 2004PRESS RELEASE William Turnbull. Heads and Figures. 1953-56 23 September – 12 November 2004 'To develop one's own language you have to go back to the essentials, start with something... -
Bert Hardy. The Elephant and the Castle
Vintage Photographs of London Life in the 1940s 16 April - 29 May 2004Following recent exhibitions of paintings, drawings, sculpture and prints by Britain's leading artists of the twentieth century, James Hyman Gallery is pleased to present a very rare group of vintage... -
Peter de Francia. After the Bombing
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Edward Burra. Real and Surreal
28 April - 27 May 2005Several of the works will be exhibited for the first time and suggest not only Burra's range but also his international standing. One of the most individual of twentieth century... -
Michael Andrews Landscapes
6 June - 29 July 2005Many of these works have not previously been exhibited. Michael Andrews (1929 -95), who died ten years ago this July, was one of the greatest British painters of the twentieth... -
Fifty Years of British Landscape Painting
4 August - 23 September 2005Works by eight artists provide highly personal and distinctly different responses to the British landscape. The exhibition travels to all corners of the British Isles - north, east, south and... -
Robert Medley. A Centenary Tribute
3 November 2005 - 27 January 2006However, despite powerful supporters, in his lifetime Medley was diffident about fame and since his death a decade ago his work has tended to fall from view. This makes the... -
Pop Classical
Derrick Greaves Paintings from the 1970s 29 March - 28 April 2006'They all avoid the handmade look, the expressive brushstroke. They all compose with thickish painted lines, which both delineate forms and strike up a strong rhythmIn the too little known... -
Peter de Francia. Portraits
27 June - 28 July 2006One of the most important realist artists of the last half century, de Francia's portraits, mainly produced in the 1950s and 1960s, testify to the fertile intellectual and cultural milieu... -
Building Sites
Auerbach, Bevan, Chamberlain, Johnson 2 August - 15 September 2006Frank Auerbach's depiction of a London building site consists of mounds of paint that are an equivalent to the earth itself. The scaffolding provides a powerful structure but man and... -
Edward Middleditch. Water and Light
20 September - 3 November 2006In Edward Middleditch's Summer Landscape (1969) and its companion Garden Landscape (1969) a rhythmic row of trees stretches endlessly across the picture plane and a series of flowers expands before... -
Derrick Greaves. From Kitchen Sink to Shangri-La
1 - 22 June 2007Part I Derrick Greaves The Early Work 1945 -1965 Including major oil paintings, as well as drawings, from the artist's celebrated 'kitchen-sink' period. In addition to works loaned from Private... -
The Flower of Life
19 September - 27 October 2007In celebration of the opening of the new gallery, James Hyman is proud to present a specially curated exhibition of important artworks that explore the relationship between Art, Love and... -
Edward Middleditch. Sea and Sky
23 January - 1 March 2008One of the leading Modern British Artists of the last fifty years, Edward Middleditch first gained prominence in the mid 1950s as a `kitchen-sink' painter, along with John Bratby, Derrick... -
Alan Davie. The Shaman's Enigma
24 January - 1 March 2008One of the leading British Modern Artists, Alan Davie, now in his eighty-eighth year, initially gained his reputation as one of the most important European Abstract Expressionists, a counterpart to... -
Hughie O'Donoghue. The Geometry of Paths
7 March - 19 April 2008The painter Van Gogh on the road to Tarascon and a RAF Navigator on route to bomb the city of Cologne in 1944, these two seemingly unrelated and disparate events... -
Violence and Sensation. Francis Bacon and the Remaking of Appearance
5 September - 4 October 2008James Hyman says: As this exhibition demonstrates, Bacon's legacy was not stylistic so much as conceptual: an encouragement to take risks, an art of extremes, a heightened sense of mortality.Hyman... -
Francis Bacon. Prints
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Garry Fabian Miller. Time Passage
20 November 2008 - 24 January 2009The exhibition: Garry Fabian Miller. Time Passage presents for the first time since the 1970s, vintage prints of Fabian Miller's famous Sea Horizon series, including photographs never previously exhibited or... -
Lucian Freud. Works on Paper
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Bridget Riley. Selected Prints
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William Townsend Centenary
Selected Paintings from the Artist's Estate 20 February 2009 -
Museum Quality
The Colony Room Mural and Other Important Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 10 June - 22 August 2009In celebration we have made a selection of acknowledged masterpieces and little-known rarities from the Modern British inventory of James Hyman Fine Art. We will be exhibiting for the first... -
Tony Bevan. Construct
26 November - 22 December 2009From Bevan's earliest days, interiors have coexisted with portraits and figures, and his work has increasingly divided into interiors with corridors, rafters and studio furniture amd figures and portraits. The... -
Michael Andrews. Selected Watercolours and Drawings from the Artist's Estate
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Modernist Realism
The School of London from Andrews to O'Donoghue 25 February - 1 May 2010James Hyman Gallery is pleased to present Modernist Realism an exhibition that focuses on artists who have made London their base and are often associated with the School of London.... -
La Nouvelle Vague
Iconic New Wave Photographs by Raymond Cauchetier 14 July - 3 September 2010Staged on the 50th anniversary of Jean Luc Godard's A Bout de Souffle (1960),this exhibition presents photographs capturing the essence of the French Nouvelle Vague movement, many of which are... -
Colin Self. One Thousand Sketches
12 November - 18 December 2010One of Britain's greatest Pop artists, Colin Self is especially acclaimed for his drawings, as Richard Hamilton's praise makes clear: 'He's the best draughtsman in England since William Blake; he... -
Peter de Francia Paintings
A 90th Birthday Retrospective 6 January - 5 February 2011This is the first large-scale exhibition of de Francia's work since his solo show at Tate Britain in 2006; The Ship of Fools: Peter de Francia in Focus at Pallant... -
Ben Spiers. Seamless
10 February - 5 March 2011Ben Spiers's hyper-realist paintings are fictions based on combining a sophisticated array of Western and non-Western sources: a Japanese woodcut, Roman portrait bust or the pages of Vogue may all... -
From Talbot to Fox
150 Years of British Social Photography 16 - 20 March 2011In order to build on this earlier New York exhibition, James Hyman Photography's AIPAD exhibition From Talbot to Fox broadens the range of photographers shown in order to provide a... -
Beyond the Human Clay
5 May - 18 June 2011In 1976 the great figurative painter and polemicist R.B. Kitaj organized a group exhibition for the Arts Council of Great Britain entitled The Human Clay. To mark the 35th anniversary... -
Picasso. At Work and Play
24 June - 26 August 2011The exhibition explores Picasso's private and public worlds, from the intense concentration of the studio to the release offered by friends. A select presentation of works span the artist's whole... -
Dennis Creffield. Jerusalem
7 September - 9 October 2011In the extensively illustrated publication that accompanies the exhibition, James Hyman explains the origins of these pictures: 'In May 2007, I paid a visit to Dennis Creffield's studio in Brighton... -
Basil Beattie. Onward and Upward
Twenty Five Years of Work (1986-2011) 16 November 2011 - 21 January 2012Building from his early engagement with Abstract Expressionism, in recent decades Beattie has increasingly adopted a system of pictographic signs; doorways, stairways, archways, ziggurats, corners and long tunnels. Despite their... -
From Ivon Hitchens to the Kitchen-Sink. Re-examining the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1956)
26 January - 10 March 2012The British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of 1956 is today chiefly remembered for its presentation of the kitchen-sink painters - John Bratby, Derrick Greaves, Edward Middleditch and Jack Smith.... -
Peter de Francia. An Intimate View
15 March - 5 May 2012What unites many decades of drawing and painting is de Francia's fascination with people and the connections between them. This may often focus on power and its abuse, but de... -
From Sermons in Stones to Monsters of Modernity
9 - 26 May 2012The exhibition title references the religious significance of the portal programmes of Gothic cathedrals with their multiple biblical scenes as well as the gargoyles of Notre Dame that were the... -
A Tribute to Sir Colin St John Wilson
21 November - 1 December 2007James Hyman is proud to present a personal tribute to Sir Colin St John Wilson, one of Britain's greatest architects and art collectors of the last half-century. The exhibition follows... -
Derrick Greaves. All Blues
7 June - 5 July 2013Last summer we staged an exhibition of recent paintings entitled Derrick Greaves. Milestones that celebrated the artist's 85th birthday and we are delighted once more to be marking Derrick Greaves's... -
Country Matters
British Photographs by Bert Hardy, Roger Mayne, Tony Ray-Jones, Colin Jones, Chris Killip, Homer Sykes, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Martin Parr, Mark Power, Anna Fox, Ken Grant 11 September - 7 November 2013The exhibition explores constructions of Englishness, from eccentric to conformist, aristocrat to working class, northern and southern, black and white, old and young, work and leisure, rural and urban. Covering... -
Another Country
Vintage Photographs of British Life by Tony Ray-Jones 11 September - 7 November 2013Tony Ray-Jones had a short life. He died in 1972 aged just thirty. But the pictures that he left behind are some of the most powerful British photographs of the... -
Peter Doig. Painter as Printmaker
14 May - 15 June 2003In Peter Doig: painter as printmaker James Hyman Gallery presents over fifty prints by Peter Doig in a variety of media to reveal the consistency and extent of the artist's... -
The Male Gaze
Bill Brandt, Jacob Epstein, Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, Matthew Smith, Walter Sickert, Homer Sykes and Keith Vaughan 21 May - 7 July 2014The artists include: Bill Brandt, Jacob Epstein, Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, Matthew Smith, Walter Sickert, Homer Sykes, and Keith Vaughan. -
Andre Kertesz in Europe
13 May - 13 June 2015The exhibition - the first of its kind to focus on Kertesz's European work along - spans the photographer's whole career and features well-known images as well as several unknown... -
Alan Davie. Recent Paintings and Gouaches
22 October - 11 November 2003Now in his eighty-forth year, Davie continues to produce paintings of startling originality, vitality and daring. Combining imagery derived from different world cultures with a love of music and language,... -
The Human Abstract
Tony Bevan, Bill Brandt, Harry Callahan, Dennis Creffield, Derrick Greaves, Zhang Huan, Andre Kertesz, Henry Moore, Andy Warhol 10 February - 4 March 2016Building on this theme, a central aspect is inspired by Honore de Balzac's great short story, The Unknown Masterpiece (1831). Rather than seeing the story as a message about abstraction,... -
From Life. Radical figurative art from Sickert to Bevan
Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Tony Bevan, David Bomberg, William Coldstream, Leon Kossoff, Walter Sickert, Euan Uglow 10 September - 18 October 2003A spine runs through some of the most radical figurative art in Britain of the twentieth century. Its backbone is drawing and its fibre art school teaching, yet it is...
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