UK Reviews

Two exhibitions of the artist’s ‘Black Paintings’ at Amanda Wilkinson, London, capture his terrors and fantasies lying side by side

Curator Sorcha Carey’s vision unites monolithic and reflective commissions – from a three-headed stone bird to bespoke ice cream – enlivening this British coastal setting

At Cabinet, London, the artist’s minimal installation recreates a blurry photograph of a bus stop 

At MASSIMODECARLO, London, the artist presents a series of unnerving paintings based on archival photographs of Francis Bacon

A group exhibition at London’s Courtauld Gallery brings together the sensual works of three artists

At Modern Art, London, the artist abstracts scenes from nature to create ambiguous paintings

At London’s National Portrait Gallery, a retrospective spanning decades reveals a profound exploration of the body and an ongoing dialogue with western art history

At The Perimeter, London, the artist explores how women have been mistreated in both domestic and clinical settings

At Cooke Latham Gallery, London, the artist’s works bring together the aesthetic principles of different ancient civilizations

At the Barbican Art Gallery, London, a dual presentation shows two artists confronting the traumas of their times

At Champ Lacombe, London, a series of poems printed on chiffon lingers in the joy and violence of contemporary life

At Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, the artist presents the beauty of myth as a way to address sorrow and shame

At Auto Italia, London, the artist’s work interrogates Iran’s recent political history 

At Primary, Nottingham, the artist’s sculptures challenge the ways bodies are scrutinized at nation-state borders

At IKON Gallery, Birmingham, the artist asks what home means when it is intertwined with trepidation and hostility

In a retrospective at Serpentine North Gallery, London, political violence lurks behind the artist’s eclectic paintings

At Perrotin, London, the artist presents an image of hope in the face of trauma

At a. SQUIRE, London, the artist’s erotic works are a hymn to the beauty of men

At South Parade, London, the artist’s sculptures evoke states of fragility whilst addressing personal and societal trauma

At Leeds Art Gallery, the artist obliquely references his own diasporic family history whilst resisting the exploitation of identity