Past Exhibitions
From its early beginnings in the 1860s, the South London Gallery has emerged as a leading gallery showcasing the best in international contemporary art.
More information about past exhibitions will be available soon but in the meantime contact mail@southlondongallery.org for information about previous displays.
2024
Motunrayo Akinola: Knees Kiss Ground
8 March – 9 June 2024
Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest
8 March – 9 June 2024
2023
Pope.L: Hospital
21 November – 11 February 2023
LAGOS, PECKHAM, REPEAT: Pilgrimage to the Lakes
5 July – 29 October 2023
Peckham 24: Marvel Harris, Fion Hung Ching Hang
12 May – 11 June 2023
Michelle Williams Gamaker: Our Mountains are painted on Glass
31 March – 18 June 2023
John Costi: Found Football Difficult
31 March – 18 June 2023
2022
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2022
9 December 2022 – 12 March 2023
Rene Matic: Upon this rock
23 September – 27 November 2022
Simeon Barclay: In the Name of the Father
23 September – 27 November 2022
School SOS_22 Exhibition
27 Aug – 18 September 2022
The Show is Over
24 June – 4 September 2022
Aishwarya Arumbakkam – Ka Dingiei
12 May – 5 June 2022
SLG130 Portfolio
Until 8 May 2022
Alice Theobald: Il y aura (There will be)
9 March – 5 June 2022
Shamica Ruddock: Deciphering a broken syntax
8 April – 12 June 2022
Celine Condorelli, with Ben Rivers and Jay Bernard: After Work
4 March – 5 June 2022
We are a group of excellent women
4 – 25 March 2022
2021
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021
10 December 2021 – 20 February 2022
SLG Hosts: School SOS Exhibition
13 November – 28 November 2021
Shut the club down
1 October 2021 – 5 June 2022
Alvaro Barrington: Spider the Pig, Pig the Spider
1 October – 21 November 2021
Rita Keegan: Somewhere between there and here
17 September – 28 November 2021
MA Fine Art Graduate Showcase
11 – 18 September 2021
I’m yours and you’re mine, stay curious – The house of do your own thing
4 – 5 September 2021
Sarah Staton: Supastore, Southside, Slingbacks and Sunshine
9 July – 5 September 2021
Ufuoma Essie: From Where We Land
23 June – 5 September 2021
Christina Quarles: In Likeness
18 June – 29 August 2021
Independence to Now
19 May- 26 September 2021
Art Assassins: An Archive by Other Means
19 May – 3o June 2021
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2020
19 May – 3 June 2021
Virtual Exhibition: Chris Burden at the South London Gallery
10 May – 27 June 2021
2020
Anna Veronica Janssens: Hot Pink Turquoise
23 September 2020 – 3 January 2021
Sophie Cundale: The Near Room
6 March – 13 September 2020
Abbas Zahedi: How To Make A How From A Why?
6 March – 13 September 2020
Working Progress
1 March – 13 September 2020
The Rita Keegan Archive (Project)
25 Feb 2020 – 3 January 2021
SLG Hosts: Hospital Rooms
6 – 23 Feb 2020
Recreative: What’s not being said
23 – 29 Jan 2020
2019
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2019
6 December 2019 – 23 February 2020
Who Cares: Stories of Looking After Children in Southwark
30 November 2019 – 19 January 2020
Her Noise Archive
19 November 2019 – 23 February 2020
Danh Vo: Untitled
19 September – 24 November 2019
Narration Group: Curriculum
20 August – 17 Nov 2019
Keg De Souza: Convivial City
16 August – 21 September 2019
SLG Hosts: School of Speculation
10 – 18 August 2019
Supersmashers: Mixing hands Mixing feet (joints chasing sewing inflating)
15 – 21 July 2019
Susan Cianciolo: GOD LIFE: MODERN HOUSE ON LAND OUTSIDE GAME TABLE
21 June – 1 September
Liz Johnson Artur: If you know the beginning, the end is no trouble
14 June – 1 September 2019
Local history weekend displays
31 May – 9 June 2019
Back to The Bookplace
14 May – 18 Aug 2019
Haegue Yang: Tracing Movement
8 March – 26 May 2019
Laurie Robins: ‘FREE TRADE OR ELSE’*
8 March – 26 May 2019
South London Story Lab with the Big Family Press
8 March – 12 May 2019
The Archive is Political
8 March – 12 May 2019
The Source: Works from the South London Gallery Collection
8 March – 26 May 2019
2018
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018
5 December 2018 – 24 February 2019
KNOCK KNOCK: Humour in Contemporary Art
22 September – 18 November 2018
Rory Pilgrim: The Resounding Bell
22 September – 18 November 2018
For Some Future Time
7 – 9 September 2018
Luiz Zerbini: Intuitive Ratio
8 June – 19 August 2018
free.yard: PRAISE N PAY IT/ PULL UP, COME INTO THE RISE
23 March – 27 May 2018
Magali Reus: As mist, description
23 March – 27 May 2018
Big Family Press with OOMK
28 February – 11 March 2018
Adam Linder: Service No.5: Dare to Keep Kids Off Naturalism
28 February – 11 March 2018
2017
Ilona Sagar: Correspondence O
13 December 2017 – 25 February, First Floor Galleries
Michael Armitage: The Chapel
13 December 2017 – 25 February, First Floor Galleries
Katharina Grosse: This drove my mother up the wall
28 Sep 2017 – 3 Dec 2017, Main Gallery
The Place is Here
23 Jun – 10 Sep 2017, Main & First Floor Galleries
Schools’ Exhibition: Jack Petchey Start Programme
12 – 14 Jul 2017, Clore Studio
Alicia Reyes McNamara: Nowhere Else
7 Apr – Jun 2017, First Floor Galleries
Erik van Lieshout: Three Social Works
7 Apr – 11 Jun 2017, Main Gallery
Amie Siegel: Strata
20 Jan – 26 Mar 2017, Main & First Floor Galleries
2016
Gabriel Orozco Designed Garden
1 Oct 2016 – 8 Jan 2017, First Floor Galleries
Roman Ondak: The Source of Art is in the Life of a People
29 Sep 2016 – 8 Jan 2017, Main Gallery
Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today
10 Jun – 11 Sep 2016, SLG Galleries & Fire Station
Sally Golding: Your Double My Double Our Ghost
25 – 29 May 2016, First Floor Galleries
In Fine Style: The Dancehall Art of Wilfred Limonious
24 Mar – 3 Apr 2016, Clore Studio
Michael Dean: Sic Glyphs
18 Mar – 22 May 2016, Main Gallery
Paul Maheke: I Lost Track of the Swarm
18 Mar – 22 May 2016
Sarah Hughes: One Dozen and Zero Units
1 Mar – 6 Mar 2016, First Floor Galleries
2015
Heman Chong
11 Dec – 28 Feb, Main & First Floor Galleries
Thea Djordjadze
2 Oct – 29 Nov, Main Gallery
Heather and Ivan Morison
2 Oct – 29 Nov, First Floor Galleries
Thomas Hirschhorn
26 Jun – 13 Sep, Main Gallery
Ane Hjort Guttu
26 Jun – 20 Sep, First Floor Galleries
Dorine van Meel
15 Apr – 14 Jun, First Floor Galleries
Kapwani Kiwanga
15 Apr – 7 Jun, Main Gallery
Isabelle Cornaro
24 Jan – 5 Apr, Main & First Floor Galleries
2014
Invisible Hours
27 Nov 2014 – 18 Jan 2015
Tomorrow: London
27 Nov – 12 Dec 2014, Main Gallery
Lawrence Weiner
26 Sep – 23 Nov 2014, Main & First Floor Galleries, Fox Garden & Off-site Commission
Last Seen Entering the Biltmore
26 Jun – 14 Sep 2014, Main Gallery
Julia Crabtree and William Evans
7 Jun – 14 Sep 2014, First Floor Galleries
Welcome to Iraq
15 Mar – 1 Jun 2014, Main & First Floor Galleries
2013
Charles Atlas: Glacier
25 Jan – 30 Mar 2013
Eoghan Ryan: Oh wicked flesh!
5 Mar – 16 Jun 2013, First Floor Galleries
Pae White: Too much night, again
13 Mar – 12 May 2013, Main Gallery
At the moment of being heard
28 Jun – 8 Sep 2013, South London Gallery & local venues
Oscar Murillo
20 Sep – 1 Dec 2013, Main & First Floor Galleries
Richard Fleischner
11 Dec 2013 – 2 Mar 2014, First Floor Galleries
Uri Aran
11 Dec 2013 – 23 Feb 2014, Main Gallery
2012
Edward Thomasson: Inside
2 Mar – 13 May 2012
Alice Channer: Out of Body
2 Mar – 13 May 2012
Jean-Pascal Flavien: Cinonema, No Drama Cinema
9 – 12 May 2012
Febrik: Play, I Follow You
17 May – 22 Jul 2012
Stephen Willats: Surfing with the Attractor
1 Jun – 15 Jul 2012
Pursuit of Perfection: The Politics of Sport
27 Jul – 14 Sep 2012
Drip, Drape, Draft
28 Sep – 25 Nov 2012
Rashid Johnson: Shelter
28 Sep – 25 Nov 2012
Sanja Ivekovic: Unknown Heroine
14 Dec – 24 Feb 2012
Toxic Play In Two Acts: Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz
14 Dec – 24 Feb 2012
2011
Rachel Gomme & John Levack Drever: Audience: Hearing
10 – 13 Feb 2011
Immature
17 – 20 Mar 2011
Charles Atlas, Mika Tajima and New Humans: The Pedestrians
1 – 21 Apr 2011
Simon & Tom Bloor: Happy Habitat Revisited
7 May – 19 Jun 2011
George Shaw: The Sly and Unseen Day
25 May – 3 Jul 2011
Paul Etienne Lincoln: An Aurelian Labyrinth and other Explications
30 Jun – 18 Sep 2011
Tue Greenfort: Where the People Will Go
15 Jul – 11 Sep 2011
Independent Curators International Presents Fax and Project 35
21 Sep – 27 Nov 2011
Gabriel Kuri: before contingency after the fact
29 Sep – 27 Nov 2011
Dara Birnbaum
9 Dec 2011 – 17 Feb 2012
2010
Michael Landy: Art Bin
29 Jan – 14 Mar 2010
Nothing is Forever
25 Jun – 19 Sep 2010
Michał Budny: Author
1 Oct – 28 Nov 2010
Tatiana Trouvé
1 Oct – 28 Nov 2010
Massimo Bartolini: Cor
3 Nov 2010– 23 Jan 2011
Manon de Boer: Framed in an Open Window
3 Dec 2010 – 23 Jan 2011
2009
Superflex: Flooded McDonald’s
16 Jan – 1 Mar 2009
Ellen Gallagher: An Experiment of Unusual Opportunity – Everyone’s Got a Little Light Under the Door
18 Mar – 3 May 2009
Focus on Forsythe: Additive Inverse
8 – 10 May 2009
Marie Cool Fabio Balducci: Untitled 2006-2009
15 May – 18 Jun 2009
Beyond These Walls
24 Jul – 20 Sep 2009
Omer Fast: Nostalgia
7 Oct to 6 Dec 2009
2008
Alfredo Jaar: Politics of the Image
16 Feb – 6 Apr 2008
Ryan Gander: Heralded as the New Black
24 Apr – 22 Jun 2008
Games & Theory
11 Jul – 7 Sep 2008
Rivane Neuenschwander: Suspension Point
3 Oct – 30 Nov 2008
2007
John Armleder: About Nothing. Works On Paper 1962 – 2007
2 Feb – 15 Apr 2007
Stay Forever and Ever and Ever
2 May – 24 Jun 2007
The Weasel: Pop Music and Contemporary Art
14 – 29 Jul 2007
Isa Suarez: The Human Rights Jukebox
31 Jul – 12 Aug 2007
Eva Rothschild
13 Aug – 4 Nov 2007
Thomas Zipp: Planet Caravan. Is There Life After Death? a Futuristic World Fair
16 Nov – 13 Jan 2007
2006
Daniel Roth: The Well
1 Feb – 12 Mar 2006
Nigel Cooke: A Portrait of Everything
30 Mar – 14 May 2006
Around the World in Eighty Days
24 May – 16 Jul 2006
Sixty Seven: Artists’ Projects
24 Jun – 2 Jul 2006
Harold Offeh: The Mothership Collective
1 – 27 Aug 2006
Chris Burden: 14 Magnolia Double Lamps
15 Sep – 5 Nov 2006
Chris Burden: The Flying Steamroller
2 – 15 Oct 2006
Melik Ohanian: Seven Minutes Before
16 Nov 2006 – 14 Jan 2007
2005
Depth of Field: Images of Lagos and London
10 Mar – 8 May 2005
Saskia Olde Wolbers
18 May – 17 Jul 2005
Mark Dion: Microcosmographia
9 Sep – 30 Oct 2005
2004
On Kawara: Reading One Million Years (Trafalgar Square)
29 Mar – 5 Apr 2004
Tom Friedman: Solo Exhibition
15 Jun – 1 Aug 2004
Perfectly Placed
6 – 29 Aug 2004
Steve McQueen
17 Sep – 7 Nov 2004
Franko B: Still Life
12-Nov 2004
Showcase Preview
19 Nov – 19 Dec 2004
2003
Independence
3 Jun – 3 Aug 2003
2002
Keith Tyson SuperCollider
16 Jan – 17 Mar 2002
Christian Boltanski: Les Abonnes du Telephone
27 Mar – 5 May 2002
Joelle Tuerlinckx: In Real Time: Space Parts, Solar Room, Night Cabin
21 May – 7 Jul 2002
20 Million Mexicans Can’t be Wrong
18 Sep – 3 Nov 2002
2001
Barbara Kruger: Power Pleasure Desire Disgust
2 Feb – 18 Mar 2001
Bill Woodrow: The Beekeeper
5 Apr – 13 May 2001
Ross Sinclair: Fortress Real Life (Peckham)
1 Jun – 8 Jul 2001
Urban Nomads
2 Aug – 2 Sep 2001
Walter Crane Floor and Exhibition
11 Sep – 7 Oct 2001
Nils Norman: Geocruiser
22 – 25 Sep 2001
2000
Ann-Sofi Siden: Who is invading my privacy, not so quietly and not so friendly
14 Jan – 5 Mar 2000
Thomas Kilpper: The Ring [SLG Project The Ring Thomas Kilpper at Orbit House, Blackfriars]
11 – 26 Mar 2000
Because a Fire Was in my Head [Craig Bell, Guillame Bijl, John Carson, Chad McCail, Yael Robin, Erasmus Shroter, Mary Evans, Keiko Sato, Suzana Stankovic, Bridget Smith, Patrick Maunsell, Willem Oorebeek, Joshua Sofaer, Mike Kelley. Curated by Jeremy Akerman and Zorica Vasic]
5 Apr – 21 May 2000
Route 12:36 / Open 2000
20 Jun – 1 Jul 2000
Karen Kilimnik: Solo Exhibition
9 – 13 Jul 2000
Domestic Bliss
4 Aug – 10 Sep 2000
Isaac Julien & Javier de Frutos: Cinerama
22 Sep – 22 Oct 2000
Leon Golub: Solo Exhibition
3 Nov – 17 Dec 2000
1999
Julian Schnabel
12 Jan – 28 Feb 1999
The Elders: Brother Everald Brown & Stanley Greaves
10 Mar – 11 Apr 1999
Route 12:36
29 Mar – 4 Apr 1999
Drive By: New Art from LA (Kevin Appel, Jeff Burton, Liz Craft, Jason Meadows, Catherine Opie)
20 Apr – 30 May 1999
Sean Scully: New Paintings
16 Jun – 1 Aug 1999
Non Place Urban Realm
9 – 21 Aug 1999
Mimmo Paladino
8 Sep – 17 Oct 1999
Roundhouse: Brian Eno / Mimmo Paladino
9 Sep – 29 Oct 1999
Vanished! A Video Séance (Brian Catling / Tony Grisoni)
25 – 31 Oct 1999
Live Art: Intimate House – Marcia Farquhar: Acts of Clothing
01-Nov 1999
Live Art: Intimate House – Francesca Vilalta Olle: Penetralia
02-Nov 1999
Intimate House: Stuart Brisley (Ydoold Yadnus, with Edie Freeman & To give the voice a voice no. 2) 05-Nov 1999
New Contemporaries 99
20 Nov – 22 Dec 1999
1998
Marc Quinn
28 Jan – 8 Mar 1998
Parallel Universe (artists included: Ansuman Biswas, Paul Wong and Liliane Karnouk)
13 – 22 Mar 1998
Lovecraft (Russell Crotty, Jeremy Deller, Vincent Fecteau, Tom Friedman, Matthew Higgs, Hope, Jim Isermann, George Ives, Gareth Jones, Udomsak Krisanamis, Hilary Lloyd, Jeff Luke, Corey McCorkle, Lily van der Stokker, Cathy Wilkes. Curated by Martin McGeown & Toby Webster)
3 Apr – 10 May 1998
Jorge Molder (Curated by Susan Copping)
16 May – 21 Jun 1998
Stephen Willats: Changing Everything
1 Jul – 2 Aug 1998
Sound Factory (Curated by Nicola Hood & Hatice Abdullah)
10 – 21 Aug 1998
Gavin Turk: The Stuff Show
10 Sep – 18 Oct 1998
Site Construction (Heike Baranowsky, Monica Bonvicini, Thomas Demand, Jonathan Meese, Manfred Pernice)
11 Nov – 20 Dec 1998
1997
Twin Gabriel: Floating – Floccinaucinihilipilification
4 Dec 1997 – 18 Jan 1998
1996
Desert (Hannah Collins, Knut Maron, Sophie Ristelhueber, Michael Rovner, Thomas Ruff, Frederick Sommer, Bill Viola, Verdi Yahooda. Curated by Jim Harold)
12 Apr – 19 May 1996
Stuart Brisley: Black
29 May – 7 Jul 1996
Inside Bankside (Dennis Creffield, Anthony Eyton, Deanna Petherbridge, Terry Smith, Thomas Struth, Catherine Yass)
17 Jul – 25 Aug 1996
Sherrie Levine: New Photography
10 Sep – 20 Oct 1996
Popoccultural (Simon Bill, Ellen Cantor, John Cussans & Ranu Mukherjee, Jeremy Deller, Cosey Fanni Tutti & Chris Carter, Jason Fox, Dan Graham, Paul McCarthy, Paul Noble, Chris Ofili, Simon Periton, Jeffrey Vallance. Curated by Cabinet Gallery)
30 Oct – 27 Nov 1996
1995
Bad Brains: John Dutton & Peter Snadden
27 Jan – 26 Feb 1995
Zarina Bhimji
8 Mar – 2 Apr 1995
Minky Manky (Sarah Lucas, Tracey Emin, Gary Hume, Damien Hirst, Matt Collishaw, Critial Decor, Stephen Pippin, Gilbert and George. Curated by Carl Freedman)
12 Apr – 14 May 1995
Ettore Spalletti
24 May – 2 Jun 1995
Karaoke: 4 for 4 and 2 to 2 too (Biefer & Zgraggen, Urs Fischer, Franz Wanner, David Allen, Roddy Buchanan, Jacqueline Donachie, Douglas Gordon, (e.) Twin Gabriel, Liebscher – Lehanka, Max Mohr, Angela Bulloch, Mat Collishaw, Abigail Lane, Georgina Starr. Curated by Georg Herold).
11 Jul – 20 Aug 1995
Gilbert & George: The Naked Shit Pictures (+ The Naked Shit Model)
5 Sep – 15 Oct 1995
Southwark & Its People: Black History Month (Mayor’s Reception, Friday 27 Oct 1995)
23 – 29 Oct 1995
Southwark Open: South London Gallery and Winne Mandela House
20 Nov – 17 Dec 1995
1994
Vivan Sundaram: Map, Monument, Fallen Mortal
14 Jan – 20 Feb 1994
Eva Lootz: A Farewell to Isaac Newton
9 Mar – 17 Apr 1994
Distant Voices: Contemporary Art from the Czech Republic (Milena Dopitova, Petr Nikl, Vaclaw Stratil, Ivan Kafka)
28 Apr – 20 May 1994
Nicholas May: Recent Paintings
25 May – 26 Jun 1994
True Colours: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists Raise the Flag (Richard Bell, H.J. Wedge, Lin Onus, Destiny Deacon, Andrew Brook
6 Jul – 7 Aug 1994
Rose Garrard: Arena for Conversation
17 Aug – 18 Sep 1994
Shaheen Merali: Channels, Echoes and Empty Chairs
28 Sep – 30 Oct 1994
Michael Petry: The Garden of Enlightenment (a video installation by Michael Petry, starring Michael Cashman, 28 Sep – 29 Oct 1994)
28 Sep – 30 Oct 1994
Shelagh Wakely: Rainsquare
28 Sep – 30 Oct 1994
Rasheed Araeen
11 Nov – 18 Dec 1994
1993
Golden Crescent
12 Jan – 28 Feb 1993
Sweet Home (Anya Gallaccio, Pat Kaufman, Cornelia Parker, Pat Thornton)
12 Feb – 11 Mar 1993
Refusing to Surface: Art and the Transfiguration of the Ordinary (Guillaume Bijl, Joan Brossa, Philippe Cazal, Tony Carter, Leo Copers, Thomas Grunfeld, Richard Hamilton, Yves Klein, Ange Leccia, Simon Linke, Caroline Russell, Haim Steinbach, Rosemarie Trockel, Peter Zimmerman
26 Mar – 30 Apr 1993
Permeations: Light in the Attic
14 May – 20 Jun 1993
New Installations: Andrea Fisher and Mona Hatoum
2 Jul – 8 Aug 1993
Steven Campbell: Pinocchio’s Present
17 Sep – 31 Oct 1993
Jagdish
12 Nov – 19 Dec 1993
1992
2nd Coming: Outstanding Contemporary Art from Ten Years of Major Exhibitions 1980-1990
29 Jan – 29 Mar 1992
10th Cleveland International Drawing Biennale
8 May – 19 Jun 1992
The Ateliers: Art from Southwark Studios
10 Jul – 7 Aug 1992
Crossing Black Waters (Asian Artists National Touring Exhibition)
18 Sep – 18 Oct 1992
Origin: Southwark and Lewisham Open Exhibition
13 Nov – 16 Dec 1992