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Hurvin Anderson
26 March 2026 — 23 August 2026
On NowHurvin Anderson's first major museum retrospective brings together 80+ vibrant paintings exploring diaspora, memory and belonging — moving between the UK and Caribbean through colour-drenched landscapes, interiors and intimate family scenes.
From Tate Britain
Hurvin Anderson’s first major solo show brings together more than 80 of his vibrant paintings, spanning the artist’s entire career, from his days as a student to new, never-before-seen paintings. Through colour-drenched landscapes and interiors, Anderson meanders back and forth across the Atlantic, between the UK and the Caribbean. The youngest of eight children, he was the first to be born in the UK after his family left Jamaica for Birmingham in the 1960s. As a result,...
Read more at Tate Britain →Critic Reviews (6)
Evening Standard
India Block
Hurvin Anderson at Tate Britain: The beautiful is political
"Normally, an exhibition that requires watching a poetry-heavy documentary in a dark room before the main event would feel like so much homework. Here, it's like being handed the key to break a code and see the world in all its discomforting complexity."
Read full review →TimeOut
Annabel Downes
Hurvin Anderson
"The paintings do something similar for the viewer as they do for Anderson: they hold you between places"
Read full review →The Telegraph
Alastair Sooke
Nostalgic visions from a modern-day Constable
"In Anderson's work, the natural world is almost ominously abundant. Greenery seems to suffocate man-made structures, which often appear dilapidated – like ruined temples in a jungle. The sense of melancholy this generates is offset by the pleasure that Anderson evidently derives from manipulating paint. His compositions – some of which flirt, ingeniously, with abstraction – are awash with attractive blotches and drips."
Read full review →The Guardian
Eddy Frankel
This haunted, hazy, beautiful show is like stumbling through someone's memories
"The paintings are haunted by slavery, colonialism and clashing identities because he's haunted by those things, because the Caribbean is haunted by them, and so is Britain. But, crucially, it's also absolutely beautiful painting. Anderson combines geometric, modernist blockiness with washes of dripping, gestural colour, and smashes free-hand figuration into minimalist grids."
Read full review →The Independent
Mark Hudson
Hurvin Anderson at Tate: a standard-bearer in British painting
"If I was to say that Anderson is our best hope for a standard-bearer for the great British tradition of figurative painting represented by 20th century greats such as Bacon, Freud, Auerbach and co, that might make him sound conservative. Very far from it. The linking factor is a commitment to developing his craft, painting, that is quite humbling."
Read full review →The Times
Laura Freeman
these barbershop paintings are unmissable
"The Barbershop paintings are the best of this uneven Anderson retrospective at Tate Britain. And they are wonderful. In colour (those pinks, greys and blues) and almost classical discipline (very still, very frontal), they seem to owe something to Giotto, if Giotto had gone in for painting black barbershops in the Midlands."
Read full review →About the Artist
Visit
Millbank, London·View on artmap
Sunday10am–6pm
Monday10am–6pm
Tuesday10am–6pm
Wednesday10am–6pm
Thursday10am–6pm
Friday10am–6pm
Saturday10am–6pm
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© Tate Britain
Hurvin Anderson
26 March 2026 — 23 August 2026
On NowHurvin Anderson's first major museum retrospective brings together 80+ vibrant paintings exploring diaspora, memory and belonging — moving between the UK and Caribbean through colour-drenched landscapes, interiors and intimate family scenes.
From Tate Britain
Hurvin Anderson’s first major solo show brings together more than 80 of his vibrant paintings, spanning the artist’s entire career, from his days as a student to new, never-before-seen paintings. Through colour-drenched landscapes and interiors, Anderson meanders back and forth across the Atlantic, between the UK and the Caribbean. The youngest of eight children, he was the first to be born in the UK after his family left Jamaica for Birmingham in the 1960s. As a result,...
Read more at Tate Britain →Critic Reviews (6)
Evening Standard
India Block
Hurvin Anderson at Tate Britain: The beautiful is political
"Normally, an exhibition that requires watching a poetry-heavy documentary in a dark room before the main event would feel like so much homework. Here, it's like being handed the key to break a code and see the world in all its discomforting complexity."
Read full review →TimeOut
Annabel Downes
Hurvin Anderson
"The paintings do something similar for the viewer as they do for Anderson: they hold you between places"
Read full review →The Telegraph
Alastair Sooke
Nostalgic visions from a modern-day Constable
"In Anderson's work, the natural world is almost ominously abundant. Greenery seems to suffocate man-made structures, which often appear dilapidated – like ruined temples in a jungle. The sense of melancholy this generates is offset by the pleasure that Anderson evidently derives from manipulating paint. His compositions – some of which flirt, ingeniously, with abstraction – are awash with attractive blotches and drips."
Read full review →The Guardian
Eddy Frankel
This haunted, hazy, beautiful show is like stumbling through someone's memories
"The paintings are haunted by slavery, colonialism and clashing identities because he's haunted by those things, because the Caribbean is haunted by them, and so is Britain. But, crucially, it's also absolutely beautiful painting. Anderson combines geometric, modernist blockiness with washes of dripping, gestural colour, and smashes free-hand figuration into minimalist grids."
Read full review →The Independent
Mark Hudson
Hurvin Anderson at Tate: a standard-bearer in British painting
"If I was to say that Anderson is our best hope for a standard-bearer for the great British tradition of figurative painting represented by 20th century greats such as Bacon, Freud, Auerbach and co, that might make him sound conservative. Very far from it. The linking factor is a commitment to developing his craft, painting, that is quite humbling."
Read full review →The Times
Laura Freeman
these barbershop paintings are unmissable
"The Barbershop paintings are the best of this uneven Anderson retrospective at Tate Britain. And they are wonderful. In colour (those pinks, greys and blues) and almost classical discipline (very still, very frontal), they seem to owe something to Giotto, if Giotto had gone in for painting black barbershops in the Midlands."
Read full review →About the Artist
Visit
Millbank, London·View on artmap
Sunday10am–6pm
Monday10am–6pm
Tuesday10am–6pm
Wednesday10am–6pm
Thursday10am–6pm
Friday10am–6pm
Saturday10am–6pm