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Drawing & Works on Paper

“A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.” — Paul Klee

Explore 45 drawing & works on paper exhibitions on now and 22 coming soon globally.

Glenn Ligon. late at night, early in the morning, at noonEnding Soon

Glenn Ligon. late at night, early in the morning, at noon

Until Apr 11

Drawing & Works on Paper

New and historic works on paper meditating on blue, Baldwin, and perception

Theatre PicassoEnding Soon

Theatre Picasso

Until Apr 12

Drawing & Works on Paper

Wu Tsang stages 45+ Picasso works marking The Three Dancers centenary

"This exhibition is an egregious case of "have your cake and eat it". Tate is happy to use Picasso's name to pull in the punters. At the same time, it holds its nose, by implying he's beyond the pale. Is there a glimmer of positivity about any of the manifestly gorgeous and skilful artworks on display? If you find one, let me know."

— The Telegraph

The Bold and the Beautiful: 16th-Century Prints and Drawings from the Myron Miller CollectionEnding Soon

The Bold and the Beautiful: 16th-Century Prints and Drawings from the Myron Miller Collection

Until Apr 13

Drawing & Works on Paper

70 ambitious Renaissance prints and drawings from a major new collection gift

Merrill Wagner: Marking TimeEnding Soon

Merrill Wagner: Marking Time

Until Apr 18

Drawing & Works on Paper

Six decades of Wagner's process-based sculptures, paintings, and photographs

Louise Bourgeois. Gathering WoolEnding Soon

Louise Bourgeois. Gathering Wool

Until Apr 18

Drawing & Works on Paper

Rare late works exploring Bourgeois's abstract language and symbolic vocabulary

Qiu Xiaofei. The Theater of Wither and ThriveEnding Soon

Qiu Xiaofei. The Theater of Wither and Thrive

Until Apr 18

Drawing & Works on Paper

New paintings drawn from undiscovered family photographs found after father's death

Takesada Matsutani: Shifting BoundariesEnding Soon

Takesada Matsutani: Shifting Boundaries

Until Apr 18

Drawing & Works on Paper

Matsutani's first London show in a decade: 60 years of vinyl glue and graphite

Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle AgesEnding Soon

Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages

Until Apr 19

Drawing & Works on Paper

Medieval manuscripts and contemporary paintings on the story of Creation

Julia Phillips: Inside, Before They SpeakEnding Soon

Julia Phillips: Inside, Before They Speak

Until Apr 19

Drawing & Works on Paper

Phillips's first UK institutional solo: ceramic and metal sculptures on the body

Arshile Gorky. Horizon West

Arshile Gorky. Horizon West

Until Apr 25

Drawing & Works on Paper

Gorky landscapes from his 1941 road trip west, tracing his path to abstraction

Roy Lichtenstein: Painting with Scattered Brushstrokes

Roy Lichtenstein: Painting with Scattered Brushstrokes

Until Apr 25

Drawing & Works on Paper

Lichtenstein's brushstroke motif in paintings, sculpture, and works on paper

Nigel Hall: My Choice

Nigel Hall: My Choice

Until Apr 25

Drawing & Works on Paper

Hall's 13th solo at Annely Juda: five decades of geometric sculpture and drawing

Chuck Close: On Paper

Chuck Close: On Paper

Until Apr 25

Drawing & Works on Paper

Watercolors, Polaroids, and prints spanning five decades of Close's portraiture

Claes Oldenburg: Drawn from Life

Claes Oldenburg: Drawn from Life

Until Apr 27

Drawing & Works on Paper

Oldenburg's 1960s drawings — from street scenes to colossal monument proposals

Christina Quarles. The Ground Glows Black

Christina Quarles. The Ground Glows Black

Until May 3

Drawing & Works on Paper

New paintings responding to the LA wildfires: resilience and displacement

Bridget Riley: Learning to See

Bridget Riley: Learning to See

Until May 4

Drawing & Works on Paper

Six decades of Riley's Op Art surveyed against Margate's coastal light

Playing with Fire: Edmund de Waal and Axel Salto

Playing with Fire: Edmund de Waal and Axel Salto

Until May 4

Drawing & Works on Paper

Edmund de Waal curates the first major UK show of Danish ceramicist Axel Salto's organic stoneware

Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting

Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting

Until May 4

Drawing & Works on Paper

The UK's most comprehensive Freud works-on-paper show: 170+ drawings from the NPG

"Freud’s drawings show the artist’s meticulous process, but lack the oomph of his paintings."

— TimeOut

Caroline Wong: Girls Who Devour

Caroline Wong: Girls Who Devour

Until May 6

Drawing & Works on Paper

British-Malaysian-Chinese artist explores femininity, appetite and female desire

Sean Scully – The Nature of Art

Sean Scully – The Nature of Art

Until May 9

Drawing & Works on Paper

Scully's six-decade landscape-to-abstraction journey in photos, paintings and drawings

Walter Price: Pearl Lines

Walter Price: Pearl Lines

Until May 9

Drawing & Works on Paper

Price's first Asian solo: vibrant paintings blending abstraction and representation

Leiko Ikemura – El Jardín Nocturno

Leiko Ikemura – El Jardín Nocturno

Until May 9

Drawing & Works on Paper

Ikemura's nocturnal garden of bronzes, paintings and haikus at Lisson Street

Five Centuries of Works on Paper: The Grunwald Center at 70

Five Centuries of Works on Paper: The Grunwald Center at 70

Until May 17

Drawing & Works on Paper

70 years of the Grunwald Center's 45,000-strong works on paper collection

Basquiat - Headstrong

Basquiat - Headstrong

Until May 17

Drawing & Works on Paper

Major Basquiat show focused on his rare head drawings on paper.

Liza Lou: FAQComing Soon

Liza Lou: FAQ

Starting Apr 10

Drawing & Works on Paper

Liza Lou combines glass beads and oil paint to interrogate gestural abstraction

Arp—Klee: With Selections from the Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection

Arp—Klee: With Selections from the Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection

Until May 31

Drawing & Works on Paper

Shared affinities between two modern masters rejecting academic convention

Stubbs: Portrait of a Horse

Stubbs: Portrait of a Horse

Until May 31

Drawing & Works on Paper

Rare life-size Stubbs horse portrait 'Scrub' shown with key studies.

"A display case of Stubbs’s anatomical drawings are ghostly and strange. Here are spectral stallions, every, nerve, tendon and sinew turned inside out. More of these, please, and less of the tidy parade-ground pictures on the opposite wall."

— The Times

Delaine Le Bas: Un-Fair-Ground

Delaine Le Bas: Un-Fair-Ground

Until May 31

Drawing & Works on Paper

Turner Prize-nominated Romany artist's first Manchester solo — immersive feminist mixed-media world

"The Romany artist takes a mural she made for Glastonbury as a starting point, then builds a dizzying series of rooms exploring connection and exclusion"

— The Guardian

The Magical City: George Morrison's New York

The Magical City: George Morrison's New York

Until May 31

Drawing & Works on Paper

Grand Portage Chippewa Abstract Expressionist — 25 early New York paintings

Austrian Expressionism and Otto Kallir

Austrian Expressionism and Otto Kallir

Until May 31

Drawing & Works on Paper

Klimt, Schiele, and the gallerist who brought Austrian modernism to America

Virtue and Vice: Allegory in European Drawing

Virtue and Vice: Allegory in European Drawing

Until Jun 7

Drawing & Works on Paper

European drawings criticising vice and praising virtue, 16th–19th century

Veronica Ryan: Multiple Conversations

Veronica Ryan: Multiple Conversations

Until Jun 14

Drawing & Works on Paper

A 40-year survey of Turner Prize winner Veronica Ryan's sculpture, textiles and drawing

The Banner Project: Mark Thomas Gibson

The Banner Project: Mark Thomas Gibson

Until Jun 22

Drawing & Works on Paper

Large comic-inspired banners reimagining American history and politics

Framing Nature: Gardens and Imagination

Framing Nature: Gardens and Imagination

Until Jun 28

Drawing & Works on Paper

Wall-sized tapestries to contemporary works exploring gardens across cultures

PAT SUET-BIK HUI & THE THREE PERFECTIONS

PAT SUET-BIK HUI & THE THREE PERFECTIONS

Until Jun 28

Drawing & Works on Paper

Ink, calligraphy, and poetry unite in Hui's Three Perfections dialogue.

Lisa YuskavageComing Soon

Lisa Yuskavage

Starting May 14

Drawing & Works on Paper

Tenth solo show — jewel-toned studio paintings and new collage drawings

Life with P. Philip Guston: Paintings and Drawings 1964–1978Coming Soon

Life with P. Philip Guston: Paintings and Drawings 1964–1978

Starting Apr 21

Drawing & Works on Paper

Rare intimate Guston works on his marriage to poet Musa McKim

Village Square: Gifts of Modern Art from the Pearlman Collection to the Brooklyn Museum, LACMA, and MoMA

Village Square: Gifts of Modern Art from the Pearlman Collection to the Brooklyn Museum, LACMA, and MoMA

Until Jul 19

Drawing & Works on Paper

Final showing of the Pearlman Collection before distribution to institutions

Wes Anderson: The Archives

Wes Anderson: The Archives

Until Jul 26

Drawing & Works on Paper

First retrospective of Wes Anderson's cinematic archive — 700+ objects across 30 years

"The Texan is the third film-maker to be given a retrospective at the Design Museum, following Stanley Kubrick and Tim Burton, and this is the pick of the three. Cinema like this can feel incredibly extravagant — some canine puppets for Isle of Dogs took three years to make and were on screen for a matter of seconds. Here, though, you can spend time with it all."

— The Times

Roni HornComing Soon

Roni Horn

Starting May 21

Drawing & Works on Paper

First London show in a decade — new drawings and a rare cast-glass sculpture

Lee Bul: From 1998 to Now

Lee Bul: From 1998 to Now

Until Aug 9

Drawing & Works on Paper

Major survey of Lee Bul’s utopian, cyborg, and studio-based works.

Anna Thommesen – Weavings

Anna Thommesen – Weavings

Until Aug 16

Drawing & Works on Paper

Major SMK survey of Anna Thommesen’s abstract woven tapestries.

IN BLOOM: How Plants Changed Our World

IN BLOOM: How Plants Changed Our World

Until Aug 16

Drawing & Works on Paper

Global stories behind beloved blooms, from exploration to trade.

"There are some lovely works of art here but I couldn\’t escape the thought that all of art and science are helpless before the mystery and beauty of a single living daisy."

— The Guardian

Destiny Is a Rose: The Eileen Harris Norton Collection

Destiny Is a Rose: The Eileen Harris Norton Collection

Until Aug 16

Drawing & Works on Paper

80+ works celebrating fifty years of Eileen Harris Norton's collection

Mabel Dwight: Cool Head, Warm Heart

Mabel Dwight: Cool Head, Warm Heart

Until Sep 1

Drawing & Works on Paper

Lithographic portraits of New York life by a forgotten socialist printmaker

Hepworth in ColourComing Soon

Hepworth in Colour

Starting Jun 12

Drawing & Works on Paper

First exhibition dedicated to Hepworth's pioneering use of colour in sculpture

Lucian FreudComing Soon

Lucian Freud

Starting Jun 11

Drawing & Works on Paper

Summer exhibition on Freud’s drawing-to-painting process and portraits.

Lost. Found. Returned.Coming Soon

Lost. Found. Returned.

Starting Jun 23

Drawing & Works on Paper

An Otto Greiner drawing's journey from Dresden through WWII and back

Odilon Redon: Otherworldly VisionsComing Soon

Odilon Redon: Otherworldly Visions

Starting Jul 14

Drawing & Works on Paper

Redon's charcoals, lithographs, and pastels of fantasy and nature

Michaela Yearwood-DanComing Soon

Michaela Yearwood-Dan

Starting Apr 17

Drawing & Works on Paper

First UK institutional show — lush, queer, multi-sensory commission celebrating Blackness and healing

Five Centuries of Works on Paper: The Grunwald Center at 70 – Part IIComing Soon

Five Centuries of Works on Paper: The Grunwald Center at 70 – Part II

Starting Jun 7

Drawing & Works on Paper

Part II of the Grunwald Center's 70th anniversary celebration

Richard Dadd: Beyond BedlamComing Soon

Richard Dadd: Beyond Bedlam

Starting Jul 25

Drawing & Works on Paper

Dadd's intricate Victorian fairy paintings made during 42 years in Bethlem and Broadmoor

Mrinalini MukherjeeComing Soon

Mrinalini Mukherjee

Starting May 23

Drawing & Works on Paper

First UK retrospective of Indian modernist sculptor Mukherjee — fibre, bronze, ceramic across 40 years

ASHMOLEAN NOW: SOMA SUROVI JANNAT

ASHMOLEAN NOW: SOMA SUROVI JANNAT

Until Nov 1

Drawing & Works on Paper

Soma Surovi Jannat maps climate crisis through new Ashmolean works.

The Egyptian Book of the Dead

The Egyptian Book of the Dead

Until Nov 30

Drawing & Works on Paper

Ritual spells from Getty's Book of the Dead manuscripts

Gauguin & Kihara - First Impressions

Gauguin & Kihara - First Impressions

Until Dec 6

Drawing & Works on Paper

Gauguin’s collection meets Yuki Kihara’s critical contemporary response.

Gwen John | Strange BeautiesComing Soon

Gwen John | Strange Beauties

Starting Aug 1

Drawing & Works on Paper

First major Gwen John retrospective in 40 years — intimate portraits and rarely seen works on paper

"She returned repeatedly to the same subjects and compositions – contemplative women, sparsely furnished interiors, still lifes, devoted churchgoers – and each time saw them through fresh and attentive eyes. The result is art that's sensitive but unsentimental, studious, and, yes, strangely beautiful."

— The Independent

Salman Toor: Someone Like YouComing Soon

Salman Toor: Someone Like You

Starting Oct 2

Drawing & Works on Paper

Toor's first European solo: 20 paintings on queer identity, belonging and community

The Holy Family at HomeComing Soon

The Holy Family at Home

Starting Sep 22

Drawing & Works on Paper

Northern European paintings of the Holy Family in intimate domestic settings

Charlie Mackesy: The Boy, the Fox, the Mole, the Horse... And YouComing Soon

Charlie Mackesy: The Boy, the Fox, the Mole, the Horse... And You

Starting Nov 3

Drawing & Works on Paper

Never-before-seen sketches and originals from the creator of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.

Tracey EminComing Soon

Tracey Emin

Starting Oct 8

Drawing & Works on Paper

Retrospective-scale Emin show spanning four decades and multiple media.

Performing Trees

Performing Trees

Until Apr 4, 2027

Drawing & Works on Paper

50+ works from the Whitworth collection reimagining trees as active storytellers across art history

Myths, Monsters, and Manga: The Art of Fantasy in AsiaComing Soon

Myths, Monsters, and Manga: The Art of Fantasy in Asia

Starting Oct 17

Drawing & Works on Paper

Asian fantasy from ukiyo-e woodcuts to manga and anime across four centuries

Es DevlinComing Soon

Es Devlin

Starting Sep 18

Drawing & Works on Paper

First UK show dedicated to Es Devlin's 30 years of stage sculpture and light installations

Wilhelmina Barns-GrahamComing Soon

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

Starting Oct 24

Drawing & Works on Paper

First full retrospective of one of Britain's most innovative 20th-century abstractionists

The Making of a Medieval BookComing Soon

The Making of a Medieval Book

Starting Aug 4

Drawing & Works on Paper

The four stages of making medieval books, from parchment to binding

Paul R. Williams: Architect for LivingComing Soon

Paul R. Williams: Architect for Living

Starting Nov 15

Drawing & Works on Paper

First major museum survey of pioneering Black American architect

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