Free entry- CLOSES 6TH NOVEMBER 2022 Book your tickets here A display featuring rarely seen Japanese Ukiyo-e prints alongside much-loved paintings from our collection are on show in a new Spotlight Series at York Art Gallery. ‘Pictures of the Floating World: Japanese Ukiyo-e Prints’  features prints by prominent Ukiyo-e artists such as Utagawa Hiroshige, along with …

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Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition 2021 28 May – 5 September Free entry. Book your tickets here The Aesthetica Art Prize is an annual exhibition that invites you to explore, discover and engage with new ideas. The works on display are unearthing the intricate layers of what it means to be alive today. Life was complicated before Covid-19, but the …

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The national guidelines for the reopening of museums and galleries has meant that, unfortunately, the fantastic exhibition Human Nature has now closed. The exhibition, created in partnership with York Mediale, had a brilliant response when it opened in October 2020 and the Mediale and York Art Gallery teams had hoped many more people would be able …

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Opens 1 August 2020 York artist Karen Winship pays tribute to the tireless and selfless work of NHS workers in this moving exhibition of portraits created during the COVID-19 pandemic. The 11 works on show depict NHS workers from across England and Ireland painted by Karen and tell their own personal experiences of working on the front line …

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20 August – 27 September 2020 Tickets available now! Book here Featuring much-loved paintings and never seen before artworks Much-loved paintings and works on paper depicting York and the surrounding countryside will go on show in a new exhibition to mark the reopening of York Art Gallery next month. Artists such as L.S. Lowry, Letitia Marion Hamilton and …

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20 August – 27 September 2020 Tickets available now! Book here York Art Gallery invites you to choose the paintings you love and have missed the most while we’ve been closed to feature in a new exhibition this August. From Barbara Hepworth to Albert Moore, Paul Nash to Bridget Riley, Your Art Gallery – Paintings Chosen by You will …

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February 12 2011 – June 12 2011 The largest painting David Hockney has ever created went on show in York Art Gallery, for the first time outside London. Bigger Trees Near Warter or/ou Peinture Sur Le Motif Pour Le Nouvel Age Post-Photograpique 2007, measuring 12m by 4.5m, is made up of 50 smaller canvasses of a landscape near the East Yorkshire …

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A major new exhibition featuring the earliest works and “lost pots” of one of Britain’s most well known artists is coming to York next summer.

The touring exhibition, developed by the Holburne Museum in Bath, is the first to celebrate Grayson Perry’s earliest forays into the art world and will re-introduce the explosive and creative works he made between 1982 and 1994.

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The Aesthetica Art Prize returns with 18 shortlisted artists who make sense of our changing world, responding to digital identities and global constructs. March 2020 – February 2021 (Please note that to enjoy this exhibition in full, please bring your mobile device and headphones to access the video audio from the internet as we cannot provide earphones due to …

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Harland Miller on North Yorkshire  Two short films to coincide with the largest solo exhibition to date by internationally acclaimed artist Harland Miller.

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