3 June – 3 September 2017 Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf is a fully playable crazy golf course, with each golf hole designed and made by a different artist from the contemporary art world. Each artist differs greatly in style, medium, influence and background, resulting in a series of very different artworks which all share the same concept – …

Read more >

7 April 2017 – 1 October 2017 York Art Gallery presents the first monographic exhibition of York born artist Albert Joseph Moore since the memorial exhibition in 1894. Featuring an impressive selection of Moore’s paintings, watercolours and sketches, the exhibition highlights the beautiful and classical women for which the artist is most famous and demonstrates the modernity of his approach. …

Read more >

Foundation Myths was a new commission by Ordinary Architecture, an art, architecture and design practice with an international profile. The installation, produced especially for the Artists Garden at the rear of York Art Gallery, drew on the rich history of the site and its many uses over the centuries. Ordinary Architecture created ten bright yellow …

Read more >

23 September 2016 – 19 March 2017 Human and animal, alive and dead, familiar and strange; this major exhibition will explore how artists represent flesh in their work. Paintings by artists including Peter Paul Rubens, Edgar Degas, Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, Circle of Rembrandt and Francis Bacon will show how the body and flesh have long been subject to intense …

Read more >

The Burton Gallery represents some of the finest pieces from our fine art collection. See Italian Old Master paintings with a religious focus, portraiture and ‘vedute’ (views) and Dutch and Flemish Old Master paintings which show how artists of the region specialised in landscape, lavish still life banquets and genre painting such as commonplace tavern …

Read more >

25 March – 4 September 2016 Truth and Memory: British Art of the First World War was the largest exhibition of First World War art for nearly 100 years. York Art Gallery was the only venue outside London to display this collection of more than 60 artworks produced during the war and in its immediate aftermath. Many of the works were …

Read more >

The Project Gallery showcases work with local communities and contemporary artists responding to our collections. It is located to the left of the main entrance at York Art Gallery and admission is FREE (normal gallery opening hours apply).

Read more >

Whilst York Art Gallery was closed local teachers were challenged to run art projects in their classrooms, inspired by Lowry’s painting of Clifford’s Tower. Nearly one and a half thousand children took part. Five class projects were selected, each winning two days working with a local artist in their school. This exhibition features …

Read more >

CoCA highlights and celebrates our collection of British Studio Ceramics, which is the largest and amongst the most important in the UK and covers the entire British studio ceramics movement. Formed mainly of large gifts from significant private collectors, it retains the unique personality, passions and obsessions of its creators, providing an insight into the …

Read more >

1 August 2015 – 7 May 2017 The Lumber Room: Unimagined Treasures – Curated by Mark Hearld The Upper North Gallery has been transformed to reflect one artist’s vision of a Lumber Room – a room of miscellaneous stored objects and artefacts. For the past two years, York-based artist Mark Hearld has been visiting the stores of the Yorkshire Museum and …

Read more >