Past
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Ben Crase: SWEETFELLA
10 October - 21 November 2025 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery is pleased to present SWEETFELLA, a solo exhibition by American artist Ben Crase , coinciding with Frieze Week London. Framed among the visual syntax of the American West, Crase’s paintings create a revisionist vision of frontier masculinity- one softened by memory, colour, humour and kinship. At the heart... Read more -
Moira Cameron: Delacroix
20 June - 25 July 2025 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery presents Delacroix , the first solo exhibition in London by British artist Moira Cameron . A graduate of Chelsea College of Art, Cameron returns to her independent practice after decades of collaborative work - first with her late partner, artist David Spiller, and later with their son, Xavier... Read more -
Erin Lawlor: inscape
2 May - 13 June 2025 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery is pleased to present inscape , a new series of paintings by Erin Lawlor . Taking its title from a term coined by poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, inscape refers to the unique inner pattern or essence that gives each thing its identity. Hopkins developed this concept from philosopher... Read more -
Leonhard Hurzlmeier: Women at the Well
27 January - 28 February 2025 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery is delighted to present Leonhard Hurzlmeier 's masterpiece, Women at the Well, painted from 2015 - 2018 and shown in the UK for the first time. Concurrently, we will present the artist's second solo exhibition with the gallery, Edenism at Wellington Arch. The image Frauen am Brunnen draws... Read more -
Lucienne O'Mara: Alone Together
13 December 2024 - 23 January 2025 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery is delighted to announce Alone Together , Lucienne O'Mara 's debut show with the gallery. In 2017, a car accident left O'Mara with a brain injury that fundamentally altered her relationship with vision. She lost all spatial awareness and the ability to process visual information - even the... Read more -
Ibrahim El-Salahi: Behind the Mask | Milk of Dreams
Works from the 2022 Venice Biennale 11 October - 27 November 2024 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery is proud to present Ibrahim El-Salahi ’s Behind the Mask, a group of 99 small works on the back of medicine packets, previously exhibited at Cecilia Alemani’s The Milk of Dreams at The 59th Venice Biennale. 'The mask, apart from being a protective shield, to me feels like... Read more -
Tadesse Mesfin: Where We Coalesce
20 September - 3 October 2024 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery and Addis Fine Art are pleased to present a solo exhibition of paintings by Tadesse Mesfin (b. 1953). Featuring works on canvas from the last four years, the presentation takes place across Addis Fine Art, Addis Ababa and Vigo Gallery, London. This series of Tadesse’s work celebrates the... Read more -
Henrik Godsk: Traveller's Journal
15 May - 11 June 2024 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo is proud to announce Traveller's Journal , our second solo show with Henrik Godsk , the first at Mason’s Yard following on from his exhibition last year at the Quadriga galleries at Wellington Arch in association with English Heritage. Godsk is of seventh-generation Traveller heritage, his practice reflecting his... Read more -
Ibrahim El-Salahi: No Shade but His Shade
8 March - 8 May 2024 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard No Shade but His Shade comprises paintings from 1957 - 1968, a seminal period in Ibrahim El-Salahi 's practice. Paintings presented include iconic works such as Alphabet 1 , 1960 (Alphabet 2 is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York); and No Shade but His Shade... Read more -
A Dream About a Horse: James Drinkwater, Jordy Kerwick, Jenny Watson
26 January - 23 February 2024 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery is delighted to present A Dream About a Horse, a group exhibition of new paintings by James Drinkwater, Jordy Kerwick, and Jenny Watson. A Dream About a Horse brings together three established Australian artists all of whom have delved into their subconscious to mine equine imagery in a... Read more -
Johnny Abrahams: Therapy Apple
20 November 2023 - 19 January 2024 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery presents Therapy Apple , an exhibition of new paintings by London-based artist Johnny Abrahams (b. 1979, Tacoma, WA), comprised of large-scale canvas and smaller diptych works, set out in bold new colours. The symbols within Abrahams’ practice exist under a certain formalism, the different planes conveying near-musical patterns,... Read more -
Leonhard Hurzlmeier: Kissing Shores
Curated by Eli Zagury and Tamar Arnon 29 September - 27 October 2023 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery is delighted to present Kissing Shores , the first UK solo exhibition from German artist Leonhard Hurzlmeier (b. 1983, Starnberg, Germany). Hurzlmeier’s geometric paintings posit archetypes of modern life playfully reduced to simple forms and shapes. His is an investigation into the boundaries of recognition; the extent to... Read more -
Samuel Bassett: The Village
28 April - 26 May 2023 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery is delighted to present The Village : a solo exhibition of new paintings by Samuel Bassett (b. 1982, St Ives). Living in a small, rural community in Penwith, near Penzance in Cornwall, Bassett’s work is intensely personal. The paintings reflect and document his multi-layered, psychological, and physical experiences... Read more -
Salah Elmur: Central Electricity and Water Administration
Vigo Gallery & Gallery 1957 16 March - 8 April 2023 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery and Gallery 1957 are proud to collaborate on a joint exhibition and publication of monumental new paintings, set across both London galleries, by Cairo-based Sudanese artist Salah Elmur . Central Electricity and Water Administration will be the artist’s third solo show with Vigo following Water and Electricity, a... Read more -
Erin Lawlor: Earthly Delights
1 February - 1 March 2023 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard 'Linking Keats, Camus, and Lawlor, rapture within resists death withal. Beauty - art by another name - completes the equation... We are in the realms of poetry, myth and magic, a garden of sorts holding earthly and unearthly delights.” – David Anfam, 2023 Vigo is delighted to present a solo... Read more -
Stephen Chambers: The Outliers
9 December 2022 - 20 January 2023 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo is proud to announce our first selling solo exhibition of new paintings by Stephen Chambers , our second collaboration with Stephen the first being his presentation of The Court of Redonda[1] previously shown at the Venice Biennale in 2017 and exhibited last year at Hastings Contemporary. “The Outliers, are... Read more -
JORDY KERWICK: SO MANY SHEEP & SO FEW WOLVES
19 October - 11 November 2022 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Read more -
SALAH ELMUR: WATER AND ELECTRICITY
16 September - 5 October 2022 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery is proud to present monumental new paintings by Cairo based Sudanese artist Salah Elmur from his emerging ‘Water and Electricity’ series. The exhibition will be the artists second solo show with Vigo following the ‘Innocent Prisoner’ series shown in October 2021 from which three works are now in... Read more -
IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI: BLACK AND WHITE
23 June - 26 August 2022 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard In Black and White Vigo presents 91-year-old Ibrahim El-Salahi ’s pen and ink works on paper made from 2012 to 2013. These previously unseen works were completed in the lead up to his solo show at Tate Modern in 2013, where he became the first artist of African birth to... Read more -
JOHNNY ABRAHAMS: YOU & I ARE EARTH, 1661
4 - 27 May 2022 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery VIGO is pleased to announce our fifth solo show with Johnny Abrahams to be held at our gallery in Masons Yard from 04-27 May 2022. Deceptively simple, these paintings present a unique vocabulary of satisfying meditative yet rhythmic shapes rendered with a rich texture which plays strongly with... Read more -
LAKWENA MACIVER: JUMP PAINTINGS; PART 2
8 - 28 February 2022 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard VISIT VIRTUAL GALLERY Vigo is proud to present Lakwena Maciver ’s Jump Paintings, abstract portraits of some of the most inspiring Basketball Players past and present. Lakwena is internationally renowned for her joy- inducing palette, dynamic designs and profound, succinct messages. Her public art commissions and installations include those at... Read more -
LAKWENA MACIVER: JUMP PAINTINGS; PART 1
19 January - 5 February 2022 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery VISIT VIRTUAL GALLERY Vigo is proud to present Lakwena Maciver’s Jump Paintings, abstract portraits of some of the most inspiring Basketball Players past and present. Lakwena is internationally renowned for her joy- inducing palette, dynamic designs and profound, succinct messages. Her public art commissions and installations include those... Read more -
JORDY KERWICK: BETWEEN CONSCIOUSNESS AND SLEEP
15 December 2021 - 8 January 2022 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo is proud to present ‘Between Consciousness and Sleep’ at our new gallery in Mason’s Yard. Jordy Kerwick (b.1982) investigates the materiality of painting through fantastical folkloric narratives populated by a cast of characters and motifs that inhabit a surreal world of Hansel and Grettalish Technicolor childhood dreams. Tigers, Unicorns,... Read more -
AMIR NIKRAVAN: NEUTRAL RAINBOW
25 January - 28 February 2019 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery Vigo Gallery is pleased to present Neutral Rainbow, Amir Nikravan’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The works in Neutral Rainbow centre around an interest in the politics of form, interrogating how form becomes a facade for meaning, and how it shapes our understanding of surface, colour, shape,... Read more -
JOHNNY ABRAHAMS: I AM THE TORTOISE, BUT ALSO THE CAT AND THE DOG
16 November - 13 December 2018 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard PRESS RELEASE JOHNNY ABRAHAMS CV Vigo is excited to announce its second solo exhibition with New York based artist, Johnny Abrahams . Known for his mastery of intricate optical geometries, the exhibition is comprised of Abraham’s most recent series of paintings, which illustrate his progress towards quietude. The exhibition is... Read more -
IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI: BY HIS WILL WE TEACH BIRDS HOW TO FLY
IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI IN BLACK AND WHITE. CURATED BY SALAHI HASSAN AND TOBY CLARKE 19 September - 10 November 2018 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE DOWNLOAD CATALOGUE It is that moment in prayer In silence we feel We were there Where things begin in His name To make real sense No more no less Ibrahim El-Salahi, 2017 This exhibition is a celebration of important black and white works spanning the... Read more -
DANIEL CREWS-CHUBB – LEONARDO DREW – IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI – MARCUS HARVEY – DUNCAN MACASKILL
TREE – Vigo Gallery, London 20 June - 23 August 2018 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery This exhibition brings together five artists who have made works relating to the Tree. Throughout history Trees have held a particular fascination for artists not least because of the associated ideas of growth, nature resonating with human development and legacy. On 18th April 2018, The Ashmolean Museum, the... Read more -
DUNCAN MACASKILL: DFM RECORDINGS
27 April - 25 May 2018 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery For Duncan MacAskill’s third show at Vigo he revisits his DNA paintings of the 90s with three brand new works presented alongside three classic nineties paintings. In addition, the exhibition features several highlights from his ten-year show at Toynbee Studios. He was artist in residence between 2004 and... Read more -
HENRY KROKATSIS: HOUSEHOLD FAITH
12 January - 10 February 2018 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery There should be a short paragraph or two summarising the exhibition quickly. People don't want to read masses and masses of text immediately. If they do want to read more, then they can click on the link. The Mirror's place in science, magic and myth is well documented.... Read more -
BRAM BOGART: ZONZUCHT
4 October - 22 November 2017 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD CATALOGUE Bram Bogart, 1921–2012,was dedicated to exploring the materiality of paint. Like Burri and Fontana, he challenged and blurred traditional notions of painting and sculpture, building three dimensional paintings comprised of mostly natural ingredients including various oils, glue, pigment, powdered chalk, and water. This investigation into the... Read more -
OLIVER MARSDEN: EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING
26 April - 27 May 2017 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery A DAILY PRACTICE BY COLIN GLEN ISOMETRIC PAINTINGS BY COLIN GLEN For Oliver Marsden’s third show with the gallery, Vigo is proud to present Everything is Everything including some his most accomplished works to date across several bodies of work, including the Liquiform, Dub, Fade and Ohm series.... Read more -
MATTHEW BURROWS: BEYOND THE GARDEN WALL
24 February - 8 April 2017 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery For his second show with Vigo, Burrows presents all new work completed over the last two years. ‘I’ve explored beyond the garden wall in every direction, on foot and nearly always on my own, mostly running, although I do walk when it feels appropriate. It*s not a race... Read more -
MARCUS HARVEY: GIMME SHELTER
27 January - 18 February 2017 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery Gimme Shelter Marcus Harvey’s second show at Vigo Gallery brings to London selected works from his most significant museum exhibition to date, Inselaffe at the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings late last year. The exhibition includes some of Harvey’s most recent paintings, ceramics and bronze sculptures which employ a... Read more -
DERRICK ADAMS: FLOAT
18 November - 17 December 2016 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery Float is a series of large-scale works on paper exploring ideas of celebration, highlighting the Black figure in the context of contemporary culture and leisure. With a nod to cultural perseverance, the display gives perspective to the creative output and outlet of Black America as a reaction to... Read more -
JAMES CAPPER: PORTA CARVE
21 August - 22 September 2016 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery Vigo is pleased to announce PORTA CARVE, a solo exhibition and series of demonstrations by James Capper. The exploration of the nature of radical engineering, industrial production and hydraulic systems has yielded a collection of striking and unique hydraulic sculptures, including the title work PORTA CARVE which featured... Read more -
DANIEL CREWS-CHUBB – LEONARDO DREW – IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI – MARCUS HARVEY – HENRY KROKATSIS – JAMES CAPPER – KEITH COVENTRY
CONTINUUM. SUMMER SHOW 28 June - 17 August 2016 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery Read more -
DUNCAN MACASKILL: DNA
13 May - 11 June 2016 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery Conceived in the early nineties when RNA and DNA were topical issues, MacAskill's DNA paintings consist of abstract marks which echo the horizontal, slot-like patterning of discarded DNA gels. Fascinated conceptually, by how we are all an amalgamation of virtually identical constituent parts, yet at once all radically... Read more -
BIGGS & COLLINGS: THEY SHALL BE MALE AND FEMALE
24 March - 4 May 2016 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD In an art world permanently questing after novelty, the paintings of acclaimed collaborative artists Biggs & Collings remain resolutely the same: coloured triangles apparently devoid of contemporary content. But the immediate, real world is, in fact, their theme. Their new exhibition opens at Vigo Gallery on 24... Read more -
DANIEL CREWS-CHUBB: SHANGO
11 - 25 February 2016 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE Vigo Gallery is pleased to host Shango Daniel Crews-Chubb’s first UK exhibition. Crews-Chubb makes bold and vibrant works that employ a traditional, expressionistic, painterly language whilst remaining utterly contemporary. He is one of a number of young painters whose work evades the distinctions between abstraction... Read more -
NIKA NEELOVA: FAULTS FOLDS FALLS
16 December 2015 - 23 January 2016 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD CV DOWNLOAD CREATIVE ESSAY BY NIKA NEELOVA “Life is not life but rock rearranging itself under the sun” Manuel DeLanda “There is a deeper reason why ‘humanity’ will never control technology. Technology is not something that humankind can control. It is an event that has befallen the... Read more -
IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI: FLAMENCO
29 May - 31 July 2015 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD CATALOGUE HERE DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE Following on from Frieze, Vigo gallery presents Flamenco, a group of paintings first exhibited at Tate Modern in El-Salahi’s 2013 retrospective. In the summer of 2009 El-Salahi was one of three artists invited by the art collector AbdulMagid Breish to spend time... Read more -
DUNCAN MACASKILL: STEER IN TIN SIDECAR
25 March - 10 April 2015 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD CATALOGUE Steer in Tin Sidecar is Duncan MacAskill’s first solo show at Vigo gallery. The exhibition comprises two bodies of work; large paintings made of ash and glue and a small selection of MacAskill’s ongoing, epic series of postcard works. Superficially different in scale, media and apparent... Read more -
KADAR BROCK: UNBURIAL RITES
14 January - 11 February 2015 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery ART NEWSPAPER: ARTIST TO WATCH IN 2015 Un burial rites is Kadar Brock’s second solo show at Vigo Gallery, London. Comprised of several distinct series of paintings and sculptures generated by interrelated processes, unburial rites presents a microcosm of Brock’s practice. Ideas, energy and matter generate an ecosystem... Read more -
ISABEL YELLIN: UNDULATE
12 September - 3 October 2014 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery Vigo gallery presents Undulate , the first London solo show by Isabel Yellin. Yellin makes fizzy, contemporary, painterly, abstract works. Attractive, sharp and playful, they look like catchy 1980’s pop songs trying to burst out of a clutch of heavy 1950’s action paintings. “I sometime use a crinkled... Read more -
IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI: THE TREE
4 July - 4 September 2014 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI FEATURED IN THE TELEGRAPH 2014 Following on from his major solo show at TATE Modern last year, Vigo is excited to present an exhibition of Ibrahim El Salahi’s Tree works from the 4 July through to the 4 September 2014. These works, featured in his solo... Read more -
KEITH COVENTRY: ONTOLOGICAL PICTURES
29 May - 19 June 2014 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD DOWNLOAD ‘Ontology: Branch of metaphysics concerned with identifying, in the most general terms, the kinds of things that actually exist.’ (www.philosophypages.com) Keith Coventry’s series of Ontological Pictures (1996 – 2004), like his celebrated Estate Paintings (1992-2000), comprise of visual elements lifted from the stylized aerial view plan... Read more -
OLIVER MARSDEN: FADE
9 April - 14 May 2014 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD Vigo is proud to present Marsden’s latest series Fade , a logical extension of the Harmonic series in which he attempted to capture the movement of water and sound waves in circle paintings comprised of dozens of layers of glaze and thinned paint. The Harmonics played on... Read more -
ZAK OVÉ: SPEAKER
27 November - 10 January 2013 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery Vigo presents Zak Ové’s first solo show with the gallery following on from his recent participation in Glasstress at the Venice Biennale. Ové works between sculpture, film, painting and photography, often collaging the various elements using found, cast and recovered materials. He is interested in reinterpreting lost culture... Read more -
JOHNNY ABRAHAMS: INTERFERENCE STUDY
12 September - 4 October 2013 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard This exhibition involves works from Johnny Abrahams' first two Series. Series 1 is an ongoing exploration of the fundamentals of design, testing and pushing the possibilities of the most basic element of design: line. Within the panel, the collections of black and white lines create a strained and dissonant juxtaposition.... Read more -
LEONARDO DREW
18 June - 26 July 2013 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD VIGO is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition of wall-based sculptures by Brooklyn based artist Leonardo Drew. Drew is known for reflective abstract sculptural installations most often based on exploration of a grid or framework, which incorporate created, manipulated and found materials constructed from fabricated wood,... Read more -
MARCUS HARVEY: TATTOO
15 May - 7 June 2013 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery For this, Marcus Harvey’s first solo show at Vigo Gallery, the artist is embroiled in a battle between the romance of painting and the surety of photography, accentuating and deconstructing their relationship. Harvey’s highly worked figurative paintings and sculptures seek out iconic forms of Britishness that have an... Read more -
NIKA NEELOVA: FRAGMENTS SHORED AGAINST THE RUINS
12 April - 3 May 2013 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD Nika Neelova creates current sculptures that derive from selected past and hypothetical future naratives. Exploring the notion of the ruin, the work is addressing segments of existence that have or must collapse, referencing the disillusionement and the disintegration of utopias that ensues from their confrontation with reality.... Read more -
GARY KOMARIN: IN WHICH THE BARON FALLOW
14 March - 3 April 2013 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery Born in New York City, the son of a Czech architect and Viennese writer, Gary Komarin is a risk taker in contemporary painterly abstraction. Komarin’s stalwart images have an epic quality that grip the viewer with the idea that he or she is looking at a contemporary description... Read more -
ULULATION
BOYLE FAMILY – KADAR BROCK – BIGGS & COLLINGS – LEONARDO DREW – MARCUS HARVEY – HENRY KROKATSIS – AYAN FARAH – JASON MARTIN – Vigo Gallery, London 8 October - 9 November 2012 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery Read more -
BIGGS & COLLINGS: THE WHOLE EARTH
13 January - 10 February 2012 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Highly acclaimed collaborative artists Emma Biggs and Matthew Collings are internationally renowned for their works on canvas and in mosaic. Opening on 13 January 2012 at Vigo Gallery, the artists will show a selection of innovative large-scale paintings. Deliberately choosing to promote abstract values, their work... Read more -
OLIVER MARSDEN: CULT
23 November - 16 December 2011 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery Read more -
LEONARDO DREW
12 October - 11 November 2011 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard VIGO is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of wall-based tree sculptures by American artist Leonardo Drew, on view from 12th October - 11th November 2011. Drew is known for sculptural installations most often based on exploration of a grid or framework, which incorporate created, manipulated and found materials constructed... Read more -
GAVIN TURK: EN FACE
1 - 28 September 2011 Vigo Gallery, Mason's Yard Vigo Gallery With En Face (from the French, facing - opposite), Gavin Turk begins with the question of what happens when an original idea is reworked by another person. He then analyses the factors that condition the reception and aesthetic interpreation of artwork and how these processes open new roads... Read more
