Past Exhibitions

Select
Allegories of the Senses
15 Aug 2020 - 21 Nov 2020
National Partners Programme
Tell me the story of all of these things
24 Jul 2020 - 2 Nov 2020
National Partners Programme
Go On Being So
14 Feb 2020 - 12 Sep 2020
National Partners Programme
Hippo Campus: Where We Learn
14 Feb 2020 - 19 Sep 2020
National Partners Programme
Received Wisdom
1 Feb 2020 - 1 Nov 2020
National Partners Programme
Antony Gormley: Field for the British Isles
16 Nov 2019 - 8 Mar 2020
National Partners Programme
Super Black
11 Oct 2019 - 12 Jan 2020
National Partners Programme
Walker Art Gallery
As Seen On Screen
31 May 2019 - 18 Aug 2019
National Partners Programme
Towner Art Gallery
The Weather Garden
17 Feb 2019 - 2 Jun 2019
National Partners Programme
Too Cute!
26 Jan 2019 - 12 May 2019
Select
Crossing Lines
23 Nov 2018 - 26 Jan 2019
National Partners Programme
Women Power Protest
10 Nov 2018 - 31 Mar 2019
National Partners Programme
Walker Art Gallery
Leo Fitzmaurice: Between You and Me and Everything Else
29 Sep 2018 - 17 Mar 2019
Sculpture at Longside
Touring
Criminal Ornamentation: Yinka Shonibare MBE curates the Arts Council Collection
21 Sep 2018 - 28 Sep 2019
Select
Great Artists | Great Teachers
17 Sep 2018 - 17 Nov 2018
Select
The Artists of St. Ives
8 Sep 2018 - 25 Nov 2018
Educational
There Not There
14 Jun 2018 - 15 Jul 2018
National Partners Programme
Towner Art Gallery
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
The Everyday and Extraordinary
9 Jun 2018 - 6 Jan 2019
National Partners Programme
Towner Art Gallery
At Altitude
2 Jun 2018 - 30 Sep 2018
Touring
Grayson Perry, The Vanity of Small Differences
31 Mar 2018 - 15 Dec 2018
National Partners Programme
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
Nature’s Presence
30 Mar 2018 - 30 Sep 2018
National Partners Programme
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
Wall Have Ears: 400 Years of Change
30 Mar 2018 - 30 Sep 2018
Sculpture at Longside
Touring
In My Shoes
30 Mar 2018 - 22 Sep 2019
Free
Darbyshire, Gander, Pica, Starling
25 Jan 2018 - 9 Apr 2018
National Partners Programme
Towner Art Gallery
We stared at the Moon from the centre of the Sun: Haroon Mirza Curates the Arts Council Collection
20 Jan 2018 - 3 Jun 2018
Touring
On Paper
13 Jan 2018 - 30 Nov 2019
National Partners Programme
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Revolt & Revolutions
6 Jan 2018 - 15 Apr 2018
National Partners Programme
Walker Art Gallery
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
Coming Out: Sexuality, Gender and Identity
2 Dec 2017 - 15 Apr 2018
Touring
Drawn from Life: People on Paper
28 Oct 2017 - 7 Jan 2018
National Partners Programme
Walker Art Gallery
Lubaina Himid: Meticulous Observations and Naming the Money
7 Oct 2017 - 18 Mar 2018
National Partners Programme
Towner Art Gallery
A Green and Pleasant Land
30 Sep 2017 - 21 Jan 2018
National Partners Programme
Towner Art Gallery
Now, Today, Tomorrow and Always
22 Jul 2017 - 8 Oct 2017
National Partners Programme
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Occasional Geometries
15 Jul 2017 - 29 Oct 2017
Select
Face2Face
8 Jul 2017 - 3 Sep 2017
Touring
A Certain Kind of Light: Light in Art Over Six Decades
27 May 2017 - 23 Sep 2017
National Partners Programme
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Tread Softly
27 May 2017 - 15 Oct 2017
National Partners Programme
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
I Want! I Want! Art & Technology
1 Apr 2017 - 1 Oct 2017
National Partners Programme
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Reconstruct
1 Apr 2017 - 26 Jun 2017
Sculpture at Longside
Touring
Kaleidoscope: Colour and Sequence in 1960s British Art
1 Apr 2017 - 3 Jun 2018
National Partners Programme
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Transparency
24 Mar 2017 - 18 Jun 2017
National Partners Programme
Towner Art Gallery
A CERTAIN KIND OF LIGHT: LIGHT IN ART OVER SIX DECADES
21 Jan 2017 - 7 May 2017
National Partners Programme
Walker Art Gallery
Benedict Drew: Kaput
28 Oct 2016 - 26 Feb 2017
National Partners Programme
Walker Art Gallery
Looking North
28 Oct 2016 - 26 Feb 2017
Touring
One day, something happens: Paintings of People
15 Oct 2016 - 8 Jan 2017
National Partners Programme
Walker Art Gallery
Zoo Logic by Mark Leckey
9 Sep 2016 - 26 Feb 2017
Sculpture at Longside
Touring
NIGHT IN THE MUSEUM: RYAN GANDER CURATES THE ARTS COUNCIL COLLECTION
16 Jul 2016 - 21 May 2017
Sculpture at Longside
Touring
Making It
27 Mar 2016 - 3 Jul 2016
Sculpture at Longside
Touring
2013 - 2014 - Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain 1966 - 1979
5 Apr 2014 - 15 Jun 2014
2013 - At a Distance
30 May 2013 - 27 Jun 2013
2012 - Focal Points: Art and Photography
1 May 2013 - 2 Jun 2013
Sculpture at Longside
Garth Evans Selected by Richard Deacon
23 Mar 2013 - 27 May 2013
2011 - Transmitter/Receiver: The Persistence of Collage
9 Mar 2013 - 12 May 2013
2012 - Greenwich Degree Zero
17 Nov 2012 - 6 Jan 2013
2012 - Gary Hume: Flashback
13 Oct 2012 - 19 Jan 2013
2012- Dawn Chorus
28 Sep 2012 - 31 Mar 2013
2012 - Enrico David Madreperlage
15 Sep 2012 - 9 Dec 2012
2012 - Enrico David Madreperlage
15 Sep 2012 - 9 Dec 2012
2012 - Trust New Art: Contemporary Art on the Cornish Coast
20 Aug 2012 - 4 Nov 2012
2012 - Curious Visitors
30 Jun 2012 - 23 Sep 2012
Sculpture at Longside
Touring
2012 - Flashback: Anish Kapoor
16 Jun 2012 - 4 Nov 2012
2012 - Threads of History Greyfriars House and Garden
12 Jun 2012 - 16 Dec 2012
2012 - New Art for a New Age
3 May 2012 - 1 Jul 2012
2012 - Field for the British Isles
28 Apr 2012 - 27 Aug 2012
2012 - A World Away, Dyrham Park Gloucestershire
30 Mar 2012 - 28 Oct 2012
2012 Goshka Macuga
22 Mar 2012 - 31 Aug 2012
2012 - Trust New Art: Basildon Park, Reading
10 Mar 2012 - 3 Nov 2012
Sculpture at Longside
Touring
2011 - 2014 - Henry Moore in the Arts Council Collection
31 Mar 2011 - 2 Nov 2014
Sculpture at Longside
Touring
2011 - Structure and Material
31 Mar 2011 - 24 Dec 2011
Sculpture at Longside
2010 - ACC New Acquisitions: Anne Hardy
23 Oct 2010 - 27 Feb 2011
2010 - Wolfgang Tillmans at the Walker
18 Sep 2010 - 12 Sep 2010
Sculpture at Longside
2010 - ACC New Acquisitions: Rod Dickinson and Tom McCarthy
24 Jul 2010 - 10 Oct 2010
2010 - Changing Britain
28 May 2010 - 20 Jun 2010
Sculpture at Longside
2010 - The Gathering
5 Mar 2010 - 18 Apr 2010
Touring
2010 - Now Showing 2
1 Mar 2010 - 30 Nov 2011
2010 - Flashback: Bridget Riley
25 Sep 2009 - 5 Dec 2010
2009 - New Acquisitions from the Arts Council Collection
4 Apr 2009 - 5 Jul 2009
Sculpture at Longside
2008 - Tania Kovats
27 Sep 2008 - 2 Nov 2008
Sculpture at Longside
2008 - Lucy Skaer
16 Aug 2008 - 21 Sep 2008
Sculpture at Longside
2008 - Hilary Lloyd
5 Jul 2008 - 10 Aug 2008
Sculpture at Longside
2008 - Karla Black
24 May 2008 - 29 Jun 2008
Sculpture at Longside
Touring
2008 - Unpopular Culture
1 May 2008 - 31 Jan 2010
Touring
2008 - Now Showing
1 May 2008 - 28 Feb 2010
Touring
2007 - No Such Thing as Society
1 Jan 2008 - 31 Jan 2010
Sculpture at Longside
2008 - Toby Ziegler
3 Nov 2007 - 6 Jan 2008
Sculpture at Longside
2007 - Janice Kerbel
1 Sep 2007 - 28 Oct 2007
Touring
2007 - Geometry of Fear
1 Jul 2007 - 31 Mar 2009
2007 - Mark Lewis
30 Jun 2007 - 27 Aug 2007
2007 - Hayley Newman
28 Apr 2007 - 24 Jun 2007
Touring
2006 - How To Improve The World, 60 Years of British Art
7 Sep 2006 - 2 Sep 2007
Sculpture at Longside
2006 - 60: Sixty Years of Sculpture
18 Mar 2006 - 25 Jun 2006
Sculpture at Longside
Touring
2005 - Size Matters
1 Mar 2005 - 31 Jul 2006
Sculpture at Longside
2005 - Antony Gormley: Field for the British Isles
1 Jan 2005 - 31 Dec 2005
Touring
2004 - Spotlight on Eduardo Paolozzi
3 Apr 2004 - 29 Oct 2005
Touring
2004 - Stranger Than Fiction
1 Apr 2004 - 31 Aug 2005
Sculpture at Longside
2004 - Off the Beaten Track
13 Mar 2004 - 16 May 2004
Sculpture at Longside
Touring
2003 - Bad Behaviour
7 Nov 2003 - 27 Feb 2005
Sculpture at Longside
2003 - In Good Form
27 Jun 2003 - 19 Oct 2003
2003 - Spotlight on Douglas Gordon
1 May 2003 - 31 Mar 2005
2001 - Out of Line: Drawings
8 May 2002 - 20 Oct 2002
2002 - Words
4 May 2002 - 21 Jun 2003
2002 - Spotlight on Euan Uglow
10 Apr 2002 - 23 Oct 2002
2001 - Spotlight on Kenneth Martin
27 Apr 2001 - 23 Jan 2003
1999 - Spotlight on Prunella Clough
1 Oct 1999 - 30 Sep 2001
1999 - Sublime: The Darkness and Light
29 Jun 1999 - 23 Jul 2000
1999 - Edward Weston
1 May 1999 - 20 Feb 2006
1999 - Spotlight on Terry Frost
20 Feb 1999 - 12 Nov 2000
1995 - Spotlight on William Tucker: Six Sculptures
17 Jan 1998 - 28 Feb 1998
1998 - Spotlight on Gillian Wearing: 60 Minutes Silence
10 Jan 1998 - 1 Aug 1999
1994 - New Painting
4 Oct 1996 - 24 Feb 1996
1996 - ACE! New Purchases
2 Mar 1996 - 30 Aug 1997
1996 - Spotlight on Antony Gormley: Field for the British Isles
1 Jan 1996 - 31 Dec 1996
1996 - Spotlight on Antony Gormley: Field for the British Isles
1 Jan 1996 - 31 Dec 1996
1993 - Pop Prints
13 Oct 1995 - 24 Feb 2001
1995 - Patrick Caulfield: The Poems of Jules Laforgue
19 Aug 1995 - 7 Sep 2002
1994 - Spotlight on Jacqui Poncelet: Carpet
10 Mar 1994 - 20 Mar 1994
1994 - Art Unlimited: Multiples of the 1960's and 1990's
3 Jan 1994 - 27 Jul 1996
1994 - Spotlight on Francis Bacon
1 Jan 1994 - 31 Dec 1994
1993 - Spotlight on Tony Cragg: George and the Dragon
1 Jan 1993 - 1 Dec 1993
1993 - Spotlight on Kathy Prendergast: Land
1 Jan 1993 - 1 Dec 1993
1993 - Spotlight on Anish Kapoor
1 Jan 1993 - 1 Dec 1993
1993 - Spotlight on Ben Nicholson: Four Paintings
1 Jan 1993 - 1 Dec 1993
1993 - Spotlight on Richard Deacon: Kiss and Tell
1 Jan 1993 - 1 Dec 1993
1993 - Prints from Wood
1 Jan 1993 - 31 Dec 1993
1993 - Spotlight on David Hockney
1 Jan 1993 - 1 Dec 1993
1993 - Recent British Sculpture
1 Jan 1993 - 31 Dec 1993
1992 - Ready, Steady, Go: Paintings of the Sixties
1 Jan 1992 - 1 Dec 1992
1991 - Shocks to the System
1 Jan 1991 - 1 Dec 1991
1990 - Festival of Fifty-One
1 Jan 1990 - 1 Dec 1990
1998 - Here to Stay: Purchases of the 1990s
24 Oct 1989 - 31 Oct 1999
1998 - Head First: Portraits
17 Jan 1989 - 30 May 1999
1989 - It's a Still Life
1 Jan 1989 - 1 Dec 1989
1988 - Changing Minds
1 Jan 1988 - 1 Dec 1988
1988 - Dreams
1 Jan 1988 - 1 Dec 1988
1988 - English Cathedrals: drawings by Dennis Creffield
1 Jan 1988 - 1 Dec 1988
1987 - Introducing with Pleasure
1 Jan 1987 - 1 Dec 1987
1987 - Wild Creatures
1 Jan 1987 - 1 Dec 1987
1987 - Human Relations
1 Jan 1987 - 1 Dec 1987
1987 - The Experience of Landscape
1 Jan 1987 - 1 Dec 1987
1987 - Built-up Areas, Music/Dancing, Water
1 Jan 1987 - 1 Dec 1987
1986 - Built Up Areas
1 Jan 1986 - 1 Dec 1986
1985 - Marketa Luskacova: Pilgrims
1 Jan 1985 - 1 Dec 1985
1985 - Beyond Appearances
1 Jan 1985 - 1 Dec 1985
1984 - Questions about Sculpture
1 Jan 1984 - 1 Dec 1984
1984 - Home and Abroad
1 Jan 1984 - 1 Dec 1984
1984 - What's New in the Arts Council Collection
1 Jan 1984 - 1 Dec 1984
1984 - Arts Council Collection Acquisitions 1979 - 83 (Vol 2)
1 Jan 1984 - 1 Dec 1984
1983 - Room for Thought
1 Jan 1983 - 1 Dec 1983
1982 - Anthony Caro
1 Jan 1982 - 1 Dec 1982
1982 - The English: Photographs by Ian Berry
1 Jan 1982 - 1 Dec 1982
1982 - Through Children's Eyes
1 Jan 1982 - 1 Dec 1982
1982 - Private Views
1 Jan 1982 - 1 Dec 1982
1982 - Inner Worlds
1 Jan 1982 - 1 Dec 1982
1981 - Romanticism Continued: Approaches to Modern Art IV
1 Jan 1981 - 1 Dec 1981
1981 - About 70 Photographs
1 Jan 1981 - 1 Dec 1981
1981 - Constructed Images: Approaches to Modern Art III
1 Jan 1981 - 1 Dec 1981
1981 - Andy Warhol, Portrait Screenprints 1965 - 80
1 Jan 1981 - 1 Dec 1981
1981 - Fragments Against Ruin, a Journey through Modern Art
1 Jan 1981 - 1 Jan 1981
1981 - A Mansion of Many Chambers: Beauty and others Works
1 Jan 1981 - 1 Dec 1981
1980 - Modern British Photography 1919 - 1939
1 Jan 1980 - 1 Dec 1980
1980 - From Object to Object
1 Jan 1980 - 1 Dec 1980
1979 - Lives
1 Jan 1979 - 1 Dec 1979
1979 - Languages
1 Jan 1979 - 1 Dec 1979
1978 - The Mechanised Image
1 Jan 1979 - 1 Dec 1979
1979 - A Cold Wind Brushing the Temple
1 Jan 1979 - 1 Dec 1979
1978 - Perspectives on Landscape - British Image 5
1 Jan 1978 - 1 Dec 1978
1978 - A Free Hand
1 Jan 1978 - 1 Dec 1978
1978 - Constructive Context
1 Jan 1978 - 1 Dec 1978
1978 - Scale for Sculpture
1 Jan 1978 - 1 Dec 1978
1977 - Traditional British Calendar Customs
1 Jan 1977 - 1 Dec 1977
1977 - Thurston Hopkins
1 Jan 1977 - 1 Dec 1977
1977 - New British Image - British Image 4
1 Jan 1977 - 1 Dec 1977
1977 - John Blakemore- British Image 3
1 Jan 1977 - 1 Dec 1977
1977 - Edward Weston
1 Jan 1977 - 1 Dec 1977
1977 - British Image 2
1 Jan 1977 - 1 Dec 1977
1976 - Other Eyes
1 Jan 1976 - 1 Dec 1976
1976 - Sculpture for the Collection
1 Jan 1976 - 1 Dec 1976
1976 - Arts Council Collection 75/6 Exhibition
1 Jan 1976 - 1 Dec 1976
1976 - The Human Clay
1 Jan 1976 - 1 Dec 1976
1975 - British Image 1
1 Jan 1975 - 1 Jan 1975
1975 - Bill Brandt Early Photographs 1930 - 1942
1 Jan 1975 - 1 Dec 1975
1975 - The Real Thing: British photographers 1940 - 50
1 Jan 1975 - 1 Dec 1975
1975 - New Work 1
1 Jan 1975 - 1 Dec 1975
1975 - Drawing of People
1 Jan 1975 - 1 Dec 1975
1975 - New Work 2
1 Jan 1975 - 1 Dec 1975
1975 - Bert Hardy
1 Jan 1975 - 1 Dec 1975
1974 - George Rodger
1 Jan 1974 - 1 Dec 1974
1974 - An Element of Landscape
1 Jan 1974 - 1 Dec 1974
1974 - 11 Sculptors, One decade
1 Jan 1974 - 1 Dec 1974
1974 - Art as Thought Process
1 Jan 1974 - 1 Dec 1974
1973 - Beyond Painting and Sculpture
1 Jan 1973 - 1 Dec 1973
1973 - Square Collection
1 Jan 1973 - 1 Dec 1973
1973 - Image Reality Superreality
1 Jan 1973 - 1 Dec 1973
1972 - Objects and Documents
1 Jan 1972 - 1 Dec 1972
1972 - Eight Individuals
1 Jan 1972 - 1 Dec 1972
1970 - Arts Council Paintings 68 - 70
1 Jan 1970 - 1 Dec 1970
1969 - Arts Council Collection 1967 - 68
1 Jan 1969 - 1 Dec 1969
1968 - Sculpture from the ACC
1 Jan 1968 - 1 Dec 1968
1968 - Painting 64 - 67
1 Jan 1968 - 1 Dec 1968
1968 - Sculpture 60 - 67 from the Arts Council Collection
1 Jan 1968 - 1 Dec 1968
1967 - Sculpture 60-66
1 Jan 1967 - 1 Dec 1967
1966 - British Painting 50 - 57
1 Jan 1966 - 1 Dec 1966
1966 - British Painting 40 - 49
1 Jan 1966 - 1 Dec 1966
1966 - British Painting before 1940
1 Jan 1966 - 1 Dec 1966
1964 - New Painting 61-64
1 Jan 1964 - 1 Dec 1964
1963 - Recent Trends in Paintings
1 Jan 1963 - 1 Dec 1963
1961 - New Painting 58-61
1 Jan 1961 - 1 Dec 1961
1961 - Contemporary British Sculpture
1 Jan 1961 - 1 Dec 1961
1959 - Arts Council Collection: Recent Acquisitions
1 Jan 1959 - 1 Dec 1959
1958 - Romantic and Abstract (Part III)
1 Jan 1958 - 1 Dec 1958
1958 - After Impressionism (Part II)
1 Jan 1958 - 1 Dec 1958
1958 - Since the War (Part IV)
1 Jan 1958 - 1 Dec 1958
1958 - The Arts Council Collection of Paintings and Drawings
1 Jan 1958 - 1 Dec 1958
1958 - Contemporary British Sculpture
1 Jan 1958 - 1 Dec 1958
1958 - Towards Impressionism (Part I)
1 Jan 1958 - 1 Dec 1958
1956 - Etchings from the Arts Council Collection
1 Jan 1956 - 1 Dec 1956
1955 - Selection of ACC paintings, drawings and sculpture
1 Jan 1955 - 1 Dec 1955
1955 - The Arts Council Collection Drawings
1 Jan 1955 - 1 Dec 1955
1955 - ACC: A Selection from Oil Paintings Part II
1 Jan 1955 - 1 Dec 1955
1955 - ACC: A Selection from Oil Paintings Part I
1 Jan 1955 - 1 Dec 1955
1955 - Some Twentieth Century English Watercolours
1 Jan 1955 - 1 Dec 1955
1952 - The Arts Council Collection (Part III)
1 Jan 1952 - 1 Dec 1952
1952 - Etchings and Engravings from the Arts Council Collection
1 Jan 1952 - 1 Dec 1952
1952 - The Arts Council Collection (Part I)
1 Jan 1952 - 1 Dec 1952
1952 - The Arts Council Collection (Part II)
1 Jan 1952 - 1 Dec 1952
1952 - The Arts Council Collection Wartime Purchases
1 Jan 1952 - 1 Dec 1952
1951 - 60 Paintings for 51
1 Jan 1951 - 1 Dec 1951
1950 - The Arts Council Collection of Watercolours and Drawings
1 Jan 1950 - 1 Dec 1950
1950 - The Arts Council Collection (Part I)
1 Jan 1950 - 1 Dec 1950
1950 - The Arts Council Collection (Part II)
1 Jan 1950 - 1 Dec 1950
1947 - CEMA Collection of Watercolours and Drawings
1 Jan 1947 - 1 Dec 1947
1947 - A Selection of CEMA Collection Oil Paintings (Part II)
1 Jan 1947 - 1 Dec 1947
1947 - A Selection of CEMA Collection Oil Paintings (Part I)
1 Jan 1947 - 1 Dec 1947
1946 - CEMA Collection
1 Jan 1946 - 1 Dec 1946
1945 - A Fourth Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings
1 Jan 1945 - 1 Dec 1945
1944 - A Third Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings
1 Jan 1944 - 1 Dec 1944
1944 - The CEMA collection
1 Jan 1944 - 1 Dec 1944
1942 - Collection of Oil Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings
1 Jan 1942 - 1 Dec 1942

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The Arts Council Collection is the UK's most widely seen collection of modern and contemporary art.

With more than 8,000 works by over 2,000 artists, it can be seen in exhibitions and public displays across the country and beyond. This website offers unprecedented access to the Collection, and information about each work can be found on this site.