Exhibitions to see this autumn

Autumn is a richly layered season for drawing. Galleries across London are hosting shows that foreground drawing a process, politics, and material play. Here are five exhibitions you won't want to miss.
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Manjot Kaur The Convocation of Eagles (detail), gouache and watercolour on paper, 2025. Image courtesy of the artist and mor charpentier, Paris
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Kerry James Marshall Vignette #13, acrylic on PVC panel, 2008. Image courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

The Land Sings Back

The Drawing Room, until 14 December 2025

This exhibition reimagines our relationship to the planet through drawing as a site of ecological memory, ancestral wisdom and resistance. Works in the exhibition explore how botanical consciousness can reshape the relationships between life-forms. It considers our relationship with nature as reciprocal, rather than extractive.

Featuring artists Charmaine Watkiss, Lado Bai, Manjot Kaur, Otobong Nkanga, to name a few. 

Kerry James Marshall: The Histories 

The Royal Academy of Arts, until 18 January 2026 

This exhibition is the most ambitious survey of Kerry James Marshall's work in the UK to date. The exhibition features over 70 works, including paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures.

The display traces his ongoing re-writing of art history to feature Black figures at the front and centre: making visible those who were absent in the art history canon.

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Anna Boch Evening, 1891. Image courtesy Anna Boch Family.
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Raphael The Three Graces (detail), red chalk over stylus underdrawing
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Picasso The Three dancers, 1925. Image courtesy Succession Picasso

Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller's Neo-Impressionists

The National Gallery, until 8 February 2026 

Experience the world's most significant collection of Neo-impressionist art featuring works by Georges Seurat, Théo van Rysselberghe, Camille Pissarro, and Anna Boch, to name a few! 

Helene Kröller-Müller is one of the first great women art patrons of the 20th century. She collected the most impressive collection of neo-impressionist paintings in the world. 

Drawing the Italian Renaissance 

The King's Gallery, from 17 October to 1 March 2026 

The Renaissance was a period of dramatic transformation. Drawing became imperative for artists to push the boundaries of creativity and expression. Drawing evolved from being a workshop tool to an art form in itself. 

The exhibition displays the widest range of drawings from this period ever before displayed in the UK. It features works by artists such as Titian, Raphael, Michelangelo, and da Vinci. 

Theatre Picasso

Tate Modern, until 12 April 2026 

This exhibition marks the centenary of Picasso's famed work, The Three Dancers. The display celebrates the myth and performance Picasso cultivated for himself: artist and outsider.

Staged by contemporary artists Wu Tsang and curator Enrique Fuenteblanca, the exhibition space is transformed into a theatre to display over 45 works by Picasso.