Temporary exhibitions at the Royal Academy explained

This article contains a partial list of temporary exhibitions mounted at the Royal Academy (RA) in London. Only major lending exhibitions are listed: shorter-term events such as the London Original Print Fair are not included, nor are the annual Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions.

Note: the list is known to be incomplete prior to 1987.

In addition to its main galleries behind Burlington House, The RA has additional galleries within the Sackler Wing. Sitting above Burlington House, these galleries (formerly the Diploma galleries) were incorporated within the main building in a scheme designed by Foster Associates. The first exhibition held in these galleries, incorporating the humidity and light controls required of modern exhibition spaces, was the Fauve Landscape in 1991.

History

The RA has held a Summer exhibition every year since 1769, the year after it was founded. For the first 100 years of its existence, this was the only exhibition held each year. In 1870, coinciding with its move to Burlington House, the RA began organising an annual loan exhibition of Old Masters and works by recently deceased British artists, known from its inception and for many years as the Winter Exhibition. After World War 1 the Winter Exhibitions programme became far more ambitious and included major surveys of Italian, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, French, Persian and British art. Since 2013, the RA has made digitized catalogues of the pre-1939 exhibitions freely available on its website.[1]

Exhibitions

Dates open to the publicTitleLocation
18 March 2014 to 8 June 2014 Renaissance Impressions Sackler Wing
25 January 2014 to 6 April 2014 Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined Main Galleries
7 November 2013 to 16 February 2014 Bill Woodrow RA Burlington Gardens
29 October 2013 to 26 January 2014 Daumier (1808–1879): Visions of Paris Sackler Wing
21 September 2013 to 8 December 2013 Australia Main Galleries
18 July 2013 to 13 October 2013 Richard Rogers RA: Inside Out Burlington Gardens
6 July 2013 to 29 September 2013 Mexico: A Revolution in Art, 1910–1940 Sackler Wing
16 March 2013 to 9 June 2013 George Bellows (1882–1925): Modern American Life Sackler Wing
26 January 2013 to 14 April 2013 Manet: Portraying Life Main Galleries
13 December 2012 to 17 February 2013 Mariko Mori: Rebirth Burlington Gardens
8 December 2012 to 17 February 2013 Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the Making of Landscape Majedski Fine Rooms
15 September 2012 to 9 December 2012 Bronze Main Galleries
7 July 2012 to 23 September 2012 From Paris: A taste for impressionism. Paintings from the Clark Sackler Wing
10 March 2012 to 10 June 2012 Johan Zoffany RA: Society observed Sackler Wing
21 January 2012 to 9 April 2012 David Hockney RA: A bigger picture Main Galleries
29 October 2011 to 22 January 2012 Building the revolution: Soviet art and architecture 1915–1935 Sackler Wing
17 September 2011 to 11 December 2011 Degas and the ballet: picturing movement Main Galleries
30 June 2011 to 2 October 2011 Eyewitness: Hungarian photography in the 20th century. Brassai, Capa, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy, Munkacsi Sackler Wing
12 March 2011 to 5 June 2011 Watteau: the drawings Sackler Wing
22 January 2011 to 7 April 2011 Modern British Sculpture Main Galleries
30 October 2010 to 23 January 2011 Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880–1900 Sackler Wing
25 September 2010 to 12 December 2010 Treasures from Budapest: European masterpieces from Leonardo to Schiele Main Galleries
10 July 2010 to 26 September 2010Sargent and the sea Sackler Wing
13 March 2010 to 13 June 2010 Paul Sandby RA (1731–1809): Picturing Britain. A Bicentenary exhibition Sackler Wing
23 January 2010 to 18 April 2010 The real Van Gogh: the artist and his letters Main galleries
24 October 2010 to 24 January 2010 Wild thing: Epstein, Gaudier-Brzeska, Gill Sackler Wing
26 September 2009 to 11 December 2009 Anish Kapoor Main galleries
27 June 2009 to 13 September 2009 J.W. Waterhouse Sackler Wing
21 March 2009 to 7 June 2009 Kuniyoshi Sackler Wing
31 January 2009 to 13 April 2009Andrea Palladio: his life and legacy Main galleries
25 October 2008 to 22 March 2009Byzantium 330–1453 Main galleries
4 October 2008 to 2 January 2009 Miro, Calder, Giacometti, Braque: Aime Maeght and his artists Sackler Wing
28 June to 7 September 2008 Vilhelm Hammershoi Sackler Wing
8 March 2008 to 8 June 2008 Cranach Sackler Wing
26 January to 18 April 2008 From Russia Main galleries
20 October 2007 to 27 January 2008 An American's passion for British Art: Paul Mellon's legacy Sackler Wing
22 September 2007 to 9 December 2007 Georg Baselitz Main galleries
15 September 2007 to 2 December 2008 Making History: Antiquaries in Britain 1707–2007 Main galleries
7 July 2007 to 30 September 2007 Impressionists by the sea Sackler Wing
17 March 2007 to 10 June 2007 The unknown Monet: pastels and drawings Sackler Wing
3 February 2007 to 20 April 2007 Citizens and kings: portraits in the age of revolution Main galleries
11 November 2006 to 25 February 2007 Chola: Sacred bronzes of Southern India Sackler Wing
13 September 2006 to 1 January 2007 Rodin Main galleries
8 July 2006 to 15 October 2006 Modigliani and his models Sackler Wing
25 February 2006 to 4 June 2006 Jacob von Ruisdael: Master of landscape Sackler Wing
12 November 2005 to 17 April 2006 China: the three emperors 1662–1795 Main galleries
1 October 2005 to 11 December 2005 Edvard Munch by himself Main galleries & Sackler Wing
2 July 2005 to 11 September 2005 Impressionism abroad Sackler Wing
5 March 2005 to 30 May 2005 Matisse, his art and his textiles Sackler Wing
22 January 2005 to 12 April 2005 Turks Main galleries
30 October 2004 to 23 January 2005 William Nicholson (1872–1949) Sackler Wing
28 September 2004 to 10 December 2004 Ancient art to post-impressionism Main galleries
15 May 2004 to 30 August 2004 Tamara de Lempicka Sackler Wing
31 January to 18 April 2004 Vuillard Main galleries
24 January 2004 to 12 April 2004 The art of Philip Guston Main galleries
29 November 2003 to 22 February 2004 Illuminating the Renaissance Sackler Wing
20 September 2003 to 12 December 2003 Pre-raphaelite and other masters Main galleries
9 October 2003 to 9 November 2003 Craigie Aitchison Sackler Wing
18 October 2003 to 15 February 2004 Giorgio Armani Burlington Gardens
28 June 2003 to 21 September 2003 Kirchner: Expressionism and the city Sackler Wing
15 March 2003 to 8 June 2003 Masterpieces from Dresden Sackler Wing
16 November 2002 to 11 April 2003 Aztecs Main galleries
14 September to 24 November 2002 Masters of colour: Derain to Kandinski Sackler Wing
26 April 2002 to 14 July 2002 Return of the Buddha: the Qingzhou discoveries Sackler Wing
14 March 2002 to 12 April 2002 Tilson: pop to present Sackler Wing
26 January 2002 to 19 April 2002 Paris: Capital of the Arts 1900–1968 Main galleries
24 November 2001 to 17 February 2002 The dawn of the floating world (1650–1765) Sackler Wing
22 September 2001 to 16 December 2001 Rembrandt's Women Main galleries
14 September 2001 to 12 December 2001 Frank Auerbach: Paintings and drawings 1954–2001 Main galleries
30 June 2001 to 24 September 2001 Ingres to Matisse: Masterpieces of French Painting Sackler Wing
17 March 2001 to 10 June 2001 Boticelli's Dante: The drawings for the divine comedy Sackler Wing
20 January 2001 to 16 April 2001 The genius of Rome 1592–1623 Main galleries
2 December 2000 to 18 February 2001 Turner: The great watercolours Sackler Wing
12 October 2000 to 12 November 2000 Terry Frost: six decades Sackler Wing
23 September 2000 to 15 December 2000 Apocalypse: Beauty and horror in contemporary art Main galleries
30 June 2000 to 24 September 2000 The Scottish colourists 1900–1930: Peploe, Fergusson, Hunter and Cadell Sackler Wing
11 March 2000 to 29 May 2000 Chardin 1699–1779 Sackler Wing
16 January 2000 to 3 April 2000 1900: Art at the crossroads Main galleries
13 November 1999 to 6 February 2000 Amazons of the avant-garde: six Russian artists Sackler Wing
30 September 1999 to 31 October 1999 John Hoyland RA Sackler Wing
11 September 1999 to 3 December 1999 John Soane: Architect Main galleries
11 September 1999 to 10 December 1999 Van Dyck 1599–1641 Main galleries
22 July 1999 to 16 September 1999 Joseph Beuys drawings: the secret block Sackler wing
14 April 1999 to 4 July 1999 Kandinsky: Watercolours and other works on paper Sackler Wing
23 January 1999 to 18 April 1999 Monet in the 20th century Main galleries
17 November 1998 to 20 December 1998 100 masterpieces of imperial Chinese ceramics from the Au Bak Ling collection Main galleries
22 October 1998 to 17 January 1999 Life? or theatre? The work of Charlotte Salamon Sackler Wing
1 October 1998 to 1 November 1998 Beyond minimalism: recent architecture of Tadao Ando Main galleries
17 September 1998 to 16 December 1998 Picasso: Painter and sculptor in clay Main galleries
2 July 1998 to 4 October 1998 Chagall: Love and the stage Sackler Wing
19 March 1998 to 14 June 1998 The art of holy Russia: Icons from Moscow 1400–1660 Sackler Wing
22 January 1998 to 13 April 1998 The art treasures of England: the regional collections Main galleries
13 November 1997 to 8 February 1998 Victorian Fairy Painting Sackler Wing
18 September 1997 to 28 December 1997 Sensation: Young British artists from the Saatchi collection Main galleries
3 July 1997 to 28 September 1997 Hiroshige: images of mist, rain, moon and snow Sackler Wing
20 March 1997 to 8 June 1997 The Berlin of George Grosz: Drawings, Watercolours and Prints 1912–1930 Sackler Wing
6 February 1997 to 16 March 1997 Denys Lasdun Main galleries
6 February 1997 to 2 March 1997 Gillian Ayres RA Sackler galleries
23 January 1997 to 6 April 1997 Georges Braque: The late works Main galleries
9 October 1996 to 1 January 1997 Alberto Giacometti 1901–1966 Main galleries
9 November 1996 to 23 January 1997 From Mantegna to Picasso: Drawings from the Thaw collection Sackler Wing
26 September 1996 to 5 January 1997 Living Bridges Main galleries
11 July 1996 to 22 September 1996 Roger de Grey Sackler Wing
28 March 1996 to 23 June 1996 Gustave Caillebotte, the unknown impressionist Sackler Wing
16 February 1996 to 21 April 1996 Frederic Leighton, 1830–1896 Main galleries
9 November 1995 to 28 January 1996 David Hockney: A drawing retrospective Sackler Wing
4 October 1995 to 21 January 1996 Africa: Art of a continent Main galleries
30 June 1995 to 8 October 1995 From Manet to Gauguin: Masterpieces from Swiss Private Collections Sackler Wing
1 June 1995 to 11 June 1995 Norman Adams RA: The fourteen stations of the Cross Sackler Wing
17 February 1995 to 21 May 1995 Odilon Redon: Dreams and visions Sackler Wing
2 February 1995 to 2 April 1995 The Palladian revival: Lord Burlington and his house and garden at Chiswick Main galleries
19 January 1995 to 9 April 1995 Nicolas Poussin Main galleries
27 October 1994 to 22 January 1995 The painted page: Italian Renaissance book illumination 1450–1550 Sackler Wing
15 September 1994 to 14 December 1994 The Glory of Venice 1700–1800 Main galleries
7 July 1994 to 2 October 1994 Impressionism to Symbolism: The Belgian Avant-Garde 1880–1900 Sackler Wing
17 March 1994 to 12 June 1994 Goya: Truth and fantasy, the small paintings Sackler Wing
3 February 1994 to 3 March 1994 Sandra Blow RA Sackler Wing
20 January 1994 to 6 April 1994In pursuit of the absolute: art of the ancient world, from the collection of George Ortiz Main galleries
14 January 1994 to 4 April 1994 The unknown Modigliani Main galleries
30 October 1993 to 23 January 1994 Drawings from the J Paul Getty Museum Sackler Wing
16 September 1993 to 12 December 1993 American Art in the 20th Century Main galleries
2 July 1993 to 10 October 1993 Pissarro: Impressionist in the City Sackler Wing
11 March 1993 to 6 June 1993 Georges Rouault: The early years 1903–1920 Sackler Wing
15 January 1993 to 11 April 1993 The great age of British Watercolours 1750–1880 Main galleries
20 November 1992 to 14 February 1993 Sickert: Paintings Main galleries
5 November 1992 to 20 December 1992 Tom Phillips RA Sackler Wing
18 September 1992 to 14 December 1992 Wisdom and compassion: the sacred art of Tibet Main galleries
3 July 1992 to 18 October 1992 Alfred Sisley 1839–1899 Sackler Wing
17 January 1992 to 5 April 1992 Andrea Mantegna Main galleries
13 March 1992 to 7 June 1992 Alexander Calder Sackler Wing
15 November 1991 to 9 February 1992 Hokusai Sackler Wing
19 September 1991 to 27 October 1991 Francesco Clemente: Three worlds Sackler Wing
13 September 1991 to 15 December 1991 The pop art show Main galleries
18 June 1991 to 1 September 1991 The Fauve landscape: Matisse, Derain, Braque and their circle Sackler Wing
18 June 1991 to 1992 The Royal Academy 1768–1830 Private rooms
8 March 1991 to 12 May 1991 Sir Christopher Wren and the making of St Pauls Private rooms
1 February 1991 to 9 April 1991 The passionate eye: impressionist and other paintings Main galleries
15 December 1990 to 20 January 1991 Sheila Fell RA (1931–1979) Main galleries
23 November 1990 to 17 February 1991 Egon Schiele and his contemporaries Main galleries
7 September 1990 to 9 December 1990 Monet in the 90s: The series paintings Main galleries
28 July 1990 to 21 October 1990 The Edwardians and after: the Royal Academy 1900–1950 Private rooms
21 April 1990 to 15 July 1990 Modern masters from the Gelman collection Private rooms
13 January 1990 to 8 April 1990 Frans Hals Main galleries
15 December 1989 to 25 February 1990 Inigo Jones: complete architectural drawings Private rooms
22 September 1989 to 23 December 1989 The art of photography Main galleries
14 September 1989 to 24 September 1989 Michael Sandle RA Diploma galleries
9 September 1989 to 19 November 1989 Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven: Prints and paintings Private rooms
5 July 1989 to 3 September 1989 Frederick Gore RA Diploma galleries
17 May 1989 to 25 June 1989 Conservation today Private rooms
17 March 1989 to 18 June 1989 Royal Treasures of Sweden Diploma galleries
14 January 1989 to 9 April 1989 Italian art in the 20th century
19 October 1988 to 20 November 1988 Norman Adams RA
14 October 1988 to 4 January 1989 Toulouse-Lautrec: the graphic works
16 September 1988 to 11 December 1988 Henry Moore
7 September 1988 to 9 October 1988 Jeffrey Camp RA
22 April 1988 to 21 August 1988 Early Cézanne Diploma galleries
18 March 1988 to 12 June 1988 Old Master paintings from the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection Private rooms
6 November 1987 to 6 March 1988 Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagenet England
16 September 1987 to 14 October 1987 Reflections after Las Meninas Diploma galleries
10 July 1987 to 25 October 1987 Master drawings from the Woodner collection Private rooms
6 June 1987 to 23 August 1987 Jewels of the ancients: selections from the Gillian Sackler collection of near Eastern jewellery
27 March 1987 to 21 June 1987 Byzantium to El Greco: Icons and frescoes from Greece
15 January 1987 to 5 April 1987 British art in the twentieth century: the modern movement
3 October 1986 to 21 December 1986 New architecture: Foster, Rogers, Stirling
16 September 1986 to 19 October 1986 Michael Kenny: recent sculptures, reliefs and drawings Diploma galleries
11 September 1986 to 19 November 1986 Je suis le cahier: the sketchbooks of Picasso
21 March 1986 to 22 June 1986 Sir Alfred Gilbert
5 February 1986 to 23 March 1986 Eduardo Paolozzi underground
16 January 1986 to 31 March 1986 Sir Joshua Reynolds
11 October 1985 to 22 December 1985 German art in the twentieth century
27 September 1985 to 3 November 1985 Thirty London painters
20 April 1985 to 14 July 1985 Edward Lear
22 February 1985 to 8 April 1985 Peter Greenham
8 February 1985 to 24 March 1985 Elisabeth Frink
11 January 1985 to 31 March 1985 Chagall Main galleries
12 October 1984 to 19 December 1984 Modern masters from the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection
7 September 1984 to 18 November 1984 The age of Vermeer and de Hooch
24 March 1984 to 27 May 1984 The Orientalists: Delacroix to Matisse
25 November 1983 to 11 March 1984 The genius of Venice
6 October 1983 to 23 October 1983 53–83 ILEA exhibition: 3 decades of artists Diploma galleries
17 September 1983 to 13 November 1983 Art of the avant-garde in Russia: the George Costakis collection
16 April 1983 to 10 July 1983The Hague school: Dutch masters of the 19th century
17 January 1983 to 27 March 1983Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617–1682
2 October 1982 to 12 December 1982Painting in Naples from Caravaggio to Giordano 1606–1705
28 December 1981 to 21 February 1982 The Great Japan exhibition: Art of the Edo period 1860–1868 (Part II) Main galleries
24 October 1981 to 20 December 1981 The Great Japan exhibition: Art of the Edo period 1860–1868 (Part I) Main galleries
15 January 1981 to 18 March 1981 A new spirit in painting Main galleries
20 September to 14 December 1980Stanley Spencer RA
17 November 1979 to 16 March 1980 Post-impressionism
21 November 1978 to 18 March 1979The Gold of El Dorado
4 March 1978 to 21 May 1978Rowlandson drawings from the Paul Mellon collection
14 January 1978 to 19 March 1978 Robert Motherwell: Paintings and Collages from 1941 to the Present Main galleries
26 November 1977 to 19 February 1978Leonardo da Vinci, anatomical drawings from the Royal Collection
6 October 1977 to 30 October 1977Works on paper : Contemporary Art Society's gifts to public galleries, 1952–1977Diploma galleries
19 March 1977 to 10 July 1977This brilliant year : Queen Victoria's jubilee 1887
5 March 1977 to 11 April 1977 John Tunnard 1900–1971
20 November 1976 to 27 February 1977Pompeii AD 79
10 January 1976 to 14 March 1976The golden age of Spanish painting
18 October 1975 to 30 November 1975Landscape masterpieces from Soviet museums
9 February 1974 to 28 April 1974 Impressionism: its masters, its precursors and its influence in Britain Diploma galleries
29 September 1973 to 23 January 1974 The Genius of China: An Exhibition of Archaeological Finds of the People's Republic of China
24 February 1973 to 30 April 1973 English drawings and watercolours 1550–1850 from the Mellon Collection Diploma galleries
4 March 1972 to 30 April 1972Victorian and Edwardian decorative art, the Handley-Read Collection
8 January 1972 to 5 March 1972British sculptors '72
20 November 1971 to 12 December 1971The Slade, 1871–1971: a centenary exhibition Diploma galleries
25 September 1971 to 21 November 1971Ensor to Permeke: nine Flemish painters, 1880–1950: Brusselmans, De Smet, Ensor, Evenepoel, Permeke, Spilliaert, Tytgat, Van den Berghe, Wouters
30 August 1969 to 30 November 1969French paintings since 1900 : from private collections in France
14 December 1968 to 2 March 1969 Royal Academy of Arts bicentenary exhibition, 1768–1968 Main galleries & diploma galleries
6 January 1968 to 3 March 1968 France in the Eighteenth Century
6 January 1966 to 6 March 1966Pierre Bonnard, 1867–1947
17 September 1965 to 13 November 1965Treasures from the Commonwealth
12 December 1964 to 28 February 1965Painting in England 1700–1850 from the collection of Mr & Mrs Paul Mellon
23 July 1964 to 6 September 1964 Hittite Art & The Antiquities of Anatolia Diploma galleries
7 December 1963 to 1 March 1964 Goya and his times
28 September 1963 to 27 October 1963 Treasures of the Royal Academy : an exhibition of paintings, drawings, sculpture and other possessions earlier than about 1850
19 March 1963 to 28 April 1963 A Painter's Collection: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture from the Collection of Edward Le Bas, RA Diploma galleries
15 February 1963 to 17 March 1963 Art USA now : the Johnson collection of contemporary American paintings Main galleries
20 October 1962 to 21 December 1962Sir William Russell FlintDiploma galleries
22 June 1962 to 12 August 19625,000 years of Egyptian art Diploma galleries
6 January 1962 to 7 March 1962 Primitives to Picasso: An Exhibition from Municipal and University Collections in Great Britain
10 March 1961 to 14 May 1961 Paintings and Drawings by Sir Edwin Landseer, R. A. 1803–1873 Diploma galleries
10 December 1960 to 26 February 1961The age of Charles II Main galleries
2 January 1960 to 6 March 1960Italian art and Britain
4 January 1958 to 9 March 1958The age of Louis XIV
24 November 1956 to 3 March 1957British portraits
3 December 1955 to 26 February 1956English taste in the eighteenth century from Baroque to neoclassic
29 October 1955 to 19 February 1956Portuguese art, 800–1800
27 November 1954 to 27 February 1955European masters of the eighteenth century
5 December 1953 to 6 March 1954 Flemish Art, 1300–1700
13 August 1953 to 25 October 1953Drawings by old masters
22 November 1952 to 1 March 1953Dutch pictures 1450–1750
8 8 December 1951 to 9 March 1952The first hundred years of the Royal Academy, 1769–1868
9 9 December 1950 to 7 March 1951Works by Holbein and Other Masters of the 16th and 17th Centuries
30 September 1950 to 31 October 1950 Exhibition of Paintings and Silver from Woburn Abbey: Lent by the Duke of Bedford
10 December 1949 to 5 March 1950Landscape in French art 1550–1900
8 January 1949 to 6 March 1949The Chantrey Collection
29 November 1947 to 29 February 1948exhibition of art chiefly from the dominions of India and Pakistan
26 October 1946 to 16 March 1947Exhibition of the King's Pictures
15 February 1946 to 17 March 1946Greek art 3000 B.C. – A.D. 1945Main galleries

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