To coincide with the opening of our forthcoming exhibition One, artist John Edmonds and writer and curator Ekow Eshun will be in conversation in the gallery. The pair will discuss Edmonds's debut London exhibition, the choice to unite his work in Black and white, and the body's relationship with sculpture in his work.
Please register via Eventbrite. As gallery capacity is limited, we recommend arriving on time to guarantee a seat.
John Edmonds (b. 1989) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He has been the subject of solo and two-person exhibitions at Cincinnati Art Museum (2022); Foam, Amsterdam (2022); and the Brooklyn Museum, New York (2020–2021). Recent group exhibitions include Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility, curated by Ashley James, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York (2023); The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Baltimore Museum of Art (2023); Black Modernism – Africa and the Avantgarde, Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster (2022); The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time, Brooklyn Museum, New York (2021); Ex-Africa: African Presences in Contemporary Art, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris (2021); Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2019); and God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin, curated by Hilton Als, David Zwirner, New York (2019). His work is included in public collections including MoMA, Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Guggenheim, all New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Edmonds is the recipient of the Foam Paul Huf Award 2021, the UOVO Prize 2021, and is a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grantee for 2023-2024.
Ekow Eshun is a writer and curator. He is Chairman of the Fourth Plinth, overseeing the foremost public art programme in the UK, and the former Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. He is curator, most recently of The Time is Always Now, currently on show at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and was awarded the Curatorial Prize 2023 by the Association for Art History for In the Black Fantastic at the Hayward Gallery, 2022. He is the author of books including Black Gold of the Sun, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, and Africa State of Mind, nominated for the Lucie Photo Book Prize.
