Exhibition
Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition 2026
26 Feb-7 Mar 2026
Mall Galleries/Federation of British Artists
London SW1Y 5AS
2025. Credit: Malcolm Ashman RBA
Overview
Welcome to the RBA Annual Exhibition 2026, an exciting and expansive survey of contemporary art practice. Founded in 1823 and granted the 'Royal' prefix in 1887, the RBA has remained one of the world’s premier art societies for more than 200 years.
The Society’s members, among the leading artists in the UK and beyond, present recent works alongside non-members, selected from thousands of entries. The annual exhibition promises to deliver audiences a show eclectic in medium and subject but consistent in ambition and quality.
The Society is especially excited to feature the work of Ken Nwadiogbu, the most recent recipient of the prestigious RBA Rome Scholarship.
To be awarded on the occasion of the annual exhibition is a variety of significant prizes, including The Huaicun Zhang Award of £10,000 for a work (or works) of exceptional quality.
A series of special events will accompany the exhibition, including the RBA Annual Lecture.
Tanoa Sasraku: Morale Patch
ICA
until 11 Jan
Wright of Derby: From the Shadows
The National Gallery
until 10 May
Hannah Claus: tsi iotnekahtentiónhatie - éntie nonkwá:ti - where the waters flow - south shore
Canada Gallery
until 7 Feb
Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2025
National Portrait Gallery
until 8 Feb
Emma Stibbon: Melting Ice | Rising Tides
Cristea Roberts Gallery
until 22 Nov
Dana Schutz: One Big Animal
Thomas Dane Gallery
until 20 Dec
Helen Marten: Treatise of a Coat
Sadie Coles HQ, Bury Street
until 15 Nov
Celebrating 100 Years Part 1: Modern British and Latin American Art
The Mayor Gallery
until 19 Dec
Karlo Kacharava: Sometimes Ballerina, Sometimes Priest, in Reality, a Murderer
Modern Art, Bury Street
until 29 Nov
Cato
Saatchi Yates
until 5 Jan
A Story of South Asian Art: Mrinalini Mukherjee and Her Circle
Royal Academy Of Arts
until 24 Feb
Black, Grey, Green and White and If I were in the Adlon
Frith Street Gallery
until 22 Nov
William Tillyer: The Watering Place
Bernard Jacobson Gallery
until 28 Nov
Rachel Rose: Slips
Pilar Corrias, Savile Row
until 17 Jan
Albisola: A Season of Artists
Mazzoleni
until 19 Dec
Mary Kelly, We don't want to set the world on fire
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery
until 17 Jan
DAG ERIK ELGIN - Originals / La Collection Moderne-en-valise
Anthony Wilkinson
until 29 Nov
Lewis Brander: East and West
Vardaxoglou Gallery
until 13 Dec
Antonio Dias: The Illustration of Art, 1969 – 1971
Sprovieri
until 28 Nov