National Portrait Gallery
Upcoming
Talks & Events
Curator’s introduction to the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2025
20 Nov 2025 1-2pm
Past
Talks & Events
Chantal Joffe and Katy Hessel in conversation17 Oct 2025
Talks & Events
The influence of Edvard Munch with Ali Smith23 May 2025
Talks & Events
The Face Magazine: Culture Shift15 May 2025
Talks & Events
Youthful opportunities: photographing for The Face in the 1990s with Elaine Constantine3 Apr 2025
Talks & Events
Curator’s introduction to Edvard Munch Portraits28 Mar 2025
Exhibition
Edvard Munch Portraits13 Mar-15 Jun 2025
Talks & Events
Christine Granville: Britain’s first female spy16 Jan 2025
2024
2023
About
We tell the story of Britain through portraits, using art to bring history to life and explore living today
We look after the world’s greatest collection of portraits. Spanning six centuries, our artworks reveal the inspiring and sometimes surprising personal stories that have shaped, and continue to shape a nation - from global icons to local champions, national treasures to unsung heroes.
We are also passionate about portraiture, always progressing our art form, championing artists and encouraging creativity. We celebrate the power of portraiture to create person-to-person connections and the experiences we provide offer encounters with some of the world’s greatest artists as well as the very best in contemporary art.
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Hannah Claus: Where the waters flow
Canada Gallery
until 24 Jan
Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller's Neo-Impressionists
The National Gallery
until 8 Feb
Strolling Through Korean Gardens
Korean Cultural Centre UK
until 14 Nov
Tanoa Sasraku: Morale Patch
ICA
until 11 Jan
Tuli Mekondjo
St. James's Church Piccadilly
until 12 Nov
Lewis Brander: East and West
Vardaxoglou Gallery
until 13 Dec
William Tillyer: The Watering Place
Bernard Jacobson Gallery
until 28 Nov
Black, Grey, Green and White and If I were in the Adlon
Frith Street Gallery
until 22 Nov
Emma Stibbon: Melting Ice | Rising Tides
Cristea Roberts Gallery
until 22 Nov
Andreas Gursky
White Cube, Mason’s Yard
until 8 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
Július Koller: Antihappening
The Mayor Gallery
until 31 Oct
Karlo Kacharava: Sometimes Ballerina, Sometimes Priest, in Reality, a Murderer
Modern Art, Bury Street
until 29 Nov
Marina Abramović
Saatchi Yates
until 31 Oct
Manuel Mathieu: Bury Your Masters
Pilar Corrias, Savile Row
until 1 Nov
Kerry James Marshall: The Histories
Royal Academy Of Arts
until 18 Jan
Shaqúelle Whyte, Winter Remembers April
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery
until 9 Nov