Bella Ramón is an MA Art and Business student at the Ģ����Ƶ Institute with a background in Art History from the University of St Andrews. Her research examines the ways market categories are constructed and contested, themes that anchor her dissertation on the rise and fall of the dedicated Latin American art auction sale in the United States.

Alongside her studies, Bella has gained experience across the commercial gallery and art advisory sectors, as well as independently curating a private exhibition on Uruguayan artist Mario Giacoya, marking his second show in the USA. Of Uruguayan heritage herself, she brings a personal investment to her work, driven by a commitment to increasing the visibility of Latin American and Latinx artists and to critically examining the structures that have determined whose work reaches the international art market, and on what terms.

Rea Tonelli is an MA Art and Business student at the Ģ����Ƶ Institute with a background in Art History and Business from George Washington University. Her interdisciplinary foundation reflects her interest in the relationship between creative practice and strategic thinking, and the ways in which they shape the contemporary art world. Her research centres emerging art markets and the ways in which new cultural economies are formed, particularly in post-communist contexts.

Rea’s experiences across gallery, museum, and non-profit settings have given her a broad understanding of the art world beyond the classroom. Her curiosity and love of learning shape her approach to every opportunity, as she continues to explore innovative approaches to contribute to a more accessible and inclusive art world.

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We are delighted to announce our programme of exhibitions and displays for 2027.

2027 EXHIBITIONS

Paula Rego: Dog Woman
5 February – 23 May 2027

This will be the first retrospective exhibition dedicated to the groundbreaking series of pastels created by Paula Rego (1935-2022) between 1994-95. Among the artist’s most striking, sensual and unsettling works, the large-scale Dog Woman��pastels revolutionised the way in which women are represented. They also cemented Rego’s reputation as one of the most radical and influential artists of our time.

The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition: Turner and the Landscape Generation. Journeys in Watercolour
18 June – 5 September 2027

This exhibition explores the work of four ground-breaking British artists. Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), John Constable (1776-1837), Thomas Girtin (1775-1802) and John Sell Cotman (1782-1842) were part of a pioneering generation who transformed British art and the practice of landscape watercolour.

Featuring masterpieces from the Ģ����Ƶ Gallery alongside loans from major UK collections, the exhibition will trace journeys taken by these four artists – such as Turner’s travels in Switzerland and Germany, Cotman’s tour of Yorkshire, Constable’s trips to the Lake District, and journeys made by Girtin, Turner and Cotman across Wales. The exhibition will chart how these artists placed landscape at the heart of their practice and made it the focus of British art.

Georgia O’Keeffe: Ghost Ranch
1 October 2027 – 30 January 2028

This is the first exhibition devoted to the remarkable landscapes produced by the celebrated American artist Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) at and around her home and studio at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. These works, created over two decades from the mid 1930s to 1950s, form one of the most significant and original groups of landscape paintings of the 20th century, which transcend the conventions of the genre. Almost two dozen works will make up the exhibition, most of which have never been shown in the UK.

2027 DISPLAYS

Drawing in the Age of Bruegel: New Discoveries
5 February – 16 May 2027
Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery��

This display from the Ģ����Ƶ’s collection brings together an exceptional selection of drawings by Flemish artists of the 16th and early 17th centuries, revealing the extraordinary creativity, technical skill and observational power that shaped one of Europe’s most influential artistic periods. Among this group of artists, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1526/27–1569) stands as a pivotal figure in the evolution of the landscape tradition. His drawings are renowned for their sweeping panoramas and elevated viewpoints, while his scenes of daily life present the world as both keenly observed and imaginatively ordered.��

Paula Rego:  Pendle Witches
5 February – 23 May 2027
Project Space

The display focuses on a suite of etchings and aquatint prints titled Pendle Witches, which Paula Rego (1935–2022) executed in 1996, inspired by poems by the writer Blake Morrison (b. 1950). Morrison’s poems blend private, domestic themes and everyday situations with references to major events, including disquieting murder cases and ecological threats. At the time of the making of the Pendle Witches series, Rego and Morrison were close friends, as Morrison has said, ‘because we were exploring similar issues in our work – grief, violence, misogyny, sexuality, the knowingness or otherwise of children’. Yet, far from being illustrations of Morrison’s poems, Rego drew inspiration from them to create her own stories.����

Rubens: The Master and his Circle
26 May – 12 September 2027
Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery��

Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) presided over one of the most dynamic artistic workshops of 17th century Europe, with drawing at the centre of his practice. For Rubens, draughtsmanship was a way of thinking: rapid pen sketches capture the first stirrings of complex compositional scenes, while chalk studies reveal his research into anatomical studies and his mastery of light and volume.

Rubens’s prolific output, international reputation and dynamic technical skills influenced many artists who learnt directly from the master or were inspired by him. Selected from the Ģ����Ƶ’s collection, this display will showcase some of their works, including drawings by Anthony van Dyck, Jacques Jordaens and Abraham van Diepenbeeck. Together, these drawings illuminate a creative community defined by exchange, experimentation and the continual reworking of ideas that helped shape Baroque art across Europe.��

Georgia O’Keeffe: Photographs at Ghost Ranch
1 October 2027 – 30 January 2028
Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery��

This display will present around 20 photographs of Georgia O’Keeffe at her New Mexico home, drawn from photoshoots commissioned by Life Magazine from the famed photographers Philippe Halsman (1906-1979) and John Loengard (1934-2020) in 1948 and 1966, respectively. Featuring previously unpublished photographs and rare colour images, the display will give visitors an added sense of the extraordinary, vast landscapes around Ghost Ranch and of O’Keeffe’s life there, while offering insights into how her image was presented and marketed.

Vanessa Bell: A Rediscovery��
October 2027 – February 2028
Project Space

An important new addition to the Ģ����Ƶ’s leading collection of art by the Bloomsbury Group will go on display in October 2027. Previously unknown and not seen in public in over a century, this pair of painted wooden panels, attributed to Vanessa Bell (1879 – 1961), was made at the Omega Workshops in London between 1913 and 1916.

Originally the doors of a wardrobe, the panels feature two stylised female figures wearing the style of dresses sold at the Omega from the middle of 1915. Acquired the year the Omega Workshops closed in 1919, they have remained in the same family ever since and have been generously donated to the Ģ����Ƶ, where they have undergone a major conservation project.����

Ģ����Ƶ Commission 2026: Ella Walker
From 3 September 2026
The John Browne Entrance Hall and Ticketing Hall

Artist Ella Walker (b.1993) has created two new site-specific commissions for The John Browne Entrance Hall and the Ticketing Hall of the Ģ����Ƶ Gallery, which are free to visit.��

Walker’s monumental canvases, The Studio and Verdaccio Wall, draw on iconography, costume and poses observed in Gothic sculpture and Renaissance painting, as well as popular culture, to conjure scenes that flicker mysteriously across time periods. Walker’s work revels in the interplay between drawing and painting, with graphite often left visible and paint used to produce delicate lines. Her paintings possess a matt, chalky quality that is evocative of fresco – a type of wall and ceiling painting made on wet plaster.��

This is the second Ģ����Ƶ Commission, a series of annual commissions by contemporary artists for the Ģ����Ƶ Gallery, which launched in 2025 with new works by artist Rachel Jones.��

MA Curating exhibition��
18 June – 28 September 2027
Project Space����

A new exhibition curated by the Ģ����Ƶ Institute’s MA Curating students will open at the Ģ����Ƶ Gallery in summer 2027.��

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Artist Ella Walker (b.1993, Manchester, UK) today unveils two new site-specific commissions for the Ģ����Ƶ Gallery – the second in a series of annual commissions by contemporary artists to create new work for the gallery.

The new artworks are on display in The John Browne Entrance Hall and the Ticketing Hall and are free to visit.

Ella Walker creates monumental canvases that act like stages where bewitching figures gather. They combine observed settings and architectures with visual references spanning fine art, cinema, and fashion. They are dominated by figures whose gestures and interactions are both familiar and confounding, eschewing expected behaviour and transcending fixed roles. The new artworks continue the artist’s dialogue with traditional techniques and subjects from the Renaissance period, richly represented at the Ģ����Ƶ Gallery.

In Verdaccio Wall (2026), Walker draws on iconography, costume, and poses observed in Gothic sculptures and Renaissance painting as well as popular culture, creating scenes that flicker between time periods. The work depicts a group of women many of whom are smiling, breaking with traditional portraiture. Combining drawing and painting, with graphite often left visible and paint used to produce delicate lines, Walker’s paintings have a matt, chalky quality evocative of frescos.

In The Studio (2026), Walker paints the artist’s studio as a space in which images and memories are gathered in a collage-like process. Walker builds on the subject of the artist’s studio by reimagining Renaissance settings, such as Sandro Botticelli’s prolific workshop and whose use of bold colour, rendering of bodily volume and gesture have been a touchstone for Walker in creating this commission. She is fascinated by the abrupt shift in scale between figures found in his The Trinity with Saints Mary Magdalen and John the Baptist (around 1491-94), on view on the second floor of the Ģ����Ƶ Gallery – an effect that she deploys in this work to a less exaggerated extent. The street depicted in this work is based on urban sites and architecture, reconstructed from the artist’s memory, combined with found imagery.

Ella Walker said: “The Ģ����Ƶ Commission is an opportunity to think deeply about the surface of my paintings, the method of applying pigment to an absorbent ground, a ground that is rich with marble and chalk, and is very absorbent and textured. I hope the colours will glow, have transparency and movement within the collection of particles.”

Walker lives and works in London. She studied Fine Art at The Glasgow School of Art and The Royal Drawing School. Recent solo exhibitions include Idolâtrie, Le Château – Centre for Contemporary Art and Heritage of Aubenas, France (2025); The Romance of the Rose, Pilar Corrias, London (2024); After great pain, a formal feeling comes, Casey Kaplan, New York (2024); and Chorus, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany (2023).

This is the second in a series of annual commissions by contemporary artists to be displayed in The John Browne Entrance Hall and Ticketing Hall at the Ģ����Ƶ Gallery. Since the transformation of its Gallery in 2021, the Ģ����Ƶ has significantly expanded its offering of contemporary art, including major exhibitions by Peter Doig and Claudette Johnson, and a major commission by Cecily Brown. The first European solo exhibition of acclaimed New York painter Salman Toor will open on 2 October 2026. In January, the Ģ����Ƶ also announced it will be creating two new galleries dedicated to contemporary art, set to open in 2029 as part of the development of its new world-class campus at Somerset House

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MA Art and Business students at the Ģ����Ƶ Institute have recently undertaken a consultancy project at major London art institutions including Christie’s, London Gallery Weekend and Mall Galleries | Federation of British Artists as part of their course.

The Ģ����Ƶ Institute’s one-year MA Art and Business, launched in September 2025, is taught in collaboration with King’s Business School, and offers an unparalleled opportunity to develop the skills and knowledge you’ll need to succeed in today’s commercial art world. The consultancy project encompasses a group and individual component and allows Ģ����Ƶ students to demonstrate their skills in evaluating the professional environment of the art market and to apply their learning in a practical context.

The teams of students acted as consultants, working closely with their clients to come up with new solutions to their individual business challenges, which included pitching their ideas to the clients. Their business development recommendations included:

• Developing new platforms for registering client taste
• Programming strands that marry art and nightlife
• Demystifying the process of art collecting

Dr Leili Sreberny-Mohammadi, who lectures on the programme, said “The first year of the project was a real success, demonstrating the creativity, ingenuity and business acumen of the student cohort. Client feedback highlighted the passion, professionalism and innovation of the students and excitement for future collaborations.”

Find out more about MA Art and Business at the Ģ����Ƶ Institute.��

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Dr Lan Pu has joined the Ģ����Ƶ Institute as Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Lecturer in Conservation of Buddhist Heritage.

Lan has an MA in the Conservation of Wall Paintings and a PhD from the Institute, and a Master’s in Buddhist Studies from The University of Hong Kong. Her PhD thesis was on “Connections in the Making and Meaning of Bhutanese Wall Painting: Tango Utse, 17th – 20th Century.”

Lan has worked as a wall paintings conservator in the UK, Bhutan, and India. Lan has taught at the Ģ����Ƶ Institute on the Art History and Conservation of Buddhist Heritage MA, and on the Conservation of Wall Paintings MA as a teaching fellow, as well as for the Graduate Diploma programme. Lan’s research interests range from Buddhist wall paintings to thangkas in museum and temple collections. She has published in Building Craft Traditions in Tibetan and Himalayan Architecture and is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled “A Thin Section of Memory: Tracing the Multi-identity of Tango Monastery Through its Materiality.” Her research has been recognised by various funders, including the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Global.

Dr Clare Richardson, Head of Conservation, said: “It is always special to welcome back our alumni in a new capacity, and so we are particularly delighted to have Lan join the conservation faculty at the Ģ����Ƶ. Lan brings a wealth of specialist expertise to the study of Buddhist heritage from her research interests, alongside her broader knowledge and practical experience of wall paintings conservation. Lan’s teaching uses experiential learning to give a unique connection to the materiality of Buddhist Heritage which is both challenging and exciting for students, and I am excited to see how she will develop the conservation strand of this unique, interdisciplinary MA.”

Learn more about postgraduate study at the Ģ����Ƶ Institute.��

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Georgia O’Keeffe: Ghost Ranch����
1 October 2027 – 30 January 2028����
Denise Coates Exhibition Galleries����

The Ģ����Ƶ��has announced a major exhibition,��Georgia O’Keeffe: Ghost Ranch,��opening in Autumn 2027.

The exhibition��will��be the first��devoted to the remarkable landscapes produced by the pioneering American artist Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) at and around her home and studio at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. These works, created over two decades from the mid 1930s to 1950s, form one of the most significant and original groups of landscape paintings of the 20th��century and��transcend the conventions of the genre.��Almost two dozen works will make up the show,��with��most of them having��never before��been shown in the UK.

In 1929, O’Keeffe’s life and art underwent a dramatic change when she began spending time in the remote desert landscapes of northern New Mexico. Transfixed by��their��unique light, vast��skies��and rugged terrain, she returned for longer periods every year throughout the 1930s, deepening her connection to the region which would eventually become her home. In 1934 she discovered Ghost Ranch, a remote��dude��ranch in the high��desert set��amidst a dramatic landscape of red and yellow cliffs. Ghost Ranch became O’Keeffe’s centre in New Mexico; she rented a house there during��subsequent��summers before��purchasing��the Rancho de��los��Burros in 1940, creating a home and studio on the property.

The extraordinary terrain around Ghost Ranch became a major subject of O’Keeffe’s art over the following years. Her paintings depict the weathered rock formations surrounding the property and vast vistas of the looming flat-topped mountain, Cerro Pedernal, as well as visionary works featuring over-scaled flowers, bones, and skulls, which she collected from the desert ground.

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Upmanyu A. Magotra is an AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral and Curatorial Fellow at Tate and the Ģ����Ƶ, on the project ‘Imperial Intimacies: Portraiture and the East India Company, c.1757–1857’. He holds an MA History of Art, specialising in Early Modern Asian and Islamic Art, from the Ģ����Ƶ Institute and a dual bachelor’s degree in law and liberal arts from Jindal Global University. A recipient of the Princess Diana Award for art-led social entrepreneurship, Upmanyu has worked with leading collections and institutions worldwide, including the Art of Heritage Collection in Saudi Arabia, Eka Archiving Resources and India Art Fair.

Instagram: @upmanyu.magotra

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Jessica Morgan, who studied for an MA in History of Art at the Ģ����Ƶ Institute in 1992, has been confirmed as the new director of Tate.��

Having��worked as a curator��at Tate��for more than a decade,��she��will now��return to the��organisation��as��its��Director in��January,��overseeing Tate Britain, Tate Modern,��Tate Liverpool, and St Ives.��

She leaves her role as��Director of Dia Art Foundation,��which��she��has held��since 2015.����

Morgan said, “I look forward to this pivotal next stage at Tate and, most importantly, continuing and advancing the incredible work of Tate’s committed and talented team in the years to come.”��

The Ģ����Ƶ alumni community spans 83 countries, forming an international powerhouse that influences the arts and creative sectors on a global scale.��Morgan joins��a��number��of��Ģ����Ƶ alumni running��major museums and galleries��in the UK and worldwide, including:��

• Dr��Nicholas Cullinan��OBE, Director of the British Museum��(BA 2002, MA 2003, PhD 2010)

• Kaywin Feldman, Director of the National Gallery of Art,��Washington (MA 1991)

• Sir Gabriele Finaldi, Director of the National Gallery (BA 1987, MA 1989, PhD 1995)

• Dr��Alexander Sturgis��CBE, Director of the Ashmolean (PhD 1991)

• Dr Luke Syson, Director of Fitzwilliam Museum (BA 1987, PhD 1995)

• Dr Caroline Campbell, Director of the National Gallery of Ireland (MA 1995, PhD 2000)��

Read more about Ģ����Ƶ alumni here.��

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