Past Hayward Gallery Touring exhibitions
We’ve taken imaginative and ambitious exhibitions nationwide since 1946
Archive of touring exhibitions
2021 – 2024
Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood
Experience the joys and heartaches, myths and mishaps of motherhood through over 100 artworks.
After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989 – 2024
View the last 35 years through the lens of working class artists.
Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary
Descend into an exhibition of art that deals with subterranean worlds.
British Art Show 9
The ninth instalment of one of the most important exhibitions of contemporary art in the UK.
Not Without My Ghosts: The Artist As Medium
Works inspired by the methods of mediums and their deep cultural history.
2016 – 2020
Slow painting
An exhibition of paintings that take their time, and invite us to do the same.
How Chicago! Imagists 1960s & 70s
The first significant UK exhibition of work by the Chicago Imagists in almost 40 years.
Hand Drawn Action Packed
An exhibition of ten major international artists explores the narrative possibilities of drawing.
Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness
Hand-made, deliberately clumsy and lo-fi works contrast with the slick production of much contemporary art.
Louise Bourgeois Prints: Autobiographical Series and Set of 11 Drypoints
Two series of works by Louise Bourgeois (1911 – 2010) capture the artist’s deepest memories.
Collected Shadows: The Archive of Modern Conflict
Beguiling photographs selected from the Archive of Modern Conflict.
Elizabeth Price Curates: In a Dream You Saw a Way To Survive and You Were Full of Joy
Sculptures, drawings, photographs, film and videos explore the reclining human form.
British Art Show 8
The eight instalment of the British Art Show features the work of 42 contemporary artists.
Art from Elsewhere: International Contemporary Art from UK Galleries
Curator David Elliott brought together a personal selection of recently acquired international works.
Listening curated by Sam Belinfante
A pioneering exhibition investigates the act of listening in contemporary visual art.
2010 –2015
Jeremy Deller Curates ‘All That Is Solid Melts Into Air’
The Turner Prize winner curates an exhibition that delves into cultural history.
Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing
This group exhibition brings together curious historical artefacts and contemporary art.
The Universal Addressability of Dumb things
Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey treads the boundaries between the virtual and the real, the ‘dumb’ and the animate.
British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet
This mixed-media exhibition with work by 39 British artists looked at the idea of the comet as a harbinger of change.
A Universal Archive: William Kentridge as Printmaker
A mixed-media print exhibition of 100 experimental and serial works.
John Cage: Every Day is a Good Day
The first major retrospective in the UK of the visual art of the US composer and artist John Cage (1912–1992).
Magic Show
How do artists adopt the perception-shifting tactics of magicians?
The End of the Line: Attitudes in Drawing
A group exhibition of new and recent works by 11 international artists.
Mark Wallinger: The Russian Linesman
The artist curates work about disputed boundaries, drawn from over 2,000 years of history.
J.D 'Okhai Ojeikere: Hairstyles and Headdresses
The photographer J.D ‘Okhai Ojeikere untangles the intricacies of Nigerian hairstyles.
Reflections on the Self: Five African Women Photographers
The work of five contemporary African women photographers who explore women’s narratives through portraiture.
Disposable People: Contemporary Global Slavery
Eight Magnum photographers explored aspects of modern slavery.