The greatest artwork and images reveals to see in March 2026

From latex gloves and presidential peepholes to cash-and-carry warehouses after darkish, this month’s exhibitions circle energy, visibility, and who will get to say area. Across London, Margate, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, and New York, artists flip intimacy into theatre, heritage into set, and the physique into battleground and archive. Authority is miniaturised, memes immortalised, and migration is traced by means of gesture and reminiscence. What binds this listing isn’t a single theme however a shared insistence that wanting is rarely impartial, and that freedom – whether or not private, political or planetary – is at all times below negotiation. Until subsequent month!

Síomha Harrington’s UK solo debut phases intimacy as one thing rehearsed, negotiated, and just a little bit harmful. Across 12 small-scale work and one commanding central canvas, latex gloves, ribbons, and choreographed gestures type a decent visible language of want and management. Bodies hover between company and submission, performer and prop, drawing the viewer into the mechanics of wanting. Co-curated with Maudji Mendel, the work is proven in dialogue with Valentine Dobrée’s Black Gloves (1930).

A Spy in the House of Love runs 20 March – 25 April 2026 at ALICE BLACK, London, UK

A Pakistani family-owned money and carry warehouse turns into an after-hours stage in Alina Akbar’s Queen of the Night. Set inside Haji Cash & Carry (which was established in 1955), this multi-artform exhibition strikes throughout images, sculpture, sound, and movie, drawing from late-night automobile conversations between younger Muslim girls. At its centre is a Nissan Micra, recast as each sculptural object and personal third area, the place voices converse on freedom, surveillance, jinn folklore, and inherited anxiousness. Devotional symbols and youth ephemera are enlarged, twisted, and performed with, exposing the tightrope between ritual and rise up. Tender, humorous, and defiant, the present asks who heritage belongs to – and who will get to rewrite it.

Queen of the Night runs 26–29 March 2026 at Haji Cash & Carry, Rochdale, UK

Benjamin Slinger turns a former bike store on an ex-council property right into a scaled duplicate of the Oval Office. Except that nobody can enter it. The area is sealed off behind a fabricated presidential door, viewable solely by means of a brass door peephole. Mouldings, carpet, gloss paint, and gilt frames compress a long time of presidential interiors right into a single composite set. Here, authority is missing, theatrical, and barely off – which seems like enterprise as standard…

Jib Door runs 13 February – 13 March 2026 at Best Wishes, @ Next Door, London, UK

Opening in Riverside – an space at the moment below intensified ICE policing – Devyn Galindo’s Smoking Mirror meets the current second head-on. Through a decolonial lens, the two-spirit Mēxika-Indigenous artist traces their paternal household’s migration routes from the pueblos of West Texas and New Mexico to California’s strawberry fields and barrios. Sacred ruins and cosmologies sit alongside razor wire, labour histories, and the continuing violence of the US-Mexico border. The fable of the “American Cowboy” unravels below stress as private archive folds into collective resistance, positioning the US-Mexico border as each a wound and a website of survival.

Smoking Mirror opens 26 March 2026 at Norco College Gallery, Riverside, California, USA

Guest-curated by Wondering People, Tracing Movement borrows Patti Smith’s line, “The first sensation I remember is movement”, and gathers works by Andrew Pierce Scott, Nathalia Triantyfili, William van Hoorn, Jiahe Zhang, and Elena Zagari to suppose by means of migration, bodily gesture, collective motion, and environmental put on. Movement right here is bodily, political, and intimate, and the works are in-process and lived-in versus something declarative or mounted – tracing how shifts in area and group occur, usually quietly, over time.

Tracing Movement runs 4 March – 18 April 2026 at Soho Revue, London, UK

Christine Tien Wang and Rachel Youn put self-care and meme tradition into an infinite loop. Wang paints the web’s detritus – from thirst traps to viral villains – with Old Master precision, immortalising content material that’s meant to be discarded or disappear. Youn, in the meantime, rigs therapeutic massage weapons, child rockers, and car-wash bristles into twitching, overworked sculptures that maintain performing lengthy after their function has ended. Together, they flip dopamine machines inside out. It’s a present about late capitalism’s promise of consolation that by no means fairly lands – humorous, bleak, and painfully correct. 

Factory Doomscroll runs 21 February – 4 April 2026 at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA

Set in Forma’s 24/7 window gallery in Bermondsey Square, Between Here and Elsewhere centres the movie Open Country (2025) which follows a Somali mom and daughter travelling from London into the Kent countryside. As the daughter information a cassette for her grandmother in Somalia, belonging turns into one thing each claimed and questioned. New photographic works line the gallery’s glass window, figures caught mid-reflection, simply as seen as they’re unreachable. A quiet, obligatory examine of migration and the stress between being right here whereas eager for elsewhere.

Between Here and Elsewhere runs 26 February – 7 June 2026 at Forma, Bermondsey Square, London, UK

What began as a self-imposed problem of what number of portraits he may make in a day turned 90 faces photographed over three days. Now, it’s the primary chapter in a lifelong mission. Street-cast in London with Coco Wu, these headshot portraits strip every thing again. Printed as photopolymer gravures and put in as a dense constellation. Davison plans to repeat the method yearly.

Portraits: 14–16 November runs 6 March – 2 April 2026 at Cob Gallery, London, UK

Curated by Bryan Stevenson, it is a centered survey of Gordon Parks spanning 1942–1967. From American Gothic, Washington, D.C. to the 1963 March on Washington and his Segregation within the South collection, Parks’ digicam operates precisely as he described it: a weapon towards racism and poverty. Stevenson’s curation sharpens the present-tense urgency of resistance, erasure, and civil rights below menace. What must be historic artefacts are as a substitute paperwork of our time.

We Shall Not Be Moved runs 5 March – 11 April 2026 at Alison Jacques, London, UK

Tate Modern phases the most important survey of Tracey Emin’s work up to now, spanning 4 a long time of confession, rupture, and return. My Bed, Exorcism of the Last Painting I Ever Made, early video works, and textiles sit alongside new bronzes and work formed by sickness, survival, and what Emin calls her “second life”. 

A Second Life runs 27 February – 31 August 2026 at Tate Modern, London, UK

Born from Perryman’s personal prime surgical procedure journey, TOPS strikes from brief movie to images to monograph. The photos maintain tenderness with out softening the stakes. At the centre of TOPS is group. Framed by John Edmonds’ poem ON THE L, scars develop into an archive, caregiving an act of survival, and trans-masculine vulnerability one thing fiercely seen. 

TOPS runs 9 March – 17 April 2026 at 10 14 Gallery, London, UK

Shaped by her personal being pregnant and time working in a Dutch abortion clinic, Verena Blok turns her lens on copy. Full of contradictions: intimacy and autonomy, pleasure and grief, care and management, the photographs are shot on analogue 35mm and have portraits of pregnant girls, youngsters, and {couples} alongside abstractions and diary fragments, bridging the private to the political. At a second when reproductive rights are more and more fragile, Blok chooses to concentrate on the messy, embodied actuality of alternative.

Love Shit runs 6 March – 25 May 2026 at Foam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

First profiled in Dazed final yr as “a diasporic archive of transness”, Ezekiel’s Somewhere Between a Doll and a Dog now expands into an exhibition in Margate – a city at the moment represented by Reform UK. Shot over three years throughout the UK, the Philippines, Europe, and the US, the work strikes by means of raves, prisons, bedrooms, and mythologies, tracing masculinity as one thing unstable and porous. Refusing Western binaries, Ezekiel builds a trans archive that’s planetary, non secular, and defiantly seen. 

Somewhere Between a Doll and a Dog launches 21 March 2026 at CRATE, Margate, UK

From X-rays to endoscopies, Overexposed asks what it means to dwell in an age the place the physique is endlessly imaged, scanned, and rendered clear. Bringing collectively historic medical artefacts, movie, and set up, the exhibition tracks how applied sciences designed to diagnose and surveil have reshaped concepts of privateness, vulnerability, and management. Works by figures together with Barbara Hammer and Ana Mendieta sit alongside 16 girls and gender-expansive artists from 13 nations to reframe visibility as each energy and publicity. 

Overexposed runs 14 March 2026 – 3 January 2027 on the Museum of the Moving Image, New York, USA

Part of the broader Sustaining the Otherwise programme, Practising Freedom and Refusal shifts restitution past the return of objects and into the realm of reminiscence, labour, and information. Featuring AYO, Masimba Hwati, Christian Nyampeta, Adeju Thompson, and Helena Uambembe, the present treats inventive apply as a website the place reparation is felt. Sound, textile, movie, and sculpture ask what it means to refuse extractive programs, and what freedom appears to be like like when constructed by means of intimacy, examine, and care. 

Practising Freedom and Refusal runs 27 February – 24 April 2026 at Metro54, Amsterdam, Netherlands

South Korea’s first main institutional exhibition devoted to queer topics arrives at Art Sonje Center this spring. Spectrosynthesis Seoul, offered by Sunpride Foundation in collaboration with Art Sonje Center, gathers over 70 LGBTQ+ artists and collectives, centring on the concepts of reminiscence, place, and type throughout each native and worldwide practices. With “trans” as a core theme, the exhibition foregrounds the lives of queer individuals marginalised throughout Korea’s speedy modernisation, tracing how our bodies, identities, and communities have been rearticulated throughout time.

Spectrosynthesis Seoul is operating from 20 March 20 till 28 Jun 2026 at Art Sonje Center.