Art in West Yorkshire
Arts Calendar lists 50 exhibitions, 14 workshops and classes and 2 drawing groups at 24 venues in West Yorkshire. Leeds has the most, with 29. Tuesday is the busiest night, with 6 of the regular listings.
Exhibitions on these days
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Opens Sat 16 Jan
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Opens Thu 28 Jan
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Closes Sun 3 Jan
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Closes Sun 3 Jan
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Closes Sun 3 Jan
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Closes Sun 10 Jan
Exhibition
‘Some Steel’: Sculpture and Steel in Britain, 1960-90
Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, West Yorkshire
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Closes Sun 10 Jan
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Closes Sun 10 Jan
Exhibition
Ebb & Flow: Bookworks by Yoko Terauchi from the Research Library
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, West Yorkshire
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Closes Sun 17 Jan
Exhibition
David Hockney: 20 Flowers for 2025 And Some Bigger Pictures
Salts Mill, Shipley, West Yorkshire
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Closes Sat 23 Jan
Exhibition
David Steans: Paperhouse
Leeds Arts University Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds, West Yorkshire
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Until 7 Feb 2027
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Until 13 Feb 2027
Exhibition
Seiko Kinoshita: Distant: Shared Memories of Home
The Art House, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Until 28 Feb 2027
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Until 28 Feb 2027
Exhibition
Angela Harding: A Chronicle of Birds and Beasts
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Until 6 Mar 2027
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Until 14 Mar 2027
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Until 28 Mar 2027
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Until 11 Apr 2027
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Until 11 Apr 2027
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Until 18 Apr 2027
Exhibition
Hold to This Earth: Works by Contemporary Indigenous North American Artists from Tia Collection
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Until 25 Apr 2027
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Until 25 Apr 2027
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Until 3 May 2027
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Until 1 Jun 2027
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Until 6 Jun 2027
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Until 29 Aug 2027
Exhibition
Dinner Party: With Matthew Smith, Jacob Epstein, Olivia Bax
Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, West Yorkshire
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Until 31 Dec 2027
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Until 21 Oct 2029
Tuesday 5 January
Born on this day: Bernard Leach (1887) and Yves Tanguy (1900)
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Tue 5 Jan 19:00 21:00
Monday 11 January
Happy birthday to Christian Marclay (72 today)
Born on this day: Eva Hesse (1936) and Parmigianino (1503)
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Mon 11 Jan 19:00 21:00
Tuesday 12 January
Happy birthday to Beverly Joubert (70 today)
Born on this day: John Singer Sargent (1856), Philip Webb (1831) and Rosalba Carriera (1673)
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Tue 12 Jan 19:00 21:00
Friday 15 January
Happy birthday to Andreas Gursky (72 today)
Born on this day: Giovanni Segantini (1858)
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Fri 15 Jan 13:00 14:30
Tuesday 19 January
Happy birthday to Cindy Sherman (73 today)
Born on this day: Madge Gill (1882), Paul Cézanne (1839), Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889) and William Powell Frith (1819)
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Tue 19 Jan 19:00 21:00
Tuesday 26 January
Happy birthday to Barbara Kruger (82 today)
Born on this day: Kees van Dongen (1877) and Paula Rego (1935)
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Tue 26 Jan 19:00 21:00
Everything listed in West Yorkshire
Exhibitions 50
- Assassins and Lovers
- Ephemeral
- Pop Art at Cartwright Hall
- The David Hockney Gallery
- We Feed The UK
- Calderdale Open Art Exhibition 2026
- Stunning Skies
- Dean Clough Artists Biennial Exhibition
- Halifax Photographic Society
- Olena Baranova: Feelings of the Second Sort
- Roy Holt: Wall Features
- Tapestry of the North
- Forage & Feast
- ABREAST
- Anji Timlin: Conduit – Wharfespeed
- Fran’s Life Group
- ‘Some Steel’: Sculpture and Steel in Britain, 1960-90
- David Steans: Paperhouse
- Dinner Party: With Matthew Smith, Jacob Epstein, Olivia Bax
- Ebb & Flow: Bookworks by Yoko Terauchi from the Research Library
- FUAM 2026: The Friends of University Art and Music Graduate Art Prize
- Leeds 400: Places
- Lines of Enquiry: Drawings from the collection
- Mike Nelson: M62 (East, West)
- Reflections in Silver
- Sagarika Sundaram: Reservoir
- Sophie Taeuber-Arp: A Legacy in Print
- Steve McQueen: Resistance
- Untangled
- Zoe Maxwell: Came and Gone Before
- David Hockney: 20 Flowers for 2025 And Some Bigger Pictures
- Ian Beesley: Life Goes On
- Ally Rosenberg: Personal Growth
- Andy Welland: IMAGINED TERRITORIES
- Angela Harding: A Chronicle of Birds and Beasts
- Annie Montgomerie: Missies and Nippers
- Fotohane x The Art House
- Hold to This Earth: Works by Contemporary Indigenous North American Artists from Tia Collection
- Hospital Rooms: What Art Can Change
- Ida Ekblad: WORLD’S LARGEST METAPHOR
- Jakob Rowlinson: ROTATOR
- Lewis Hammond: Crystal in the Shade
- MADE
- Marc Chagall: The Circus
- Mrinalini Mukherjee: Unbound Forms
- Nicola Turner: Time’s Scythe
- Olivia Bax: Double Take
- Pyramid: Postcards from the World
- Seiko Kinoshita: Distant: Shared Memories of Home
- YSP MADE x Design-Nation Showcase
Workshops and classes 14
- Kintsugi Ceramics Workshop
- Absolute Beginners Pottery Throwing
- Collograph Taster
- Experimental Screen Printing
- Gelli Printing Taster
- Letterpress: Woodtype Posters
- Linocut Christmas Cards
- Mono-Screen Printing
- Monoprinting Taster
- Photogravure Etching
- Print Club
- Screen Printing Festive Cards
- Screen Printing with Natural Colour for Paper
- Textile Screen Printing
Drawing groups 2
Towns in West Yorkshire
- Leeds (29)
- Wakefield (18)
- Bradford (6)
- Halifax (5)
- Ilkley (3)
- Brighouse (2)
- Shipley (2)
- Hebden Bridge (1)
Something in West Yorkshire we are missing?
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