Artists

Simone Leigh

Press release

Experience the largest exhibition to date of world-renowned artist Simone Leigh. 

New York-based sculptor Simone Leigh takes over the Main Galleries of the RA in her first major UK exhibition in autumn 2027.

Bringing together bronze and ceramic sculpture with film in large-scale installations, Leigh will create monumental new works on occasion of this exhibition. Drawing on African cultures and their diasporas, the artist's practice centres the histories and experiences of Black women.