15 Apr Richard Hunt at White Cube from Friday 25 April

The first London retrospective of work by Richard Hunt (1935–2023), one of the foremost American sculptors of the 20th and 21st centuries, opens at White Cube Bermondsey on Friday 25 April 2025.  Over his long career, Hunt staged more than 170 solo shows and completed over 160 large-scale public sculpture commissions worldwide. In 1971, he was the first African American sculptor whose work was the focus of a retrospective at New York’s MoMA. Working predominantly in metal, Hunt was inspired by biology and the natural world. His hybrid sculptures present dualities, the natural and the industrial, the surreal and the abstract, the geometric and the organic. Hunt paid tribute to some of America’s greatest heroes in his work, including Martin Luther King Jr., Mary McLeod Bethune, Jesse Owens and Hobart Taylor Jr. In 2022, he was commissioned by Barack Obama to create a work for the Obama Presidential Centre in Chicago.

The White Cube gallery is free to visit. It is at 144-152 Bermondsey Street SE1 3TQ. More here http://www.whitecube.com