Open: Sat-Wed 10am-6pm, Thu-Fri 10am-8pm

Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS, London, United Kingdom
Open: Sat-Wed 10am-6pm, Thu-Fri 10am-8pm


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Noah Davis

Barbican, London

Thu 6 Feb 2025 to Sun 11 May 2025

Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS Noah Davis

Sat-Wed 10am-6pm, Thu-Fri 10am-8pm

Artist: Noah Davis

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£18 / £13 concessions
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Pay What You Can: every Thursday 5pm-8pm
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Reviews:
Noah Davis review - LA painter of everyday black life is a revelation - Laura Cumming, The Observer
Noah Davis review - thrilling strangeness from a painter brimming with ideas and adventure - Adrian Searle, The Guardian

Celebrating the late artist’s expansive creativity, this debut retrospective showcases Noah Davis as one of the most original and uncanny painters emerging in recent years.

Installation Views

Primarily based in Los Angeles, Noah Davis created a body of figurative paintings that explores a range of Black life.

Motivated by the desire to ‘represent the people around me’, Davis painted figures diving into pools, sleeping, dancing, and looking at art in scenes that can be both realistic and dreamlike, joyful and melancholic. Davis drew from anonymous photography, personal archives, film, art history and his imagination to create a ravishing body of work. Often enigmatic, his paintings reveal a deep feeling for humanity and the emotional textures of the everyday.

In 2012, Davis co-founded The Underground Museum to give free access to world-class art for the people of Arlington Heights, LA. This exhibition presents over 50 of Davis’ works in painting, sculpture, curating and community-building from 2007 to his untimely death in 2015.

Noah Davis, Installation view, Barbican Art Gallery, 2025. Photo: © Jemima Yong / Barbican Art Gallery

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