UK Reviews

From KJ Abudu’s reckoning with the ghosts of Africa’s past at Pace, London, to a harrowing Howardena Pindell survey at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge

A retrospective at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, highlights the artist's uses of collage and abstraction to circle blatant and coded atrocities

At Sadie Coles HQ, London, the artist turns his pin-sharp brushwork to depth and volume, conjuring surfaces that seemingly scoop and protrude

At Compton Verney, the artist’s first large-scale survey celebrates a career spent experimenting with colour

The artist and poet invites us into her world of rage, vulnerability and humour at ICA, London

From Thomas J Price’s Windrush Commission in Hackney to Alex Margo Arden’s bizarre ‘not closing down sale’ in Clerkenwell

A staged ‘not closing down sale’ at Ginny on Frederick, London, advertises a space in which nothing is quite as it seems

At Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, a trilogy of works delves into the domestic exploitation of Southern Italian women

The seaside festival returns with 20 new commissions, addressing climate change, coastal erosion, folklore and displacement 

At Thomas Dane Gallery, London, the artist explores how class domination is maintained through the conservation of objects

From Rhea Dillon’s reverential found objects at Soft Opening, London, to Douglas Gordon’s rumination on ancestral trauma at Dundee Contemporary Arts

At Dundee Contemporary Arts, the first UK institutional presentation of the film k.364 ruminates on ancestral trauma, travel and music

Two exhibitions at Modern Art Oxford and Camden Arts Centre, London, examine the impermanence of power

The artist’s first solo exhibition at David Zwirner, London, absorbs us into single, intimate moments

Salena Barry selects her top picks – from Nicola L.’s kinky, penetrable sculptures at Alison Jacques to Jeff Wall’s monumental photographs at White Cube

Sam Moore selects their top picks – from William Brickel’s contorted bodies at The Artist Room to Garrett Pruter’s reimagining of Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’ at Trafalgar Avenue 

A group exhibition of works by Clémentine Bruno, Mara Fortunatović, Eva Gold and Bella Riza at London’s Nicoletti Contemporary wrestles with ideas of loss, absence and yearning

The artist’s latest show, at Corvi-Mora, London, depicts men stripped of their social identities

At Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, the artist confronts the representation of Black figures in Western art history, erasing the white nobility

Jonathan Watkins’s triumphant swansong, after 23-years at the helm of Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, is the kind of historical show normally reserved for big public institutions