Portraiture

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The artist discusses his found-image collection and the mutating, collaborative motifs it inspires within his practice

BY Ivana Cholakova AND Anthony Cudahy |

At Modern Art Oxford, the artist’s monumental new film examines 15 judges working in England and Wales 

BY Cathy Wade |

Terence Trouillot profiles the maverick painter, reflecting on how the artist’s work is intertwined with his community and personal histories

BY Terence Trouillot |

Jonathan Carver Moore speaks to the artist about building Black queer communities through art

‘Namatjira’s political leaders all look frozen, dull behind the eyes, whiter than white, and as if battling an internal war with their fakery and greed’

BY Wes Hill |

A series of extraordinary self-portraits taken in rural France over three decades prompt questions around gender, identity and biography

BY Philip Myall |

‘I have learned from John that you don’t need to shout in order to make an impact’

BY Celia Paul |

A tribute to the late South African photographer, creator of idiosyncratic portrayals of everyday life under the yoke of apartheid

BY Sean O'Toole |

A surprising show of silhouettes at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. sheds light on obscure chapters of US history 

BY Evan Moffitt |

A mix of unashamed nudes and demure portraits, Zhao Gang's paintings take in 21st-century China with feigned crudeness and humour 

BY Matthew Shen Goodman |

Toyin Ojih Odutola’s portraits of a fictional aristocratic Nigerian family push toward an expanded definition of the ‘black experience’

BY Chase Quinn |

Madeleine Thien takes a look at a celebrated painter who merged Western composition with Chinese brush-and-ink style

BY Madeleine Thien |

Will Elliott of Colnaghi reveals the stormy history of an exquisite French portrait going on view this week at Frieze Masters

Race, sexuality and portraiture

BY Evan Moffitt |

Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith examines the relationship between image and painting in the work of Marlene Dumas

Illustration and art history collide in Sanya Kantarovsky’s paintings

BY Scott Roben |

Painting as sculpture as performance

BY Kasia Redzisz |

Sylvia Sleigh’s extraordinary ‘history pictures’

BY Quinn Latimer |

At a time of revolution in digital technologies, when making extraordinary images has never been technically easier, painting persists. Jennifer Higgie asked eight artists to share their thoughts on the whys and wherefores of figurative painting

BY Jennifer Higgie |

The paintings, drawings and animations of Tala Madani

BY Aram Moshayedi |