After Light, The Bloom

Nov 25 –  Dec 13, 2025
London, UK

This exhibition explores how ecological life and new imaginaries can emerge from overlooked spaces, including architectural, technological, and emotional ones, where human presence has faded. Taking place in a transformed high-street building that had been vacant for seven years before reopening as a gallery this September, the exhibition grounds its inspiration in the reuse of a long-empty space as a metaphor for renewal and regeneration. Creating an atmosphere for slow returns, subtle rhythms, and speculative growth, the exhibition frames negative space not as void but as latent potential. After Light, The Bloom imagines how digital tools and environmental thinking can together rewild the ways we see and sense our world.

HALO

Nov 5, 2025 – ongoing through 2026
Sunderland, UK

The UK’s first carbon-neutral city-centre neighbourhood presents the UK premiere of HALO at the Expo Sunderland Pavilion. Richardson’s HALO (2021) is a sequel to one of the artist’s earliest works entitled Camp, a video which presents a cliché of outdoor life filmed in 1998. Representing the past, present and future, HALO references the significant feedback loop we are now in after decades of warnings. Campfires are now banned in the summer in British Columbia where the artist lives. With severe, extended droughts being the new normal, the risk of wildfire is extreme. Echoing a landmark scientific study which warns of increasingly extreme heatwaves, droughts and flooding (which this heatwave was followed by months later) the UN Secretary General said: “If we combine forces now, we can avert climate catastrophe. But, as today’s report makes clear, there is no time for delay and no room for excuses.”

Monumental

Nov 5, 2025 – Feb 14, 2026
Sunderland, UK

Featuring artworks from the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art collection. Over the last six months artists studying Fine Art at University of Sunderland have explored the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art collection in relation to their own art practices and the thematic and stylistic trends which presented themselves within the collection. Each student selected an artwork from the collection which encapsulated the monumental. Together the seven artworks examine monumental structures, be it public sculptural monuments, giant vapor trails, melting Icelandic glaciers, crystallised desert landscapes, state systems, or the miner’s cage near Easington Colliery.

Artists include Dan Holdsworth, John Kippin, Chad McCail, Vinca Petersen, Mark Pinder, Kelly Richardson and Daniel Silver.

Origin Stories

July 24, 2025
Hiladi, Vancouver Island, Canada

Hase’ presents Ax’nakwala (Part 1), a day of art on the land sharing major works by artists Makwala-Rande Cook, Kelly Richardson, and Paul Walde at the traditional Ma’amtagila village site Hiladi on Vancouver Island, BC. Created in partnership with the Awi’nakola Foundation, Ax’nakwala supports Ma’amtagila efforts to regain sovereignty of their territories under Crown law, stop ecologically harmful practices on their lands, and enact a conservation vision to care for both land and people.

The Erudition

On view now
Montréal, Canada

The Fondation Giverny pour l’art contemporain is pleased to present its activities with a first exhibition of works from the Giverny Capital Collection. With a selection of works and installation pieces by Eduardo Basualdo, Edward Burtynsky, Sophie Jodoin, Folkert de Jong, Adad Hannah, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Magali Reus, Kelly Richardson, Marc Séguin, Bill Viola, Hajra Waheed, this exhibition highlights the principles of temporality, memory, and the construction of the image.

February 6 – May 5, 2025
Gatineau, Quebec

xusi lax̱a at̕łi (2019) – a collaboration with Kwakwaka’wakw artist Carey Newman – is now on view at the Canadian Museum of History as part of The Witness Blanket exhibition. The Witness Blanket contains hundreds of items reclaimed from residential schools, churches, government buildings and traditional and cultural structures from across Canada. It stands as a national monument to recognize the atrocities of the Indian residential school era. It honours the children and the Survivors. It symbolizes ongoing reconciliation.

xusi lax̱a at̕łi (meaning “rest in the forest” in Kwakwala) is intended as a place to rest and reflect on the truths shared.

January 22 – April 5, 2025
Toronto Metropolitan University, Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall

Kelly Richardson’s Origin Stories is a metaphysical exploration that transcends traditional photography, transforming extinct species into crystalline, diamond-like forms. Set in the vastness of cosmic space, Richardson’s digital debris field emits an eerie symphony, symbolizing Earth’s unique place in the universe and humanity’s isolation. The work provokes a powerful question: given humanity’s monumental efforts to find life beyond Earth, how differently would we value species threatened by extinction today if they were discovered on another planet? Richardson challenges us to reflect on our connection to life, the impact of climate change, and the extinction crisis we are both witnessing and contributing to. In collaboration with the Awi’nakola Foundation, the artist emphasizes the urgency of reconsidering our relationship with the planet and prioritizing its preservation.

From 16 to 23 November, 2024
Cali, Colombia

Echoes of Life is conceived as a trans-continental dialogue between stories of extractivism and deep connection with nature, going towards bio-anamnesis and celebrating our collective memory. Curated by Ana Aguirre and Diane Drubay. Artists include: Alexandra Crouwers, Ana Aquirre, Be A Stereotype, Dev Harlan, Heliodoro Santos, Juan Ramirez, Kelly Richardson, Rodell Warner, Violet Bond

Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything

Feb 9, 2021 – Dec 2, 2024
online (MAC), curated by John Zeppetelli and Victor Shiffman

A veritable audiovisual immersion, this exhibition establishes a dialogue between the œuvre of Leonard Cohen and a selection of artworks from the MAC’s collection.

August 21 – October 20, 2024
Amposta, Spain

Centre d’Art Lo Pati presents a new season of exhibitions on the art center’s building façade featuring the work of Diane Drubay, Claudia Larcher, Kelly Richardson, Theresa Schubert, Yuge Zhou, and Marina Zurkow. From different perspectives, the works offer narratives about life in the Anthropocene, particularly in environments and systems that we ignore but that play a determining role in life on Earth. From the ocean floor to the mines from which we extract the materials that facilitate our digital life, from glaciers to atmospheric phenomena, from forest fires to crowded cities, these works invite us to reflect on our planet, the world in which we want to live and what we will leave to the next generations.