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Visit the Royal Scottish Academy
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Into the Distance
The RSA Barns-Graham Travel Award 14 January - 1 March 2023The RSA Barns-Graham Travel Award, funded by the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust and administered by the RSA, has been a major annual award in our opportunities programme since 2006. we are pleased to present new work from Natasha Faye Jensen (2020 winner) and Paige Silverman (2021 winner). We are also taking the opportunity to re-visit the wealth of talent the award has supported so far, sharing current work by past winners and tracing the development of their practice in the intervening years. -
William Littlejohn
In New Light 14 January - 12 February 2023Academicians' Gallery, RSA Lower Galleries | Free entry Entry via Princes Street entrance, stair-free access at rear (please ask a member of door staff) Mon to Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 12-5pm... -
Also on view in the RSA building
17 December 2022 - 16 February 2023SSA 130 Years | Annual Exhibition - 17 December 2022 - 10 January 2023 Turner in January - 1 - 31 January 2023 RSW 142nd Open Annual Exhibition - 21 January –16 February 2023
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Upcoming Exhibitions
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RSA New Contemporaries 2023
18 March - 16 April 2023RSA New Contemporaries represents the Royal Scottish Academy's commitment to supporting and promoting emerging artists and architects in Scotland. Now in its thirteenth year, the exhibition offers a unique opportunity to see some of the most promising talent in Scotland in one single, large-scale exhibition in the heart of Edinburgh. Showcasing 56 graduates selected from the 2021 degree presentations, the exhibition will be a brilliant overview of the current outlook of emerging Scottish art. -
John Byrne
Selected Prints 16 February - 12 March 2023The Academicians' Gallery is pleased to present a showcase of recent and historic limited edition prints by John Byrne RSA. Standing apart from artistic movements and trends, John Byrne RSA’s... -
Ronald Forbes
The Everyman Variations 11 March - 16 April 2023The art of Ronald Forbes RSA forms a narrative around the way we see and understand the world. It is about illusion, belief and reality - and the fuzzy edges...
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Past Exhibitions
Explore our recent exhibitions programme-
The Christmas Show
19 November - 22 December 2022We are delighted to once again present our Christmas Show. Featuring over a hundred works by our Royal Scottish Academicians, many at affordable prices, the exhibition will be a wonderful opportunity to peruse Christmas gifts or acquire a new work for your own collection. -
Outside Edge
8 October - 13 November 2022Kate Downie RSA | Helen Goodwin | Ju Hongshen | Professor Xu Yun Outside Edge is the culmination of a collaboration between two Chinese and two British artists that began with a residency in Carsaig, a remote coastal edge of the island of Mull, in 2019. -
Ade Adesina
Parallel 8 October - 13 November 2022In his second solo exhibition in the Academicians’ Gallery, Ade Adesina RSA will be showing new woodcuts and etchings of sublime scope and technical virtuosity. Please note this exhibition will... -
William Wilson
Print | Paint | Glass. An Anniversary Exhibition 8 October - 13 November 2022This October, we are pleased to present an exhibition celebrating fifty years since the passing of one of Scotland's most talented twentieth-century artists, William Wilson RSA (1905-72). Regarded as a leading exponent in printmaking, watercolour and stained glass, this exhibition marks the first survey across Wilson's practice in nearly thirty years. -
British Art Fair
29 September - 2 October 2022This September, the RSA will be mounting a special exhibition at the British Art Fair including works by some of Scotland’s leading artists alongside selected emerging artists. From intricate sculpture work to large abstract painting, the RSA’s exhibition will celebrate the diversity and excellence of contemporary art in Scotland. -
Research + Practice
RSA Residencies and Awards in Focus 3 September - 2 October 2022Victoria Clare Bernie | MV Brown | Samantha Clark | Joel Dixon | Flore Gardner | Robert Powell This September we are pleased to present new work from five artists supported by the RSA Residencies for Scotland programme. The exhibition will also features new paintings from the winner of the 2021 RSA William Littlejohn Award for Water-based Media, Samantha Clark. -
OMOS
3 September - 2 October 2022This September the Royal Scottish Academy will mount an exhibition of a new moving image project that pays homage to Scotland’s untold Black history and celebrates Black excellence and LGBTQ performance in Scotland. -
Sam Ainsley
Stories Real and Imagined 3 September - 2 October 2022An exhibition of selected paintings, works on paper and prints by Royal Scottish Academician Sam Ainsley. -
Leon Morrocco
Long Road Home 30 July - 28 August 2022This summer the Royal Scottish Academy will present Leon Morrocco: Long Road Home. Timed to coincide with the artist’s 80th birthday, the exhibition will position Leon Morrocco RSA as one of the most important Scottish painters of his generation.
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