Drawing Biennial 2026

Exhibition opens: 16 April – 23 June 2026

Online auction opens 12pm, Tuesday 9 June 2026 

Auction bidding ends 9pm, Tuesday 23 June 2026

Drawing Biennial 2026 returns with more than 300 newly commissioned drawings by leading international artists. The free exhibition at Drawing Room culminates in a two-week online auction fundraiser, with bidding starting at £400.

As Drawing Room prepares to mark its 25th anniversary in 2027, this twelfth edition of the Drawing Biennial brings together artists working at the forefront of contemporary practice, reaffirming drawing as a vital and enduring discipline.

Each artist is invited to produce a new drawing on A4 paper, using any medium. Selected by a committee of Drawing Room’s Co-founders and Directors alongside invited curators and collectors, participating artists respond to themes spanning ecology, identity, spirituality, politics and imagined worlds.

Drawing Biennial 2026 includes artworks by Pio Abad, Samira Abbassy, Kesewa Aboah, Maha Ahmed, Bunmi Agusto, Okiki Akinfe, Shadi Al-Atallah, Jonathan Allen, Emii Alrai, ruby onyinyechi amanze, Layla Andrews, Saelia Aparicio, Caroline AreskogJones, Kate Atkin, David Austen, Charles Avery, Vanessa Baird, Bobby Baker, Josephine Baker, Mahesh Baliga, Sarah Ball, Amelia Barratt, Anna Barriball, David Batchelor, Olivia Bax, Shiraz Bayjoo, Rana Begum, Sara Berman, Ingrid Berthon-Moine, Huma Bhabha, Andrew Bick, Sutapa Biswas, Juliette Blightman, Bea Bonafini, Frank Bowling, Gabriella Boyd, Shailesh BR, Jyll Bradley, Lewis Brander, Jessie Brennan, Koen van den Broek, James Scott Brooks, Pavel Büchler, Jane Bustin, Faiza Butt, Nicholas Byrne, Muhanned Cader, Victoria Cantons, Alice Channer, Brian Dawn Chalkley, Nandini Chirimar, Jione Choi, Lubna Chowdhary, Toby Christian, Jai Chuhan, William Cobbing, Mac Collins, Eileen Cooper, Marcus Cope, Rhys Coren, Emma Cousin, Michael Craig-Martin, Dorothy Cross, Martyn Cross, Layla Curtis, Peter Davies, Kate Davis, Richard Deacon, Benjamin Deakin, Alya Dmyterko, Kimathi Donkor, Jatinder Singh Durhailay, Nicola Durvasula, Charlotte Edey, Marcel van Eeden, Simon English, İnci Eviner, Kristian Evju, Nicolas Feldmeyer, Cecilia Fiona, Leo Fitzmaurice, Laura Footes, Jason Fox, Lilah Fowler, Niv Fridman, Franziska Furter, Neil Gall, Ryan Gander, Jamie George, Joy Gerrard, Nuno Gil, Simryn Gill, Ludovica Gioscia, Margarita Gluzberg, Catherine Goodman, Dryden Goodwin, Alexander Gorlizki, Lothar Götz, Fiona Grady, Mary Griffiths, Oona Grimes, Catherine Anyango Grünewald, Adrian Haak, Jr., David Haines, Susie Hamilton, Tom Hammick, Frank Hannon, Marie Harnett, Mona Hatoum, Sophie von Hellermann, Paul Heber-Percy, Mary Herbert, Paul Hodgson, Curtis Holder, Louise Hopkins, Rachael House, Rachel Howard, Donna Huddleston, Rowena Hughes, Gary Hume, Jerome Ince-Mitchell, Callum Innes, Vanessa Jackson, Ann-Marie James, Soma Surovi Jannat, Chantal Joffe, Patrick H. Jones, Fidelis Joseph, Sanya Kantarovsky, Jasleen Kaur, Laurence Kavanagh, William Kentridge, Fiza Khatri, Suleman Aqeel Khilji, Radhika Khimji, Christina Kimeze, Richard Kirwan, Sharon Kivland, Ragnar Kjartansson, Serena Korda, Tania Kovats, Matthew Krishanu, Ansel Krut, Sameer Kulavoor, Michael Landy, Erin Lawlor, Deborah Lerner, Peter Liversidge, Liza Lou, Kate Lyddon, Anna Lytridou, Sarah Macdonald, Ellie MacGarry, William Mackrell, Goshka Macuga, Richard Maguire, Alice Maher, Jessie Makinson, Sverre Malling, Hynek Martinec, France-Lise McGurn, Jeff McMillan, Emma McNally, Robert McNally, Lindsey Mendick, Sam Messenger, Lisa Milroy, Haroon Mirza, Francesca Mollett, Jade de Montserrat, Simon Moretti, Mali Morris, Nicole Morris, Susan Morris, Ryan Mosley, Huma Mulji, Ciprian Mureşan, David Murphy, Ishbel Myerscough, Avis Newman, Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Paul Noble, Isabel Nolan, Minoru Nomata, David Noonan, Kristin Nordhøy, Jockum Nordström, Ruairiadh O’Connell, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Sola Olulode, Kemi Onabule, Precious Opara, Julian Opie, Sikelela Owen, Rupaneethan Pakkiyarajah, Hardeep Pandhal, Fani Parali, Manisha Parekh, Aimée Parrott, Anna Paterson, Florence Peake, Hamish Pearch, Anna Perach, Peter Peri, Simon Periton, Kofi Perry, Lydia Pettit, Heather Phillipson, Sarah Pickstone, Benedetto Pietromarchi, Cathie Pilkington, Diogo Pimentão, Lucía Pizzani, Amedeo Polazzo, Jacqueline Poncelet, Prajakta Potnis, Candida Powell Williams, Kathy Prendergast, Alex Price, Paloma Proudfoot, Ana Prvački, Celia Pym, Saba Qizilbash, Saad Qureshi, Nathaniel Rackowe, Jagdeep Raina, Anne Carney Raines, Renuka Rajiv, Zara Ramsay, Richard Mark Rawlins, Andrew Reyes, Abigail Reynolds, Giulia Ricci, Frances Richardson, Joydeb Roaja, Ro Robertson, Francisco Rodríguez, Danny Rolph, Giles Round, Anupam Roy, Prasanta Sahu, Tanmoy Samanta, Matt Saunders, Amba Sayal-Bennett, Gal Schindler, Lara Shahnavaz, Tai Shani, Corbin Shaw, George Shaw, Adam Shield, Shine Shivan, Mike Silva, Vanessa da Silva, Daniel Silver, Michael Simpson, Sin Wai Kin, Gagan Singh, Vibeke Slyngstad, Rae-Yen Song, Alexis Soul-Gray, Elinor Stanley, Georgina Starr, Mary Stephenson, Olivia Sterling, Holly Stevenson, Emma Stibbon, Shaan Syed, Niloofar Taatizadeh, Emma Talbot, Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck, Anne Tallentire, Liorah Tchiprout, Caragh Thuring, Mark Titchner, Suzanne Treister, Troika, Alison Turnbull, Luc Tuymans, Nicola Tyson, Markus Vater, Caroline Walker, Sharon Walters, Yu-Chen Wang, Charmaine Watkiss, Jerusha West, Alison Wilding, Georg Wilson, Hugo Wilson, Anna Woodward, Caroline Wong, Rose Wylie, Joel Wyllie, Rafal Zajko and Jenkin van Zyl.