Michael Werner Gallery, New York is pleased to present Repeating Yourself, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by the eminent British painter Hurvin Anderson (b. 1965, Handsworth, Birmingham, UK). This exhibition marks Anderson’s first in New York in nearly a decade.
Nature, in all its untamed and man-made forms, has been a recurring subject in Anderson’s paintings throughout his three-decade career. Cultural historian Michael Prokopow writes, “Anderson’s varied depictions of nature—employing and querying the traditions of landscape painting—luxuriantly question the construction of an often exclusionary British nationalism, long shaped by exploration and colonization.”
In Repeating Yourself, Anderson conjures images of lush, abundant vegetation. In the past, his paintings developed from specific source images, but in his new work, Anderson finds the sources less central to the process. Instead, he relies more on intuition. In contrast to the English countryside, where he lives and works, Anderson paints the flora of the Caribbean, his family’s homeland. Anderson allows images, patterns, and ideas resurface, repeating himself because, as he says, history repeats itself, and “you think ideas belong to someone but in fact they belong to no one.”
Hurvin Anderson was the first in his family to be born in England, after his father emigrated from Jamaica in 1961, his mother followed in 1963, and his siblings joined gradually over time. His upbringing in Birmingham’s African-Caribbean community, as well as his time as an artist-in-resident in Trinidad, were formative influences on his practice.
Anderson has exhibited widely at major international institutions. In March 2026, a highly anticipated retrospective of his work will open at Tate Britain, London. Anderson has been included in important group exhibitions such as the Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure at the National Portrait Gallery, London (2024), Philadelphia Museum of Art (2025), and North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh (2025) as well as Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s-Now at Tate Britain, London (2021) and Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto (2023). Recent solo exhibitions include Pérez Art Museum, Miami (2024); Kistefos Museum, Norway (2024); The Hepworth Wakefield (2023); The Arts Club of Chicago (2021); Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto (2016); among others. In 2017, Anderson was nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize, and in 2023, he was elected a Royal Academician in the category of Painting by the Royal Academy, London. Anderson lives and works in Cambridgeshire, U.K.
Repeating Yourself opens to the public on Friday 7 November 2025 with an opening reception on Thursday 6 November 2025 from 6 to 8pm and will remain on view through Saturday 31 January 2026. A catalogue with text by art historian Catherine Lampert will accompany the exhibition. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday, 10AM to 6PM.
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